THE GREEN MILE | A Work Of Hideous Beauty 

So - what are your top five Stephen King adaptations? Mine would be; The Shining (yes, I know he hates it) Misery Carrie The Mist The Shawshank Redemption + 1922 (as the most underrated) As always, the best way to help us is to leave a comment, like, subscribe and tell a friend! If you're in a position to do so - consider checking out our patreon at www.patreon.com/inframeout IFO X

I forgot how beautiful The Green mile looked. This is one of my favorite videos by this channel, very compelling and thought provoking analysis

Tipping my hat to the Happy Gilmore appreciation.

Frank Darabont absolutely cleared it with his 3 King adaptations. The short story is every bit as excellent. You can get it in the collection Four Seasons which also includes The Body, the source of the film Stand By Me Honestly, in my opinion King's best work isn't even his horror. All his heartfelt short stories are incredible

Mist had the best ending of a movie ever, my Mom walked out without waiting for the ending😂

As a person who loves being completely destroyed by movies emotionally. This one fucks me up more than most.

Jennifer C, Claire MD, and Becchio can never be allowed to stop supporting you financially because the lilting sing song of their names at the end of every video is too satisfying to be without.

This movie is childhood nostalgia for me thanks for bringing this back to my attention.

Pet Semetery Christine Stand by Me The Mist (in black&white of course) The Shawshank Redemption + Maximum Overdrive (as the most batsh*t crazy adaptation) + Sleepwalkers (as the most batsh*t crazy original screenplay) + Michael Jackson’s Ghosts (as the actual most batsh*t crazy thing he’s ever written)

My favorite adaptations are the Darabont and Reiner films. I also liked the Castle Rock series and wish they would make more. I see King and Darabont as old white guys who grew up around flagrant acts of racism that people didn't try to hide with dogwhistles, and their anti-racist intentions are fairly obvious. They've used the Magical Minority because it feels right to them to place characters of color on a pedestal after seeing minorities in the real world being treated like they are less than human. There's something about Americans where we see something we think is wrong, and more often than not our instincts tell us to swing too far in the opposite direction to counteract the wrong that's been happening. It takes decades or even longer of work and discussion to find a nuanced position. And even then we are still left with super divisive extremes on either side of the nuance. I'm realizing this makes nuance sound a lot like centrism, and maybe what I'm getting at is that centrist is a word thrown around by people who don't want to do the work of meeting other people where they are to actually talk about difficult problems. If we treated American patriotism as it's own fandom then your take starting at 18:55 is spot on. I appreciate what you do here, In/Frame/Out guy.

Hmmm i never thought of morpheus from the matrix as a "magical minority" more of a race swapped version of the orientalized "wise martial arts master" (the wachowskis relation to asian culture is a whole other can of worms), and imo he had enough narrative agency and interiority to not just feel totally subordinate to the white protagonist. not letting the wachowskis off the hook tho, since the Oracle embodies this trope 100%. Also at the risk of being pedantic, i get why you didn't want to say the original name for the "magical minority" trope, but i think just generalizing it to POC overall really misses how specific this trope is to black Americans, specifically ADOS and how they have been otherized and stereotyped throughout US history (and tbf i think you kind of implictly acknowledge this during your analysis). Loved the inclusion of Baldwins quotes tho, and i encourage any interested in him to check out Raoul Pecks fantastic 2016 documentary adapted from one of his essays. Anyways really good video overall, you made me wanna check this.movie out again, i only have vague memories of watching it on daytime tv as a child.

I read the pocket book of this story written by king and i have to say this is one of the most faithfull king movie adaptation so far.. They took the story and source seriously and dang... reading i was seeing the exact same green linoleum floor

Your insights and film discussions are among the best I've ever come across, and I await your video essays avidly. Thank you for another excellent dissection.

Bonus points for using the balck and white version of The Mist, and how is your writing so good? You take classes or something?

I wonder how an adaptation of The Shining written and directed by Frank Darabont would look like.

Great analysis, as always. Thank you, IFO.

Thoughtful video. Thanks.

A stunning piece of work, thanks for your riveting analysis.

Great video. I've never seen The Green Mile, but you described its themes in such a detailed, interesting, and unique way. Keep up the great work!

You are probably the only one probably the only reviewer that have mentioned the Christain metaphor/ or undertones of this movie. Good job and this movie is devastating and hard to watch sometimes.

"I have magical-powers. I'm about to turn yo' ass into a SPIDER!"

What an excellent video.

Damm RU-vid stopped notifying me about your uploads. It just occurred to me I hadn't seen one in ages. Changed notifications to "all", hopefully that'll do it. EDIT: ALREADY HAD THEM SET TO "ALL"! Not impressed, RU-vid.

Great video and really well thought out and put together essay of critique. You would have to be looking to be angry to come away from this thinking you didn't like the movie or thought it was bad but of course a lot of people online are looking to be angry so I'm sure they'll still pop up in your comments. I'm about to ask the most annoying film fan question but do you have a Letterboxd? Would love to see your thoughts on the movies you are currently watching.

I’m no particular order: Shawshank, Stand by Me, Misery, Pet Sematary, and creep show,

I never thought about the "magical minority" trope extending back to the "Song of the South," but yeah, it totally makes sense. Never seen it, but would be interested to cringe watch just out of historical curiosity. BTW, if you've never seen Key & Peele's "Magical Negro" sketch definitely look it up. You'll piss yourself laughing. I never really thought too deeply about how the magical minority trope was used to alleviate white guilt through the redemption of the white protagonist but that's now so obvious I'll never be able to unsee it. Also, I never realized how much Stephen King overused this idea. It did remind me of the overused "minority buddy/partner" trope that was super prevalent in action movies of the 80s and 90s just to prove the white hero is a cool, non-racist dude (especially if the protagonist is in law enforcement). We've kind of fallen into a cinematic trap of sorts, haven't we? If a white protagonist has a minority friend/assistant/partner the secondary role is instantly considered demeaning for the minority character and if the roles are reversed we've entered into "white savior" territory. So, has the ideal of achieving color blind casting entered a kind of mythical twilight because it can never be truly achieved? An eye opener of a video essay for sure. Excellent, though provoking and funny work as always.

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Only seen Shawshank and Green Mile once. I should rectify that. However, seen The Mist a number of times, love it, and really wanna see it in Black and White. That’s in my top three horror movies of all time alongside Alien 3 and Angel Heart

I always love the quality and tone of your videos

It would make for quite the challenge a writer, I can imagine the critique if one was to write that people of colour needed rescuing by white people. Or if one was to just avoid interracial relationships at all. I guess any potential value is in the "how" it is written.

Such a good analysis on this film. Particularly your last point about how tom hanks is stuck in the useless white guilt bc of his inaction... i had never really thought of it like that but I like that interpretation. Great work!

FINE. I’ll go watch The Green Mile AGAIN.

Michael Clarke Duncan is to the Green Mile what Brendan Frasier to The Whale… there hearts carry the movie

You are just so damned good

It would be funny to find out your whole workflow begins with a Simpson clip..

maximum overdrive, because it's so bad. i've seen more fun bad movies since but it's still stuck with me and one day i would really, really like to remake it as like a grindhouse action comedy

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Small detail but I still thought Id point it out. Originally Morpheus was going to be played by Val Kilmer with Neo being played by Will Smith. So Morpheus isnt really a magical minority character. Doesnt mean you dont have a point about miagical minority characters or that the Matrix doesnt have flaws. For my money eXistenZ was the better "what is reality?" film of 1999. (I still like it though)

I appreciate you for going the racial discussion path i thought you won't am glad you are not a coward

I despised Sam Rockwell for years after seeing this movie, same with Kevin Bacon.

The thing about white guilt is that it is incredibly valid to feel shame and empathy for the people that have been wronged because of whiteness, as well as acknowledge the advantages that people like me have because of our whiteness. But at the same time, you shouldn't make a huge spectacle and act like a pick me. You shouldn't feel personally responsible for the actions of people who were alive before you were even born. What's in the past already happened. The best you can do is learn from the mistakes of others, and stop the cycle of hatred.

"EXEUNT" is the False God of Prophets. I recommend we Fire them.

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