肖申克的救赎Shawshank Redemption Movie Script

Norton pulls a pack of cigarettes, offers Tommy a smoke. Tommy takes one. Norton lights both cigarettes, pockets his lighter.

NORTON:

The right decision. Sometimes it's hard to figure out what that is.

You understand?

(Tommy nods) Think hard, Tommy. If I'm gonna move on this, there can't be the least little shred of doubt. I have to know if you what you told Dufresne was the truth.

TOMMY:

Yes sir. Absolutely.

NORTON:

Would you be willing to swear before a judge and jury...having placed your hand on the Good Book and taken an oath before Almighty God Himself?

TOMMY:

Just gimme that chance.

NORTON:

That's what I thought.

Norton drops his cigarette. Crushes it out with the toe of his shoe. Glances up toward the plate shop roof as -- 199 HIGH ANGLE FROM PLATE SHOP ROOF (SNIPER POV) 199 -- a rifle scope pops up into frame, jumping Tommy's image into startling magnification, framed in the crosshairs.

200 THE SNIPER 200 rapid-fires a carbine -- BLAM!BLAM!BLAM!BLAM! -- his face lit up by the muzzle flashes. Captain Hadley.

201 TOMMY 201 gets chewed to pieces by the gunfire. He smacks the ground in a twitching, thrashing heap. Eyes wide and staring. Dead.

Surprise still stamped on his face. Silence now. Norton turns, strolls into darkness.

202INT -- SOLITARY WING -- DAY (1966) 202 GUARDS approach Andy's cell. The door is unlocked. Andy emerges slowly, blinking painfully at the light.

203 INT/EXT -- PRISON -- DAY (1966) 203 Andy is marched along. Convicts stop to stare.

204INT -- NORTON'S OFFICE -- DAY (1966) 204 Andy is led in. The door is closed. Alone with Norton. Softly,

NORTON:

Terrible thing. Man that young, less than a year to go, trying to escape. Broke Captain Hadley's heart to shoot him, truly it did.

ANDY:

I'm done. It stops right now. Get H&R Block to declare your income.

Norton lunges to his feet, eyes sparkling with rage.

NORTON:

Nothing stops! NOTHING! (tight) Or you will do the hardest time there is. No more protection from the guards. I'll pull you out of that one-bunk Hilton and put you in (MORE) - NORTON (cont.) with the biggest bull queer I can find. You'll think you got f***ed by a train! And the library? Gone! Sealed off brick by brick! We'll have us a little book-barbecue in the yard! They'll see the flames for miles! We'll dance around it like wild Indians! Do you understand me? Are you catching my drift?

SLOW PUSH IN on Andy's face. Eyes hollow. His beaten expression says it all... 205EXT -- PRISON YARD -- DAY (1966) 205 Red finds Andy sitting in the shadow of the high stone wall, poking listlessly through the dust for small pebbles. Red waits for some acknowledgment. Andy doesn't even look up.

Red hunkers down and joins him. Nothing is said for the longest time. And then, softly:

ANDY:

My wife used to say I'm a hard man to know. Like a closed book.

Complained about it all the time.

(pause) She was beautiful. I loved her. But I guess I couldn't show it enough.

(softly) I killed her, Red.