The Shawshank Redemption

They're not disposable, right? Sort of cannon fodder or for a zombie or a demon or a fog.

At some point, there are people with real problems, real issues that... get metaphorized or exaggerated or just get in sort of bad situations, but he's interested in when there's, I think the phrase I read this week is, he's interested in what if there's a crack in the mirror in your life and what does that look like? And the crack could be large, it could be small, and how do you deal with it? And that he also then bridges over into stories like you said with The Body, which is the short story that Stand By Me is based on, or Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption, which of course what The Shawshank Redemption is based on.

He's actually interested in people being – he's interested in friendship, right? I mean, I think that's one of his other great sort of teen into older adult sort of situations is people caring about each other, coming to each other's age.

We get one of the great – like someone trying to come to someone's rescue, even though they have really no moral obligation to them in this book, which I – I'll talk about my own story here in a minute.

I have not revisited it since.

I've read a couple other Stephen King's.

And Jeff, like we did an Adaptation Nation episode about Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.

But I have not read as much Stephen King as I would like to.

year of high school, I actually wrote a screenplay.

We sent it to someone who worked on the movie The Shawshank Redemption.

He was a producer and location manager, and he took great interest in it right away.

And so he took a lunch meeting in Marina Del Rey.

year of high school, I actually wrote a screenplay.

We sent it to someone who worked on the movie The Shawshank Redemption.

He was a producer and location manager, and he took great interest in it right away.

And so he took a lunch meeting in Marina Del Rey.

¶¶ hello everyone and welcome to minute 82 of season 12 we're a minute early podcast where we dig our way through the 1994 film the shawshank redemption one minute at a time i'm rob and join me once again today is eric nash a fellow mxm podcaster welcome back to the show eric

thanks for having me back again a second time here for this wonderful movie

Yeah, so today we're going to talk a little bit about baking.

What's the guy from...

Who writes his name was here in Shawshank? Brooks.

Yeah, I was going to say there was like...

That's what it felt like when I moved into that room was like there should have been like a Brooks was here because I found out after the fact that...

And then a one Gil Bellows.

Oh, Gil Bellows from Ally McBeal fame and also Shawshank Redemption.

I don't know.

I'm going down.

I think of an extreme example of how harmful fear of change can be, or really how fear of change can prolong a crucible.

I think of that classic movie, The Shawshank Redemption.

And this is a movie set in Maine, I believe.

I don't want to say it's like maybe the 50s or somewhere around there, maybe 50s, early 60s, something like that.

Right.

I think comfort can be something that keeps you to the point that this that we talk about all the time on the show that keeps you from getting beyond your crucible because you're comfortable there.

That's to your point of the Shawshank Redemption.

Right.

I don't know.

I've seen that on that Shawshank Redemption.

I don't know.

But I'm just saying the spoon has multipurposes.

Yes, yes.

And, you know, one of my favourite films, if not my most favourite film, is The Shawshank Redemption.

And it's completely due to his incredible narration, his voice.

He makes that film.