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	The Green Mile: Film Analysis
		Specifically, the film's characters are defined in terms of their willingness to either alleviate or cause the misfortunes of the other.
		This is due to the fact that all that is pessimistic and destructive in the film is realistically portrayed, while all that represents a favorable resolution of the conflicts is delivered in a fantastical fashion.
		The Green Mile, a film which tries to deliver optimism through highly fictionalized means, nevertheless denunciates evil; one that, due to its realistic depiction, cannot be misunderstood.
	www.cinephiles.net /The_Green_Mile/Cinephiles-Gate.html (1528 words)

	The Green Mile - The Film Guide - a Wikia wiki
		The electric chair featured in the film was built from the original designs of an electric chair named "Old Sparky" which is part of the museum/tour of the Moundsville State Penitentiary in West Virginia.
		At the end of the film, as Paul leaves the cemetery after Elaine's burial, a tombstone can be seen behind him that reads "Greene", and two others, one in the foreground and one to the right of the screen, that read "Story".
		Instead of Dolan, it is watching the 1935 film Top Hat that provokes the flashback, and this film is added to the main storyline as well, in which John Coffey's last request is to be able to see a motion picture before he is executed.
	filmguide.wikia.com /wiki/The_Green_Mile (1271 words)

	The Green Mile: Cinephiles Movie Review
		The Green Mile is narrated by the retired guard (Dabbs Greer as the elderly Edgecomb), in an extended flashback which takes the viewer to 1935.
		The Green Mile, a title which relates to the common way of calling the green floor or walkway from the prisoners' cells to the execution chamber, centers on Edgecomb's kind efforts to maintain order and a certain level of peace among the prisoners until each is escorted to the electric chair.
		Surprisingly The Green Mile shifts its focus from the practical world of Edgecomb to the incredible, supernatural gift of John Coffey, a man who is charged with murdering two girls, but whose "miracles" may clear him of guilt as well as provide a higher sense of order in Cold Mountain.
	www.cinephiles.net /The_Green_Mile/Film-Synopsis.html (343 words)

	It's a wonderful death \| Features \| Guardian Unlimited Film
		The Green Mile is set in a death row prison block in Louisiana in 1935.
		And indeed, The Green Mile's simplistic vision of the world is one in which the bad guys have shifty eyes and are sadistic to pet mice.
		When Coffey walks the Green Mile (the title is a reference to the colour of linoleum on the death row floor) to the electric chair, everyone on screen seems to be crying.
	film.guardian.co.uk /oscars2000/story/0,4135,137287,00.html (1551 words)

	The Green Mile (film) Summary
		The Green Mile is a 1999 movie, directed by Frank Darabont, based on the Stephen King novel The Green Mile.
		The film stars Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecomb and Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey.
		The Green Mile (film): The Green Mile (film) Summary
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	february 2000 \| blackfilm.com \| reviews \| film \| the green mile
		the ranking prison guard on the death row cell block, nicknamed "the Green Mile" because of the color of the tile that leads from the holding cells to the execution room.
		Mile is an excellent movie primarily because director Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) has a remarkable gift for creating intimacy between the viewer and the film setting.
		Although I do not believe The Green Mile is a movie for the ages, I do feel that Frank Darabont is establishing himself as one of the great young directors of his time and I look forward to his next movie.
	www.blackfilm.com /0202/reviews/film/thegreenmile.shtml (500 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Green Mile [2000]: Video: Tom Hanks,David Morse,Bonnie Hunt,Michael Clarke Duncan,James ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Green Mile is Frank Darabont's second adaptation of a Stephen King prison drama (The Shawshank Redemption was the first) and is a very faithful adaptation of King's serial novel.
		The film manages to completely take you into their world and make you not only want to protect the 'supposed murdering inmate' John Coffee from the very first scene he appears in but by the end of the film frankley, you'd swap your granny for him.
		Timewise, this film was set 2 years before the death of fl singer Bessie Smith, who died in 1937, while on the way to a show in Memphis when she was killed in a car accident in rural Tennessee.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Green-Mile-Tom-Hanks/dp/B0000AQVNA (2730 words)

	february 2000 \| blackfilm.com \| reviews \| film \| the green mile
		the ranking prison guard on the death row cell block, nicknamed "the Green Mile" because of the color of the tile that leads from the holding cells to the execution room.
		Mile is an excellent movie primarily because director Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) has a remarkable gift for creating intimacy between the viewer and the film setting.
		Although I do not believe The Green Mile is a movie for the ages, I do feel that Frank Darabont is establishing himself as one of the great young directors of his time and I look forward to his next movie.
	blackfilm.com /0202/reviews/film/thegreenmile.shtml (500 words)

	CLUAS \| Film Reviews \| The Green Mile
		The film follows Edgecomb through three separate executions, each one more brutal then the last, as his suspicions about his new inmate's guilt increase.
		Yet whilst the main fault of Darabont's last film was its reliance on old prison film conventions (shower rapes etc), this film eschews them for the most part, or at least puts a new spin on them.
		The ending of the film is a masterwork in audience manipulation, as we gradually see the decision that Edgecomb is forced into to.
	www.cluas.com /cinema/greenmile.htm (731 words)

	The Green Mile Movie Review (1999) from Channel 4 Film
		Though the film drifts off down some long blind alleys, when Darabont exercises discipline the result is highly effective.
		The relationship between Edgecombe and Coffey is tenderly painted and the depiction of the green mile itself - the eerily tinted corridor that leads to the electric chair - is very creepy.
		Though the film is way too long, there's a great deal of value here thanks to the imaginative stylings of Darabont and a story with plenty of emotional impact.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=103973 (336 words)

	THE GREEN MILE: In Film Australia movie review
		So the elements of justice and purpose are still very evident the second time around, where the intensity of the surroundings are heightened on the turf of the ‘Green Mile,’ the name given to a stretch of floor on death row.
		Dararbont, however, is too careful to let the film slip under the weight of pretentiousness, and Hanks is too solid to allow the acting to crumble.
		The bookend beginning and ending sequences of the film reassure this, and they create a near-poignant view of an old man who "likes to walk." Regardless of whether they are tacked on purely for narration purposes, many singular frames in these scenes tell stories of their own, and provoke and stimulate narrative possibilities.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/greenmile.htm (948 words)

	The Green Mile (1999): Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Sam Rockwell - PopMatters Film Review
		That a hit (or even a decent) King-based film is hard to come by has little to do with the quality of King's writing, but everything to do with the inescapable fact that at his core, the so-called modern master of horror is really a whore.
		That is, we have a three-hour film in which the sole fl figure is locked in a cage throughout, except when the guards (with shotguns at the ready) let him out only for a few hours to save the warden's ailing wife in her deathbed, and then when he's executed.
		Even as this film kills off its only fl character (and let's not forget the whole thing is predicated on his "miraculous" nature), we are assured that his execution is really a kindness, a correction of some metaphysical wrong, a psychic justice.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/g/green-mile.shtml (1111 words)

	`The Green Mile': The Walk on Death Row Can Seem Very Long
		To watch a film this unhurried (three hours) is to choose a companion for a long ocean voyage.
		There are more Green Mile regulars (including James Cromwell as the warden), and each one drops his jaw when Duncan's John Coffey arrives on the scene.
		"The Green Mile" involves assorted acts of cruelty and one lurid, extended electrocution scene that makes the horrors of the death penalty grotesquely clear, but much of it is very gentle.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/121099green-film-review.html (862 words)

	The Green Mile (movie) \| Shawshank Redemption
		The Green Mile is a 1999 movie, directed by Frank Darabont, who adapted the story from the Stephen King novel The Green Mile.
		The "Green Mile" is the corridor from the cells where the prisons live to the execution room.
		The prison guards wear uniforms to aid the film's visual style, even though they were not in use at the time in which the movie is set.
	www.shawshankredemption.net /movies/the-green-mile.html (828 words)

	The Green Mile
		The film takes its sweet time getting where it is going and in so doing, hooks the audience by the gills by the end of the first hour.
		The Green Mile was a pleasure to read as it came out in installments (King transformed a stunt into a valid artistic statement), but it is chock full of obvious symbolism and, like many of King's later work, has supernatural content that rings false.
		Since both films translate all of the virtues of their source to the screen, it is probably inevitable that they would translate all of the flaws, too....
	www.tranquility.net /~benedict/greenmile.html (795 words)

	Sociological Analyses of the Movie Green Mile - Associated Content
		Green Mile is a prime example of a culture and as a system of beliefs shared by group members that guides and constrains their conduct.
		Green Mile is a movie adapted from a story about the lives of a few guards on duty in death row.
		As he enters the “Green Mile” the guards are complete taken by the paradox of his massive size and soft-spoken manor.
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	The Green Mile
		The Green Mile is probably one of the more anticipated mainstream holiday movies of the year.
		Usually called the "last mile" because of the path to the electric chair, the Green Mile takes its name from the lime green color of the prison floor.
		The Green Mile is episodic in nature, with Darabont seemingly afraid to trim anything down, and although it is slow at times, the movie is never slow moving (for its entire three hours).
	www.haro-online.com /movies/green_mile.html (677 words)

	DVDFILE.com
		When it was first announced that Darabont would be adapting The Green Mile, fans were overjoyed given the high regard that Shawshank continues to engender despite the surface similarities between the two stories.
		The film and story are pretty much fair in their portrayal of all sides; the law enforcers, the criminals, the guilty, and the wrongly convicted are all represented here.
		There are no easy answers, and the film suggests that beyond a simple argument over right or wrong, good or evil, the real tragedy of capital punishment is the sorrow, despair and pain that the taking of a human life brings, "justified" or not.
	www.dvdfile.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5760&Itemid=3 (1216 words)

	The Green Mile Movie Review by Anthony Leong
		Based on the serialized Stephen King novel of the same name, "The Green Mile" marks the return of Frank Darabont to the director's chair, who directed the cinematic adaptation of "The Shawshank Redemption" five years ago, another Stephen King prison drama.
		Together, they are in charge of E-block (which is also referred to as 'the Green Mile' for its lime-colored linoleum floors), which houses the prison's death row inmates, including Eduard Delacroix (Michael Jeter of "Jakob the Liar") and Native American Arlen Bitterbuck (Graham Greene, seen recently in "The Grey Owl").
		In addition, the film boasts a number of supporting roles of note, including James Cromwell ("The General's Daughter") as the prison's warden, Harry Dean Stanton ("The Mighty") as an amusing volunteer for 'practice executions', Bonnie Hunt ("Random Hearts") as Paul's wife, and a cameo by Gary Sinise ("Snake Eyes") as John Coffey's defense attorney.
	members.aol.com /aleong1631/greenmile.html (852 words)

	The Green Mile (1999)
		The film raked in a tidy $136 million in the US, which is a pretty amazing sum for a three-hour prison movie.
		Since Hanks is clearly dominant over the others, Mile isn't a true ensemble piece, but it's pretty close, and it succeeds largely based on the reality these performers add to their roles.
		The Green Mile offers an entertaining little fable that takes too long to get to its conclusion and follows too many dead ends along the way, but I still felt that it worked well as a whole, largely due to the presence of a fine cast.
	dvdmg.com /greenmile.shtml (1679 words)

	Film: The Green Mile
		One of the strong contenders is The Green Mile, written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the serialised novel by Stephen King.
		The Green Mile is concerned with capital punishment only as one element of Paul Edgecomb's journey and in that sense it isn't really a prison film at all.
		Nevertheless, the violent subject matter of The Green Mile raises the perennial issue of what is and isn't acceptable on the screen.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/film_reviews/article_130.asp?s=1 (927 words)

	The Green Mile Movie Review by Anthony Leong
		And though the film's intensity occasionally lapses from its meandering narrative and unnecessary bookends, "The Green Mile" remains riveting nonetheless, touching on themes of redemption and justice, while illustrating how, for evil to sustain itself, that it only requires good men to do nothing.
		Together, they are in charge of E-block (which is also referred to as 'the Green Mile' for its lime-colored linoleum floors), which houses the prison's death row inmates, including Eduard Delacroix (Michael Jeter of "Jakob the Liar") and Native American Arlen Bitterbuck (Graham Greene, seen recently in "The Grey Owl").
		In addition, the film boasts a number of supporting roles of note, including James Cromwell ("The General's Daughter") as the prison's warden, Harry Dean Stanton ("The Mighty") as an amusing volunteer for 'practice executions', Bonnie Hunt ("Random Hearts") as Paul's wife, and a cameo by Gary Sinise ("Snake Eyes") as John Coffey's defense attorney.
	www.mediacircus.net /greenmile.html (852 words)

	Film Reviews for Green Mile, The
		Unlike most guards, they are decent souls, who try to make the last days of the men on their death row -- called The Green Mile because of the color of the floor -- moderately pleasant.
		One of the elements in the film that truly succeeds is this balance of kindness in both Coffey's and Paul's characters.
		At the end of the film, Hank's character says that the Green Mile was very long.
	www.showbizdata.com /mreviews.cfm/101316/GREEN_MILE,_THE (791 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| 'The Green Mile'
		(Death row is nicknamed The Green Mile, because of its green linoleum.) The newest resident of the row is Coffey.
		King published The Green Mile as the first serialized novel since the 1920s, in a gesture that was meant to recall the serial work of Dickens.
		The film is being released at exactly the right time of year, though, for an audience already swollen with emotion by the holidays.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/12.08.99/greenmile-9949.html (609 words)

	The Green Mile - Film, Kino, DVD
		The Green Mile fängt etwas dubios an, man lernt einen alten Mann aus dem Altersheim kennen, der den ganzen Tag spazierengeht.
		Fakt ist, der Film ist absolut Klasse, immer wenn man meint, man weiß wie es enden wird und was als nächstes passiert, dreht sich das ganze um 180 Grad und man kann alle Theorien wieder über Bord werfen.
		Meine Empfehlung lautet daher, den Film auf keinen Fall zu verpassen.
	www.moviemaze.de /filme/33/The-Green-Mile.html (309 words)

	Filmtracks: The Green Mile (Thomas Newman)
		The Green Mile: (Thomas Newman) The reputation of Thomas Newman for creating scores of epic locality is very high.
		But if you're comparing Newman's score for The Green Mile with his related score for The Shawshank Redemption, then one might deduce the Newman was not trying hard enough this time.
		There is nothing awe-inspiring about The Green Mile, however, for it simply plays at its meandering and unsure pace for the entire 75 minutes of the album.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/green_mile.html (1073 words)

	THE GREEN MILE
		However, some films need to unfold slowly and carefully for their story to be told well and have impact on the audience.
		THE GREEN MILE is about what happens to a prison guard working death row in Louisianna in 1935.
		A cruel coward, Percy makes life on the Green Mile – the cell block's nickname – a difficult place to work for guards and prisoners alike.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsG/f_green_mile.html (746 words)

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