![]() Cleve: I got a bad feeling about this Old Man Pressman: Hey! What are you kids doing? Quag: Oh, no, it's him! Pressman: That's right I'm Old Man Pressman. Except contracting AIDS, because AIDS has not been invented by the government in an effort to eradicate the homosexual community.ĭreyfuss: We decided to cut through Old Man Pressman's junkyard, even though legend had it that any kid caught scaling the fence ran the risk of being attacked by the old man's dog, who would charge to the cry of "Chopper, sic balls". Petey: Cleve, calm down! You're not making any sense!ĭreyfuss: Anything was possible as we set out that day. Cleve: Lord Almighty, I done seen me a dead body down by the lake! Sure 'nough, I thought I'd go deaf and dumb when I saw me that dead bod. Please reenter the clubhouse in a more stereotypically animated fashion. Do you guys want to see a dead body? Petey: Cleve, it's 1955. Quag: Look at the way these women starve themselves. Petey: Cleve, please, we're busying looking at Playboy. I can still see him now, all pudgy and black. Dreyfuss: Finally, there was Cleve Brown, my pudgy, black friend. Quag Chambers: Beat those cards, fellas! Giggity, giggity, 50's giggity. Rape, of course, being legal in the 50's. He had sex when he was five and committed his first rape when he was ten. Joey Duchamp: Oh, please, make the voices stop! Dreyfuss: And then there was Quag Chambers. Scheider: You know what, Richard, if you don't want to have drinks, just say so. Dreyfuss: Great, you should give me a call sometime. ![]() We should grab a drink sometime and catch up, maybe reminisce about Jaws. Roy Scheider: How are you, Richard? Dreyfuss: Fine, Roy, how are you? Scheider: Good, good. Richard Dreyfuss: Then there was Joey Duchamp. Petey LaChance: Anyone else fed up with this over-saturation of media? Three channels and still nothing on. ![]() Richard Dreyfus: I never had friends like the ones I had when I was twelve. And the voice in my head was that of Richard Dreyfuss. About four young boys who went looking for a dead body and instead also a dead body. Stand By Me parody Peter: We begin with a little tale called "Stand By Me". So I went to the library and picked up three books by the greatest author in the last thousand years: Stephen King, and tonight, I'd like to share them with you. You know, Lois has been bitching lately that I watch too much TV and don't read enough books. ![]() It is so sad to think human are denied the music that can mend souls.Peter: Hi, it's me, Peter. ![]() 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 in Shawshank felt free.” I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. Red (Morgan Freeman), a fellow inmate, providing a voice-over narration, comments, “II have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. It was like the one hope left in the world, which for them it probably was… for moments, every prisoner at Shawshank felt free.Īlso, the guards in the courtyard, hospital and in the workplaces were also brought to silence, maybe the were shocked like the prisoners and appreciated the beauty of the situation, believing that such a thing cannot exist in a gloomy place like this prison. The shawshank redemption opera scene embodied the spirit of the film’s story, when the wrongly imprisoned, Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), locks himself in the prison office in an act of defiance against prison authorities and plays “Duettino- Sull’aria” aria duet from one of Mozart’s most popular operas “The Marriage of Figaro” over the loudspeakers, creating a sense of euphoria throughout the prison yard.Īnd hardened prisoners who haven’t seen the world outside the prison walls for ages, just stood open-mouthed, silenced by the arresting beauty of a sudden soothing music coming from a machine that orders them to do things. One of the greatest scenes in film history is from the great film “The Shawshank Redemption”. An opera song floating in the air and doing incredible charming effect on the prisoners minds and souls. Music has the power to say so much more than we can see… So many movies have tried to express this idea, but The Shawshank Redemption was very good in doing that, and it was done through a single scene. ![]()
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