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Book: Different Seasons/ Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
(1982)
Movie: Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Premise
movie:
"After the murder of his wife, hotshot banker Andrew
Dufresne is sent to Shawshank Prison, where the usual unpleasantness
occurs. Over the years, he retains hope and eventually gains the
respect of his fellow inmates, especially longtime convict "Red"
Redding, a black marketeer, and becomes influential within the
prison. Eventually, Andrew achieves his ends on his own terms."
from:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/plotsummary
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Premise
book:
" Different Seasons is a collection of four novellas,
markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a
journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an
innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme
to escape from prison. The second concerns a boy who discards
his innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a
reawakening of long-buried evil. In the third story, a writer looks
back on the trek he took with three friends on the brink of
adolescence to find another boy's corpse. The trip becomes a
character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity.
These first three novellas have been made into well-received
movies: "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into Frank
Darabont's 1994 The Shawshank Redemption, "Apt Pupil" into Bryan
Singer's 1998 film Apt Pupil (also released in 1998 on
audiocassette), and "The Body" into Rob Reiner's Stand by Me (1986).
The final novella, "Breathing Lessons," is a horror yarn told by a
doctor, about a patient whose indomitable spirit keeps her baby
alive under extraordinary circumstances. It's the tightest, most
polished tale in the collection."
from:
http://www.stephenkingshop.com/books/king
/books/DifferentSeasons1982.htm
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Author:
" Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947,
the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his
parents separated when Stephen was a toddler, he and his older
brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood
were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at
the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven,
his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her
parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old
age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the
physical care of the elderly couple. Other family members provided a
small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's
grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of
Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.
Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and then Lisbon Falls
High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the
University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the
school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student
politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to
support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his
stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was
unconstitutional. He graduated from the University of Maine at Orono
in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high
school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation
found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision,
flat feet, and punctured eardrums.
He and Tabitha Spruce married in January of 1971. He met Tabitha in
the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University of Maine at
Orono, where they both worked as students. As Stephen was unable to
find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his
earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan
and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to
men's magazines. Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass
Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early
years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's
magazines. Many of these were later gathered into
the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies. In the fall of 1971,
Stephen began teaching high school English classes at Hampden
Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the
evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories
and to work on novels. In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co.
accepted the novel Carrie for publication. On Mother's Day of that
year, Stephen learned from his new editor at Doubleday, Bill
Thompson, that a major paperback sale would provide him with the
means to leave teaching and write full-time.
At the end of the summer of 1973, the Kings moved their growing
family to southern Maine because of Stephen's mother's failing
health. Renting a summer home on Sebago Lake in North Windham for
the winter, Stephen wrote his next-published novel, originally
titled Second Coming and then Jerusalem's Lot, before it
became 'Salem's Lot, in a small room in the garage. During this
period, Stephen's mother died of cancer, at the age of 59.
Carrie was published in the spring of 1974. That same fall, the
Kings left Maine for Boulder, Colorado. They lived there for a
little less than a year, during which Stephen wrote The Shining, set
in Colorado. Returning to Maine in the summer of 1975, the Kings
purchased a home in the Lakes Region of western Maine. At that
house, Stephen finished writing The Stand, much of which also is
set in Boulder. The Dead Zone was also written in Bridgton.
In 1977, the Kings spent three months of a projected year- long stay
in England, cut the sojourn short and returned home in mid-December,
purchasing a new home in Center Lovell, Maine. After living there
one summer, the Kings moved north to Orrington, near Bangor, so that
Stephen could teach creative writing at the University of Maine at
Orono. The Kings returned to Center Lovell in the spring of 1979. In
1980, the Kings purchased a second home in Bangor, retaining the
Center Lovell house as a summer home. Because their children have
become adults, Stephen and Tabitha now spend winters in Florida and
the remainder of the year at their Bangor and Center Lovell
homes. The Kings have three children: Naomi Rachel, Joe Hill and Owen
Phillip, and three grandchildren."
from:
http://www.stephenking.com/biography.php
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Director: Frank Darabont
Cast:
Tim Robbins (Andy Dufresne, inmate 37927), Morgan Freeman
('Red'), Bob Gunton (Warden Samuel Norton), William Sadler (Heywood,
inmate 32365), Clancy Brown (Captain Byron Hadley), Gil Bellows
(Tommy Williams, inmate 46419) and others.
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Famous
quotes
"Get busy living or get busy dying."
"Hope is a good thing. Maybe not the best of things, and no good
thing ever dies."
"I had to go to jail to become a criminal"
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