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* HeroicBSOD: Norton sends Andy to the hole for two months. [[DrivenToSuicide He asks for six feet of rope]]. [[spoiler:He escapes instead.]]
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* HeroicBSOD: Norton sends Andy to the hole for two months. [[DrivenToSuicide He Andy asks for six feet of rope]]. [[spoiler:He escapes instead.]]
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: A double example: Andy knew too much about Norton's corruption to be allowed to leave the prison, so Norton [[spoiler:had Tommy killed because Tommy knew too much about Andy's innocence]].
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: A double example: Andy knew too much about Norton's corruption to be allowed to leave the prison, so Norton [[spoiler:had Tommy killed because Tommy knew too much about Andy's innocence]].
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: A double example: Andy knew too much about Norton's corruption to be allowed to leave the prison, so HeroicBSOD: Norton [[spoiler:had Tommy killed because Tommy knew too much about Andy's innocence]].sends Andy to the hole for two months. [[DrivenToSuicide He asks for six feet of rope]]. [[spoiler:He escapes instead.]]
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* {{Chiaroscuro}}: Half of Norton's face is lost in darkness as he discusses Andy's future [[spoiler:with Tommy, the only person with evidence of Andy's innocence.]]
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** Tommy goes blank when he learns Andy's in prison for "greasing his wife and some golf pro"... He had a former cellmate...
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* RageBreakingPoint: Norton [[spoiler:kills Tommy]]. As soon as he's out of the hole, Andy escapes.
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* MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours: Andy explains how he's laundering Norton's money to Red. He's invented a man on paper, because he knows how the system works. And that's just how the laundry ''starts''.
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* RuleOfSymbolism: What does [[HidingBehindReligion Warden Norton]] use as a hidey-hole for his shady records and ill-gotten gains? A space in the wall behind his wife's Christian embroidery.
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* RuleOfSymbolism: RuleOfSymbolism:
** Andy's job for his first few years is at the laundry. Norton moves him to the library... so he can start laundering money.
** What does [[HidingBehindReligion Warden Norton]] use as a hidey-hole for his shady records and ill-gotten gains? A space in the wall behind his wife's Christian embroidery.
** Andy's job for his first few years is at the laundry. Norton moves him to the library... so he can start laundering money.
** What does [[HidingBehindReligion Warden Norton]] use as a hidey-hole for his shady records and ill-gotten gains? A space in the wall behind his wife's Christian embroidery.
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* ProperlyParanoid: Norton always makes sure Andy isn't looking when he opens his safe. Turns out, Andy didn't need to break into the safe.
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* PeriodPiece: The film begins in 1947 and ends decades later. It carefully matches the clothing styles over the years, particularly with the Warden's suits and glasses (as he's one of the only people depicted in something other than a uniform). The only other indicator of time's passage, apart from the aging of the actors, is Andy's changing posters.
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* PeriodPiece: The film begins in 1947 and ends decades later. It carefully matches the clothing styles over the years, particularly with the Warden's suits and glasses (as he's one of the only people depicted in something other than a uniform). The only other main indicator of time's passage, apart from the aging of the actors, is Andy's changing posters.posters. The prison uniforms also update with the decades.
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* GlassesOfAging: As Andy and Red get older, they have trouble reading. We see them having to hold books or notes at arm's length to read them before getting reading glasses.
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** At one point Andy sits on the floor of his cell, staring at the poster on his wall.
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** The film plays with this with Red. The scene after Andy asks "Like Brooks did?" is Red's second rejection at the parole board and he's ''sad''. He's tired. It feels like he's given up. When Andy gifts him the harmonica, he doesn't play it until he's alone, and then just plays one lonely note.
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Andy cuts Red to the bone.
-->'''Red:''' Hope. Let me tell you something, my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. It's got no use on the inside. You'd better get used to that idea.\\
'''Andy:''' [[DrivenToSuicide Like Brooks did?]]\\
'''Red:''' [takes his lunch and walks away]
-->'''Red:''' Hope. Let me tell you something, my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. It's got no use on the inside. You'd better get used to that idea.\\
'''Andy:''' [[DrivenToSuicide Like Brooks did?]]\\
'''Red:''' [takes his lunch and walks away]
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* GoodScarsEvilScars: They're subtle, but Andy earns some scars thanks to the Sisters.
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%%(ZCE)** A literal shot (four of them) used to end Tommy Williams's life.
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* WithDueRespect: One of the reasons Andy is able to carry out his plan is because he is always perfectly respectful to the Warden and the guards. Thus they never give his cell a thorough search.
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* SpottingTheThread: Andy realizes fairly quickly that getting assigned to the library is something special. [[FiveSecondForeshadowing Five seconds after he asks if Brooks has ever had an assistant]], Hadley walks in with a guard who needs financial help.
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-->'''Red:''' I'm thinking Andy could use a nice welcome back when he gets out of the infirmary.\\
'''Heywood:''' Sounds good to us. I figure we owe him that much for the beer.
'''Heywood:''' Sounds good to us. I figure we owe him that much for the beer.
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* RuleOfThree: Red is summoned to a parole hearing three times. [[spoiler:He is finally granted parole the third time, near the end of the film.]]
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** Red is summoned to a parole hearing three times. [[spoiler:He is finally granted parole the third time, near the end of the film.]]]]
** The "I'm innocent. Everyone here is innocent." gag is played three times, only the last time the prisoners learn Andy actually is innocent. "You mean for ''real'' innocent?"
** Red is summoned to a parole hearing three times. [[spoiler:He is finally granted parole the third time, near the end of the film.
** The "I'm innocent. Everyone here is innocent." gag is played three times, only the last time the prisoners learn Andy actually is innocent. "You mean for ''real'' innocent?"
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* FireForgedFriends: Many of the prisoners (those who aren't monsters) become this. It's a nightmare you have to find a way to live through. Andy joins Red's group and then the two become best friends.
* FriendshipMoment: To show that life in prison isn't a ''complete'' nightmare, the inmates get a lot of moments to show that they care for and support one another, such as Heywood making it a point to walk over and offer Andy a beer as he sits to the side by himself, inviting him into the group. Andy and Red get a lot of these as they become PlatonicLifePartners.
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* HateSink: Warden Samuel Norton is absolutely loathsome due to his greedy, cruel, and hypocritical personality.
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* HateSink: Warden Samuel Norton is absolutely loathsome due to his greedy, cruel, and hypocritical personality. Likewise Hadley, who is introduced as a violent thug and in his next scene brutally beats a man to death for crying.
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** Norton's first rule is "No blasphemy. The other rules... you'll figure out as you go along. Any questions?" and when a convict asks "When do we eat?", he just gives Hadley the nod to beat the man. He's a cold sociopath for whom religion is a façade masking a vicious core.
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** After being introduced as a quiet, almost fearful, interview subject of the parole board, Red is a cocky smuggler who makes book. Then, when the other prisoners egg on the fresh fish and start cheering when Fat Ass finally breaks, Red just looks on quietly, mournfully.
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* HumiliationConga: Andy subjects his tormentors to these in the end. [[spoiler: Norton kills himself rather than go down for his crimes, and "They say Hadley cried like a baby when they came for him."]]
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** The guards deliberately subject new convicts to this, marching them in freshly hosed down and deloused, naked and carrying their clothes, in front of all the other prisoners.
** Andy subjects his tormentors to these in the end. [[spoiler: Norton kills himself rather than go down for his crimes, and "They say Hadley cried like a baby when they came for him."]]
** The guards deliberately subject new convicts to this, marching them in freshly hosed down and deloused, naked and carrying their clothes, in front of all the other prisoners.
** Andy subjects his tormentors to these in the end. [[spoiler: Norton kills himself rather than go down for his crimes, and "They say Hadley cried like a baby when they came for him."]]
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** Norton's first rule is "No blasphemy. The other rules... you'll figure out as you go along. Any questions?" and when a convict asks "When do we eat?", he just gives Hadley the nod to beat the man. He's a cold sociopath for whom religion is a façade masking a vicious core.
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*** A secondary example for Andy comes when he tells Captain Hadley how to avoid paying taxes on the money he inherited, offering to set it up for him and asking only for a few beers for himself and his friends (after almost getting thrown off the roof by Hadley.) That's Andy: audacious, brilliant, smooth-talking and compassionate, all at once.
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*** A secondary example for Andy comes when he tells Captain Hadley how to avoid paying taxes on the money he inherited, offering to set it up for him and asking only for a few beers for himself and his friends (after almost getting thrown off the roof by Hadley.) That's Andy: audacious, [[RefugeInAudacity audacious]], brilliant, smooth-talking and compassionate, all at once.
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** Andy is continually calm and quiet, even in the face of rape. Heywood has a mild stutter.
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* ScaryBlackMan: Inverted with Red's first appearance. He's a black man in 1947 and well aware that he's facing a panel of white men. He's nervous, anxious even. He doesn't know what to do with his hands and has to be told to sit. Told. Then he speaks like a scared black man who knows exactly how much power these white men have over him and what they likely believe about black men as violent sexual criminals. Excessively polite, quiet, nothing but "Yes, sir, oh, yes, sir.".
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* {{Irony}}: "You strike me as a particularly icy and remorseless man, Mr. Dufresne.". Well, yeah. He's remorseless because he has nothing to show remorse for; ''he's innocent''.
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** This was Andy's stock in trade for his whole stint in prison. He dropped his mop and walked up to ''Hadley'' to ask "Do you trust your wife?" in order to offer his services as an accountant, only asking for beer in return. He bates Boggs into [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil merely almost murdering him]]. He demands a library and finally gets one. He badgers Tommy into bettering himself. He [[spoiler:''escapes from prison '''and takes down Norton and Hadley.''''']].
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* AmbiguousSituation: For most of the film, we're left confused as to whether Andy killed his wife and her lover.
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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The opening music turns into the radio in Andy's car as he drinks liquor and contemplates murdering his wife and her lover.
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* UsefulBook: Andy hides the rock hammer he uses to dig his tunnel with inside the Bible in his cell.
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* VisualPun: When the warden looks into Andy's bible, the ribbon-tab opens to the Book of Exodus, showing the outline of the rock hammer Andy used to escape.
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* VisualPun: When the warden looks into Andy's bible, Bible, the ribbon-tab opens to the Book of Exodus, showing the outline of the rock hammer Andy used to escape.
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-->'''Red''': Two things happened: The Sisters never bothered Andy again, and Bogs never walked again. To my knowledge, he lived out the rest of his life drinking his food through a straw.
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-->'''Red''': Two things happened: never happened again after that. The Sisters never bothered laid a finger on Andy again, and Bogs never walked again.again. They transferred him to a minimum security hospital upstate. To my knowledge, he lived out the rest of his life drinking his food through a straw.
