The year was 1994. I might have been an effed up kid mourning the loss of Kurt Cobain, but I still paid attention to the world of film. That year, three of my all-time favorite films dropped: Hoop Dreams, Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption.In the first installment of Scene Switcheroo, I’ll mash up the latter two of those films to form one iconic scene — Jules Winnfield filling in for Ellis “Red” Redding during Red’s final parole hearing.

INT. – PAROLE HEARINGS ROOM, SHAWSHANK PENITENTIARY, MAINE — DAY

The PAROLE HEARING PANEL sits at a table, waiting for its next hearing. JULES WINNFIELD strolls into the room. He grabs a drink from the table.

Jules: What’s in this?

Parole Hearings Man: Sprite.

Jules: Sprite, good. You mind if I have some of your tasty beverage to wash this down?

Parole Hearings Man: (uncomfortable) Go right ahead.

Jules sucks down the soft drink through its straw.

Jules: Ah, hit the spot.

Jules sets the drink down and slides into his seat.

Parole Hearings Man: Jules Alouicious Winnfield, your files say you’ve served 40 years of a life sentence. Do you feel you’ve been rehabilitated?

Jules: English, motherf***er, do you speak it?

Parole Hearings Man: Well, it means that you’re ready to rejoin society…

Red: I know what your ass thinks it means, Flock of Seagulls. To me it’s just some made up sh**. Some politician’s word, so motherf***ers like yourself can wear a suit and a tie, and have a job. What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for the sh** I did?

Parole Hearings Man: Well, are you?

Jules: Say “well” again. Say “well” again, I dare you, I double dare you motherf***er, say what one more goddamn time!

Parole Hearings Man: Sorry, sir. What I was asking is do you feel sorry for what you have done?

Jules: Oh, man, I will never forgive my ass for that sh**. That was some f***ed-up repugnant sh**.

Parole Hearings Man: Well…

Jules: (Jules shoots the man next to him) I’m sorry, did I break your concentration? I didn’t mean to do that. Please, continue, you were saying. What’s the matter? Oh, you were finished! Well, allow me to retort.  Did you ever hear the philosophy that once a man admits that he’s wrong that he is immediately forgiven for all wrongdoings?

Jules stares down the panel.

I’m a mushroom-cloud-layin’ motherf***er, motherf***er! Every time my fingers touch a mop, I’m Superfly T.N.T., I’m the Guns of the Navarone! IN FACT, WHAT THE F*** AM I DOIN’ IN A CELL? YOU’RE THE MOTHERF***ER WHO SHOULD BE ON MOP DETAIL! We’re f***in’ switchin’! I’m in charge of parole hearings, and you’re mopin’ up this n***er’s piss!

The panel just sits there with their mouths wide open.

Jules: There’s a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.”

Jules whips out his “Bad Mother F***er” wallet and plays with it.

I been sayin’ that sh** for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherf***er before you popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some sh** this mornin’ made me think twice. Now I’m thinkin’: it could mean you’re the evil man. And I’m the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here, he’s the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you’re the righteous man and I’m the shepherd and it’s the world that’s evil and selfish. I’d like that. But that sh** ain’t the truth. The truth is you’re the weak. And I’m the tyranny of evil men. But I’m tryin’, Ringo. I’m tryin’ real hard to be a shepherd.

Jules gets up and heads out the door. After he exits, the remaining panel members make eye contact and nod their heads in approval. The Parole Hearings Man grabs Jules’ parole hearing form and stamps…