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The town of Zihuantanejo came up in unrelated conversation a month or so ago and I couldn't help but pause and repeat the name just like Morgan Freeman does when he goes to the stone wall.
How many have visualized the final scene on that beach for themselves, escaping whatever their situations may be in life?
That moment in the halfway house when he was about to carve his name next to his former prisonmates who chose to hang himself and escape that way was certainly pivotal for him.
Andy had created another path and made a promise. He was between 2 very different perspectives on life and his personal value. He chose to take a chance and live a life worth living. Thank you Andy!
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You are welcome to point out any movies in more recent years where the bad guy demonstrably practices any religion other than Christianity.
Btw, in Stephen King's original novella (on which the movie is based), "Red" was a white Irish guy, and the warden was not an unabashed Christian who commit suicide.
Stephen King hated the movie. But I can’t recall the reasons why.
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I cringe every time the narration says (Paraphrasing) It was 500 yards, nearly half a mile.
He says 800 yards actually. So pretty spot on.
I know this thread wasn't about the movie, but I wouldn't cringe or fault screenwriters for something like this. The line was spoken by the narrator, and narrators are characters themselves, commonly written as being fallible, incorrect, dumb, psychotic, - anything that might result in inaccuracies both within the world of the movie and our own reality. The narration isn't meant to be a line from a textbook or a statement of definitive fact. In the world of the movie, he may have only crawled 100 meters and the narrator can simply be embellishing. From a critical perspective, you have to ask - is this consistent with the character? What might it tell about the character or their emotions? How does it add to the story? You have to assume that every single line, accurate or inaccurate, are written with a purpose. Think about what the purpose of the line was and ask - does it work?
I know this thread wasn't about the movie, but I wouldn't cringe or fault screenwriters for something like this. The line was spoken by the narrator, and narrators are characters themselves, commonly written as being fallible, incorrect, dumb, psychotic, - anything that might result in inaccuracies both within the world of the movie and our own reality. The narration isn't meant to be a line from a textbook or a statement of definitive fact. In the world of the movie, he may have only crawled 100 meters and the narrator can simply be embellishing. From a critical perspective, you have to ask - is this consistent with the character? What might it tell about the character or their emotions? How does it add to the story? You have to assume that every single line, accurate or inaccurate, are written with a purpose. Think about what the purpose of the line was and ask - does it work?
Okay so maybe Red was ignorant that a mile is 1760 yards so half would be 880.
Still is not going to keep me from cringing when I hear it.
Of course the bad guy is a Christian. You'd never see the bad guy be any other religion.
Oh.
You.
Are.
So.
Persecuted.
Whenever someone says to you "I'm a good Christian", you are about to get cheated hard. Actual good people don't have to try to tell people that they are good people.
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I know this thread wasn't about the movie, but I wouldn't cringe or fault screenwriters for something like this. The line was spoken by the narrator, and narrators are characters themselves, commonly written as being fallible, incorrect, dumb, psychotic, - anything that might result in inaccuracies both within the world of the movie and our own reality. The narration isn't meant to be a line from a textbook or a statement of definitive fact. In the world of the movie, he may have only crawled 100 meters and the narrator can simply be embellishing. From a critical perspective, you have to ask - is this consistent with the character? What might it tell about the character or their emotions? How does it add to the story? You have to assume that every single line, accurate or inaccurate, are written with a purpose. Think about what the purpose of the line was and ask - does it work?
Okay so maybe Red was ignorant that a mile is 1760 yards so half would be 880.
Still is not going to keep me from cringing when I hear it.
Right, the character Red wasn't meant to be that knowledgeable about such measurements. I'm not sure why that part of his character is so cringe compared to all sorts of other behaviors and actions by other characters in the movie though.