Is The Shawshank Redemption based on a true story?
Frequently Asked QuestionsI've had people tell me that while on their vacation at Zihuatanejo in Mexico, someone actually claimed she was Andy Dufresne's wife!! To repeat, The Shawshank Redemption is about as fact as the toothfairy and Santa Clause, it is a FICTION story.
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Frequently Asked QuestionsBy horror novelist Stephen King. It is on of the short novels in his Different Seasons collection. King sold the rights of his story for $1 dollar for it to be made into a movie.
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Frequently Asked QuestionsUnfortunately no. It was however, nominated for 7 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actor (Morgan Freeman).
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Omake Omatsuri FAQJust about anything that is not blatant fantasy... and even some of that is in a grey area. No, we don't actually visit anime worlds (we should be so lucky). Yes, we really are such dedicated otaku that if the opportunity arose, we would probably wait until we were done watching the current video. Strips pertaining to the cat's behavior are almost always literal, although her reasons for doing so may not be exactly as we present them.
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Snowblood Apple FAQsNo, NONE of the movie is real. It's not "based on a true story" which half of Hollywood pretends to be because it keeps it real, man; it was based on a Japanese movie (by Nakata Hideo) which itself was based on a Japanese book (by Suzuki Koji), in which the Rachel character was male and the Noah character was a confessed serial rapist. And no, we're not making that up.
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Margaret BuffieI got the idea from clearing away that old garbage dump on an island near our cottage and finding the pair of spectacles. It was those small wire glasses that made me decide to write the story about a girl who, when she puts on the glasses, goes into the past to help a ghost solve a problem and find some peace. It is not based on a real story, but on fragments of things I've read, dreams, bits of my own life, and, of course, mainly my imagination - which has always worked overtime!
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Frequently Asked QuestionsNo I made that up, but I know another guy who did something similar. He thought he would short out the fence and it arced...and knocked him over
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Shakespeare FAQ at Absolute ShakespeareYes but this was not "Shakespeare in Love". Romeo and Juliet was in fact based on the life of two real lovers who both died for each other and lived in Verona, Italy in 1303. Both the Capulets and Montagues existed in Verona at this time and Shakespeare is reckoned to have discovered this tragic love story in Arthur Brooke's 1562 poem entitled "The Tragical Historye of Romeus and Juliet" .
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AnnBauer.com - A Wild Ride Up the CupboardsThis is the question I am asked most often. And the most honest answer I can come up with is, I don't know. There are pieces of it I can point to that are absolutely, factually pulled directly from my life. They tend to be the more unbelievable ones. For instance, I do have a son who withdrew for a long time and the first story ever to reach him was Mrs. Doubtfire.
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Resolved Question: is miss saigon based on a true story?
SaigonResolved Question: The level of US casualties from anything but a VERY slow withdrawal from Iraq would be ENORMOUS. So why is Ob Obama favoring a "QUICK" withdrawal? The level of casualties that may be taken during a quick retreat of 250,000 American troops and others, would be astronomical. The Saigon retreat by helicopter is in American memory, that was for only the last of the embassy personnel. Nixon had carefully removed 365,000 soldiers from Vietnam during the period from 1969 to 1973.
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Ken's CD'sYes! Some details may have been "enhanced" and others may have been added for the sake of humor -- unless it is totally made up.
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Make it CountThe story of the ship is and many of the characters were really on board. However, the love story is completely fictional.
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FAQThe book's central idea is true (meeting the angel), the journey to Mojave too, but much of what is written is fictionalized. Nevertheless, the most important episode - the meeting of the angel - really did happen, and I left a statue of the Lady of Aparecida in Glorieta Canyon, near Borrego Springs, CA.
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The Last Samurai Frequently Asked Questions - Hollywood Lot ...Like with James Cameron's Titanic, The Last Samurai is a fictional character story placed in an actual historic event and time setting. While the story of Captain Algren isn't true (just like the story of Jack and Rose isn't true in Titanic), the events that surround Algren and the time period are true. In 1877, the Samurai lost their final major battle, during a rebellion, when they went up against more modern weaponry. This factual event is part of the basis of the telling of The Last Samurai.
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Immortal Geisha - Memoirs of a Geisha FAQWhilst Memoirs of a Geisha is a fictional story, Arthur Golden did interview two ex-geisha during his researching phase. The first geisha he spoke with was Kiharu Nakamura, whom he spent an evening speaking with. Kiharu-san has her own biography out about her life as a Shimbashi Geisha. The second geisha he spoke with, and whom he gives a lot of credit to in helping him understand the geisha world is Mineko Iwasaki, who was a very famous maiko and geiko in Gion, Kyoto.
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BAND FAQNot exactly. The Thing That Should Not Be is a similar creature to the Ktulu who also dwells in the underground. The band decided to continue the story but with a different creature.
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The Humble Housewife: Frequently Asked QuestionsI met my husband at music school where he was studying piano and I was studying opera. After meeting one another we both went on to other things. He ended up working in the restaurant business as a fine dining manager and I went into financial customer service at a Fortune 500 company. We decided to move back to Ireland two years ago.
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Questions Frequently asked Jack WeylandYes, some are. If someone tells me of an experience that can help someone else, I may ask them to let me write about it, and they help me along the way. Several of my books are based on true stories. Sara, Nicole, Kimberly, Brittany, Stephanie and Emily are all based on people's experiences. Even in the books not based on true stories, some events in the story are true.
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Nicholas Sparks: FAQHis novels aren't so much based on his life as they are inspired by events in his own life, and though that goes for most of his work, it doesn't apply to all of his books. For instance, his sixth novel, Nights in Rodanthe, was entirely fictional. For a further discussion, please see links to specific novels: The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Rescue, A Bend in the Road, Nights in Rodanthe, The Guardian, and The Wedding.
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Sabertooth Games :: Horus Heresy CCG :: FAQRedemption is our way of saying thank you to our players by allowing them to redeem their credits for promotional foil cards and figures.
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Is the Ring a true story?
Frequently Asked QuestionsThe Ring is not a true story. It was made up by Japanese author Suzuki K?ji (called the Stephen King of Japan), and then adapted into various other forms, mostly theatrical movies.
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Frequently Asked Questions about Adam RifkinDo you really think I would tell such a story if it weren't true? Actually, bottom line: I tell the truth sometimes. And no, I did not get engaged because Michelle got sick of my calling her a PASSLQ. By the way, we did finally get married in 1998. So now she can't leave me without some serious legal maneuvering...
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Is That True That People Can Trace Their Ancestor Lines Via ...Do you know if the character and the story of Mulan is a true story?I think I heard somewhere that there was actually a Chinese girl by that name who saved the city. I have a nice collection of stone tools I have found over the years. People have said Indians used them but they appear to me to be from cave man days.
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B?thory Erzs?bet - Elizabeth Báthory: Short FAQIt's mostly speculation. The few documents that exist are not available translated into a language I can read (alas, my Hungarian is limited to "köszönöm" and "jol" and "jo napot" and what I vaguely remember from my youth). Her diaries may be more fiction than fact. At least one person has told me that he has seen them and held them in his hands, and has relatives who can read them and have translated portions.
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FAQ threelac | candida | yeast concerns | help now!I think it is wiser to look at facts because numbers can be distorted by whoever is trying to paint the picture. It is well recognized that yeast infections exist. I don't know if there is a crisis and I would be pleased to see more data on this. The wiser course is to educate yourself about it.
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Shakespeare FAQ at Absolute ShakespeareNot really. First, there is no historical record of such a love affair ever having taken place. Second, the film is a work of plausible fiction. Third, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway at age 18 and penned Romeo and Juliet which features in the film in 1595 at the age of 31. Thus any depiction of such a love affair during the writing of Romeo and Juliet would have to have meant Shakespeare was cheating on Anne.
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