Thank you so, so much!! We're glad you enjoyed the reaction. And I wholeheartedly agree; even in the darkest of times, there's always something we can do to shine a light. ❤
@@Flix2UsThe one thing I noticed is that his name was John Coffey which his initials would be JC and how both of you kind of likened him to Jesus Christ
Mr. Duncan's performance was out of this world. It doesn't matter how many times I have seen the movie or how many reactions I have watched. "I'm tired, boss" and "Please, don't put me in the dark" speeches always break me down
My roommate and I thought we'd just let this movie play in the background while we went around doing our own things. Next thing we know we get fully invested in the story... and then we were struggling to not cry in front of each other. Lots of sniffling, chopping onions, etc... heh. That was like, 20 years ago. We joke about it now. Enjoyed the reaction. Thanks for the video!
I highly disagree with you saying that this is a movie you can only watch once. I can't stop watching this movie because of how amazing it is. I'm aware of how hard it's going to hit me every time, but it's too good to watch just once. And yes, I'm tear-stained emotional wreck right now. Glad you both are now acquainted with this masterpiece. Thank you for your reaction.
Same exact thing here. This is the only 3 hour movie on the planet I will watch over and over and over again. I've probably watched this movie in its entirety 50 times over the years. THEN tack on all the reactions I've watched 😂 But yea, like you said, even though I know exactly what's coming I cry every single time. You can't hold back genuine emotion when the acting is this good.
I can understand how one might only NEED to watch it once because it's so powerful, but to me it's SO good I want to watch it over and over. One of my all time favorites.
Totally agree. This, Shawshank and a handful of others. I always return to them when I'm reminded that the movies made lately come nowhere near these classics.
This movie is a beautiful masterpiece! The cast did a freakin great job with this one. From the ambience/choice of music is beautiful. I would not change one thing about this movie besides on how past history was disgusting… and still continues til this day. 🤦♂️ love this beautiful movie
Michael Clarke Duncan was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. The film was also nominated for Best Picture. This film is a masterpiece and draws you in emotionally. Watching you both react was like watching it anew once again. I’ve seen this film at least a dozen times and I’m ALWAYS brought to tears.
This is the kind of movie i hope they show in film schools when taking about pacing. It's 3 hours long but it is paced so beautifully. There are no scenes that you feel should be cut. It's never boring, even when something important isn't happening. The exposition, character development.... everything is just crafted immaculately and executed perfectly.
Two movies in my top 10, same writer, same director, with completely opposite endings. One leaves you elated with a great feeling of hope, the other crushing hopeless devastation.
And here I am crying like a baby (again!!!) along with you guys... Man. What a movie. MCD was just... incredible in this! That line: "When I have to stand before God, and He asks me..." I just cannot from there on out. An almost completely perfect story. Whew... time to wipe the tears! *Think happier thoughts! Goldeneye soon!!! haha*
So, a guy named Paul tells a story about a miracle man named J.C. - who is an empath, a seer & has a gift for healing and then dies for someone else's sin after blessing people with LIFE...
It's not often that a film has the right story, right script writer and director and right cast, the planets aligned for this film, great review guy's 👏
44:30 it is always nice to see people reach out to comfort someone. I notice it in a lot of reactions between couples. It shows a lot of caring between you and your mom.
The elderly Tom Hanks is played by the great character actor Dabbs Greer. In the 1950s, 60s, 70s he appeared in just about every tv series and hundreds of motion pictures. Prolific actor to say the least.
Frank Darabont, the director and writer of the adapted screenplay did such and amazing job with this film. The cast? Perfecto!! I would love to see a film about Michael Clarke Duncan's real life story. From what I've read, he was a beautiful soul.
This is a phenominal movie, I cried my eyes out at this the first time I saw it, and everytime I watch it now, I'm close to tearing up. Anyone who says they didn't cry at this is either lying, of they don't have a heart. I've had many of those urinary tract infections, with me being disabled, and there is nothing worse in the world, that peeing razor blades as Paul Edgecombe says, I'd never wish it on my worst enemy.
What's funny about the scene where Sam Rockwell grabs Percy, is that Percy had JUST BEEN messing with Dale. When Dale got injured, Percy started clapping back that "I was only playin." Followed by Sam Rockwell's character grabbing Percy and messing with him right back, after which he throws his hands up and laughs, and says "C'mon, I WAS ONLY PLAYIN!" throwing the EXACT phrase back at Percy, officially putting them in the same category of shit people. Just an interesting parallel there.
This is such an amazing film! Big virtual hugs guys. My heart was going out to you at the start because I knew you had no idea what you were in for. I’m a huge fan of your reactions. This was another favourite of my late bestie and I living together as single gals and I remember us being blown away by all of it! The writing, the stellar cast, the setting, it’s all just so well put together and perfect despite the ending. It gives you every emotion and even humour despite the overall situation but you feel whole at the end, satisfied and thoroughly rung out on a human level. Look forward to the next one, hope to see you soon ❤
This was another first for me. Holy cow, this took me apart and ripped me in half. The whole Del sequence was BRUTAL. That was hard to watch. Watching you both lose it made me so sad, it hurt me to see you both so moved by this great film.
Actress Bonnie Hunt stars in a lot of films, especially many which are set in Chicago like "Return to Me.". She is also the voice of the mother of Judy Hopps in the animated film, "Zootopia". "The Green Mile" is set in Depression Era Louisiana.
25:00 -- thanks for including more of Del's final (non-death) moments with the guards in your reaction. It's a great scene, and with Michael Jeter having passed, it's so nice to bask in his performance again.
its a scene that always stuck with me. it shows that he has grown, as a person, since being imprisoned. he has seen that there is a different way, and he regrets not following it. And of course, he is saying goodbye to the guards that became his friends.
@@scar445 Amen, x 1000. I don't mean to get overly philosophical about it, but you see enough stories like Del's (real or fiction), and you realize that you are also just one bad mistake, just one poor decision, away from ending up in a similarly dire situation. Del could be me, someday. I can easily imagine myself feeling that level of soul-crushing regret for a dumb mistake that I made.....
Yes I love the scene when he said he wished he could have met them somewhere else. It goes to show that the people you surround yourself with matter!! If they ate bad then its more likely you'll go down the same route. Have good men with morals around you. ❤
Sometimes lifes gets a little hard. You keep everything inside and it can break you. When life gets a bit unbearable for me, I watch this movie. It 100% makes me cry uncontrollably and I have a release of all the bad things. One of the most magnificent movies ever made. Even watching this reaction of yours made me cry.
An object lesson about the power of humanity and inhumanity. Brutal's character personified the overall arc of the movie. He was capable of inflicting great pain, but had the temperament to show great empathy. We all have the capacity for both, and it's up to us to choose humanity or cruelty, to be judgmental or compassionate.
Eduard Delacroix was a death-row inmate incarcerated at Cold Mountain Penitentiary for raping and killing a young girl, then trying to cover up his crime by burning her body. The fire was near an apartment building that caught on fire and killed six more people, including two children.
One of my fave movies (up there with Shawshank) but it is SO brutal. No matter how many times I've watched it (reactions or otherwise) I'm always bawling by the end. It is a great movie. Thanks for the great reaction.
1 scene that always gets me in that movie is when John is led out of his cell to be executed,he is not worried about himself,he is thinking about Del's mouse,and how happy they all will be living down in Mouse city.
Thank you so much. There are many reactions to this movie... I think this is top two of the ten or more I've watched. Whoever edited this...wicked kudos. All the right scenes were respected. Brilliant video!!!
You'll be happy to know that at least Michael Clark Duncan was nominated for best supporting actor. The Green Mile was Oscar nominated in these categories although they didn't win any. It was a commercial success, grossing $286 million from its $60 million budget, and was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Duncan, Best Sound and Best Adapted Screenplay.
I've got a recommendation, "Come and See" from 1985, it was an inspiration for both Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List (Spielberg even showed it to whole cast and crew before filming) is still considered the greatest war movie ever made by many people and is the highest rated film of all time on letterboxd, lot's of people use LB and it has like a hundred thousand films scored on there from all over the world so being number 1 is no small feat. It'd make a great reaction because of how intense it is.
Enjoyed your reaction. You two figured it out faster than most I have seen I read the book and saw the movie. I loved they cast Dabbs Greer as “old Paul” because I watched Little House on the Prairie since i was a kid and he played the minister and looked old to me on 70s show. Im pretty sure I read the book first and had to go back and forth with Paul’s age so when i saw the movie and saw who was playing older Paul i just said PERFECT cause with both my reactions were “HE STILL ALIVE???”
John when he pointed at the stars said "There's Cassie..the lady in the rocking chair"...he was talking about the constellation "Cassiopeia"...also, John Coffey has the initials of JC (similar to J esus C hrist) ....Stephen King says that was on purpose....
Also from the pen of Stephen King:- Rita Hayworth & The Shawshank Redemption, The Stand, Cujo, Christine, Misery, It, The Dome, The Shining, Pet Cemetary, Carrie, The Running Man, and the other Bachman Books. His complete catalogue of written works is too massive to list. No one writes like King.
This is one of the best movies ever made. It has all the emotions. Thank you for sharing your journey with us. I loved this movie the first time and a first time reaction is the closest thing I’ll ever get for a 2nd first time watching.
This movie is a masterpiece i watched a lot of movies in my life but this movie had me crying the characters the plot the pacing , i thought once i would never cry on a movie but now i am here sitting in front of my phone sobbing 💔😭
Doug Hutchison ( Percy ) has an incredible talent for playing characters you will hate. He also played Eugene Victor Tooms in The X Files for Two Episodes that still make my skin crawl.
A movie I wasn't going to watch because it sounded horrible, but it had Tom Hanks in it so I gave in. What a movie!. Astonishing, haunting and heartbreaking and at times horrific. Such acting!
Yeah! This movie is heavy. Think about how long a mouse can live. 12 years would be a long time. Paul is destined to live 200+ years. Terrible thought. His curse! Scary. Thanks for your reaction. That was enjoyable. Keep 'em coming.
I've read the novella. I raw the film in the theater. I bought the DVD 1st day it dropped. Got the Blu-Ray of The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, & Lean On Me the same day. Stephen King har written many things that have been adapted for the screen, but those three will be the most enduring though time. I watch them regularly & tear-up every time, & that's a good thing.
Frank Darabont has directed and written screenplays for 3 of Stephen King's short stories. Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile and The Mist. You'll see a lot of the same actors used in all 3 movies and in the first season of The Walking Dead because Darabont directed it!
There are clues in the book & movie that hint to his true origin & therefore an estimated age, but the movie doesn't tell you the big clue & 1 of the smaller clues. 1. John called all the prison guards "boss". By the time of the depression, most black people not wanting to ire racists used the term "sir" towards any white man unless that person was their actual employer. 2. He can only spell his name, nothing else. Even with no formal education at all, most blacks at the time knew more than that because they needed to know some basics in order to do their jobs. 3. The state searched & couldn't find any records at all matching his name. In the books, John couldn't give his birthdate or remember where he was from. Considering that most kids know when their birthday is by 5 yrs old, then it seems there was no one that knew it left in his life by the time he was old enough to learn it. Even if orphaned, someone in his community should have dug around & found that info before he was sent to the orphanage or distant relatives, right? So that's weird, that no one can find any written records matching him. 4. When they take him from the prison at night, he recognizes the star constellations & it makes him happy, like it's familiar to be using the stars to guide him. But instead of referring to Cassiopeia by her full name & saying she is on a throne, he calls her Cassie, the lady in the rocking chair. This shows he didn't learn about the stars from someone formally educated, but instead learned about her from old slave songs which would have hidden directions worked into the lyrics to make memorizing easier. 5. The big one: If you look close in the movie, there's a couple shots close enough for you to see the end of a single scar coming up over John's shoulder, but no one ever mentions it. In the book, it is mentioned in detail! Notice how John never gets a prison uniform like the other inmates? The prison literally can't find any clothes or shoes in his size without special ordering them. They wouldn't do that for a white prisoner, so they sure aren't gonna do it for a black prisoner. He's still in the same clothes he was arrested in. So each week when it's wash day, the guards have John strip off his tshirt & overalls & send them to be washed. He has to sit around in his underwear. This is when the guards see that his back is covered in scars. Big, long scars crossing over each other that look like something (a whip?) tore his skin unevenly, the skin healed without any use of stitches, & then the same thing was done again & again. They ask him what happened & he doesn't answer. He only remembers that he was hurt long ago. He doesn't remember anything else & he doesn't like thinking about the past. So, put all that together & John is older than he looks in the 1930s. MUCH older. He was a slave, adult or close to it when slavery ended, & so probably has just been wandering around finding work to feed himself with since.
@@tamarasmith9060 Thank you. I used to read constantly but developed neck issues that make it difficult. I always enjoyed King, and was reading The Gunslinger when my issues arose.
Chief: He killed one man because he wanted his boots at a bar. Del: He kidnapped, r*ped, killed and then set the corpse of a woman on fire. Bill (Can't remember his name but the one with the Buffalo Bill tatto's): Killed a pregnant woman in a robbery and r*ped the two girls and then killed them. John: Just tried to get the girls back :'c
In a recent interview Stephen King said he was gonna name the movie The Green Kilometer to appeal to the world, but at the last minute changed his mind
I've been watching movies since the '50s and in terms of audience manipulation this is the most devastating film ending ever made. Please consider: "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950) - Director: John Huston excellent crime caper "Jeremiah Johnson' (1972) - Robert Redford best mountain man movie
The “lady in the rocking chair” is actually a reference to Mother Abigail from “The Stand”. If you watch “The Stand”, visions of Mother Abigail show up as an old woman sitting in a rocking chair on her front porch.
It was especially ironic and cruel that Percy called Del the F-word when he was in the chair, because the actor Michael Jeter was gay and HIV positive in real life. But when he died early in 2003 at the age of only 50 it was a result of a bad epileptic seizure.
Paul was 44 the year John Coffey walked the Green Mile (1935) which means he was born in 1891. So, in '99 Paul was 108 and Mr Jingles was 64 or 65 years old. A pet mouse in captivity has an average life expectancy of about 4-5 years... makes you wonder how long Paul will live, eh?! Several hundred years probably. And his penance is to lose everyone he loves, to outlive them all.
Maybe we should start a people's posthumous Oscar's for roles that actors that have now past that didn't get the recognition that we know know they deserved Michael Clark Duncan would get my first vote hands down and the film itself is a masterpiece and rightly deserves a people's Oscar for cast crew directing
Two of the characters in the movie are HARRY Terwiliger and DEAN STANTON. Stephen King’s little joke, carried out by the casting of Harry Dean Stanton as Toot.
Great reaction, you noted many Stars in this awesome movie. You may have missed one😉. Ever seen, The Outlaw Josie Wales? Clint Eastwood's nemesis throughout the movie Redlegs with the famous fight at the end. That him throwing the switch in the movie. Great Actor, check him out. You all Rock, rayray ✊✌️🤙👍
This movie proofs that The Oscars means less than nothing. The greatest movies of all time seem to bomb at the cinema and win no awards, which I am happy for. Movies like this will still be remembered 100 years from now and nobody will remember the MCU
Steven King has developed a small stable of actors he likes to work with, like David Morse and Harry Dean Stanton. Apart from casting Stanton as Old Toot, King named the guard characters Harry and Dean Stanton for them.
Percy Whitmore and Annie from Misery are King's best on-screen villains ever. I had such hatred for that little monster the first time I saw this, I wanted to jump into the screen and smack the hell out of him.
Don't know if anyone answered your question about Del...I'm 64 & have most all Stephen King's books,Green Mile based on one...Del was Not Really a Murder ,he was a Fire Bug Arsonist & didn't know there was a person in one place he torched who ended up dying...P.S. a GREAT movie based on a King book ....The Stand.....Gary Sinise is MAJOR Hero in it !! check it out !!
This was such a wonderful movie... even though I cry like a baby every time I watch anyone react to it... I can't get passed Tom Hanks saying "Roll on 2"... it kills me each and every time... How it didn't win I don't know... Michael should have won something... And I thought Tom Hanks performance was super... and lets not forget the weasel playing Percy... I mean could you dislike anyone more??? He did such a fantastic job that each and every person I see reacting to this film LOATHE him... and can't wait to see him get some sort of comeuppance... and it's so sweet when he does... and of course the one playing Wild Bill... to go from a drooling idjit to a despicable criminal violent as all get out and completely bonkers... I'm gonna say I bet he had the time of his life acting like a goof like that throwing the feathers all over and swinging from the bars and all...
MCD won the Golden Globe for best supporting Actor - I often feel that that the 'Globes' are better than the Oscars because they don't care about American politics, popularity, etc.. The Journalists who vote have to be recognised in their field, are NOT from the USA, and over 50% are ethnically diverse - big difference to the Oscars.
I've seen very many reactions to this movie, seen the movie multiple times, and prefer reactors that show emotion to it. Having compassion is an important aspect of one's character, I feel. One that garners respect. This movie is interesting in that certain points hit me harder knowing they're coming. When reactors cry, such as yourselves, it pushes the emotions further. It's a good thing. I've found that it's better to be empathetic/sympathetic than to be cold and heartless.
For years I've just been thinking Jon is an angel more or less. His abilities coupled with the fact that his lawyer said its as if he "dropped outta the sky" due to there being no record or anything having to do with jon. And not that i think he was serious when he said that it just could be like a hint of some sort by either the movie director or Stephen King. idk if it's confirmed but until then that's my headcannon
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Things like this offer such light even from the darkest places. Thank you ❤
Thank you so, so much!! We're glad you enjoyed the reaction. And I wholeheartedly agree; even in the darkest of times, there's always something we can do to shine a light. ❤
@@Flix2UsThe one thing I noticed is that his name was John Coffey which his initials would be JC and how both of you kind of likened him to Jesus Christ
"Cassie! The lady in the rockin chair!" He was talking about Cassiopia. A very historic constellation.
Mr. Duncan's performance was out of this world. It doesn't matter how many times I have seen the movie or how many reactions I have watched. "I'm tired, boss" and "Please, don't put me in the dark" speeches always break me down
My roommate and I thought we'd just let this movie play in the background while we went around doing our own things. Next thing we know we get fully invested in the story... and then we were struggling to not cry in front of each other. Lots of sniffling, chopping onions, etc... heh. That was like, 20 years ago. We joke about it now.
Enjoyed the reaction. Thanks for the video!
"Two birds, one stone ...and there was much rejoicing". 😂😂
I highly disagree with you saying that this is a movie you can only watch once. I can't stop watching this movie because of how amazing it is. I'm aware of how hard it's going to hit me every time, but it's too good to watch just once. And yes, I'm tear-stained emotional wreck right now. Glad you both are now acquainted with this masterpiece. Thank you for your reaction.
Same exact thing here. This is the only 3 hour movie on the planet I will watch over and over and over again. I've probably watched this movie in its entirety 50 times over the years. THEN tack on all the reactions I've watched 😂 But yea, like you said, even though I know exactly what's coming I cry every single time. You can't hold back genuine emotion when the acting is this good.
I can understand how one might only NEED to watch it once because it's so powerful, but to me it's SO good I want to watch it over and over. One of my all time favorites.
I’ve watched it numerous times, and sure I’ll watch more.
Totally agree. This, Shawshank and a handful of others. I always return to them when I'm reminded that the movies made lately come nowhere near these classics.
This movie is a beautiful masterpiece! The cast did a freakin great job with this one. From the ambience/choice of music is beautiful. I would not change one thing about this movie besides on how past history was disgusting… and still continues til this day. 🤦♂️ love this beautiful movie
This is one of the greatest Steven King stories ever written.
Michael Clarke Duncan was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. The film was also nominated for Best Picture. This film is a masterpiece and draws you in emotionally. Watching you both react was like watching it anew once again. I’ve seen this film at least a dozen times and I’m ALWAYS brought to tears.
He should have won the Oscar. I love Michael Caine - but Michael Clark Duncan's performance went beyond acting - it was embodiment. He was robbed.
This is the kind of movie i hope they show in film schools when taking about pacing. It's 3 hours long but it is paced so beautifully. There are no scenes that you feel should be cut. It's never boring, even when something important isn't happening. The exposition, character development.... everything is just crafted immaculately and executed perfectly.
I've read the book and watched the film a million times. It still makes my tears fall every time. Great reaction
I have watched many a reactions from this site.Every reaction,I feel tearful inside.
Two movies in my top 10, same writer, same director, with completely opposite endings. One leaves you elated with a great feeling of hope, the other crushing hopeless devastation.
And here I am crying like a baby (again!!!) along with you guys... Man. What a movie. MCD was just... incredible in this! That line: "When I have to stand before God, and He asks me..." I just cannot from there on out.
An almost completely perfect story. Whew... time to wipe the tears! *Think happier thoughts! Goldeneye soon!!! haha*
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The green mile is the only movie ever which had me crying. Not just tear up like with forrest gump. No.
I literally cried .
The saddest quote “I’m sorry for what I am” he is a miracle of God! A healer.
So, a guy named Paul tells a story about a miracle man named J.C. - who is an empath, a seer & has a gift for healing and then dies for someone else's sin after blessing people with LIFE...
It's not often that a film has the right story, right script writer and director and right cast, the planets aligned for this film, great review guy's 👏
I love this movie. So beautiful, heartbreaking, wonderful and sad. Every aspect of this film is phenomenal.
That one time Stephen King didn't write a horror, and it became this.
What a writer.
44:30 it is always nice to see people reach out to comfort someone. I notice it in a lot of reactions between couples. It shows a lot of caring between you and your mom.
The elderly Tom Hanks is played by the great character actor Dabbs Greer. In the 1950s, 60s, 70s he appeared in just about every tv series and hundreds of motion pictures. Prolific actor to say the least.
Absolutely!
He also played Reverend Alden in Little House On The Prairie
Yes! @@bradb3248
Dabs was in Perry Mason quite a few times
Frank Darabont, the director and writer of the adapted screenplay did such and amazing job with this film. The cast? Perfecto!! I would love to see a film about Michael Clarke Duncan's real life story. From what I've read, he was a beautiful soul.
That line ‘this boys cheese done slid off his cracker’ cracks me up every time 😂😂😂😂😂
This is a phenominal movie, I cried my eyes out at this the first time I saw it, and everytime I watch it now, I'm close to tearing up. Anyone who says they didn't cry at this is either lying, of they don't have a heart. I've had many of those urinary tract infections, with me being disabled, and there is nothing worse in the world, that peeing razor blades as Paul Edgecombe says, I'd never wish it on my worst enemy.
What's funny about the scene where Sam Rockwell grabs Percy, is that Percy had JUST BEEN messing with Dale. When Dale got injured, Percy started clapping back that "I was only playin."
Followed by Sam Rockwell's character grabbing Percy and messing with him right back, after which he throws his hands up and laughs, and says "C'mon, I WAS ONLY PLAYIN!" throwing the EXACT phrase back at Percy, officially putting them in the same category of shit people.
Just an interesting parallel there.
This is such an amazing film! Big virtual hugs guys. My heart was going out to you at the start because I knew you had no idea what you were in for. I’m a huge fan of your reactions. This was another favourite of my late bestie and I living together as single gals and I remember us being blown away by all of it! The writing, the stellar cast, the setting, it’s all just so well put together and perfect despite the ending. It gives you every emotion and even humour despite the overall situation but you feel whole at the end, satisfied and thoroughly rung out on a human level. Look forward to the next one, hope to see you soon ❤
"Cassie" refers to the Cassiopeia constellation.
Ah, of course!
This was another first for me. Holy cow, this took me apart and ripped me in half. The whole Del sequence was BRUTAL. That was hard to watch. Watching you both lose it made me so sad, it hurt me to see you both so moved by this great film.
14:15 - The moment a great film becomes something truly special.
Fun fact: Michael Clark Duncan was supposed to be The Notorious BIGs bodyguard the night he was shot in LA back in 1997.
Actress Bonnie Hunt stars in a lot of films, especially many which are set in Chicago like "Return to Me.". She is also the voice of the mother of Judy Hopps in the animated film, "Zootopia". "The Green Mile" is set in Depression Era Louisiana.
25:00 -- thanks for including more of Del's final (non-death) moments with the guards in your reaction. It's a great scene, and with Michael Jeter having passed, it's so nice to bask in his performance again.
its a scene that always stuck with me. it shows that he has grown, as a person, since being imprisoned. he has seen that there is a different way, and he regrets not following it. And of course, he is saying goodbye to the guards that became his friends.
@@scar445 Amen, x 1000. I don't mean to get overly philosophical about it, but you see enough stories like Del's (real or fiction), and you realize that you are also just one bad mistake, just one poor decision, away from ending up in a similarly dire situation. Del could be me, someday. I can easily imagine myself feeling that level of soul-crushing regret for a dumb mistake that I made.....
Yes I love the scene when he said he wished he could have met them somewhere else. It goes to show that the people you surround yourself with matter!! If they ate bad then its more likely you'll go down the same route. Have good men with morals around you. ❤
Percy is one of the most hated characters ever - deservedly so! It is so good seeing him get what’s coming to him.
Sometimes lifes gets a little hard. You keep everything inside and it can break you. When life gets a bit unbearable for me, I watch this movie. It 100% makes me cry uncontrollably and I have a release of all the bad things. One of the most magnificent movies ever made. Even watching this reaction of yours made me cry.
An object lesson about the power of humanity and inhumanity. Brutal's character personified the overall arc of the movie. He was capable of inflicting great pain, but had the temperament to show great empathy. We all have the capacity for both, and it's up to us to choose humanity or cruelty, to be judgmental or compassionate.
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Michael Clarke Duncan was 6’5”, the same height as David Morse (Brutal) but they used risers and camera angles to convey extra height.
Hal is taller than them both…
14:44 "they call it empathetic or... whats... what happened?" 😳
that's a look of surprise.
Eduard Delacroix was a death-row inmate incarcerated at Cold Mountain Penitentiary for raping and killing a young girl, then trying to cover up his crime by burning her body. The fire was near an apartment building that caught on fire and killed six more people, including two children.
One of my fave movies (up there with Shawshank) but it is SO brutal. No matter how many times I've watched it (reactions or otherwise) I'm always bawling by the end. It is a great movie. Thanks for the great reaction.
When he pointed to the sky and said “It’s Miss Cassie, the lady in the rocking chair.” He’s referring to the constellation Cassiopia.
1 scene that always gets me in that movie is when John is led out of his cell to be executed,he is not worried about himself,he is thinking about Del's mouse,and how happy they all will be living down in Mouse city.
For all his commercial success, Stephen King is vastly underrated as far as the quality of his writing goes.
A Stephen King masterpiece! I cry every time I see this! Michael Clark Duncan should have won the Oscar for playing John Coffee! ❤❤❤
Thank you so much. There are many reactions to this movie... I think this is top two of the ten or more I've watched. Whoever edited this...wicked kudos. All the right scenes were respected. Brilliant video!!!
There’s some suggestion that whatever it is with John Coffey is a form of The Shine
"No, you can't get a mouse" 😂😂😂
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You'll be happy to know that at least Michael Clark Duncan was nominated for best supporting actor. The Green Mile was Oscar nominated in these categories although they didn't win any. It was a commercial success, grossing $286 million from its $60 million budget, and was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Duncan, Best Sound and Best Adapted Screenplay.
I've got a recommendation, "Come and See" from 1985, it was an inspiration for both Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List (Spielberg even showed it to whole cast and crew before filming) is still considered the greatest war movie ever made by many people and is the highest rated film of all time on letterboxd, lot's of people use LB and it has like a hundred thousand films scored on there from all over the world so being number 1 is no small feat. It'd make a great reaction because of how intense it is.
I love when your mum says eh. So cute and charismatic. ❤😂
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A masterpiece. This movie is a rollercoaster of emotion.
Great reaction.
Enjoyed your reaction. You two figured it out faster than most I have seen I read the book and saw the movie. I loved they cast Dabbs Greer as “old Paul” because I watched Little House on the Prairie since i was a kid and he played the minister and looked old to me on 70s show. Im pretty sure I read the book first and had to go back and forth with Paul’s age so when i saw the movie and saw who was playing older Paul i just said PERFECT cause with both my reactions were “HE STILL ALIVE???”
John when he pointed at the stars said "There's Cassie..the lady in the rocking chair"...he was talking about the constellation "Cassiopeia"...also, John Coffey has the initials of JC (similar to J esus C hrist) ....Stephen King says that was on purpose....
Also from the pen of Stephen King:- Rita Hayworth & The Shawshank Redemption, The Stand, Cujo, Christine, Misery, It, The Dome, The Shining, Pet Cemetary, Carrie, The Running Man, and the other Bachman Books. His complete catalogue of written works is too massive to list. No one writes like King.
The Monty Python insert was brilliant. Great reaction to an amazing film!
This is one of the best movies ever made. It has all the emotions. Thank you for sharing your journey with us. I loved this movie the first time and a first time reaction is the closest thing I’ll ever get for a 2nd first time watching.
This movie is a masterpiece i watched a lot of movies in my life but this movie had me crying the characters the plot the pacing , i thought once i would never cry on a movie but now i am here sitting in front of my phone sobbing 💔😭
mice live only a couple years! So this mouse has lived 30 x longer than its lifespan- and still getting older. so Paul may live 2000 years old.
Doug Hutchison ( Percy ) has an incredible talent for playing characters you will hate. He also played Eugene Victor Tooms in The X Files for Two Episodes that still make my skin crawl.
He married a 16 year old girl at the age of 51 so he's a real life creep as well.
A movie I wasn't going to watch because it sounded horrible, but it had Tom Hanks in it so I gave in. What a movie!. Astonishing, haunting and heartbreaking and at times horrific. Such acting!
Yeah! This movie is heavy. Think about how long a mouse can live. 12 years would be a long time. Paul is destined to live 200+ years. Terrible thought. His curse! Scary. Thanks for your reaction. That was enjoyable. Keep 'em coming.
Average lifetime of a field mouse is two years
Harry Dean Stanton’s name is a character in the movie too. One guard is HARRY Terwiliger and the other is DEAN STANTON.
I've read the novella. I raw the film in the theater. I bought the DVD 1st day it dropped. Got the Blu-Ray of The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, & Lean On Me the same day. Stephen King har written many things that have been adapted for the screen, but those three will be the most enduring though time. I watch them regularly & tear-up every time, & that's a good thing.
Frank Darabont has directed and written screenplays for 3 of Stephen King's short stories. Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile and The Mist. You'll see a lot of the same actors used in all 3 movies and in the first season of The Walking Dead because Darabont directed it!
Whenever I watch this film, I wonder how old John was.
If a tiny piece of his power could make a mouse live over 60 years ......
There are clues in the book & movie that hint to his true origin & therefore an estimated age, but the movie doesn't tell you the big clue & 1 of the smaller clues.
1. John called all the prison guards "boss". By the time of the depression, most black people not wanting to ire racists used the term "sir" towards any white man unless that person was their actual employer.
2. He can only spell his name, nothing else. Even with no formal education at all, most blacks at the time knew more than that because they needed to know some basics in order to do their jobs.
3. The state searched & couldn't find any records at all matching his name. In the books, John couldn't give his birthdate or remember where he was from. Considering that most kids know when their birthday is by 5 yrs old, then it seems there was no one that knew it left in his life by the time he was old enough to learn it. Even if orphaned, someone in his community should have dug around & found that info before he was sent to the orphanage or distant relatives, right? So that's weird, that no one can find any written records matching him.
4. When they take him from the prison at night, he recognizes the star constellations & it makes him happy, like it's familiar to be using the stars to guide him. But instead of referring to Cassiopeia by her full name & saying she is on a throne, he calls her Cassie, the lady in the rocking chair. This shows he didn't learn about the stars from someone formally educated, but instead learned about her from old slave songs which would have hidden directions worked into the lyrics to make memorizing easier.
5. The big one: If you look close in the movie, there's a couple shots close enough for you to see the end of a single scar coming up over John's shoulder, but no one ever mentions it. In the book, it is mentioned in detail! Notice how John never gets a prison uniform like the other inmates? The prison literally can't find any clothes or shoes in his size without special ordering them. They wouldn't do that for a white prisoner, so they sure aren't gonna do it for a black prisoner. He's still in the same clothes he was arrested in. So each week when it's wash day, the guards have John strip off his tshirt & overalls & send them to be washed. He has to sit around in his underwear. This is when the guards see that his back is covered in scars. Big, long scars crossing over each other that look like something (a whip?) tore his skin unevenly, the skin healed without any use of stitches, & then the same thing was done again & again. They ask him what happened & he doesn't answer. He only remembers that he was hurt long ago. He doesn't remember anything else & he doesn't like thinking about the past.
So, put all that together & John is older than he looks in the 1930s. MUCH older. He was a slave, adult or close to it when slavery ended, & so probably has just been wandering around finding work to feed himself with since.
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Thank you. I used to read constantly but developed neck issues that make it difficult.
I always enjoyed King, and was reading The Gunslinger when my issues arose.
25:40 the movie didnt say dels crime, but the book did, he burned down his ex lovers house killing her, her mom and her kids
Cassiopeia constellation - The Queen on her thrown ... in the old maps, she solidly looks like a woman in a rocking chair.
Chief: He killed one man because he wanted his boots at a bar.
Del: He kidnapped, r*ped, killed and then set the corpse of a woman on fire.
Bill (Can't remember his name but the one with the Buffalo Bill tatto's): Killed a pregnant woman in a robbery and r*ped the two girls and then killed them.
John: Just tried to get the girls back :'c
In a recent interview Stephen King said he was gonna name the movie The Green Kilometer to appeal to the world, but at the last minute changed his mind
Such a beautiful movie, I balled my eyes out all over again watching this video.
I've been watching movies since the '50s and in terms of audience manipulation this is the most devastating film ending ever made.
Please consider:
"The Asphalt Jungle" (1950) - Director: John Huston
excellent crime caper
"Jeremiah Johnson' (1972) - Robert Redford
best mountain man movie
Jeremiah Johnson is fantastic. Probably my favorite Robert Redford movie.
10:36 the must succinct response I can imagine.
The “lady in the rocking chair” is actually a reference to Mother Abigail from “The Stand”. If you watch “The Stand”, visions of Mother Abigail show up as an old woman sitting in a rocking chair on her front porch.
Or a reference to the constellation Cassiopeia. But then, with King’s history of cross referencing things it could be mother, Abigail.
Yes, it's the constellation he's talking about. Nothing to do with another book.
Actually even Stephen King said it was a reference to Mother Abigail
Awesome Reaction Guys , And Super great job by the Actors as well.
It was especially ironic and cruel that Percy called Del the F-word when he was in the chair, because the actor Michael Jeter was gay and HIV positive in real life. But when he died early in 2003 at the age of only 50 it was a result of a bad epileptic seizure.
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Paul was 44 the year John Coffey walked the Green Mile (1935) which means he was born in 1891. So, in '99 Paul was 108 and Mr Jingles was 64 or 65 years old. A pet mouse in captivity has an average life expectancy of about 4-5 years...
makes you wonder how long Paul will live, eh?! Several hundred years probably. And his penance is to lose everyone he loves, to outlive them all.
Great movie... great moments of tears to share
Green Mile, Shawshank, Schindler, are 3 life changing movies
Maybe we should start a people's posthumous Oscar's for roles that actors that have now past that didn't get the recognition that we know know they deserved Michael Clark Duncan would get my first vote hands down and the film itself is a masterpiece and rightly deserves a people's Oscar for cast crew directing
6:10 Recognizing actors makes me think the Stephen King movie *The Mist* is going to blow your mind!
“Sarah from Jumanji” I died 😂😂
This movie was also up against The Sixth Sense, another amazing movie
besides this i loved Micheal clark duncan in Armageddon, also i saw that look when gary sinese said "like he dropped out of the sky"
Two of the characters in the movie are HARRY Terwiliger and DEAN STANTON. Stephen King’s little joke, carried out by the casting of Harry Dean Stanton as Toot.
Great reaction, you noted many Stars in this awesome movie. You may have missed one😉. Ever seen, The Outlaw Josie Wales? Clint Eastwood's nemesis throughout the movie Redlegs with the famous fight at the end. That him throwing the switch in the movie. Great Actor, check him out. You all Rock, rayray ✊✌️🤙👍
This movie proofs that The Oscars means less than nothing. The greatest movies of all time seem to bomb at the cinema and win no awards, which I am happy for. Movies like this will still be remembered 100 years from now and nobody will remember the MCU
Can you believe when they first cast this movie Shaquille O'Neal was supposed to play John Coffey just like the drink only not spelled the same
Steven King has developed a small stable of actors he likes to work with, like David Morse and Harry Dean Stanton. Apart from casting Stanton as Old Toot, King named the guard characters Harry and Dean Stanton for them.
11:19 - Haha, love you guys
Miss cassie in the night sky is the constellation Cassiopeia
just discovered your reaction channel.. nice to see the way you two relate to each other
superb reaction guys, looking forward to more stuff :))
Michael Clark Duncan was 6'5". RIP Michael.
Cassy, the lady in the rocking chair is a reference to another Stephen king book.
Cassie =Cassiopiea Constellation . The lady in the rocking chair.
This is undoubtedly one of the best movies I have ever seen.
Percy Whitmore and Annie from Misery are King's best on-screen villains ever. I had such hatred for that little monster the first time I saw this, I wanted to jump into the screen and smack the hell out of him.
Warden Norton from Shawshank is up there too ain't he? 😅 Dude is the literal actual devil.
Don't know if anyone answered your question about Del...I'm 64 & have most all Stephen King's books,Green Mile based on one...Del was Not Really a Murder ,he was a Fire Bug Arsonist & didn't know there was a person in one place he torched who ended up dying...P.S. a GREAT movie based on a King book ....The Stand.....Gary Sinise is MAJOR Hero in it !! check it out !!
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This was such a wonderful movie... even though I cry like a baby every time I watch anyone react to it... I can't get passed Tom Hanks saying "Roll on 2"... it kills me each and every time... How it didn't win I don't know... Michael should have won something... And I thought Tom Hanks performance was super... and lets not forget the weasel playing Percy... I mean could you dislike anyone more??? He did such a fantastic job that each and every person I see reacting to this film LOATHE him... and can't wait to see him get some sort of comeuppance... and it's so sweet when he does... and of course the one playing Wild Bill... to go from a drooling idjit to a despicable criminal violent as all get out and completely bonkers... I'm gonna say I bet he had the time of his life acting like a goof like that throwing the feathers all over and swinging from the bars and all...
MCD won the Golden Globe for best supporting Actor - I often feel that that the 'Globes' are better than the Oscars because they don't care about American politics, popularity, etc.. The Journalists who vote have to be recognised in their field, are NOT from the USA, and over 50% are ethnically diverse - big difference to the Oscars.
Graham Green is the actor that played the first guy that was executed.
I've seen very many reactions to this movie, seen the movie multiple times, and prefer reactors that show emotion to it. Having compassion is an important aspect of one's character, I feel. One that garners respect. This movie is interesting in that certain points hit me harder knowing they're coming. When reactors cry, such as yourselves, it pushes the emotions further. It's a good thing. I've found that it's better to be empathetic/sympathetic than to be cold and heartless.
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For years I've just been thinking Jon is an angel more or less. His abilities coupled with the fact that his lawyer said its as if he "dropped outta the sky" due to there being no record or anything having to do with jon. And not that i think he was serious when he said that it just could be like a hint of some sort by either the movie director or Stephen King. idk if it's confirmed but until then that's my headcannon
Rest in peace Michael clock Duncan