Yeah, it wasn't a punishment. John simply overloaded him by accident, just like Mr. Jingles. He couldn't but control it only so much. With Mr. Jingles, it happened during Delecroix' execution, and with Paul Edgecomb it happened when he showed him how the twin girls were really killed. It's a similar effect to how Ted Brautigan's (Hearts In Atlantis) psychic gifts would transfer temporarily to people he touched, except John Coffey's gift was giving life force, or taking away the corruption of death, depending on how you see it. The God of King's universe would have been rather impassive about John's death, only seeing it as a single event in a much greater scheme of things.
I don't think it was punishment, more like a side effect. I mean, Mr Jingles was healed from his injury from Percy. And John liked Paul and said he wanted to die
I was there. Still have the ticket stub. I was 10. I went with my Dad and couldn't look at him during Eduard's scene. Not after the bond he made with Mr. Jingles. I watched and appreciated all 3 hours of the movie in a United Artist I think it was. Fuck you Percy.
When he speaks the words, WE ALL OWE A DEATH, THERE'S NO EXCEPTIONS, man that hits home hard!!.. I can remember seeing the film for the first time, it just broke me, into pieces!..
yeah i remember that too and when i was a kid i couldn't help but thinking about those words all the time. Fortunately, now i know death is not the ending of life.
What about Coffy? Or Melinda? Or Percy? Or Delacroix? Or his wife and son? Or anyone in this movie? It shows god punishes everyone at one point to test your faith. We all walk the green mile whether we know it or not.
Dabs Greer is the actor. What a career this man had. You'll see him in t.v. from the 50's and 60's and movies. Bit parts character actor a regular on serials. Loved and respected in the acting community and elsewhere. What a life he must of had.
Holy crap I just had a minor epiphany about this film regarding possibly how long the Tom Hanks character will live for. So I figure the longevity of the mouse is deliberately put there as a comparison for time, therefore, an average pet mouse lives for one to two years, (let's say it will live for two years). The Tom Hanks character said he was 44 when the Black guy walked the Green Mile and the mouse was young, probably coming up to it's first year when he transferred some of his power onto the mouse. Thus, the Tom Hanks character is 108 at the end of the film and the mouse is still alive, 108 - 44 = 64. The mouse is 64 and still alive, the close up of the mouse breathing rapidly may presume it will die soon if not then off screen. So taking that into account, lets say it dies at 64 if not more. Then 64 divided by 2 (average life expectancy of a pet mouse) is 32, therefore the mouse has lived 32 times it's life expectancy. Applying this trait onto a human since Tom Hanks character is 108 at the end of the film, from the point when he got his powers being age 44, thus 44 times 32 = 1,408. If that is how it works then Tom Hank's character has almost become a living vampire, barring the immortality part 🤣. This is to say he doesn't die from anything before hand and it is just old age that takes him or he ends it himself long before his due date. Food for thought. 🤣
Man, just imagine the beautiful things you would see, but you it wouldn't matter because everyone you cared for dropped. My grandpa may he rest in peace lost his world. When he finally got sick it was a relief for him knowing that time was up and he could finally let his kids go on, and not worry about him.
So beautiful. I am known to think to much anyway. I read the books before I saw the movie. I cried during and especially at the end of both. Most of it had to do with their words.
I always wondered why he didn't have Mr. Jingles in his room in a cage to take better care of him instead of some shack out in nowhere where harm could come to him.
one of my favourite scenes in the green mile is when they first encountered my jingles they cleaned out the padded room and paul said you let him get past you and at the end of the conversation brutal or brutus I can't remember which said three grown men outsmarted by a mouse
BOOK SPOILER ALERT: I'm not going to lie, folks--sitting in the theater, I was so relieved to see they didn't include the part about the bus accident and what happened to Mrs. Edgecomb, and Paul seeing John Coffey's ghost and begging for John to save her like he did the warden's wife as she died in his arms. I was bracing myself for it the entire movie...
@@kalebhunter7994 It means we all going to die sometime, and we are all walking the green mile. The green mile is a metaphor for life, as the prisoners walk the green mile to be executed - dead, we all walk the green mile to die.
justinjacques766 Gone Girl's a really great movie and it was released just a few months ago. But I get your point. I watched Fast & Furious 7 today. That movie was utter shit.
Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, both prison stories set in the past, both written as novels by Stephen King, both directed by Frank Darabont, both had Jeffrey Demunn in them, both had scores by the great Thomas Newman, both made in the 90's, and both are INCREDIBLE films.
Seeing an old Mr. Jingles sleeping in that cigar box looking like he's struggling to breathe and that last line, “Sometimes The Green Mile seems so long." Gets me every time.
Scary thing is he's not really even laboring. That's fairly normal breathing for a mouse. Sure, in the book it dies, but we're offered no such comfort in the film adaptation. For all we know, he has to live forever with a mouse as his only consistent companion.
I remember this 3:20 just remembering it makes me cry my heart out even right now my heart hurts just seeing how Mr jingles is sleeping I'm losing my mind crying about it it fucking hurts
Frank Darabont, the most underrated director in movie history. He should have won the oscars for best films including The Shawshank Redemption.....The Green Mile of course. Shame on you Hollywood.
+Johan Lebbing American Beauty was better in 1999, and arguably has the better soundtrack (both Green Mile and AB soundtracks composed by Thomas Newman). Totally agree with 1995's Oscars though, Shawshank and Pulp Fiction are far superior to Forrest Gump (as much as I love Hanks).
leonthesleepy Yes, i know, the oscar commitee rather has a feelgood movie like Forrest Gump then a real good story like The Shawshank Redemption. But, it`s only my humble opinion that The Shawshank Redemption should win, and most of the people who saw this movie couldn`t pronounce the title. Such a movie as The Shawshank Redemption is so amazing. Now it stands lonely at the top at the IMDB top250 greatest movies of all time.
The power of music combined with cinema is perfectly shown in this scene, as the camera sweeps along the floor and up and into the cigar box to revel an old Mr. Jingels along with that haunting music, incredible!
@@kaladbolg not everything maybe it was a coincidence maybe not you never know it's like paintings. People today interpret A shit ton in a painting but infact maybe A painter painted A bowl In a specific place just cause he wanted to who knows?
Absolutely incredible movie. My late aunt once told me, "getting old is not for the light of heart", I remember once sitting with my 85 year old father (he lived to be 96) and asking him why his friends didn't visit him or call him any more. He simply replied. "they're all dead". It hit me that he had simply outlived them. "We all owe a death, there are no exceptions. I think of us all walking our own green mile".
JanetFunkYeah Hey, after so many years, you and I were watching at about the same time. More than that I came across your comment imside another comment.... What a coincidence!
Okay, so here's a little bit of horror for you all. In the book Mr Jingles dies at the end, confirming that John doesn't make people immortal, just extremely long-lived. However, keep in mind that Mr Jingles died 64 years after John died. The average life expectancy of a mouse is around 2 years, meaning that John extended his lifespan by around 30. Now then, consider that the life expectancy of an adult male around the time John Coffey died was (apparently, I'm not certain) about 61. Now, if we do the math, 61 multiplied by 30 is 1830. This means that, if Paul has had his life extended by the same amount as Mr Jingles, he's not going to die for almost another 2 millennia. Sometimes the Green Mile seems so long...
Yeah, thats true, but you have to remember that the mouse was bring back from the dead, so John's essence is stronger in the mouse then in Paul, so mabe the math wont apply in Paul's case, mabe half of that...i dont know, even so he will still have a few hundred years to go, around 900. Now thats a hell of a long green mile !
@@ezscootrr Same thought had crossed my mind - he would have to deal with am improperly functional body at some time, imagine the horrors of being forced to live while having to endure crippling pain and decay of your physical self.
Soo if Mr. Jingles lived for 64 years which is 32 times longer than the average mouse, Paul (average human male life span 75 years for ex.) could have atleast another 2336 years assuming Mr. Jingles passed away at the end of the movie and if John's power prolonged life proportionally. Scary if you think that each 2 years would mean another 75 years for Paul.
Paul is subject to the ravages of age, however. I highly doubt he'd last 2336 years past the age of 108. Keep in mind Melinda Moores was also touched by John's power and is mentioned in passing to Elaine as being deceased. John just adds years, he doesn't put a stopper in the aging process or prevent disease or sickness.
C Pegg In the book, Coffey just used his hands to cure Paul and bring Mr. Jingles back to life. He only sucked the illness from Melinda, the warden's wife. Paul and Mr. Jingles have the extraordinary long life but Melinda died about 11 years later.
Why does it hurt so much when he says "My Boy" ?...I don't have any kids, but I can imagine how painful it must be to lose your son, my father loves me so much, he is the best dad ever....so maybe that is why this scene affects me....that love is so powerful.
The love of a parent to a child i imagine is similar to how TMHG loves mankind. Unconditionally. All other love (romantic or friendship) is based on reciprocal conditions.
4 years late but I think it’s great acting and empathy by the reader. I think the way it’s said conveys humility and wisdom. Edit: I think the way it is said shows he loved his boy, and he has chosen to cherish the good memory of his relationship with him and had to go through a lot of acceptance. Paul appears to have become a far more tender and loving soul through all of his years of wear and tear. He seems to have gained a great respect for nature and the power of the unknown. He handles Mr. Jingles with so much care, bringing him a piece of toast carefully wrapped in some parchment paper. I think Paul gained that empathy working with people that were far less fortunate in life (Arlen Bitterbuck and his talk with him, Eduard and his relationship with Mr. Jingles, his boss’s wife battling cancer and seeing that nature can be forgiving). I think Paul just conveys a lot of humility.
"It's my torment, you see. It's my punishment. For lettin' John Coffey ride the lightnin'... for killin' a miracle of God." "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."
"You will die too. And my curse is knowing that I'll be there to see it. It's my torment, you see. It's my punishment." The price of living too long is watching others die. This is one of the few works that ever touches on that theme.
One of the all time great classic movie endings. Powerful refection on life, death and attonement. That last shot of Mr. Jangles makes me cry every time. Supernaturally scary, and great, is the film about the long green mile, each of us will walk one day.
This was an incredible story written by a gifted writer (Stephen King). One of the few times a movie does a book true justice. I think most people should watch this (especially the ending). You don't feel it on an intellectual level but rather a spiritual level. I cried not at the sadness of the ending but of the miracle that "John" was. "A miracle of G-d"
Marc Abramsky I prefer one part of the book a bit more than the movie. SPOILERS . . . . . . In the book, Paul was quiet about John, and at 64 years old, Mr. Jingles made the journey from Cold Mountain to Georgia Pines. I would have loved to see that incorporated in the movie
He would of lived for 1,045 years had Mr. Jingles died at the end of the film, being as a mouse lives for 5 years which is 6.5% of the average US life span of 78 years of age. Mr. Jingles being 65 years old, is 2.5% of 1,000.
You are right Larry. The movies I listed are not ones made yesterday. As to whether people are still talking about movies like "The Shape of Water" in 20 years, well, time will tell. It also depends on a person's likes and dislikes and their personal point of view. There are people out there who have not seen "Green Mile", "Shawshank Redemption", "Secondhand Lions" or even "Casablanca".
I dread the day I have to let go of my parents, and I sometimes wish I died before... Even had it planned, but I have a nephew now and I cant do that to him, so I will have to bear that pain and be a rock for him to lean on.
I don’t fear being the last one to die. There are always new people to come along that you can get to know. Besides, I won’t be dying alone, whenever it happens. God will be with me and then I’ll be with Him.
This film deserve a very special Oscar for Dabbs Greer (Old Paul Edgecomb). What a heartbreak scene. I watch many film in my life but i dont see many scenes like that. He always make me cry. I don't think he lives all his "green mile" because a curse of god. I think he has that punishment because he think he deserve.
when i first saw the movie i thought that the mr jingles was taking his last breathes and was about to die. If mr jingles had died that night then same could happen with Paul.... maybe Paul died in same night with jingles #fanfiction
You got to keep in mind that a Mouse has a life span of around 2 years. While a Humans life span is around on average 78. So even if Mr Jingles were to die, Pauls life would still keep going.
The ending has always reminded me of Titanic. That one last flashback where he spots Mr. Jingles is a bit like when Rose finds the diamond in her pocket, and then him going to bed with old photos beside him. It's probably just coincidence, but the similarities are uncanny.
And both were nominated at the oscars ; the only tiny difference is that one got pretty much all of them, while the other one was robbed of pretty much all of them.
+Supreme Flange Nah its realy tormenting, seeing everyone you know and love die bevore you, you will stop seing people , because they die, wont love anyone because you will lose them, no kids or family because you will outlive them. You will isolate yourself and become a outcast to socity, until madness grasps your transcendet soul. Yeah realy nothing you could possibly want.
+mutenroshie On the contrary, it takes the right mind to truly desire immortality. For me, people will die, and I will outlive everyone. But I have no issue with that. I've already been alone most of my life, I doubt an eternity is going to do any harm.
The fact that we all die - that is, our close ones - and not all at once of course, but one after another until there is eventually no one left who you once knew... making you closer to those who you knew but never talked to much, making you more grateful for everyone.... but by then it's too late. this scene makes me reflect on the people I love, and why I should be grateful now for the times I may one day miss (or sadly not out-live) them.
Profound and heart-breaking. One of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen. The script and acting are so superb as is the music. Bravo Mr. Darabont!
I'm not a Hindu, or even a believer of any traditional sort, but I still follow the Hindu idea of ahimsa - non-violence. Non-violence to one, to all, to every one and every thing - human or non-human equally and likewise. Don't hurt the mice - they're every bit as much a miracle of God as you are. As Tennyson said, let them have their little lives. They too have their own little stories and happiness and pleasures. They live such little lives; let them have that at least.
Can’t believe this was filmed in 1999, still fresh in my mind, thought provoking, great actors, superbly produced and filmed, still brings tears to my eyes and heart.
i didnt cry when coffey died, when coffey told about pain/ i tried to be calm/ but in moment when he found a mouse i cried because all my emotions before this moment accumulated and after that exploded/ i cried a lot i got histeria \ it was the end of this book i tried to not cry but it is not possible
I felt sorry for him. :( Being all alone when all of your friends dies away from you while you're living on forever. And your only company is a mouse....
Green Mile and Shawshank are both beautiful masterpieces, John Coffey is a character that will never leave me. I genuinely wonder if Michael Clarke Duncan was an angel
my great grandmother lived to be 105. my mother told me she was tired of being alive her last few years. her husband and all her friends had died over the years. then her kids started getting old and dying.
Life and death are the same. Just one is harder than the other. We all come into this life with the same destination. It's the path we take to reach our destination that makes us unique. In the beginning we fear death, we fear what we don't know. Sometimes life gives us the experience of death so that we shed the fear of it, and in time that fear changes to a longing for it. I understand his acceptance of it. Long ago I experienced it for myself. Now, as I like to say..... " when death comes knocking on my door next, I will welcome him as an old friend come to take me home."
"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions. But oh God... sometimes... the green mile seems so long'' This line made me cry and reflect on my own mortality, the first time I read the book and then watched the movie
Mr. Jingles is alive for the duration of the movie. Given the longest possible life expectance for a mouse (about 2 years) and dividing the length of his life (64 years) 64 / 2 = 32 The mouse lived for 32 times his maximum life span. Assuming a max life span for a human is about 100 years. Paul Edgecomb would live to be at least 3,200 years
Joey Deep Ah, ok,.thanks. Wonder why, though? Cancer was too strong and he had just enough to grab out the cancer but not leave anything special behind like with Coffey and the mouse. I'm just guessing.
Punk Rock Penguin i dont think what they had was a gift, i think what he had was instead a curse or just the will of somebody else, when some of them were healed, they werent specifically gifted with anything else, they still would of died of natural causes, i think when john died, he put what he had inside of paul and the mouse at will. i dont think the disease or the gifts were even completely gone, they were just sprayed into the air as locusts to go somewhere else. thats just my theory though.
bronzeownsu5 John did his "gift transfer" at 2 crucial points in the movie. for Mr. Jingles he was having an extremely hard time handling the bad death of Eduard Delacroix. Mr Jingles was in his hands during the execution and John basically unknowingly sent the gift thru his hands into Mr Jingles. some say it happened after Percy stomped on Mr Jingles, but that was more about stopping death from finishing the job and giving Del back his friend. for Paul (Tom Hanks) John had to give him a part of himself so that Paul would understand the truth of Wild Bill. it was Wild Bill who did the awful deeds to the little girls, and when they were taking John to see the Wardens wife, Bill grabbed John's arm and John was able to "see" into Bills heart or mind and witness the way Bill killed the girls with their love for each other, telling each that if one girl screamed the other girl would pay the price for it. when he gave Paul the "gift", he too was able to see what had happened and that John truly was an innocent man. sadly, while Paul knew that John was innocent, there was literally nothing he could do about it. and as John told him later, he was tired of all the ugliness in the world, that it was like pieces of glass inside his head. he wanted it to be done, he was ready and willing to move on to the afterlife and not have to be "as lonely as a Sparrow in the rain, with never a buddy to tell him where they was going or why" there has never really been a reason to think John did the "gift transfer" with ill intentions in mind. in truth, John may not have been smart enough to plan such a thing and pull it off. it just happened to wind up giving Paul and Jingles extraordinarily long lives and vitality.
"It's my punishment, for letting John Coffey ride the lighting. For killing a miracle of God."
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+Eddie Cardwell Maybe it's not a punishment. Maybe it's just a side-effect when John Coffey gave him part of his powers. Who knows......
Yeah, it wasn't a punishment. John simply overloaded him by accident, just like Mr. Jingles. He couldn't but control it only so much. With Mr. Jingles, it happened during Delecroix' execution, and with Paul Edgecomb it happened when he showed him how the twin girls were really killed. It's a similar effect to how Ted Brautigan's (Hearts In Atlantis) psychic gifts would transfer temporarily to people he touched, except John Coffey's gift was giving life force, or taking away the corruption of death, depending on how you see it. The God of King's universe would have been rather impassive about John's death, only seeing it as a single event in a much greater scheme of things.
I don't think it was punishment, more like a side effect. I mean, Mr Jingles was healed from his injury from Percy. And John liked Paul and said he wanted to die
@@megabojan1993 No it was a punishment. To live to see everyone you love die for years and years. This man will live 10000 years.
That line hit different
Imagine the people after the first viewing in theaters....movie ends and everyone's just sitting there thinking
Nicholas Wensink I saw this in theaters, chills.
or more likely - crying.
I was there. Still have the ticket stub. I was 10. I went with my Dad and couldn't look at him during Eduard's scene. Not after the bond he made with Mr. Jingles. I watched and appreciated all 3 hours of the movie in a United Artist I think it was. Fuck you Percy.
Cari SHAW Did many people cry?
And crying...
When he speaks the words, WE ALL OWE A DEATH, THERE'S NO EXCEPTIONS, man that hits home hard!!.. I can remember seeing the film for the first time, it just broke me, into pieces!..
+2007zodiac Me too ... one of the very few films that actually moved me to tears.
+2007zodiac Do vampires all owe a death? :)
I heard they are immortal :)
I'm living forever so I don't worry about it.
+2007zodiac I spent like 30 minutes crying after this. What a movie. And the book is so great too.
yeah i remember that too and when i was a kid i couldn't help but thinking about those words all the time.
Fortunately, now i know death is not the ending of life.
Paul did not deserve that.
What about Coffy? Or Melinda? Or Percy? Or Delacroix? Or his wife and son? Or anyone in this movie? It shows god punishes everyone at one point to test your faith. We all walk the green mile whether we know it or not.
Yes, he did deserve it... he even said so.
They always did say that everything happens for a reason.
@@treseancann1261 no, things are done to people for a reason
Such a sad monologue...
This was the real Best Picture of 1999.
The music always gets me
Dabs Greer is the actor. What a career this man had. You'll see him in t.v. from the 50's and 60's and movies. Bit parts character actor a regular on serials. Loved and respected in the acting community and elsewhere. What a life he must of had.
It's my torment, you see.............
I think you mean "atonement".
No, listen to the dialogue. "Torment". He's tormented. Da!
Yes, but "atonement" makes much more sense. He's paying for his past actions with his current "torment", as you put it.
TraustiGeir Stephen King thought "torment" was just fine, since he wrote it. Who am I to argue? Maybe you should take it up with him.
Thomas Tillman Meh, not interested. Either way works just fine.
Holy crap I just had a minor epiphany about this film regarding possibly how long the Tom Hanks character will live for. So I figure the longevity of the mouse is deliberately put there as a comparison for time, therefore, an average pet mouse lives for one to two years, (let's say it will live for two years). The Tom Hanks character said he was 44 when the Black guy walked the Green Mile and the mouse was young, probably coming up to it's first year when he transferred some of his power onto the mouse. Thus, the Tom Hanks character is 108 at the end of the film and the mouse is still alive, 108 - 44 = 64. The mouse is 64 and still alive, the close up of the mouse breathing rapidly may presume it will die soon if not then off screen. So taking that into account, lets say it dies at 64 if not more. Then 64 divided by 2 (average life expectancy of a pet mouse) is 32, therefore the mouse has lived 32 times it's life expectancy. Applying this trait onto a human since Tom Hanks character is 108 at the end of the film, from the point when he got his powers being age 44, thus 44 times 32 = 1,408. If that is how it works then Tom Hank's character has almost become a living vampire, barring the immortality part 🤣. This is to say he doesn't die from anything before hand and it is just old age that takes him or he ends it himself long before his due date. Food for thought. 🤣
Man, just imagine the beautiful things you would see, but you it wouldn't matter because everyone you cared for dropped. My grandpa may he rest in peace lost his world. When he finally got sick it was a relief for him knowing that time was up and he could finally let his kids go on, and not worry about him.
He must be 130 years now. Hope he is doing fine and is not alone on christmas!
He was alone, and constipated. In his anguish he sang 'all I want for Christmas is poo'.
So beautiful. I am known to think to much anyway. I read the books before I saw the movie. I cried during and especially at the end of both. Most of it had to do with their words.
How in God's Name does Thomas Newman not have at least a half a dozen Best Original Score Oscars????
I always wondered why he didn't have Mr. Jingles in his room in a cage to take better care of him instead of some shack out in nowhere where harm could come to him.
A very good movie. A great book.
one of my favourite scenes in the green mile is when they first encountered my jingles they cleaned out the padded room and paul said you let him get past you and at the end of the conversation brutal or brutus I can't remember which said three grown men outsmarted by a mouse
we all owe a death, and we all walk our own green mile
BOOK SPOILER ALERT:
I'm not going to lie, folks--sitting in the theater, I was so relieved to see they didn't include the part about the bus accident and what happened to Mrs. Edgecomb, and Paul seeing John Coffey's ghost and begging for John to save her like he did the warden's wife as she died in his arms. I was bracing myself for it the entire movie...
we all owe a death, we all walk our own green mile.
Paul would stay alive until all of his loved ones are dead
"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions. But oh god... sometimes... the green mile seems so long."
One of the greatest quotes I heard.
Vdaddy I want to get that tattooed overy heart
What does it mean
@@kalebhunter7994 It means we all going to die sometime, and we are all walking the green mile. The green mile is a metaphor for life, as the prisoners walk the green mile to be executed - dead, we all walk the green mile to die.
no cap i shit my fucking pants when i heard this
Vdaddy for it to touch your heart , it reveals your heart ....
Man, they just don't make movies like they used to
In other news, a movie about bondage is number 1 in America right now
justinjacques766 Gone Girl's a really great movie and it was released just a few months ago. But I get your point. I watched Fast & Furious 7 today. That movie was utter shit.
+Place Holder Oh sweet Lord PLEASE tell me you're kidding.
Colin MacKinnon 50 Shades of Grey is a movie about a journalist being seduced, and sexually dominated, by a multimillionaire
or they don't write like they used to. Mr. KING gave us a beautiful story
One of the most emotional and powerful endings in cinematic history!
I will have to agree with you.
In my opinion it's the best, not to sad but it is extremely thought provoking while making your thoughts not be distracting.
Agreed
Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, both prison stories set in the past, both written as novels by Stephen King, both directed by Frank Darabont, both had Jeffrey Demunn in them, both had scores by the great Thomas Newman, both made in the 90's, and both are INCREDIBLE films.
Hawkin's Dog h
Coincidentally both had a wrongly accused charecter and hope.
Yes they are.
I agree with you on everything, Hawkin's Dog..but just to add to it, William Sadler was also in both of those incredible films. 😀
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Seeing an old Mr. Jingles sleeping in that cigar box looking like he's struggling to breathe and that last line, “Sometimes The Green Mile seems so long." Gets me every time.
jackrobinson82 Same here
Scary thing is he's not really even laboring. That's fairly normal breathing for a mouse. Sure, in the book it dies, but we're offered no such comfort in the film adaptation. For all we know, he has to live forever with a mouse as his only consistent companion.
I remember this 3:20 just remembering it makes me cry my heart out even right now my heart hurts just seeing how Mr jingles is sleeping I'm losing my mind crying about it it fucking hurts
this has to be one of the saddest, yet most beautiful goodbye speeches i have ever heard in my life. I get goosebumps every time i play this...
Joey Deep Ikr
Frank Darabont, the most underrated director in movie history.
He should have won the oscars for best films including The Shawshank Redemption.....The Green Mile of course.
Shame on you Hollywood.
+Johan Lebbing American Beauty was better in 1999, and arguably has the better soundtrack (both Green Mile and AB soundtracks composed by Thomas Newman). Totally agree with 1995's Oscars though, Shawshank and Pulp Fiction are far superior to Forrest Gump (as much as I love Hanks).
+Johan Lebbing How is underrated?
+Rupert Evans you are serious when you talk about Forrest gump ... Its the best movie of the best actor how the hells he can be under pulp fiction
+Johan Lebbing He was up against a lot of great films too. Forrest gump is the most audience friendly so it won
leonthesleepy Yes, i know, the oscar commitee rather has a feelgood movie like Forrest Gump then a real good story like The Shawshank Redemption. But, it`s only my humble opinion that The Shawshank Redemption should win, and most of the people who saw this movie couldn`t pronounce the title. Such a movie as The Shawshank Redemption is so amazing. Now it stands lonely at the top at the IMDB top250 greatest movies of all time.
The power of music combined with cinema is perfectly shown in this scene, as the camera sweeps along the floor and up and into the cigar box to revel an old Mr. Jingels along with that haunting music, incredible!
+Hawkin's Dog You're so right dude I feel almost depressed in that precise moment. This movie is a true masterpiece !
So true. That haunting, sinking descending figure, as if the orchestra shares in Paul's dismay. It breaks my heart.
I think the green flooring of the retirement home is supposed to be symbolic of Paul walking his own Green Mile.
Oh gosh. I haven't realized it until I saw your comment!
It's not that hard to figure out if you look into the story as a whole.
Or he could have just wanted the floor to be fucking green
@@roberthassis8997 this is a movie and everything is put there on purpose.
@@kaladbolg not everything maybe it was a coincidence maybe not you never know it's like paintings. People today interpret A shit ton in a painting but infact maybe A painter painted A bowl In a specific place just cause he wanted to who knows?
Absolutely incredible movie. My late aunt once told me, "getting old is not for the light of heart", I remember once sitting with my 85 year old father (he lived to be 96) and asking him why his friends didn't visit him or call him any more. He simply replied. "they're all dead". It hit me that he had simply outlived them.
"We all owe a death, there are no exceptions. I think of us all walking our own green mile".
RIP Michel Clark Duncan
;( Had no idea he passed away. RIP Michael Clark Duncan
And Dabbs Greer
I had no idea he'd passed away
RIP mouse actor too.
JanetFunkYeah Hey, after so many years, you and I were watching at about the same time. More than that I came across your comment imside another comment.... What a coincidence!
Okay, so here's a little bit of horror for you all. In the book Mr Jingles dies at the end, confirming that John doesn't make people immortal, just extremely long-lived. However, keep in mind that Mr Jingles died 64 years after John died. The average life expectancy of a mouse is around 2 years, meaning that John extended his lifespan by around 30. Now then, consider that the life expectancy of an adult male around the time John Coffey died was (apparently, I'm not certain) about 61. Now, if we do the math, 61 multiplied by 30 is 1830. This means that, if Paul has had his life extended by the same amount as Mr Jingles, he's not going to die for almost another 2 millennia.
Sometimes the Green Mile seems so long...
The movie also hints at a possible Egyptian origin for John Koffee (with a "K", not like the drink).
Yeah, thats true, but you have to remember that the mouse was bring back from the dead, so John's essence is stronger in the mouse then in Paul, so mabe the math wont apply in Paul's case, mabe half of that...i dont know, even so he will still have a few hundred years to go, around 900. Now thats a hell of a long green mile !
But why Paul got older in looks and not delayed.
@@ezscootrr Same thought had crossed my mind - he would have to deal with am improperly functional body at some time, imagine the horrors of being forced to live while having to endure crippling pain and decay of your physical self.
@@sirkalilak6841 he's probably beginning to decay but psychologically.
The only movie that made me cry like a fucking baby in front of my girlfriend and I have no problem admitting it! Fuck, still makes me cry today!
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It was a powerful movie. You didn't cry alone.
I cried with Toy story 3 😭😭😭
Same here man..... same here...
You hate this movie because i cried??
This is easily one of the best movies ever made. They really don't make'em like this anymore.
eh, its survivorship bias. We only remember the good ones, or the really bad ones
Soo if Mr. Jingles lived for 64 years which is 32 times longer than the average mouse, Paul (average human male life span 75 years for ex.) could have atleast another 2336 years assuming Mr. Jingles passed away at the end of the movie and if John's power prolonged life proportionally. Scary if you think that each 2 years would mean another 75 years for Paul.
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Paul is subject to the ravages of age, however. I highly doubt he'd last 2336 years past the age of 108. Keep in mind Melinda Moores was also touched by John's power and is mentioned in passing to Elaine as being deceased. John just adds years, he doesn't put a stopper in the aging process or prevent disease or sickness.
But he won't.
C Pegg
In the book, Coffey just used his hands to cure Paul and bring Mr. Jingles back to life. He only sucked the illness from Melinda, the warden's wife. Paul and Mr. Jingles have the extraordinary long life but Melinda died about 11 years later.
But Mr. Jangles was still alive at the end.
Why does it hurt so much when he says "My Boy" ?...I don't have any kids, but I can imagine how painful it must be to lose your son, my father loves me so much, he is the best dad ever....so maybe that is why this scene affects me....that love is so powerful.
+ThePolyTree Wonderfully put. I share your feelings 100% (I'm a dad to a boy, and lost my old man a few years ago). God bless you.
You are lucky to have a father who loves you. Mine just hates me and I am done looking for a love that just isn't there, if it ever was.
The love of a parent to a child i imagine is similar to how TMHG loves mankind. Unconditionally. All other love (romantic or friendship) is based on reciprocal conditions.
4 years late but I think it’s great acting and empathy by the reader. I think the way it’s said conveys humility and wisdom.
Edit: I think the way it is said shows he loved his boy, and he has chosen to cherish the good memory of his relationship with him and had to go through a lot of acceptance. Paul appears to have become a far more tender and loving soul through all of his years of wear and tear. He seems to have gained a great respect for nature and the power of the unknown. He handles Mr. Jingles with so much care, bringing him a piece of toast carefully wrapped in some parchment paper. I think Paul gained that empathy working with people that were far less fortunate in life (Arlen Bitterbuck and his talk with him, Eduard and his relationship with Mr. Jingles, his boss’s wife battling cancer and seeing that nature can be forgiving). I think Paul just conveys a lot of humility.
"It's my torment, you see. It's my punishment. For lettin' John Coffey ride the lightnin'... for killin' a miracle of God."
"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."
Aurik Kal-Durin atonement not torment
Manly Tears were shed.
Just two from the same eye, to lend credence to the lie that there's something in it.
"You will die too. And my curse is knowing that I'll be there to see it. It's my torment, you see. It's my punishment."
The price of living too long is watching others die. This is one of the few works that ever touches on that theme.
Atonement*, not torment (but yes, it's a damn torment too)
I'm not gonna lie, the music at the end combined with his monologue is just plain scary. "If he can make a mouse live so long, how long do I have?"😨
There were audible gasps in the theater I was in after he said that.A haunting final scene.
+tabbypappy yes. yes indeed
BecauseICan Productions eh, probably two centuries or more. Long life is long
what about hal's wife???
One of the all time great classic movie endings. Powerful refection on life, death and attonement.
That last shot of Mr. Jangles makes me cry every time. Supernaturally scary, and great, is the film about the long green mile, each of us will walk one day.
Jangles xd
This was an incredible story written by a gifted writer (Stephen King). One of the few times a movie does a book true justice. I think most people should watch this (especially the ending). You don't feel it on an intellectual level but rather a spiritual level. I cried not at the sadness of the ending but of the miracle that "John" was. "A miracle of G-d"
Marc Abramsky I prefer one part of the book a bit more than the movie.
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In the book, Paul was quiet about John, and at 64 years old, Mr. Jingles made the journey from Cold Mountain to Georgia Pines. I would have loved to see that incorporated in the movie
This scene perfectly describes the life of the last subscriber to World of Warcraft.
LOL
cammameil
Arrrgghhh! haha
+cammameil This is going in my top 10 comments section, just because it applies so well to any online game.
Just.. move on
Hahaha!!!
amazing how long he might have lived
1300 to 1500 years.
you do not know. the mouse is not dead at the end of the movie.
i loved the mouse!!
We’ll surely not 1300 to 1500 years as the execution was 1950
He would of lived for 1,045 years had Mr. Jingles died at the end of the film, being as a mouse lives for 5 years which is 6.5% of the average US life span of 78 years of age. Mr. Jingles being 65 years old, is 2.5% of 1,000.
i realize that we all owe a death, i have no delusions of immortality,
Rest in peace Dabbs Greer, Eve Brent, Micheal Clark Duncan, Micheal Jeter, and Harry Dean Stanton.
stephen king, frank darabont, and everyone else are so damn gifted man, your movies and literary works influence my life and give me wisdom
The actor who plays Paul does such an incredible job in this scene. The cast for this film was amazing.
That would be Dabbs Greer one of the most prolific character actors in Hollywood history this was his last role
Michael Landon always hired the best (he is best known as Rev. Alden in Little House on the Prairie).
@@scottythegreat1 And Dabbs Greer was just as terrific playing Reverend Alden as he was in all his other roles.
why can't they make movies like this right now
Joshua Elands Hollywood is heavily controlled today by a few heartless trashcans they decide the business there.
2018 and movies still aren’t the same
There are still uplifting movies like this being made...you just have to search a bit.
Forrest Gump, Shawshank Redemption, Schindler's List, Secondhand Lions, On Golden Pond.
You are right Larry. The movies I listed are not ones made yesterday. As to whether people are still talking about movies like "The Shape of Water" in 20 years, well, time will tell. It also depends on a person's likes and dislikes and their personal point of view. There are people out there who have not seen "Green Mile", "Shawshank Redemption", "Secondhand Lions" or even "Casablanca".
One of the best endings ever. In one of the best movies ever. It always brings a tear to my eye.
we all will stand before god on judgement day, and we will be judged, . and we all owe a death, there is no exceptions.
What a Brilliant movie🙌🏾
It's the greatest fear that we all have and I dare anyone to challenge it! It's not death we fear, its being the last to die -_-
No man should have to bury his children
I dread the day I have to let go of my parents, and I sometimes wish I died before... Even had it planned, but I have a nephew now and I cant do that to him, so I will have to bear that pain and be a rock for him to lean on.
I don’t fear being the last one to die. There are always new people to come along that you can get to know. Besides, I won’t be dying alone, whenever it happens. God will be with me and then I’ll be with Him.
Such a beautiful film.
This film deserve a very special Oscar for Dabbs Greer (Old Paul Edgecomb). What a heartbreak scene. I watch many film in my life but i dont see many scenes like that. He always make me cry. I don't think he lives all his "green mile" because a curse of god. I think he has that punishment because he think he deserve.
"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions. But oh god, sometimes... The green mile seems so long."
Best line ever.
RIP Dabbs Greer. One of the best actors ever
I saw him today at the store!
Saw who?
when i first saw the movie i thought that the mr jingles was taking his last breathes and was about to die. If mr jingles had died that night then same could happen with Paul....
maybe Paul died in same night with jingles
#fanfiction
You got to keep in mind that a Mouse has a life span of around 2 years. While a Humans life span is around on average 78. So even if Mr Jingles were to die, Pauls life would still keep going.
Through the duration of the movie people were tormented by death. Yet, Hanks's torment was life.
"Sometimes the green mile seems so long..."
Such a beautiful ending. This movie is a masterpiece.
It's 2018 and I'm still wondering how long Paul has left in his Green Mile :'(
The ending has always reminded me of Titanic. That one last flashback where he spots Mr. Jingles is a bit like when Rose finds the diamond in her pocket, and then him going to bed with old photos beside him. It's probably just coincidence, but the similarities are uncanny.
And both were nominated at the oscars ; the only tiny difference is that one got pretty much all of them, while the other one was robbed of pretty much all of them.
My God, that ending. The music. The dialogue. The sight of the old mouse. Just a pure powerful movie ending.
One of the greatest endings to a movie ever! So eerie and sad.
Legend has it they still live to this day.
im 31 and by 29 i pall beared my uncle, my aunt, my grandfather, and my mother, i love movies that spark some spirituality and HOPE into humanity. xo
Michael M en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Legion_of_Decency
Somehow. . This movie increases my faith in God.
this is a work of fiction my friend lol
sometimes a work of fiction increases belief in fiction lol
Nor Norranun depends if living forever kept you young forever lol you could become a pro at so much shit
+Supreme Flange Nah its realy tormenting, seeing everyone you know and love die bevore you, you will stop seing people , because they die, wont love anyone because you will lose them, no kids or family because you will outlive them. You will isolate yourself and become a outcast to socity, until madness grasps your transcendet soul. Yeah realy nothing you could possibly want.
+mutenroshie
On the contrary, it takes the right mind to truly desire immortality. For me, people will die, and I will outlive everyone. But I have no issue with that. I've already been alone most of my life, I doubt an eternity is going to do any harm.
Why do i do these things to myself? I tried not to cry, but cried a lot.
The fact that we all die - that is, our close ones - and not all at once of course, but one after another until there is eventually no one left who you once knew... making you closer to those who you knew but never talked to much, making you more grateful for everyone.... but by then it's too late. this scene makes me reflect on the people I love, and why I should be grateful now for the times I may one day miss (or sadly not out-live) them.
"Sometimes, the Green Mile seems so long."Is THAT (unintentionally) supposed to be a metaphor for how long this movie is?
Profound and heart-breaking. One of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen. The script and acting are so superb as is the music. Bravo Mr. Darabont!
Mr jingles
I'm not a Hindu, or even a believer of any traditional sort, but I still follow the Hindu idea of ahimsa - non-violence. Non-violence to one, to all, to every one and every thing - human or non-human equally and likewise.
Don't hurt the mice - they're every bit as much a miracle of God as you are. As Tennyson said, let them have their little lives. They too have their own little stories and happiness and pleasures. They live such little lives; let them have that at least.
Can’t believe this was filmed in 1999, still fresh in my mind, thought provoking, great actors, superbly produced and filmed, still brings tears to my eyes and heart.
"I'm tired, boss."
i didnt cry when coffey died, when coffey told about pain/ i tried to be calm/ but in moment when he found a mouse i cried because all my emotions before this moment accumulated and after that exploded/ i cried a lot i got histeria \ it was the end of this book i tried to not cry but it is not possible
Can we stop mass producing Superhero films and make films like this again.
when he says you'll die too i always loose it. 😥 one my favorite movies/soundtracks
What a fking film that is.. I'm a 48 year old 20 St man and this makes me fill up every time I see it.
Jesus Christ...he would live about 1000 years....
our daughter ariel lynch was killed in a car accident 5 years ago, by a hit and run driver. and a big part of me died that day also.
I'm so sorry about your loss. God bless you. 🙏
BeautyGirl570 thank you, and god bless you .
im sorry for you :(
eliott berthin thank you. your prayers help us.
cliff lynch your welcome
Tears had been shed while watching movie
in 2009 we lost our daughter to a hit and run driver, she was 16 years old, what i wouldnt give to hug her one more time.
I'm sorry for your loss...
🙏
I lost my father to a drunk driver in 1993
I truly feel your pain 😪
I'm not crying I just got something in my eye
Such an awesome ending line, "we each owe a death, no exceptions." Classic film
I felt sorry for him. :(
Being all alone when all of your friends dies away from you while you're living on forever. And your only company is a mouse....
Green Mile and Shawshank are both beautiful masterpieces, John Coffey is a character that will never leave me. I genuinely wonder if Michael Clarke Duncan was an angel
my great grandmother lived to be 105. my mother told me she was tired of being alive her last few years. her husband and all her friends had died over the years. then her kids started getting old and dying.
It is horrible when a parent outlives a child but that is all people can do is to live and love..
@Me Myself what a memory to hold on to, though! ❤
Life and death are the same. Just one is harder than the other. We all come into this life with the same destination. It's the path we take to reach our destination that makes us unique. In the beginning we fear death, we fear what we don't know. Sometimes life gives us the experience of death so that we shed the fear of it, and in time that fear changes to a longing for it. I understand his acceptance of it. Long ago I experienced it for myself. Now, as I like to say..... " when death comes knocking on my door next, I will welcome him as an old friend come to take me home."
One of the best Hollywood movie ever.
"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions. But oh God... sometimes... the green mile seems so long'' This line made me cry and reflect on my own mortality, the first time I read the book and then watched the movie
Sometimes; a green mile, seems so long..
I cry everytime at this ending scene, this and A I (Artificial Intelligence) endings always get to me.
King Sean the ending to A.I. just makes me miss my mom when she isn't around me.
I remember being in the movie theater swallowing tears at this part
Mr. Jingles is alive for the duration of the movie. Given the longest possible life expectance for a mouse (about 2 years) and dividing the length of his life (64 years) 64 / 2 = 32 The mouse lived for 32 times his maximum life span. Assuming a max life span for a human is about 100 years. Paul Edgecomb would live to be at least 3,200 years
So did the warden's wife live as long as him?
no he says "al and Melinda" when he names all the people who passed
Joey Deep Ah, ok,.thanks. Wonder why, though? Cancer was too strong and he had just enough to grab out the cancer but not leave anything special behind like with Coffey and the mouse.
I'm just guessing.
Punk Rock Penguin i dont think what they had was a gift, i think what he had was instead a curse or just the will of somebody else, when some of them were healed, they werent specifically gifted with anything else, they still would of died of natural causes, i think when john died, he put what he had inside of paul and the mouse at will. i dont think the disease or the gifts were even completely gone, they were just sprayed into the air as locusts to go somewhere else. thats just my theory though.
bronzeownsu5 John did his "gift transfer" at 2 crucial points in the movie. for Mr. Jingles he was having an extremely hard time handling the bad death of Eduard Delacroix. Mr Jingles was in his hands during the execution and John basically unknowingly sent the gift thru his hands into Mr Jingles. some say it happened after Percy stomped on Mr Jingles, but that was more about stopping death from finishing the job and giving Del back his friend.
for Paul (Tom Hanks) John had to give him a part of himself so that Paul would understand the truth of Wild Bill. it was Wild Bill who did the awful deeds to the little girls, and when they were taking John to see the Wardens wife, Bill grabbed John's arm and John was able to "see" into Bills heart or mind and witness the way Bill killed the girls with their love for each other, telling each that if one girl screamed the other girl would pay the price for it. when he gave Paul the "gift", he too was able to see what had happened and that John truly was an innocent man.
sadly, while Paul knew that John was innocent, there was literally nothing he could do about it. and as John told him later, he was tired of all the ugliness in the world, that it was like pieces of glass inside his head. he wanted it to be done, he was ready and willing to move on to the afterlife and not have to be "as lonely as a Sparrow in the rain, with never a buddy to tell him where they was going or why"
there has never really been a reason to think John did the "gift transfer" with ill intentions in mind. in truth, John may not have been smart enough to plan such a thing and pull it off. it just happened to wind up giving Paul and Jingles extraordinarily long lives and vitality.
sfy2004
Incredible writing. Those last words though....deep dawg
Dabbs Greer is such a bonnie old man. Love this film. Should have won the Oscar.