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Deleted Unfortunate Implications entry: it's basically someone deliberately interpreting a remark about a group of evil rapists as a homophobic comment.
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* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: When Andy is describing his fantasies of Zihuatenejo, Red tells him to ignore them, describing them as "shitty pipe dreams." {{spoiler|Andy escapes to his dreams by crawling through a sewer pipe.}}
* [[It Was His Sled]]: {{spoiler|Andy escapes from Shawshank prison.}}
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: The scene where Andy plays opera music for the prison has been edited many times on [[YouTube]]. Said opera music has been replaced by various kinds of music, from pop music to heavy metal, and even by flea market ads. To be fair, the reactions of the prisoners and the warden made it pretty ripe for parody.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|The Warden ordering the death of a recently transferred con (Tommy) who has evidence of Andy's innocence, so that Andy will be forced to continue working at the prison.}}
** Also, Hadley crosses this when he beats an emotionally-overwhelmed prisoner to death.
* [[Rewatch Bonus]]: The surprise inspection scene. The ''tension''. {{spoiler|We weren't aware of Andy's digging-a-tunnel project by then. When the warden talks about the poster and almost forgot to return Andy's bible...}}
* [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped]]: Hope is a good thing.
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** {{spoiler|"So was Red."}}
** And there's {{spoiler|tears of joy for the entire finale.}}
* [[Vindicated by Cable]]: And how. Ted Turner loved this movie so much, he made sure it was playing on at least one of his cable networks every weekend for about a decade, thus rescuing it from obscurity. You can still find it on TBS or a similar channel, even 15 years later.
* [[The Woobie]]: Andy Dufresne himself, of course, given what he goes through, and {{spoiler|the point that he did not commit the double-murder he is in jail for.}}
** Don't forget Tommy. Poor kid works his ass off to make something of himself and is more than eager to help Andy. {{spoiler|Then he gets murdered by Hadley.}}
** Brooks however takes the cake: he's an absolutely sweet old man who has spent most of his life in prison, and has become so adjusted to it that he desperately tries to attack an inmate so he won't be forced to go on parole. When he goes back outside, everything's changed drastically since he was incarcerated, and that combined with his arthritis taking its toll on him, his employers at his new job being unsympathetic assholes, and his sleep being plagued with nightmares drive him to {{spoiler|take his own life}} due to it all being too much for him to handle.
* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: An embarrassingly large passage in the novella just 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, at least 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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