"get busy livin or get busy dyin." andy dufresne

The first movie on imdb.com's top 250 movies is The Shawshank Redemption starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins.


1. The Shawshank Redemption

my thoughts on shawshank: I have to say when I saw that this was imdb's #1 movie I didn't think it deserved it; mostly because I've never seen it before until now. Now that I have I have to say I understand exactly why it is number one. The emotions and thoughts that this movie stirred up for me were intense. I cared about the characters even if they were all crooks. At the end, Morgan Freeman's character really got my mind thinking about life sentences and how he wanted to go back in time and just talk to that stupid boy who had committed the crime and to tell him how it is. That was the moment in the movie where everything came together. Brooks was a character that I found to be undeserving of his surroundings. I really felt like he could be the really innocence amongst thieves. It was heartwarming to see that Red had gotten the same room as Brooks once he was out and feeling the same way Brooks did. I never would have thought that people coming out of jail would have it so rough. The movie's ending lines were probably some of the best I've ever heard and when I looked up to see who the writers were well I wasn't very surprised to see Stephen King as one of them.

favorite quotes: "I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope." - Red

"Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend." - Red

"Red: You gonna open it, or stand there with your thumb up your butt?
Tommy Williams: Thumb up my butt sounds better."