History YMMV / TheShawshankRedemption

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:

*** Mark Rolston also voices Norman Osborn in the ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 PS4 Spider-Man game]]'', meaning you now have [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} one superhero's]] arch-enemy beating up [[ComicBook/SpiderMan another superhero's]] arch-enemy.

*** Mark Rolston also voices Norman Osborn in the ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'' game, meaning you now have [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} one superhero's]] arch-enemy beating up [[ComicBook/SpiderMan another superhero's]] arch-enemy.

*** Mark Rolston also voices Norman Osborn in ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'', meaning you now have [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} one superhero's]] arch-enemy beating up [[ComicBook/SpiderMan another superhero's]] arch-enemy.

*** Mark Rolston also voices Norman Osborn in ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'', meaning you now have [[Franchise/{{Superman}} one superhero's]] arch-enemy beating up [[Franchise/SpiderMan another superhero's]] arch-enemy.

** Brooks definitely deserved to be in prison (the book details the why) but he became institutionalised after spending so much time there to the point where he had a FreakOut when his parole was granted. He had very good reason to be concerned -- he was a FishOutOfWater in the real world as an elderly ex-con with an ailing body whose relative intelligence couldn't help him.

** Fat Ass gets sent to prison and beaten to death on his first night there. Why? [[DisproportionateRetribution Because his crying was annoying Hadley.]]

* HypeBacklash: An interesting case, where some would argue that ''Shawshank'' went from being one of the more underrated films of its time to potentially being one of the more overrated. Holding the #1 position of "Greatest Film of All Time" on IMDB is the kind of thing that would put any movie under intense scrutiny.

** Hadley is played by Creator/ClancyBrown, who's best known to WesternAnimation aficionados as ComicBook/LexLuthor in various Franchise/{{DCAU}} productions. As of 2011, Creator/MarkRolston, who played Bogs, is now [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010 Lex Luthor]] in a different universe. That's right - this movie features Lex Luthor beating up Lex Luthor.

* ValuesResonance: It was a brief moment, but upon Red telling Andy about Bogs, the Sisters and their ways, Andy asks if it would help for him to explain to the vicious inmates that he was not a homosexual, to which Red replied "Neither are they; you have to be human first. They don't qualify." Even if it was to display how depraved they are, Red's comment was enlightening to hear in 1994 and rather rare to hear in the time frame the scene was set in, the 1940s. It's also notable for its clear-eyed understanding of the Sisters' crimes, and thoroughly averts the usual [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale Hollywood depiction of male rape]] by showing that nothing about their crimes is remotely funny, nor is Andy depicted as any less of a man for not being able to fight them off. It's one of the best and most tasteful handlings of the subject on film as a result, even to this day.

** Is Andy Dufresne really innocent of committing the murders of his wife and her lover or did he really kill them and just repress the memories of doing it due to his drunkenness? Wikipedia seems to believe the latter, by the way the film's summary was written.

* VindicatedByHistory: Though the movie was warmly received by critics in 1994, it had ''a lot of competition that year''. As a result, it failed to win any of the Oscars that it was nominated for (see AwardSnub above), and barely managed to make back its budget at the box-office (even worse, word of mouth was spreading, and it was starting to do better business just as it was yanked from theaters). It has since come to be regarded as one of the finest films of the 1990's, and it has consistently been one of the highest user-rated movie on Website/IMDb for nearly a decade. As of this writing, it holds the #1 spot, though it was second to ''Film/TheGodfather'' for much of that time (see FandomRivalry above).[[/note]]