Seniors: Get Busy Livin' or Get Busy Dyin'

The dialogue and scenes in The Shawshank Redemption are great, but what makes the movie even better is Morgan Freeman's "narration." Great voice, but the "words" are all Stephen King's. That's right. You might know that Shawshank is based on a novella by Stephen King called Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, published in a collection called Different Seasons. The collection also contained another novella called The Body, which Hollywood transformed into the fine movie, Stand by Me.

Meanwhile, here's Red (Morgan Freeman's character) narrating Andy Dufresne's escape over a series of images that detail Andy's plan and his triumphant escape:

Red: [narrating] In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a bar of soap, and an old rock hammer, damn near worn down to the nub. I used to think it would take six-hundred years to tunnel under the wall with it. Old Andy did it in less than twenty. Oh, Andy loved geology. I guess it appealed to his meticulous nature. An ice age here, million years of mountain building there. Geology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes really, pressure, and time. That, and a big god-damned poster. Like I said, in prison a man will do anything to keep his mind occupied. It turns out Andy's favorite hobby was totin' his wall through the exercise yard, a handful at a time. I guess after Tommy was killed, he decided he had been here just about long enough. Andy did like he was told, buffed those shoes to a high mirror shine. The guard simply didn't notice. Neither did I... I mean, seriously, how often do you really look at a man's shoes? Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of s..t smelling foulness I can't even imagine, or maybe I just don't want to. Five hundred yards... that's the length of five football fields, just shy of half a mile.