The titular escape, which largely exists of tunneling out with a pair of nail clippers (!), is often even a mere footnote, while the real essence revolves around the solidarity between inmates and their collective fist against the corrupt prison authorities. "Escape from Alcatraz" is a stoic and slow brooding, yet compelling depiction of prison life, its strict routines and its lack of privileges.
The most astounding trick Siegel and Eastwood pull, is serving us a slow-paced and atmospheric drama rather than an exhilarating action flick, and yet it doesn't at all feel like a swindle. I won't go as far to claim the script/novel of "Shawshank Redemption" is a rip-off (although it wouldn't be the first time Stephen King steals from other sources) but it's definitely a big influence and inspiration. I do concur "Shawshank" is a great film, but so many of the original and brilliant aspects that its fans praise and worship so much already featured here first, in this genius fifth (and final) collaboration between director Don Siegel and anti-hero Clint Eastwood. It's my honest and humble opinion that, because of "Escape from Alcatraz" (and perhaps 2 or 3 other solid but underrated prison dramas), a film like "The Shawshank Redemption" does not deserve to be labeled as one of the greatest - or even THE greatest, according to this wonderful website - movie of all time. OL144117W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.00 Pages 238 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.22 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20230415135217 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 235 Scandate 20230414023916 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0891740031 Tts_version 5.I'm undoubtedly going to get virtually molested for making statements like these, but whatever. Urn:lcp:escapefromalcatr0000bruc:lcpdf:8afda9d0-0e9c-4e7d-b53f-cadf7aaa052c Foldoutcount 0 Identifier escapefromalcatr0000bruc Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s24c50b1gp8 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0891740031 Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.20 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1300409 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 10:10:38 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40901609 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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