2. It is part of a gripping collection of several stories by Stephen King “Different Seasons”.
Full title of the
story “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”.
I consider both movie and Stephen King`s story are the best masterpieces of all time. It helps look at
some challanging situations completely differently. The ending makes you believe that no matter how
bad you feel now, it is important to have a hope. The main goal is not to give up and go all the way.
3. The plot of the story is slightly different from the film, director Frank Darabont made some changes
that gave the film more drama than the book.
4. Andy Dufresne played by Tim Robbins is the main character. He's the focus of the whole plot. And his
supporting main character Red played by Morgan Freeman.
In the film and the book, Andy's wife cheats on him with someone else, and when they are both found
shot to death in bed, Andy is arrested for their murder. He claims he is innocent, but his straightforward
behaviour does not make the judges feel sympathetic, and he is found guilty.
Red admits that he committed the murder, but in the film we don't know the details. In the book, we
find out that he was forced to get married, and he tries to kill his wife by damaging her car. It turns out
that on the day he damaged her car, she was picking up her sister and her child, and all three died, so he
was accused of all three deaths.
5. In the film, eldery man Brooks works at the library. After being in prison for about 50 years, he is
released on parole, but he is worried and doesn't want to leave. Red realises that Brooks has been in
prison for so long that the thought of going out into the real world terrifies him.
For me, the saddest and most depressing moment of Shawshank Redemption is Brooks' suicide. He is
unable to adapt to life outside the prison walls and hangs himself.
In the book, his character is not as important. He is released from prison and placed in a retirement
home, where he dies a natural death of old age.
In the book, we hear about the bird that Brooks got and how after it was sent out into the outside, it
was found dead in the yard because it didn't know how to live free.
6. Tommy, whose witness statement could have helped the Endi, is killed in the film. In the book,
prisoner is paid for his silence in the form of a transfer to another prison with a less strict regime.
7. The biggest differences in the characters are the wardens of the prison. He was the corrupt and
heartless warden of Shawshank Prison. Throughout the film, Norton's character hardly changes. He is
mostly perceived as a ruthless thug who runs the prison.
In the book, Norton resigned shortly after Andy's escape. In the film, however, Norton committed
suicide in his office by shooting himself in the head. This was likely done out of fear of being publicly
exposed and sent to prison with the same inmates he had abused and terrified for years.
In the film, there is one warden, Warden Norton. He is the reason why the title of the film contains the
word "'Redemption', but in the story he is not even the main character. In the short story, instead of one
warden, there are three: Warden George Dunahy, Greg Stammas, and Samuel Norton.
8. The Rita Hayworth. Andy asks Red to get him a poster of Rita during a screening of the film Hilda,
which starred Rita Hayworth. It is not only the one of films with this actress shown to the prisoners, but
Andy Dufresne also uses the Hayworth poster to hide the tunnel which he is making in his cell.
9. There is a scene in the film that is not mentioned at all in the book. i would like to show this moment.
I really liked this scene in the film. Andy says that there are certain things that the guards and the prison
cannot take away from you.
10. Probably the biggest difference is the ending of the short story and the film. The film has the same
ending as the short story, but it's a little longer. The short story ends with Red finding Andy's note and
money on a rock in Buxton, Maine. He never sees Andy again, but he hopes he will.
Although Red goes to Zihuatanejo in the film, he walks on the beach to see Andy working on a boat. It
was probably the most touching scene in the film.
11. I consider this to be a very unique case when the film is not worse than the book. Because there are
many emotional and important scenes that are not mentioned in the book. For me, the book lacked an
ending. The final meeting between Andy and Red is very important. It proves the main idea of the story.
Hope is what we should always have.
