The Shawshank Redemption

Corrected entry: Andy leaves his prison shoes behind in a shoe box for the warden to look at as the escape siren begins to sound. He wears the warden's polished shoes while returning to his cell the night before. As Andy lowers himself onto the sewer pipe after coming through the wall, you can see he is wearing his "high-top" leather prison shoes and is not barefooted or wearing the warden's shoes before he breaks into the sewer pipe.

Correction: Andy has a lot of influence at the prison. Getting a spare pair of shoes and keeping them in his cell would be nothing to him.

Grumpy Scot

Nothing hints to that, not when he's packing his stuff to show him putting his new shoes in the bag or anything. No hint about the shoes whatsoever. It was a mistake and that's that.

Corrected entry: When Andy escapes from Shawshank, and we see the shot when he first comes out of the sewer pipe, watch his bag that he tied to his ankle. It appears to float. Considering that Andy packed up his Stone Chess set in this bag, it's very unlikely that the bag would float even in the slightest.

Correction: Depends on how much air was trapped within the bag and how dense the sewer pipe's contents were. That wasn't just water, you know.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Andy makes his way through the sewer he takes Norton's clothes with him in a small bag tied to his ankle. It's hard to believe that on the next morning the same clothes are in clean mint condition when empties out Norton's accounts. (01:54:00)

NancyFelix

Correction: Andy probably ran a lot of errands that morning, including the cleaning of the Warden's suit. He very easily could have bought some street clothes, had the suit cleaned, and even picked out the convertible he wanted, all before visiting the banks to clean out the cash.

Matty Blast

Corrected entry: The film is supposed to take place in Maine, but the city Buxton where Red is looking for the hay field is actually in Ohio.

Correction: This is not news. Nearly every movie made in the past three decades is filmed "on location" which could be anywhere.

MovieFan612

Correction: There's a Buxton in Maine too.

While true, that's not what the mistake is saying. The mistake is pointing out that filming took place in Ohio, so the scene of Red in Buxton, ME is actually him in Ohio. There is no Buxton, OH.

Bishop73

1) If that was the intention, then the mistake is badly worded. I also would interpret it to mean there is a Buxton in Ohio and not one in Maine. 2) If that is the intent, it is not a mistake. Movies shoot in locations different from their intended settings all the time. Unless there is something obvious on screen (like a sign reading Cincinnati 20 miles) it isn't an error.

The mistake is very clear that the scene that's suppose to be Buxton, Maine is actually Ohio. What's not clear is what revealing evidence there is, other than knowing the filming location. But the correction of pointing out there's a Buxton, Maine isn't a valid correction either.

Bishop73

Character mistake: Red says that Andy crawled to freedom through 500 yards - 'just shy of half a mile'. 500 yards is far less than half a mile; in fact, it's less than a third of a mile. It is however just shy of half a kilometer, which may be what King was thinking of when he wrote the book.

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Trivia: In the original novel that the Shawshank Redemption is based on, Red is an Irishman which is where his nickname came from. In the movie, when Andy asks Red where his nickname came from, Red pauses and says "Maybe it's because I'm Irish" with a hint of sarcasm.

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Chosen answer: In a nutshell, tax evasion. He's running the prison like a company doing building work with, as its described by the builder in the movie, a pool of slave labour to allow him undercut other contractors. He is skimming profit for his own pockets, along with taking bribes, etc. that Andy's creative book keeping is hiding from the IRS.

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