Analysis of the film done by four students

1. THE GREEN MILE

2. Plot
Main themes
Charachters
Stephen King’s novels
Electric Chair: how it works
Death Penalty: what you don’t know about it
Quotations

3. The plot
The film is told in a flashback format and it begins with
Paul Edgecomb crying while he is watching top hat so he
tells to her friend the reason why he is crying.
he was a corrections officer in charge of death row
inmates at Cold Mountain Penitentiary during the
summer of 1935.
One day, John Coffey, a giant black man convicted
of raping and killing two young white girls, arrives on
death row.
Meanwhile, a violent prisoner named "Wild Bill"

4. Percy Wetmore Instead of wetting the sponge used to
conduct electricity and make executions quick and
effective, he leaves it dry, causing the execution to
malfunction dramatically. (during the execution of
Eduard Delacroix)
John "takes back" the sickness in Hal's wife and
regurgitates it into Percy, who then shoots Wharton to
death and falls into a state of permanent catatonia.
Percy is then admitted to Briar Ridge Mental Hospital as
a patient rather than an administrator.
Paul interrogates John, who says he "punished them bad
men" and offers to show Paul what he saw. John takes
Paul's hand and says he has to give Paul "a part of

5. Wharton is responsible for the crime for which John was
convicted and sentenced to death.
John tells him that there is too much pain in the world, to
which he is sensitive, and says he is "rightly tired of the
pain" and is ready to rest. For his last request on the
night before his execution, John watches the film Top
Hat.
John is executed.
As an elderly Paul finishes his story he explains that he
was 44 years old at the time of John's execution and that
he is now 108. This is apparently a side effect of John
giving a "part of himself" to Paul. Mr. Jingles, Del's mouse
resurrected by John, is also still alive.

6. Main themes
punishment of an innocent
his goodness
misjudgements (ex. John is condamned and Percy
despite he is mad he is not in prison or punished)
help
sense of guilt
violence in the world

7. Paul Edgcomb
Death row supervisor

8. Percy
he is spoiled, sadic and evil
He wants to take part to John’s execution
He kills Delacroix in a brutal way

9. John Coffey
He is innocent
He has mystic powers
He wants to stop the sufferences of the world

10. The novel
Serial novel written by Stephen King
Originally released in six volumes

11. Differences between the film and the book
In the film the setting is changed from 1932 and 1935
In the book, the Green Mile is more emphasized as
life; in the film seems to only refer to it as a
penitentiary
In the film, Paul tells Elaine the story of the Green
Mile; in the book, he writes his story down in the
form of a novel
In the novel, Paul’s flashback is provoked by the
sadistic employee Brad Dolan; in the film is provoked
by a TV-movie

12. Electric chair: how it works
It is used only in the United States
The convict is attached to the
chair with belts
Arms and legs are blocked
There are various cycles of current in
order to create lethal demages

13. From 1980 the electric chair has been replaced with
the lethal injection, widely believed to be a more
“human method”

14. Death Penalty: what you don’t
know about to convict an innocent person
There is a high risk it.
Nobody believes that an innocent person can be
executed
Before being executed a person could remain on the
death row for 26 years
California will spend 1 billion dollars for capital
punishment

15. Quotations

16. How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it
does, we're not ready to do away with the death
penalty. Stop thinking in terms of "punishment" for a
minute and think in terms of safeguarding innocent
people from incorrigible murderers. JESSE VENTURA,
I Ain't Got Time to Bleed
We each owe a death — there are no exceptions. But,
oh God, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long.

18. Created by:
Corsunov Julia
Pignat Marta
De Piero Lara
Pavan Sara