This month, TheShawshankRedemption turns 25
is a tough watch and audiences could use some time cut from its 142 minutes." Despite its unenthusiastic reception from filmgoers, the movie generally received positive reviews, which was a turn for the better.
But arguably the best outcome happened when Academy voters got involved and saw the movie via screeners, leading to the film's seven Oscar nominations including best picture and best adapted screenplay. And then Turner Classic Movies started airing the movie "every five minutes," Darabont says, which gave the film "tremendous exposure.
Recalling his time directing Freeman and Robbins, Darabont notes that it was "a great experience in learning that every actor is different, and the director needs to be a barometer for what the actor needs or doesn't need." He says that Freeman worked from the gut and needed little conversation, while Robbins came more from the intellect and thrived on conversation. "I always felt a great comfort level, because they're great actors," says Darabont.
"I've remembered his words of wisdom so often since then, anytime I've had a day when I felt beaten by the clock, when I've had to give up something, I always think of what Robert Benton told me and I take comfort from it," Darabont says. Upon arriving in Los Angeles from Chicago at 5 years old, and arriving in Chicago from Hungary before that, when his parents fled the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and carried infant Darabont, he says, in a picnic basket, the director recalls his discovery of "shock theater packages" — all the old Universal monster movies that had been sold to television stations around the nation.
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