The Green Mile (DVD)

Having recently reviewed The Shawshank Redemption, it seemed only natural that I turn my attention to a film that appears to have much in common with it, The Green Mile. Both films are adaptations of Stephen king works, both were directed by Frank Darabont, both are set in prisons in the American south in the mid twentieth century and both these very human stories are regarded as two of the finest films of the late twentieth century. Yet for all ...
...the former film follows a twenty-year evolution of a story of humanity, spirit and friendship, The Green Mile covers a very small time scale. The film is based around Paul Edgecomb, a prison guard in charge of the death row block of the Cold Mountain Penitentiary; it's 1935. Although made slightly cynical by his years at the task, he is basically a good guy doing a difficult job and does his best to keep things as easy as possible for all concerned. ...

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...everything when it comes to the movie world. My favorite genres are most definitely the 'Horror/Sci fi' and 'Action' films and the 'Drama' section is my least favorite, I do prefer films that go crash, bang, wallop to something you have to sit and listen to. It may come as a surprise then, that I am about to give such high acclaim to a drama movie. The Green Mile staring Tom Hanks is an exception to my fast paced standards, the movie has just ...
...watching. ~~~~~~THE STORY~~~~~~ The Green Mile is set inside an Alabama death row prison ward in the 1930’s, the head guard is Paul Edgecomb (Hanks) who works rotating shifts with his best friend Brutus (David Morse), and three other guards, Dean Stanton (Barry Pepper) Harry Terwilliger (Jeffrey De Munn) and the state governor’s nephew Percy Witmore (Doug Hutchison). Brutus is a huge man but he is also extremely fair towards the death row inmates ...

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The Green Mile 1999 (18) Director: Frank Darabont I grew up with Stephen King - well, not literally of course because he lives miles away and the age difference is insurmountable - but with his books. I’ve been a long time lover of his writing, as my groaning bookcase will testify, but a long time hater of the movies that his books have spawned. The reason behind this is quite simple: lazy, careless productions. In putting King’s books on screen, ...
...all the humanity and feeling and leaving the dismembered remains of so much pulp horror. It is only recently that film makers have stopped automatically assigning King to the world of bargain-basement hack ‘n’ slash and paid proper attention to his work with Frank Darabont’s now legendary Shawshank Redemption, and it is in Darabont’s hands that The Green Mile continues this trend. The Green Mile was originally released as a serial with six instalments. ...

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...about life on death row. The serialisation was set in Cold Mountain Penitentiary. The original books had the titles, The Two Dead Girls, The Mouse On the Mile, Coffey’s Hands, The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix, Night Journey and Coffey on the Mile. I can still remember waiting each month for the next book to be released and had placed an order to ensure I would get my copy. It is amazing how long a month is when you have enjoyed a story and are waiting ...
...elated when I learned that the books were being turned into a film! ‘The Green Mile’, so called because the floor of Death Row was green, was released in 1999, with a running time of just over 3 hours, much longer than the standard one and a half hours, this film is a marathon. In fact I think marathons have been run in less time. The narrative is set in 1935 and centres around a prison guard Paul Edgecombe(Hanks) who develops a relationship with ...

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...to get round to watching The Green Mile. I don't know how many times I've read great reviews about it on Ciao and Dooyoo and vowed to see it myself someday. I'm not keen on Stephen King or Tom Hanks, so maybe that was partly why I didn't watch it sooner. Then I saw the DVD on sale cheap about four months ago and bought it. Last night, I finally watched The Green Mile. Wow! What an amazing film. If you haven't seen it yet, don't wait as long as I ...
...The film is set in an American prison in the 1930s. Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) is in charge of the prisoners on Death Row in the state of Louisiana, along with his team of fellow prison guards. Their duty is to look after the prisoners and ultimately, to carry out the death sentence in the electric chair. A convicted murderer called John Coffey arrives one day. Despite being charged of a brutal rape and murder of two young girls, Coffey does not ...

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The "Green mile", is the name used in the film, for the walk from a prison cell to the electric chair. This film will make you think a little more about the death sentence and how the legal system works in general, although I must emphasise this film is purely fictional and aimed at being entertaining rather than a political statement. The Story ********* Paul Edgecomb (played by Tom Hanks) is a prison guard on death row duty. He has watched men ...
...very simple and afraid of the dark. Coffee has been sentenced to death, for the rape and murder of two young girls and initially Edgecomb is understandably wary of this gentle giant. As time progresses, Edgecombe becomes curious of this new inmate. Finding it hard to believe that this man could commit such an evil crime, he looks deeper into Coffee’s conviction and later on discovers that there is a lot more to the case than meets the eye. There ...

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...that has been adapted from the superb book written by Stephen King that has received so much praise. This film proves that a film can outclass a book especially with superb directing by, in this case, Frank Darabont who directed the Shawshank Redemption. I would personally regard The Green Mile as an epic because of the sheer fact of the great detail and the true realisation of what life on death row is like. The general storyline of the film involves ...
...have been sentenced to death. The film possesses a very high quality set of actors with barely any women in the film. The cast of the Green Mile includes Tom Hanks (playing Paul Edgecomb) who stars as the head guard of the death row known as the Green Mile. His ward also includes fellow actors David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, James Cromwell and Mike Jeter who you may have noticed were also in Saving Private Ryan like Tom Hanks. They all help run the ward ...

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Wonderful films like The Green Mile don't come along very often and so when you do you need to treasure and cherish them and keep them safe and warm. But don't ever take them for granted because such films are very prone to turning on you with a nasty sting in the tale. And while The Green Mile is a truly amazing film with plenty of moments of humour (mainly arising from the comradely relationships between the prison guards on Death Row), ultimately ...
...Louisiana prison in 1935. The green mile of the title is the path from the cells to the electric chair where in the end all the prisoners are fated to end their days. You could be forgiven for assuming the depression arises from the scenes including that electric chair, and true enough they're horrifically graphic and genuinely disturbing (and that is the reason why Mrs D refused to watch this film), but for me there's something which is even more ...

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...feeling dissipates from me. The film is adapted from a Stephen King novel of the same title, and centres around two main characters with a few others around them to carry the film through its various stages. A prison officer, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks' character) who was in charge of block E in a Louisiana State Prison, starts narrating a tale to an lady friend in the elderly home they reside in. He sets off telling her that he used to supervise ...
...name of the Green Mile ( death row, that is ), given that name instead of the usual ' Last Mile ' due to the fact that the floor in that block was lime green in colour. One day, a man sentenced to death for killing two little girls, is brought to the block. The first thing that strikes everyone is the man's size, known as John Coffey ( just like the drink, but spelt differently - you'll understand if you've watched it, or when you do watch it ), ...

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...a film that has done the book justice. The Green Mile was adapted from the book with the same title written by Stephen King. Because I had read the book first, quite some time ago, I wasn`t expecting it to be that good even though I`d read some great reviews about it. Death row is known as the long mile, but because this row had green flooring it was named the green mile. The leading actors in this film are Tom Hanks who plays the character Paul ...
...Morse (Brutus"brutal"Howel). John Coffey, the very lovable, gigantic black man, is sentenced to death row for the murder of two little girls. This was the only character who was not as I pictured him in my mind. Paul Edgecomb is the warden in control of death row and works alongside Percy Wetmore and Brutal. It becomes apparent very early on in the film, that Coffey has some very special powers. From the way he uses them, Edgecomb believes that ...

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...back in 1996 all about the lifes of people on the so called death row. They were as follows: 1. The Two Dead Girls 2. The Mouse On the Mile 3. Coffeys Hands 4. The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix 5. Night Journey 6. Coffey on the Mile I was quite young in 1996 and never actually read the books but one day I think I'm going to get round to reading them all. The film 'The Green Mile' was then released 3yrs later and was a film about all the six ...
...floor of the death row was Green. The film was quite long as you can probably imagine, the six books put into one film came to a running time of just over 3hrs. I wonder how they did it in 3hrs to be honest, nowadays we have the 'Lord Of The Rings' taking up to 3hrs and thats the just one book from a set! The film itself is set in the year 1935 and revolves around a young prison guard named Paul Edgecombe who is acted by Tom Hanks. There is an inmate ...

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Frank Darabont directs the second adaptation of this Stephen King prison tale (the first being the Shawshank Redemption). This award winning movie stars Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecomb and Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey. The Plot Paul, a Lousiana security guard working on death row during the Great depression forms an unlikely bond with a convicted murderer. John, convicted for the rape and murder of two white girls, does not seem to fit the character ...
...bladder infection by touch alone, the ‘evil’ spewing from his mouth. Paul, seeing the simple goodness in John begins to feel that the gigantic black man, who is afraid of the dark and often cries, cannot be a murderer, but the facts of the case seem to be indisputable. John was found with the two dead white girls in his arms, blood pouring from their head. As the movie progresses and we see the bond grow between the two, we get in insight ...

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...truly touches you and has the power to create emotions within you. The best drama films are ones which do this and change your life. Under these criteria, The Green Mile truly is one of (at least) the best drama films ever made. No I know you’ve heard it said before about hundreds of other films, and cynicism may take over, causing you to switch off now I’ve said this. But I urge you to fight this and listen to what I have to say. This ...
...you after watching this film. The film projects conflicting images of humanity, which is what makes it so powerful and gives it its ability to affect so deeply. Are humans good or bad? Or are they just human, and as such, a mixture, each unique, each with their own unique levels of goodness and badness and perceptions. How do the consequences of our actions affect the lives of others? How easily do we jump to conclusions about others, without really ...

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This is the second Stephen King adaptation by producer / director Frank Darabont, the first being the awesome 1994 classic "The Shaw Shank Redemption" another movie set on death row. This time the story again is a simple prison tale and is a hopeful charmer with a hint of the supernatural in there too. The film starts with Hanks in an old folks home filled with emotion whilst watching an old Fred Astaire movie reminds him of his younger days working ...
...narrate the story and the flashbacks begin which sets the scene for the rest of the film. Paul's life was to be changed forever by the arrival of a new inmate John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a massive black man convicted of raping to young white girls. Duncan was certainly the most perfect person suited to this role, he was a giant, and he was simply awesome at being the gentle giant. Nominated for best supporting actor at the Oscars an award ...

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...didn't care for another in the long line of Tom Hanks Oscar winning films but when you're drugged up to high heaven on paracetamol and cough mixture somethings just make sense. But should I get drugged up again and watch something else of the same ilk? Well after this I'm off to the Chemists as I want more of the same. This is an excellent film of that there's no doubt but it does have it's faults. Retired prison warden Paul Edgecomb recalls the ...
...row cell block changed the lives of everyone he touched. John Coffey has been convicted of double murder and sentenced to death by electrocution, and Edgecomb and his team are the ones responsible for guarding him and pulling the switch. But Coffey has the gift of healing...and the warden's wife is terminaly ill. I'm not spoiling the ending or adding anything else so don't ask. The subject matter is decidedly gruesome and it comes as no suprise ...

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