The Shawshank Redemption has been ranked #2 in IMDB's top 250 film rankings, voted upon by the website's visitors. It has also been voted the best film that has NEVER won 'Best Picture' in a poll by the BBC in 2005. It was also ranked #2 in Film Four's compilation of the '100 Greatest Films of all Time' in 2001.
One of the early scenes in the movie is of the brutal beating of one of the inmates who wants his mother and "doesn't belong here." He is so badly abused that he is put in "the infirmary" after the warden beats him for making noise. This typical type of scene is expected in prison movies due to the stereotypical abuse expected from authority figures. "Your ass belongs to me," is what is said to the main character, Andy Dufresne, when he first enters the prison by warden Norton.
There is also the stereotype that inmates, especially new ones who are fragile, are sexually dominated by other inmates. This theme occurs in The Shawshank Redemption. We are introduced to the leader of the Sister's, Bogs, a mere twenty minutes into the film. The Sister's are a group of prisoners who take pleasure in raping those they feel to be weak, and Andy becomes one of them. Brutal rape scenes are also present in British film Scum and the television drama Bad Girls.
One of the early scenes in the movie is of the brutal beating of one of the inmates who wants his mother and "doesn't belong here." He is so badly abused that he is put in "the infirmary" after the warden beats him for making noise. This typical type of scene is expected in prison movies due to the stereotypical abuse expected from authority figures. "Your ass belongs to me," is what is said to the main character, Andy Dufresne, when he first enters the prison by warden Norton.
There is also the stereotype that inmates, especially new ones who are fragile, are sexually dominated by other inmates. This theme occurs in The Shawshank Redemption. We are introduced to the leader of the Sister's, Bogs, a mere twenty minutes into the film. The Sister's are a group of prisoners who take pleasure in raping those they feel to be weak, and Andy becomes one of them. Brutal rape scenes are also present in British film Scum and the television drama Bad Girls.
Possibly the most famous scene of the movie is when Andy, now having gained the trust of the prison wardens etc, locks one of the prison officers in the toilet while he plays classical music to the whole prison. The music is from The Marriage of Figaro, an uplifting piece. Andy sits in the warden's chair, leaning back in it and relaxing, with a large smile on his face as the music gets louder and louder.
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