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Only when the film reaches its final, emotionally satisfying scene do you fully understand why writer-director Frank Darabont (adapting a novella by Stephen King) allows the story to unfold at its necessary pace, and the effect is dramatically rewarding.
Those complaints miss the point, because the passage of time is crucial to this story about patience, the squeaky wheels of justice, and the growth of a life-long friendship.
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Putting Rita's name in the title makes for a quick and easy way to give the story quite a bit of context, as well as leading readers to ask the whole "What the heck is this about"? question that leads them to pick up the book in the first place.When this popular prison drama was released in 1994, some critics complained that the movie was too long (142 minutes) to sustain its story. Start with Rita, move up to Marilyn, and before you know it, thirty years have gone by. Hayworth instead of a more modern pin-up girl lets King lay the seeds for the long passage of time that Andy spends in prison. More likely, however, is that it's simply the fact that Rita was a well-known pin-up girl in the 1940s when Andy gets thrown in jail. It might be that King is partial to red-heads or that he really, really digs Rita's movies. You might be wondering, "But why Rita Hayworth?" Good question. And for a while just that was enough to make me feel free.
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He strolled off, as if he was a free man who had just made another free man a proposition. He keeps that secret light in his soul, and he helps the other cons feel it too: Yet, he finds a way to keep it all from getting to him. He's chased around by rapists, forced to do free tax work for the guards and generally subjected to the worst kind of treatment imaginable. He's chucked in jail for a crime he didn't commit. More to the point, the word "redemption" probably refers to the way Andy redeems this injustice that has happened to him.
Most good books have a hook to get us started and this one puts it right there in the title. What's a Shawshank? Do people get redeemed there? Does it do the redeeming? How? And how does an old-time pin-up girl figure into it? They're good questions, good enough perhaps to make us open the book and read it to find out the answers. King wants you to ask some questions to lead you into the narrative. Even so, it's a weird collection of words-weird enough for the movie to cut a few words from its title-and it doesn't make a lot of sense until you read the book.
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Put them all together and you have the book's full title: Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.The title refers to Andy's escape, as well as a shout out to one of the ways he makes life bearable in prison. Shawshank: a make-believe prison in Maine.Rita Hayworth: movie star and incredible hottie of yesteryear.Thanks to its movie adaptation, most of us know this story by its shortened title, The Shawshank Redemption, but the book actually has three parts to its title:
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