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Massive example crosswicking. Also fixed a large number of editing issues like natter and improper indentation. I probably should have seen it coming for a page on a movie that tends to attract interpretations and ambiguity like this one, but still...
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* AgeLift:
** In the novel, Paul Edgecomb was 40 when he met John Coffey and is [[spoiler:104]] in the present. In the film, he's 44 in the past and [[spoiler:108]] in the present. The fact that the film changed the year he met John Coffey from 1932 to 1935 is most likely why.
** Wild Bill is 19 years old in the novel, but looks to be in his thirties in the film.
** In the novel, Paul Edgecomb was 40 when he met John Coffey and is [[spoiler:104]] in the present. In the film, he's 44 in the past and [[spoiler:108]] in the present. The fact that the film changed the year he met John Coffey from 1932 to 1935 is most likely why.
** Wild Bill is 19 years old in the novel, but looks to be in his thirties in the film.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Delacroix is guilty of a very heinous crime, but is actually well liked by the fellow inmates and guards and is genuinely sorry for what he did, which makes his horrible death even sadder.
** Contrasted by [[spoiler:Wharton]] and Percy Wetmore, who John Coffey punishes because they were bad men. Still, even considering their contempt for him, the guards are more than a little creeped out by what happens to Percy.
** Contrasted by [[spoiler:Wharton]] and Percy Wetmore, who John Coffey punishes because they were bad men. Still, even considering their contempt for him, the guards are more than a little creeped out by what happens to Percy.
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* AgeLift:
** In the novel, Paul Edgecomb was 40 when he met John Coffey and is [[spoiler:104]] in the present. In the film, he's 44 in the past and [[spoiler:108]] in the present. The fact that the film changed the year he met John Coffey from 1932 to 1935 is most likely why.
** Wild Bill is 19 years old in the novel, but looks to be in his thirties in the film.
* AgeWithoutYouth: Downplayed. Paul Edgecombe looks to be 80 at most-but he really is 108, and outlived several nurses at the retirement home. Given to the pet mouse, Mr. Jingles, whom Jim Coffey brought back to life, which lived to 64 (mice seldom live over two years), Paul is most likely destined to live over 1,000 years.
* AlasPoorVillain: Delacroix is guilty of a very heinous crime, but is actually well liked by the fellow inmates and guards and is genuinely sorry for what he did, which makes his horrible death evensadder.
**sadder. Contrasted by [[spoiler:Wharton]] and Percy Wetmore, who John Coffey punishes because they were bad men. Still, even considering their contempt for him, the guards are more than a little creeped out by what happens to Percy.
** In the novel, Paul Edgecomb was 40 when he met John Coffey and is [[spoiler:104]] in the present. In the film, he's 44 in the past and [[spoiler:108]] in the present. The fact that the film changed the year he met John Coffey from 1932 to 1935 is most likely why.
** Wild Bill is 19 years old in the novel, but looks to be in his thirties in the film.
* AgeWithoutYouth: Downplayed. Paul Edgecombe looks to be 80 at most-but he really is 108, and outlived several nurses at the retirement home. Given to the pet mouse, Mr. Jingles, whom Jim Coffey brought back to life, which lived to 64 (mice seldom live over two years), Paul is most likely destined to live over 1,000 years.
* AlasPoorVillain: Delacroix is guilty of a very heinous crime, but is actually well liked by the fellow inmates and guards and is genuinely sorry for what he did, which makes his horrible death even
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* AngelUnaware: [[spoiler: It's ''strongly'' implied that John Coffey is one, especially considering he remembers nothing about his past and his lawyer couldn't find any information on him, despite his enormous size]].
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* AngelUnaware: [[spoiler: It's ''strongly'' implied that John Coffey is one, especially considering he remembers nothing about [[spoiler:John Coffey, by virtue of his miraculous healing powers (up to and including resurrecting a dead mouse within seconds after the moment it has been killed), similarly strong powers of empathy, the sheer ambigouity of his past prior to ending up on the Green Mile, and his lawyer couldn't find any information on him, despite his enormous size]].seemingly implied direct familiarity with angels and Heaven, may or may not be an angel (if he isn't Christ).]].
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Delacroix]]. While his death was indeed gruesome and drawn-out, he did brutally rape and murder a young girl. Further, several other people died in the fire he started in an attempt to cover up his previous crime.
** Deconstructed in by the time of his execution he had become genuinely remorseful of what he did as well as come to care about Mr.Jingles and the guards. As well as the fact his death is so horrific and brutal, that everyone watching it including the families of his victims as well as Percy who intentionally caused it are left more sickened and horrified by it than anything else.
** Deconstructed in by the time of his execution he had become genuinely remorseful of what he did as well as come to care about Mr.Jingles and the guards. As well as the fact his death is so horrific and brutal, that everyone watching it including the families of his victims as well as Percy who intentionally caused it are left more sickened and horrified by it than anything else.
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* AssholeVictim: ArchEnemy: John Coffey has Wild Bill Wharton, [[spoiler:who raped and murdered two young girls, a crime for which Coffey was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death]].
* AssholeVictim:
** [[spoiler:Delacroix]]. While his death was indeed gruesome and drawn-out, he did brutally rape and murder a young girl. Further, several other people died in the fire he started in an attempt to cover up his previouscrime.
**crime. Deconstructed in by the time of his execution he had become genuinely remorseful of what he did as well as come to care about Mr.Jingles and the guards. As well as the fact his death is so horrific and brutal, that everyone watching it including the families of his victims as well as Percy who intentionally caused it are left more sickened and horrified by it than anything else.
* AssholeVictim:
** [[spoiler:Delacroix]]. While his death was indeed gruesome and drawn-out, he did brutally rape and murder a young girl. Further, several other people died in the fire he started in an attempt to cover up his previous
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* BegoneBribe: Inverted. Percy promised that if he got to place the sponge on the prisoner's head and give the order to activate the electric chair, he'd put in for a transfer to the mental hospital and they'd "Be rid of him." This prompts the other guards to ask what would happen if they said no. Percy responds that he'll stick around and make a career of being an executioner. They comply with his request and the results are nothing short of disastrous.
* CutTheJuice: Del's execution in The Green Mile (book and film) goes horribly wrong when Percy Wetmore deliberately fails to soak a sponge in brine before putting it inside the electrode cap. As a result, Del catches fire in the electric chair and suffers a drawn-out, agonizing death. Paul Edgecombe orders his men not to shut off the current, as it would be even more cruel to have to do the execution all over again.
* DeathRow: The movie centers on the guards of the death row wing of a prison, and the condemned messiah they meet amid the usual inmates.
* DeathRow: The movie centers on the guards of the death row wing of a prison, and the condemned messiah they meet amid the usual inmates.
* DownerEnding: Affable MagicalNegro Coffey is still executed even though he is 100% not guilty of his crime, but not before he accidentally gives Edgecombe possible everlasting life, cursing him to have to watch all his friends and loved ones die around him while he continues to survive.
* DwindlingParty: When the film starts, there are maybe four or five prisoners in the titular hallway that we get to know and sympathize with. One by one their execution date arrives. By the time it's all over the only people still in the mile are the guards.
* ElectricTorture: The botched execution by electric chair of Eduard Delacroix. Percy Wetmore, who insisted on being in charge of Del's execution and a sadistic asshole to the core, deliberately neglected to wet the sponge on his head which acted as a conductor, resulting in a prolonged and agonizing CruelAndUnusualDeath in which Del was literally cooked alive. There's a reason the book in which this scene takes place is called "The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix".
* ElectricTorture: The botched execution by electric chair of Eduard Delacroix. Percy Wetmore, who insisted on being in charge of Del's execution and a sadistic asshole to the core, deliberately neglected to wet the sponge on his head which acted as a conductor, resulting in a prolonged and agonizing CruelAndUnusualDeath in which Del was literally cooked alive. There's a reason the book in which this scene takes place is called "The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix".
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Strongly implied. Despite all the horrible, loathsome things he does, Percy sheds a tear when John Coffey [[spoiler: shows him Wharton's crimes]], right before [[spoiler: shooting him dead]].
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Strongly implied. Despite all the horrible, loathsome things he does, Percy sheds a tear when John Coffey[[spoiler: shows [[spoiler:shows him Wharton's crimes]], right before [[spoiler: shooting [[spoiler:shooting him dead]]. dead]].
** Strongly implied. Despite all the horrible, loathsome things he does, Percy sheds a tear when John Coffey
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** Literally every interaction between Del and Percy. At the beginning of the film, Percy breaks three of Del's fingers ''just'' for smirking at him.
*** Subverted when Percy, having been assaulted by Wild Bill and soiled himself, stomps on Mr. Jingles as revenge for Del laughing at him about it, but John manages to use his powers to revive him.
*** When Del is executed, Percy takes a moment while he's being tied to the chair to disclose that there is no such thing as "Mouseville", just to kill the one little reed of happiness Del still had.
*** It is also believed that this is one of the reasons that [[spoiler: Percy refuses to wet the sponge during Del's execution, simply to get back at him for laughing at him]].
*** Subverted when Percy, having been assaulted by Wild Bill and soiled himself, stomps on Mr. Jingles as revenge for Del laughing at him about it, but John manages to use his powers to revive him.
*** When Del is executed, Percy takes a moment while he's being tied to the chair to disclose that there is no such thing as "Mouseville", just to kill the one little reed of happiness Del still had.
*** It is also believed that this is one of the reasons that [[spoiler: Percy refuses to wet the sponge during Del's execution, simply to get back at him for laughing at him]].
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** Literally every Every interaction between Del and Percy. At the beginning of the film, Percy breaks three of Del's fingers ''just'' for smirking at him. \n*** Subverted when Percy, having been assaulted by Wild Bill and soiled himself, stomps on Mr. Jingles as revenge for Del laughing at him about it, but John manages to use his powers to revive him. \n*** When Del is executed, Percy takes a moment while he's being tied to the chair to disclose that there is no such thing as "Mouseville", just to kill the one little reed of happiness Del still had.
***had. It is also believed that this is one of the reasons that [[spoiler: Percy refuses to wet the sponge during Del's execution, simply to get back at him for laughing at him]].
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* TheExecutioner: This film centers on a team of these, tasked with executing convicts for the State of Louisiana.
** The actual executioner is Van Hay, who is TheFaceless to the condemned and the witnesses thanks to a metal screen that conceals both him and the electric generator.
** The actual executioner is Van Hay, who is TheFaceless to the condemned and the witnesses thanks to a metal screen that conceals both him and the electric generator.
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* TheExecutioner: This film centers on a team of these, tasked with executing convicts for the State of Louisiana.
**Louisiana. The actual executioner is Van Hay, who is TheFaceless to the condemned and the witnesses thanks to a metal screen that conceals both him and the electric generator.
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: See BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor above.
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: See BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor above.The botched execution scene. People who are executed by electric chair are supposed to have a wet sponge placed on their head so they are killed quickly. Paul and the other men notice that the sponge is dry, but by then it's too late to stop it, and Eduard Delacroix proceeds to die a truly Cruel and Unusual Death.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Despite everything being done by the book, Arlen Bitterbuck doesn't immediately die in the electric chair and requires a second jolt, hinting that such executions don't always go cleanly.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Despite everything being done by the book, Arlen Bitterbuck doesn't immediately die in the electric chair and requires a second jolt, hinting that such executions don't always go cleanly.
** Despite everything being done by the book, Arlen Bitterbuck doesn't immediately die in the electric chair and requires a second jolt, hinting that such executions don't always go cleanly.
* ForgivenessRequiresDeath: After Arlen Bitterbuck is executed, Percy casually remarks that the deceased is burning in hell, but Brutal objects, insisting, "He's paid what he owed. He's square with the house again, so keep your goddamn hands off him!"
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* HateSink: Percy is an [[SmallNameBigEgo arrogant]] guard acting as if he can do whatever he wants and is [[{{Jerkass}} needlessly cruel and spiteful]] to the inmates. He has no redeeming features and isn't played for laughs in any way. Even [[AxCrazy Wild Bill]] is [[BlackHumor funny at times]] and it's telling that Del, who's guilty for rape, murder and arson, manages to be more likable than Percy.
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* HateSink: HateSink:
** Percy is an [[SmallNameBigEgo arrogant]] guard acting as if he can do whatever he wants and is [[{{Jerkass}} needlessly cruel and spiteful]] to the inmates. He has no redeeming features and isn't played for laughs in any way. Even [[AxCrazy Wild Bill]] is [[BlackHumor funny at times]] and it's telling that Del, who's guilty for rape, murder and arson, manages to be more likable than Percy.
** Percy is an [[SmallNameBigEgo arrogant]] guard acting as if he can do whatever he wants and is [[{{Jerkass}} needlessly cruel and spiteful]] to the inmates. He has no redeeming features and isn't played for laughs in any way. Even [[AxCrazy Wild Bill]] is [[BlackHumor funny at times]] and it's telling that Del, who's guilty for rape, murder and arson, manages to be more likable than Percy.
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* HeavenAbove: One of Creator/TomHanks' urination scenes ends with him struggling so much he has to lie on his back and look him to the sky and say, "Oh God, why?" It also foreshadows the weirder events from later in the movie.
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* HeavenAbove: One of Creator/TomHanks' Paul's urination scenes ends with him struggling so much he has to lie on his back and look him to the sky and say, "Oh God, why?" It also foreshadows the weirder events from later in the movie.movie.
* HollywoodTourettes: One character lapses into swearing fits in the last stages of a brain tumor. In the book, one of the other characters comments that it sounds like Tourette's Syndrome.
* HollywoodTourettes: One character lapses into swearing fits in the last stages of a brain tumor. In the book, one of the other characters comments that it sounds like Tourette's Syndrome.
* InsaneNoMore: Bank robber and murderer "Wild Bill" Wharton is deemed mentally competent to stand trial for his crimes and is sentenced to death.
* KarmicNod: Paul Edgcomb accepts that even though he doesn't want to, he will live long enough to experience a lot more sorrow and loss, as a punishment for unwillingly executing John Coffey.
-->'''Paul''': Elaine -- you'll die, too. And my curse is knowing that I'll be there to see it. It's my atonement, you see -- it's my punishment for lettin' John Coffey ride the lightning. For killing a miracle of God. You'll be gone like all the others, and I'll have to stay. Oh, I'll die eventually; of that, I'm sure. I have no illusions of immortality. But I will have wished for death long before Death finds me. In truth, I wish for it already.
-->'''Paul''': Elaine -- you'll die, too. And my curse is knowing that I'll be there to see it. It's my atonement, you see -- it's my punishment for lettin' John Coffey ride the lightning. For killing a miracle of God. You'll be gone like all the others, and I'll have to stay. Oh, I'll die eventually; of that, I'm sure. I have no illusions of immortality. But I will have wished for death long before Death finds me. In truth, I wish for it already.
* LastMinuteReprieve: The narrator of the film reiterates that this almost never happens -- and, indeed, no pardon comes to save John Coffey, an innocent man, from the chair.
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** [[spoiler: Seeing ''Top Hat'' in his old age is enough to spook Edgecomb into telling his story to Elaine]].
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* ManlyTears:
** The chief when John Coffey is healing his wife
** The three guards during Coffey's execution.
* MayflyDecemberFriendship: Paul Edgecomb has learned in his many days in the retirement home to avoid getting close to anyone. Ever since his contact with MagicalNegro John Coffey while serving as a prison guard, Paul has outlived all his family, friends and acquaintances ... except one: a tiny mouse touched by Coffey.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:The main character and narrator]] turns out to suffer from this.
** The chief when John Coffey is healing his wife
** The three guards during Coffey's execution.
* MayflyDecemberFriendship: Paul Edgecomb has learned in his many days in the retirement home to avoid getting close to anyone. Ever since his contact with MagicalNegro John Coffey while serving as a prison guard, Paul has outlived all his family, friends and acquaintances ... except one: a tiny mouse touched by Coffey.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:The main character and narrator]] turns out to suffer from this.
* MethuselahSyndrome: Mr. Jingles is a mouse that lived some 70 years. His long-life is a sign of the special gift imparted by him to John Coffey. [[spoiler:Like Christ, Coffey healed Jingles and imparted the same gift to his prison guard, who went on to live for more than a hundred and nine years.]]
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** This may also be a ShoutOut and ActorAllusion to the similar scene from Film/ALeagueOfTheirOwn.
*** Seems to be a recurring theme with Tom Hanks, see Film/ForrestGump.
*** Seems to be a recurring theme with Tom Hanks, see Film/ForrestGump.
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: After consummate {{Jerkass}} Percy taunts the corpse of a recently executed prisoner, he is angrily rebuked by a fellow guard, who says that execution for his crimes makes him "square with the house now".
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler: Paul's encounter with John Coffey granted him supernatural longevity (though not immortality), and as a result he has seen his friends and loved ones die, including his son]].
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler: Paul's [[spoiler:Paul's encounter with John Coffey granted him supernatural longevity (though not immortality), and as a result he has seen his friends and loved ones die, including his son]].
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Both Percy and Wild Bill qualify. Percy frequently calls Del a "faggot" and Wild Bill repeatedly calls John Coffey a "nigger."
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: PoliticallyIncorrectVillain:
** Both Percy and Wild Bill qualify. Percy frequently calls Del a "faggot" and Wild Bill repeatedly calls John Coffey a "nigger."
** Both Percy and Wild Bill qualify. Percy frequently calls Del a "faggot" and Wild Bill repeatedly calls John Coffey a "nigger."
* PottyFailure: When Percy Wetmore walks too close to William Wharton's cell one day, Wharton grabs him and threatens to rape him. Percy wets his pants out of sheer terror and threatens to get the other guards fired if they tell anyone.
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** "Piss on me?" (cue the fire-hose)
* PrecisionFStrike: "What in the blue '''fuck''' was that?!" From Warden Moores, of all people, after Delacroix's horribly botched execution.
** Earlier on in the film, an old man scandalizes the other members of the retirement home by denouncing ''Jerry Springer'':
-->'''Elderly man:''' Why do we always watch this stuff?\\
* PrecisionFStrike: "What in the blue '''fuck''' was that?!" From Warden Moores, of all people, after Delacroix's horribly botched execution.
** Earlier on in the film, an old man scandalizes the other members of the retirement home by denouncing ''Jerry Springer'':
-->'''Elderly man:''' Why do we always watch this stuff?\\
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* PrecisionFStrike:
**"Piss on me?" (cue the fire-hose)
* PrecisionFStrike:"What in the blue '''fuck''' was that?!" From Warden Moores, of all people, after Delacroix's horribly botched execution.
**Earlier on in the film, an An old man scandalizes the other members of the retirement home by denouncing ''Jerry Springer'':
-->'''Elderly --->'''Elderly man:''' Why do we always watch this stuff?\\
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* PrecisionFStrike:
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* PrisonersLastMeal: John Coffey is treated to a last meal before his execution by electric chair, including meatloaf, mashed potatoes with gravy, okra and some of Mrs. Edgecomb's cornbread. (In the novel, he also ordered peach cobbler.)
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* PrisonersLastMeal: John Coffey is treated to a last meal before his execution by electric chair, including meatloaf, mashed potatoes with gravy, okra and some of Mrs. Edgecomb's cornbread. (In In the novel, he also ordered peach cobbler.)
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* SayYourPrayers: Delacroix can be heard muttering in his native French just before his execution. One of the words that can be made out is "Mary", suggesting that he is doing this.
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* SayYourPrayers: SayYourPrayers:
** Delacroix can be heard muttering in his native French just before his execution. One of the words that can be made out is "Mary", suggesting that he is doing this.
** Delacroix can be heard muttering in his native French just before his execution. One of the words that can be made out is "Mary", suggesting that he is doing this.
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--> Toot-Toot: "Gettin' to my knees. Prayin'. The Lord is my shepherd and so forth and so on, sorry for all the bad shit I've done, all the people I've trampled on, I hope they forgive me, I won't do it again, [[DeadpanSnarker that's for sure]]."
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** A very relevant one in ''Film/TopHat'', something of a ChekhovsGun too.
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* TearsOfRemorse: Del has these right before his execution.
-->'''Del:''' I'm sorry for what I do. I'd give anything to take it back, but I can't.
-->'''Del:''' I'm sorry for what I do. I'd give anything to take it back, but I can't.
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* TearsOfRemorse: TearsOfRemorse:
** Del has these right before his execution.
-->'''Del:''' --->'''Del:''' I'm sorry for what I do. I'd give anything to take it back, but I can't.
** Del has these right before his execution.
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* UnbuiltTrope: Despite being often cited as the TropeMaker for the MagicalNegro, this film does a lot towards deconstructing it as well. John Coffey isn't a wise elderly man who the white characters look to as a source of guidance, he's a middle-aged {{Manchild}} whom the main characters keep at arm's-length, him being a murderer of two children [[spoiler: or so they think]]. In addition, his magic powers are shown to be [[CursedWithAwesome agonizingly painful]] for him, to the extent that he [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding willingly submits to being wrongfully executed because he's just so tired of living]]]]. Not to mention the fact that he's just as capable of harming the white people as helping them, as shown when he [[spoiler: brainwashes Percy into murdering Wild Bill, [[MindRape destroying Percy's mind in the process]]. And because of him, Paul has become immensely long-lived, but [[WhoWantsToLiveForever views it as just as much a curse]] as John Coffey felt about his abilities]].
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* UnbuiltTrope: Despite being often cited as the TropeMaker for the MagicalNegro, this film does a lot towards deconstructing it as well. John Coffey isn't a wise elderly man who the white characters look to as a source of guidance, he's a middle-aged {{Manchild}} whom the main characters keep at arm's-length, him being a murderer of two children [[spoiler: or so they think]]. In addition, his magic powers are shown to be [[CursedWithAwesome agonizingly painful]] for him, to the extent that he [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding willingly submits to being wrongfully executed because he's just so tired of living]]]]. Not to mention the fact that he's He's just as capable of harming the white people as helping them, as shown when he [[spoiler: brainwashes Percy into murdering Wild Bill, [[MindRape destroying Percy's mind in the process]]. And because of him, Paul has become immensely long-lived, but [[WhoWantsToLiveForever views it as just as much a curse]] as John Coffey felt about his abilities]].
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "I am 108 years now, Elaine. I was 44 the year that John Coffey walked the Green Mile."]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:Paul]] ends up outliving all his family and friends because he receives part of the life force of the death row-inmate John's healing power. He believes this is punishment from God for executing John. As a result he's very much alive in the present day and in fairly good health despite being over 100 years old. As he concedes remorsefully, though, he's not immortal; death will catch up to him eventually, but not for a very, very long time as seen with the mouse Mr. Jingles, who is at least 64 years old. And just for the record, mice normally only live less than four years. Do the math.
** [[spoiler:[[FromBadToWorse Gladly]]. Mr. Jingles wound up living around 16 times ''longer'' than the average mouse. If this should happen to also apply to Paul[[note]]and also factoring in that [[http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005148.html in 1935]], the average life expectancy of a (white) human male in the United States was 61[[/note]], Paul would wind up living until ''at least'' the age of '''976''', which Paul could then note as breaking the Methuselah record (969)]].
** [[spoiler: Then again, Mr. Jingles was 'juiced' by while being held by Coffey as he experienced out of control agony over feeling Delcroix's death, while Paul's 'juice' was given deliberately for a specific purpose. It's possible Mr. Jingles got a much, much larger dose and hence why he lived so impossibly long for a mouse, while Paul may still be alive for another twenty or thirty years instead of several centuries]].
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:Paul]] ends up outliving all his family and friends because he receives part of the life force of the death row-inmate John's healing power. He believes this is punishment from God for executing John. As a result he's very much alive in the present day and in fairly good health despite being over 100 years old. As he concedes remorsefully, though, he's not immortal; death will catch up to him eventually, but not for a very, very long time as seen with the mouse Mr. Jingles, who is at least 64 years old. And just for the record, mice normally only live less than four years. Do the math.
** [[spoiler:[[FromBadToWorse Gladly]]. Mr. Jingles wound up living around 16 times ''longer'' than the average mouse. If this should happen to also apply to Paul[[note]]and also factoring in that [[http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005148.html in 1935]], the average life expectancy of a (white) human male in the United States was 61[[/note]], Paul would wind up living until ''at least'' the age of '''976''', which Paul could then note as breaking the Methuselah record (969)]].
** [[spoiler: Then again, Mr. Jingles was 'juiced' by while being held by Coffey as he experienced out of control agony over feeling Delcroix's death, while Paul's 'juice' was given deliberately for a specific purpose. It's possible Mr. Jingles got a much, much larger dose and hence why he lived so impossibly long for a mouse, while Paul may still be alive for another twenty or thirty years instead of several centuries]].
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "I [[spoiler:"I am 108 years now, Elaine. I was 44 the year that John Coffey walked the Green Mile."]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:Paul]] ends up outliving all his family and friends because he receives part of the life force of the death row-inmate John's healing power. He believes this is punishment from God for executing John. As a result he's very much alive in the present day and in fairly good health despite being over 100 years old. As he concedes remorsefully, though, he's not immortal; death will catch up to him eventually, but not for a very, very long time as seen with the mouse Mr. Jingles, who is at least 64 years old. And just for the record, mice normally only live less than four years.Do the math.
** [[spoiler:[[FromBadToWorse Gladly]]. Mr.[[spoiler:Mr. Jingles wound up living around 16 times ''longer'' than the average mouse. If this should happen to also apply to Paul[[note]]and also factoring in that [[http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005148.html in 1935]], the average life expectancy of a (white) human male in the United States was 61[[/note]], Paul would wind up living until ''at least'' the age of '''976''', which Paul could then note as breaking the Methuselah record (969)]].
** [[spoiler: Then again, Mr. Jingles was 'juiced' by while being held by Coffey as he experienced out of control agony over feeling Delcroix's death, while Paul's 'juice' was given deliberately for a specific purpose. It's possible Mr. Jingles got a much, much larger dose and hence why he lived so impossibly long for a mouse, while Paul may still be alive for another twenty or thirty years instead of several centuries]].(969)]].
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:Paul]] ends up outliving all his family and friends because he receives part of the life force of the death row-inmate John's healing power. He believes this is punishment from God for executing John. As a result he's very much alive in the present day and in fairly good health despite being over 100 years old. As he concedes remorsefully, though, he's not immortal; death will catch up to him eventually, but not for a very, very long time as seen with the mouse Mr. Jingles, who is at least 64 years old. And just for the record, mice normally only live less than four years.
** [[spoiler:[[FromBadToWorse Gladly]]. Mr.
** [[spoiler: Then again, Mr. Jingles was 'juiced' by while being held by Coffey as he experienced out of control agony over feeling Delcroix's death, while Paul's 'juice' was given deliberately for a specific purpose. It's possible Mr. Jingles got a much, much larger dose and hence why he lived so impossibly long for a mouse, while Paul may still be alive for another twenty or thirty years instead of several centuries]].
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** Maybe. He is throwing up by the time they put him in the padded room, so it's possible it's a genuine fear reaction to being in there.
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** Wild Bill briefly dips into this after Coffey refuses to share the cornbread Paul's wife had made for him as thanks for curing Paul's UTI with him, while sharing it with Del and Mr. Jingles. Since he can't get back at Coffey directly (as they are locked in cells across from each other), he settles for antagonizing the guards for refusing to make Coffey share with him; he urinates on Terwilliger's feet (and threatens to throw his feces on the guards) and spits a chewed-up Moon Pie in Brutal's face. Both of these incidents result in him being blasted with a firehose, straight-jacketed, and locked in the solitary padded room for several hours. After the second time, Wild Bill ceases his petty pranks due to fear of solitary.
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** Wild Bill briefly dips into this after Coffey refuses to share the cornbread Paul's wife had made for him as thanks for curing Paul's UTI with him, while sharing it with Del and Mr. Jingles. Since he can't get back at Coffey directly (as they are locked in cells across from each other), other, though he does call Coffey a "big dummy nigger"), he settles for antagonizing the guards for refusing to make Coffey share with him; he urinates on Terwilliger's feet (and threatens to throw his feces on the guards) and spits a chewed-up Moon Pie in Brutal's face. Both of these incidents result in him being blasted with a firehose, straight-jacketed, and locked in the solitary padded room for several hours. After the second time, Wild Bill ceases his petty pranks due to fear of solitary.
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* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Wild Bill would rape and murder two, actually]].
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* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Wild Bill would rape and murder two, actually]]. Delacroix's crime, which isn't mentioned in the film, involved the rape and murder of a young girl, followed by the accidental burning of a building to cover up his original crime, the additional casualties including two children.
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* UnbuiltTrope: Despite being often cited as the TropeMaker for the MagicalNegro, this film does a lot towards deconstructing it as well. John Coffey isn't a wise elderly man who the white characters look to as a source of guidance, he's a middle-aged {{Manchild}} whom the main characters keep at arm's-length, him being a murderer of two children [[spoiler: or so they think]]. In addition, his magic powers are shown to be [[CursedWithAwesome agonizingly painful]] for him, to the extent that he [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding willingly submits to being wrongfully executed because he's just so tired of living]]]]. Not to mention the fact that he's just as capable of harming the white people as helping them, as shown when he [[spoiler: brainwashes Percy into [[KickTheSonOfABitch murdering Wild Bill]], [[MindRape destroying Percy's mind in the process]]. And because of him, Paul has become immensely long-lived, but [[WhoWantsToLiveForever views it as just as much a curse]] as John Coffey felt about his abilities]].
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* UnbuiltTrope: Despite being often cited as the TropeMaker for the MagicalNegro, this film does a lot towards deconstructing it as well. John Coffey isn't a wise elderly man who the white characters look to as a source of guidance, he's a middle-aged {{Manchild}} whom the main characters keep at arm's-length, him being a murderer of two children [[spoiler: or so they think]]. In addition, his magic powers are shown to be [[CursedWithAwesome agonizingly painful]] for him, to the extent that he [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding willingly submits to being wrongfully executed because he's just so tired of living]]]]. Not to mention the fact that he's just as capable of harming the white people as helping them, as shown when he [[spoiler: brainwashes Percy into [[KickTheSonOfABitch murdering Wild Bill]], Bill, [[MindRape destroying Percy's mind in the process]]. And because of him, Paul has become immensely long-lived, but [[WhoWantsToLiveForever views it as just as much a curse]] as John Coffey felt about his abilities]].
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* SexyDiscretionShot: After Paul is cured of his UTI, [[spoiler: the camera cuts to the outside of the bedroom window as Paul and Jan are achieving sexual pleasure]].
* SexGod: [[spoiler: After Paul is cured of his UTI. "Was your missus pleased? Several times."]]
* SexGod: [[spoiler: After Paul is cured of his UTI. "Was your missus pleased? Several times."]]
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* SexyDiscretionShot: After Paul is cured of his UTI, [[spoiler: the camera cuts to the outside of the bedroom window as Paul and Jan are achieving sexual pleasure]].having sex]].
* SexGod: [[spoiler: After Paul is cured of his UTI. "Was your missuspleased? Several pleased?" "Several times."]]
* SexGod: [[spoiler: After Paul is cured of his UTI. "Was your missus
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** Inverted with Brutus "'''Brutal'''" Howell; despite being a rather [[TheBigGuy intimidating powerhouse of a man]], Paul [[LampshadeHanging acknowledges]] that he's [[GentleGiant really a very kind and noble person]], who rarely uses his size and strength to intimidate or harm others... except for Percy and Wild Bill, who both deserve it. Could also be an averted case of NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast. Interesting that the main character's right-hand man is named
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** Inverted with Brutus "'''Brutal'''" Howell; despite being a rather [[TheBigGuy intimidating powerhouse of a man]], Paul [[LampshadeHanging acknowledges]] that he's [[GentleGiant really a very kind and noble person]], who rarely uses his size and strength to intimidate or harm others... except for Percy and Wild Bill, who both deserve it. Could also be an averted case of NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast. Interesting that the main character's right-hand man is named
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** Percy '''Wetmore'''. Fitting, for the guy who talks a lot of talks but [[BringMyBrownPants wets his pants]] in the face of trouble.
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** Percy '''Wetmore'''. Fitting, for the guy who talks a lot of talks but [[BringMyBrownPants wets his pants]] in the face of trouble.trouble (and as the new guy, he's "wet behind the ears").
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** Wharton avoids this trope initially due to being LaughablyEvil however, [[spoiler: when he's revealed to have raped and murdered the two girls John Coffey is on death row for while psychologically torturing them into going along with the rape, all the humorous traits disappear and Wharton becomes an absolutely despicable monster, enough to make Percy look like a saint compared to him]]. He easily earns him spot among Stephen King's most evil and despicable villains of all time.
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** Wharton avoids this trope initially due to being LaughablyEvil however, [[spoiler: when he's revealed to have raped and murdered the two girls John Coffey is on death row for while psychologically torturing them into going along with the rape, all the humorous traits disappear and Wharton becomes an absolutely despicable monster, enough to make Percy look like a saint compared to him]]. He easily earns him his spot among Stephen King's most evil and despicable villains of all time.
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* CursedWithAwesome: Paul and Mr. Jingles. [[spoiler: Paul lies awake at night wondering how much longer he will live, considering that Mr. Jingles--a mouse; an animal that usually lives 1,000 days maximum--is now at least 64 years old]].
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* CursedWithAwesome: Paul and Mr. Jingles. [[spoiler: Paul lies awake at night wondering how much longer he will live, considering that Mr. Jingles--a mouse; an animal that usually lives 1,000 days maximum--is now at least 64 years old]].old[[note]]If Paul lives to the same relative age, he will live to at least the age of 1,753 years old[[/note]]]].
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**Deconstructed in by the time of his execution he had become genuinely remorseful of what he did as well as come to care about Mr.Jingles and the guards. As well as the fact his death is so horrific and brutal, that everyone watching it including the families of his victims as well as Percy who intentionally caused it are left more sickened and horrified by it than anything else.
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* EvilIsPetty: Literally every interaction between Del and Percy. At the beginning of the film, Percy breaks three of Del's fingers ''just'' for smirking at him.
** Subverted when Percy, having been assaulted by Wild Bill and soiled himself, stomps on Mr. Jingles as revenge for Del laughing at him about it, but John manages to use his powers to revive him.
** When Del is executed, Percy takes a moment while he's being tied to the chair to disclose that there is no such thing as "Mouseville", just to kill the one little reed of happiness Del still had.
** It is also believed that this is one of the reasons that [[spoiler: Percy refuses to wet the sponge during Del's execution, simply to get back at him for laughing at him]].
** Subverted when Percy, having been assaulted by Wild Bill and soiled himself, stomps on Mr. Jingles as revenge for Del laughing at him about it, but John manages to use his powers to revive him.
** When Del is executed, Percy takes a moment while he's being tied to the chair to disclose that there is no such thing as "Mouseville", just to kill the one little reed of happiness Del still had.
** It is also believed that this is one of the reasons that [[spoiler: Percy refuses to wet the sponge during Del's execution, simply to get back at him for laughing at him]].
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* EvilIsPetty: EvilIsPetty:
** Literally every interaction between Del and Percy. At the beginning of the film, Percy breaks three of Del's fingers ''just'' for smirking at him.
** *** Subverted when Percy, having been assaulted by Wild Bill and soiled himself, stomps on Mr. Jingles as revenge for Del laughing at him about it, but John manages to use his powers to revive him.
** *** When Del is executed, Percy takes a moment while he's being tied to the chair to disclose that there is no such thing as "Mouseville", just to kill the one little reed of happiness Del still had.
** *** It is also believed that this is one of the reasons that [[spoiler: Percy refuses to wet the sponge during Del's execution, simply to get back at him for laughing at him]].him]].
** Wild Bill briefly dips into this after Coffey refuses to share the cornbread Paul's wife had made for him as thanks for curing Paul's UTI with him, while sharing it with Del and Mr. Jingles. Since he can't get back at Coffey directly (as they are locked in cells across from each other), he settles for antagonizing the guards for refusing to make Coffey share with him; he urinates on Terwilliger's feet (and threatens to throw his feces on the guards) and spits a chewed-up Moon Pie in Brutal's face. Both of these incidents result in him being blasted with a firehose, straight-jacketed, and locked in the solitary padded room for several hours. After the second time, Wild Bill ceases his petty pranks due to fear of solitary.
** Literally every interaction between Del and Percy. At the beginning of the film, Percy breaks three of Del's fingers ''just'' for smirking at him.
** Wild Bill briefly dips into this after Coffey refuses to share the cornbread Paul's wife had made for him as thanks for curing Paul's UTI with him, while sharing it with Del and Mr. Jingles. Since he can't get back at Coffey directly (as they are locked in cells across from each other), he settles for antagonizing the guards for refusing to make Coffey share with him; he urinates on Terwilliger's feet (and threatens to throw his feces on the guards) and spits a chewed-up Moon Pie in Brutal's face. Both of these incidents result in him being blasted with a firehose, straight-jacketed, and locked in the solitary padded room for several hours. After the second time, Wild Bill ceases his petty pranks due to fear of solitary.
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* BitchSlap: After Percy starts demanding to be let out of his straightjacket as punishment for [[spoiler:sabotaging Del's execution]], Paul gives him a huge slap to shut him up; it works.
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* GratuitousFrench: Paul introduces Mr. Jingles to [[spoiler:his lady friend in the present day]] this way.
-->'''Paul:''' ''Messieurs et mesdames. Beinvenue au cirque du'' mousey.
-->'''Paul:''' ''Messieurs et mesdames. Beinvenue au cirque du'' mousey.
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* BaitTheDog: William Wharton is a total asshole who causes chaos for the guards, but he's [[LargeHam very outrageous]] and [[LaughablyEvil very amusing]], so like the rest of the Death Row prisoners on the mile, you wonder whether he really deserves it. It doesn't hurt that he directs a large part of his bad behavior [[KickTheSonOfABitch towards Percy]]. [[spoiler: Turns out he's the worst of them ''by far'', enough to make Percy look positively sympathetic by comparison, and [[TheReveal the real killer of the Detterick girls]]]].
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* BaitTheDog: William Wharton is a total asshole who causes chaos for the guards, but he's [[LargeHam very outrageous]] and [[LaughablyEvil very amusing]], so like the rest of the Death Row prisoners on the mile, you wonder whether he really deserves it. It doesn't hurt that he directs a large part of his bad behavior [[KickTheSonOfABitch [[AssholeVictim towards Percy]]. [[spoiler: Turns out he's the worst of them ''by far'', enough to make Percy look positively sympathetic by comparison, and [[TheReveal the real killer of the Detterick girls]]]].
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: John Coffey seems like the archetypical GentleGiant, and he is. [[spoiler: But boy, did Bill and Percy pay for their sins in overtime when John Coffey uses his powers and forces the latter to shoot the former, [[MindRape destroying Percy's mind in the process]]]].
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: John Coffey seems like the archetypical archetypal GentleGiant, and he is. [[spoiler: But boy, did Bill and Percy pay for their sins in overtime when John Coffey uses his powers and forces the latter to shoot the former, [[MindRape destroying Percy's mind in the process]]]].
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** The fact that Jan and Paul have a college going son in 1935, when Paul is narrating his story.
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** There's a few hints that point to [[spoiler:Paul's unnaturally long life]]:
*** Given that Paul looks around he's in his late thirties, early forties in 1935, it makes no sense for current Paul to look as relatively healthy as he does.
*** The fact that Jan and Paul have a college going son in 1935, when Paul is narrating his story.
*** Given that Paul looks around he's in his late thirties, early forties in 1935, it makes no sense for current Paul to look as relatively healthy as he does.
*** The fact that Jan and Paul have a college going son in 1935, when Paul is narrating his story.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Try not to cheer for Percy when he [[spoiler: shoots Wild Bill dead]]. Granted this tends to only happen on a second viewing because [[spoiler:it is not yet revealed that he was the actual rapist and murderer of the girls that John Coffey was convicted for and Bill has only looked LaughablyEvil up until this point]].
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Try not to cheer for Percy when he [[spoiler: shoots Wild Bill dead]]. Granted this tends to only happen on a second viewing because [[spoiler:it is not yet revealed that he was the actual rapist and murderer of the girls that John Coffey was convicted for and Bill has only looked LaughablyEvil up until this point]].
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** Explicitly during [[spoiler: Del's execution, even though he’s the one who sabotaged it]]. Even he’s horrified by the results, though for purely selfish reasons.
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** Explicitly during [[spoiler: Del's execution, even though he’s the one who sabotaged it]]. Even he’s horrified by the results, though for purely selfish reasons. Interestingly, this is one of the rare cases of this trope that doesn't humanize him but instead frames him as worse- a coward who's perfectly willing to do awful things as long as he doesn't have to ''see'' them.
