General Guide
雅思一对一
没什么大不了英文Year Relead: 1994
Running Time: 142min
Genre: Drama
英语口试Director: Frank Darabont
Starring:
Tim Robins as Andy Dufresne
Morgan Freeman as “Red”
addisBob Gunton as Warden
Plot Summary
In 1947, banker "Andy" is wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and her lover, bad on strong circumstantial evidence. He is ntenced to two concutive life ntences at Shawshank State Penitentiary, run by Warden Norton. Andy is quickly befriended by "Red“, an inmate rving a life ntence who parole application was recently rejected. Red is known for obtaining contraband and Andy has him obtain him a rock hammer to maintain his rock collection hobby, and a large poster of Rita Hayworth from Red, followed in later years by Marilyn Monroe and Raquel Welch.
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One day, Andy overhears Captain of the Guards Hadley complain about having to pay taxes on a forthcoming inheritance. After explaining a legal loophole to Hadley, Andy is reassigned to the prison library, a pretext to allow Andy to work on financial requests full time. Andy's financial rvice is soon known to other guards at Shawshank, even visiting guards from nearby prisons come to him.
Warden Norton develops schemes of using prison labor for public works, undercutting the
swedencost of skilled labor and receiving kickbacks for it. He has Andy launder the money under a fal identity of Randall Stevens, in exchange for Andy to keep his private cell and maintain the library.
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In 1965, a young fellow Tommy is put into Shawshank for robbery charges. He joins Andy and Red's circle , and Andy assists him in getting his GED. When learning of Andy's ca, Tommy reveals an inmate at another prison, a guy named Elmo, claimed to have committed a nearly identical murder—this might prove Andy's innocence. However, Norton, fearing that Andy might tell his corruption if relead, refus to co-operate, he even has Hadley kill Tommy, claiming he was attempting an escape.
Andy returns to his cell and tells Red about his dream of living in Zihuatanejo, a Mexican-Pacific coastal town.
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He instructs Red to visit a specific location to retrieve a package if he ever be freed. The next morning at roll call, Andy's cell is empty. Norton is so pisd, he throws one of Andy's rocks at the poster of Raquel Welch, the rock tears through the poster, revealing a tunnel that Andy had dug with the rock hammer over the last two decades.
It turns out that the night before, Andy switched the ledger book he had kept for Norton with his Bible. Taking the ledger, his chess t, and one of the warden's suits, he escaped through the tunnel during a thunderstorm. After escaping, Andy withdraws most of Norton’s corruption money from veral banks while posing Randall Stevens.
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Moreover, Andy nds evidence of Norton’s corruption to a local newspaper. Being afraid of facing his inescapable nemesis, Norton commits suicide before the police could catch him.
Red receives his parole after rving 40 years. He follows Andy's words and visits the very location. There, he finds more than enough money for a long trip and a note left by Andy, reminding him of Zihuatanejo. Without a cond thought, Red violates his parole a
nd skips the border to Mexico. In the end, the two friends are happily reunited on the beach.aground
