Last winter and this spring, getting through these days when you can't move freely is really like being in prison. Everyone reduces going out and actively builds a "living prison" at home: everyone is a warden, and everyone is a prisoner...
I don't watch any infectious disease-themed movies anymore, it's annoying. After watching this "Escape from Pretoria", everything will get better soon, and we will get out of prison collectively.
When it comes to "The Shawshank Redemption", later prison break movies have been hard to come by. Intentionally or unintentionally, the director of "Escape" paid tribute to "Xiao" in many details.
1. Andy Dovery vs Tim Jenkin
Andy is a deputy bank manager, and Tim is a "terrorist" who opposes apartheid. Both of them are wrongly jailed. In other respects, the two male protagonists have nothing in common.
Tim Robbins, who plays Andy, is 196cm tall, which is very different from Stephen King's original role, while Tim Jenkins, played by small Daniel, wears a pair of glasses, and his shape is quite in line with the original Shaw. .
In "Shaw," Andy sits on the rooftop and looks at his fellow inmates drinking beer.
In "Escape", Tim is sitting by the prison wall.
2. "Warden Norton + Guard Captain Haley" VS "Captain + Officer Meg"
Shawshank Prison is located in Maine, USA in the original book, but the actual location is the State Correctional Institution in Mansfield, Ohio. The huge prison is really shocking.
"Escape" is set in a prison in Pretoria, South Africa. The roles are set by the golden partner of "Big Boss + Lack of Deputy": The Big Boss is responsible for training new prisoners when they are in prison, the deputy is responsible for daily mischief, and the Big Boss is also responsible for surprise inspections cell.
In "Shaw", Andy helps guard captain Haley file taxes in exchange for the inmates drinking cold beer on the rooftop.
In "Escape", the prison officer Meg gave Tim new glasses, which seemed to be the benevolent side of these prison officers in the movie, but in fact the other side was hideous.
3. Music
In "Shaw," Andy plays the classic "The Marriage of Figaro" in the radio studio while the guards go to the tuba (reading a magazine on the side).
In "Escape", the fat prison guard also played a song before getting on the tuba (reading the newspaper on the side). (By contrast, inmates at Pretoria prison have some perks.)
Both films feature jukeboxes and speakers. (By the way, why is the film 26 years later so different in terms of scenes, lighting, photography, etc.? Maybe it's to show the misery of South African prisons.)
4. Dealing with "Jailbreak Construction Waste"
In "Shaw", Andy walks around the playground, secretly throwing "jailbreak construction dregs" from the digging of the cell walls through his trouser legs.
In "Escape", Tim buries wooden key scraps in the prison's vegetable garden.
5. Jailbreak tool
In both movies, the key escape tools have appeared in the eyes of the prison boss.
In Shaw, the warden picks up the Bible with the small stone hammer when he raids the cell, but only talks to Andy without opening the book.
In "Escape", the captain finds a wooden key made by Tim, but Tim lies and says that it is a photo stand.
Tim was so nervous that the captain was paralyzed and let him escape. Andy was mostly lucky: who would have thought that someone would hollow out a Bible and hide something.
6. Seniors
In "Shaw," Reed says "I think there's a guy like me in every federal or state prison in America -- the guy who can get you stuff." He brought Andy a small stone hammer and a large poster of Rita Hayworth, these key escape tools, but he did not aspire to escape, and suppressed Andy's idea of escape. , or thought.
In "Escape", Dennis Goldberg is the role of "Old Senior". He also provides Tim with key tools, and he also does not aspire to escape from prison. He also suppresses the male protagonist. Wearing's belief - although he thinks he is fighting another kind of battle, on the other hand, it is because of fear that he cannot bear the consequences of failing to escape from prison.
When Red received a postcard from Andy from Zihuatanejo in prison, he couldn't help laughing.
And when Dennis saw Meg's panic when she found out that Tim and others were missing, he couldn't help but be happy. In the two films, the shooting angles and composition of the characters are similar.
The road ahead is long, only the long night will accompany you.
Their sincere smiles are the best gifts from prisoners who have escaped from prison.
Whether it's Andy and Rhett reuniting on the beach, or Tim and the three of them getting out of prison and leaving by car, the movie scenes have changed from a dark and shabby prison to a vast and far-flung realm, with boundless freedom!
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