The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption1994

Director: Frank Darabont
Genre: Crime, Drama
The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 film about a banker named Andy Dufresne, who is accused of double murder in the 1940s and begins a life sentence at the fictional Shawshank prison, where he be friends an older inmate named Red. During his long str… more »



[A new group of prisoners has arrived at Shawshank, Andy Dufresne among them, and the convicts are "going fishing", taunting the new prisoners and making bets on who will break down crying first.]

Heywood:
Hey, Fat Ass. Fat Ass! Talk to me boy! I know you're there. I can hear you breathin'. Don't you listen to these nitwits, you hear me? This place ain't so bad. Tell you what, I'll introduce you around, make you feel right at home. I know a couple of big old bull queers that'd just love to make your acquaintance. Especially that big, white, mushy butt of yours.

Fat Ass:
Oh, God. I don't belong here!

Inmate:
We have a winner!

Heywood:
And it's Fat Ass, by a nose! Fresh fish! Fresh fish!

Prisoners:
[Chanting] Fresh fish! Fresh fish! Fresh fish! Fresh fish!

Fat Ass:
I wanna go home! I want my mother!

Inmate:
I had your mother, she wasn't that great!

[A door on the ground floor opens, and Captain Byron Hadley and several guards walk onto the cell block.]

Byron Hadley:
What the Christ is this happy horseshit?!

Prisoner:
You took the Lord's name in vain; I'm telling the Warden!

Byron Hadley:
You'll be telling 'im with my baton up your ass!

Fat Ass:
You gotta let me outta here! You gotta!

Byron Hadley:
What is your malfunction, you fat barrel of monkey-spunk?

Fat Ass:
Please... I ain't supposed to be here. Not me!

Byron Hadley:
I ain't gonna count to three. I'm not even gonna count to one; you will shut the f*** up or I will sing you a lullaby!

Heywood:
[now nervous, under his breath] Shut up, man. Shut up.

Fat Ass:
You've made a mistake! You don't understand, I'm not supposed to be here!

Byron Hadley:
Open that cell!

Inmate:
Me neither! They run this place like a f***ing prison!

[The cell door is opened, and Captain Hadley grabs Fat Ass and drags him out into the middle of the first floor of the cell block. Taking out his baton, Hadley savagely beats the new inmate.]

Byron Hadley:
Son of a b*tch.

Inmate:
Cap, take it easy.

[Finally, Fat Ass is beaten into unconsciousness. The inmates, who had been shouting and cheering when the guards first arrived, are now silent.]

Byron Hadley:
[Putting away his baton] If I hear so much as a mouse fart in here the rest of the night, I swear by God and sonny Jesus you will all visit the infirmary. Every last motherf***er in here! [To his men] Call the trustees, take that tub of sh*t down to the infirmary.

[Captain Hadley and the guards leave the cell block, and the lights go off again.]

Red:
His first night in Shawshank Prison, Andy Dufresne cost me two packs of cigarettes. He never made a sound.

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  • TeddyJ
    Does anyone know what Hadley means when he says to “call the trustees” after beating on that inmate?
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