NorCalVol67
Donde is a Badass
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Shawshank Redemption meets The Usual Suspects.He had everybody fooled, Red, the warden and the audience. He befriended Red and only talked to him when he needed something. Poor ole Tommy "ain't so good at reading". Andy schooled him for months and planted that false story in his head. Andy is responsible for his murder too. He's a murder that set everyone up.
Watch Shawshank tonight knowing Andy did kill his wife and her lover, picked Red as his friend to get things to help him escape (he started planning that before his trial), initiated the whole accounting thing with the guards to finance his escape and life after. He set Tommy up and killed him, it would seem that Andy's greatest trick was convincing the world, through the manipulation of poor Tommy, that someone else killed his wife, despite his proven genius in creating imaginary people. It was so brilliant everyone was fooled. Even Red as the narrator is unreliable.I’d watch that in a heartbeat
I'll give it a go. The book is part of my yearly reading, but I haven't watched the movie start-to-finish in....5 years or more, I guess. The hardest part will be believing that a cold, calculating, manipulative man like Andy would not have the foresight to plan and/or cover up the murder or even properly prepare for his trial.Watch Shawshank tonight knowing Andy did kill his wife and her lover, picked Red as his friend to get things to help him escape (he started planning that before his trial), initiated the whole accounting thing with the guards to finance his escape and life after. He set Tommy up and killed him, it would seem that Andy's greatest trick was convincing the world, through the manipulation of poor Tommy, that someone else killed his wife, despite his proven genius in creating imaginary people. It was so brilliant everyone was fooled. Even Red as the narrator is unreliable.
He didn't plan the murder of his wife and lover, it just happened. He got rid of the gun and that was about all he could do. That's when he started planning the escape.I'll give it a go. The book is part of my yearly reading, but I haven't watched the movie start-to-finish in....5 years or more, I guess. The hardest part will be believing that a cold, calculating, manipulative man like Andy would not have the foresight to plan and/or cover up the murder or even properly prepare for his trial.