肖申克的救赎Shawshank Redemption Movie Script

Andy gazes around at the boxes. The riches of the world lay at his feet. His eyes mist with emotion at the sight.

HADLEY:

I want all this cleared out before the warden gets back, I sh*t you not.

Hadley exits. Andy touches the boxes like a love-struck man touching a beautiful woman. Wiley grins.

WILEY:

Good for you, Andy.

ANDY:

Only took six years.

(beat) From now on, I send two letters a week instead of one.

WILEY:

(laughs, shakes his head) I believe you're crazy enough. You better get this stuff downstairs like the Captain said. I'm gonna go pinch a loaf. When I get back, this is all gone, right?

Andy nods. Wiley disappears into the toilet, Jughead Comix in hand. Alone now, Andy starts going through the boxes like a starving man exploring packages of food. He doesn't know where to turn first. He gets giddy, ripping boxes open and pulling out books, touching them, smelling them.

He rips open another box. This one contains an old phonograph player, industrial gray and green, the words "Portland Public School District" stenciled on the side. The box also contains stacks and stacks of used record albums.

Andy reverently slips a stack from the box and starts flipping through them. Used Nat King Coles, Bing Crosbys, etc.

He comes across a certain album -- Mozart's "Le Nozze de Figaro." He pulls it from the stack, gazing upon it as a man transfixed. It is a thing of beauty. It is the Grail.

130INT -- BATHROOM -- DAY (1955) 130 Wiley sits in one of the stalls, Jughead comic on his knees.

131INT -- GUARD STATION/OUTER OFFICE -- DAY (1955) 131 Andy wrestles the phonograph player onto the guards' desk, sweeping things onto the floor in his haste. He plugs the machine in. A red light warms up. The platter starts spinning.

He slides the Mozart album from its sleeve, lays it on the platter, and lowers the tone arm to his favorite cut. The needle HISSES in the groove...and the MUSIC begins, lilting and gorgeous. Andy sinks into Wiley's chair, overcome by its

beauty. It is "Deutino:

Che soave zeffiretto," a duet sung by Susanna and the Contessa.

132INT -- BATHROOM -- DAY (1955) 132 Wiley pauses reading, puzzled. He thinks he hears music.

WILEY:

Andy? You hear that?

133INT -- GUARD STATION/OUTER OFFICE -- DAY (1955) 133 Andy shoots a look at the bathroom...and smiles. Go for broke.

He lunges to his feet and barricades the front door, then the bathroom. He returns to the desk and positions the P.A.

microphone. He works up his courage, then flicks all the toggles to "on." A SQUEAL OF FEEDBACK echoes briefly... 134 INT/EXT -- VARIOUS P.A. SPEAKERS -- DAY (1955) 134 ...and the Mozart is suddenly broadcast all over the prison.

135INT -- BATHROOM -- DAY (1955) 135 Wiley lunges to his feet, pants tangling around his ankles.

136 INT/EXT -- SHAWSHANK PRISON -- VARIOUS LOCATIONS -- DAY (1955) 136 Cons all over the prison stop whatever they're doing, freezing in mid-step to listen, gazing up at the speakers.

137 THE STAMPING MACHINES IN THE PLATE SHOP ARE SHUT DOWN... 137 138 THE LAUNDRY LINE GOES SILENT, GRINDING TO A HALT... 138 139 THE WOOD SHOP MACHINES ARE TURNED OFF, BUZZING TO A STOP... 139 140 THE MOTOR POOL...THE KITCHEN...THE LOADING DOCK...THE EXERCISE 140 thru yard...the numbing routine of prison life itself...all grinds thru 143 TO A STUTTERING HALT. NOBODY MOVES, NOBODY SPEAKS. EVERYBODY 143 just stands in place, listening to the MUSIC, hypnotized.

144INT -- GUARD STATION -- DAY (1955) 144 Andy is reclined in the chair, transported, arms fluidly conducting the music. Ecstasy and rapture. Shawshank no longer exists. It has been banished from the mind of men.

145EXT -- EXERCISE YARD -- DAY (1955) 145 CAMERA TRACKS along groups of men, all riveted.