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[Closed] Andy Dufresne - innocent or guilty?

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I reckon he's guilty.
In the film version anyway.

The gun he supposedly threw into the river?
Never found.

The kid who say's he heard the confession of his cellmate?
Obvious fantasist - young vulnerable lad telling his new friends what they want to hear.

Could have saved a whole lot of trouble and it would have been a much shorter story if they'd just
electrocuted him in the first place.

And I wouldn't have to choose between TSR and TESB.


 
Posted : 16/08/2014 8:57 pm
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Deffo guilty. You can tell by his sociopathic behaviour in cooking the books and leaving a trail back to the warden.


 
Posted : 16/08/2014 9:09 pm
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Innocent. A sociopath wouldn't have chosen "Canzonetta sull'aria".


 
Posted : 16/08/2014 9:16 pm
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But he escaped in the end so it was a happy and realistic ending to a gritty film.

I hate that film for that ending


 
Posted : 16/08/2014 9:19 pm
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But how did he replace the poster.........?


 
Posted : 16/08/2014 9:25 pm
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But he escaped in the end...

...only to lure the man he'd been grooming for the previous 19 years to a grisly doom.

Stone cold killer.


 
Posted : 16/08/2014 9:25 pm
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If he's innocent, why stash the money in the field?

Get out of that and stay fashionable, as a great man once said.


 
Posted : 16/08/2014 9:26 pm
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But how did he replace the poster.........?

Only pin it to the wall by its top corners so it hung down like a flap.


 
Posted : 16/08/2014 9:39 pm
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Hmm, I got that wrong about the field.
Might not have been money - could be his current whereabouts.

And he could have buried it after he escaped.....


 
Posted : 16/08/2014 9:48 pm
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Innocent. The gun never being found doesn't mean anything.


 
Posted : 16/08/2014 9:58 pm
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A healthy dose of 'willing suspension of disbelief' is required for Shawshank. It does however repay this effort. The characters are consistent in their behaviour which is all I ask in order to willingly suspend my disbelief.


 
Posted : 16/08/2014 9:59 pm
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How very odd - when Rusty posted this I was half way through watching it with my kids. recorded agaes ago, though maybe it's been on live tonight has it ?

I agree with Spin

(had a bad feeling about the film right from the start tonight - eldest daughter took a shine to Brooks when she saw the maggot/jackdaw part at the beginning and she cried like a baby when he died 😥
Still says it was a great film though, and I believe she's correct)


 
Posted : 16/08/2014 10:22 pm
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I agree with Spin

It's lucky I was sitting down when you said that. It doesn't happen often on here.


 
Posted : 16/08/2014 10:42 pm
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But how did he replace the poster.........?

Hah. For no good reason, I was idly thinking about this film the other day and suddenly wondered exactly that.


 
Posted : 16/08/2014 11:27 pm
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Better book, ofc.


 
Posted : 16/08/2014 11:46 pm
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Eh? You see him disposing of the gun at the start. Film is very true to the book, I enjoyed both equally.


 
Posted : 16/08/2014 11:48 pm
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Silly question. The film clearly shows the murderer in the act, in the imagination of a deranged redneck.


 
Posted : 16/08/2014 11:49 pm
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The narrator throughout is Red. 🙂
The flashback is his imagining of the events as told to him by Andy.
We have no proof apart from Andy's own version of events that he is innocent.

One of the rare cases where I like the film and the book equally.


 
Posted : 17/08/2014 12:09 am
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Innocent. Andy is no killer, and his demeanor says so. He does what he needs to get by in prison.

Probably the only "perfect" film I have ever seen. The short story is good too.


 
Posted : 17/08/2014 12:21 am

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