The Shawshank Redemption (1994): English words to learn
1450 different words in this film. Knowing the 1,000 most common English words covers about 71% of this film; the 3,000 most common, about 84%.
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| Word | Uses |
|---|---|
| tax | 10 |
| 00:35:00You'll pay some tax, but you'll still end up-- | |
| warden | 10 |
| 00:13:14I'm Mr. Norton, the warden. | |
| goddamn | 9 |
| 00:57:32-Stay back, goddamn it! -What's going on? | |
| library | 8 |
| 00:52:27The Shawshank Prison Library. | |
| guard | 7 |
| 00:13:12This is Mr. Hadley. He's captain of the guards. | |
| innocent | 7 |
| 00:04:33Since I am innocent of this crime... | |
| bullet | 7 |
| 00:03:52...riddled with .38-caliber bullets. | |
| doubt | 6 |
| 00:14:58The first night's the toughest. No doubt about it. | |
| bullshit | 6 |
| 00:11:37-Eighth. He'll be first. -Bullshit! I'll take that action. | |
| sentence | 6 |
| 00:05:26...as to merit a death sentence? | |
| fella | 6 |
| 00:09:46...in early 1947 for murdering his wife and the fella she was banging. | |
| hammer | 6 |
| 00:25:39I wonder if you might get me a rock hammer. | |
| stretch | 6 |
| 00:55:36-The budget's stretched thin as it is. -I see. | |
| rehabilitate | 6 |
| 00:07:11-Yes, sir. -You feel you've been rehabilitated? | |
| get out | 6 |
| 00:08:25Get out of my face, man! You're into me for five packs already. | |
| lawyer | 5 |
| 00:25:13-What you in here for? -Didn't do it. Lawyer fucked me. | |
| beer | 5 |
| 00:36:53I'd only ask three beers apiece for each of my coworkers. | |
| victim | 5 |
| 00:04:21...taken from the bloodstained corpses of the victims. | |
| fat | 5 |
| 00:11:45I'll take that chubby fat-ass there. | |
| foot | 5 |
| 00:13:54On your feet. | |
| blind | 5 |
| 00:15:05...skin burning and half-blind from that delousing shit. | |
| pack | 5 |
| 00:02:47She packed a bag. | |
| dumb | 5 |
| 00:34:42Dumb shit, what do you think the government will do to me? | |
| lover | 5 |
| 00:02:58...whom you had discovered was your wife 's lover. | |
| butt | 5 |
| 00:10:39You speak English, butt-steak? | |
| piss | 5 |
| 00:13:46You shit when we say you shit, and piss when we say you piss. | |
| 5 | |
| 00:55:59I'll even mail them for you. How's that? | |
| yard | 5 |
| 00:39:26Pickings are pretty slim in the yard. | |
| laundry | 5 |
| 00:51:47You enjoy working the laundry? | |
| fund | 5 |
| 00:53:39...about setting up some kind of trust fund for my kids' educations. | |
| parole | 5 |
| 01:02:25The parole board got me into this halfway house... | |
| infirmary | 5 |
| 00:19:19...I swear by God and Jesus, you will all visit the infirmary. | |
| tier | 5 |
| 00:20:10Tier 3 north, clear count! | |
| come out | 5 |
| 01:02:44Last time, the bottom near came out. | |
| put down | 5 |
| 00:11:30Smokes. Put me down for two. | |
| shut up | 5 |
| 00:18:23You shut up, or I'll sing you a lullaby! | |
| bear | 4 |
| 00:05:05Bullets on the ground bearing his fingerprints. | |
| river | 4 |
| 00:03:40Along the way, I threw my gun into the Royal River. | |
| smoke | 4 |
| 00:11:28Smokes or coin? Bettor's choice. | |
| waste | 4 |
| 00:27:45Waste of money, if you ask me. | |
| throat | 4 |
| 00:57:40There's nothing to talk about. I'll cut his fucking throat. | |
| hole | 4 |
| 00:44:30Bogs spent a week in the hole. | |
| knife | 4 |
| 00:57:35One second he's fine, then out come the knives. | |
| fellow | 4 |
| 00:33:50Me and some fellows I know were among the names called. | |
| serve | 4 |
| 00:06:29...I hereby order you to serve two life sentences back-to-back... | |
| cigarette | 4 |
| 00:08:36Cigarettes, a bag of reefer, if that's your thing... | |
| cage | 4 |
| 00:14:35Move to the end of the cage. | |
| crook | 4 |
| 01:04:13...not for an old crook like me. | |
| convict | 4 |
| 00:13:17You are convicted felons. | |
| banker | 4 |
| 00:25:00Wife-killing banker. | |
| cellblock | 4 |
| 00:12:29Return to your cellblocks for evening count. | |
| wind up | 4 |
| 00:37:34...wound up sitting in a row at 10:00 in the morning... | |
| cry | 3 |
| 00:15:31Somebody always breaks down crying. | |
| shop | 3 |
| 00:21:55Fell out of his nest over by the plate shop. | |
| south | 3 |
| 00:20:16Tier 3 south, clear. | |
| north | 3 |
| 00:20:10Tier 3 north, clear count! | |
| board | 3 |
| 00:39:08We could get a board together. | |
| escape | 3 |
| 00:27:15Then I'd guess you want to escape. Tunnel under the wall, maybe. | |
| decide | 3 |
| 00:33:10...the powers that be decided: | |
| guilty | 3 |
| 00:40:04Only guilty man in Shawshank. | |
| suit | 3 |
| 00:54:42All he needed was a suit and tie and a jiggly hula gal on his desk... | |
| mention | 3 |
| 00:27:59Mention my name, we never do business again. | |
| build | 3 |
| 01:23:39...but I also built that library... | |
| fresh | 3 |
| 00:11:54Fresh fish today! | |
| roll | 3 |
| 00:20:23Prepare to roll out. | |
| cost | 3 |
| 00:19:47His first night in the joint, Dufresne cost me two packs of cigarettes. | |
| nose | 3 |
| 00:17:40And it's Fat Ass by a nose! | |
| bottle | 3 |
| 00:05:08A broken bourbon bottle, likewise with fingerprints. | |
| bird | 3 |
| 01:02:58Sometimes after work, I go to the park and feed the birds. | |
| lay | 3 |
| 00:11:59I admit I didn't think much of Andy first time I laid eyes on him. | |
| asshole | 3 |
| 00:34:11-I'm sorry to hear that. -I'm not. He was an asshole. | |
| dick | 3 |
| 00:13:49You got that, you maggot-dick motherfucker? | |
| ought | 3 |
| 00:43:33He ought to have something to show for it. | |
| project | 3 |
| 01:06:18...the state has allocated the enclosed funds for your library project." | |
| society | 3 |
| 00:07:28I'm no longer a danger to society. | |
| exist | 3 |
| 01:22:37He doesn't exist, except on paper. | |
| shake | 3 |
| 00:54:33...then he laughed and actually shook Andy's hand. | |
| roof | 3 |
| 00:33:12The roof of the license-plate factory needs resurfacing. | |
| license | 3 |
| 00:33:12The roof of the license-plate factory needs resurfacing. | |
| silent | 3 |
| 01:22:16The "silent" silent partner. | |
| score | 3 |
| 01:28:49Let's see how the score comes out. | |
| pie | 3 |
| 01:19:32You have some of this fine pie... | |
| provide | 3 |
| 00:54:54I'm a convicted murderer who provides sound financial planning. | |
| percent | 3 |
| 00:27:32My normal markup's 20 percent. | |
| commit | 3 |
| 01:19:49I already got my boys committed elsewhere. | |
| shoe | 3 |
| 01:48:50And shine my shoes. | |
| dollar | 3 |
| 00:27:29Seven dollars in any rock-and-gem shop. | |
| tunnel | 3 |
| 00:27:15Then I'd guess you want to escape. Tunnel under the wall, maybe. | |
| golf | 3 |
| 00:02:54Glenn Quentin, golf pro at the Snowden Hills Country Club... | |
| buck | 3 |
| 00:27:37Risk goes up, price goes up. Let's make it an even 1 0 bucks. | |
| trigger | 3 |
| 01:34:10You didn't pull the trigger or convict him. | |
| routine | 3 |
| 00:32:31Prison life consists of routine... | |
| prick | 3 |
| 00:37:50The colossal prick even managed to sound magnanimous. | |
| pro | 3 |
| 00:02:54Glenn Quentin, golf pro at the Snowden Hills Country Club... | |
| item | 3 |
| 00:27:27What's an item like this usually go for? | |
| con | 3 |
| 00:08:31There must be a con like me in every prison in America. | |
| swallow | 3 |
| 00:43:26...and you'll swallow what I give you to swallow. | |
| inch | 3 |
| 00:25:57A rock hammer is about six or seven inches long. | |
| deposit | 3 |
| 01:20:07Two deposits. | |
| toss | 3 |
| 00:48:22Heads up. They're tossing cells. | |
| crawl | 3 |
| 01:27:23Gave him a thrill to help a youngster crawl off the shit heap. | |
| minimum | 3 |
| 00:45:45They transferred him to a minimum-security hospital upstate. | |
| fart | 3 |
| 00:19:16If I hear so much as a mouse fart in here tonight... | |
| hobby | 3 |
| 00:50:16A little hobby of mine. | |
| scam | 3 |
| 01:21:13He's got scams you haven't even dreamed of. Kickbacks on his kickbacks. | |
| reel | 3 |
| 00:11:57We're reeling them in! | |
| tar | 3 |
| 00:35:25-Getting himself killed. -Keep tarring. | |
| institutionalized | 3 |
| 00:59:11He's just institutionalized. | |
| go up | 3 |
| 00:03:30When they arrived, you went up to the house and murdered them. | |
| make up | 3 |
| 00:25:28To tell you the truth, I haven't made up my mind. | |
| open up | 3 |
| 01:10:14Open it up! | |
| set up | 3 |
| 00:36:36Of course not. But you do need someone to set it up for you. | |
| show up | 3 |
| 00:03:45I get hazy where the cleaning woman shows up the following morning... | |
| joke | 2 |
| 00:29:56I finally got the joke. | |
| tree | 2 |
| 01:29:00Goddamn cats crawling up trees, 5 times 5 is 25.... | |
| wind | 2 |
| 01:21:46If they ever catch on, he'll wind up in here wearing a number himself. | |
| owe | 2 |
| 00:22:41I owe that boy a big kiss when I see him. | |
| address | 2 |
| 01:05:58-What's all this? -You tell me. They're addressed to you. | |
| price | 2 |
| 00:25:48For a toothbrush, I wouldn't ask. I'd quote a price. | |
| favor | 2 |
| 00:38:34You could argue he done it to curry favor with the guards. | |
| spot | 2 |
| 01:46:51...find that spot. | |
| allow | 2 |
| 00:36:09The IRS allows a one-time-only gift to your spouse for up to $60,000. | |
| favorite | 2 |
| 00:49:35Any favorite passages? | |
| form | 2 |
| 00:36:48You get the forms, I'll prepare them... | |
| pressure | 2 |
| 01:55:40Geology is the study of pressure and time. | |
| double | 2 |
| 01:02:42Make sure your man double-bags. | |
| danger | 2 |
| 00:07:28I'm no longer a danger to society. | |
| empty | 2 |
| 00:05:59That means that he fired the gun empty... | |
| memory | 2 |
| 01:43:30They say it has no memory. | |
| nature | 2 |
| 00:05:49...of a much more brutal, cold-blooded nature. Consider this: | |
| neck | 2 |
| 00:58:08Look at his neck, for God's sake. | |
| shame | 2 |
| 00:22:34That's a shame about your horse coming in last and all. | |
| driver | 2 |
| awful | 2 |
| 00:34:54Some people really got it awful. | |
| consider | 2 |
| 00:05:49...of a much more brutal, cold-blooded nature. Consider this: | |
| weekend | 2 |
| 00:47:21And by the weekend he was due back... | |
| papers | 2 |
| 01:18:19It made the papers and got his picture in Look magazine. | |
| rule | 2 |
| 00:13:22Rule number one: | |
| account | 2 |
| 01:22:18He's the guilty one, the man with the bank accounts. | |
| file | 2 |
| 01:17:41We ought to file that under "Educational" too, oughtn't we? | |
| manager | 2 |
| 01:02:52I don't think the store manager likes me very much. | |
| nearly | 2 |
| 00:36:50...nearly free of charge. | |
| breaking | 2 |
| 01:24:16That's breaking and entering to you. | |
| honestly | 2 |
| 00:07:21I can honestly say that I'm a changed man. | |
| feed | 2 |
| 01:02:58Sometimes after work, I go to the park and feed the birds. | |
| belong | 2 |
| 00:14:06Your ass belongs to me. | |
| strike | 2 |
| 00:03:56Does that strike you as a fantastic coincidence, or is it just me? | |
| shirt | 2 |
| 00:35:19He puts his hand in your shirt and squeezes your tit till it's purple. | |
| prepare | 2 |
| 00:20:23Prepare to roll out. | |
| program | 2 |
| 01:18:13...instituted his famous "Inside Out" program. | |
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