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Young_Old_Grandma t1_iu3f0pa wrote

"Brooks was here" just totally broke my heart.

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OmniFella t1_iu3ucoh wrote

In the book, Brooks is a single, hardly descriptive line on one page. Frank Darabont extrapolated one hell of a character from that line.

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[deleted] OP t1_iu3f4bh wrote

Man never would adjust, spent the majority of his adult life at that prison.

Red spent almost as much time as him in prison, just short of 10 years, but the one thing that kept him from taking his life too, was his bond with Andy

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Herne8 t1_iu3wljh wrote

Yeah, when we first started dating I convinced my GF to watch it. She'd always been reluctant as she knew it's a Stephen King story and assumed it was a horror. She cried at that scene.

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