1:49 "why, they's angels, angels just like up in heaven " It's this scene and the scene where John Coffey held boss Edgecomb's hand for the last time that always makes me cry
Aint ever seen me a flicker show. I've always liked the terms they had for film in the old days. In boardwalk empire someone called it a "Moving picture show". Great stuff.
This movie gets a lot of shit for the whole "Magical Negro" thing, but I stand by Michael Clarke Duncan. He took what could've easily been an offensive stereotype and made the character feel 100% genuine and human.
Well...it does fall into the Magic Negro troupe but it's one that's done right. For example, you have an idea why he has his power unlike most other stories where they're wise just because.
"When a smile touches our hearts. When the forest stills us to peace. When music moves us to rapture. When we really love, laugh or dance with joy. We are at one with the Angels." ~ Dorothy Maclean "Angels... know the chords of our instrument." ~ Paul Jung
I hated this part. He's surrounded by Devils that are going to kill him and he's watching Devils on the screen that wouldn't pass on him if he was on fire. Yet somehow the writers worked this line in the movie. Amazing!
They weren't devils. He as much as told them so in the previous scenes. He commended them for doing their job but told them he was tired and didnt want to live anymore Paul Edgecomb : On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job? John Coffey : You tell God the Father it was a kindness you done. I know you hurtin' and worryin', I can feel it on you, but you oughta quit on it now. Because I want it over and done. I do. I'm tired, boss. Tired of bein' on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. Tired of not ever having me a buddy to be with, or tell me where we's coming from or going to, or why. Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world everyday. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time. Can you understand? Paul Edgecomb : Yes, John. I think I can.
@@Matthewsmollen4 No, unlikely but it was a "special occasion" I guess you could say and short of taking him out of the prison to do it there was probably no other place to watch it.
@@Matthewsmollen4 Probably because he was a poor person especially a poor black person in the South. But it's quite likely most people in extreme poverty regardless of who they were hadn't the means to see a movie back then.
