Really interesting theory fact I stumbled across.
When Andy escapes the Warden, Captain Hadley, and guard inspect his cell. The art on the wall behind them are paintings which shot-for-shot show in oil paint what will play out in the next third of the film.
Pay close attention to the painting to the right of the guard.
It’s Vincent Van Gogh’s Road with Cypress and Star also commonly referred to as Country Road In Provence By Night. An amazing choice of works, as it depicts a pair of travelers walking down the road where a giant Cypress tree stands in the center of the what appears to be a hay field. Very reminiscent of the single Tree in the hay field in Buxton where Andy proposed to his wife, and where he told Red to go to find the volcanic glass rock.
Red buys a compass and a hat hitches a ride to Buxton and travels North. He eventually stumbles on the field with the large oak. And the scene looks amazingly close to the Vincent van Gogh painting but with only one traveler (foreshadowing with oil painting, kudos).
You can say that Andy is there with Red in spirit, as if it wasn’t for Andy Red wouldn’t be going on this journey.
Far left above the Captain’s head.
Breezing Up by Winslow Homer An oil painting by American artist Winslow Homer. It depicts a catboat called the Gloucester chopping through that city’s harbor under “a fair wind” (Homer’s original title). Inside the boat are a man, three boys, and their catch. It can be seen in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. You can see that Andy had cropped into the image, as to focus on the boat and the people on it.
Zihuatanejo. Red sees Andy restoring a boat. Just like they both had imagined. A shot that looks a lot like the little boy on the back of the boat in the painting Breezing Up by Winslow Homer.
Lots of blue water and small ships.
The End.
When Andy escapes the Warden, Captain Hadley, and guard inspect his cell. The art on the wall behind them are paintings which shot-for-shot show in oil paint what will play out in the next third of the film.
Pay close attention to the painting to the right of the guard.
It’s Vincent Van Gogh’s Road with Cypress and Star also commonly referred to as Country Road In Provence By Night. An amazing choice of works, as it depicts a pair of travelers walking down the road where a giant Cypress tree stands in the center of the what appears to be a hay field. Very reminiscent of the single Tree in the hay field in Buxton where Andy proposed to his wife, and where he told Red to go to find the volcanic glass rock.
Red buys a compass and a hat hitches a ride to Buxton and travels North. He eventually stumbles on the field with the large oak. And the scene looks amazingly close to the Vincent van Gogh painting but with only one traveler (foreshadowing with oil painting, kudos).
You can say that Andy is there with Red in spirit, as if it wasn’t for Andy Red wouldn’t be going on this journey.
Far left above the Captain’s head.
Breezing Up by Winslow Homer An oil painting by American artist Winslow Homer. It depicts a catboat called the Gloucester chopping through that city’s harbor under “a fair wind” (Homer’s original title). Inside the boat are a man, three boys, and their catch. It can be seen in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. You can see that Andy had cropped into the image, as to focus on the boat and the people on it.
Zihuatanejo. Red sees Andy restoring a boat. Just like they both had imagined. A shot that looks a lot like the little boy on the back of the boat in the painting Breezing Up by Winslow Homer.
Lots of blue water and small ships.
The End.