Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Cutting Room Floor (Switch Week)


Alternate ending to The Shawshank Redemption.

After making parole, Red travels on to keep the one promise he made to his friend Andy Dufresne. Red follows Andy’s directions to the North Buxton hay fields. Sure enough, Red soon spots the rock wall that looks like something right out of a Robert Frost poem and proceeds toward it. Red then comes right up to the large willow tree and spots the black volcanic glass rock he was instructed to look under. Red lifts the rock up and true to Andy’s word there is box underneath it. Red begins to break down as he realizes he will do anything for his good friend Andy Dufresne. Red then opens the box and BOOOM!! The box was an IED that took Red’s head clean off. It turns out that Andy Dufresne was indeed a murderer and just used Red to get him stuff. Andy was not only a bad husband, but also a bad friend.

This ending did not test as well with the one that made it to the final cut.




3 comments:

Scoper said...

F'in hilarious.

Marcus said...

Awesome! I heard they released this version in Japan.

Matt said...

I found that the original left me oddly flat and not as much in the Stephen King vein as I might have guessed. This explains it!

Marcus is correct, you can get this version as an import through Amazon.