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A. Significance of the study研究的意义
     在日常生活中，电影是传达思想的一种很好的方式，对公众的价值观和信仰。电影反映并影响到人们的日常生活，有些人把它作为文化的影。肖申克的救赎，作为美国电影的典型，打开一个窗口，我们学习的价值由美国人和了解更多的关于美国人和美国文化，因为它深刻地描绘了个人主义的美国核心价值In daily life, film is a good way to convey ideas, values and beliefs to the public.https://www.51lunwen.org/culture/ For film reflects and affects everyday life, some people call it as the culture artifact. The Shawshank Redemption, as the typical of American film, opens a window for us to learn the values by the Americans and know more about the Americans and American culture because it profoundly portrays American core value of Individualism. In addition, we can have a better way to understand American values in the film that are conveyed to the public by analyzing the lines, characters, scenes and themes that show the core ideas of Individualism in the film.
      Stephen King’s fiction Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption collects four stories, or it is called Different Seasons. The film that this thesis chooses is very famous as an American contemporary popular film which is adapted from the novel.
      The Shawshank Redemption was directed by the director Frank Darabont and released in 1994. In 1995, it was nominated for sense Academy Awards, including Best picture, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Original Score and Best Sound Mixing. The famous actor Tim Robbins played the protagonist Andy Dufresen. Morgan Freeman who is famed in the world played the Andy’s best friend called “Red”. He also played the film’s narrator. The Shawshank Redemption was ranked No.8 in the greatest American films list by the committee of AMPAS (The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) in 2000. According to polls of IMBB (Internet Movie Database), The Shawshank Redemption was voted as the most popular American film by the audience.
      The Shawshank Redemption, as one of the most famous and classic American films, profoundly portrays the core value of American―Individualism. It takes the hero Andy, as its central clue and on the base of its plot development, which stresses the personal activities in the decisive and the social historical influence on important events. The protagonist showed and eulogized in this work is completely the image of Individualism. Furthermore, the characteristics, lines, scenes, and the themes of other roles of the film also reflect Individualism in some ways. Individualism is the subjective cultural spirit that ran through the all work.
      The film is meaningful to analyze the embodiment of Individualism in understanding of how the value of Individualism is implied in this film since film is a kind of cultural artifact which not only reflects everyday life but also conveys ideas and opinions. In the following part of this paper, how Individualism is reflected in this movie will be analyzed in detail.
A brief introduction to the film The Shawshank Redemption
      The story of the film takes place in 1947. The protagonist, Andy Dufresen (acted by Tim Robbins) is a soft-spoken banker arrives at Shawshank prison convicted of murdering his wife and the man with whom she has an affaire. He is serving two consecutive life sentences and is to be imprisoned for 本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。