The Shawshank Redemption: Difference between revisions

* [[Race Lift]]: Red is Irish in the book (hence the nickname), but played by Morgan Freeman in the movie. See [[Mythology Gag]], above.

* [[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 labor 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.