The cruel reality of prison is established straight away by the use of additional scenes and the altering of events that occur. When Andy first comes to Shawshank Prison one of the felons that was brought in at the same time as Andy is reduced to tears on his first evening sleeping in the jail. Due to his insisting that he "doesn't belong [t]here" Captain Hadley beats him so badly that the prisoner dies later that night from the sustained injuries. This is a major difference from the book and a very significant one. This introductory scene esta

A large portion of the changes that are made are done to help you better understand the character of Andy by showing what his dreams are and how he obtains them. The rough conditions of jail life are made very clear by the excessive violence added to the film, yet Andy Dufresne is always grasping on to hope, and this hope becomes very real for him once he begins to dig through his wall as he now has a visible chance of freedom. Since he is truly innocent Andy has always held on to this image of freedom which is an important mentality that he has where he never gives up on what he wants to achieve. When Andy manages to obtain beer for his friends at the expense of Hadley while they are out tarring a roof, Red says in the book that the "beer was piss warm." (Pg.48) However, in the film you are told and can clearly see that the beer is "icy cold." By glorifying just that little bit more Andy's achievement of getting the beers and for them to be cold, it portrays to the audience what a remarkable man Andy is. Red also says that "we felt like free men."(Pg.48) and this shows that since Andy cannot yet reach freedom he finds other ways to bring freedom to him. The introduction of music into the film also relates to Andy's desire for freedom thus portraying another instance of how Andy acquires his dreams . When he receives a shipment that contains some old records for his library, he riskily locks the guard in the bathroom and locks himself in the warden's room and begins to play an opera song over the prison's PA system. Andy can avoid severe punishment if he just turns it off like Norton asks Andy to do when he arrives at the office, but instead Andy

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