The Green Mile: Difference between revisions

* [[Big Electric Switch]]: Labeled "Mabel's Hair Drier ''(sic)''"

* [[Blatant Lies]]: "I didn't know the sponge was supposed to be wet."

** Edgecombe's long life. "Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation."

* [[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."

* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: Delacroix's botched execution. Its not called "The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix" for nothing.

* [[Deadly Distant Finale]]: In each character's last appearance, Paul describes their eventual fate. Pretty much every major character in the book is covered.

* [[December-December Romance]]: Paul and Elaine.

* [[Deep South]]

* [[Electric Torture]]: ...Sort of.

* [[Empathic Healer]]

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: One can say Coffey inflicted this on Percy. And Paul. The former intentionally, the latter not.

* [[Fiery Coverup]]: Part of the crime that put Delacroix on the Mile.

* [[Karmic Death]]: Delacroix, on Death Row for rape and murder by ''arson'', {{spoiler|basically burns to death during his botched execution}}

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Two by Percy; {{spoiler|when he stomps Mr. Jingles and what he says to Delcroix about Mousfield not existing before executing him.}}

* [[The Lancer]]: "Brutal" (although he also qualifies as a [[The Big Guy|Big Guy]].

* [[Last-Minute Reprieve]]: Subverted; Edgcomb makes it a point to say the governor's line next to Old Sparky never rang. Both commutations (to a black woman who killed her womanizing husband and an insurance salesman who killed his father to collect the insurance money) were well before they were scheduled to be executed.

** {{spoiler|Elaine}} pulls this as well.

* [[Serial Novel]]: A very rare latter 20th-century example.

* [[Significant Monogram]]: John Coffey.

* [[A Simple Plan]]: The entire scheme to {{spoiler|heal the Warden's wife, and the cover-up afterward}}.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Percy, Percy, ''Percy''.

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]

* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: {{spoiler|Paul Edgecombe, at the end, wishes for death.}}

* [[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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* [[Soul Fragment]]: John gives a "part of himself" to Paul.

* [[Scully Box]]: To make 6'5'' Michael Clarke Duncan ''taller''

* [[Survival Mantra]]: "Heaven... Heaven... I'm in heaven..."

* [[Take Five]]: Early in the movie;

'''Paul Edgecombe''': I don't care where you go, as long as it's not here at this moment. }}

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Paul taking the most epic piss anyone has ever taken after his urinary infection is cured.

 

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