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RED: I
have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singin' about. Truth is, I don't want to know.
Some things are best left unsaid.
I like to think they were singin' about something so beautiful
it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache
because of it.
RED (V.O.) I tell you, those voices soared. Higher and
farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like
some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made
those walls
dissolve away...and for the briefest of moments -
every last man at Shawshank felt free.
RED (V.O.) It
pissed the warden
off something awful.
WARDEN: Open the door. Open it up! Dufrense, open this door!
Turn that off! I am warning you, Dufrense, turn that off!
HADLEY: Dufrense, you are mine now.
RED (V.O.) Andy got two weeks in the hole for that little
stunt.
HADLEY: On your feet.
CON: Hey, look who's here.
CON: Maestro.
HEYWOOD: You, you couldn't play somethin' good, huh? Like
Hank Williams?
ANDY: They broke the door down before I could take requests.
FLOYD: Was it worth two weeks in the hole?
ANDY: Easiest time I ever did.
HEYWOOD: Oh, shit. No such thing as easy time in the hole. A
week in the hole is like a year.
SNOOZE: Damn straight.
ANDY: I had Mr. Mozart to keep me company.
RED: So they let you tote that record player down there, huh?
ANDY: It was in here...in here. That's the beauty of music.
They can't get that from you. Haven't you ever felt that way
about music?
RED: Well I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost my
interest in it, though. Didn't
make much sense in here.
ANDY: Here's where it makes most sense. You need it so you
don't forget.
RED: Forget?
ANDY: Forget that there are places in the world that aren't
made out of stone, that there's… there's something inside that
they can't get to and they can't touch. That's yours.
RED: What are you talking about?
ANDY: Hope.
RED: Hope. Let me tell you something, my friend. Hope is a
dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man
insane. It's got no use on
the inside. You'd better get used to the idea.
ANDY: Like Brooks did? |
