Shawshank Roof Tarring Scene

The scene opens with a close up of the tar bucket this pans upward to reveal the men working.

Shawshank roof tarring scene.

Captain hadley is telling the other guards that his brother died a rich man and left him with a louzy 30 thousand dollars but he won t be able to keep all of it because the government will take tax from it. The scene opens with the cons tarring the prison roof in the sun and andy gets some beers for the team in exchange for doing the captain s taxes. In this scene the establishing shot lasts from 0 00 to 0 20 it sets the scene perfectly due to the fact that the bucket of tar is followed up onto the roof of the men tarring the roof being guarded by the police this sets the scene immediately as there are no questions on the audiences mind they will know exactly what is happening which. Arc shot circling round andy and hadely emphasises the desperation of the scene.

In this scene andy and his friends are re tarring the roof and captain haley and two other guards are guarding them while they work. 13 the rooftop tarring scene one of the first bright spots in the bleak first part of the movie is the scene where andy gets some beers for the guys working on the rooftop. One of the most famous rooftop scenes in film belongs to the shawshank redemption in it protagonist andy dufresne and some other inmates at the shawshank state penitentiary are tasked with tarring a roof using mops.