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Comparing and Contrasting


Andy's skills as a banker are so good that the prison baseball season is aligned with the tax season so that Andy can do the taxes of guards around the state. In the end after many years of work and sweat Andy crawls his way to freedom through a sewage pipe. He uses his knowledge of the banking industry and the tax systems to recreate his identity. The Shawshank Redemption illustrates the inspirational, unbendable human sprit, because even a wrongful imprisonment, a corrupt warden and enemies within Shawshank could not get the best of Andy Dufresne or any man as long as hope never dies.
             Escape from Alcatraz is based on the true story of the only escape from Alcatraz prison. Alcatraz a maximum security prison built on an island located in shark-infested waters to contain the most dangerous hardcore criminals and most gifted escape artist in the United States. In Escape from Alcatraz inmate Frank Morris, the man who plans the escapes arrives in Alcatraz in 1960. Frank has an interview with the warden, who assures him that the prison is escape-proof, well aware of his record of prison breaks. Upon entering the prison population Frank makes friends with Doc, an old lifer who paints in his cell, English, the prison librarian. Less engaging is Wolf, a huge prisoner who tries to stab Frank during a knife fight in the exercise yard after he refused the generous offer to become his punk. Frank emerges from his punishment in solitary to find that his old friends, the Anglin brothers Jack and Clarence have arrived. He knows that with them he can make a break. .
             In both films it is evident that the directors depicted there cast as strong willed males who will do anything to get out of jail. In Shawshank Redemption Andy Dufresne is portrayed as the innocent "good guy" who still tries to break out of prison. In Escape from Alcatraz Frank Darabont is portrayed as a criminal who tries to break out of prison.


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