The Green line (film)

the Green line ( The Green Mile ) is an American science fiction film of Frank Darabont left in 1999 adapting the serial éponyme Stephen King.

Synopsis

Paul Edgecomb was the chief warden of the corridor of died of the penitentiary of Cold Mountain in 1935. Today centenary, alive in an old people's home, he remembers in particular… John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a black man with the extraordinarily imposing stature, condemned for the rape and the double murder of two young twin sisters. He remembers then the very strong bonds of friendship being woven between John and, of discovered to him extraordinary capacities of this giant, and how the doubt about its culpability was born… He will have to also contain the behavior of a new guard, extraordinarily sadistic towards condemned to dead: Percy Wetmore. For him the corridor of dead is not " that a bucket full with urine in which one drowns rats". Moreover, this one profits from a " protection" had with its family ties with a politician… a protection from which it profits well, but the impatience of his/her colleagues takes the top after the execution voluntarily missed by one condemned…

Comment

In addition to its fidelity with the account of Stephen King, the film at that time conveys also an indictment against the ill treatment of the prisoners.

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  • In 2000 Michael Clarke Duncan obtained the Oscar of the best actor in a supporting role for his interpretation of the colossus John Coffey.
  • Tom Hanks and Gary Sinise is found in this film after having turned together a masterpiece of the XXème century in the capacity as cinema the film Forrest Gump

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