Thursday, February 11, 2021

Prequel, Sequel, Missing Scenes—due Feb 11

Write 400+ words of a prequel, sequel, and/or missing scenes for The Color Purple and/or The Shawshank Redemption.

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

i wish it would of showed red as a young man when he was in his prim it could of showed like a flash back to him robbing places doing his smuggling deads in the color purple they should of shown what life was like with there mother how did she have kids that we never saw and how come it never showed her pragnet i think it should of showed her getting bigger and bigger and how she would ship the kids off to her sister the journey to africa so im guunna right my own story to africa it was a cold dar night i rember the date like the palm of my had had novber 11 1921 i was gunna set off for the biggest jurney of my life i snuk out the window as quielty as i could i stole mr.s hours riding him bear back i rode him 31 miles throught the night at 5 am i had reached my get way car we drove for days when i had finlly reached where i was going every one was so nice everything was so diffrent i found a nice place to live with someonbe who would take care of me to the end. meier

Andrew James Colby said...

Well, I mainly have one thing for The Color Purple and that is to show us more of Albert's children and previous wife, we clearly see 3, but we only get information on Harpo and how he ended up. We do see that Albert does have other children but they barely appear at all in the film and we never knew what happened to them. It would really show how Celie has affected their childhood and maybe would serve as a way to see how the youth can be manipulated by a powerful negative force in their life. We barely knew that Albert even had a previous wife before he married Celie and left us wondering what did he do to his previous wife and what is her story. We only saw some old photographs of her but we can't be sure as to the exact timeline of events that have transpired with her and Albert long before Celie even showed up. Other than that, that's all I have to saw as to how to improve The Color Purple. The Shawshank Redemption, in my opinion, is a perfect movie in every sense of the word.

-Andrew Colby

Anonymous said...

For Shawshank Redemption I think they should film another narrative because they could show what happened after Red-met Andy in Mexico. After Red got to Mexico the narrative just ended with us not knowing what happened because they could’ve got caught or they could’ve gotten really rich. They could add Red having a family of his own or even Andy getting married again but that is if they create another narrative. A missing scene from Shawshank which would be good to see is Captain Hadley serving his time in prison and seeing Andy’s and Red friends to see if they got out or went on parole and went back because they were institutionalized. For the Color Purple, they could do another narrative but this time do Shug or Mr. Johnson’s point of view or tell a little bit more about them so the viewer has a better understanding of what Shug did to make her father, not like her or what turned Mr. Johnson to an abusive person. I also think they could show Sofia’s point of view because she was put through a lot during the narrative and we barely got to know what happened. All we got to know is that she had to defend herself from her father, uncle, and brothers from beating on her. For one missing scene, I think they could do is how Celie is doing after she got her father's store and house. Like is she successful, does she have a family, is her sister Nettie living with her. Another missing I’d like to see is Shug and her father getting closer again because all we saw was her hugging him.

Zimmerman

Anonymous said...

McCulley

In The Color Purple there were a lot of missing scenes and I wonder what they were. I am curious about what happened to them and who was in them. I wonder since Nennie did not get shown much. I wonder what happened to her when she was gone away from Celie. I wonder if she got raped by her dad. I wonder if she got tangled up with some bad kids. I wonder what Shug was doing in some scenes where she was gone. I wonder how Nennie survived so long with Celie's kids and how her dad thought about it if he knew. I am curious about what the kids did in Africa. I remember the scene where it looked like they were going to get beheaded but they didn’t show that part and I wonder what else they did if they did not cut the heads off the kids. The kids came home to Celie with Nennie so I wonder what that scene was all about. I wonder how Shug got so popular and famous. I want to know her back story, her background on how she got there. I think that would be an interesting scene and story.I wonder what happened to Shug and her dad because her dad disowned her and pushed her away. After she got married to prove to him that she was good enough he still did not even look at her. I also think that a scene of Celie's kids and Nennie growing up would be a cool scene. You would be able to see what friends they made and how they survived in Africa. I think The Color Purple needs a background scene, what happened in the past that made all of this happened. I want to know what happened to Mr. Johnson in his past because he was super abusive to Celie so I wonder if his parents beat him and then kicked him out or something bad happened. I wonder if his dad beat his mom to so that would show Mr. Johnson how to abuse people and the women. I wonder how Sofia and Celie became friends. Did they go to school together? DId they meet their parents? Did they meet when they were at the same store together? I am betting that they met during school and they were super close. I think they played together all the time and they had sleepovers when they were younger.

McCulley

Logan Frisbie said...

Before we get into this I just want everyone to know that I’m not really into sequels, prequels, and spin offs of my favorite movies of all time. The Shawshank Redemption is a specific example of that and if I was forced to do a sequel or spin off or prequel of it in Hollywood, I would choose a prequel. The reason why I wouldn’t choose a sequel or spin off is because it wouldn't make sense because the characters lived happily ever after, we knew everything about them, and what they did, but a prequel to me would make a little sense. This prequel of mine would be a series that explores the warden's back story, what made him do this, and what was his past. I would make two seasons of it and make Stephen King and Frank Darabont get involved with it and help with the process of the show and many more things. The streaming service I would love for it to air on is Netflix of course. The two actors in my opinion who should play the young warden more than anybody would be Ryan Gosling or Jake Gyllenhael. My prediction of the ratings and reviews from critics on the series would be a little mixed at first and then positive like that prequel series of Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest which is on Netflix. The audience on the other hand might like it and give it better scores and reactions than critics themselves. Although I know it won’t make it to the emmys or win or get nominated for any awards. But anyways this will never see the light of day and studios and streaming services might find it risky, but who knows. The most important thing is that I won't take that risk when I’m in Hollywood for my career and goal in life.

Anonymous said...

I think that a missing scene in The Shawshank Redemption would be nice. A missing scene about Red getting a good job, and a family. I think that the scene would go like this. One cold night at the prison, Red fell asleep and he was dreaming about getting parole. In his dream after getting parole he decided that he was going to change his life around. He got a well paying job and he worked hard. He had some temptations on doing something bad, but he remembered that he was trying to turn his life around. One day when he was working there was a pretty lady going to his register. When she got there she started to put her items on the table and he started to talk to her. He started to make a couple of jokes, ask her what she does for a living and how long she has been living here. When he was done checking her items he finally asked her out. He asked her if she wanted to have dinner tonight. One date turned into three dates, and three dates turned into five dates. Then after one year he asked her to marry him. She said yes. Half a year later she is pregnant with their first child. When the first child was born he was really excited because he is really turning his life around. He is working full time and his wife is a really good banker and they have a kid. Red gets a lot of things for his son. He gets him a basketball hoop, a football, baseball bat and a baseball and they play with all of them. Red is enjoying having a son. He takes his son to baseball games and football games. Red really likes what he did to change his life. He is happy to not be in prison and for them to give a second chance to change and he did. After a little bit they have another kid but this time it is a little girl. Red loves spending time with his kids, he has a lot of fun playing with them. One day Red decided that he was going to buy a car with no hood because he thought that it would be fun to drive his family to the beach in it. So after he bought the car he drove to his house and picked up his family in it. On his way to the beach he was happy to hear his kids in the back laughing and his wife smiling and having a good time.. BANG BANG time to get up prisoner, time to wake up!! Said the prison guard. Then after he woke he was realizing that it was just a dream.

Anonymous said...

Im going to right a sequel about the Shawshank redemption and what Red and Andy in Zihuatanejo. So as we saw in the film Andy told Red to meet him there when Red went to the spot to find the letter and some cash. Then red took a bus out to Zihuatanejo and saw him the part where is stopped was when they saw eachother and hugged. What I am going to say is what is going to happen next. Red and Andy fix up the boat that Andy was originally working on, it may take them some time but it will be fixed up and ready to ride in no time. Once they get it all ready and fixed they go across the Atlantic to a near by Island. Once they have arrived they wait a couple days until they find a Man on that very same island, Ascension Island. The island with nothing to rmember besides the beautiful scenery and the bueatiful water and trees. They ask the man why he is here and he says with a very low monotone voice " because I wanted to go somewhere where I don't have to remember anything that I've done and want to be alone by myself. Red then tells him why him and Andy are here and the stories are pretty similar but then a few minutes later they went back onto the boat to cruise around on the Atlantic just to relax. It seemed like they all got along and where in the same boat- no pun intented- but the mans name was Blue because thats what his nickname was when he was in Shawshank but nobody new who he was because he escaped the very first day he was in Shawshank. Blue was just like red but worse he got things for other people but once he did there was a nother inmate who wasn't really abundant with what he was doing so the inmate would go to the others and tell them what he did and the gaurds found out but it wasn't things that you would expect like hats, gloves, anything you could wear and that was because when you try to excape they wanted things covering there hands so they wouldn't get cut or dirty and soon the gaurds figured that out so once they did Blue had aclue and decided to escape so he did. Red, Blue, and Andy all became good buddies and started moving to a town in Mexico and got a house and started living together, got there own jobs and started there lives completely over.

Anonymous said...

In my opinion, these films by themselves are good standalone films, but we do want to know what happened after the events of some of these movies (stares at marvel with the end credits scenes) but we all need to know what is going to happen soon, like what Deadpool did in 2 where he used cable’s time-traveling device to save peter (best character), save his wife, killing XI, and (for craps and giggles) kills Ryan Reynolds as well as splatter his brains all over the script, but nobody wants me to ramble on about Deadpool 2 now do we, this chain of events would tell us what happened, like did Andy and Redd fix up the boat and open up a bar after years of hard work or did Andy get caught by the law and sent to a place like Alcatraz, minus the island. We wish we knew what happened but Hollywood, they don’t know what most fans want (unless there’s a test audience and they don’t want duckie to get the girl and the audience didn’t like that ending resulting in reshoots and a separate variation of the film for the directors cut) and just give us half-assed make and don’t co-exist within the original lore in the comics OR in the book unless the books came after the game BUT STILL, the lore is strong with the original writing if there was an unreleased sequel to the original Stephen King novel that only his closest friends know or the man was making the book and then died in the middle of his creative process WHO THE HELL KNOWS, lovecraft’s cat might’ve known, a time traveler might’ve known, or and I mean or, STAN LEE MIGHT’VE KNOWN WHEN HE MET THE GUY IN HEAVEN, I feel the urge to randomly drink alcohol in the afternoon, I don’t know why but I don’t want to, maybe It’s because my ming craves the equivalent of hardcore drugs, cheese. Thinking back to the Andie/Duckie and the Andie/Blane endings, there might’ve been a director’s cut along with a director’s commentary about why they made the shots, characters, and inspiration behind what they added/removed for the things.

Vawah said...

I think a good prologue scene could be a couple of scenes of Johnny’s life as an inmate with his obnoxious bragging cellmate. The cellmate I’m referring to is the cellmate who killed Andy’s wife. I’m thinking that this prologue will show no faces, just dialogue between Johnny and his cellmate. They will start to talk about something, but we won’t where the conversation will lead them until Johnny tells us in the near midpoint of the movie. This tidbit will seem random and stupid at first, but will all come together as a satisfying conclusion when the time comes. There should also be some footage of Andy and his wife, showing their happy days and the bad ones. I feel with more footage of them, would create a sort of emotional connection with the couple, which helps to brutalize the murder even further and shifts the viewers into seeing Andy as guilty. Then, thunder strikes, and the movie picks up from the original beginning. I believe this could be a sort of treat for attentive watchers as well as a nice subtle callback, making us see Johnny as a familiar character when he is first officially introduced due to us internalizing his voice. We could also possibly have actors for Andy’s wife and her paramour but I would opt to use silhouettes to create a sort of feeling of passion and danger from the ambiguity of not fully knowing the people but knowing that what they are doing is wrong. The death of the two should also be shown just a tad bit more but nothing graphic, just a bit more imaging to merge Andy’s point of view with the views of the judge and jury to make the viewer truly question whether or not Andy is guilty. Another scene they should add is a scene of Heywood learning chess, I just think it would be cool for a character who seems to just be a standard dumb guy to find out he’s actually a genius at chess. I feel that this could show that intelligence could be seen as a sort of spectrum and that people can be intelligent in many different ways and on many different subjects. My last scene recommendation would be just a few more scenes with Johnny, no particular reason, he was just a pretty cool dude that had a lot of energy and it would’ve been nice to see a little more of him.

Levi Pfeiffer said...

I would do a spin-off of The Shawshank Redemption because the movie is powerful. I would do the end of the story because it could lead to anything. I wanna write about this because you could explore your mind in so many different ways. When Red met Andy they both got a huge smile on their faces because they created a bond in prison. Andy only really trusted Red in prison. Red and Andy finally got to play chess with the pieces that Andy made. Red enjoyed the game of chess so they play at least 3 times a week. Red helps Andy get things and also helps him with finishing the boat that Andy was sanding on. They started to travel the world in their boat. They made new friends along the way of their journey. They had one person join them in their boat. They still play chess a bunch now because they barely have anything to do. Before they left Andy bought a bunch of fishing stuff so they can get food along the way of their big journey.
Pfeiffer

Anonymous said...

I think there should be a sequel to Shawshank Redemption because I would like to see how Andy and Red do down in Mexico with And's company. And in that movie, I would like to know what the company is what area of the world it would affect, what group of people his company would affect. and In the sequel, I would want to know if he ever does anything to the man who actually kills his wife. Or to see if they actually caught Andy and what would happen to andy after getting caught. Maybe in the sequel, we can see the guard's prison sentences and what happens to them in prison. And for the movie, The color purple I would like to see a sequel of Celie, her kids, Shug, and Nettie. I would like to see how they get to know each other. And if they get to go on missions together. I would like to see what happened to Albert and see if he gets a new wife or still by himself. Or if he changes for the better and treats women with respect. I would also want to see how Harpo and Sofia are doing and if they are able to fix their relationship.

Huebner said...

the one part I wish they could put in there is when red got put in and seen why he got put in so like as a young man when he was in his prim it could of showed like a flash back to him robbing places doing his smuggling deads in the color purple they should of shown what life was like with there mother how did she have kids that we never saw and how come it never showed her pragnet i think it should of showed her getting bigger and bigger and how she would ship the kids off to her sister the journey to africa so im guunna right my own story to africa it was a cold dar night i rember the date like the palm of my had had novber 11 1921 i was gunna set off for the biggest jurney of my life i snuk out the window as quielty as i could i stole mr.s hours riding him bear back i rode him 31 miles throught the night at 5 am i had reached my get way car we drove for days when i had finlly reached where i was going every one was so nice everything was so diffrent i found a nice place to live with someonbe who would take care of me to the end.

Anonymous said...

to me i felt like all the movies were fine i don't feel like anything was really missing. but that's just my opinion.

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Anonymous said...

I believe a good sequel for the Shawshank Redemption would be showing Andy and Red’s life after prison. How their business goes and more detail about what they’re doing throughout their time there. I also think it’d be interesting if the law enforcement was tracking down Andy and Red throughout the movie, and are fighting to try and lock Andy away for escaping, and Red away for breaking parole. They should be trying to hide and hope they don’t get sent back. So throughout the film, there will be a lot of pressure to find the two. Law enforcement could even maybe send people out secretly in order to try and more accurately track down the boys. I think it would be a great way of continuing the story, letting us see exactly what happens after the two meet up. I would like for one part of the film to have the suspense of Andy almost getting captured and sent back to prison, but is saved by a close call or red. At the end of the film, I would like it to be that they managed to stay free by faking their deaths and continuing their lives as they were, I feel as though that would be a good sequel.

-Busselman

Anonymous said...


I think that it is interesting to see what happened to the mister also known as Albert to see if he paid in his debts in other ways than having Celie and Nettie be together again. I think it would be interesting to see more about Shug Avery and her career since we only saw her picture until she did not feel well and came into Albert’s house all rude and not feeling well. I think the Color Purple could use more of Nettie’s side of the story just to see how they were both feeling that might have messed up the Celie thinking she is dead because she was not getting her letters not to mention Nettie said before she separated from her that only death would keep her from writing to her. Like for example how did she exactly get to Africa and how did Albert get a hold of her maybe the address of all the letters that she sent to Celie. When Mistster was walking home from that guy's shack when he was drunk I would have thought it was a walk of shame or when he walked back into the house after running after Celie telling her she would be back. Shawshank redemption I think it would’ve been cool to see how exactly Andy got into prison and his story. Just because of how much it comes up in the rest of the movie and him almost getting to leave before Tommy just gets killed. I would have liked to know how read got in exactly too. A sequel would be their adventure with that boat Andy was working on at the end of the movie. See what they are up to now. I enjoyed the scene of Andy in the bank acting as that fake person he made up. I wish we saw him going to more banks than the one. I’m glad they kept it a mystery in the movie what Andy was up to with the rope it was leading to a whole different plot to the movie. It could be Interesting to see the part where Andy walked in and Crook had a shank to that guy's neck. I would have liked to know what he said before Crook decided to put that shank against his neck. I think that they should have shown more or Andy’s process of escaping like replacing the books and everything the shoes switch insane.

zody

Anonymous said...

A prequel to “The Shawshank Redemption” would be the lives of the characters before prison. We got a slight idea of Andy’s life before prison, but not a full interpretation. With Andy we would start off with how he came to be with him starting off as a younger version of himself. It would also be interesting to see him grow and find out how he decided to become an accountant . How he found his wife would make this more interesting as well. We would see a deeper meaning to his past and who he was. Red’s character would also be a part of this prequel as well. We would see how he committed his crimes and see who he was. It would be one of those movies that has different settings and different timelines. Another part of making us see how red develop would be showing us how he became the guy who is able to get stuff in the prison. The title of the movie could be “ Before Redemption” it would mean that it is before they had to redeem themselves of the crimes they committed. A sequel would be after the escape in “ The Shawshank Redemption”. In this we would see how Andy and Red moved forward with their future. They could show what they chose to do and them working on the boat together. We could see if they decided to live off the boat and live in the sea or if they live together. They would show how Andy would be teaching Red how to fix the boat and make the repairs on it. This would be because Red was in prison for so long that he probably does not know anything on modern machinery, causing him to need to learn about how to repair things. I would want to see their reaction to the things that happened in the early 2000’s as well because there were some major event and changes in the early 2000’s. Cars evolutionized around these time and were made better in so many ways so they would probably be really confused since the last change in machinery.
A sequel to “The Color Purple” could be telling us what happened after all the events in the original movie and bring more peace. Celie would probably have to teach her kids more english and a better understanding of it so they could fit in with society. Celie would have to decide on whether she should stay with shug or have Netty move in, maybe have both at the house. We would end up seeing Sofia pass most likely because of how hard life hit her with consequences for her actions. That event would cause us to be caring and have some intensity towards that film. Netty would finally get to teach Celie to read and write because she never really learned that. We would also get to see memories that Celies’s children had while she could not have them and they would create new ones.

Unknown said...

I think a great missing scene would have to be in the color purple. I think that when the friend comes back to the house with the kids that Mrs.N actually is reminded of how strong she is and hoes after the men who hurt her. those still alive. I picture her and her sister ganging up on him and beating him for nights and robbing him of the things he has. I picture them living out their days getting to know her kids and learning their language. I see the kids teaching her everything they learned and her teaching them how to cook. I see her business flowing with rich customers and branching out into an empire. she would invest in a women's safe house wherever she could to help women like what happened to her. I see her visiting them, helping them, and keeping them safe from abuse. Her kids would see her success and her daughter would open up a girls school. She would face some sticky faces but in the end would have one of the best schools around. For the Shawshank redemption, I think that red would end up finding andy and they would live off that money and fix up the boat and then just end up getting a private fancy boat and travel the sea. I see them both traveling off and exploring Mexico and the islands. I see Andy finding a special lady and have a baby or two. I see red going off and starting a business or side small business helping men that come out to do better and get them a job that they love and that gives them purpose when they feel that they have none. I see Red living out the rest of his days sitting on the back porch enjoying a cigar with Andy and drinking iced tea looking over the ocean of memories and just sitting there wishing they had none and being grateful for what they have.

-vargas