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Angels, just like up in. I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not. Usually, row was called 'the last mile'; we called ours 'the Green Mile' — the floor was the color of faded limes. We had the electric chair — 'Old Sparky,' we called it. Oh, I've lived a lot of years, Ellie, but 1935 — that takes the prize. That year, I had the worst urinary infection of my, and that was also the year of John Coffey and the two dead girls. What happens on the Mile, stays on the Mile.
Goddamn it, Percy, get the hell off my block!. about Percy The man is mean and careless and, and that's a bad combination in a place like this. Sooner or later, he's gonna get somebody hurt, or worse. A big man is ripping your ears off, Percy — I'd do as he says.
grabs Percy, who is trying to turn away from the botched execution he caused No, you watch, you son-of-a-bitch!. I've done some things in my I'm not of, but this is the first time I've ever felt in real of. Elaine — you'll die, too.
And my is knowing that I'll be there to see it. It's my atonement, you see — it's my for lettin' John Coffey ride the. For killing a of. You'll be gone like all the others, and I'll have to stay. Oh, I'll die eventually; of that, I'm sure. I have no illusions of immortality. But I will have wished for long before Death finds me.
In, I wish for it already. We each owe a death — there are no exceptions. But, oh, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long. takes it all, whether you want it to or not.
Time takes it all, bears it away, and in the there is only. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
I think about all of us. Walking our own Green Mile, each in our own time. On the day of my, when I stand before, and he asks me why. Did I kill one of his true. What am I going to say? That it was my? It was my job.
John Coffey. I'm in heaven heaven. John Coffey, just like the, only not spelled the same. I tried to take it back, but it was too late. (crying). You be still, now. You be so quiet and so still.
Why, they's. Angels, just like up in. Entranced, watching and dancing 'Cheek to Cheek' in. I'm tired, boss. Tired of bein' on the road, lonely as a in the. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with, to tell me where we's going to or coming from, or why.
Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the I and in the every. There's too much of it — it's like pieces of glass in my head, the. He killed them with their. That's how it is every, all over the. I'm in heaven heaven William 'Wild Bill' Wharton. Bar-be-QUE!
Stinky-pinky, Pew-Pew-Pew! Weren't Billy, Jilly, Hilly, or Pa! It was a French-fried Cajun named Delacroix!. All I wanted me was a little corn bread, you motherfuckers! All I wanted me was a little corn bread!. You can come in here on your legs, but you'll go out on your backs.
Billy the Kid gonna guarantee ya that. Percy Wetmore.
Dead man walking, we got a dead man walking here. Adios, Chief. Drop us a card from.
Let us know if it's hot enough, you motherfuckin' sonavabitch. Dialogue. He.infected you with? Old Man Disgusted at watching people arguing on at the retirement home: Why do we always watch this stuff? Old Woman: It's interesting. Old Man: 'Interesting'?
A bunch of inbred trailer trash? All they ever talk about is fucking. Paul: Your name is John Coffey? John Coffey: Yessir, boss.
Like the, only not spelled the same. Paul: Oh, you can spell, can you? John Coffey: Just my, boss. Rehearsing Bitterbuck's execution, with Toot-Toot standing in for him Brutal: Arlen Bitterbuck, you have been condemned to die in the electric chair by a jury of your peers, sentence imposed by a judge in good standing in this state. Do you have anything to say before sentence is carried out? Toot-Toot: Yeah. I want a fried chicken dinner with gravy on the taters, and I want to shit in your hat, and I got to have sit on my face 'cause I'm one horny motherfucker!
Paul: After John enters his cell for the first time Percy, they're moving house in the infirmary. Why don't you go see if they could use some? Percy Wetmore: Well, they got all the men they need. Paul: Why don't you just go and make sure? Percy: Uh-uh.
Paul: I don't care where you go, Percy, just as long as it's not here at this very moment. Percy nods and walks down the Mile; Del grins at him as he walks by, so Percy smacks Del's fingers with a nightstick and makes Del scream in pain Eduard Delacroix: crying, he bust my finger! Percy: I wiped that grin off ya shit-poke face, didn't I?! Paul: Goddamn it, Percy, get the hell off my block!
Percy looks at him, nods and leaves Coffey seizes Paul's groin for a few moments, then spews a mysterious insect-like cloud, which dissipates overhead Paul: What did you just do to me? John Coffey: I helped it.
Didn't I help it? I just took it back, is all. Awful tired now, boss.dog-tired. The day after Coffey cures Paul's urinary infection, Paul brings him some cornbread Paul: It's from my missus. She wanted to.thank you. John Coffey: Thank me for what?
Paul: Well, you know. looks around, then whispers For helping me. John Coffey: Helpin' you with what? Paul: You know. gestures surreptitiously to his groin John Coffey: knowingly Ohhhh. Was your missus pleased?
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Paul: Several times. Paul: dragging Wild Bill to the padded cell Come on, Wild Bill. Little walky-walky.
Wild Bill: Don't you call me that! Wasn't no range rider!
He was just some bushwhackin' John Law! Dumb sumbitch sat with his back to the door, got killed by a drunk! Brutus 'Brutal' Howell': sarcastically Oh, my suds and body — a lesson. You just never what you'll gonna get when you come to work every day on the Green Mile. Thank you, Wild Bill.
After Coffey brings Mr. Jingles back to life Dean Stanton: What did you do? John Coffey: I helped Del's.
He a circus mouse. Gonna live in a mouse city, down in. struggles with the word Brutus:? Coffey nods John Coffey: Boss, Percy bad.he mean. He step on Del's mouse. I took it back, though.
After Percy empties the restraint room, trying to catch Mr. Jingles Paul: Percy, you want to think about what you were doing just now? Percy: looks at Paul I was trying to get the mouse. Are you blind? Harry Terwilliger: You also scared the living crap out of me and Bill. Not to mention the inmates.
nods towards the inmate cells Percy: So what? They aren't in cradle-school, in case you didn't notice. to Paul Although you treat them that way half the time.
Brutus: We don't scare 'em any more than we have to, Percy. They're under enough strain as it is. Paul: Men under strain can snap. Hurt themselves and hurt others.
That's why our is talking, not yelling. You'll do better to think of this place like an intensive care ward of a hospital. Percy: I think of it as a bucket of piss to drown rats in, that's all. scans their faces Anybody doesn't like it, hm? You can kiss my ass. Brutus grabs him by his collar and pushes him up against the wall Don't.
Yeah, you try it. Go on, try it. You'll be on the bread lines before the week is out. Paul: puts his hand on Brutus's arm Okay, Brutal.
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Brutus looks towards Paul, then back towards Percy, then lets go of him Paul: steps close We all know who your connections are, Percy. But you ever threaten a man on this block again, we all gonna have a go.
Job be damned. Percy: You done? Paul: Contemptuously Get all this shit back in the restraining room, Percy. You're cluttering up my Mile.
Percy sees Mr. Jingles alive again and storms back to Edgecombe and Howell Percy: You switched 'em! You switched 'em somehow, you bastards!
Brutus: grinning I always keep a spare in my wallet for occasions such as this. Hal Moores: storming into the room after Delacroix's botched execution What in the blue fuck was that!?, there's puke all over the floor up there! And the smell — I got Van Hay to open both, but that smell won't go out for five damn years, that's what I'm bettin'! And that asshole Wharton is singing about it! You can hear him up there!
Paul: calmly Can he carry a tune, Hal? Moores takes the hint and laughs grimly, regaining his composure Hal: Okay, boys, okay. Now, what in the hell happened? Paul: An execution. A successful one. Hal: How in the name of Christ can you call that a success? Paul: Eduard Delacroix is dead.
looks at Percy Isn't he? Something to say? Percy: meekly I didn't know the sponge was supposed to be wet. Hal: angrily disgusted How many years you spend pissing on a toilet seat before someone told you to put it up? Paul: calmly Percy fucked up, Hal. Pure and simple. Hal: That your official position?
Paul: Don't you think it should be? He's puttin' in a transfer request to Briar Ridge tomorrow, movin' on to bigger and better things. Isn't that right, Percy? Wild Bill: singing off-camera upstairs Bar-be-QUE!
Paul has the men over for lunch, as he hatches his plan for Moores' terminally-ill wife Paul: You all saw what he did to the. Brutus: I coulda gone the rest of the day without you bringin' that up. Dean: I coulda gone the rest of the year.
Paul: He did the same thing to me. He put his hands on me.and he took my bladder infection away.
Jan Edgecombe: 'S true. When he came home that day, he was. pauses and half-smiles all better. Paul gives her a sly look Dean: Aw, wait. You're talkin' about a.an authentic healin'?
Jan: barely suppressing a grin Oh, yeah. Harry Terwilliger: Now, w-what if he escapes? I'd hate to lose my job or go to.but I'd hate worse to have a dead child on my conscience. Paul: I don't think that's gonna happen.
In fact.I don't think he did it at all. I do not see putting a.
Like that, in the of a who could kill a. Percy, staring vacantly, is unresponsive after shooting and killing Wild Bill Bill Dodge: Percy. Percy Wetmore. Son, can ya hear me? Sheriff McGee: Speak up if you can hear us.
Bill Dodge: to the bystanders I think this boy's cheese slid off his cracker. Paul: John, tell me what you want me to do. You want me to take you out of here? Just let you run away, see how far you could get?
John Coffey: scornful Why would you do such a foolish thing? Paul: On the day of my, when I stand before, and He asks me why did I.did I kill one of his true — what am I gonna say? That it was my?
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disgustedly It was my job. John Coffey: You tell the Father it was a you done. puts his hand on Edgecombe's wrung ones I know you hurtin' and worryin', I can feel it on you.
But you oughta quit on it now. I want it over and done with, I do.
I'm tired, boss. Tired of bein' on the road, lonely as a in the. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with, to tell me where we's going to or coming from, or why. Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other.
I'm tired of all the I and in the every. There's too much of it — it's like pieces of glass in my head, the.
Paul: Yes, John, I think I can. Elaine Connelly Feeding a slow but still active Mr. Jingles: He.infected you with? Old Paul Edgecombe: That's as a as any.
Cast. — Paul Edgecombe. — Brutus 'Brutal' Howell. — Jan Edgecomb. — John Coffey.
— Warden Hal Moores. — Percy Wetmore.
— 'Wild Bill' Wharton. — Eduard 'Del' Delacroix.
— Dean Stanton. — Harry Terwilliger.
— Melinda Moores. — Toot-Toot. — Old Paul Edgecombe. — Elaine Connelly External links Encyclopedic article on at Wikipedia. quotes at the. at.
In the Electric Mist – the Review When a big Hollywood movie with big Hollywood stars goes straight to video, it usually is a sign that something has gone terribly wrong. That’s what I thought when I heard that the new Tommy Lee Jones film, In the Electric Mist, never made it to the theaters and went right into the video stores (and Netflix). The movie is based on the great James Lee Burke detective thriller In the Electric Mist With the Confederate Dead, in which his Cajun detective, Dave Robicheaux, solves a couple of grisly murders and overcomes his own Vietnam-War induced flashbacks that feature dead Confederate soldiers arising from the Louisiana swamps to have conversations with him about life and death and war. I just watched the video. The movie was–surprise to me!–terrific.
Tommy Lee Jones was great as he usually is, as the haunted but honorable and morally upright Dave. The french director Bertrand Tavernier got southern Louisiana beautifully on film. The pictures were as evocative as Burke’s always great writing. The plot hummed along. The other actors (including John Goodman doing a great bad guy, Julie “Baby Feet” Balboni; Mary Steenburgen as Dave’s paitent, put-upon wife Bootsie; Justina Machado–best known for her role as Rico’s wife on Six Feet Under –as FBI agent Rosie Gomez; and the always-reliable Ned Beatty as Twinky LeMoyne) were all but perfect.
The plot is essentially the same as the book’s, but moved up from the early ’90s to the present day, or at least post-Katrina. Dave gets sucked into a nerve-rattling investigation of a dead prostitute, which leads to re-opening the case of the murder of a prisoner that he happened to witness three decades earlier. Dave, as he is wont to do, takes the law into his own hands ( above ) once or twice. He has flashbacks, including several talks with Confederate Army Gen. John Bell Hood, played eerily well by Levon Helm, best known as the drummer in The Band.
Dave’s Vietnam War service is an important part of the novel. It is not mentioned in the film, which is too bad. It could have further flushed out his character.
The only hint is when Helm addresses Dave as “lieutenant” a couple of times.