THE GREEN MILE ...
... the pivotal point in the movie, The Green Mile, sees john Coffey looking steadfastly into the double barrels of Warden Bitterbuck's shotgun. What is this? They're in front of the warden's country home. There are guards here, but what in the world is a death row inmate doing away from the penitentiary?
... Earlier in the story, John Coffey proves himself to be a very different kind of death row inmate than anyone before has ever witnessed. He is the size of a modern day Goliath. He is strong beyond belief and he is as gentle as a lamb and quite possibly is a gentle lamb of God placed on this earth for some spiritual clandestine reason.
... supervisor of E Ward, or death row or the Green Mile, whichever you wish to call it, Paul edgecomb has been suffering from a serious urinary infection and extreme impotence. At one point he collapses in pain in the hallway between the two rows of death row cells.
John Coffey see the collapse and shows sincere pain in his expression, coaxing the supervisor over to his cell, where he grabs him, pulls him close to the bars and seems to be sucking the wind out of his lungs. When he is finished, he moves back into his cell and collapses onto his bunk, expelling what seems like a disturbed hornet's nest, but the particles of that emission seem to rise and simply disappear, as if John has the ability to pull the very DNA of desease out of another human body and expel it. Supervisor Edgecomb collects his wits and realizes he is completely free of pain and is in fact cured of both curses he has lived with for many months. He takes the next day off from work and spends with his wife, with a very positive effect on the both of them.
(I am truly interested in the details of this method of science fiction cure and have ordered the Stephen King book, to see if he gives any background source of a belief in this sort of healing. I've studied Mexican Curanderismo, as well as Brazilian Candomble and have never heard of anything like this. I'm interested in knowing if King heard of this from some known practice or if it is simply the creativity of his abundant imagination.)
... John also has another powerful ability. He can hold a person by the hand or arm and see into their past, then he can hold the hand of another person and permit them to witness the same vision he has experienced.
... at one point in the movie, he has opportunity to grasp the arm of inmate "Wild Bill" and sees into the past and it was "Wild Bill" who killed the two little girls John was convicted of killing. John had been present trying to revive them, but he had arrived too late and was found with the little girl's bodies in his arms, thus his conviction. John's attorney believed beyond a doubt John was guilty, but accepted him because he believed everyone deserves a vigorous defense. He also compared African-American people to dogs in a analysis he presented to Supervisor Edgecomb.
.... at another point, John grasps the arm of Supervisor Edgecomb and passes the vision on to him, so now the supervisor knows John is innocent, but also knows that in a 1935 Louisiana, there is no way in the world he will get anyone to take his information seriously. Also they are all dealing with the warden's wife, who is very close to death now.
....and so we find Supervisor Edgecomb and several of his guards who have taken John Coffey out of his cell, secreted him away in a prison truck and are now trying to gain entry into the warden's home for the purpose of healing his wife.
It seems like John is about to receive both barrels of the shotgun full in the face if he doesn't stop advancing as the warden has commanded him to do several times.
... the guards and Supervisor Edgecomb has already instinctively moved away from the line of fire of the shotgun, but John simply steadfastly continues to advance saying simply, "I'm here to help."
... I have felt by this time that John Coffey is possibly one of God's "plants" on this earth designed to spread the attitude of good without resorting to didactic instruction, and then I realize as he advances, he seems to have a guardian angel of his own, hence the two dark eyes looking from, but also into the explosive scene we are witnessing.
... John Coffee simply walks past the warden and enters the house looking for the warden's wife. This part of the story will be continued with the next image.
... only two Oscars were given to performers in this move. One went to the character of the warden's wife and the other went to John Coffee.
... (to be continued.)
THE GREEN MILE ...
... the pivotal point in the movie, The Green Mile, sees john Coffey looking steadfastly into the double barrels of Warden Bitterbuck's shotgun. What is this? They're in front of the warden's country home. There are guards here, but what in the world is a death row inmate doing away from the penitentiary?
... Earlier in the story, John Coffey proves himself to be a very different kind of death row inmate than anyone before has ever witnessed. He is the size of a modern day Goliath. He is strong beyond belief and he is as gentle as a lamb and quite possibly is a gentle lamb of God placed on this earth for some spiritual clandestine reason.
... supervisor of E Ward, or death row or the Green Mile, whichever you wish to call it, Paul edgecomb has been suffering from a serious urinary infection and extreme impotence. At one point he collapses in pain in the hallway between the two rows of death row cells.
John Coffey see the collapse and shows sincere pain in his expression, coaxing the supervisor over to his cell, where he grabs him, pulls him close to the bars and seems to be sucking the wind out of his lungs. When he is finished, he moves back into his cell and collapses onto his bunk, expelling what seems like a disturbed hornet's nest, but the particles of that emission seem to rise and simply disappear, as if John has the ability to pull the very DNA of desease out of another human body and expel it. Supervisor Edgecomb collects his wits and realizes he is completely free of pain and is in fact cured of both curses he has lived with for many months. He takes the next day off from work and spends with his wife, with a very positive effect on the both of them.
(I am truly interested in the details of this method of science fiction cure and have ordered the Stephen King book, to see if he gives any background source of a belief in this sort of healing. I've studied Mexican Curanderismo, as well as Brazilian Candomble and have never heard of anything like this. I'm interested in knowing if King heard of this from some known practice or if it is simply the creativity of his abundant imagination.)
... John also has another powerful ability. He can hold a person by the hand or arm and see into their past, then he can hold the hand of another person and permit them to witness the same vision he has experienced.
... at one point in the movie, he has opportunity to grasp the arm of inmate "Wild Bill" and sees into the past and it was "Wild Bill" who killed the two little girls John was convicted of killing. John had been present trying to revive them, but he had arrived too late and was found with the little girl's bodies in his arms, thus his conviction. John's attorney believed beyond a doubt John was guilty, but accepted him because he believed everyone deserves a vigorous defense. He also compared African-American people to dogs in a analysis he presented to Supervisor Edgecomb.
.... at another point, John grasps the arm of Supervisor Edgecomb and passes the vision on to him, so now the supervisor knows John is innocent, but also knows that in a 1935 Louisiana, there is no way in the world he will get anyone to take his information seriously. Also they are all dealing with the warden's wife, who is very close to death now.
....and so we find Supervisor Edgecomb and several of his guards who have taken John Coffey out of his cell, secreted him away in a prison truck and are now trying to gain entry into the warden's home for the purpose of healing his wife.
It seems like John is about to receive both barrels of the shotgun full in the face if he doesn't stop advancing as the warden has commanded him to do several times.
... the guards and Supervisor Edgecomb has already instinctively moved away from the line of fire of the shotgun, but John simply steadfastly continues to advance saying simply, "I'm here to help."
... I have felt by this time that John Coffey is possibly one of God's "plants" on this earth designed to spread the attitude of good without resorting to didactic instruction, and then I realize as he advances, he seems to have a guardian angel of his own, hence the two dark eyes looking from, but also into the explosive scene we are witnessing.
... John Coffee simply walks past the warden and enters the house looking for the warden's wife. This part of the story will be continued with the next image.
... only two Oscars were given to performers in this move. One went to the character of the warden's wife and the other went to John Coffee.
... (to be continued.)