10 Things You Didn't Know About The Shawshank Redemption
4. Andy's Crawl To Freedom Would Have Smelled Rather Nice
If there's one scene in Shawshank that makes you green around the gills more than any other, it would have to be when Andy crawls the length of, as Red puts it "five football fields, or just shy of half a mile" in a sewage pipe full of excrement, urine and any other god awful substances that inmates would flush down a toilet in prison. Obviously, the films producers wouldn't have made Tim Robbins crawl through actual sewage, so what was it? Chocolate syrup. That's right, Shawshank's producers used chocolate as a substitute for excrement in the scene where Andy escapes prison - a much better alternative by anyone's standards. We're not sure if they just used plain old water for liquids, but if the use of confectionery is anything to by, we wouldn't be surprised if Frank Darabont decided to use some watered-down banana milkshake to simulate urine. That explains why offenders always try to escape prison then; they don't want to get away, they just want to satisfy their sweet tooth.
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