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The Shawshank Redemption is a prison movie that is based on a book by Stephen King and directed by Frank Darabont. The movie is not the average bloody horror movie; instead, it takes you to a place where your worst nightmares come alive. The tremendous performance by Morgan Freeman and other actors has truly brought this film to life. The emotions characters portrayed were so real that every one could feel compassion toward them. The Shawshank Redemption, a contribution to the working man, illustrates

Leonard Bernstein worked with Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins, and Stephen Sondheim to produce the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story, a Romeo and Juliet-like love story between Polish American Tony and Puerto Rican Maria in New York’s West Side (Peyser 261; Fishko). Bernstein composed the music for the production. Each artist was renowned and therefore understood that their unique, artistic approaches were successful, essentially ensuring that there would be disagreements in the creation of the

(Part I) Nicole Rafter identifies several stock characteristics that dominate the traditional film. First, there is the convict buddy. In The Shawshank Redemption our innocent protagonist Andy is quickly befriended by prison veteran, Red. Red’s voice can be heard narrating his thoughts about his friend Andy. As the story goes on, their relationship is further explored to the point that the last shot is them reuniting. Common to traditional prison films is a paternalistic warden, but this is not the

Robbins uses a technique known as music therapy. She states “Music therapy helps with developing motor skills and the co-ordination of muscle patterns needed for walking. It also improves social skills such as turn taking. Different moods that are expressed

Sheppard and Robbins detail biology rise as a core subject in American high schools during the early twentieth century. Originally, students were enrolled in various courses such as natural history, zoology and botany with a generalized biology course not being developed until 1906. This new course would combine the elements of the courses previously noted, and textbooks were created to blend these elements into a following curriculum. Enrollment quickly increased, and by the mid-1930s zoology and

Shawshank Redemption by saying, “In the lead roles, both Robbins and Freeman are outstanding, layering their performances with snippets of individuality: Their small, daily sustenances and minor triumphs are wonderfully inspiring.” (Byrge). Following in the same theme of Byrge’s review, another film reviewer, Janet Maslin of The New York Times, praises the delicacy of director Frank Darabont and the hard work of the actors Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins are praised immensely (Maslin). Unlike the reviews

formerly successful banker as a prisoner in the gloomy jailhouse of Shawshank after being found guilty of a crime he did not commited. Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sent to Shawshank prison for the murder of his wife and her secret lover. Ethical Dilemma Should Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) escape the prison? Scene’s Description Andy (Tim Robbins) first smuggled a rock hammer from Red 19 years ago and took a bible and he had hidden the rock hammer inside it. He used to carve it the whole night and

Imagine you are a play fanatic in 1957, clutching your ticket, waiting to enter a magnificent theater, to see the opening of West Side Story. You loved the choreography Jerome Robbins always created, and watching his pervious plays, Peter Pan, Fiddler on the Roof, and Gypsy .You could not be more thrilled to see the musical West Side Story, which he choreographed and directed. Leonard Bernstein has grown to become one of you favorite composers, and you can barely contain your anticipation to listen

before going on tour. The production received a Tony Award nomination for Best Musical in 1957, but the award went to Meredith Willson's The Music Man. The play spawned an innovative 1961 musical film of the same name, directed by Robert Wise and Robbins. The film won ten

personalities of the inmates are very interesting and when they are combined they create a very fascinating plot which looks at prison life in a interesting and different perspective than one normally thinks. The main characters are Andy Dufrense (Tim Robbins) and Eliss "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman). These characters are well complimented by the wise and simple old man, Brooks (James Whitmore), and the evil warden. The personalities of the Shawshank prison combined to form a sort of community