肖申克的救赎Shawshank Redemption Movie Script

ANDY:

Please. Would you add this to your outgoing mail?

He hands her a package, stamped and addressed. Gives them a pleasant smile. Turns and strolls from the bank.

RED (V.O.) Mr. Stevens visited nearly a dozen banks in the Portland area that morning. All told, he blew town with better than 370 thousand dollars of Warden Norton's money.

Severance pay for nineteen years.

255INT -- OFFICE -- DAY (1966) 255 A MAN in shirtsleeves is going through the mail on his desk.

He finds Andy's package, rips it open. Pulls out the black ledger and files. Scans a cover letter. Holy sh*t. He dashes to his door and yanks it open, revealing the words on the

glass:

"PORTLAND DAILY BUGLE -- Editor In Chief."

MAN:

Hal! Dave! Get your butts in here! 256INT -- SHAWSHANK PRISON -- DAY (1966) 256 Norton walks slowly toward his office. Dazed. The morning paper in his hand. He goes wordlessly past the DUTY GUARD into his office. Shuts the door. Lays the paper on his desk.

The headline reads:

"CORRUPTION AND MURDER AT SHAWSHANK."

Below that, the sub-headline:

"D.A. Has Ledger. Indictments Expected." Norton looks up as SIRENS SWELL in the distance.

257EXT -- SHAWSHANK PRISON -- WIDE SHOT -- DAY (1966) 257 For the second time, State Police cruisers go rocketing up the road with SIRENS AND LIGHTS.

258INT -- NORTON'S OFFICE -- DAY (1966) 258 Norton opens his safe and pulls out the "ledger" -- it's

Andy's Bible. The title page is inscribed by hand:

"Dear Warden. You were right. Salvation lay within." Norton flips to the center of the book -- and finds the pages hollowed out in the shape of a rock-hammer.

259EXT -- PRISON -- DAY (1966) 259 Police cruisers everywhere. A media circus. REPORTERS jostle for position. A colorless DISTRICT ATTORNEY steps forward into CLOSEUP, flanked by a contingent of S.ATE TROOPERS.

D.A.

Byron Hadley?

ANGLE SHIFTS to reveal Captain Hadley. Staring. Waiting.

D.A.

You have the right to remain silent. If you give up that right, anything you say will be used against you in court... TROOPERS move in, cuffing Hadley's hands behind his back. The D.A. drones on. FLASHBULBS POP. Hadley says nothing. His face scrunches up. He begins to cry.

RED (V.O.) I wasn't there to see it, but I hear Byron Hadley was sobbing like a little girl when they took him away.

Hadley sobs all the way to the car. The D.A. snaps a gaze up toward Norton's window, motions his men to follow.

260INT -- NORTON'S OFFICE -- DAY (1966) 260 Norton is staring out the window as they approach the building. He goes to his desk, opens a drawer. Inside lies a revolver and a box of shells.

RED (V.O.) Norton had no intention of goin' that quietly.

261INT -- PRISON CORRIDORS -- DAY (1966) 261 The D.A. marches along amidst a phalanx of TROOPERS.

262INT -- NORTON'S OFFICE -- DAY (1966) 262 Norton sits blankly at his desk, revolver before him. The doorknob rattles, a VOICE is heard: D.A. (O.S.) Samuel Norton? We have a warrant for your arrest! Open up! The POUNDING starts. Norton dumps the box of bullets out on thr desk. He starts sorting them to see which ones he likes.