Tom Hanks Movie Quote/Trivia of the Day Paul Edgecomb - On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job? John Coffey - You tell God the Father it was a kindness you done. I know you hurtin and worryin, I can feel it on you, but you oughta quit on it now. Because I want it over and done. I do. Im tired, boss. Tired of bein on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. Tired of not ever having me a buddy to be with, or tell me where wes coming from or going to, or why. Mostly Im tired of people being ugly to each other. Im tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world everyday. Theres too much of it. Its like pieces of glass in my head all the time. Can you understand? Paul Edgecomb - Yes, John. I think I can. -Paul Edgecomb and John Coffey (Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile) Did you know? Tom Hanks stayed in character as Paul Edgecomb whenever Stephen King visited the set. King asked him if hed like to sit in Old Sparky but Hanks refused since hes in charge of the block. When Stephen King visited the set he asked to be strapped into Old Sparky to see how it felt. He didnt like it and asked to be released. However, King did end up keeping the chair. It currently resides in his office. In actuality, Michael Clarke Duncan is of a similar height as his co-star David Morse and is a couple of inches shorter than James Cromwell. Among other things, creative camera angles were used to create the illusion that Duncan as John Coffey towered over the prison staff, even Brutal Howell and Warden Moores. The prison guards wear uniforms to give the movie a better feel, even though uniforms werent in use at the time in which the movie is set. When the producers were having trouble finding the right actor to fill the role of John Coffey, Bruce Willis suggested Michael Clarke Duncan with whom he had co-starred in Armageddon. Stephen King called this film *the* single most faithful adaptation of his work. Originally, Tom Hanks was going to play the Old Paul Edgecomb but the makeup tests didnt make him look credible enough to be an elderly man. Dabbs Greer was cast instead as the older Paul Edgecomb. The reason Stephen King serialized The Green Mile was because it was a deliberate response to fans who flipped to the end of his books, something his mother used to do. The fans would have to wait for the last installment to find out the ending. King wrote each one with its own miniature climax, but even he admitted he didnt have a clue how the story would end. Rodney Barnes was Michael Clarke Duncans stand-in. According to Barnes, he sneaked onto the set by hiding in the paddy wagon. He surprised Frank Darabont and asked for a job. Darabont was impressed with Barnes effort and hired him. Barnes wanted to work on the film so that he could meet his favorite author, Stephen King. More than 30 works of Stephen King have been adapted for movies, but this is the only one to have broken the $100 million mark at the North American box office. The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, so far, are the only Stephen King adapted movies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. John Travolta was offered the role of Paul Edgecomb but turned it down. At the beginning of the movie, when the old Paul Edgecomb is walking to get some breakfast after waking from that bad dream, he is walking on a tiled floor that is very green, as if its his Green Mile. The name for the character John Coffey was lifted from a college professor, Rev. John Coffee. Stephen King had met him once and really liked his name and used it in The Green Mile. Reverend Coffee taught history classes at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. He retired in May 2005. Many actors in this film have previously or subsequently appeared in other Stephen King adaptations. David Morse appeared in The Langoliers and Hearts in Atlantis. James Cromwell appeared in Salems Lot, which was previously made with his wife, Julie Cobb. Patricia Clarkson appeared in Carrie. Jeffrey DeMunn and William Sadler appeared together in The Shawshank Redemption as well as The Mist, also both directed by Frank Darabont. Harry Dean Stanton appeared in Christine, and Gary Sinise appeared in The Stand. Michael Clarke Duncan was uncomfortable with having to grab Tom Hanks crotch for the scene where he takes his infection away. Hanks left the set, came back to do the scene, Duncan grabbed at Hanks crotch and was shocked because Hanks had put an empty water bottle in his pants. After that, Duncan felt more comfortable with the scene. Stephen Kings original novel The Green Mile was published in 100-page paperback installments between March and August of 1996. He had begun developing the story while writing Desperation, and needed to finish that novel but still wanted to see where his death row story would go. Ralph Vicinanza, a friend of Kings who sells foreign publication rights, had recently had a discussion with another friend in England about Charles Dickens, in which he learned that Dickens often published his novels in installments in newspapers and magazines, and it had been suggested that, in the U.S., someone like Stephen King could try writing a book that way. Vicinanza was under the impression that no recent novels had been written this way. He was in fact mistaken. Tom Wolfe had published his first draft of The Bonfire of the Vanities in installments in Rolling Stone. Both that novel and this one were turned into films starring Tom Hanks. This also ended up not being Stephen Kings only story published in installments: his Dark Tower series spanned 8 full-length books, published over the course of 22 years, from 1982 until 2011.
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