'Shawshank Redemption': Now With More Smash Mouth
It was 1954 when Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) played a recording of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro over the public-address system of the Shawshank State Penitentiary. It was 1999 when the band Smash Mouth released the single “All Star,” which resulted in many radio listeners feeling as though they were living in a non-stop Smash Mouth prison for the next 15 years or so. Thanks the wonders of technology, these worlds have collided with Bobby Hacker’s Shawkshank Redemption Ultramix: Vol. 1, which replaces Mozart with middling ska-lite melodies.
Dufresne’s indiscretion landed him in solitary confinement in 1954. If an inmate were to play “All Star” over a prison P.A. system in 2014, we’re guessing the penalty would be much more severe, and result in a shivving and/or shanking. Either way, we look forward to next week’s inevitable tweak of The Green Mile, when Fred Astaire’s “Cheek to Cheek” is replaced by Sugar Ray’s “Fly.”
via FilmDrunk
