The protagonist of the famous Stephen King adaptation revealed to Morgan Freeman how his character managed the outcome
Script holes don’t have to say anything about the quality of a film (they exist in all of them, to a greater or lesser extent), but there are certainly those who like to tread very finely with some films. If I took away your sleep some detail about the ending from ‘Perpetual Sentence’, Tim Robbins recently found the solution.
Obviously, from here on there are spoilers for ‘Perpetual Sentence’
A literal hole
Although I do not share the opinion, the part at the end of ‘Life Sentence’, in which Andy Dufresne (played by Tim Robbins), escapes from prison, has long been considered a script hole. Specifically, the inconsistency was How could he get inside the wall and then hang the poster back up? from Raquel Welch who hid it.
During an interview at the Turner Classic Movies Festival to celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary, his co-star Morgan Freeman asked him about this question and Robbins gave him an easy solution.
According to the actor, his character simply he hung the poster from the top before going into the hole and, when it came time to escape through it, he only had to raise the bottom of the signget inside and let it fall, without having to hook it again from the other side.
“It’s very easy. You hook it like this, lift it up, go under it and get in” he explained as he staged the process. Whether this explanation is more or less convincing, the truth is that it is not necessary to enjoy the film and, of course, I do not think that anyone would be bitter about those doubts at such a climatic moment in history in this mythical scene.
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