Darabont's true vision

Rating: 3/10 (4 July 2011)

So a lot of people have pointed out that the screenwriter, Frank Darabont, also wrote the film version of The Shawshank Redemption. What a lot of people don't know is that the ending we got in that film wasn't the one Darabont wanted. See, in his original script, Andy got trapped ten feet from the end of that 500 yard sewer pipe, and drowned in liquified human feces. Then Red hanged himself from the same rafter Brooks Hatlen used to kill himself. Then Warden Norton got so rich, he was able to buy eternal youth and marry six supermodels and live in a house made of cocaine. Too bad the studio forced him to change it to that sappy Hollywood ending we got, huh? Well, here's your chance to see how things work out when Frank gets to follow his heart.