Paul is the head of the death row guard at the Green Mile prison. He is a good worker and not a bad person. Percy is the new guard on the same block. He recently entered this service and has already managed to harm others. Percy is cruel and cunning.

One day, John Coffey, a black man with a huge build, goes to prison. He was sentenced to death for the brutal rape and murder of two girls. John is constantly silent and crying. There is some secret hidden in his eyes. Coffey himself is calm and balanced.

Paul maintained a certain order and discipline in his block. When Percy came to work, everything changed. Percy was bad person and everyone hated him.

Before John arrived, a mouse appeared in prison. This animal wandered around the cells as if looking for someone. It didn't cause any inconvenience, only Percy didn't like it.

Part 2. Mouse on the Mile

The mouse only appeared on the Mile when Percy was away. Edouard Delacroix goes to prison. He was convicted of rape and murder. His fellow inmates nicknamed him Del. The man behaves quietly and peacefully. In it, the mouse finds his best friend. Del gave the pet a nickname, now the mouse was called Mr. Jingles.

Warden Paul was later diagnosed with a genitourinary disease. Warden Moores learned of his wife's cancer.

A new prisoner appears in the Green Mile. His name is Wild Bill. He committed many atrocities. As soon as he arrived at the prison, he immediately quarreled with the guard and almost killed him.

Part 3. The hands of John Coffey

Paul's illness worsened. Today it was especially painful. The warden wandered around the prison exhaustedly. At this time, Paul was called by Coffey. The guard violated prison rules and came close to the convict. John touched Paul's sore spot with his palm, and he felt better. Coffey took the guard's illness and black midges flew out of his mouth. Paul recovered.

The head of security did not believe that John was capable of crime. He believed Coffey had been punished unfairly. Paul is trying to find out the details of this case.

The day of Delacroix's execution was approaching. Percy had to carry out the sentence. Bearing a grudge against Del, Percy steps on his mouse and crushes him. Percy is jubilant.

Part 4. The terrible death of Delacroix

Coffey asks to give him the dying animal. The man covers the mouse with his palms, and black insects again appear from his mouth and dissolve in the air. Mr. Jingles came to life.

Paul and the other guards inform Percy that he needs to change his duty station or he will get into trouble.

The day of execution arrived. Percy gave Del real torture. He did not follow the necessary rules and roasted the prisoner alive on a chair. Delacroix died in terrible agony. Percy was due to leave the Mile in a month.

Paul decides to help the warden with his sick wife. It was Coffey who had to heal her.

Part 5. Night journey

The guards tranquilize Wild Bill and lock Percy in the storage room. So, they manage to quietly get John out of prison. Walking past Bill's cell, John accidentally touched him with his hand. His consciousness was clouded, there was wild horror in his eyes.

When this whole company arrived at the house of the chief of Mili, he did not approve of their visit. Coffey silently approached the dying woman and took her illness for himself. This time he did not release the midges with his mouth. The woman recovered. There was no trace left of the terrible disease. Moores did not appreciate the prisoner's help.

On the way to prison, John becomes ill. He faints. The guards barely brought him to the cell.

Part 6: Coffey Walks a Mile

When the entire night company was in the Green Mile, and Coffey was in his cell, the guards released Percy. He was angry. While walking past John's cell, he was grabbed by the arm. The prisoner released black midges into Percy's mouth. John immediately felt better, and Percy headed towards Wild Bill. He killed the prisoner and then lost his mind.

Paul again makes attempts to justify John. He goes to the father of the girls whom Coffey allegedly killed. After the conversation, it becomes clear to Paul that Bill killed the children, and John just wanted to revive them. The warden understood how Coffey punished Bill.

The morning of John's execution arrived. He told Paul that he was tired of taking people's illnesses and wanted to leave. Coffey took the guard's hand and they said goodbye. When John was executed, all the guards wept. Afterwards they all quit.

A lot of time passed, Paul was already more than a hundred years old, he saw the death of that same mouse from Mili, who lived long life. Paul himself still has many years to live, thanks to the wonderful touch of John Coffey.

This work teaches justice.

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The Green Mile is based on Stephen King's 1996 novel of the same name. According to the author, the film became one of the most successful adaptations of his works.

Initially, Tom Hanks planned to play Paul Edgecombe himself in old age, but experiments with makeup were not entirely successful, so Dabbs Greer was invited, for whom this small role became his last film work.

When Stephen King visited the set, he asked permission to sit in a model of the original electric chair, known as Old Sparky. According to the writer, he experienced not the most pleasant sensations. King invited Tom Hanks to repeat this experiment, but the actor, without leaving his character, refused, citing the fact that he was a guard at Block E and not sentenced to death.

At the beginning of the film, Paul Edgecombe enters the cafeteria of a nursing home where music is playing. This is a composition called Charmaine performed by an orchestra conducted by Mantovani. The same soundtrack was used in the opening scene of the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), when nurses distribute medicine to patients in an insane asylum.

Many viewers and critics considered the film a masterpiece and pointed out the injustice of its lack of Oscars, although the film was nominated for an award in four categories: best supporting actor (Michael Clarke Duncan); best movie; better sound; best scenario based on previously published material.

In the novel Doctor Sleep (the sequel to The Shining), Stephen King describes the main character's magical power (he senses the moment of someone else's death) as the appearance of glowing flies that fly out of his mouth. Something similar happens with the character in The Green Mile, only John Coffey heals people in this way.

By the time Paul introduces Elaine to Mr. Jingles, he must be at least 64 years old, almost ten times the maximum lifespan of real mice.

Michael Clarke Duncan was embarrassed to grab Tom Hanks by the groin while he was getting rid of an infection. During a break between takes, Hanks put an empty plastic bottle in his pants, Duncan was slightly stunned when he felt it in his hand, and the embarrassment immediately went away.

Harry Dean Stanton appears on screen as the old janitor Too-Too. It is curious that in The Green Mile there are characters such as Dean Stanton and Harry, they were invented by Stephen King for his novel long before filming began.

In the novel, Percy Wetmore is 21 years old. Doug Hutchison, who played him in the film, was 39 years old during filming, but he looked much younger. Later, in 2002, when he auditioned for the film The Salton Sea, the director told him that he was too young. Hutchison even had to show his driver's license to prove his age.

In fact, Michael Clarke Duncan is the same height as David Morse and slightly shorter than James Cromwell. To make his character John Coffey seem like a real giant, various tricks and unusual angles were used, as a result of which the illusion is created that the prisoner literally towers over the prison staff.

Doug Hutchison (Percy) was given horribly squeaky shoes during filming. The director considered this a godsend, since this annoying creak only emphasized the disgusting nature of his character.

The film that John Coffey watches before his execution, which many years later prompts Paul to tell Elaine his story, is the classic musical comedy Top Hat (1935). In order to use this footage, the filmmakers moved the action forward three years; in the book, everything takes place in 1932.

Errors in the film

The film takes place in 1935 in the state of Louisiana, according to the plot, those sentenced to death are executed using the electric chair, but this method has been used here since 1940, before that they were executed by hanging.

When Paul and Brutus put Percy in a straitjacket, they secure it with buckles. Until the 1980s, straitjackets were laced through grommets.

It is very unlikely that Billie Holiday's recordings were played on the radio in 1935.

The film takes place in 1935 and features Edouard Delacroix reading Strange Tales, released in November 1937.

Although tape was invented in the 1930s, it had a yellowish tint and was not used to seal the mouth. The sticky layer of this material was not the same as that of modern packaging tape; it would immediately peel off from saliva. Most likely, adhesive plaster was used for these purposes, which is a white glue on a fabric backing, and it leaves marks when removed.

There is a small black clock on the desk in Block E, next to the phone and facing the wall behind the desk. When Wild Bill enters the block, a fight ensues and the clock is knocked off the table. It is clearly noticeable that this is Westclox Big Ben “Style 5”. This model was designed by Henry Dreyfuss and was produced from 1939 to 1949, and the film takes place in 1935.

The film features the soundtrack of three songs by vocalist Eddie Howard, popular in the 40s and 50s, which were recorded on October 4, 1940, that is, five years after the film takes place.

Throughout the film, the gender of the mouse changes. First, when Mr. Jingles appears and then disappears under the door, the mouse is male (this is easy to determine, since the genitals of mice are quite large). However, during the scene where John Coffey shares his cornbread with Mr. Jingles, it is clearly a female mouse.

The voltage used for electrocution is 2450 volts, this is not enough for the current to pass through a dry sponge, Delacroix should have remained unharmed.

In the electrocution scene, the victim convulses as if in a severe seizure, real life It doesn't happen that way. The constant electrical current causes all muscles to contract until the electricity is turned off. In addition, loud screams cannot be heard either; the jaw muscles contract as a result of exposure to electricity, and the victim is unable to open and close his mouth.

The film depicts the cohabitation of black and white prisoners in prison and mixed gangs. This could not have happened in the 1930s.

In the film, the prison guards carry guns. In reality, prison guards are not armed with pistols for fear that one of the prisoners might grab a weapon to take the guard hostage or kill him.

To portray Mr. Jingles, they used rats, not mice, since they are difficult to train, while rats are easy to train. In the reel trick, the props were enlarged to make the scale more realistic.

The Green Mile is a film that can rightfully be called a masterpiece of cinematography! I watch this movie every time and never get tired of it!

The original title of the film is The Green Mile(Green Mile)

Year of release - 1999.

The main character is Paul Edgecombe (Tom Hanks) – the head of the death row of the Cold Mountain prison. John Coffey is brought to them - a huge black man who has not only large size, but also some kind of magical power.

He helped Paul from his illness.

The wife of the head of the entire prison dies of cancer. Paul and his colleagues take John at night and take him to the warden's house, and a miracle happens! No cancer!

For the crime for which he was sentenced to death, he did not commit it. Paul, realizing how things really are, asks John, “Do you want me to let you go?” But John replies that he is tired of feeling pain, pain all his life.

John gives some of his magical power to Paul! And Paul lives a very long time!...

Poster for the film "The Green Mile".

Director, actors and dubbing in the film "The Green Mile".

Directed by Frank Darabont.

Tom Hanks

David Morse

Michael Clarke Duncan

Bonnie Hunt

James Cromwell

Review of the film "The Green Mile".

Tom Hanks is like a sign of quality! What genre is the film “The Green Mile”? To the genre - good cinema!!! Human destinies... life in general is not a fair thing! You believe the actors so much that you want to shed a tear!

A great movie!

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Russian name	Green Mile
original name	The Green Mile
Genre	drama
Director	Frank Darabont
Producer	Frank Darabont David Valdez
Screenwriter	Frank Darabont Stephen King (novel)
Actors	Tom Hanks David Morse Bonnie Hunt Michael Clarke Duncan
Composer	Thomas Newman
Operator	David Tattersall
Company	Warner Bros. Castle Rock Entertainment Darkwoods Production
Budget	$60 million
Fees	$290.7 million
A country	USA
Language	English French
Time	188 min.
Year	1999
imdb_id	0120689

"Green Mile"(en The Green Mile) - a cult mystical drama based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. 4 Oscar nominations, 3 Saturn Awards, 10 more awards and 23 nominations. Directed by Frank Darabont.

Plot

The film tells the story of Georgia Pines nursing home resident Paul Edgecombe (Tom Hanks). He tells his friend Elaine Connelly (Eva Brent) about working in the prison.

In 1935, Paul works as a warden at the Cold Mountain Federal Penitentiary (Louisiana) - in block "E", where prisoners awaiting execution in the electric chair are kept. Linoleum in the block on which convicts go on their final journey, Green colour, hence his nickname - “Green Mile”.

Among the other guards, Percy Wetmore (Doug Hutchison), a cowardly, vile and evil young man, has recently been working in block “E”. He mocks the prisoners and is confident in his permissiveness, since he is the nephew of the wife of the governor of Louisiana. Tired of Percy's endless antics, Edgecombe and his colleagues enter into an agreement with Wetmore - he will be allowed to supervise the execution of a prisoner, after which he will write an application for transfer to another institution.

A huge black man, John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), is sent to prison, sentenced to death for the rape and murder of two girls. Soon after him, the robber and murderer Bill Wharton, nicknamed “Wild Bill” (Sam Rockwell), enters prison. The Frenchman Edouard Delacroix (Michael Jeter) is also on death row, who tames the smart mouse Mr. Jingles, who appears in prison, and teaches him various tricks.

Meanwhile, it turns out that John Coffey is endowed with supernatural powers - with the help of the laying on of hands, he healed Edgecombe of a bladder infection, and then brought back to life a mouse, which Delacroix trampled on Percy in revenge. Edgecombe begins to doubt Coffey's guilt.

During Delacroix's execution, Percy makes a deliberate mistake, thereby dooming Delacroix to a terrible death. The guards at Block E, meanwhile, decide to secretly take John Coffey to the house of the prison warden, whose wife is sick with an inoperable brain tumor. Everything works out brilliantly, and Coffey heals the woman, but the illness is too strong, and Coffey is brought back to prison completely ill. When Percy approaches his cell, Coffey grabs him and transfers the disease inside him. Percy goes crazy and kills Wild Bill with a revolver. While talking to Edgecombe, Coffey reveals to him through his powers that the murderer and rapist was actually Wild Bill. However, Coffey asks not to interfere with the execution, as he is very tired of the horrors of the life around him.

The novel “The Green Mile” by Stephen King is one of my favorites. Both the book and the film, which was shot simply amazing...

King's novel The Green Mile

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There is no excuse for those who violate God's Law and commit a crime. The death penalty is the best thing that can happen to a person who took someone else's life. Criminals who commit murder end up on death row, where they must atone for their guilt through bloodshed.

But not all of them are legally sentenced to death: among these people there are innocent people who have done nothing wrong to anyone. This is exactly what Stephen King decided to write about in his novel “The Green Mile,” which was created in 1996.

What is the novel “The Green Mile” about?

The book will appeal to those who want to look into where people's lives end. Having plunged into the terrible world of the death row prison block, which is located in a prison called “Cold Mountain”, you will feel what each of the convicts feels.

The story of this terrible place comes from the perspective of its former overseer, Paul Edgecombe. He talks about his past life when he electrocuted criminals one by one. The block in which the death row prisoners were kept was called the "Green Mile", by analogy with the "Last Mile", and because it was covered with green linoleum.

But everything changed when an African American inmate named John Coffey arrived at the prison. His weight is about two hundred kilograms and his height is more than two meters could not but cause fear.

This man was convicted of raping and murdering two girls, which he did not commit. Moreover, John Coffey had unusual abilities: he could heal any patient and bring the dead back to life. But how unfair fate can be to good people. Warden Paul Edgecombe, having learned of John's innocence, tries to free him and help him avoid the death penalty. But sometimes leaving life is the best way to end its heavy burden.

What guaranteed the Green Mile success?

The success of The Green Mile was guaranteed due to the fact that it perfectly combines philosophy and the chilling horror of impending death. It is worth noting that Stephen King, until the very end of writing, could not decide whether to leave the main character, prisoner John Coffey, alive. Surely not only fragile ladies, but also strong men they will shed a few tears after reading the book from cover to cover. Nothing can compare with this most daring work of the King of Horror, who masterfully described the story of “Death Road” and “looked into” the soul of each character in the novel.

Despite the fact that the book has a rather long plot, this did not affect its quality at all. Stephen King seems to be preparing his reader for what will happen next. "The Green Mile" helps to understand the feelings of those who are between life and death in the death row of the Cold Mountain prison.

Film adaptation of the novel "The Green Mile"

In 1999, director Frank Darabont shot the cult mystical drama The Green Mile, which received a large number of awards in various categories. Many critics recognized this film as a masterpiece, and the film's box office grossed over $280 million. This is the only movie based on Stephen King's novels to cross the $100 million mark. The performance of the actors, the created scenery and the work of the director were highly appreciated by the audience.