The Shawshank Redemption: Difference between revisions

* [[The Ishmael]]: Red (moresomore so in the novella than the film).

* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: Hadley, the leader of the guards, ambushes and severely beats Boggs, who screams and cries for help the whole time. Seeing as ambushing and severely beating people was what Boggs took sadistic pleasure in, one can't help but feel satisifiedsatisfied when Red sums up the end result...

** What Byron administers to the pudgy new immateinmate that "wins" the New Fish Crying Lottery. {{spoiler|He doesn't survive, and his death is Dufresne's first hard lesson about life in prison: it's pretty cheap.}}

** [[Played With]] the rest of the 8-man band bar [[The Hero|Andy]] and [[The Lancer|Red]] were never introduced and we only see them as "those guys Andy and Red hang out with" (with the exception of Heywood, which serves as something of a comic relief). They actually ''do'' have names, though mentioned only in the credits and if you analyseanalyze the throwaway conversations. Ranked in order of relative importance after Andy, Red, and Heywood:

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Hadley agreeing to Andy's request for the beers could be interpreted as such, Red going so far as to describe his behaviourbehavior as "magnaminousmagnanimous". It's made particularly explicit in the novella, where Red points out that there was nothing stopping Hadley from throwing Andy off the roof and accepting his advice anyway.

* [[Red Herring]]: The parts leading to {{spoiler|the escape. Dufresne, whose innocence was kind of proven was just betrayed by the warden: his witness was assassinated and he was forced to labourlabor under the corrupt prison top brass to launder money. This way he had no chance of being bailed out of prison, and just when the audience is shown that he is innocent. Sad music was played. He got himself a rope. Go figure.}} By morning, {{spoiler|he did not respond to the roll call, and Red was surely already thinking that he took his own life.}} Instead, {{spoiler|he escaped. He decided that he had had enough and used his tunnel, which he presumably kept ''just in case'', and immediately assumed the false identity he had been forging for years. He sent the story to newspapers, had the entire Shawshank Prison corruption case exposed, and cashed in $370,000 of the warden's money before fleeing to a picturesque beach in Mexico. The rope, of course, was to hold his stuff while he was escaping.}} The fact that, up until that point, the audience was never informed in any way that {{spoiler|Dufresne was planning an escape}} made the [[Twist Ending]] (which by today's standards is [[It Was His Sled|not a twist at all]]) all the more glorious. All the [[Red Herring]]'ed scenes [[Once More, with Clarity|were played back]] during this revelation, highlighting the subtle details which we got wrong earlier.