HEARTBREAKING - THE GREEN MILE | FIRST TIME WATCHING | REACTION 

Except... Mr Jingles is a mouse, not a rat

Yes! Such a SWEET little mouse!!!

Mouse

But he was tired. He knew it was his time. That's why he didn't take the chance to run away.

@@dr.burtgummerfan439 That's the saddest thing, they did save John. His gift was his curse...They did save him.

I don't want to save him. He deserved what he got, and sadly it was death. Mostly sad for us--not for him.

@@ruesurnameunimportant4816 join the Percy club..something wrong with ur brain

absolutely, I literally thought that John Coffey would survive this movie

poor Johm, top good for the world

John described the reason he wanted the execution.In death,or his assention to Heaven,he would have peace.

John considered it a mercy kill. Like he said, he was tired of the ugliness of this world, and he did want to be here anymore. He doesn't belong in this world because he's too good for this world.

I love that Melinda gave him that medallion after John healed her. - St. Christopher is a patron saint... he offered protection to travelers and against sudden death, many churches placed images or statues of him, usually opposite the south door, so he could be easily seen. He is usually depicted as a giant, with a child on his shoulder and a sheperd's staff in one hand. Fits John Coffey.

Clint Eastwood & Morgan Freeman also did " Unforgiven " together .

YES... Shawshank Redemption is a must see next!!!

Also " Stand By Me ". Although in the book it's called " The Body ".

Oh yes these two movies are some of the best movies I've ever watched!!

Also " Unforgiven " not Stephen King 😏

They’re not great in 2021 either

You are correct in that. In 1935 cillian based drugs were not as widely used. Sulpha based were the norm. They took a long time to work and most tended to vomit constantly while taking the drug. Which is why treatment was often put off for so long. As is the case with Paul.

Drinking lots of cranberry juice is also a legit treatment for UTIs. But let's face it. Paul is WAAAY past bloody juice or sulphur. Poor bastard needs industrial strength antibiotics.... or 'something' else??? 🤔😆

BIG side note, if you ever get a UTI make sure to see a doctor immediately. If it spreads to the kidneys, you can develop sepsis relatively fast and can be fatal. 👌

@@chriskelly3481 The problem with telling people than "cranberry juice" will treat a UTI is that most people will go buy cranberry "cocktail" which is sold in most stores. It won't help, in fact the sugar will likely worsen the condition. Apple cider vinegar is a good home remedy as well, however if the UTI spreads to/past the bladder, the actual UTI symptoms may reduce and you'll think you're better when the infection is in fact just spreading. The best course of action is definitely to see a doctor and start on prescribed antibiotics, for sure lol.

My views of this movie are somewhere in that area as well and the same thing happens to me.

The dvd had this thing where it would just start the movie over instead of returning to the title screen. When I was in my 20s, I had adopted two kittens and I didn’t have cable. So I would leave the Green Mile playing while I was gone. I’d come home for lunch and just start watching wherever it was in the story, eat lunch, and play with the kittens. So I’ve probably seen parts of the movie 800 times lol. But I’m right there with you. I never make it without crying.

@@83gemm I thought you were going to tell me that the cats were crying and depressed when you got home.

@@cometogether999 😂😂😂 Nah, although one was so sweet I’m surprised he wasn’t. The other I still have and she’s almost 15 and as ruthless as ever. :)

I cry everytime I watch this movie. Even when people react to it

The way things are going, by the Time He gets there, He'll be all Paid Up.

When he staggers through "reroll onnn too" gets me

I think they’ll find it’s “ on the day of my judgment, when I stand before god and he asks me why did I kill one of his, his true miracles, what am I going to say??….😊

​@@pandasanding7036"That it was my job? My job.......??????"

OMG to this day Percy is my most hated movie character ever - Doug Hutchison did an excellent job!

In the book it was stated the reason they couldn’t do anything for him was because of his colour. The judge in that area wouldn’t believe he was innocent, and neither would the Sheriff. You are correct none of the guards, except Percy, cared what race their prisoners were. To them a criminal was a criminal but still a human and Coffey was innocent and a miracle so it hurt them to execute him.

the whole part of his name being John Coffey only not spelled the same is more fleshed out in the book and later john elaborates a little more "not spelled the same at all" Its Jesus Christ not John Coffey, and that he died because of our sins not for it.

EXCERPTS FROM THE BOOK: _[The Dettericks had a dog, which did not bark when the girls were abducted because the perpetrator kept it quiet by feeding it- before breaking its neck; a plan which John Coffey could neither have thought up nor carried out]_ “...but if Coffey opened his lunch and fed the sausages to the dog, how’d he tie the newspaper back up again with that butcher’s twine? I don’t know when he even would have had the chance, but leave that out of it, for the time being. This man can’t even tie a simple granny knot.” There was a long moment of thunderstruck silence, broken at last by Brutus. “How come no one brought that up at the trial?” “Nobody thought of it,” I said, and found myself again thinking of Hammersmith... who liked to think of himself as enlightened, *_Hammersmith who had told me that mongrel dogs and Negroes were about the same, that either might take a chomp out of you suddenly, and for no reason._* Except he kept calling them _your_ Negroes, as if they were still property- but not _his_ property. ... *_”Nobody was really equipped to think of it, Coffey’s own attorney included._* ...I wouldn’t have thought of it either, if I hadn’t put together what he told Deputy McGee that day with what he said after he cured my infection, and what he said after he healed the mouse.” _[the Deputy’s response, when Paul Edgecombe comes around asking questions and making inquiries- and finds out that William Wharton had worked for the Dettericks]_ “It proves nothing, you know that don’t you? ...And if you're thinking of getting him a new trial on the basis of this one thing, you better think again, _seńor._ John Coffey is a Negro, *_and in Trapingus County we’re awful particular about giving new trials to Negroes.”_* _[the crew explaining to Jan- Paul’s wife- why they can do nothing to help John]_ “...[Wharton] being there in May doesn’t mean he came back and killed those girls in June,” Brutal said. “…On the one hand you got this fellow who helped paint the Dettericks’ barn and then went away. Turns out he was committing crimes all over the place, but there’s nothing against him for the three days in May he was around Tefton. On the other hand, you’ve got this big Negro, this _huge_ Negro, that you found on the riverbank, holding two little dead girls, both of them naked, in his arms.… ...[Deputy] McGee might have his doubts but McGee doesn’t matter. [Sheriff] Cribus is the only one who can re-open the case, and Cribus *_doesn’t want to mess with what he thinks of as a happy ending-_* ‘it was a nigger,’ thinks he, ‘and not one of our’n in any case. Beautiful, I’ll go up there to cold Mountain have me a steak and a draft beer it then watch him fry, and there’s an end to it.’”... “All [the Deputy] can do by standing up to him is lose his job,” I said. “Yes I think that in his heart he knows it was Wharton. But what he says himself is that, if he keeps his mouth shut and plays the game until Cribus either retires or eats himself to death he gets the job. And things will be different then… *_And he’s probably not so much different than Homer about one thing. He’ll tell himself, ‘After all, it’s only a Negro. It’s not like they’re going to burn a white man for it.’”_*

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS.

@@SincerelyK.S.O. You're welcome!

@@pullmyfinger336 Please focus on the statement made, she isn’t talking about real life. She quoted the book. To identify an EVIL is not to be consumed by evil. Don’t spread that ignorance. I call out rapists, drunk drivers, murderers and racists - that is not obsession. It is a moral and legal duty. Racism was glaring in the film. It was in the book and Story Ming shared it in the comments. So let people be. If you don’t see it even when the author has clearly spelt it out is his book - then the problem is you. People can talk about racism in books as fiction or non-fiction. The point is was it in the book. And @storyming showed that it was. Period.

Also, realize that none of this is to say that the _message of either the film or book itself_ is promoting or condoning racism. It is not. -If anything, it is *_critiquing_* it. Essentially all that the story is doing is acknowledging that racism exists, and that it is wrong. It does not obsessively focus on it, or go out of the way to hammer the point home. It simply mentions it as a part of the reality of the world they are living in (and which, by the way, NOT ONE of the good-guy, likable characters endorses). If anyone finds that problematic, I would ask them to think very hard about _why_ that is.

Same. This is definitely one of mine too. John Coffey’s precious soul breaks my heart to pieces every time.

Usually I'd agree, but unfortunately the actor is actually quite loathsome in real life too so didn't take a great deal of skill for him x Also p.s. Good riddance to your horrible ex brother in law, hope your sister is OK and happier now x

Did You ever Kick his Ass?

@@caseyh8386 Because of his Age difference with his Wife?

I have the same reactions too.

Same. Very powerful film and performances. Hey ct. ✨🤪

At least Tim Robbins' charcter in The Shawshank Redemption managed to get through to The Beast Warden.

Wharton's more vile though.

I felt your pain dear. Extremely difficult movie to watch. God bless

When it comes to Stephen King movies , I always suggest to read the book first . The book always has what Hollywood leaves out. Does this mean "'MISERY " is next in line ? 😁. Almost all of Stephen King's stories take place in Castle Rock.

That is the best film I have ever watched, it got to me the way it got to you. Other films that I liked are the shawshank redemption, that would be worth a review, I also liked a film called The Celestine Prophercies another worth looking at. Hope you enjoyed the film even though it was a sad ending, shows you should never judge a book by its cover :-)

Hoping you didn't regret this one. It is indeed a painful watch. But, possibly, worth it...? But please, please, please, give yourself a break and watch something LIGHT before tackling Schindler's List!

@@StoryMing " MISERY " is right up KSO alley since it's romance & she's an avid reader .

I don't think John was an angel, more likely something called a "Sin Eater" from old religious folklore. Someone who could take someone's sins away by ingesting them into their self, usually at some kind of cost for all parties involved.

@@dontbstingy3587 but UTIs, brain tumors, and crushed mice aren't sins. I don't think he was necessarily meant to be a sin eater, an angel, or anything else from any mythology or folklore...just kind of loosely based on those sorts of yhings.

Mine too. 😟

Rape ...OMG!!!!

@@ScenecrlyK.S.O. you should do MISERY next!! 👌👌👌 Excellent movie. It won an Oscar 👌

even though the movie doesn't tell what Del's crimes are, and he's portrayed as likable, having read the book and knowing what he's done, i couldn't feel bad for him for a second

I am so confused about the idea of racism even being introduced. John was discovered with 2 dead little girls in his hands. Anyone would have been prosecuted and sentenced as John was, regardless of race. Knowing he was innocent but unable to prove it had nothing to do with his race. I just don't understand how it enters the picture?

lol....

Also in the books we learn that dale burned down an apartment that killed 5 people

Yeah, probably would have just shot him like Swiss cheese in a rage. I mean really, how could they have found a rope (or tree!) strong enough

No he passed in 2012 not 2003

@@sweetkiss119 Wikipedia says 2003

@@stathissdz2125 I just looked up Wikipedia and it clearly says at the top date of death September 3 2012 lol

@@sweetkiss119 I think you saw the information on Michael Clarke Duncan, who indeed died in 2012! Michael Jeter died in March 30, 2003

@@stathissdz2125 I don’t know who michael jeter is. But I’m glad you got the correct information now lol

It was so good . I loved it but it made me cry so much

@@ScenecrlyK.S.O. actor who played John Coffy was Michael Clarck Duncan.He and Tom Hanks became good friends on the set while filming. ..he passed away ...Tom Hanks spoke at his funeral

@@ScenecrlyK.S.O. another great Tom Hanks film u should watch is Cast Away

Very much so agree with every word you used and in the way you used them

@@talez5361 Thank you 🙂

Yes and in the book Dell did horrible things.