Filmmaker reacts to The Shawshank Redemption (1994) for the FIRST TIME 

There's so many of those great moments in this masterpiece of a movie!

Brilliant writing!

I never caught that… wow.

Why he chose "Enchilada Night" ... I will never know, sorry Family Guy

A little-known song for Andy: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5-fcvnYDEJ0.html

Such a huge drastic difference between the time he went in and got out. I love studying the early 1900’s, I can’t even imagine

I work with lifers, and often the most asked questions are all about the state of the world now, despite their access to TV.

And he had nothing waiting for him on the outside. Redd did.

I'm thinking of how it would be going away with 1972 being the world I was used to and then being thrown right into 2022. The change would be hard to process but the changes were more drastic for Brook's span of time. The movie The Grey Fox dealt with something similar where a stage coach robber was released decades later into a world that passed up the stagecoach long before.

That reminded me of Robert Kennedy's murderer who just got denied parole after 52 years. I understand that there are people out there who think life sentence should mean life, and it should be the next best thing to the death penalty. But that is not me. I don't see the point in locking someone up indefinately, unless he is a continued danger to society. That is why in my country we have Security Detention, which is not actually a part of the punishment but can be ordered after the sentence is served. And if your doctors find that you pose no further threat you will be released. And if that point never comes, you'll stay there until you die. I prefer that to sentencing people to 50+ years in jail.

Never heard that but I really like this statement. Gonna look more into that!

Dostoyevsky himself spent 4 years in a Siberian prison camp just for reading and discussing banned books. Then 6 more years of forced military service. After that he became one of the greatest writers of all time. I wouldn't be surprised if Stephen King was inspired by him while writing Shawshank.

@@JamesVSCinema This movie aside. Give the criminal a second chance when you can give the victim a second chance!

@@solvingpolitics3172 Criminals should be locked up for their crimes, that's the purpose of such a punishment. No one is saying that they shouldn't be locked up. What we're saying is that criminals shouldn't be treated as less than animals, they should retain basic human rights like a decent sleeping situation, decent food, clean toiletry, a safe environment. Especially in the US this is nowhere close to how it is. In my country for instance it's a lot more humane. They still get punished, but they don't have to "survive" in prison bceause of all the problems that are in the prison system in a country like the US.

That is indeed a beautiful statement but meaningless when applied to a degenerate murdering scum that brutally takes a screaming victim's life without remorse, and would happily cut someone else's throat over a matchstick. At that point prison is no longer even a punishment, even the most hardened psychopaths will adapt and even continue to brutalize other inmates. Such animals lose their right to live and don't think i mean execute all murderers. I'm only talking about those self-confessed, guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt, irrefutable evidence, remorseless monsters. If you think i believe in executing all murderers, that'd be insanity and you'd be insane too if you'd even think of such a thing....

You get it. Seeing this made my day.

@@sparksdrinker5650 you guys are my people, I've been hanging on to Dunkirk as well. Also plan on tactically deploying Dune when I need a pick me up.

I get this and understand this, but the opposite also has some truth - walking in unprepared and open to whatever is on the screen. I tend towards the go blindly in and figure it out after mindset. It would never occur to me to hold something back for future artistic consumption. The concept is alien to me. Some of my best movie experiences have been from walking in blind and unprepared and raw.

This is exactly how I finally watched this movie and it was life changing 😫

same. I have a plethora of movies on my Plex that I need to sit and watch - but I am just waiting for the right mood. Like The Whale, Parasite, Babylon, Bullet Train. just need to be in the mood for it. I didnt see this movie until 2020 but I knew based on everyones recommendation that it was an amazing watch.

Which part hit you the most? Or just the general sense?

A lot of the prison parts are taken from Escape from Alcatraz. Most prison movies actually take a lot from that movie.

It’s a shame this movie didn’t get the respect it deserved when it first came out Took decades of aging like a fine wine before it got its due

@@AlexG1020 Actually all the prison escape movies took a huge amount of things from Le Trou (1960) from Jacques Becker. Overall Hollywood didn't invent any style, everything that was done and became well-know by any Hollywood director had been already similarly done by some European or Asian one, dang, even gangster genre is not american.

@@respectpartii6302 that is an absurd absolute lol, especially for the 1930s and 40s. But thanks will check that one out!!

Agreed!! Hahaha was quite relief from that

Haha yes

And The Green Mile.

And it shouldn't have been because Shawshank is the best of the three, in my opinion.

@@darthtrip7188 you know..I might have to agree

@@darthtrip7188 better than Forrest Gump 100%

@@51Archives what page?

Many years are like this. Rocky beat all the presidents men, taxi driver, and network. Aka three top 100 movies ever lost to a pretty good sports movie but certainly not a top 100 film ever. Raiders of the lost ark lost to chariots of fire (another good sports movie but not a masterpiece of a movie). Singing in the rain and high noon (2 top 50 films of all time) somehow lost to the greatest show on earth (a pretty average film). It happens all the time.

That was a joke from the propmaker. Darabont confirmed it in the commentary.

All the details.

You having it now is all that matters brotha! Happy to have ya homie

@@JamesVSCinema Any time, man. Love the reactions.👍

Couldn't agree more

Newman nails the score and the emotional theme of this movie The fear and the bleakness as well as the hope and optimism in this movie are all fully represented in the score

That’s an awful movie. It’s cringy white savior shit.

Thanks so much for being the numbers person ….

Yep. Andy scored big time.

Add in the fact that he’s living in Mexico, where the value of that $370,000 would be roughly 3 billion pesos back then.

Imagine him discovering The Beatles

@@Orangeflava About 300 bottlecaps.

Films like these are extremely important. Super happy with the narration here and how well treated this it turned out to be!

That’s really cool, thanks for sharing🙏🏼 definitely a great movie that’ll be around forever. Have a wonderful day 😌

Saw this movie for the first time when I was 7 walked into the warden suicide scene. Definitely had an effect on me lol

to be fair the irish also experienced racism in American society but yes Red was Irish in the original treatment.

Bob Gunton really is a great character actor! He’s also terrific as a rogue Starfleet captain in one of my favorite Star Trek: Next Gen eps, The Wounded. And he has a wonderful singing voice, too, heard when he played Broadway’s first Juan Peron in Evita, opposite Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin.

The end of the mist is 🥵

@@remimartin8493 love it or hate it, it’s one of the most memorable endings ever….pure despair.

@@jimtatro6550 I love it I prefer the book because the ending is more soft a little 😂

@@remimartin8493 Stephen King said if he had thought of it, he would have used the movies ending instead :) 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

@@michaelriddick7116 that why I'm afraid 🤣

Right!? Thank you for responding to that piece in the video.

Oh yeah? In which order? How long? Or excuse me for prying. When I was stationed on Okinawa a lot of people called it Oki-traz.

@@mokane86 went to juvenile prison for a year my junior year which was half my sentence. Didn’t have to disclose it since I was a juvenile and my record was sealed. Was an army sniper for 13 years with 3 combat tours

This film, plus The Electric Company. Easy Reader 4ever!!

Such a great ending!

Honestly, I'd say without question he's a better non-horror writer than a horror writer, and that's not to say he's bad at either one... but his non-horror has been tremendous.

@@Shichiaikan He's tremendous at both. Stephen King's horror books/novels like IT, The Shining, Pet Sematary, Salem's LOT, Christine, Cujo, Doctor Sleep, Carrie, The Stand, Misery, etc etc are masterpieces and far better than the movie adaptations of those books/novels. And then there's his magnum opus, The Dark Tower series. But I also agree that The Shawshank Redemption (Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption), The Green Mile, and Stand By Me (The Body) are absolutely masterpieces as well.

Let’s not forget the amazing directors and actors in all three films.

Dor Arie true RIP River Phoenix

Darth Trip IT is my favorite book of all time

I saw Morgan Freeman once out in public. I wanted to go up to him and say "omg Morgan Freeman, I loved you in March of the Penguins!" Or War of the Worlds, where his entire cast credit is towards only a 30 second finale narration. I thought he might have a grin at the more obscure reference... 😆 But he was eating with someone at the restaurant and I didnt want to be the butting in guy.

Thank you for tuning in and taking the time to write this even!

Great comment on great content.

Love that story!

Appreciate that man! You’ve been here for the longest champ 🙏🏽

Agreed. Shawshank and Field of Dreams are the only two movies that were better than the book (that I’ve read).

@@storiedworlds6261 I’d argue the Godfather as well. I don’t know if I agree about Field of Dreams. I’d say this one is close between the novella and the movie.

They also prevent crime simply by making sure everyone has a healthy life & in particular infancy-5. It’s illegal in Sweden for both/only parents to work for the first year & they’re paid 80% of their wage, plus all the medical is free. Similar deal for the 2nd year plus exemplary preschool equals empty prisons, not to mention other benefits.

@@sarabrucker7847 how naive you are. They also are taxed 57% to 62% , have zero incentives for small businesses, people live primarily in concrete government housing, they can't grow any real amount of food, have doctors tell them if they can or cannot get treatment for any illness and depend on the government for everything. You THINK it's so great, but those people have very little freedom over their lives and the lives of their children. Also factor in its the r@pe capital of the world become they are so 'progressive' ....and its not natives to the countries that are doing it. You only 'heard' of a few policies ( and it's not ILLEGAL for parents to be working) and think its so great. I am from Europe and have family that got the hell out of that country, you done know anything.

@@Anne-pv9cb Aside from the tax rates, which are catching up (or have caught up, if you figure in institutional punishment for the poor), you just described quite a few countries, including the US. Sure, here it’s insurance companies who deny you services here, and genocide via incarceration, but it’s worse than Scandinavia, by far. If you measure by crime rate, education, health care, standards of living or happiness level, all countries which outperform the US, they have stronger social services of all kinds, including incarceration prevention. If you’d like to compare the US to another country favorably, there are less than 10 that give minors the death penalty, and I’m not sure any country has a higher incarceration rate. What paradise did your family flee to?

Appreciate you seriously!!

"Train To Busan": Wanna bet some South Korean Won?

Cheers!!!

Happy to hear brotha. Enjoy the rest of the day!

Ahh that’s so dope!! You rock seriously!

Anytime Steven! You’re the man 🙏🏽

Truth in all of that