• General
    • Home
    • Contact Us
    • Privacy Policy
    • Sitemap
  • Photographs
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • 2015
  • Literature
    • Poems
  • News
    • Announcements
    • Charity
    • Legal
    • Medicine
    • Politics
  • Education
    • Code Samples
      • Basic
      • Simple
      • Intermediate
      • Advanced
      • Tips
    • History
    • Literature
    • Quotes
    • Videos
    • Vocabulary
  • Entertainment
    • Art
    • Humor
    • Photos
    • Video
  • Technology
    • Software
      • Support
      • Tweaks
    • Company
    • Science
    • Security
Major Mike

Knowledge is Power - Share the Power

Harvard University

Today in History 09/23 (The Shawshank Redemption)

September 23, 2018 by GµårÐïåñ
(From left) Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman in 'The Shawshank Redemption' (© Columbia Pictures/Separate Cinema Archive/Getty Images)(1994) ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ begins run in US theaters
Just 33 theaters host the limited American opening of ‘The Shawshank Redemption,’ and the resulting box office returns will not be impressive. ‘Redemption’ will be redeemed with rave reviews, seven Oscar nominations, and a growing reputation as one of the best-loved movies ever made.

The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. It tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murder of his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence. Over the following two decades, he befriends a fellow prisoner, contraband smuggler Ellis “Red” Redding (Morgan Freeman), and becomes instrumental in a money laundering operation led by the prison warden Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton). William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, and James Whitmore appear in supporting roles.

Darabont purchased the film rights to King’s story in 1987, but development did not begin until five years later when he wrote the script over an eight-week period. Two weeks after submitting his script to the Castle Rock Entertainment film studio, Darabont secured a $25 million budget to produce The Shawshank Redemption, which started pre-production in January 1993. While the film is set in Maine, principal photography took place from June to August 1993 almost entirely in Mansfield, Ohio, with the Ohio State Reformatory serving as the eponymous penitentiary. The project attracted many stars of the time for the lead roles including Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, and Kevin Costner. Thomas Newman provided the film’s score.

While The Shawshank Redemption received positive reviews on its release, particularly for its story and the performances of Robbins and Freeman, it was a box office disappointment, earning only $16 million during its initial theatrical run. Many reasons were cited for its failure at the time, including competition from films such as Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump, to the general unpopularity of prison films, lack of female characters, and even the title, which was considered to be confusing for audiences. Even so, it went on to receive multiple award nominations, including seven Academy Award nominations, and a theatrical re-release that, combined with international takings, increased the film’s box office gross to $58.3 million.

Over 320,000 VHS copies were shipped throughout the United States, and based on its award nominations and word of mouth, it became one of the top rented films of 1995. The broadcast rights were acquired following the purchase of Castle Rock by the Turner Broadcasting System, and it was shown regularly on the TNT network starting in 1997, further increasing its popularity. The film is now considered to be one of the greatest films of the 1990s. As of 2017, the film is still broadcast regularly, and is popular in several countries, with audience members and celebrities citing it as a source of inspiration, and naming the film as a favorite in various surveys. In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.


Release date: Sep 23, 1994 (United States)
Director: Frank Darabont
Gross revenue: $58.30 million USD
Screenwriter: Frank Darabont
Story by: Stephen King
Awards: American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases (1994) · Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film (1996)

Black and white image of the iconic tree from The Shawshank Redemption located in Lucas, Ohio. Photo was after the 2011 lightning strike which split the tree in half
The Shawshank tree after being split by lightning in 2011. It became a symbol of hope for its role in the film
wiki/The_Shawshank_Redemption
4.15.A18

(1994) ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ begins run in US theaters.
Also on this day,

1642 | Harvard holds its first graduation ceremony
Nine graduates participate in Harvard College’s first commencement exercise as about 14 undergrads, family members, clergy, plus Governor Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Company, look on. America’s first college will go on to become one of the world’s most prestigious universities.
1846 | Neptune is plotted, and discovered
French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier has used celestial mechanics to plot the coordinates of a faraway planet that can’t be seen by the naked eye, and today, German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle’s telescope spies Neptune almost exactly where Le Verrier calculated it would be.
1889 | Handmade playing cards launch Japan’s Nintendo founding
Fusajiro Yamauchi thinks a revival of Japanese card playing would mean good business, so he founds Nintendo Koppai in Kyoto, a company specializing in the Hanafuda card game. A century or so later the firm will gain worldwide success when it evolves into an electronic games company.

Today in History 09/23/17

Voyager view of Neptune (Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech)(1846) Neptune is plotted, and discovered
French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier has used celestial mechanics to plot the coordinates of a faraway planet that can't be seen by the naked eye, and today, German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle's telescope spies Neptune almost exactly where Le Verrier calculated it would be.
The planet Neptune was mathematically predicted before it was directly observed. With a prediction by Urbain Le Verrier, telescopic observations confirming the existence of a major planet were made on the night of September 23–24, 1846, at the Berlin Observatory, by astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle (assisted by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest), working from Le Verrier's calculations.
Neptune by Voyager 2
Neptune in 1989 by the Voyager 2 probe

wiki/Discovery_of_Neptune
4.4.j17


Posted in: History Tagged: 1642, 1846, 1889, 1994, Fusajiro Yamauchi, Harvard University, history, Japan, Johann Gottfried Galle, Kyoto, Neptune, Nintendo, The Shawshank Redemption, Urbain Le Verrier

Show Your Support – We Don’t Believe in Disruptive Ads

Donate in one of two ways :
(BitCoin - preferred)
1BTshbqMSx5AHrDFLEa1YdPAy5EFzRSjr9
(PayPal)
January 2021
M T W T F S S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
« Apr    

Semper Fidelis

Always Faithful, Always Forward
United States Marine Corp

Places to find me:

StackExchange profile for GµårÐïåñ at StackExchange

CodeProject

Twitter : verified ➠Follow

GitHub ➠Follow @GuardianMajor

ello ➠

deviantArt profile for GµårÐïåñ on deviantArt

Facebook i have made a personal choice after their "name policy" witch hunt which repeats every 2 years it seems at the whim of the "bully mob" (even when they make you jump through hoops and verify you), to just quit it and be done with it, they are not worth my time. I don't need it, I don't miss it, in fact it has made my life more productive and void of gross hate, vitriol and drivel. To those who say they can't stay in touch if I am not on there, if you can't reach me because I am not on Facebook, then you are not trying AT ALL - therefore, good riddance.

Scribd profile for GµårÐïåñ on Scribd

NoScript/FLashGot (Informaction) profile for GµårÐïåñ on Informaction Forums

Subjects

1973 1985 1922 1908 1983 1851 1956 1982 England 1914 1990 1948 1789 1993 1964 2000 1984 national park 1978 code 1979 1960 1974 1944 1939 1863 1859 1935 1919 1995 1938 1976 1942 1943 1994 United States NASA 1937 1962 1957 vocabulary 1917 1980 1949 1901 1934 1954 1918 1947 1967 1969 1865 1902 has_video event 1961 1915 1963 Germany annual history memorial 1977 1870 1950 1846 1958 1941 1889 1959 1951 1911 has_audio 1970 1965 1946 1940 1972 1955 1952 1986 1991 1968 1971 1981 1945 1989 New York 1966 holiday 1933 1916 1998 1898 1975 Soviet Union 1953 daily pic 1776 1812

Archives

Access Options

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • ∞ Guardian International
🎔
Brought to You
by Guardian International

Copyright © 2007-2021 Major Mike | Privacy Policy | DMCA | Contact | About
fortitudo fortis defendit

McAfee SecureNorton by SymantecVirusTotal