The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Red explains that Brooks is institutionalized and fears the outside.

Scene 81 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Andy
Heywood
Red
Floyd
Jigger
Ernie

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 51 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 81

After a banker is wrongly imprisoned for murder, he uses patience, expertise, and friendship to survive Shawshank and build a path to freedom.

Scenes 1–8
Andy’s former life and conviction frame a banker whose apparent control has vanished.
Scenes 9–10
Inside prison, Andy needs a way to survive without surrendering the inner self he is trying to protect.
Scenes 11–30
Andy enters Shawshank and confronts its violence, hierarchy, and rules.
Scene 31
Andy and Red begin the friendship that will carry the film’s argument about hope and connection.
Scene 51
Andy tells Red that prisoners retain an inner life and hope, though Red warns hope can be dangerous.
Just before
Scene 78
Andy carves a chess piece from stone in his cell.
Scene 79
Floyd tells Andy and Red that Brooks is being released.
Scene 80
The men find Brooks holding Heywood at knifepoint, terrified of release.
Scene 81
This scene

81EXT -- PRISON YARD BLEACHERS -- DUSK (1954)

ANDY

I just don't understand what

happened in there, that's all.

HEYWOOD

Old man's crazy as a rat in a tin

shithouse, is what.

RED

Heywood, enough. Ain't nothing

wrong with Brooksie. He's just

institutionalized, that's all.

HEYWOOD

Institutionalized, my ass.

RED

Man's been here fifty years. This

place is all he knows. In here,

he's an important man, an educated

man. A librarian. Out there, he's

nothing but a used-up old con with

arthritis in both hands. Couldn't

even get a library card if he

applied. You see what I'm saying?

FLOYD

Red, I do believe you're talking

out of your ass.

RED

Believe what you want. These walls

are funny. First you hate 'em, then

you get used to 'em. After long

enough, you get so you depend on

'em. That's "institutionalized."

JIGGER

Shit. I could never get that way.

ERNIE

(softly)

Say that when you been inside as

long as Brooks has.

RED

Goddamn right. They send you here

for life, and that's just what they

take. Part that counts, anyway.