#andy dufresne

[baltharino]

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) + Foreshadowing

[artist-issues]

I think we're missing the fact that pain has purpose.

I mean when Disney killed off Mufasa it was because Simba wasn't going to grow out of being an irresponsible, entitled brat unless something hard happened to him.

When Andy is sent to Shawshank prison and all that crap happens to him, it's not until the worst of it that he grows out of not expressing the important things while you still have time. That was his character flaw. Until he went through hell in Shawshank.

Storytellers write suffering into their stories and make their characters go through it because 1) it's compelling for people who are in the audience, learning from those stories and 2) because it's realistic; people don't even have the desire to change anything about themselves until they realize something's broken or out of place, and then they get moving.

And we think that there's no God, writing the story with a purpose.

[escapismthroughfilm]

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) dir. Frank Darabont

[roy-the-dork]

[seekmemystar]

The shawshank redemption should have an entire fucking fandom

[brokehorrorfan]

Funko will release The Shawshank Redemption Pop figures in November. Andy Dufresne and Ellis "Red" Boyd Redding are $12 each.

[addicted2coke-theothercoke]

A lot of people make fun of or just don't understand people who don't read books. And I get it, I get all the reasons people well read don't get why someone wouldn't read

But I feel the same way about movies and video games too, and I don't see that discussed as much

They've never seen Truman bow and step through that door

Or Andy craw his way from hell

Or John drop the man holding Nakatomi Plaza hostage out a window

Or Bloom come to realize his brother is dead

And they've never felt the chilling screens of Ravenholm

Or the sense of pride following a full binding pantheon

Or fear at your helpless to the system that will set you free

Or the tragedy of a screaming woman stuffed in a machine

I just feel those who she experience games and movies are missing out just as much as those who don't read

[yoshidatommy]

Reunion

[eltonjohndenver]

me trying to convince people to watch Shawshank Redemption:

[angstycrow-chan]

Let's be thankful that the shawshank redemption and the green mile are dead fandoms, bc oh boy imagine the rule 34 ships and at if the fandom was popular

[ghostsmp3]

Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman attend the premiere of "The Shawshank Redemption" at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California, on September 22, 1994. (AP Photo/Michael Caulfield)

[serendipity-in-love]

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

[artist-issues]

There's no hope in "gaining the strength to fight" if there's no hope of victory. Not even the idea of it.

Because don’t you understand, that’s not hope. Hope is not blind. It isn’t “I just really wish things were different.” It’s “I know they will be.” Or even, “I know they could be, WHEN such-and-such happens.”

The bleakest moments in all my favorite stories are when the good guy lashes out and hits the bad guy across the face, because even though he can't win, it feels good to fight back for a second—but then that lash-out becomes pathetic and sadder than ever when it's over. Because when the momentary thrill is gone, you're left with the hopelessness. The fact that that's all he'll ever have; the idea of winning. When in actuality "victory" is just some comfortable lie or mirage-like dream he indulges in every once in a while, but it'll never be real.

I mean what the heck. It would be like if, in The Shawshank Redemption, nobody ever gets out. Nobody is ever freed.

It would specifically be like if Andy just keeps building his library and occasionally listening to music, hanging onto some "idea" of a life that is no longer real, but ultimately he dies in prison, a slave, forgotten, unjustly accused, unknown. Defeated. Yeah he kept living. Till he died. And what was the point?

But no, Andy escapes. Andy gets out. Even if it took most of his life to do it, he still did it. Because it was possible. Because he was never supposed to be there. Because it's not true that "the darkness will always be with you and you'll never truly defeat it, but it's enough to keep going."

No, it's not! That sounds pretty, but it's nonsensical. Thats the kind of thinking that made Brooks hang himself. He could make life livable with a comfortable lie; until he couldn't.

If hope is the comfortable lie—if hope of defeating the darkness once and FOR ALL is a lie—then why bother? Why bother at all?

You only fight because there's something worth fighting for. You only travel to reach the destination. That “it’s the journey, not the destination” does not apply.

I refuse to believe it. I will not buy into it. I know that the darkness ends. Ends, are you reading this? Ends permanently. I'm going to be free of my anxiety and depression and sickness, and dark thoughts, and self-focus, permanently, and when it happens, it won't be because I'm dead, it'll be because I'm alive forever.

I know it beyond the shadow of a doubt. My God said so. He trumps all your comfortable-lie-is-beautiful nonsense.

[coppolaposting]

redemption.

[roy-the-dork]

Andy

[trashcapableofsentience]

'go to the place I proposed to my wife I left something there for you' cannot be no homo'd I'm sorry