The conversation between human and AI assistant.
Is "The Shawshank Redemption" based on a true story? What inspired the movie?
Oh really? Can you tell me more about what inspired Stephen King to write this story?
Stephen King has stated that he visited a prison in the early 1970s and was struck by the dehumanizing effects of incarceration. He was also inspired by a news story he had read about a man who had been wrongfully convicted of murder and had spent decades in prison before being exonerated. Those experiences helped inform the characters and themes of "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption".