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{{quote|''"This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain. And the electric chair was there too, of course."''|'''Paul Edgecombe'''}}
'''''The Green Mile''''' is a 1996 dramatic novel by [[Stephen King]]
The year was 1932. John Coffey, a [[Gentle Giant]] black man, has been condemned to die by the electric chair for the raping and killing of two young girls. What follows is a supernatural journey that not only reveals Coffey's wondrous powers and proves he didn't do the crime: but [[Downer Ending|still does the time]], but changes the lead guard's life forever.
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Eventually made into [[The Green Mile (film)|a movie]] in 1999, directed by Frank Darabont, who also directed ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'', and starring [[Tom Hanks]].
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* [[Anachronism Stew]]: Neither ''Allen's Alley'' nor ''Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge'' had premiered in 1932. King acknowledges this in the afterword.
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* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Coffey. "It's like pieces of glass in my head. All the time."
** Edgecombe's long life. "Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation."
* [[Book and Switch]]: Percy Wetmore was reading a Tijuana Bible (a pornographic comic that's from the 1930s') and its hiding bebhind the mental hospital regulations book. What's funny was that this scene was also in the book, where he's reading a [[Popeye]] Tijuana Bible.
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Wharton. When Coffey calls him "a bad man" he responds: "That's right, [[Politically-Incorrect Villain|nigger]]. Bad as you'd want."
** But you also have to remember that this was the South in the '30s, where the N-word was thrown about like it was nothing. However, none of the good guys say it without filtering it through another voice or shaming someone else.
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* [[Younger Than They Look]]: By the time {{spoiler|Coffey's execution rolls around}}, the 30-something parents of the two dead girls turned basically into an elderly couple from grief.
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