Green Mile
It's almost always a certainty that if you read a book and really enjoy it, the film version of it will not meet your expectation. A film cannot get across the thoughts of its characters, whereas they are simply written in a book. I have been disappointed over and over again by films of books. One such case recently was that of Thomas Harris's Hannibal. I left the cinema feeling really chatted. They had taken a superb novel and killed it. I am a big Stephen King fan, and found that The Green Mile was compulsive reading. It was originally launched as 6 short stories and later published together in novel format. It was the letter that I bought and fell in love with. When I heard that a film was being made, I decided not to go and see it. I didn't see how any film version could live up to my expectation. However, my boyfriend and a few of our friends were going to see it, so I got roped in. They say that for every rule, their must be an exception. For me, the exception to my rule has turned out to be The Green Mile. Directed by Frank Darabont (who incidentally also directed King's The S
Coffey is an 8 foot tall black man who has been convicted of raping and murdering 10 year old twin girls. Coffey seems to be a simpleton who only knows his own name, and that it's like the drink, only spelled different. Paul Edgecombe discovers that John Coffey has healing powers, and goes about finding out more about him. He can't believe that God would put such powers into the hands of a child killer. It is one of the best films I have ever watched, and certainly the best 'film of the book' that I know of. He works on the mile with, amongst others, Brutus & Harry who are friends as well as colleagues, and Percy Wetmore, the nephew of the state governor and a spoiled brat who is working on death row purely to witness an execution. Characters are cunningly twisted together, and the storyline runs smoothly from inmate to inmate and guard to guard. You are shown how stupidity and bloody-mindedness can have terrible consequences during the 'bad death' of Edward Delacruix, and how evil is always repaid through the interaction of wild Bill and Coffey. I enjoyed this film so much that I bought
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