You eat when we say you eat. You shit when we say you shit. You piss when we say you piss. You got that, you maggot dick motherfucker?

I watched  Shawshank Redemption in my film class which Andy Dufresne a banker played by Tim Robbins is convicted of killing his wife and wife's lover. While in jail he meets Red(Morgan Freeman) and they become good friends. Then he gets protection from the guards by doing their taxes. Then he gets involved in money laundering with the Warden played by Bob Gunton. I noticed many similarities to The Great Escape. First Freeman's character plays a man who is able to get things for inmates, Much like James Garner who in the film is The Scrounger. Another one is how Andy is put into the infirmary which is much like the cooler that Steve McQueen is put into all the time both of them being the main character's of the film. At the beginning of both films the prisoners are lined up in a row. In both movies Robbins and Donald Pleasence  forge fake papers for when they get out of prison. In several scenes Freeman is holding a baseball glove which also McQueen uses a lot. Then he hides the hole just like in The Great Escape. Then to get rid of the rock he empties it out of his pants just like The Great Escape.

I enjoyed this film very much and was sad to learn that it was robbed best picture by Forest Gump and that Freeman was robbed best actor by Tom Hanks.