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For my film analysis, I chose the movie The Shawshank Redemption. Frank
Darabont directed Shawshank and wrote the screenplay based on the novel Rita
Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by author Stephen King. The movie was made in
The movie stars Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins as two convicts serving
time in a New England prison named Shawshank. Tim Robbins plays a man named
Andy Dufresne, a banker, who gets convicted of murdering his wife and her lover
and is sent to prison in Shawshank. Andy eventually becomes good friends with a
fellow convict by the name of Ellis Boyd Redding(Morgan Freeman) who is able to
get anything for anyone within reason. The story follows the prison life of
Andy Dufresne and his eventual escape from Shawshank’s walls.
The movie follows a formalistic style of direction under Frank Darabont.
He interweaves scenes with nice fluid shots. The shots are not jarring or rough
cut. Darabont tends to take the story at a distance allowing the characters to
establish their traits to the audience instead of pushing a barrage of angles
at the audience. The position of the camera is intricately placed in all scenes.
The movie is a perfect example of classical cinema.
The most unique part about the style of the movie is in the
cinematography by Roger Deakins. The whole story looks like it was filmed with
a blue filter. The filters give a special beauty to the scenes, which in turn
causes more dramatic feelings for the audience. With this filter the movie
tends to bring out the two different colors of blue and brown. The blues of the
uniforms are all the more dramatic compared to the drab brown buildings
surrounding the prisoners. The colors also produce dramatic irony in the last
scene of Red and Andy on the beach. The blue and brown colors that once gave
feelings of confinement and despair in the prison are now colors of freedom and
The lighting that goes along with the scene…