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{{quote|''"[[Koan|Get busy living... or get busy dyin']]."''}}
''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' is a 1994 drama film based on [[Stephen King]]'s novella ''Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption''; it stars [[Tim Robbins]] and [[Morgan Freeman]].
In 1947, young banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is found guilty of the murder of his wife and her lover; he is sentenced to life in prison, and his sentence is to be served at Maine's Shawshank penitentiary. The conditions are terrible, many of his fellow prisoners are sadistic, and many of the guards are even worse -- but life begins to look up as Dufresne becomes acquainted with an old black con, Ellis Redding ([[Morgan Freeman]], the character also serves as the movie's narrator), commonly referred to as Red. A friendship begins after Red, "the man who knows how to get things", procures a rock hammer for Dufresne, an object he wishes to own in order to carve a soapstone chess set. The friendship will only strengthen over the coming years.
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* [[Everybody Smokes]]: Played straight with most of the prison population, but makes sense given the time period.
* [[Flowery Insults]]: Byron Hadley is a master of these.
* [[Foil]]: Andy and Red are this to each other. While Andy was innocent of murdering his wife, Red was guilty of murdering his wife. As Red regrets killing his wife (in part due to all the collateral damage it caused), he's the only guilty man in Shawshank while Andy is the only one whose truly innocent.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Red describing Andy's dreams of getting out as "nothing but a shitty pipe dream." {{spoiler|Andy escapes by crawling through a pipe full of excrement.}}
* [[Friend in the Black Market]]: Red.
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