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* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: Had Andy picked up any other hobby than rock-collecting, he might not have gotten too far.
** Also Chess.
* [[Cacophony Cover
* [[Captivity Harmonica]]: Both lampshaded AND subverted. Andy gets Red a harmonica as a gift, and he blows a little on it, but doesn't play.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Andy.
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* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: Captain Hadley might have just been an unusually harsh prison guard (a job that pretty much requires at least a little harshness) until he {{spoiler|beats a prisoner to death for crying}}.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Captain Hadley. After Andy tells him he can help with his money problems, Hadley returns the favor by letting both the guards and the tar crew (consisting of the inmates Andy and Red knows) drink beer on the rooftop of the building they were tarring. He even steps this further in the very moment Boggs stepped into his cell (after Boggs unleashes his [[No
* [[Everybody Smokes]]: Played straight with most of the prison population, but makes sense given the time period.
* [[Flowery Insults]]: Byron Hadley is a master of these.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Red describing Andy's dreams of getting out as "nothing but a shitty pipe dream." {{spoiler|Andy escapes by crawling through a pipe full of excrement.}}
* [[Friend in The Black Market]]: Red.
* [[Goodbye, Cruel World]]: Played straight with Brooks' postcard, subverted by Red's.
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Happens when {{spoiler|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 is shown afterwards, though.}}
** {{spoiler|The warden's suicide is 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.}}
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* [[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, [[Sure Let's Go With That|"Maybe it's because I'm Irish."]] In the novella, Red was indeed a red-haired Irishman.
* [[No Animals Were Harmed]]: [[Word of God|Darabont]] revealed on the [[DVD Commentary]] that in order to get this "rating" they couldn't even feed ''fish bait'' (read: worms that were already going to be skewered on a hook and fed to fish) to the baby crow. Instead, they had to find a worm that had already ''died of natural causes''.
* [[No
** What Byron administers to the pudgy new immate 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.}}
** The Sisters repeatedly administered these to Dufresne, driving him deeper and deeper into despair {{spoiler|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 Boggs' own medicine to him (see [[Laser-Guided Karma]] above), and the Sisters finally let him alone.}}
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* [[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 1905, that when he's released in the '50's, it's a world he can't recognize. For one thing Brooks remarks that when he went in, he'd only seen one car, when he was a boy.
{{quote| '''Brooks''': The world went and got itself in a big damned hurry. }}
* [[Once More, With Clarity]]: When Andy leaves the warden's office, it seems like {{spoiler|he's given up hope and planning to kill himself.}} A few minutes later you see the same sequence of events with a few more details {{spoiler|showing how he was putting his escape plan into action.}}
* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]]: Red.
* [[Perpetual Tourist]]: {{spoiler|Andy}} does this after breaking out of prison.
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* [[Rape Discretion Shot]]: The camera shows "The Sisters" beating up Dufresne, but pans away from the actual rape.
* [[Record Needle Scratch]]: Literally, when Hadley busts into Norton's office and puts an end to Andy's playing of ''Le Nozzi di Figaro''. "On your feet!"
* [[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 labour 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.
* [[Redemption in The Rain]]: [[Trope Codifier|The Canonical One]].
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: In the novella, Red discusses several inmates he knew who successfully broke out of Shawshank, most of them by employing this trope. {{spoiler|Andy's}} plan probably qualifies as well.
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* [[Running Gag]]: Apparently everyone at Shawshank is "innocent", and just had "a lawyer fuck them".
{{quote| "Wait, he's innocent-innocent?" {{spoiler|Heywood after hearing [[Hope Spot|Tommy's story]] }}}}
* [[Shout
** 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]]''.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Blatch, the only criminal in the movie to [[Evil Gloating|gloat to others about killing people]]. {{spoiler|In his conversation with Tommy, Blatch mentions the very murders that get pinned on Andy.}} [[Genre Savvy|You'd think this would be the kind of thing that would]] [[Tempting Fate|backfire]], and yet {{spoiler|because of the warden's desire to keep this secret, Blatch gets away with this in spite of said gloating.}} For contrast, most inmates claim innocence, Red claims guilt but also remorse, and even {{spoiler|Norton himself}}, though obviously remorseless, doesn't go as far as to actually GLOAT about murder.
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