"The Shawshank Redemption" had relatively few filming locations, and most of the scenes were filmed in the "Shawshank" prison.
This can actually save Li Yi a lot of time.
The style of a movie actually sometimes also affects the atmosphere of the crew.
For example, for a funny movie, unless the director is like Mr. Xingye, the filming process is usually relatively joyful.
Another example is that when "Mom Love Me Again" was originally being filmed, no one in the entire crew didn't cry.
When filming a relatively depressing movie, it will also affect the atmosphere of the crew.
"The Shawshank Redemption" is a rather strange movie. Although the protagonist Andy was wrongfully imprisoned, in fact, the movie is not depressing at all.
Therefore, the shooting was much smoother. Li Yi's original three-month shooting plan was completed ahead of schedule in just over two months. This is the result of Li Yi's continuous improvement.
Of course, the main reason is that the original version of this movie is classic enough, so Li Yi made almost no changes. Everything was shot according to the script, so naturally, there will be no temporary changes or ideas.
This saves a lot of time.
Many people say that the speed of Hong Kong Island, which only takes a week to shoot a movie, is unbelievable, but in fact, in Hollywood, the speed is really not bad.
No, in order to be able to strike while the iron is hot and reap the dividends of the news, several companies have started related new projects, and the shooting speed is extremely fast.
It's just a pity that there is no polished script after all, so the film produced can only be said to be lackluster.
For this reason, when "The Shawshank Redemption" began to be promoted, many people actually did not have high expectations for the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" because they were influenced by the previous shoddy and popular related films.
Especially the film critics and media are the most popular among them.
After all, it would be fine if other audiences and movie fans were deceived once, but almost all of them, including film critics and media people, have watched it, and naturally they are also somewhat inexplicably disgusted with this type of movie.
Regarding this, Dean Pictures initially considered whether to postpone the release, because current public opinion, influenced by the previous films, naturally did not have a favorable impression of related films of this type.
Of course they are also afraid of being affected.
However, in the end, the publicity was carried out step by step.
In fact, for this movie, both Dean Pictures and Li Yi are not so optimistic about the box office on the big screen.
Li Yi didn't have much confidence mainly because he remembered the movie's poor performance on the big screen, while Dean Films purely based on the movie itself.
However, they are very optimistic about the film's streaming on-demand and offline DVD markets.
Since this is the case, then naturally there is no need to worry about being affected, and Li Yi naturally has great confidence in this movie. Even if it cannot reach the height in his memory, it can at least be called a movie.
A classic.
For this reason, when "The Shawshank Redemption" began to invite the media and film critics to attend the first screening.
Many film critics and media people are unanimously not optimistic about it.
"Another popular work! China's miracle director is so disappointing this time!"
"Yeah, those movies of the same type in the first half of the year were really rough!"
"But don't you think the title of this movie is weird? "The Shawshank Redemption". Who is Shawshank? Who is being redeemed?"
"You'll know after watching it. I think it might be different this time, because I heard that this movie mainly focuses on the story inside the prison, which is different from the previous movies."
"Hopefully!"
The media and film critics present chatted one after another.
Most people feel that Li Yi made a hasty movie this time. Although it was later than other movies, those previous movies were really disappointing.
The movie started quickly.
Although everyone is not so optimistic about this movie, they are all professionals after all, so they still have this quality.
The noise in the theater gradually stopped, and everyone's eyes began to focus on the big screen.
The movie "The Shawshank Redemption" opens with the male protagonist Andy, played by Anthony Robin, sitting in a car and taking out a pistol, bullets, and wine from the car.
Then through a sound montage, it was transferred to the courtroom.
The prosecutor asked Andy: "Mr. Dufresne, please describe what you did on the night your wife was killed?"
The opening paragraph is not outstanding, and it can even be said that it made many film critics and media people shake their heads.
Because the past few movies almost always started with a court scene.
And in their opinion, the same is true for "The Shawshank Redemption."
They could even guess that the male protagonist would be imprisoned after being wronged.
Sure enough, the next plot was just as they had guessed. Andy's questioning of the prosecutor contained too many coincidences for him to refute.
His wife cheated on her and wanted to divorce him, and he did think about shooting her. Although it didn't work out, the next day, his wife and her lover died in bed together.
"boom!"
After a gunshot, the camera cuts to the prison.
Everything was as they had guessed, and he was imprisoned unjustly again.
What they didn't expect was that the person who appeared in front of everyone was not Andy, but the old black prisoner, Red!
Red attends his parole hearing. He is sentenced to life in prison and has been in prison for twenty years.
When he was asked: "Have you changed your mind?", he seemed a little submissive and humbly said that he had changed his mind.
However, the result was that the parole application was still rejected.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After that, he left the hearing site and returned to the prison, and Red's narration sounded.
"There are people like me in every prison in America. I can get everything, cigarettes, brandy, posters, whatever you want, there is almost no problem."
"That's right, I'm like a department store!"
Through his narration, he also explained what kind of person Red is. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and has been in prison for twenty years. Moreover, he is a figure in prison because he can get a lot of things.
Such a person undoubtedly has a high status in prison.
At this time, the prison's piercing alarm sounded.
Rhett's voice continued: "So when Andy Dufresne came to me in 1949 and asked if I could get a poster of a sexy actress in, I told him 'Sure!'"
At this point in time, the film critics and media people in the cinema looked at each other, because this was indeed a bit beyond their expectations. They did not expect that the story of "The Shawshank Redemption" happened so early, and it was different from what they had guessed before.
completely different.
This also made them curious about the movie.
The camera panned outside to see a white car driving slowly, and then showed a panoramic close-up of "Shawshank Prison".
Shawshank Prison, a Gothic castle-like prison, can be said to be full of a sense of the times.
The camera shot from the air, gradually crossing the high wall and entering the prison. The prisoners were asked to gather at the gate like ants one by one.
There was nothing wrong with the car, and Andy was sitting in it.
Reid's story continued. Andy was sentenced to prison for murdering his wife and his wife's lover in 1947. He was originally the vice president of a large bank.
Typical young talent!
Rhett and the prisoners all came to the gate to welcome the new prisoners.
As the prisoners shouted loudly and watched, the new prisoners lined up and came in from the middle one by one.
Andy is so unique among all the prisoners.
Although he seemed a little timid when facing the shouts and screams of the prisoners, he still gave people a completely different feeling.
The prisoners shouted that new people had arrived, and they had some fun again.
Red and a few old prisoners even used them to gamble.
Rhett looked at the new prisoners and continued to narrate in voice-over: "I admit that when I first met Andy, I didn't have any special feeling. He looked like the wind, and he would fall over as soon as he blew. This is the first time he left me.
An impression.”
But Rhett still chose Andy.
The camera shows Andy looking up before entering the prison cell. The camera follows his line of sight. That is the highest wall in the entire Shawshank Prison!
The film critics and media people in the theater were extremely quiet at this moment, and they began to have a strong curiosity about this movie.
Because everything is different from the movies they watched before.
After Andy and the other new prisoners entered the prison, they lined up to follow the prison guards. There was a yellow line drawn on the ground, and each of them walked along that line.
The warden wore glasses, looked very polite, and spoke in a gentle voice. He introduced himself and the prison guard captain to the new "guests".
He started talking about the rules here.
"Article 1: You are not allowed to blaspheme God and you are not allowed to abuse God's name."
"You will know the other rules gradually. Are there any questions?"
At this time, a prisoner asked: "When will dinner be served?"
As a result, Warden Norton gave Captain Hadley a look, and Hadley immediately walked up to the prisoner.
He angrily yelled: "You eat when I ask you to eat, you poop when I ask you to poop, and you pee when you are asked to pee. Do you understand? You are a scumbag!"
Saying that, Hadley hit the prisoner hard with his baton!
"Put your faith in God and leave your life to me! Welcome to Shawshank Prison!"
With the words of Warden Norton, the audience also understood that it is not who is called Shawshank, but this prison is called Shawshank Prison.
Next comes the cleaning after being imprisoned. Everyone must be thoroughly cleaned from head to toe, top to bottom, with a high-pressure water gun.
Then, naked and holding his prison uniform, he was assigned to prisoners one by one.
"The first night is always the hardest. You go into the cell naked, just like you were born. When they push you into the cell and lock the door, you realize that this is not a joke! In the blink of an eye, your whole life is over.
Destroyed, leaving only endless regret!" Rhett stood behind the cell and watched the new prisoners passing by.
"Many new people almost went crazy on the first night, and some even burst into tears without exception! The only thing we cared about was, who would break down first?"
At this time, the audience also understood what Rhett and the others were betting on just now.
Everything has clear rules and regulations here.
When the first night came, the prison guard turned off the lights and plunged into darkness.
"I still remember my first night, it feels like a very distant thing!" Rhett was lying in the cell.
There are old prisoners teasing the new "rookies".
"They always like to tease rookies until they make them cry." Red stood up and, like other prisoners, came to the iron bars and looked outside.
A new fat man was crying in the cell, but a prisoner next door used words to stimulate him, causing him to cry loudly and shout that he did not belong here.
But the result was that the other prisoners in the prison booed loudly.
"I want to go home, I miss my mother..." The prisoners clapped their hands and called "Rookie" in unison, which immediately made the fat man collapse.
As a result, the noise attracted the guard captain Hadley, who pulled the fat man out and beat him half to death.
Suddenly the whole prison fell into silence.
And Andy remained silent on this first night, causing Red to lose several packs of cigarettes.
Everything here is a rule. All prisoners must walk out of their cells the next morning and stand there to be called.
Then he obeyed the order and left the cell and lined up.
All of this gives people a very depressing and restrictive feeling.
In fact, the failure of "The Shawshank Redemption" on the big screen is not without reason, because from the beginning to the present, the entire tone of the movie is bleak, giving people a sense of depression.
The viewing experience will not be very good.
When it was meal time, Andy found a bug in the meal, and thus got to know the first person in prison, Brooks, who actually raised a bird.
He told Andy: "I will take care of it until it can fly on its own!"
And through the conversation between Heywood, the prisoner in the cell next to the fat man, and another prisoner who was helping in the infirmary, Andy also felt the horror of this place. The fat man who cried last night was dead!
"What's his name?" Andy asked proactively.
Heywood was a little surprised: "What did you say?"
"I just want to know if anyone knows his name?" Andy said.
"Does this matter have anything to do with you? Rookie!" Heywood glared at Andy.
"He's already dead, and you still care about his damn name?"
"At first, Andy rejected people thousands of miles away. I think he must have a lot of things on his mind. He was trying to adapt to the life in this prison. It wasn't until a month later that he opened his mouth and started talking to people. Obviously, that person was me!"
Rhett's narration sounded again.
The first time Andy took the initiative to talk to someone, it was Rhett.
