![]() ![]() He's gone on to make other great films, two from my work, I'm happy to say, but Shawshank is its own thing-an American icon-and I'm delighted to have been a part of it. "Frank," I said, "people aren't going to notice the makeup, because they'll be crying."įrank is mostly right, but that time I was. The Shawshank Redemption is no exception to this rule. Many of them have received critical acclaim, both in written form and in their film adaptations. ![]() "I hate Tim makeup," he fretted as we watched the last scene. A Sense of Hope in Shawshank Redemption, a Book by Stephen King Subject: Literature Category: Writers Essay Topic: Character, Literature Review, Stephen King Pages: 2 Words: 927 Published: 26 October 2018 Downloads: 81 Download Print The only motivating factor for a prisoner of Shawshank is hope. The Movie’s Based On A Stephen King Novella Stephen King’s more well known for his horror writing, but he’s also written plenty of more dramatic tales. That turned out to be the case, but he continued working almost up to the moment the film was released. When I first saw it, I realized he'd made not just one of the best movies ever done from my work, but a potential movie classic. ![]() I saw that same feel for "regular people" in his screenplay for Shawshank, but I never thought he'd get it produced, because it was too textured and novelistic. In celebration of The Shawshank Redemption's 20th anniversary, Stephen King, author of the source novella adapted by Frank Darabont, looks back at the making of this contemporary American classic.įrank's first Stephen King adaptation was a short but extremely moving version of my story, "The Woman in the Room." He gravitated to the non-supernatural from the first, years before Shawshank. ![]()
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