3. Ah capitalism
There's now a Shawshank Trail for tourists, and local businesses are right on the bandwagon. In that part of Ohio you can pick yourself up some Reformatory "Red" Wines, Shawshank Bundt Cakes and the local Two Cousins' Pizza sells Redemption pie.
2. Yum
When Andy is making his escape, he crawls through a sewer tunnel filled with raw excrement. The sludge was actually a mixture of chocolate syrup, sawdust, and water, and even decades later the pipes still smell like cocoa.
1. "Just a stupid kid that committed a terrible crime"
In the movie, Red says the only guilty man in Shawshank when Andy asks him what he's in for. The source novella explains in detail; Red's life term is not because of a botched robbery-turned-fatal-shooting, he is serving three life sentences for murdering his wife, his neighbor's wife and his neighbor's son. Red disconnected the brakes on his car in order to kill his wife to collect on an insurance policy; he did not plan on two other people joining his wife for her ill-fated drive.
