Characters and Situations--The Godfather and The Green Mile

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Both "The Godfather" and the prison epic "The Green Mile" depict characters at the center of moral dilemmas. To underline the significance of the ethical dramas of these characters, both films effectively make historical and literary parallels, as well as deploy the techniques of metaphors and visual and verbal symbolism, to give the characters and the plot lines a significance that transcends the purely 'entertainment' quality of the film.

For instance, the character of the Godfather played by Marlon Brando is immediately characterized as a man of power and immoral influence through the use of the literary or historical allusion of the singer at his daughter's wedding-an obvious stand-i

The warden played by Tom Hanks of "The Green Mile" faces a dilemma of a different sort. He is faced, in his own literary allusion, with a classical Biblical dilemma-a Christ like gifted prisoner with great spiritual endowments is accused unjustly of a crime he did not commit, is placed under the warden's care. The symbol of the mouse that demonstrates the man's gift both shows the spiritual power of the man as well as the powerlessness of the prisoner in society, a Black man facing a prejudiced Southern judicial system. Only through the metaphorical healing by the prisoner of the warden's own ailments, however, showing how the prisoner has penetrated the warden's body and soul, does the

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