Other moments of great impact involve a tame mouse which Delacroix adopts, a violent struggle with Wharton and his obscene attempts at rabble-rousing , and subplots involving the wives of Paul Bonnie Hunt and the warden Patricia Clarkson. But the center of the movie is the relationship between Paul and his huge prisoner Coffey. Without describing the supernatural mechanism that is involved, I can explain in Coffey's own words what he does with the suffering he encounters: "I just took it back, is all.
I have started to suspect that when we talk about "good acting" in the movies, we are really discussing two other things: good casting and the creation of characters we react to strongly. Much of a performance is created in the filmmaking itself, in photography and editing and the emotional cues of music.
But an actor must have the technical and emotional mastery to embody a character and evoke him persuasively, and the film must give him a character worth portraying. Tom Hanks is our movie Everyman, and his Paul is able to win our sympathy with his level eyes and calm, decent voice. We get a real sense of his efficient staff, of the vile natures of Percy and Wharton, and of the goodness of Coffey--who is embodied by Duncan in a performance that is both acting and being.
The movie is a shade over three hours long. I appreciated the extra time, which allows us to feel the passage of prison months and years. Stephen King, sometimes dismissed as merely a best-seller, has in his best novels some of the power of Dickens, who created worlds that enveloped us and populated them with colorful, peculiar, sharply seen characters.
King in his strongest work is a storyteller likely to survive as Dickens has, despite the sniffs of the litcrit establishment. By taking the extra time, Darabont has made King's "The Green Mile" into a story which develops and unfolds, which has detail and space. The movie would have been much diminished at two hours--it would have been a series of episodes without context.
Making movies that are period pieces are always some kind of tricky business, because on the one hand everyone loves to see something that seems historically accurate, but on the other hand the general audience will have an easier time following and believing the story if they're seeing things that are familiar to them.
And this anachronism is far from the most egregious in the world, but it's a historical inaccuracy nonetheless. In The Green Mile the straitjackets that are used on the prisoners are depicted as having buckles, but buckles weren't introduced into straitjackets until the 's.
Before that they were laced up. Sometimes small details of a film work really well because they're all a part of a grander plan, but in other instances it seems like things come together much more serendipitously. Apparently when the cast was put into their costumes for shooting, director Frank Darabont realized that Doug Hutchison had been given the squeakiest shoes that Darabont had ever heard.
Darabont thought that it was a hilariously appropriate representation of how insufferable and annoying Percy was as a character, so he decided to leave the squeaky shoes as they were.
Percy's shoe squeaks can be heard occasionally throughout the film as a result of that decision. We all know that movies are a dramatized version of reality, and honestly if a lot of things were depicted in a realistic way they wouldn't have the same visual or emotional impact on the audience. And that certainly seems to apply to the realities of dying by electrocution versus what The Green Mile shows death by electric chair to be like. When the death row inmates are actually being put to death by Old Sparky, their reactions are very dramatic screams and convulsions, but in reality all of the muscles in the body contract and people can't even open their mouths when being executed by electricity.
The Green Mile doesn't seem to depict the standard operating procedures of prison guards very well. Not only would they not have been dressed in the uniforms that we see in the film, they wouldn't have been outfitted with weapons inside of the prison either. Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world everyday. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time.
Can you understand? Paul Edgecomb : Yes, John. I think I can. Sign In. Play trailer Crime Drama Fantasy. Director Frank Darabont. Stephen King novel Frank Darabont screenplay. Top credits Director Frank Darabont. See more at IMDbPro. Top rated movie Trailer The Green Mile. Clip Video Photos Top cast Edit. The real perpetrator was another death row member called Bill "Wild Bill" Wharton, who he killed for that.
Still he was executed for them, partly because he wanted it. He was tired of living in this world with his heightened senses and see all the ugliness in it. After John's execution, Paul quit being a prison guard and instead chose to work in the juvenile system instead. Sixty years have passed since then.
Paul is a very old man now. Still he is quite healthy.
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