Escape From Alcatraz and Shawshank


I've been reading The Shawshank Redemption. It's wonderful. A few weeks ago TCM ran Escape From Alcatraz. I DVR's it... and forgot about it. Today in an attempt to clean up my DVR, I decided to watch the Eastwood film.
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Of course, it reminds me a lot of Shawshank and The Green Mile. Mostly it's just the mood of the film. Escape doesn't have the same energy that Shawhank Redemption has; nor does it have characters you would ever want to meet.
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1. It's an escape from prison film.
2. There's a mouse.
3. Hiding stuff in the Bible.
4. There's a man who can get you things.
5. The method of dirt removal. (Sprinkeling it when out for a walk)
6. Posters are important in both.
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I know there's more, so post them for me.
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Having been to Alcatraz, I can say that it is the only prison I've ever paid to get into. Yes, I have been to others... but those were freebe visits. Funny story: I go to visit this guy in a medium security prison. I tell the clerk who I want to see and that I have an appointment. She sends me to a guard at the door. he has me sign in, and then says, "It's the fifth door on the right." I just stared at him. You mean you don't escort me there? I'm just free to walk through the prison and find door 5 on my own? I've got to tell you, I've never counted doors so carefully!

2 comments:

  1. i havent seen it in a long time, but they both have the black morgan freeman character, and they both have the old man who hurts himself charecter. in one he has a mouse and hangs himself, in the other its a bird, and i think he cuts off his hand?? shawshank is almost a scene by scene rip off

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  2. New Guy - taken a shine to by a bully homosexual
    New Guy - befriends influential black man who helps him out
    New Guy - shares food with old guy that keeps a pet, feeds it to pet
    Old Guy - freaks out and dies (cf Brooks Hatlin)
    New Guy - has above average IQ
    New Guy - finds corrosion in stone walls and begins to dig his way out.
    Warden - harsh, heartless jerk takes away painting privileges
    New Guy - confronts harsh Warden
    Excessive and brutally long periods in "the hole" or isolation
    New Guy - walks in yard and secretly dumps dirt from wall from his pants

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