![]() In the film, he takes a ride out into the country, and though he has to walk around for a while, he locates the box with relative ease. In fact, in the book, he spends weeks searching for the box under the volcanic rock near the old stone wall from Andy's years-old description, all during the downtime from his shift bagging groceries at the store. Instead, he made the part his own and even earned an Oscar nomination for it.Īnother small but significant difference between Red's trajectory in the novel and the film is that he finds the box by searching himself in the book, with less direct guidance from Andy's clues than he has in the film. The sought-after Morgan Freeman even shied away from the role at first because he read the novella and thought, "I can't play an Irishman." Of course, he didn't play one, as the movie creatively worked around including the line by passing it off as a joke. ![]() Red's character was Irish in the novel, not African-American. ![]()
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