![]() ![]() The project attracted many stars of the time for the role of Andy, including Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, and Kevin Costner. While the film is set in Maine, principal photography took place from June to August 1993 almost entirely in Mansfield, Ohio, with the Ohio State Reformatory serving as the eponymous penitentiary. Two weeks after submitting his script to Castle Rock Entertainment, Darabont secured a $25 million budget to produce The Shawshank Redemption, which started pre-production in January 1993. William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, and James Whitmore appear in supporting roles.ĭarabont purchased the film rights to King's story in 1987, but development did not begin until five years later, when he wrote the script over an eight-week period. Over the following two decades, he befriends a fellow prisoner, contraband smuggler Ellis "Red" Redding ( Morgan Freeman), and becomes instrumental in a money laundering operation led by the prison warden Samuel Norton ( Bob Gunton). ![]() ![]() The film tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne ( Tim Robbins), who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murders of his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence. The placename could have been used as a surname for a family that originated there, and when the descendants of that family emigrated to the United States ( as many Scots did in the late 18th and 19th centuries) they took the name with them and it became attached to the town where they settled in Maine, and hence eventually to the penitenitiary of the novel.The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. Putting this together, ‘Shawshank’ suggests a placename in the Scottish Borders, meaning something like ‘wooded point of a hill’. Paisley: Alexander Gardner.Įxamples include Bowshank (a village) and Gairshank (a hill) in the Scottish Borders. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, volume 4, p. “I heard a queer unearthly greet coming down the shank, and wixing ay nearer and nearer to the byre door.” Blackwoods Magazine, November 1820, p. † A nickname given to Edward I of England, a tall man for his time.īut in Scotland ‘shank’ is used in place names with this meaning: ‘Jambe’ was the Norman synonym of ‘Shank,’ and by way of more definite distinction we light upon the somewhat flattering ‘Bellejambe,’ the equally unflattering ‘Foljambe,’ the doubtful ‘Greyshank,’ the historic ‘Longshank,’† the hapless ‘Cruikshank,’ the decidedly uncomplimentary ‘Sheepshank,’ and last and worst ‘Pelkeshank,’ seemingly intended to be ‘Pelican-shanked,’ which, when we recal the peculiar disproportion of that bird’s extremities to the rest of its body, affords ample reason for the absence of that sobriquet in our more modern rolls. ‘Shank’ meaning ‘leg’ is found in surnames deriving from nicknames: ‡ An ‘earnshaw’ is a heron, from Anglo-Norman ‘herouncel’ I think Bardsley must be mistaken in deriving the name from ‘shaw’ meaning ‘covert’. † ‘Robin Hood and the Monk’ ( Child ballad 119). Our English Surnames: Their Sources and Significations, p. ![]() Other descriptive compounds are found in ‘Bradshaw,’ or ‘Langshaw,’ or ‘Openshaw.’Ĭharles Wareing Bardsley (1873). An old manuscript† says-Īs a shelter for game and the wilder animals, it is found in such compounds as ‘Bagshaw,’ the badger being evidently common ‘Hindshaw,’ ‘Cockshaw,’ ‘Henshaw,’ and ‘Earnshaw.’‡ The occurrence of such names as ‘Shallcross’ and ‘Shawcross,’ ‘Henshall’ and ‘Henshaw,’ and ‘Kersall’ and ‘Kershaw,’ would lead us to imagine that this word too has been somewhat corrupted. ‘Shaw’ is found in surnames deriving from placenames:Ī ‘shaw’ or ‘schaw’ was a small woody shade or covert. The name is made up of two elements that are common in English and Scots surnames and placenames: ‘shaw’ meaning ‘covert’ or ‘shelter’ and ‘shank’ meaning literally ‘leg’ but figuratively ‘a projecting point of a hill’. What ‘Shawshank’ suggests to me, is a surname from the Scottish Borders. ![]()
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