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The Shawshank Redemption

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The Shawshank Redemption	comment	The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 drama film directed by Frank Darabont based on Stephen King's novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption from his novella collection Different Seasons.In 1947, young banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover. On fairly convincing but circumstantial evidence he is sentenced to life in prison, and his sentence is to be served at Maine's Shawshank penitentiary. The conditions are terrible, many of his fellow prisoners are dangerous and/or sadistic, and some of the guards are even worse — but life begins to look up as Dufresne becomes acquainted with an older con, Ellis Redding (Morgan Freeman, who also serves in-character as the movie's narrator), commonly referred to as Red. A friendship begins after Red, "the man who knows how to get things," procures a rock hammer for Dufresne, an object he wishes to own in order to carve an alabaster-and-soapstone chess set.Nearly twenty years pass within the prison walls, showing the growth and strength of Andy and Red's friendship, Andy's various attempts to better the lives of his fellow inmates through education (something he is allowed to do because he provides free financial advice to the prison's corrupt warden and guards), the quest to prove his innocence, and the attempt to remain mentally free and hopeful even when surrounded by the crushing gray of prison walls.Shawshank has since been adapted for the stage.For tropes from the original story Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, see the work page for the novella collection, Different Seasons.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_117d2e1f	type	Fauxshadowing
The Shawshank Redemption / int_117d2e1f	comment	Fauxshadowing: Andy's mentally broken and uncharacteristically traumatized behavior after he gets out of solitary, along with some intense foreshadowing, (Brooks' suicide, Andy buying rope, "get busy livin' or get busy dyin',", etc.) sets us up to expect that Andy is going to escape the pain and sorrow of Shawshank Prison by hanging himself in his cell. It's all part of his plan to escape in the traditional sense.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Shawshank Redemption / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Warden Norton loves to display his authority in Shawshank Prison, but whenever it is challenged, he resorts to underhanded methods and relies on his guards to enforce his rule, especially when his money laundering scheme might be exposed (see Disproportionate Retribution below). His cowardly nature is best exemplified with his suicide. At the end, his crimes are exposed and the police arrive to arrest him. As the police try to enter his office, rather than face the consequences for his actions, Norton takes the cowardsâ€™ way out and shoots himself.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_12a59731	type	Goodbye, Cruel World!
The Shawshank Redemption / int_12a59731	comment	Goodbye, Cruel World!: Played straight with Brooks's postcard, subverted by Red's.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_13d6db18	type	One Last Smoke
The Shawshank Redemption / int_13d6db18	comment	One Last Smoke: Norton offers a cigarette to Tommy just before implementing his plan to have him murdered.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_13e3985d	type	Crucified Hero Shot
The Shawshank Redemption / int_13e3985d	comment	Crucified Hero Shot: Andy, covered in filth from crawling through 500 yards of a sewage-filled drainage pipe that he used to escape, standing outside the prison in the rain.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Shawshank Redemption / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Norton sends Andy to the hole for two months. Andy asks for six feet of rope. He escapes instead.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_146f8df0	type	Situational Sexuality
The Shawshank Redemption / int_146f8df0	comment	In the book, Stephen King is careful to draw a distinction between heterosexuals who just 'come to an arrangement', actual homosexuals, and the 'sisters' (who are just depraved rapists).
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The Shawshank Redemption / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Several moments in the movie subtextually associate Andy with Jesus. Probably the most noticeable is the scene where the guards are astonished to find his cell empty after his escape, which strongly evokes the moment in The Bible where the Judean women are astonished to find Jesus' tomb empty after his resurrection.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
The Shawshank Redemption / int_1649e053	comment	Your Mom: After the inmates go fishing (baiting new inmates until one of them starts crying) in the beginning of the movie:
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_16ccd84b	type	The Old Convict
The Shawshank Redemption / int_16ccd84b	comment	The Old Convict: Red, to an extent, but more certainly Brooks, an elderly man who finds he is unable to adjust to life outside prison walls. Brooks was in prison for so long, since 1910, that when he's released in the 1950s, it's a world he can't recognize (to put it in perspective, he completely missed both World Wars). For one thing, Brooks remarks that when he went in, he'd only seen one car, and it was when he was a boy.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_1a4ece83	type	He Had a Name
The Shawshank Redemption / int_1a4ece83	comment	He Had a Name: Andy asks of "Fat Ass": "What was his name?" (We don't find out what it is.) This dramatizes how Andy is less callous than the other prisoners.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_1b2546f2	type	Bait-and-Switch Suicide
The Shawshank Redemption / int_1b2546f2	comment	Bait-and-Switch Suicide: When Andy doesn't answer for roll call, and following some intense foreshadowing, the audience is led to believe that Andy's escaped by killing himself, especially when the guard stares into the cell and says, shocked, "Oh my holy god." It turns out that Andy actually escaped by the traditional means. Even what he had said just previously to Red: "Get busy living or get busy dying." Andy chose to get busy living. Red unfurls his Swiss-Army Knife in a similar manner to Brooks before the latter carved a message before his suicide. Turns out he was leaving his own message, "So Was Red", before leaving for Mexico.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
The Shawshank Redemption / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: Captain Hadley clearly loves the power and authority his position gives him and takes every opportunity he can to remind the inmates that he can do anything he wants. Tellingly, after inheriting $35,000 from his brother (roughly equal to $460,000 today) the thought of quitting his position never occurs to him.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
The Shawshank Redemption / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: When the warden looks into Andy's Bible, the ribbon-tab opens to the Book of Exodus, showing the outline of the rock hammer Andy used to escape.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_1c5d0ed0	type	Redemption in the Rain
The Shawshank Redemption / int_1c5d0ed0	comment	Redemption in the Rain: The Trope Codifier. After escaping from prison, Andy stands in the rain washing away the sewage through which he crawled to freedom (and, symbolically, washing away the pain of almost two decades of false imprisonment).
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
The Shawshank Redemption / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Hadley, the leader of the guards, ambushes and severely beats Bogs, who screams and cries for help the whole time. Seeing as ambushing and severely beating people was what Bogs takes sadistic pleasure in, one can't help but feel satisfied when Red sums up the end result...
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
The Shawshank Redemption / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Andy at the beginning before opening up to Red.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_1dc5730a	type	CharacterTic
The Shawshank Redemption / int_1dc5730a	comment	Character Tic: Hadley takes his hat off seconds before brutally beating the crying fat inmate. When Bogs returns from solitary confinement after hospitalizing Andy, he finds Hadley waiting for him in his cell. Bogs asks "What?" and Hadley takes his hat off... Andy is continually calm and quiet, even in the face of rape. Heywood has a mild stutter.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Shawshank Redemption / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Andy and Red become inseparable best friends for the rest of their lives through their experience in prison. Word of God even describes the movie as a platonic love story.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The Shawshank Redemption / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Andy hides his rock hammer in his Bible, specifically in the Book of Exodus. He also hides the tunnel in his cell's wall behind the poster of Rita Hayworth, and later Marilyn Monroe and Raquel Welch — a literal cover-up. Red describes Andy's talk of Mexico as a "shitty pipe dream". Andy has to crawl through a shitty pipe to reach his dream of freedom.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_1f067b97	type	Invented Individual
The Shawshank Redemption / int_1f067b97	comment	Invented Individual: Andy creates "Randall Stephens" to be the fall guy in case his shady financial transactions for the Warden are detected by authorities. Andy becomes Randall Stephens after he breaks out, and takes all the warden's ill-gotten money.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
The Shawshank Redemption / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: For most of the film, we're left confused as to whether Andy killed his wife and her lover. It's unclear if Andy's letter to the Portland Daily Bugle revealed why Norton had Tommy killed by mentioning Elmo Blatch confessed to Tommy that he was the one who killed Mrs. Dufresne and Glenn Quentin. That being said, with Tommy dead, it's hearsay and there's no physical evidence to prove beyond a doubt that Andy is innocent.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
The Shawshank Redemption / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Hadley and Norton, when searching Andy's prison cell, came this close to uncovering his escape attempt, and would have succeeded if they'd only either 1) opened his Bible or 2) checked behind his poster. During Andy's last night, nobody, not even the guards or Red himself notices that Andy is wearing the Warden's dress shoes. Lampshaded by Red himself, nobody really looks at anyone's shoes unless there is a reason to do so.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Shawshank Redemption / int_22cf536c	comment	Also, a Chekhov's Gun: Andy notices the names of two prisoners who occupied his cell previously carved into the wall, and proceeded to do the same with his rock hammer. Instead, he ends up scraping a whole chunk out of the wall, and realizes how he can put together an escape plan.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Shawshank Redemption / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The scene where Andy plays "Sull'aria" from The Marriage of Figaro over the prison loudspeakers was not written into the novella by Stephen King. After seeing it for himself, King said he wished he had. The movie adds further explanation as to where Andy hid his rock hammer while in prison. Andy hides the hammer in his prison-issue Bible in the Book of Exodus.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Shawshank Redemption / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: After Andy claims he's innocent, this exchange happens: Later this exchange, A sort of almost-echo occurs a bit later, after Tommy has revealed what he knows. At one point, Norton hands Andy back his Bible, assuring him that "Salvation lies within." Just before escaping, Andy leaves the Bible in Norton's safe: when Norton opens the Bible, he finds a note from Andy telling him "Dear Warden, you were right. Salvation lay within." Andy hollowed out his Bible to hide the rock hammer. The boast here was twofold - the hollowed-out pages where the hammer was stored begin on the first page of the Book of Exodus, which tells of the Israelites' deliverance from slavery. A nonverbal one, when Andy exposes Norton's embezzlement and the FBI comes to arrest him, he looks at the picture frame on his wall "His Judgment Cometh, And That Right Soon."
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The Shawshank Redemption / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Andy and Warden Norton trade Bible quotes during their first direct conversation with each other.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
The Shawshank Redemption / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Many of the prisoners (those who aren't monsters) become this. It's a nightmare you have to find a way to live through. Andy joins Red's group and then the two become best friends.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
The Shawshank Redemption / int_25524784	comment	Bogs has this just before his No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Hadley, only able to voice a weak-sounding "What?" before the beatdown is administered.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_2562da69	type	Great Escape
The Shawshank Redemption / int_2562da69	comment	Great Escape: Near the end of the movie, Andy escapes, praising his newly found freedom.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Shawshank Redemption / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: In one scene, Andy asks Red (played by Morgan Freeman) how he got his nickname. He thinks for a moment and replies with an ironic grin, "Maybe it's because I'm Irish." In the novella, Red was indeed a red-haired Irishman. Here, it's from his last name, Redding.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
The Shawshank Redemption / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Warden Norton. He at first seems like an at least reasonable man in the face of having to deal with prisoners, not exactly trustworthy company. He lets Andy help in the library rather than laundry, mails Andy's letters asking for a better library for him, etc. His key flaws are keeping guards like Hadley under employment and, with Andy's help, setting up a money-laundering operation. However, once it seems that there might be a way for Andy to be freed as an innocent man, he cracks down to keep him in his grip. Not just by torturing Andy via solitary confinement, but killing the prisoner who offered to help prove Andy's innocence.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
The Shawshank Redemption / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Andy is an inmate in prison for murder, and as such he has little freedom, few rights and no authority. He must use his wits to accomplish his goals.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_2f1bd3e7	type	Prisoner's Work
The Shawshank Redemption / int_2f1bd3e7	comment	Prisoner's Work: Some prisoners are needed to help re-roof a prison building. In this case it's seen as a desirable task as it will allow them to work outside in nice weather, and Red and friends bribe the guards to be selected for the project. Warden Norton initiates the "inside-out" program, in which inmates are used to complete public works projects. Norton pockets not only the profits from the program, but also bribes from other companies that are being forced out of business because they can't compete with his free labor.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
The Shawshank Redemption / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Inverted with Red's first appearance. He's a black man in 1947 and well aware that he's facing a panel of white men. He's nervous, anxious even. He doesn't know what to do with his hands and has to be told to sit. Told. Then he speaks like a scared black man who knows exactly how much power these white men have over him and what they likely believe about black men as violent sexual criminals. Excessively polite, quiet, nothing but "Yes, sir, oh, yes, sir.".
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_304f9e0b	type	Flowery Insults
The Shawshank Redemption / int_304f9e0b	comment	Flowery Insults: Byron Hadley is a master of these.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Shawshank Redemption / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: As cruel and scummy to poor "Fat Ass" as the other inmates are, it's very clear that none of them wanted him to actually die. Even Heywood, who was largely responsible for getting him so riled up, begs him to shut up when an obviously pissed-off Hadley strides menacingly toward Fat Ass's cell. When Hadley first starts beating him, one random inmate calls out "Cap, take it easy!" and another audibly says "God damn," clearly sickened.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_3255968b	type	Implied Death Threat
The Shawshank Redemption / int_3255968b	comment	Implied Death Threat: After Bogs gets paralyzed in a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown by Hadley, as he is being wheeled away in an ambulance, he and Hadley exchange a look. This look implies that if Bogs says anything to anyone about his beating, it will get a lot worse for him and his Sister friends. Same goes for the Sisters, they get the message and leave Andy alone. Norton's An Offer You Can't Refuse to Andy is full of this. Removal of the protection from the guards and transfer to their cellblock would certainly mean almost certain death for Andy, likely being Driven to Suicide.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
The Shawshank Redemption / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Andy Dufresne has Warden Samuel Norton, who systematically ruins his life after he tries to ask the warden for help in exonerating himself.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Shawshank Redemption / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: The Warden clearly hindering Andy's appeal for Tommy to testify, and out of the blue ordered him to serve a month in solitary confinement. Heywood did this earlier in the movie, as he taunted an emotionally-overwhelmed prisoner by reeling him in with what starts out sounding reassuring, only to go on to something that is practically the opposite of reassuring. However, it's clear in the aftermath that he didn't want the guy to get hurt, he just wanted to win the contest. Especially when he's told that he died. He's one of the few other than Andy who really reacts to the death. Said emotionally-overwhelmed prisoner then breaks down in tears, and Heywood laughs at this out loud. That is countered somewhat by the aforementioned reaction having copious amounts of (implied) My God, What Have I Done?. After ordering the murder of Tommy Williams due to his knowledge of who actually killed Andy's wife and her lover, Warden Norton visits Andy Dufresne in solitary confinement, where he threatens to not only have him "cast down with the sodomites" if he pulls out of his money-laundering scheme, but also threatens to destroy everything that Andy had made to make Shawshank a better place, which included threatening to close down the prison library and subsequently burn all the books. Following his visit, Norton gives Andy another month in solitary confinement, and the look on his face following Norton's visit is simply soul-crushing.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The Shawshank Redemption / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: The movie in general has abundant swearing throughout it, but most of the swearing seems to come from Byron Hadley.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_35ae6a23	type	Lethal Chef
The Shawshank Redemption / int_35ae6a23	comment	Lethal Chef: Take Our Word for It version. Norton offers Andy a pie baked by a friend's wife, claiming that "(she) can't bake worth shit." It doesn't stop Red and Andy eating it later while working in the library, though given prison food's well-deserved reputation, even bad pie probably tastes pretty good to them.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_37cb353b	type	Ate His Gun
The Shawshank Redemption / int_37cb353b	comment	When Andy plays a recording from The Marriage of Figaro over the prison loudspeakers and locks the door, Norton has Hadley and the other guards bust down the door and drag Andy away to solitary. In the climax, Norton locks himself in his office as the regular cops try to bust the door down and arrest him, and, without Hadley to do his dirty work, takes a different method of escape.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
The Shawshank Redemption / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: Norton drops his unfinished cigarette to the ground and stamps it out well before it's reached its natural end, moments before he has Hadley do the same thing to Tommy. With a rifle. From a guard tower. One of the cops shouts, "Make it easy on yourself, Norton!" seconds before he decides to do just that.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Shawshank Redemption / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Andy played the warden for a chump!
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
The Shawshank Redemption / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Norton always makes sure Andy isn't looking when he opens his safe. Turns out, Andy didn't need to break into the safe.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_3af4d3a3	type	Hollywood New England
The Shawshank Redemption / int_3af4d3a3	comment	Hollywood New England: Like many of Stephen King's novels and films, both the book and the film are set in his native Maine. Many often confuse the film's setting for Ohio, where it was filmed (despite Maine and New England being mentioned many times in the film). The warden sports a hint of a Maine accent, but is the only character to do so.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_3e45e111	type	Poster Patchup
The Shawshank Redemption / int_3e45e111	comment	Poster Patchup: Andy covers up the tunnel he's been digging in the wall of his jail cell with posters of various actresses.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_3e87fc1f	type	Psychological Projection
The Shawshank Redemption / int_3e87fc1f	comment	Psychological Projection: Warden Norton's rant about how "this is a conspiracy" after Andy escapes is obviously a case of projecting his own conspiring nature onto everyone else.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
The Shawshank Redemption / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: A behind-the-scenes storyboard of Hadley's No-Holds-Barred Beatdown of Bogs is supposed to end with Bogs being pushed off the railing and falling to the ground, with the impact likely causing his paralysis. The storyboard was supposed to end with Hadley saying that Bogs had slipped and fell over the railing accidentally instead.note Take note of where Bog's cell is located, at the top floor of the cellblock. He could have very well been killed by the impact. A variation: Norton sets up Tommy's murder to look not like an accident, but like a justified shooting during an escape attempt. Used as a threat when Andy asks Hadley if he trusts his wife (to give her the $35,000 as a gift to avoid paying taxes):
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
The Shawshank Redemption / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Or maybe Adaptational Lesser-Villainy. The only thing Red says about the murder he committed was that he was a "stupid kid," and it's implied to be part of a robbery that went wrong. In the novella, Red deliberately kills his wife by cutting the brake lines to her car (He also accidentally killed a neighbor and her baby who hitched a ride). Tommy is willing to cooperate to prove Andy's innocence and is gunned down by Hadley and passed off as a failed escape attempt. In the novella, he agrees to stay quiet in exchange for a transfer to a minimum security prison. In the novella, the prosecutor in Andy's trial took the job in order to help his future political career, and Red muses later that he might have suppressed evidence of a third party on purpose. This is left out of the film, where there isn't any implication that the prosecutor is anything but genuine.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_40207000	type	Never Going Back to Prison
The Shawshank Redemption / int_40207000	comment	Never Going Back to Prison: Inverted. Inmates like Red and Brooks have spent the vast majority of their lives behind bars, and find readjusting to the outside world, which has changed radically in the meantime, almost impossible. It makes them long to go back to prison, back to what they're used to. Brooks can't adjust and is Driven to Suicide. Red is given a reason to continue, thanks to Andy.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Shawshank Redemption / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Everyone in Shawshank insisting that they're innocent. When breaking the news of Williams' death, all with an air of smugness: "Broke Captain Hadley's heart to shoot him. Truly, it did."
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
The Shawshank Redemption / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: How Andy makes off with Warden Norton's shoes.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_41be2c1b	type	Spoiler Title
The Shawshank Redemption / int_41be2c1b	comment	Spoiler Title: Several foreign language translations revealed the ending by making reference to escape.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_45d22aad	type	Sweet and Sour Grapes
The Shawshank Redemption / int_45d22aad	comment	Sweet and Sour Grapes: When Red goes for his parole hearing and is rejected when he says he's been rehabilitated, and when he all but tells them to piss off the third time around they let him go.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_45f0bb2d	type	Hope Is Scary
The Shawshank Redemption / int_45f0bb2d	comment	Hope Is Scary: Red objects to hope on these grounds. He's specifically referring to hope of getting out of prison, as it never happens and fixating on it will only lead to disappointment.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_4602f495	type	Record Needle Scratch
The Shawshank Redemption / int_4602f495	comment	Record Needle Scratch: Literally, when Hadley busts into Norton's office and puts an end to Andy's playing of Le Nozze di Figaro. "On your feet!"
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_462e2f79	type	The Outside World
The Shawshank Redemption / int_462e2f79	comment	The Outside World: An old con, having finally been released after serving a long sentence, kills himself when he discovers he can't handle life in the world outside prison. Red considers this, too, after he's released.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_471a505f	type	Four Is Death
The Shawshank Redemption / int_471a505f	comment	Four Is Death: Hadley takes 4 shots at Tommy when killing him. Andy's wife and her lover were shot four times each. The prosecutor even uses this to paint Andy as a cold-blooded murderer. A revolver only holds six bullets, so in order to fire eight times the murderer would have had to stand there and reload.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Shawshank Redemption / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Heywood comes off as quite obnoxious and sadistic at first, but then later he begs a fat prisoner to stop sobbing out of concern. He is also visibly shocked and remorseful when he thinks he may have inadvertently sold Andy the means to kill himself.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_4783acfa	type	Bait the Dog
The Shawshank Redemption / int_4783acfa	comment	Bait the Dog: While a viewer will probably be quick to get the feeling that Warden Norton is a hypocritical jerk, his occasional Pet the Dog moments (such as personally mailing out Andy's letters requesting improvements to the library) may make viewers eager to find excuses for his dictatorial rule of the prison, either as the necessary actions of a man trying to maintain order over an institution of violent criminals, or even as a case of Deliberate Values Dissonance. When he talks to Tommy in private asking him if he'd be willing to testify to Andy's innocence, most viewers no doubt find themselves hoping that the Warden has done some soul searching and, despite his own growing corruption, might be genuinely willing to do the right thing for Andy. Then Tommy agrees to testify and Norton has him shot by Hadley, letting us know once and for all that no, Norton does not have any good intentions in mind, and he really is rotten to the core.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Shawshank Redemption / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Warden Norton and Tommy Williams. In the book, Norton quits Shawshank a broken man instead of committing suicide (the bit where Andy exposes his crimes is absent), and Tommy is bribed with a transfer to a minimum security prison instead of being murdered. Also Brooks, who commits suicide when he gets out in the film, but goes to a retirement home in the book. Averted in the stage version, where the Warden is neither killed nor a Karma Houdini - Stammas is arrested while trying to flee to Canada after Andy tips off the state about his embezzlement, and ends up in prison himself.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_48cffdb7	type	I Want My Mommy!
The Shawshank Redemption / int_48cffdb7	comment	I Want My Mommy!: It precedes a serious case of Mood Whiplash, but one of the new inmates breaks down and begins crying for his mother. One of the veteran inmates calls back with "I've had your mother! She wasn't that great!"
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Shawshank Redemption / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The cinematography goes to lengths to make a bleak and oppressive prison look warm and inviting. This was also the movie that got the now-famous Roger Deakins recognised by the Oscars, and for good reason.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Shawshank Redemption / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Happens when Norton shoots himself. He is shown placing the gun under his chin before the camera quickly cuts away to a shot of his blood splattering onto the window behind him (and the bullet breaking the glass). His corpse with the entry wound and some...stuff on the floor is shown afterwards, though. It's a particularly well-executed example of this trope. At no point do we see the bullet enter or exit the head, but Darabont has commented (in the publication of his shooting script) that just by using sound and general atmosphere, one could make the audience think they saw something they didn't. The scene in which Hadley beats Fat-Ass to death is lit in such a way that both men appear as silhouettes, more or less amounting to this trope. Hadley gets in his first few licks on Bogs onscreen, but the beating clearly continues long after the cutaway. Andy's first beating at the hands of the Sisters. We see it beginning, but once Andy is knocked to the ground, the camera slowly retreats around a corner and away from the sight of the beating, though we can still hear it happening.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_4b39a18	type	Hope Springs Eternal
The Shawshank Redemption / int_4b39a18	comment	Hope Springs Eternal: This is actually the subtitle of the novella (which is part of a collection of four stories called Different Seasons), and a major theme of the story. Andy never gives up hope, even after being wrongfully convicted and experiencing the brutality of prison for nearly 20 years. His relentless hopefulness eventually rubs off on the cynical Red, who initially doubts he could even survive outside of prison.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_4de1544	type	Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook
The Shawshank Redemption / int_4de1544	comment	Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook: The Trope Namer. Although it's done for reasons the audience can sympathize with, Andy is secretly planning to escape from prison and "expose" the warden as a crook. The warden would have him break the law anyway. He says he never broke the law before going to jail, and we see nothing to contradict him.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Shawshank Redemption / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Innocuous at face value, but heartbreaking in context: "I don't like it here. I'm tired of being afraid all the time. I've decided not to stay." Quoth the last words of Brooks Hatlen.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
The Shawshank Redemption / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: After Andy's escape, Warden Norton angrily throws a rock at Andy's Raquel Welch poster and it tears straight through. Cue Red, Norton and Hadley staring through the hole in the wall of Andy's cell with "oh, shit" faces. A literal gunshot (four of them) are used to end Tommy Williams's life. It's a shocking turn from the quiet conversation he was just having with Warden Norton.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
The Shawshank Redemption / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: They're subtle, but Andy earns some scars thanks to the Sisters.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_4f23ab52	type	Friend in the Black Market
The Shawshank Redemption / int_4f23ab52	comment	Friend in the Black Market: Red, the guy who can get things. He can get basically everything the prisoners ask him for, given they're reasonable. He commonly does things like alcohol, cigarettes, etc.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_4f3bf54e	type	Working on the Chain Gang
The Shawshank Redemption / int_4f3bf54e	comment	Working on the Chain Gang: Happens offscreen. The corrupt Warden Norton uses the fact that a chain gang is essentially cheap slave labor to undercut local businesses, and then starts taking bribes from those businesses to keep his chain gangs at the prison rather than out working. Given that Norton tries to appear socially progressive, the physical chains are probably not used.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_4f3c14ca	type	Go Mad from the Isolation
The Shawshank Redemption / int_4f3c14ca	comment	Go Mad from the Isolation: Two months of consecutive solitary confinement is enough to break anyone, and we are led to believe that Andy has been completely broken by his experience.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Shawshank Redemption / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Blatch, the only criminal in the movie to gloat about killing people. In his conversation with Tommy, Blatch mentions the very murders that get pinned on Andy. You'd think this would be the kind of thing that would backfire, and yet because of the warden's desire to keep his own crimes secret, Blatch gets away with this in spite of said gloating. For contrast, most inmates claim innocence, while Red claims guilt but also remorse. Warden Norton, who thinks he has the perfect setup and has complete control of the situation. He's played like a fiddle in the climax by Andy.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Shawshank Redemption / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: After Warden Norton tells Andy that the man who actually killed Andy's wife and her lover is probably gone from the penal system and isn't worth chasing, Andy makes the mistake of saying something about it, calling the warden "obtuse," and then bringing up the money laundering scheme: As if that's not enough, when Andy's unprecedented month-long stay in the hole is almost up, Norton, in a particularly nasty Kick the Dog incident, shows up to tell him about Tommy's murder and how he will never let Andy leave the prison, and threaten to ruin the rest of his life if he doesn't keep working for him. Followed by the icing on the cake:
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_5319eefb	type	Book Safe
The Shawshank Redemption / int_5319eefb	comment	Book Safe: Andy keeps his rock hammer in his Bible. In the Book of Exodus, no less.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Shawshank Redemption / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Played with. Red, Heywood, Brooks, and the other inmates Andy befriends all seem like nice guys, but they didn't wind up serving decades in a maximum security prison for being nice. Granted, the years have mellowed most of them and some show genuine remorse for their past actions, but they're still murderers.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Shawshank Redemption / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Captain Hadley is second in command to Warden Norton, who uses his brutality to his advantage.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_55f4dd10	type	What Are You in For?
The Shawshank Redemption / int_55f4dd10	comment	What Are You in For?: Played with; everyone in Shawshank claims to be innocent of whatever crime got them there. There is a purpose for this, as a fellow inmate could report your confession to buy himself a reduced sentence. When Red confesses to Andy that he actually did commit the murder that landed him there, it's a sign that he trusts Andy completely to not use it against him.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_56434ecd	type	Music for Courage
The Shawshank Redemption / int_56434ecd	comment	Music for Courage: Andy plays an opera record over the prison's PA system.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Shawshank Redemption / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: In a scene set in 1949, Andy refers to "the IRS." The organization did exist at that time, but it was known as the Bureau of Internal Revenue until 1953. Calling it that probably would have confused contemporary viewers a little, though (Red is quite correct to call it that in a later scene set in 1966).
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
The Shawshank Redemption / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The movie makes several changes to the novella to keep the story moving. There are four wardens mentioned in the novella over the years Dufresne is in Shawshank — in order they were George Dunahy, Greg Stammas, Samuel Norton and Rich Gonyar. Only Norton is dealt with in the film adaptation. The movie decides to kill off Tommy, while the novella simply sees him transferred. In the novella, Andy sold off his assets before going into prison and invested them with the help of a friend on the outside. This subplot is eliminated in the movie, in which Andy simply steals all the money he'd laundered for Norton, making the revenge that much sweeter (both for him and the audience). Several characters are combined. Chief Normaden, the Native American inmate who Andy briefly shared a cell with in the book (and who held up Andy's progress scraping the wall by a few months), was cut from the movie. In the novella, Andy required two rock hammers to complete the task. Red narrated that the first was "worn down to the nub." The stage version is mostly based on the film, but makes some more changes, including a couple that return closer to the novella. The wardens are condensed down to one, like the movie, but this time it's Stammas, not Norton. Andy keeps his Rita Hayworth poster throughout. Andy has his own assets rather than stealing the warden's embezzled funds, again like the novella.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
The Shawshank Redemption / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: Tommy blaming himself for Andy being placed in solitary confinement, and Andy blaming himself for his wife leaving him.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Shawshank Redemption / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: The Warden protecting Andy from the Sisters is purely pragmatic — Andy can't manage the money if he's in the infirmary — but he does let Andy write letters asking for money for the library, and also lets him keep the money they give him to buy books and build the library. It wasn't exactly peanuts, the initial $200 is equivalent to roughly $1700 in 2018. Notably, they send him a check but it would not have been made out to Andy since he can't cash it. It would have been made out to the prison, so there's nothing stopping the Warden from just keeping the money or using it for something else. That said, he needs to keep Andy happy for his own financial purposes.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_5da37ab5	type	Triumphant Reprise
The Shawshank Redemption / int_5da37ab5	comment	Triumphant Reprise: The same melody played when Andy is led through the prison doors is played again later when Red finds out that Andy managed to get past the border.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_60492b98	type	Have You Told Anyone Else?
The Shawshank Redemption / int_60492b98	comment	Have You Told Anyone Else?: Tommy's murder at the hands of Captain Hadley and Warden Norton is a variant (more like, "Would you be willing to tell someone else?" Even though the other prisoners know about Andy's innocence, they have no power to tell anyone outside of the prison, and they have no real evidence beyond their words anyway, which aren't believable.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Shawshank Redemption / int_6116ca8d	comment	Hellhole Prison: A constant theme, along with how it becomes home after a while despite it.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_61904aea	type	Admiring the Poster
The Shawshank Redemption / int_61904aea	comment	Admiring the Poster: Invoked and subverted. Andy Dufresne wants people to think this trope is in play, and it helps that he changes posters as time passes, but it's really to hide the tunnel he digs on the cell wall.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_6267a414	type	Stamp of Rejection
The Shawshank Redemption / int_6267a414	comment	Stamp of Rejection: We see Red's two requests for parole getting a rejected stamp after the respective hearings and the final one, after the third hearing, getting stamped with APPROVED.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
The Shawshank Redemption / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper/Psycho for Hire: Capt. Byron Hadley, the warden's right-hand bully — if you cross him, you have one-in-a-million chance to survive and 1% chance your death will be anything less than torture. To be on the safe side, don't talk to Hadley about his wife. Or better yet, don't do anything near, with, or concerning Hadley; his wrath will fall upon you.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Shawshank Redemption / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Hadley and Norton each have wives, Hadley has kids as mentioned in the rooftop scene, and Norton mentions his wife made the needlepoint used to conceal the safe. A shot of his wife's photo is visible as Norton loads his gun just before he shoots himself. However, while Hadley is ready to defend his wife's honor when he thinks Andy insulted her, Warden Norton only comments on his wife in passing, so his attachment to her remains murky.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_6404635	type	Dramatic Shattering
The Shawshank Redemption / int_6404635	comment	Dramatic Shattering: Norton shoots himself in the head to avoid being arrested at the end, and the bullet smashes the window behind him.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The Shawshank Redemption / int_65acf9db	comment	After ordering the murder of Tommy Williams due to his knowledge of who actually killed Andy's wife and her lover, Warden Norton visits Andy Dufresne in solitary confinement, where he threatens to not only have him "cast down with the sodomites" if he pulls out of his money-laundering scheme, but also threatens to destroy everything that Andy had made to make Shawshank a better place, which included threatening to close down the prison library and subsequently burn all the books. Following his visit, Norton gives Andy another month in solitary confinement, and the look on his face following Norton's visit is simply soul-crushing.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Shawshank Redemption / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Norton seems to have a point when he shoots down Andy's hopes of finding Blatch and getting a retrial. As he points out, even if they did manage to track down Blatch, he was hardly likely to own up to two murders and earn himself a life sentence. However, the trope is subverted because acquitting Andy doesn't require convicting Blatch. Andy would just need to establish reasonable doubt, which could be done by digging up Blatch's employment records at the golf course, combined with Tommy's testimony. By dismissing even the possibility of Andy getting a new trial, he was indeed being "deliberately obtuse." This is of course confirmed when he has Tommy killed.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
The Shawshank Redemption / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Some of Andy's final words to the Warden. Also some of Andy's words to Red before the latter decides to go to Mexico. Red also echoes Andy's earlier statement of "Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'" as a means to realize it is time to embrace hope. Red when he chooses to flee to Mexico. He carves his name by Brooks's in the halfway house, then packs his suitcase and leaves. Some of his words from there echo his own from one of his talks with Andy, and Brooks' words from his suicide letter.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Shawshank Redemption / int_6d332aea	comment	One of the cops shouts, "Make it easy on yourself, Norton!" seconds before he decides to do just that.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_6e70b12b	type	Nominal Importance
The Shawshank Redemption / int_6e70b12b	comment	Nominal Importance: Played With - the rest of the 8-man band bar Andy and Red were never introduced and we only see them as "those guys Andy and Red hang out with" (with the exception of Heywood, who serves as something of a comic relief). They actually do have names, as they are mentioned by Red as he takes bets on his "horse" (everyone seems to think Red's choice of Andy breaking down in prison is a rather poor one). Ranked in order of relative importance after Andy, Red, and Heywood: The big guy who looks like Tom Waits and speaks in an authoritative voice is Floyd. The serious-looking one (who told Brooks to "calm the fuck down") is Jigger. The calm-looking one usually sporting a denim jacket is Ernie. He's the one who wanted a pool table. The big guy with a vaguely Italian look is Snooze. He's the one who accused Heywood of soiling his trousers when confronted by Brooks. The one with the glasses is Skeet.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_6f8b835d	type	One Size Fits All
The Shawshank Redemption / int_6f8b835d	comment	One Size Fits All: Andy steals one of the warden's suits prior to his escape, and wears it the next day when he withdraws money from the bank. Andy is noticeably taller than the warden, yet the suit fits him like it was tailored for him.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
The Shawshank Redemption / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: Played straight with most of the prison population, but makes sense given the time period. Pretty common in prisons even today. The prisoners make bets with cigarettes as the winning pool in their first scene.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_71268450	type	Adaptation Title Change
The Shawshank Redemption / int_71268450	comment	Adaptation Title Change: The title was shortened from the novella's Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_71541463	type	Meadow Run
The Shawshank Redemption / int_71541463	comment	Meadow Run: They're old men, so running is a bit much to expect, but Red and Andy spot each other across the beach at Zihuatanejo, walk, and embrace.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_72e0023f	type	Invoked Trope
The Shawshank Redemption / int_72e0023f	comment	Andy copes with the monotonous reality of his imprisonment by carving little stone figurines. There is more to it than his fascination with art. He purposefully invokes the trope to avoid suspicion while secretly using the carving hammer to dig out a tunnel and escape.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Shawshank Redemption / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The back cover of the movie's VHS tape features an embrace between the attractive Mrs. Dufresne and her lover... two characters who are out of the picture within the film's first five minutes.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
The Shawshank Redemption / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: When Andy leaves the warden's office, it seems like he's given up hope and is planning to kill himself. A few minutes later you see the same sequence of events with a few more details showing how he was putting his escape plan into action.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
The Shawshank Redemption / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: A possible reason for Red's Race Lift. There are literally two other non-white characters with speaking parts. It's particularly noticeable given the setting, as American prisons have had disproportionately large black populations for much of the twentieth century, although Maine, the state in which the film is set, does have a black population well below the national average.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
The Shawshank Redemption / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: Hadley beats a man to death for crying, beats Bogs until he's paralyzed for life, and shoots Tommy and frames it as a failed escape attempt for agreeing to testify to Andy's innocence. He also threatens to have Andy "accidentally" fall off the roof.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Shawshank Redemption / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'." "We're all innocent in here." "Rehabilitated." "Brooks Was Here" "His Judgement Cometh and that Right Soon...."
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_758c3034	type	Prison Rape
The Shawshank Redemption / int_758c3034	comment	Prison Rape: The "Sisters"
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_75e2bf23	type	Chiaroscuro
The Shawshank Redemption / int_75e2bf23	comment	Chiaroscuro: Half of Norton's face is lost in darkness as he discusses Andy's future with Tommy, the only person with evidence of Andy's innocence.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_779009b5	type	Beware the Quiet Ones
The Shawshank Redemption / int_779009b5	comment	Beware the Quiet Ones: Andy tends to keep himself to himself, even after the other prisoners begin warming up to him, and only ever shares meaningful conversations with Red. However, he is able to at least put up one hell of a fight whenever the Sisters get him cornered, even breaking one of the gang's nose, and after having been kicked one too many times while he was down, he proceeds to set into motion a chain of events that absolutely ruins the lives of those responsible for his misery (namely Warden Norton and Hadley), including finding ways to gloat about his victory even after he's disappeared from Shawshank. And, whether he actually committed the double murder for which he was convicted or not, he at the very least may have intended to, although his memory is fuzzy and he says that he most likely just wanted to scare them.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_77d494f0	type	Not Used to Freedom
The Shawshank Redemption / int_77d494f0	comment	Not Used to Freedom: Brooks hangs himself because he can't cope with freedom after 50 years in prison.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_7881f335	type	Chekhov's Armoury
The Shawshank Redemption / int_7881f335	comment	Chekhov's Armoury: Andy's "one-bunk Hilton" prison cell, starting with... The Rock Hammer, which he uses to dig his way through the wall. Andy beginning to carve his name in the wall is what leads him to discovering that he can slowly dig through it. The Bible, which Warden Norton nearly takes from Andy, but then gives back, never knowing that it contained said rock hammer. The Chess Set. Andy takes it with him during his escape, and mentions it to Red in his final letter before the latter heads to Mexico. The posters on Andy's wall. He uses them to cover up the hole he carves out.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_7a10d16a	type	Divorce in Reno
The Shawshank Redemption / int_7a10d16a	comment	Divorce in Reno: Andy's disloyal wife wants a divorce. Andy's response — "I'll see you in hell before I'll see you in Reno" — is part of what convinces the jury that he killed her. (Reno was then a divorce Mecca in the days when no-fault divorce was rare.)
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_7a848962	type	Prison Changes People
The Shawshank Redemption / int_7a848962	comment	Prison Changes People: After spending a lifetime at Shawshank, Brooks is left totally adrift when he's finally released and finds himself unable to cope with his new existence. For a while, he seriously considers committing another crime so he can get sent back to prison - but in the end, he settles for killing himself instead. Red experiences this as well when he finally gets out, to the point that his supervisor at work is clearly annoyed by his habit of asking permission for every bathroom break.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_7f38c0cd	type	An Offer You Can't Refuse
The Shawshank Redemption / int_7f38c0cd	comment	An Offer You Can't Refuse: Norton does this to Andy if Andy tries to back off from contributing to his scams. The threats include transfer to a cell block where the Sisters would rape him, and the destruction of Andy's library. Andy does initially go along with this, but then it's subverted hard when Andy decides to pull a Screw This, I'm Outta Here.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
The Shawshank Redemption / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: Andy has one after the warden blows off his request for a new trial. One can hardly blame him — he's been in prison close to twenty years for a crime he didn't commit, and Norton just killed his only glimmer of hope for getting out.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Shawshank Redemption / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Captain Hadley might have just been an unusually harsh prison guard (a job that requires at least a little harshness) until he beats a prisoner to death (albeit unintentionally) for crying. Against everyone's expectations, Andy makes it through his first night in prison without losing his cool. The next morning, he's the only one who bothers to ask the name of the inmate that Hadley beat to death. A secondary example for Andy comes when he tells Captain Hadley how to avoid paying taxes on the money he inherited, offering to set it up for him and asking only for a few beers for himself and his friends (after almost getting thrown off the roof by Hadley.) That's Andy: audacious, brilliant, smooth-talking and compassionate, all at once. When he first meets the new inmates, Warden Norton sums up his philosophy as, "I believe in two things: discipline and The Bible." Soon after saying this, he snidely tells the inmates that they now belong to him, and he looks on with a straight face as Hadley beats a prisoner in front of him. After being introduced as a quiet, almost fearful, interview subject of the parole board, Red is a cocky smuggler who makes book. Then, when the other prisoners egg on the fresh fish and start cheering when Fat Ass finally breaks, Red just looks on quietly, mournfully.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
The Shawshank Redemption / int_8042e814	comment	Andy goes out and gets drunk at the beginning of the film when his wife demands a divorce. When he arranges for the convicts to get beer later in the film (something that almost gets him thrown off the roof for his trouble), he declines a bottle for himself, saying he gave up drinking. Even Heywood finds it rather funny.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
The Shawshank Redemption / int_805deb6e	comment	Small Role, Big Impact: Elmo Blatch - less than a minute of screen time, his only line in a single take and yet he holds the key (so to speak) to the main plotline.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_80ed8406	type	Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough
The Shawshank Redemption / int_80ed8406	comment	Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough: A non-military example in the forms of Warden Norton and Captain Hadley, made most apparent during the dressing-down of the new inmates. While Norton coldly explains the procedures to them, he leaves it to Hadley to slug a prisoner that gets cocky.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_8163e2bb	type	Dramatic Drop
The Shawshank Redemption / int_8163e2bb	comment	Dramatic Drop: Norton, when he finds the hole Andy made in his Bible to hide the rock hammer, and promptly drops said Bible.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_83445b04	type	Pun
The Shawshank Redemption / int_83445b04	comment	He also hides the tunnel in his cell's wall behind the poster of Rita Hayworth, and later Marilyn Monroe and Raquel Welch — a literal cover-up.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The Shawshank Redemption / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: This movie was criticized for portraying prison guards as using beatings to control inmates, but prison guards have been known to do exactly that in real life, and such things would have been even more widespread during the time in which the film takes place.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Shawshank Redemption / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Elmo Blatch, the man who really murdered Andy's wife and her lover, is never spoken of again after Tommy's story.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Shawshank Redemption / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: An example involving actual bait; Andy finds a grub of some sort in his first prison meal. As he's examining it, he has the following conversation with a crusty old con who's been in prison 50 years and may or may not have a few screws loose: Norton asking Tommy whether he'd be willing to testify that Andy is innocent. He doesn't let him do it- in fact, he has him shot. After Red is released, he narrates about not being used to freedom and considers committing another crime to get back in prison; not unlike Brooks before him. He's seen looking through the window of a pawn shop where several guns are on display, the camera then pans to a compass. In the next scene Red is in his halfway house with the compass, which he later uses to direct him to Andy's hidden stash.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Shawshank Redemption / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: The guards deliberately subject new convicts to this, marching them in freshly hosed down and deloused, naked and carrying their clothes, in front of all the other prisoners. Andy subjects his tormentors to these in the end. Norton kills himself rather than go down for his crimes, and "They say Hadley cried like a baby when they came for him."
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_89fab6b	type	Desires Prison Life
The Shawshank Redemption / int_89fab6b	comment	Desires Prison Life: Brooks sees prison as his whole life after spending 50 years there, so he even tries to attack a fellow inmate in an attempt to avoid being paroled. When he's released anyway, he soon kills himself.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_8a23f244	type	Useful Book
The Shawshank Redemption / int_8a23f244	comment	Useful Book: Andy hides the rock hammer he uses to dig his tunnel with inside the Bible in his cell.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Shawshank Redemption / int_8a817c2a	comment	This was Andy's stock in trade for his whole stint in prison. He dropped his mop and walked up to Hadley to ask "Do you trust your wife?" in order to offer his services as an accountant, only asking for beer in return. He baits Boggs into merely almost murdering him. He demands a library and finally gets one. He badgers Tommy into bettering himself. He escapes from prison and takes down Norton and Hadley..
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_8aa496df	type	Rape Discretion Shot
The Shawshank Redemption / int_8aa496df	comment	Rape Discretion Shot: The camera shows "The Sisters" beating up Dufresne, but pans away from the actual rape.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_8b9c512e	type	Down the Drain
The Shawshank Redemption / int_8b9c512e	comment	Down the Drain: Andy's escape through a Shawshank sewer pipe to freedom.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_8cb59aaa	type	Bathroom Control
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_8cd96e6c	type	Nasal Trauma
The Shawshank Redemption / int_8cd96e6c	comment	Nasal Trauma: Andy attempts to fend off the Sisters during an attempted Prison Rape in the projection room of the prison cinema, breaking Rooster MacBride's nose with a heavy film reel. Unfortunately, the Sisters take this personally...
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Shawshank Redemption / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: If anyone deserved to be brutally beaten to the point of being crippled for life, it was the sadistic Serial Rapist Bogs Diamond.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Shawshank Redemption / int_90e31482	comment	The Sisters repeatedly administer these to Dufresne, driving him deeper and deeper into despair until he becomes useful to Byron and Norton as a tax accountant. The Sisters administer one more beatdown that nearly kills Andy, Byron administers a huge dose of Bogs's own medicine to him (see Laser-Guided Karma above), and the Sisters finally let him alone.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Shawshank Redemption / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Andy's job for his first few years is at the laundry. Norton moves him to the library... so he can start laundering money. What does Warden Norton use as a hidey-hole for his shady records and ill-gotten gains? A space in the wall behind his wife's Christian embroidery.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Shawshank Redemption / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Early in the movie, Bogs gets one when he is about to be paralyzed by Hadley. Warden Norton gets a severe one before even being busted on his crimes. He freaks out at the fact that Andy is missing from his cell, going into an intense rant about how it's a conspiracy that everyone's in on. After THAT, word gets out about Norton's corruption. Then, instead of going into another rant or anything like that, he just shoots himself before the police can get into his office door.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Shawshank Redemption / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Norton initially comes across as stern and harsh, but well-meaning. Not for long, however, as he turns out to be a man willing to abuse his power as warden to keep his dirty secrets under wraps.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_970c790a	comment	The villain Warden Norton. With the police banging on the door, ready to take him away for all his crimes, he decides to shoot himself instead.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
The Shawshank Redemption / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: The surprise inspection scene is so much more tense on subsequent viewings. The first time, all you get is a sense of awkwardness and a vague feeling that Andy is hiding something. The second time around, you cringe at exactly how close the Warden came to finding or walking off with Andy's hammer, or discovering the hole behind his poster. In a more general sense, you get to see just how much time and planning Andy has put towards his escape and his life afterwards.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_97b4c1fd	type	Cut Himself Shaving
The Shawshank Redemption / int_97b4c1fd	comment	Cut Himself Shaving: Invoked by Hadley when he prepares to thrown Andy off of a roof, proclaiming that Andy's about to have himself an accident.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
The Shawshank Redemption / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": The prison gang tarring the roof starts to work even faster when they realize that Hadley is about to push Andy off the roof.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
The Shawshank Redemption / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: A large passage in the novella consists of Red enumerating all of the things that might have gone wrong with Andy's plan, but somehow did not. The movie, to its credit, tries to explain some of these problems (such as where Andy hid the rock hammer, or how he secured a change of clothes).
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
The Shawshank Redemption / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: Warden Norton briefly considers fighting to the end against the officers busting down his door in the climax, but changes his mind and chooses a simpler solution.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_9af54b9d	type	Double Take
The Shawshank Redemption / int_9af54b9d	comment	Double Take: Heywood gives a nonverbal version of this to Red saying, "Guy likes to play chess. Let's get him some rocks." (Andy expressed interest in making his own chess set out of rocks he didn't have.) Heywood nods agreeingly, then turns to look at Red confused.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The Shawshank Redemption / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The entire reason Andy is in Shawshank is because Elmo Blatch killed Andy's wife and her lover. However, he's never encountered in the film itself, except in a flashback as Tommy tells his story.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_9c550e26	type	Word Salad Title
The Shawshank Redemption / int_9c550e26	comment	Word Salad Title: One of the reasons the movie had a poor box office performance. To even vaguely understand it, you have to know that Shawshank is a prison... but it's a fictional one, so the only way you'd know that is by seeing the movie or reading the book in the first place.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
The Shawshank Redemption / int_9cad69bf	comment	Depraved Homosexual: Defied. The Sisters are a nasty prison gang with a particular love of raping new inmates. As Red puts it when Andy remarks to their gaze that he's not homosexual: In the DVD commentary the director details how the Sisters are supposed to represent the depravity of rape in general rather than presenting homosexuality as being wrong, seeing as rape in prison is about sadism and dominance rather than physical attraction. The Sisters are especially disgusting in this regard. In the book, Stephen King is careful to draw a distinction between heterosexuals who just 'come to an arrangement', actual homosexuals, and the 'sisters' (who are just depraved rapists).
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Shawshank Redemption / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Red describing Andy's dreams of getting out as "nothing but a shitty pipe dream." Andy escapes by crawling through a pipe full of excrement in the middle of the night. At one point Andy sits on the floor of his cell, staring at the poster on his wall. When they let Bogs out of solitary after he beats Andy so badly that he ends up in the hospital, the guard says "Time's up, Bogs"... a guard who knew exactly what Bogs had waiting for him when he got back to his cell... Andy's line during the library scene, to Heywood (referring to The Count of Monte Cristo): And much like Edmond Dantes, Andy escapes his prison through a hidden tunnel and takes revenge on those who have wronged him - although in this case, Warden Norton wasn't the man responsible for Andy getting sent to prison, but he is responsible for keeping him there. And then there's the record Andy plays: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, which is about a servant outwitting his master, and he specifically plays the duetino Sull'aria, in which Susanna and the Contessa make their plan to dupe the Count. Listen very closely when Red talks about having "long nights in stir," and after the thunder cracks, you can hear the sound of Andy attacking the pipe with a rock. In many of the later scenes, Andy has very noticeable dark circles under his eyes that get more intense the older he gets. One could conceivably pass this off as the effects of the stress from the Warden's pointedly cruel treatment, but it's actually from all those sleepless nights he spends digging away at the wall of his cell. When Andy is giving Hadley some taxation advice, the latter is very distrustful, and angrily accuses him of wanting to get him locked up in prison alongside him. By the end of the film, Andy's shenanigans result in the public learning about Hadley's abusive treatment of the Shawshank prisoners, and his last scene has him being read his Miranda rights as he's being arrested. The scene where Andy's cell is being searched is absolutely loaded with this. Attentive viewers will start to suspect the significance of Andy's Bible and the Rita Hayworth poster. Pay particular attention to the shot where Andy is facing the camera with a look of pure panic on his face, while prominently framed on the left-hand side of the screen is the Hayworth poster. Then there's this line from Norton, which gets a direct callback later on:
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
The Shawshank Redemption / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: Red hears that Captain Hadley "sobbed like a little girl" when they sent him to Shawshank as an inmate, and considering the way he treated the prisoners under his care, he had every reason to.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_a18042f1	comment	Left the Background Music On: The opening music turns into the radio in Andy's car as he drinks liquor and contemplates murdering his wife and her lover.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Shawshank Redemption / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: A muted version. Heywood taunts Fat Ass until the poor man breaks down crying in pursuit of winning his bet, but he doesn't actually want Fat Ass hurt, and finding out the next morning that the man died takes a lot of the joy out of his victory.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_a2ba7393	type	Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes
The Shawshank Redemption / int_a2ba7393	comment	Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes: Andy is obviously suffering from this when Warden Norton opens the door to talk to him after Andy's spent a month in the hole.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
The Shawshank Redemption / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: Andy and Red are both imprisoned at Shawshank for murder, and the story sees both of them finding redemption in their own ways. Red (who's guilty) comes to honestly atone for his crimes, and ultimately convinces the parole board that he deserves a second chance at life. Andy (who's innocent) still blames himself for indirectly getting his wife killed by driving her into the arms of a man marked for death, but he proves himself to be a genuinely decent man with his good deeds behind bars, and ultimately escapes from Shawshank when he decides that he's earned his second chance at life.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Shawshank Redemption / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: When we see Norton having a polite conversation with a young inmate who wants to testify on Andy's behalf, it seems like Norton might be willing to give the guy a chance after all. Then suddenly a guard shoots said young inmate dead, apparently on Norton's orders.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_a61fc28e	type	Desperate Plea for Home
The Shawshank Redemption / int_a61fc28e	comment	Desperate Plea for Home: Early in the film, the seasoned convicts "go fishing" for new arrivals, placing bets on which one of the "new fish" will break down crying over their first night in prison. Heywood eventually manages to badger the man next-door to him into a breakdown, prompting the poor guy to start screaming that he wants to go home; before long, he's crying for his mother as well. The breakdown ends with Captain Hadley storming onto the cellblock, dragging the man out of his cell, and delivering a fatal beating.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Red is summoned to a parole hearing three times. He is finally granted parole the third time, near the end of the film. The "I'm innocent. Everyone here is innocent." gag is played three times, only the last time the prisoners learn Andy actually is innocent. "You mean for real innocent?"
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Shawshank Redemption / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The actual murderer of Andy's wife. He was apparently locked up in another prison for an unrelated crime when he confessed to doing it. We don't find out what becomes of him afterwards. The lackeys in the Sisters group as well, in the movie version. Bogs received his Laser-Guided Karma but the viewer isn't told what happens to the rest of them, other than they "never bothered Andy again."
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_a73c667a	comment	Subverted when Andy gives his friend Red a harmonica as a present hoping it will cheer him up. It reminds Red of the free days too much to serve as solace, so he avoids playing it.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Red and Fat Ass, although in a Freeze-Frame Bonus we see that Red's name is Ellis Redding.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Shawshank Redemption / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Bogs is rendered a paraplegic, reduced to drinking his food from a straw. With the way he looks at Hadley as he is taken away to a prison hospital, he knows that he cannot say anything lest his sister friends suffer the same fate as himself.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_a90f0639	type	Entitled Bastard
The Shawshank Redemption / int_a90f0639	comment	Entitled Bastard: Byron Hadley. Red finds it incredible that Hadley has the nerve to bitch about inheriting thousands of dollars.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_a9645365	type	Man Hug
The Shawshank Redemption / int_a9645365	comment	Man Hug: Andy and Red upon being reunited in the final moments of the film.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_ac5364fe	type	Chekhov's Hobby
The Shawshank Redemption / int_ac5364fe	comment	Chekhov's Hobby: Had Andy picked up any other hobby than rock-collecting, he might not have gotten too far.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
The Shawshank Redemption / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: Andy delivers one in response to Red's Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids! speech that cuts Red to the bone.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Shawshank Redemption / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: A blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in the shower scene when Bogs first propositions Andy. When Bogs enters the shower and stands by an inmate while staring at him, said inmate pulls a Screw This, I'm Outta Here. Bogs has this just before his No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Hadley, only able to voice a weak-sounding "What?" before the beatdown is administered. Andy has this twice when his cell is being searched for contraband. The first time is during the actual search as we see him clearly worried about them finding something, and the second is when the Warden nearly makes off with Andy's Bible. We later find out the reason why he was so concerned: if they had ripped down the poster or opened Andy's Bible, they would have found clear evidence of his escape attempt. Tommy goes blank when he learns Andy's in prison for "greasing his wife and some golf pro"... He had a former cellmate... Several in a row on Warden Samuel Norton's part. The way he looks out the window when hearing the sirens go off, likely realizing a prisoner is missing. The way he looks at the tunnel he discovers by accident when throwing a rock at a poster. The look on his face when he sees a newspaper saying "Corruption, Murder at Shawshank." Also, the look on his face when he sees a Bible with a hole in its pages in which Andy hid the rock hammer with which he dug his way out, likely implying that Norton realized the connection between Andy having escaped and himself being busted. Bonus points for being so shocked that he drops his Bible.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
The Shawshank Redemption / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: Andy in Shawshank penitentiary: he is an educated and innocent man who has to live with violent criminals. Life in prison institutionalizes people, to the point where they can't adapt to life in freedom anymore. Played for drama with Brooks and mirrored by Red, but with a subverted outcome.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Shawshank Redemption / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Hadley says "On your feet!" quite a bit.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_b0c4bf9b	type	Luxury Prison Suite
The Shawshank Redemption / int_b0c4bf9b	comment	Luxury Prison Suite: Downplayed. Andy's cell is no nicer than the rest, but he gets a private cell and some leeway as far as contraband goes. Norton later refers to it as his "one-bunk Hilton," so it's presumably a sweeter setup than most prisoners have.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_b2d56	type	Arson, Murder, and Admiration
The Shawshank Redemption / int_b2d56	comment	Arson, Murder, and Admiration: Red describes Tommy Williams as a "Young punk, Mr. Rock and Roll, cocky as hell." He then states that everyone liked him from the start.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_b3b162c8	type	Honesty Is the Best Policy
The Shawshank Redemption / int_b3b162c8	comment	Honesty Is the Best Policy: Red wins parole when he's finally open and honest with the parole board after multiple failures where he tried to tell them what they wanted to hear.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_b7c312ff	type	Cacophony Cover-Up
The Shawshank Redemption / int_b7c312ff	comment	Cacophony Cover Up: Andy's strikes against the sewage pipe are synchronized with thunderstorms during a heavy rain.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_b9c673a6	type	Market-Based Title
The Shawshank Redemption / int_b9c673a6	comment	Market-Based Title: Released as "Life Sentence" in Spain and "Dreams of Liberty" in the rest of Latin America.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
The Shawshank Redemption / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: Tommy makes it crystal-clear. Andy is "for-real innocent," but the Warden is able to thwart his quest for justice.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Shawshank Redemption / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Do not mention money when talking to Warden Norton. Or call him obtuse.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_bdc94cd9	type	Compressed Adaptation
The Shawshank Redemption / int_bdc94cd9	comment	Compressed Adaptation: The novella took place over thirty years, compressed to twenty in the film. Other small examples pop up besides this: for example, Red spends several months hunting for the volcanic glass rock in the novella, but in the film appears to find it after only a few hours. Justified, as in the book, Andy only tells Red about the rock as an incidental aside while telling him about how it has the key to a safety deposit box with the rest of his new life in it, and only says "it's in a hayfield in Buxton," which is one of any number of hayfields (it's sheer luck that Red decides to look for it, and Andy thinks to leave a letter for him after getting out). In the movie, Andy gives Red specific directions on how to find it.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_beb8cab5	type	Dressing to Die
The Shawshank Redemption / int_beb8cab5	comment	Dressing to Die: Brooks puts on his suit and straightens his tie in the mirror before hanging himself.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_c00afbbd	type	With Due Respect
The Shawshank Redemption / int_c00afbbd	comment	With Due Respect: One of the reasons Andy is able to carry out his plan is because he is always perfectly respectful to the Warden and the guards. Thus they never give his cell a thorough search.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_c222c94f	type	Hiding Behind Religion
The Shawshank Redemption / int_c222c94f	comment	What does Warden Norton use as a hidey-hole for his shady records and ill-gotten gains? A space in the wall behind his wife's Christian embroidery.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Shawshank Redemption / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: "You strike me as a particularly icy and remorseless man, Mr. Dufresne.". Well, yeah. He's remorseless because he has nothing to show remorse for; he's innocent.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
The Shawshank Redemption / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Andy Dufresne himself, of course, using his knowledge of biology to explain to one of the Sisters why he wouldn't be able to help it if he "bit" after they hit him in the head, and his knowledge of geology to figure out from the weakness of the wall how he could successfully tunnel his way out. He's no slouch in hand-to-hand combat either, it's obvious that it's only superior numbers that let the Sisters get the better of him, and even then he manages to fight them off a number of times. In the novella, the Sisters soon decide to leave Andy alone; the Sisters like easy prey and Andy fights like a badger.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Shawshank Redemption / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Tommy's story about a cellmate who may have killed Andy's wife and her lover suggests Andy can clear his name. Unfortunately, Warden Norton has other ideas.... It's direct and extremely brutal in the scene itself. Warden Norton's exchange with Tommy strongly suggests that he's willing to move on Andy's innocence. As soon as Tommy makes Norton sure, Hadley shoots and kills him from a guard tower. Right after, Norton visits Andy in solitary, in one incredibly nasty Kick the Dog scene.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
The Shawshank Redemption / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: "And James Whitmore as Brooks".
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_c45e0fea	type	Adaptational Timespan Change
The Shawshank Redemption / int_c45e0fea	comment	Adaptational Timespan Change: The time frame is cut from 30 years (1947-1977) in the novella to 19 (1947-1966). An actor's age range can only be stretched so far.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Shawshank Redemption / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Two of Red's friends in prison are named 'Heywood' and 'Floyd'. Heywood Floyd was one of the main characters in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Red's cell number is 237. The dirt disposal method is one of the ones used in The Great Escape. The Rita Hayworth movie watched by the prisoners is Gilda. Rita Hayworth in Gilda is Andy's first poster, followed by Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch, then Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C. The alias Andy invents, "Randall Stephens". "Randall" after Randall Flagg, a recurring villain in Stephen King's booksnote best known as the Big Bad of The Stand and as Roland Deschain's nemesis "Stephens" after Stephen King. In the novella, the name he makes up is "Peter Stephens". To launder Warden Norton's funds, Andy calls the false person of Randall Stephens "second cousin to Harvey the Rabbit".
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
The Shawshank Redemption / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: Norton kills Tommy. As soon as he's out of the hole, Andy escapes.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_c913ec99	type	Felony Murder
The Shawshank Redemption / int_c913ec99	comment	Tommy is a thief convicted of stealing a TV and breaking/entering, yet he's sent to a maximum security prison alongside murderers and other violent felons. The stage version fixes this by making him a car thief who accidentally hit someone in the course of a robbery, which presumably got him a Felony Murder conviction.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Shawshank Redemption / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: "Fat Ass" (the one Hadley beat up to death) is never actually named. "What was his name?" Nobody knows, Andy. He's even called "Fat Ass" in the credits and the closed captioning.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_cb73b96	type	Cope by Creating
The Shawshank Redemption / int_cb73b96	comment	Cope by Creating: Andy copes with the monotonous reality of his imprisonment by carving little stone figurines. There is more to it than his fascination with art. He purposefully invokes the trope to avoid suspicion while secretly using the carving hammer to dig out a tunnel and escape. Subverted when Andy gives his friend Red a harmonica as a present hoping it will cheer him up. It reminds Red of the free days too much to serve as solace, so he avoids playing it.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_cd33644f	type	Incriminating Indifference
The Shawshank Redemption / int_cd33644f	comment	Incriminating Indifference: Andy comes off as an icy and remorseless killer at his trial. This is because he is in fact innocent.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
The Shawshank Redemption / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: For four minutes, one opera record played over the loudspeakers turns Shawshank Prison into something like Heaven for the men inside.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_d3427bf9	type	PerpetualTourist
The Shawshank Redemption / int_d3427bf9	comment	Perpetual Tourist: Andy does this after breaking out of prison.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_d3e99054	type	Hair Flip
The Shawshank Redemption / int_d3e99054	comment	Hair Flip: The prisoners are shown watching Gilda. When Rita Hayworth flips her hair back, the entire audience cheers and whistles.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Shawshank Redemption / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: A minor example: Andy gets Norton's dress shoes into his cell simply by wearing them after being assigned to clean them. This was Andy's stock in trade for his whole stint in prison. He dropped his mop and walked up to Hadley to ask "Do you trust your wife?" in order to offer his services as an accountant, only asking for beer in return. He baits Boggs into merely almost murdering him. He demands a library and finally gets one. He badgers Tommy into bettering himself. He escapes from prison and takes down Norton and Hadley..
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Shawshank Redemption / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Along with being a hypocrite in general, the Warden has a very subtle moment of this after Andy's escape. Compare this line from Andy's arrival at the prison... ...to this one near the end.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
The Shawshank Redemption / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Andy. Complete with a Chess Motif though mostly in retrospect when you realize that the same hobby that allowed Andy to make a chess board helped cover his escape.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_d6b5f05f	type	Friendship Moment
The Shawshank Redemption / int_d6b5f05f	comment	Friendship Moment: To show that life in prison isn't a complete nightmare, the inmates get a lot of moments to show that they care for and support one another, such as Heywood making it a point to walk over and offer Andy a beer as he sits to the side by himself, inviting him into the group. Andy and Red get a lot of these as they become Platonic Life-Partners.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_d78d5f96	type	Inconveniently Vanishing Exonerating Evidence
The Shawshank Redemption / int_d78d5f96	comment	Inconveniently Vanishing Exonerating Evidence: Variation. Andy had a gun and was (seemingly) planning on killing his wife and her lover, but decided against it and threw the gun into a river. Then someone else murdered his wife & her lover, and since they can't find his gun they can't test to see if the bullets match or not.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
The Shawshank Redemption / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Red is Irish in the book (hence the nickname), but played by Morgan Freeman in the movie. See Mythology Gag, above.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
The Shawshank Redemption / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment during the shower scene, when Bogs enters and stands beside an inmate while staring at him, said inmate pulls this to get away. Red says Andy decided on escaping once Tommy was killed.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Shawshank Redemption / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: At the climax, we're led to believe that Andy is planning suicide. He gives Red a dramatic speech about the choice between living and dying, he buys a length of rope from Heywood, and he fails to line up for roll-call the morning after, with a Discretion Shot of said guard's stunned face taking up the screen when he investigates his cell. Surprise! Andy actually escaped in the night. That big Rita Hayworth/Marilyn Monroe/Raquel Welch poster was covering up his escape tunnel the whole time, and he needed the rope to drag a bag of supplies behind him.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_dc031fde	type	Inelegant Blubbering
The Shawshank Redemption / int_dc031fde	comment	Inelegant Blubbering: Implied. We don't see it, but we are told that Hadley "sobbed like a little girl when they took him away."
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Shawshank Redemption / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence A man killed Andy's wife and her lover on the exact night that Andy was drunkenly stalking them with a loaded gun, using the a gun that was the exact same caliber as Andy's gun. Lampshaded by Andy and the prosecution in the opening scene. Tommy went from being Blatch's roommate to Andy's pupil. What are the odds? Even better, Blatch bragged about the entire incident with just enough details for Tommy to connect the dots when Red offhandedly mentions the crime.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Shawshank Redemption / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: While it's averted in the case of the sadistic and sociopathic Warden Norton and head guard Hadley, most of the prison guards are shown to be decent people who are just doing their jobs. Many are quite civil with Andy for helping them with their taxes.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Tommy Williams. He once shared a cell with the man who really killed Andy's wife, and he finally makes it clear to the audience that Andy is innocent. When Warden Norton has him assassinated to keep him quiet, Andy's anger galvanizes him into finally making his escape. Randall Stephens, the silent partner. The one with the bank account and the Social Security number, aka the identity Andy takes up for his new life.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Andy goes to prison for a crime he didn't commit and is stuck there for 19 years (while the guy who actually did it gets away with it), is repeatedly attacked by fellow inmates and guards alike, and then is thrown under the bus multiple times by the warden because of a perceived threat to reveal his embezzlement... but manages to escape and then follow his dream to go to the Pacific. Meanwhile, after Red has been in prison for 40 years for a crime he committed long ago and regrets, repeatedly denied parole, he is finally granted it and follows Andy, where they reunite in Zihuatanejo for possibly the most well-earned and most-deserved victory in cinematic history.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_f9977015	comment	My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours: Andy explains how he's laundering Norton's money to Red. He's invented a man on paper, because he knows how the system works. And that's just how the laundry starts.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Brooks is one of the most gentle prisoners at Shawshank (relatively speaking, at least). That doesn't stop him from holding a knife to Heywood's neck and even breaking the skin, all just to avoid leaving Shawshank.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: Andy participating in the running gag of everyone being innocent. Ironic in that he's (presumably) the only one who's actually innocent.
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The Shawshank Redemption / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: While all the prisoners of Shawshank silently listened to the opera Andy defiantly played over the loudspeakers, Heywood sarcastically asks if he couldn't have played something better, like Hank Williams. Once Andy actually gets the actual money and support for the prison library, he gets the place stocked with books and music...including Hank Williams, which Heywood is shown listening to. Andy goes out and gets drunk at the beginning of the film when his wife demands a divorce. When he arranges for the convicts to get beer later in the film (something that almost gets him thrown off the roof for his trouble), he declines a bottle for himself, saying he gave up drinking. Even Heywood finds it rather funny. At the beginning of the movie, when Andy introduces himself, Red notes that everyone here is innocent and Heywood says his lawyer fucked him. Later on, when Tommy admits to Breaking and Entering and asks what Andy did (as a retort to Andy saying that Tommy isn't a very good crook): When Andy plays a recording from The Marriage of Figaro over the prison loudspeakers and locks the door, Norton has Hadley and the other guards bust down the door and drag Andy away to solitary. In the climax, Norton locks himself in his office as the regular cops try to bust the door down and arrest him, and, without Hadley to do his dirty work, takes a different method of escape.
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The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Dressing to Die / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Every Man Has His Price / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Family-Values Villain / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Feedback Rule / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Films of 1990â€“1994 / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	First-Person Peripheral Narrator / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Fish out of Temporal Water / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Friend in the Black Market / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Gendered Insult / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Goodbye, Cruel World! / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Greaser Delinquents / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Great Escape / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Hair Flip / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Happy Rain / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	He Had a Name / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	He Knows Too Much / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Hellhole Prison / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Hiding Behind Religion / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Hit Them in the Pocketbook / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Hollywood New England / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Hope Is Scary / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Hope Springs Eternal / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	I Want My Mommy! / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Implausible Deniability / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Inconveniently Vanishing Exonerating Evidence / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Incriminating Indifference / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Insert Cameo / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Instant Thunder / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Invented Individual / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Karmic Trickster / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Lawful Evil / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Literal Metaphor / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Locked Room Mystery / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Lonely Piano Piece / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Longer-Than-Life Sentence / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Luxury Prison Suite / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Magical Negro / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Make an Example of Them / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Make It Look Like an Accident / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Make Sure He's Dead / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Man Hug / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Masquerading As the Unseen / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Miranda Rights / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Mistaken for Suicidal / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Motive = Conclusive Evidence / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Motive Misidentification / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Music for Courage / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Never Going Back to Prison / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	No Music Allowed / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	No Peripheral Vision / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Not Used to Freedom / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Ocean Awe / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Once More, with Clarity / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	One Last Smoke / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	One Size Fits All / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Orbital Shot / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Paper Tiger / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Pariah Prisoner / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Pet Rat / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Poster Patchup / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Prenatal Possessions / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Prison / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Prison Films / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Prison Rape / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Prisoner's Work / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Rape Discretion Shot / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Record Needle Scratch / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Road Apples / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Run for the Border / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Scheherezade Gambit / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Schlubby, Scummy Security Guard / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Sci-Fi Ghetto / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Shoo the Dog / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Sinister Whistling / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Skyward Scream / int_355f992
Sliding Scale of Film Obscurity	seeAlso	The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Spoiler Title / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Stamp of Rejection / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Stopped Caring / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Stranger in a Familiar Land / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Supporting Protagonist / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Surprisingly Moving Song / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Sweet and Sour Grapes / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Tantrum Throwing / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Taxman Takes the Winnings / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	The '40s / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	The '50s / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	The '60s / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	The Alcatraz / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	The Guards Must Be Crazy / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	The Old Convict / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	The Outside World / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	The Scrounger / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Tired of Running / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Title Confusion / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Triumphant Reprise / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Tropical Epilogue / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Useful Book / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Vindicated by Cable / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Wall Bang Her / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Wardens Are Evil / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	We Will Not Use Photoshop in the Future / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	What Are You in For? / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Will Not Be a Victim / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Word Salad Title / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Working on the Chain Gang / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	You Do NOT Want to Know / int_355f992
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Zany Scheme / int_355f992
theshawshankredemption	sameAs	The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption	hasFeature	Redemption in the Rain / int_355f992

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