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The Green Mile

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The Green Mile	comment	The Green Mile is a film adaptation based on the book of the same name by Stephen King, which was released on December 10th, 1999. It was directed by Frank Darabont. And like Darabont's previous King adaptation, The Shawshank Redemption, it was an Oscar charmer, if not a winner.In 1935, Paul Edgecombe (Tom Hanks) works as a corrections officer in Cold Mountain Penitentiary's death row, which was given the nickname "The Green Mile" due to the color of the floor. His primary duty is to send off criminals to their final fate with the electric chair. When John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a gentle, towering black man, is found near the corpses of two girls, he is imprisoned and sentenced to the chair. This eventually leads Paul to discover the mysterious, supernatural powers that John possesses, even as time ticks closer towards the day of execution. Regardless, Paul's life will be irrevocably altered by John's miracles.
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The Green Mile / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
The Green Mile / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: In the novel, Paul Edgecomb was 40 when he met John Coffey and is 104 in the present. In the film, he's 44 in the past and 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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The Green Mile / int_17e8daa3	type	Adoring the Pests
The Green Mile / int_17e8daa3	comment	Adoring the Pests: This movie features Mr. Jingles, a mouse found running around the death row cells. They decide not to kill him, aside from the Jerkass Percy, because of his unusual behavior: fearless in the face of humans, accepts food only from the regular guards, and his searching of the cells as if he's awaiting for somebody. Mr. Jingles adopts Eduard Delacroix when he arrives and entertains all with his spool fetching trick, even performing a show for the guards on another block.
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The Green Mile / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The Green Mile / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Paul remembers his son being grown during the events of the film, which he later realizes doesn't quite add up. He is an old man, after all; his recollection isn't what it used to be. Though given his Cursed with Awesome immortality and that he outlived his son, this may hold more water than initially thought.
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The Green Mile / int_1a2636ee	type	Crucial Cross
The Green Mile / int_1a2636ee	comment	Crucial Cross: As Tom Hanks' character wonders why God allowed two little girls to be murdered, his wife comes into frame and brings her cross necklace right into the center of the viewer's eye, almost as an answer to his question. Using the cross as an answer to evil foreshadows the nature of the aptly named John Coffey, a kind and gentle inmate on death row. John wants himself to be executed because he feels all the evils of humanity-he dies for our sins.
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The Green Mile / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
The Green Mile / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Try not to cheer for Percy when he shoots Wild Bill dead. Granted this tends to only happen on a second viewing because 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 Laughably Evil up until this point.
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The Green Mile / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Green Mile / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Del's horrifically sabotaged execution. Without the wet sponge, Del wasn't simply electrocuted with relative ease. He was slowly and painfully cooked. Even after bursting into flame, he takes almost another minute to actually die.
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The Green Mile / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
The Green Mile / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: Percy's uncle is the governor, and he's always using his family connections to get his way.
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The Green Mile / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Green Mile / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The reference to Top Hat in the very beginning of the movie is actually recently released during 1935, and John Coffey especially wanted to see that movie as his last request.
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The Green Mile / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Green Mile / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: The film is set in 1935, but Louisiana did not start using the electric chair to execute criminals until 1940.
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The Green Mile / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
The Green Mile / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Toot-toot, the obnoxious janitor.
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The Green Mile / int_28bf2393	type	Prisoner Performance
The Green Mile / int_28bf2393	comment	Prisoner Performance: Downplayed. As Eduard Delacroix doesn't have any family to visit him in prison on the day that the guards prepare for his execution, the guards arrange for a group of people to pose as members of the press and watch him demonstrate tricks that he had taught his pet mouse, Mr. Jingles.
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The Green Mile / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
The Green Mile / int_2b14367f	comment	Percy Wetmore. Fitting, for the guy who talks a lot of talks but wets his pants in the face of trouble (and as the new guy, he's "wet behind the ears").
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The Green Mile / int_2bbba5f3	type	Say Your Prayers
The Green Mile / int_2bbba5f3	comment	Say Your Prayers: 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. A more lighthearted example is present during the practice execution, in which the Janitor pretends to pray.
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The Green Mile / int_2eb2d56d	type	Adaptational Late Appearance
The Green Mile / int_2eb2d56d	comment	Adaptational Late Appearance: In the novel, Del already had Mr. Jingles as his pet when John Coffey is brought onto the Green Mile (with the events of how the mouse came to be in Del's possession being told in a flashback chapter). In the film, Mr. Jingles doesn't appear for the first time until after John Coffey arrives.
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The Green Mile / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
The Green Mile / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Wild Bill. He grabs Percy through the bars of his cell and creepily kisses him on the cheek before grabbing his crotch and threatening to rape him. Also, he raped and murdered Katie and Cora Detterick, the crime that John was framed for.
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The Green Mile / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
The Green Mile / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Paul and Mr. Jingles. He is 108 when he tells his story to Elaine, doesn't look a day older than 80, and the mouse is at least 64 years old.
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The Green Mile / int_309b8806	type	Cursed with Awesome
The Green Mile / int_309b8806	comment	Cursed with Awesome: Paul and Mr. Jingles. 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 oldnote If Paul lives to the same relative age, he will live to at least the age of 1,753 years old.
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The Green Mile / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Green Mile / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Strongly implied. Despite all the horrible, loathsome things he does, Percy sheds a tear when John Coffey shows him Wharton's crimes, right before shooting him dead. Explicitly during Del's execution, even though heâ€™s the one who sabotaged it. Even heâ€™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.
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The Green Mile / int_32e279c4	type	Humans Are Flawed
The Green Mile / int_32e279c4	comment	Humans Are Flawed: The reason Coffey accepts his execution. Coffey knows that not all humans are bad. That being said, he fully understands the pain and grief they cause each other on a daily basis (especially in the context of the filmâ€™s setting) that heâ€™d rather just die than to take in anymore suffering.
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The Green Mile / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Green Mile / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The film omits prisoner Arthur Flanders, assistant warden Curtis Anderson, the abusive orderly Brad Dolan and the unnamed doctor who faints at Del's execution.
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The Green Mile / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Green Mile / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Percy does this to Del four different times. Breaking his fingers just for smirking at him at beginning of the film. Stomping on Mr. Jingles; this is, thankfully, subverted when John revives him. Right before Del's execution when he reveals that Mouseville isn't real. Right after that when he intentionally botches Del's execution by not soaking the sponge, causing Del to die by being cooked alive rather than simply electrocuted.
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The Green Mile / int_34f8042a	type	Gratuitous French
The Green Mile / int_34f8042a	comment	Gratuitous French: Paul introduces Mr. Jingles to his lady friend in the present day this way.
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The Green Mile / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
The Green Mile / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: See Be Careful What You Wish For above.
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The Green Mile / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Green Mile / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: As Will Wharton is dead by the time Paul learns of John's innocence, there's no actual way they can prove the fact, and even if Paul himself goes up to say that he "saw" the vision proving the crime, it won't hold up in the court.
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The Green Mile / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Green Mile / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Despite being told beforehand that the sponge was integral to the execution, Percy says he had no idea that the sponge was supposed to be wet. Cue the most deserved punch in cinema history.
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The Green Mile / int_4484e50a	type	I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure
The Green Mile / int_4484e50a	comment	I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure: Wharton forces the girls to stay silent as he takes them out of their house by saying that if one of them makes a sound, he'll kill her sister.
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The Green Mile / int_45a01289	type	Angel Unaware
The Green Mile / int_45a01289	comment	Angel Unaware: 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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The Green Mile / int_4783acfa	type	Bait the Dog
The Green Mile / int_4783acfa	comment	Bait the Dog: William Wharton is a total asshole who causes chaos for the guards, but he's very outrageous and 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 towards Percy. Turns out he's the worst of them by far, enough to make Percy look positively sympathetic by comparison, and the real killer of the Detterick girls.
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The Green Mile / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Green Mile / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Wild Bill would rape and murder two, actually.
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The Green Mile / int_4baebbc8	type	Soul Fragment
The Green Mile / int_4baebbc8	comment	Soul Fragment: John gives a "part of himself" to Paul.
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The Green Mile / int_4d97e2b9	type	Urine Trouble
The Green Mile / int_4d97e2b9	comment	Urine Trouble: Paul who suffers from a UTI.
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The Green Mile / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Green Mile / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "I am 108 years now, Elaine. I was 44 the year that John Coffey walked the Green Mile."
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The Green Mile / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
The Green Mile / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The reveal that Wild Bill was the Dettericks' hired hand, and thus the person actually responsible for abducting, raping, and murdering the two girls.
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The Green Mile / int_4f3bf54e	type	Working on the Chain Gang
The Green Mile / int_4f3bf54e	comment	Working on the Chain Gang: Seen right at the beginning of the movie.
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The Green Mile / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Green Mile / int_4f84cdef	comment	Wild Bill Wharton is a psychopathic child rapist and murderer who not only killed the Detterick girls, but gloated about it to John Coffey and seems to be delighted with the fact that Coffey's getting blamed for his crime. John Coffey mind-controls Percy into shooting him because of it. Although the rest of the guards are disturbed by Coffey using Percy for the deed, no one disputes that the victim deserved it.
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The Green Mile / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
The Green Mile / int_500ecfb7	comment	Inverted with Brutus "Brutal" Howell; despite being a rather intimidating powerhouse of a man, Paul acknowledges that he's 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 Names to Run Away from Really Fast.
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The Green Mile / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
The Green Mile / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Wharton fakes an epileptic fit in an attempt to escape spending a few hours in solitary confinement. The guards are wise to his schemes at this point, however, and it doesn't work. 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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The Green Mile / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
The Green Mile / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: When Percy sabotages Del's execution, the result is so horrifying that even he is sickened by the sight of Del burning alive and tries to look away. Paul is so enraged at what Percy has done that he makes Percy watch the whole thing and put out Del's flaming corpse afterwards.
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The Green Mile / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
The Green Mile / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: Some of the more rational explanations in the book are turned into supernatural explanations in the movie. Instead of Paul figuring out who the actual killer was on his own, John Coffey gave him the information through his touch.
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The Green Mile / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The Green Mile / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: After the "Moon Pie" prank. The screenplay has a dark example with Del's execution:
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The Green Mile / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Green Mile / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name John Coffey, i.e. Jesus Christ- King even joked about how blatant it was in On Writing. Percy Wetmore. Fitting, for the guy who talks a lot of talks but wets his pants in the face of trouble (and as the new guy, he's "wet behind the ears"). Inverted with Brutus "Brutal" Howell; despite being a rather intimidating powerhouse of a man, Paul acknowledges that he's 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 Names to Run Away from Really Fast. Paul Edgecomb: Who has the name of the Apostle Paul, tells us of John. Also, he "combs" the "edge" between life and death, making sure that the condemned die cleanly. Eduard Delacroix: Delacroix means "of the Cross", with Delacroix fulfilling his role as the Penitent Thief being executed with the Christ-analogue of John Coffey. In contrast to Wild Bill's role as the Impenitent Thief.
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The Green Mile / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
The Green Mile / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Both Percy and Wild Bill qualify. Percy frequently calls Del a "faggot" and Wild Bill repeatedly calls John Coffey a "nigger." Also, after his Moon Pie prank on Brutal, Wild Bill makes a joke comparing Brutal to "Little Black Sambo".
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The Green Mile / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
The Green Mile / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: "You love your sister? You make any noise, you know what will happen." The first lines we hear in the film, it's only later that we find out who said it and when: Wharton, during his murder of the Detterick girls.
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The Green Mile / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Green Mile / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Mr. Jingles. In the novel, he finally dies of old age in the end. In the film, he's last shown sleeping in the modern day. Dean Stanton isn't mentioned as having been murdered by another prisoner a few months later and isn't mentioned as being among the friends Paul has outlived (which could be significant given his relatively young age). The description of Percy's eventual death in a nursing home fire is unmentioned.
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The Green Mile / int_758c3034	type	Prison Rape
The Green Mile / int_758c3034	comment	Prison Rape: Averted. Wild Bill threatens to rape Percy when he assaults him.
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The Green Mile / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Green Mile / int_7870735b	comment	Gladly. Mr. Jingles wound up living around 16 times longer than the average mouse. If this should happen to also apply to Paulnote and also factoring in that in 1935, the average life expectancy of a (white) human male in the United States was 61, Paul would wind up living until at least the age of 976, which Paul could then note as breaking the Methuselah record (969).
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The Green Mile / int_79228148	type	Nostalgia Heaven
The Green Mile / int_79228148	comment	Nostalgia Heaven: Just before his execution Arlen Bitterbuck expresses his hope that, if he is sincerely repentant, his afterlife in Heaven will be like this: That he will spend eternity reliving "the time that was happiest for him" (which in his case was being married at eighteen, spending summer in the mountains with his young wife, making love every night, and then talking, sometimes until the sun came up).
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The Green Mile / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
The Green Mile / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: In-universe, the executioner Van Hay is concealed from the condemned and the witnesses behind a metal screen. This works both ways as it means he can't see the condemned (although he stands up and looks through the grille window when he realises that Delacroix's execution is going horribly wrong).
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The Green Mile / int_7ac5914f	type	Prisoner's Last Meal
The Green Mile / int_7ac5914f	comment	Prisoner's Last Meal: 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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The Green Mile / int_7c9933de	type	Laughably Evil
The Green Mile / int_7c9933de	comment	Wharton avoids this trope initially due to being Laughably Evil however, 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 his spot among Stephen King's most evil and despicable villains of all time.
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The Green Mile / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Green Mile / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: John Coffey is introduced to the audience being led by the guards to the Green Mile, with everyone remarking and even slightly terrified by his massive size. His Gentle Giant status is established when he asks if they can keep the lights on, as he is scared of the dark.
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The Green Mile / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
The Green Mile / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Both Paul and Brutal admit Wharton's Moon Pie prank was pretty original after they put him in solitary confinement. Even Percy can't help but laugh at Toot-Toot's comedy during the execution rehearsal.
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The Green Mile / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
The Green Mile / int_8a4988bb	comment	Non-lethal example with Percy, who is mind-controlled into killing Wharton, the process of which ends up destroying his mind.
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The Green Mile / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Green Mile / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Which is why Delacroix's crime was not mentioned in the film and why Wharton is such a disgusting character.
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The Green Mile / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Green Mile / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: 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. Wild Bill Wharton is a psychopathic child rapist and murderer who not only killed the Detterick girls, but gloated about it to John Coffey and seems to be delighted with the fact that Coffey's getting blamed for his crime. John Coffey mind-controls Percy into shooting him because of it. Although the rest of the guards are disturbed by Coffey using Percy for the deed, no one disputes that the victim deserved it. Non-lethal example with Percy, who is mind-controlled into killing Wharton, the process of which ends up destroying his mind.
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The Green Mile / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Green Mile / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Immediately after pranking Delacroix with a Jump Scare so that he falls and hits his head, Percy gets grabbed and groped by Wild Bill, causing him to wet himself in a panic. Wild Bill taunts John Coffey with the memories of killing their girls, seemingly just to taunt him. So John "uses" Percy as a weapon to fill Wild Bill with lead. Percy ends up in a catatonic state, committed to the same institution where he was going to transfer, meaning that he will be at the mercy of the guards just as the inmates were at his mercy.
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The Green Mile / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
The Green Mile / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: 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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The Green Mile / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Green Mile / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: As much of an asshole Percy is throughout the film, William "Wild Bill" Wharton establishes himself as the true evil in the climax when it turns out he raped and murdered the two girls that John Coffey is on death row for, kicking the whole plot into motion.
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The Green Mile / int_9ce83619	type	The Corpse Stops Here
The Green Mile / int_9ce83619	comment	The Corpse Stops Here: Coffey is found holding the bloodied and raped bodies of two little (white) girls. The reason was that he tried to magically heal them back to life and failed.
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The Green Mile / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Green Mile / int_9d12bbc1	comment	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. In one of his first conversations with Warden Hal, Paul warns him that Percy's going to hurt someone badly someday if he doesn't shape up. He's right doublefold - first when Percy sabotages Del's execution with utterly horrific results, and second when he shoots Wild Bill Wharton. There's a few hints that point to 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.
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The Green Mile / int_9e491b41	type	Empathic Healer
The Green Mile / int_9e491b41	comment	Empathic Healer: John Coffey is able to heal illness and injury by inhaling it, in the form of a kiss with the afflicted person. This affects him negatively until he is able to exhale the sickness, in the form of white, moth-like entities that quickly dissipate. It's also shown that he can transfer the illness to another person, affecting them negatively.
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The Green Mile / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
The Green Mile / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: After Paul is cured of his UTI, the camera cuts to the outside of the bedroom window as Paul and Jan are having sex.
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The Green Mile / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Green Mile / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Paul intentionally invokes this to calm down Hal after Del's execution goes wrong. It works.
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The Green Mile / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
The Green Mile / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: In addition to the examples from the novel, a scene is added in the cellar where Paul delicately arranges a necklace around John Coffey's neck before sending him off to be received by the Holy Spirit.
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The Green Mile / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Green Mile / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Wharton does this initially, with nearly lethal consequences when he drops the faÃ§ade and attacks the guards.
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The Green Mile / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
The Green Mile / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Katie and Cora's family denounces John Coffey as he raped and murdered their little daughters, unaware of the fact that the real perpetrator of the crime was punished days ago.
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The Green Mile / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
The Green Mile / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: 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 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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The Green Mile / int_acedb8f5	type	Oscar Bait
The Green Mile / int_acedb8f5	comment	Oscar Bait: A Magical Negro with healing powers and the gentleness of a saint becomes the victim of the Depression-era prison system, and the good man who enabled his execution must spend many, many years living with the guilt.
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The Green Mile / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Green Mile / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Paul gets this reaction when he sees Percy stand outside Wharton's cell and reach for his gun.
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The Green Mile / int_b0021c03	type	Rodent Cellmates
The Green Mile / int_b0021c03	comment	Rodent Cellmates: Mr. Jingles, a mouse, becomes one for Eduard "Del" Delacroix, and later, John Coffey. After Coffey chooses to be executed despite being innocent, the mouse comes to live under the care of Paul Edgecomb for the next 64 years (when Mr. Jingles dies).
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The Green Mile / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Green Mile / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Before Del is executed, one of his victim's family members tauntingly remarks about how she hopes Del burns in hell for what he did. When Del's execution is sabotaged and he is literally being burned alive in front of them, the family members of Del's victims vomit in disgust at this and crowd towards the door in an attempt to avoid facing the horrific scene.
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The Green Mile / int_b0ac233d	type	Heaven Above
The Green Mile / int_b0ac233d	comment	Heaven Above: One of Tom Hanks' 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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The Green Mile / int_b2b2093c	type	Rape and Revenge
The Green Mile / int_b2b2093c	comment	Rape and Revenge: After learning that Wharton raped and murdered the two little girls, John uses his powers to force Percy to shoot Wharton dead.
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The Green Mile / int_b3de4c5b	type	Sex God
The Green Mile / int_b3de4c5b	comment	Sex God: After Paul is cured of his UTI. "Was your missus pleased?" "Several times."
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The Green Mile / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Green Mile / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Despite the very blunt punishment they give Percy (and thoroughly enjoy doing so), all the guards are pretty horrified by Coffey's own form of karma towards him, even trying to forcibly stop him. The audience that came to witness Del's execution is disgusted and horrified when Percy's sabotage gets Del roasted alive in front of them, including the family of his victims.
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The Green Mile / int_b52a20be	type	Take Five
The Green Mile / int_b52a20be	comment	Take Five: Early in the movie;
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The Green Mile / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
The Green Mile / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Downplayed with Burt Hammersmith. On the one hand, he is obviously bigoted toward black people and thinks they should be put down like mad dogs if they act out. On the other hand, he genuinely believes Coffey to be guilty of killing two girls, and his fear was born from the fact that his son was partly blinded by a dog.
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The Green Mile / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Green Mile / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: "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:
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The Green Mile / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Green Mile / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: "Billy the Kid" Wharton does not care for it whatsoever when the guards call him "Wild Bill."
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The Green Mile / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
The Green Mile / int_c04b1231	comment	Immediately after pranking Delacroix with a Jump Scare so that he falls and hits his head, Percy gets grabbed and groped by Wild Bill, causing him to wet himself in a panic.
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The Green Mile / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Green Mile / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Del when Percy steps on Mr Jingles. Paul and the other guards when Percy shoots Wild Bill. An interesting case with Paul at the end of the movie. While he doesn't actually yell out no, the silence right before he has to execute John conveys this sense.
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The Green Mile / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Green Mile / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: After getting Mind Raped by John, Percy is put into the same mental hospital he planned on working at.
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The Green Mile / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Green Mile / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In the nursing home, the insipid background music is identical to that played on the ward in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Paul's exchange with another resident is similar to Nurse Ratched's comments to Sefeld in Cuckoo's Nest. In the care home, the residents are watching The Jerry Springer Show. A very relevant one in Top Hat, something of a Chekhov's Gun too.
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The Green Mile / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
The Green Mile / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: Percy ending up a patient at the Briar Ridge Mental Institution, after being "encouraged" to get a transfer there, with only a few years to live at most. Call It Karma.
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The Green Mile / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
The Green Mile / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: Paul's reaction to Old Toot's antics during the rehearsal of Arlen Bitterbuck's execution, to the point that he actually threatens to have the switch thrown for real. His reason is that he doesn't want any unprofessional behavior the following night, when it's a real execution.
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The Green Mile / int_d08a19c4	type	ImmodestOrgasm
The Green Mile / int_d08a19c4	comment	Immodest Orgasm: The positive outcome of curing Paul's UTI.
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The Green Mile / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
The Green Mile / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Paul taking the most epic piss anyone has ever taken after his urinary infection is cured. This may also be a Shout-Out and Actor Allusion to the similar scene from A League of Their Own. Seems to be a recurring theme with Tom Hanks, see Forrest Gump.
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The Green Mile / int_d1e7f24a	type	Big "SHUT UP!"
The Green Mile / int_d1e7f24a	comment	Big "SHUT UP!": Played for Laughs during the scene where John heals Paul's UTI. When John grabs him, Del begins hysterically screaming and calling for the other guards because it appears that John is trying to seriously hurt him. Even afterwards, when it's more than obvious that Paul is fine, he keeps screaming for help, but Paul tells him to shut up.
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The Green Mile / int_d34cbda2	type	Implausible Deniability
The Green Mile / int_d34cbda2	comment	Implausible Deniability: â€œI didnâ€™t know the sponge was supposed to be wet.â€� No oneâ€™s buying it, Percy.
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The Green Mile / int_d6618014	type	Last Request
The Green Mile / int_d6618014	comment	Last Request: Coffey receives his choice of dinner on the day of his execution as is standard, and Paul begs him to ask for other things, including a chance of escape to which he and the other guards would gladly turn the other way. John assures them that he is ready to die. Even earlier in the film, John tells them that he's never seen a "flicker show", so a projector is set up and he is allowed to watch the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers film Top Hat. Seeing Top Hat in his old age is enough to spook Edgecomb into telling his story to Elaine.
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The Green Mile / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Green Mile / int_d8573ef9	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: The other prison officers can't do much to Percy because he's the nephew of the governor's wife.
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The Green Mile / int_da15653d	type	Book and Switch
The Green Mile / int_da15653d	comment	Book and Switch: While Percy is in the office, it looks like he's studying the hefty tome that is "Caring for Mental Patients", when he's actually reading Miss Lotta Leadpipe, a fictional Tijuana bible, hidden inside. It kind of tells you that he has no intention of doing his job properly once he's transferred.
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The Green Mile / int_db4b76d1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
The Green Mile / int_db4b76d1	comment	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Harry Terwilliger gets his own back on Wild Bill after the latter urinates on him. "Piss on me?" (cue the fire-hose)
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The Green Mile / int_dc031fde	type	Inelegant Blubbering
The Green Mile / int_dc031fde	comment	Inelegant Blubbering: Hal breaks down sobbing when John Coffey heals his wife. While all of the guards are on the verge of tears, Dean is openly crying like a baby at John Coffey's execution.
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The Green Mile / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
The Green Mile / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: A variation. In the novel, the mouse was referred to as "Steamboat Willie" by the guards until Del renamed him "Mr. Jingles". In the film, the mouse is unnamed until he becomes Del's pet, thus is only called "Mr. Jingles".
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The Green Mile / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Green Mile / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Guess who actually committed the crime for which Coffey was wrongfully convicted? Wharton, who happens to be in the death row of the same prison at the same time as Coffey for an unrelated crime.
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The Green Mile / int_dd9fba61	type	A Rare Sentence
The Green Mile / int_dd9fba61	comment	A Rare Sentence: He infected you with life?
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The Green Mile / int_ddeaea82	comment	Miscarriage of Justice: John Coffey is sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit.
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The Green Mile / int_de04e30c	comment	Tears of Remorse: Del has these right before his execution. Double Subverted with John Coffey. When the police found him with the two dead girls, he was sobbing that "he tried to take it back", leading everyone to assume he raped and murdered those two girls. While it turns out that John is innocent and Wild Bill was responsible, it still counts as this trope because he did feel remorseful about his inability to bring the two girls back to life with his healing powers.
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The Green Mile / int_e313b4e7	comment	Manchild: Two examples. Wharton, whoâ€™s on the psychotic end of the spectrum, and John Coffey, who is an innocent Gentle Giant. Percy acts like one too in some ways.
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The Green Mile / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
The Green Mile / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Mr. Jingles acts as this for Del.
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The Green Mile / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
The Green Mile / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Percy is an arrogant guard acting as if he can do whatever he wants and is needlessly cruel and spiteful to the inmates. He has no redeeming features and isn't played for laughs in any way. Even Wild Bill is funny at times and it's telling that Del, who's guilty for rape, murder and arson, manages to be more likable than Percy. Wharton avoids this trope initially due to being Laughably Evil however, 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 his spot among Stephen King's most evil and despicable villains of all time.
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The Green Mile / int_e784bb8c	type	Accidental Truth
The Green Mile / int_e784bb8c	comment	Accidental Truth: Though Paul's defense lawyer turns out to be wrong about John Coffey, his point about how people can be more dangerous than they appear to be turns out to be valid. Wild Bill was someone who the two girls knew personally.
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The Green Mile / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
The Green Mile / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: 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. Gladly. Mr. Jingles wound up living around 16 times longer than the average mouse. If this should happen to also apply to Paulnote and also factoring in that in 1935, the average life expectancy of a (white) human male in the United States was 61, Paul would wind up living until at least the age of 976, which Paul could then note as breaking the Methuselah record (969). 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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The Green Mile / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Green Mile / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Wild Bill gives one to Paul during his little brawl with the guards. Since Paul has a UTI, this is even more devastating and painful than kicking a guy in the 'nads usually is.
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The Green Mile / int_eb28ab57	type	Bound and Gagged
The Green Mile / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: Wetmore with a straitjacket and his mouth stuffed with a handkerchief and sealed with duct tape when he's thrown into the padded cell.
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The Green Mile / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
The Green Mile / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: We have the iate "Wild Bill" Wharton and Bill Dodge, a fellow guard.
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The Green Mile / int_ee9877ea	type	Too Good for This Sinful Earth
The Green Mile / int_ee9877ea	comment	Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Invoked by John Coffey on himself: He insists on having his execution carried out as planned, despite Paul's reluctance to do so and desire to help him escape; his explanation for this is that being The Empath makes it so painful and exhausting for him to live in a world filled with pain and evil that he would like to die to escape from it.
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The Green Mile / int_f00fce0e	type	Resourceful Rodent
The Green Mile / int_f00fce0e	comment	Resourceful Rodent: Mr. Jingles was trained by Eduard Delacroix to play fetch with a wooden spool.
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The Green Mile / int_f090ca85	type	Painful Adhesive Removal
The Green Mile / int_f090ca85	comment	Painful Adhesive Removal: Brutus Howell, as they go to untie Jerkass Percy Wetmore, advises that his mother said that if you remove the tape quickly it won't hurt as much. He notes that his Mother was wrong as Percy yelps in pain as they rip the duct tape off.
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The Green Mile / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
The Green Mile / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: Despite being often cited as the Trope Maker for the Magical Negro, 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 or so they think. In addition, his magic powers are shown to be agonizingly painful for him, to the extent that he 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 brainwashes Percy into murdering Wild Bill, destroying Percy's mind in the process. And because of him, Paul has become immensely long-lived, but views it as just as much a curse as John Coffey felt about his abilities.
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The Green Mile / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
The Green Mile / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: What John considers his execution to be, despising all the hatred he feels in everyone around him.
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The Green Mile / int_f466c9b1	type	Overly Long Scream
The Green Mile / int_f466c9b1	comment	Overly Long Scream: A rare example of this trope being played straight. Immediately when the switch is thrown during Del's execution, he begins screaming in ungodly agony, leading Paul to figure out that Percy didn't wet the sponge and Del is literally being cooked alive. He screams for the entire first half of the execution, and likely would have still been screaming right up until his death had his vocal chords not burned up.
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The Green Mile / int_f97b5d33	type	Shoo Out the Clowns
The Green Mile / int_f97b5d33	comment	Shoo Out the Clowns: Or rather shoot out the clown! With Mr. Jingles having run away and Will Wharton shot dead by Percy and he himself incarcerted in an asylum, there's only the Downer Ending left to prepare for.
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The Green Mile / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
The Green Mile / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: John Coffey seems like the archetypal Gentle Giant, and he is. 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, destroying Percy's mind in the process.
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The Green Mile / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
The Green Mile / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil is Petty: 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 Percy refuses to wet the sponge during Del's execution, simply to get back at him for laughing 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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