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1、Outline Background Theme Conflict PerformanceBackground Shooting sites :uIt was filmed mainly in Ohio, Phil. The scene in the prison is mostly filmed in the abandoned Ohio state penitentiary.BackgrounduThe outdoor scene was mainly filmed at Malabar Farm State Park .BackgroundBased on the Rita Haywor

2、th and theShawshank Redemption from the differentseason. The special subtitles at the end of the film(In Memory of Allen Greene) is dedicated tothe agent.BackgroundDirector :Frank Darabont (1959.1.28now)The French bailey yarBackgroundWork :The Shawshank RedemptionBuried AliveThe Green MileMinority R

3、eportSaving Private RyanNominated for the Oscar for best adapted screenplayBackgroundPlaywright :Stephen Edwin KingPen name:Richard Bachman (1947.9.21.now)America PortlandBackgroundWork :Stand by me CarrieFamous for horror fictions.Access to the national book award for lifetime achievement in 2003.B

4、ackgroundHero :Tim Robbins Backgroundu He won the Best Actor in the Cannes Film Festival and Golden Globe Award with The Player in 1992.u He won the 76th Oscar award for best actor in a supporting role with the Mystic River u As a director and screenwriter, he was nominated for three Oscars in 1996

5、and won four awards in the same year Berlin film festival. (Dead Man Walking) BackgroundSupporting role :Morgan Freeman Backgroundu He won the Oscar for best supporting actor and nominated for two golden globes. (Street Smart)u Morgan freeman was third nominated for the Academy Awards with The shaws

6、hank redemption.u Famous works: Million Dollar Baby ; Seven ; Driving Miss Daisy .The Theme of The Shawshank Redemption The theme of The Shawshank Redemption is Hope The warden wears off prisoners hope Andy builds up prisoners hopeThe warden educates the prisoners to believe the gods In fact, he reg

7、ards himself as god. His brutality nature bends the prisoners to his discipline and the bible. The endless torment makes the prisoners institutional. The prisoners lost their hope in Shawshank.Andy brings hope for not himself but othersHe never bows to evil forces (three “sisters” in the prison)He h

8、as a special interest : carvingHe takes the risk to strive the right of drinking beerHe broadcasts beautiful music which prisoners never heard in wardens faceHe insists to write letters to government to build a prisons libraryHe takes 20 years to dig the tunnel to escape from the prisonHe helps Tomm

9、y to through the university entrance exam He helps Red to find hope and get freedomPhrase1 some things are best left unsaid 只可意会，不能言传2 piss off使人生气；使人厌烦3 yellow page黄页（商业电话簿）4 scare me to death吓得要死5 pipe dream白日做梦；想入非非6 Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. 希望是

10、美好的，也许是人间至善，而美好的事物永不消逝。7 Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. 希望是件危险的事。希望能叫人发疯8 It takes a strong man to save himself, and a great man to save another. 强者救赎自己，圣人普度他人9 Gods truth 真实的事情 e.g. It is Gods truth that my next door neighbor was a murderer at large! “我的隔壁住着一个在逃的杀人犯，这事儿千真万确

11、！”10 up for：打算；准备 Im up for rejection next week. “我已经做好了准备，下周申请假释的时候也被拒”。 The house is up for sale. 房子准备出售。be up for是一个很常用的词组，在口语中，为了避免句式单调，用这个词组替代be ready.11 bump me a deck 借我一盒烟Bump 相当于lend，deck是指a pack of cigarettes。 监狱里的犯人常常用一种普通人听不懂的指代词语来谈论一些事情，这可以说是他们长年牢狱生活的“创造”12wind up：这里要特别注意wind一词的发音/waind

12、/, 作动词，wind up的意思是“使自己处于某种状态或某个地方”。如：“He wound up drunk.（他不知不觉醉了。）”在影片里整句话描述的是干活的犯人们坐在一起喝啤酒的这种状态12 curry favor：意思是“拍马屁”。Curry kri: n. 1.用马梳给马刷拭，2.咖喱粉，vt. 1. 用咖喱粉烹调(食物)2. 梳刷(马匹)3. 讨好； 奉承； 拍某人的马屁 She always curries favor with her manager, which annoys most of her colleagues. （她总是在经理那儿拍马屁，这一点让大部分同事们都觉得

13、讨厌。） 13 For Gods sake! “看在上帝的份上”。常用表达，如： Oh my God / Jesus / Christ / Jesus H Christ / Holy Shit / God / Good Heavens / Oh my/ Oh boy and so on.ConflictHope VS DespairAndy：“Forget that there are .places.in the world that arent made out of stone, there is something .inside.that they cant get to.that

14、is hope.”Red：“let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. Its got no use on the inside. Youd better get used to that idea.” Institutionalized VSReverse institutionalizedRed：“Believe what you want. These walls are funny. First you hate them, then you g

15、et used to them. After long enough, you get so you depend on them. Thats institutionalized.”Brooks & Red They spent most of their life in the prison. The world has changed. They can not adapt the life outside. They may be discriminated. They are institutionalized men. They both thought about com

16、mitting crime again, just wanted to be sent their “home”.Brooks: commit SuicideRed: socially reintegrated and live a happy life Humanity VS Autocratic Rules of the Prison Abuse prisoners The captain of guards (Mr. Hadley) killed the fatty, and wounded others. The exploitation of prisoners labor Unhe

17、althy food Music Deprive prisoners rights to pursue the beauty of life. Imprison prisoners freedom, not only the body, but also the mind and soul.Performance Leading Actor & Actress Awards and HonorsLeading Actors Tim Robbins was born in West Covina , California, city , he spent his high school

18、life at Stuyvesant High School, and study for two years in the University of New rise York at Plattsburgh. Then turn to rise to UCLA, graduated and obtained a degree in drama in 1980 . He was a professional baseball player , a soft spot for acting . He is also a director, screenwriter and producer .

19、 As an actor , he was won the Cannes Film Festival in 1992 with The Player and the Golden Globe Awards in 2004. Because of the performance in Mystic River “, he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor Award. As a director and screenwriter , his work in death road received three Oscar nominations in

20、1996 and won four awards at the Berlin Film Festival in the same year . In each film, Robbinss fabulous acting made him the real Hollywood film artists .Tim Robbins Morgan Freeman is an African-American actor, director. In 1989, by acting in Driving Miss Daisy as for the honest, kind, brave old driver, he won a Golden Globe Award and the National Film Cri