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[[File:Shawshank_Redemption.jpg|frame|Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.]]
{{quote|''"[[Koan|Get busy living... or get busy dyin']]."''}}
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''Shawshank'' has since been adapted for the stage. The producers insist they adapted the novella and not the film, but this claim is doubtful, since the character of Red is a black man instead of the red-haired Irishman of the book.
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* [[Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook]]: The trope-naming example is done for reasons the audience can sympathize with. Andy is secretly planning to escape from prison and [[Framing the Guilty Party|"expose" the warden]] [[Pulling the Thread|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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* [[Ability Over Appearance]]:
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The movie makes several changes that keep the story moving.
** The timeframe is cut from thirty years to twenty. (An actor's age range can only be stretched so far.)
** Only one warden is dealt with.
** The movie decides to
** In the novella, {{spoiler|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 {{spoiler|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 [[Composite Character|combined]].
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