Line #5 WMG/TheGreenMile


1	[[WMG: John Coffey is from [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Azarath]] ]]
2	His powers are empathic based and in order to heal someone he has to take their pain and put it inside him. Not only that but he empathcially feels the pain of everyone he is near, from minor disease such as Paul's infection, to what Wild Bill did.
3	[[WMG: Wild Bill has empathic powers of his own.]]
4	Rather than healing people like John does. He revels in every physical emotional pain. Not only that but even after being drugged by Paul he was able to get catch John out of his Cell. Almost like he sensed him passing by.
5	[[WMG: This movie and ''Film/MouseHunt'' share the same universe]]
6	Delacroix tries to avoid prison time by coming up with a new alias for himself: Quincy Thorpe, and getting a job with the historical society, however, someone within the society eventually finds out about his true identity and past, and has him turned in. Afterwards, the mouse, for some reason, decides he doesn't want to work in Ernie and Lars's string cheese factory, and finds its way to the prisoner, where Del adopts him and names him Mr. Jingles.
7	* It would probably make more sense the other way round since the mouse in Mousehunt is implied to be unnaturally old already.
8	[[WMG: Coffey uses his power to show Percy what Wild Bill did.]]
9	Think about it: Percy sheds a SingleTear, immediately empties his gun into Wild Bill, and goes catatonic. He is a petty, cruel, cowardly man who considers himself a badass. When he is shown true evil, he can't handle it. He automatically follows a visceral instinct to punish Bill, then his brain checks out.
10	[[WMG: Wild Bill is the twinner of [[Literature/TheStand Poke]].]]
11	Both were sadistic and took pride in their crimes.
12	[[WMG: Coffey's story parallels that of Jesus Christ.]]
13	I know it's eye-rollingly obvious, but hear me out. You have someone who's part of a persecuted minority (Jesus was a Jew in a Roman-occupied part of the middle East, Coffey was a black man in 1930s America) and has extraordinary powers. While there are people aware of these powers, they still can't persuade the powers that be to spare him, and [[spoiler: he is eventually executed]], partly due to systematic persecution of his group. On top of ''that'', the man who [[spoiler:executes him]] is cursed to remain on Earth for the foreseeable future as punishment for killing a divine being.
14	John Coffey doesn't just parallel Jesus Christ-- he ''is'' the second coming of Christ. Creator/StephenKing said there was a ''reason'' he named the character John Coffey, after all. (Hint: look at his initials.)
15	[[WMG: Wild Bill represents the Anti-Christ, or is a literal reverse of John Coffey.]]
16	* It's not exactly subtle that Wild Bill is a representative of all the known evil or at least the TheAntichrist since John is presented as the second coming of Jesus. Perhaps Wild Bill has the reverse of Johns empathetic healing, such as pain inducement (where he can induce pain in others and make it more painful) and pain transferal (where he can transfer a form of pain to another but knowing him this would be rarely used), such as in the scene where Wild Bill grabs John while they are taking him to the truck. It's unknown if Bill did this deliberately to torment John after overhearing his abilities or witnesses Mr Jingle's resurrection, or if Bill used his own powers to torture John which also explains how he was able to resist Johns attempts to repulse him via his powers during the scene.
17	[[WMG: Paul's Green Mile is not much longer.]]
18	* In the book, Mr. Jingles does finally die just after Paul takes Elaine up to see him. While the average mouse lives two years, which means that Mr. Jingles has lived over 30x as long as a normal mouse can (even the longest lived mice in labs generally only have a four year lifespan), his gift of longevity was in a block, not exponential, and probably due, a lot, to the accidental transfer of power; Paul was likely given a more controlled, and hence lesser, dose. The fact that the energy has finally run out for Mr. Jingles likely means that Paul will probably die himself in the next few years. Which is a good thing: if it ''was'' exponential and Paul only got a third of the 'dose' Mr. Jingles did, it means he could potentially live for over 600+ years, ie, ten times the average lifespan of a human male in modern times.
19	* Likely Paul was gifted the same amount of time Mr. Jingles was: sixty years. Which would make him around 120 when he dies - and while that puts him among the longest-lived people on record (the oldest woman ever lived to 122), it's exceptional rather than impossible.
20	[[WMG: Paul is wrong about when he was given his longevity, and about its purpose]]
21	* Paul thinks living so long is God's punishment for killing John - except he's wrong about that. It's even spelled out explicitely by John that he wishes to die and wants Paul to assist him in that suicide:
22	-->You tell God the Father it was an act of kindness.
23	* Likewise, Paul thinks John gave him "something of himself" accidentally while showing him the vision of who really killed the girls. Paul's mistaken here, too - it's far more likely this was passed on voluntarily when healing Paul's infection ''in order'' for the healing to be possible. This would mean a consistent way that miracle is done: John heals both Paul and Mr. Jingles by giving them life, the equivalent of sixty years of life each. Making the mouse Mr. Jingles live to 64 and the human Paul live to 120 ''as a (positive) side effect''.
24	** Another possibility is that it was passed on during the deleted scene where John teaches Paul to pray, also voluntarily giving him "something of himself".
25	[[WMG: John Coffey is a [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Stand User]].]]

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