Film Review: The Green Mile
For my film review on an epic, I watched The Green Mile, staring Tom Hanks (Paul Edgecomb), David Morse (Brutus Howell), and Michael Clarke Duncan (John Coffey). Frank Darabont directed the film. Darabont also wrote and produced the movie. This movie had a very diverse, involving, and changing plot. And to keep this film review somewhat short, I will only share the main, and very important events that happened throughout the film. The beginning starts in a retirement home. Most of the residence are watching television and after changing the channel to an old musical, one of the elder male residence leaves the room in tears. His friend at the home comes to talk to him, and the rest of the movie is his story. You find that long ago he was a prison guard during the depression era in the south. He worked at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary on which a handful of killers lived out their last days before taking a ride on "Old Sparky" the electric chair. The prison is a normal one, with not many odd occurrences, until one day they bring in a new inmate. A huge black prisoner named John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), "like the drink but not spelled the same". He was accused of the killing of two
The villains, I thought just seemed too real. There was no way that there could be a repeal on the execution, so they did not even try. Several of the inmates 'walk the green mile and ride Old Sparky' in this time. Edgecomb knew that was his punishment, he had to live so long, he had to witness the death of his wife, son, friends and so on. Eventually it came time to execute the huge inmate who cries a lot and like the night left on a night, John Coffey. Later you find that the warden (James Cromwell)'s wife is suffering from an inoperable brain tumor. There were the great, honest American citizens like Edgecomb (Hanks) and there were the antagonists that you just loved to hate, Percy Wetmore (Doug Hutchison) and Wild Bill (Sam Rockwell). Coffey's only wish was to se a moving picture before he died, it was the one which appeared on television in the home. Then, you find that the inmate John Coffey has an incredible power. This was not a movie I thought I would like going into, a three-hour drama. Overall, this is one of the best movies I have ever seen. And some new inmates come into the prison, but it seems as though that is all normal. Edgecomb knew it also had the magic from Coffey, the same that he had, and he told his friend, "I know I'll die someday, but if he could make a mouse live this long, how much longer do I have?".
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