30 years after its release, “Shawshank Redemption” director Frank Darabont reveals new details about the production that range from inspirational to downright disgusting.
Hope. It’s a hard thing to hold onto at the best of times, let alone infuse into a movie. Not just any movie either, but one that regularly appears on lists of the greatest movies ever made. However, against all the odds, it’s something that filmmaker Frank Darabont managed to do with his life-affirming classic“The movie’s like a Rorschach test,” suggests Darabont, speaking to us as his enduring prison drama starring Tim Robbins andturns 30 years old.
With that, not only was Darabont signed on to direct but granted final cut over his directorial debut. Even from the early stages, the filmmaker was clear on what type of story he wanted to tell. “You’re telling a story of hope versus no hope and that’s represented by Andy on one hand and Red on the other,” he tells us.
Joining his leading duo was an ensemble cast populating Shawshank’s dank cells and shady corridors. From James Whitmore’s aging and institutionalized inmate Brooks and William Sadler's loveable convict Heywood, to Bob Gunton’s sadistic Warden Norton and Clancy Brown as his heartless enforcer Captain Hadley. For Darabont, it was a baptism of fire in working with actors of all types.
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