肖申克的救赎Shawshank Redemption Movie Script

BETH:

...said we can stay with them, but Joey's gettin' out of the service next month, and they barely got enough room as it is. Plus they got Poppa workin' double shifts and the baby cries half the night. I just don't know where we're gonna go... PUSH IN on Tommy's face as he listens.

RED (V.O.) Maybe it was the thought of them on the streets...or his child growing up not knowing her daddy... 178INT -- LIBRARY -- DAY (1965) 178 Tommy enters, the strut gone from his step. A little scared.

He finds Andy filing library cards.

RED (V.O.) Whatever it was, something lit a fire under that boy's ass.

TOMMY:

I'm thinkin' maybe I should try for high school equivalency. Hear you helped some fellas with that.

ANDY:

I don't waste time on losers, Tommy.

TOMNY:

(tight) I ain't no goddamn loser.

ANDY:

That's a good start. If we do this, we do it all the way. One hundred percent. Nothing half-assed.

Tommy thinks about it, nods.

TOMMY:

Thing is, see... (leans in, mutters) ...I don't read all that good.

ANDY:

(smiles) Well. You've come to the right place then.

179INT -- LIBRARY -- DAY (1965) 179 We find Andy giving an impassioned reading:

ANDY:

...and the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor...and my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, shall be lifted nevermore! " Andy slaps the book shut, immensely pleased with himself.

TOMMY:

So this raven just sits there and won't go away?

ANDY:

That's right.

TOMMY:

(beat) Why don't that fella get hisself a 12-gauge and dust the f***er?

180INT -- LIBRARY -- DAY (1965) 180 Tommy tries to read as Andy looks on:

TOMMY:

The cat sh--The cat shh... (glances up) The cat shat on the welcome mat?

Andy shakes his head. Not exactly.

181INT -- LIBRARY -- DAY (1965) 181 Andy chalks the alphabet on a blackboard.

RED (V.O.) So Andy took Tommy under his wing.

Started walking him through his ABCs... 182INT -- MESS HALL -- DAY (1965) 182 TRACK the table to Tommy and Andy. Discussing a book.

RED (V.O.) Tommy took to it pretty well, too.

Boy found brains he never knew he had.

183EXT -- EXERCISE YARD BLEACHERS -- DAY (1965) 183