ANDY

• Listening to the conversation about Hadley’s money problem.
• He’s not afraid to approach the guard (courage) – when he talks to Hadley, he talks calmly “Do you trust your wife?”
• Light shining on Andy’s face as he is bribing the guard for beer - “All I ask is for 3 beers a piece for my co workers…A man feels more like a man when he has a bottle of suds”
• Andy watches the other inmates drinking the beer. Sitting in the shade with a look of contentment on his face – he has just brought freedom to these people. Probably something they haven’t sensed in a long time.
• “No thanks, gave up drinking” – this shows that it was a purely selfless act from Andy. He stood to gain nothing from it…except maybe respect from the other inmates. He wanted them to feel freedom and have hope. Also, Andy was drinking on the night of his wife’s murder and that piece of evidence helped put him away (he was not of his right mind)
• This helped him achieve some status with the guards and the other inmates.

HADLEY

Quotes

• This lawyer says to me your brother died a rich man
• “What do you think the government’s gonna do to me? Take a big wet bite outta my ass”
• “I tell ya Uncle Sam, sticks his hand down your shirt and squeezes your tit til it’s purple”
• “I don’t need some smart ass wife killing banker to tell me where the bears shit in the buckwheat”
• Andy – “I feel kind of stupid telling you this. I’m sure a smart man…

“I suppose I could set it up for you”

• Hadley is a ‘colossal prick’ who wants to squeeze as much money out of his dead brother as possible. He is not concerned at all with the fact that he has died.
• He doesn’t care about the lives of the prisoners as long as they are of some value to him (like Andy doing his taxes).
• Hadley is a ‘murderer’. We see this with ‘fat ass’ and also the fact that he is willing to push Andy of the roof and claim it as an accident. He is corrupt and abuses his power readily.
• He is a cold hearted, violent fiend who thrives on his prey.
• He is relatively unintelligent – a dumb thug. We can tell this by the crass language he uses “Your that smart banker what killed his wife”
• He does not like to be outsmarted – especially by the inmates. Andy knows this so he tries to make him look smart.

COLOUR/ LIGHTING

• The guard’s faces are in shadow while the inmates are working.
• Grass outside the prison is bright green – this shows a juxtaposition of the two settings – the inside and the outside
• Prisoners can see green from the rooftops (hope, freedom) contrasted with the grey walls of the prison walls and grounds (institutionalisation, power corruption)
• Sun shines on the inmates’ faces while they drink beer – freedom and the guards are in shadow in the distance with the prison walls behind them.
• Can see lots of blue sky in the background, almost to the horizon, inmates feel a sense of freedom on the rooftops.

FREEDOM

• Bright lighting and colour symbolises freedome
• They are out in the fresh air ‘outside’ the prison almost.
• “Felt like free men”
• “I think he did it just to feel normal again. If only for a short time” – Red voiceover
• Lighting – when they’re drinking – golden sunset
• “We could’ve been tarring the roof of one of our own houses”
• Andy was doing something for other prisoners and also for himself
• Since the prisoners cannot have actual freedom, this is the closest that they are going to get and Andy is giving it to them – Andy offers them freedom and gives them hope.

HOPE

• Felt like free men for once when drinking the beer

- Sun on their backs – light is a symbol of hope

- Andy did that so he could feel normal again

• Hope that he can someday feel the freedom of not having the prison walls entrapping him.

- Hope that all the inmates will feel like free men again

- The fact that they are drinking beer whilst in prison shows something they have probably not done for years.

• Andy retains hope and wants to have a sense of freedom
• This scene is all about giving the prisoners a taste of hope and freedom. Andy is offering them hope.