It seems the hardest prisons to flee are still those we create in our own minds.
Despite their devotion to a film that stressed over and over again that freedom is precious and, if squandered, can sometimes be impossible to regain, Shawshank Redemption superfans are putting together a weekend of Shawshank-related events so that people from around the world can get together and better worship an old movie.
Were you in The Shawshank Redemption? Did you work on set? Were you otherwise involved in the production? If so, you're invited to a 15-year reunion this August in Ohio. Someone having something to do with the 1994 Oscar-nominated film has put together a weekend-long event and a really snazzy website providing details. Oh, and if you're merely a fan of the movie but had nothing at all to do with its making, you can attend as well.
The silver lining: "Apparently there aren't many people on board just yet …"
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Are they going to do re-enactments?
Who's going to recreate climbing up through the poop shoot? And, will there be some kind of shanking relay? I know a few of the hags are pretty good with the shank.
"Someone having something to do with the 1994 Oscar-nominated film…" but I'm not naming any names…
I'm interested to know since they also managed to put together a snazzy website. That's talent.
That actual prison is an abandoned prison in Mansfield, OH. Pretttttty imposing, when you drive around it.
I love this movie. I want Morgan Freeman to follow me around and narrate my life.
"The first night's the toughest, no doubt about it. They march you in naked as the day you were born, skin burning and half blind from that delousing shit they throw on you, and when they put you in that bunk… and screen door slam home… that's when you know it's for real. A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it. Thats life at the Boy Scout Jamboree. "
What?!? It wasn't like that for you guys?