肖申克的救赎Shawshank Redemption Movie Script

the new poster:

the famous shot from "The Seven Year Itch," on the subway grate with skirt billowing up. Andy sits gazing at her as lights-out commences... 155INT -- RED'S CELL -- NIGHT (1957) 155 ...and we find Red gazing blankly as darkness takes the cellblock. Adding up the months, weeks, days... He regards the harmonica like a man confronted with a Martian artifact. He considers trying it out -- even holds it briefly to his lips, almost embarrassed -- but puts it back in its box untested. And there the harmonica will stay...

FADE TO BLACK:

156 WE HOLD IN BLACKNESS as THUMPING SOUNDS grow louder... 156 RED (V.O.) Andy was as good as his word. He kept writing to the State Senate.

Two letters a week instead of one.

...and the BLACKNESS disintegrates as a wall tumbles before our eyes, revealing a WORK CREW with picks and sledgehammers, faces obscured outlaw-style with kerchiefs against the dust.

Behind them are GUARDS overseeing the work.

Andy yanks his kerchief down, grinning in exhilaration. Red and the others follow suit. They step through the hole in the wall, exploring what used to be a sealed-off storage room.

RED (V.O.) In 1959, the folks up Augusta way finally clued in to the fact they couldn't buy him off with just a 200 dollar check. Appropriations Committee voted an annual payment of 500 dollars, just to shut him up.

157INT -- PRISON LIBRARY -- DAY (1960) 157 TRACKING the construction. Walls have been knocked down. Men are painting, plastering, hammering. Lots of shelves going up.

Red is head carpenter. We find him discussing plans with Andy.

RED (V.O.) Those checks came once a year like clockwork.

158INT -- PRISON LIBRARY -- DAY (1960) 158 Red and the boys are opening boxes, pulling out books.

RED (V.O.) You'd be amazed how far Andy could stretch it. He made deals with book clubs, charity groups...he bought remaindered books by the pound...

HEYWOOD:

Treasure Island. Robert Louis...

ANDY:

(jotting) ...Stevenson. Next?

RED:

I got here an auto repair manual, and a book on soap carving.

ANDY:

Trade skills and hobbies, those go under educational. Stack right behind you.

HEYWOOD:

The Count of Monte Crisco...

FLOYD:

Cristo, you dumbshit.

HEYWOOD:

...by Alexandree Dumb-ass.

ANDY:

Dumas. You boys'll like that one.

It's about a prison break.

Floyd tries to take the book. Heywood yanks it back. I saw it first. Red shoots Andy a look.

RED:

Maybe that should go under educational too.

159INT -- WOOD SHOP -- DAY (1961) 159 Red is making a sign, carefully routing letters into a long plank of wood. It turns out to be -- 160INT -- PRISON LIBRARY -- DAY (1963) 160

-- the varnished wood sign over the archway:

"Brooks Hatlen Memorial Library." TILT DOWN to reveal the library in all its