Daily Dialogue — March 7, 2020
“Andy was as good as his word. He wrote two letters a week instead of one. In 1959, the state senate finally clued in to the fact they…
“Andy was as good as his word. He wrote two letters a week instead of one. In 1959, the state senate finally clued in to the fact they couldn’t buy him off with just a two-hundred-dollar check. Appropriations committee voted an annual payment of five hundred dollars just to shut him up. And you’d be amazed how far Andy could stretch it.”
— The Shawshank Redemption (1994), screenplay by Frank Darabont, short story by Stephen King
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Library.
Trivia: Frank Darabont wrote the script in eight weeks.
Dialogue On Dialogue: The building of the library is one of several acts orchestrated by Andy which in effect redeem him for indirectly leading to his wife’s death.