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* When "Randall Stevens" is in the first bank, he is clean, well-groomed and looking not at all like someone who escaped from the local prison. Where did he get the "seed money" that he needed to buy anything else he might need before the first visit? Andy could have easily kept a small amount of cash out of each night deposits that he gives to the warden. There was only so much he could bring out with him, but a small wad of cash? SImple.
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* When "Randall Stevens" is in the first bank, he is clean, well-groomed and looking not at all like someone who escaped from the local prison. Where did he get the "seed money" that he needed to buy anything else he might need before the first visit? Andy could have easily kept a small amount of cash out of each night deposits that he gives to the warden. There was only so much he could bring out with him, but a small wad of cash? SImple.
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* A Squick example in the form of this: That pipe was dumping raw sewage straight into a stream - totally gross!
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* A Squick example in the form of this: {{Squick}}: That pipe was dumping raw sewage straight into a stream - totally gross!stream!
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* When Heywood offers Andy one of the beers he got him and his friends during the roof repair, Andy declined saying he gave up drinking. While this is sweet when you think that he basically got everyone free beers just for the heck of it, made new friends both with the inmates and officers (like Hadley, which pays dividend), it's also a bit of a somber note too. Andy was drunkenly planning to kill his wife and lover for the affair and only when he sobered up did he back out. Him realizing what drinking almost made him commit such an unforgivable crime has led him to give up on the vice, even when he's already in prison for the crime he did not commit.
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** It's possible that before fleeing to Mexico, Andy set up a trust for Tommy's family to receive some of Norton's withdrawn money.
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** Worth remembering that Blatch is basically a thug who got lucky, he's not [[Franchise/{{Batman}} the Joker]]. In the twenty years the movie covers, anything could have happened to him.
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* Many saw Andy's comments about Hadley's wife a [[WhatAnIdiot pretty stupid decision]], given how much of a [[TheChessMaster genius he truly is]]. This, however, might just be how Andy wanted it all to play out. If he had just told Hadley about the plan at first, it would probably anger Hadley for snooping in on his business, he already knows him as ''the lawyer who killed his wife'', so he was already suspicious of any illegal activities Andy might get him involved. How the whole scene plays out, Andy is playing into Hadley's pride as a man, needing no one telling him how to do things in his life, and makes an easy offer for Hadley that would be nothing but gain for him in his eyes. Andy intentionally riled him up to set up the offer.
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* Many saw Andy's comments about Hadley's wife a [[WhatAnIdiot pretty stupid decision]], decision, given how much of a [[TheChessMaster genius he truly is]]. This, however, might just be how Andy wanted it all to play out. If he had just told Hadley about the plan at first, it would probably anger Hadley for snooping in on his business, he already knows him as ''the lawyer who killed his wife'', so he was already suspicious of any illegal activities Andy might get him involved. How the whole scene plays out, Andy is playing into Hadley's pride as a man, needing no one telling him how to do things in his life, and makes an easy offer for Hadley that would be nothing but gain for him in his eyes. Andy intentionally riled him up to set up the offer.
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** Both are a gamble, but the look of a man wearing a smart suit and scuffed up shoes is one that arguably sticks in the mind more, and looks more suspicious than a man in prison overalls wearing shiny shoes; the prisoner might conceivably have acquired new shoes or a jar of boot black from somewhere, especially if he's in tight with the warden, but what sort of person in the 1960s wore a smart suit but didn't shine his shoes before meeting with the bank manager? Andy's plan hinges on him going without notice as long as possible on the outside in order to make a quiet getaway, so he takes rolls the dice that it's more likely that no one in a prison where everyone is already wearing one of two uniforms will look too closely at his feet rather than a bank manager noting the suspiciously scuffed shoes of a customer he's never seen before and then remembering it to an inquisitive police officer later.
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** As an aside, the fact that the Warden and the guards trust Andy with the money-laundering scheme to the point of conspiring to keep him locked away for the rest of his life makes his revenge by stealing all the sweeter, since in their greed they forgot something perhaps quite obvious -- that they probably shouldn't place their unwaveringly trust in a banker ''who was in prison''.
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** As an aside, the fact that the Warden and the guards trust Andy with the money-laundering scheme to the point of conspiring to keep him locked away for the rest of his life makes his revenge by stealing all the sweeter, since in their greed they forgot something perhaps quite obvious -- that they probably shouldn't place their unwaveringly unwavering trust in regarding their financial dealings to a banker ''who was in prison''.
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** Andy has been imprisoned for crimes he didn't commit, his wife cheated on him and was murdered, the prison is a crappy place full of sadists, and the food is bad. And yet...Andy tries to make the most of it: he continues his hobby of geology, tries to build a better library for the inmates, works as an accountant for the prison staff, and manages to escape. He maintains a stoic facade in the face of hardship, learns to better defend himself, and admits to being a lousy husband and nearly committing a crime of passion.
** Norton, however, reacts to ''any'' inconvenience with petulant and destructive rage. He destroys Andy's chance at freedom and kills Tommy because of the potential threat to his illegal cash. And because [[EvilIsPetty Andy called him obtuse]]. Norton makes a vicious threat to destroy Andy's accomplishments ''and'' deliberately traps him with inmates who would rape him. He throws a horrible tantrum when Andy escapes and he finally kills himself, a serious sin in Christianity, when he is caught rather than admit he was wrong and accept the consequences of his actions. While Andy actually is a master of TurnTheOtherCheek, Norton is an entitled jerk who acts like the world owes him something.
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* Considering how Norton assassinated a relatively minor offender to cover up his corruption, and how easily Hadley went along with it, what other horrible things have they done when no one was looking?
