肖申克的救赎Shawshank Redemption Movie Script

BOGS:

That's it, fight. Better that way.

Andy starts screaming, muffled by the rag. CAMERA PULLS BACK, SLOWLY WIDENING. The big Washex blocks our view. All we see is Andy's screaming face and the men holding him down and CAMERA DRIFTS FROM THE ROOM, leaving the dark place and the dingy act behind...MOVING up empty corridors, past concrete walls and steel pipes... RED (V.O.) I wish I could tell you that Andy fought the good fight, and the Sisters let him be. I wish I could tell you that, but prison is no fairy-tale world.

WE EMERGE into the prison laundry past a guard, WIDENING for a final view of the line. The giant steel "mangler" is slapping down in brutal rhythm. The sound is deafening.

RED (V.O.) He never said who did it...but we all knew.

PRISON MONTAGE:

(1947 through 1949) 47 ANDY PLODS THROUGH HIS DAYS. WORKING. EATING. CHIPPING AND 47 shaping his rocks after lights-out... RED (V.O.) Things went on like that for a while. Prison life consists of routine, and then more routine.

48 ANDY WALKS THE YARD, FACE SWOLLEN AND BRUISED. 48 RED (V.O.) Every so often, Andy would show up with fresh bruises.

49 ANDY EATS BREAKFAST. A FEW TABLES OVER, BOGS BLOWS HIM A KISS. 49 RED (V.O.) The Sisters kept at him. Sometimes he was able to fight them off... sometimes not.

50 ANDY BACKS INTO A CORNER IN SOME DINGY PART OF THE PRISON, wildly swinging a rake at his tormentors.

RED (V.O.) He always fought, that's what I remember. He fought because he knew if he didn't fight, it would make it that much easier not to fight the next time.

The rake connects, snapping off over somebody's skull. They beat the hell out of him.

RED (V.O.) Half the time it landed him in the infirmary... 51INT -- SOLITARY CONFINEMENT ("THE HOLE") -- NIGHT (1949) 51 A stone closet. No bed, sink, or lights. Just a toilet with no seat. Andy sits on bare concrete, bruised face lit by a faint ray of light falling through the tiny slit in the steel door.

RED (V.O.) ...the other half, it landed him in solitary. Warden Norton's "grain & drain" vacation. Bread, water, and all the privacy you could want.

52INT -- PRISON LAUNDRY -- DAY (1949) 52 Andy is working the line.

RED (V.O.) And that's how it went for Andy. That was his routine. I do believe those first two years were the worst for him. And I also believe if things had gone on that way, this place would have got the best of him.

But then, in the spring of 1949, the powers-that-be decided that... 53EXT -- PRISON YARD -- DAY (1949) 53 Warden Norton addresses the assembled cons via bullhorn:

NORTON:

...the roof of the license-plate factory needs resurfacing. I need a dozen volunteers for a week's work.

We're gonna be taking names in this steel bucket here... Red glances around at his friends. Andy also catches his eye.

RED (V.O.) It was outdoor detail, and May is one damn fine month to be workin' outdoors.

54EXT -- PRISON YARD -- DAY (1949) 54 Cons shuffle past, dropping slips of paper into a bucket.

RED (V.O.) More than a hundred men volunteered for the job.

Red saunters to a guard named TIM YOUNGBLOOD, mutters discreetly in his ear.

55EXT -- PRISON YARD -- DAY (1949) 55 Youngblood is pulling names and reading them off. Red exchanges grins with Andy and the others.

RED (V.O.) Wouldn't you know it? Me and some fellas I know were among the names called.

56INT -- PRISON CORRIDOR -- NIGHT (1949) 56 Red slips Youngblood six packs of cigarettes.

RED (V.O.) Only cost us a pack of smokes per man. I made my usual twenty percent, of course.