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🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Hope is a powerful thing, and Frank Darabont hung his on Stephen King. This week, Chris and Lizzie chronicle the unlikely story of an episodic Stephen King novella, shaped by the hands of a set-dresser turned B-movie writer, and transformed into one of Hollywood's most popular films. Learn how Shawshank had to fail before it could succeed, and why most millennials saw it on TNT about nine hundred thousand times as they came of age.
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0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome back to what went wrong, your favorite podcast, Full Stop, that just so happens to be about movies and how it is nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one, let alone what some people, I believe, think is one of the greatest movies of all time. |
0:35.7 | I am one of your hosts, Lizzie Bassett, here as always, |
0:38.8 | with Chris Winterbauer. |
0:39.9 | And Chris, |
0:41.1 | what movie do we have for them today? |
0:47.4 | Slingblade, apparently? |
0:49.1 | Rude. |
0:49.8 | That was my Morgan Freeman narrating 90% of the Shawshank Redemption. |
0:54.2 | And you can say I like Dandy from the start. |
0:56.5 | Yes, we are discussing 1994's The Shawshank Redemption. |
1:01.1 | A film, many of us millennials, I can safely say, |
1:04.2 | probably remember watching on television over and over and over again. |
1:09.5 | We will get to that. |
1:13.6 | Lizzie, had you seen the Shawshank Redemption before, I'm assuming that you had, and what were your thoughts upon watching or re-watching it |
1:18.7 | for the podcast? Well, you mentioned television. That is the only place I've ever seen the Shawshank |
1:24.8 | Redemption before. And to your point, yes, for anybody that didn't grow up |
1:28.7 | in our age group, this literally ran at least every week, if not every day, just on repeat on certain |
1:36.2 | channels. And I don't know why. I will tell you why by the end of this episode. Okay, I'm excited, |
1:42.1 | because it was nonstop. And I just remember it was like, |
1:44.8 | if you're flipping through channels and you hit like TNT or whatever it was, you would watch |
1:49.7 | a section of the Shawshank Redemption. And it was TNT. Very good memory. Okay. So I literally did this. |
1:56.3 | I would be like, oh, Shawshank Redemption's on. I guess I'll watch the part where Andy crawls |
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