What’s Aged the Worst?
The panel questions Andy's passive legal defense, the length and mechanics of Tommy's subplot, and the idea that the prisoners have hours of Andy stories after his escape.
In the discussion (5)
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- Andy's strangely passive courtroom manner and unexplained handling by his lawyers undermine his defense.
- Removing Tommy’s subplot is proposed as a way to shorten the film by about ten minutes.
- A counterproposal cuts the GED material while keeping Tommy’s information and the loss of Andy’s hope.
- In the book, Tommy is said to trade silence for a minimum-security transfer, unlike the film’s confrontation and murder.
- The claim that the prisoners spend hours sharing Andy stories seems implausible because the panel can identify very few such stories.