Woe betide to me! What am I doing? Talk about the great classic The Green Mile! Who am I to doing this? Well, it’s because it left his mark on me, so much that I couldn’t not speaking about. The story is captivating that it marks our memory for years.
Movie’s Card
- Title: The Green Line
- Release: 1999 (US)/ 2000 (FR)
- Time: 188 minutes
- Realisation: Franck Darbont
- Scripwriter: Franck Darbont
- House of Production: Castle Rock Entertainment; Darkwood Production
- Music: Thomas Newman
- Starring:
- Thom Hanks: Paul Edgecomb
- Mickael Clarke Duncan: John Coffey
- David Morse: Brutus Howell
- Doug Hutchison Percy Wetmore
- Sam Rockwell: William Wharton
Quick summary to all people who didn’t watch it yet. Within the 1930s, The Green Mile take place in a United States’ penitentiary and more specifically in a bulding where condemned men are incarcerate. Introducing to the team leaded by Paul who are in charge to care of the prisonners, duty which they want to do as humanly as possible. Until one day, when a man called John Coffey come. He is black as the coffee and so big as a mountain that we are afraid he can crush our skull with one hand. However, time flies and the team is not sure that this man is so bad as people says.
Not be able to tell you more about the story is so difficult. Not sharing all the thrielled about such stage or this other stage to keep the supens on is tough. I don’t even know why I inflict this to myself. Other thing you should know about this movie, it is from a book called by the same name and writted by Stephen King. This story was born while a phone call between the writter and the director. I must confess that I don’t usually like King’s work. And here I am, talk to you about his book’s adaptation, you can never tell.
Back to the story. I find interesting to watch the executioners who were deeply caring that prisonners were look at humain being despite their crimes. In the same spirit, we can see the prisonners’ ways to deal with the fact there have no more hope. Until the arrival of this damnit character of new guardian and who car not at all of people. He was so well writted and played; every time I look at him, I just want one thing: smash sense in his face!
I like the fact we can watch the directions that the characters take and the way that the movie was made to show us this. I like this part too which introduce the movie as a tale tell by Paul as an old man at the begenning and the end to complete the circle.
Don’t forget about movie’s anecdoctes!
- John Coffey’s player was already big (1,96m) but to fit the book character’s stature (2,13m), he must walked or showed himself while standing on a litlle dais.
- Hanks was already see as Paul Edgecomb. It was planned that he will play the part where his character is an old man. If the make up was fine, the actor didn’t want to appear direspectful for playing an old Paul around real old people. So it was an other actor who took this part.
- And I can let you leave without mention the play of Sam Rockwell. He was so into his character that he made a little girl cryed on stage. He waited the cut to comfort the poor girl. So pretty well played! Well, that and the fact I also wanted smashed his face!
Shortly, a story which mix humanity and suspens, compassion and perversity, realism and a little bit of fantastic. It’s a movie which made me moved into tears. Despite it, I watch it over again from time to time because it’s so beautiful. People who already saw it know of what I’m talking about and to who never saw it, I hope this article will make you see it soon. Cookie flavour 30s, coming through!
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