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September 08, 2004
My Favorite Movie
It is now the 10 year anniversary of The Shawshank Redemption and, due to this, Charlie Rose had director/writer Frank Darabont and stars Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman on to discuss it. Although hard to pick a single favorite movie, if forced to choose this would be my choice. It is an almost perfect movie, with basically not a word, scene or moment wrong in it and an incredible number of powerful and touching scenes. The scene on the roof drinking beer is probably my favorite one but Red discovering the box towards the end and the final meeting on the beach are also incredibly wonderful. This is also almost certainly the 'smallest' movie in my top group and I don't think I ever even saw it in the theatre but it is a movie that is so intimate in a fashion that it actually may work better at home. Apparently with the anniversary it is going to be reissued in a very limited number of theatres and I will probably go if I get a chance to see it on the big screen for the first time. *****
This movie is also currently #2 (and has been #1 at times) on the IMDB Top 250 movies of all-time which amazed me when I first saw it there as I adore it but thought it a small movie that only a few would think so good but it is great that it is as well known and loved as it obviously is.
Posted by aarondf at September 8, 2004 01:18 PM
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