肖申克的救赎Shawshank Redemption Movie Script

IN THE BACKGROUND, a winch cable SNAPS and whips through the air, damn near severing a man's leg. He goes down, screaming in mud and blood, pinned by a fallen tree stump. Men rush over to help him. Norton barely takes notice.

NORTON:

Ned, I wouldn't worry too much over this contract. Seems to me I've already got my boys committed elsewhere. You be sure and thank Maisie for this fine pie.

165INT -- NORTON'S OFFICE -- NIGHT (1965) 165 ANGLE on Maisie's pie. Several pieces gone.

RED (V.O.) And behind every shady deal, behind every dollar earned... TILT UP to Andy at the desk, munching thoughtfully as he totals up figures on an adding machine.

RED (V.O.) ...there was Andy, keeping the books.

Andy finishes preparing two bank deposits. Norton hovers near the desk, keeping a watchful eye.

ANDY:

Two deposits, Casco Bank and New England First. Night drop, like always.

Norton pockets the envelopes. Andy crosses to the wall safe and shoves the ledger and sundry files inside. Norton locks the safe, swings his wife's framed sampler back into place. He c*cks his thumb at some laundry and two suits in the corner.

NORTON:

Get my stuff down t'laundry. Two suits for dry-clean and a bag of whatnot. Tell 'em if they over- starch my shirts again, they're gonna hear about it from me.

(adjusts his tie) How do I look?

ANDY:

Very nice.

NORTON:

Big charity to-do up Portland way. Governor's gonna be there.

(indicates pie) Want the rest of that? Woman can't bake worth sh*t.

166INT -- PRISON CORRIDOR -- NIGHT (1965) 166 Andy trudges down the corridor with Norton's laundry, the pie box under his arm.

167INT -- LIBRARY -- DAY (1965) 167 TILT UP FROM PIE to find Red munching away as he helps Andy sort books on the shelves.

RED:

Got his fingers in a lot of pies, from what I hear.

ANDY:

What you hear isn't half of it.

He's got scams you haven't dreamed of. Kickbacks on his kickbacks.

There's a river of dirty money flowing through this place.

RED:

Money like that can be a problem.

Sooner or later you gotta explain where it came from.

ANDY:

That's where I come in. I channel it, funnel it, filter it...stocks, securities, tax free municipals... I send that money out into the big world. And when it comes back...

RED:

It's clean as a virgin's whistle?

ANDY:

Cleaner. By the time Norton retires, I will have made him a millionaire.

RED:

Jesus. They ever catch on, he's gonna wind up wearing a number himself.