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** It seems John Coffey can only save beings who have been dead for a short period of time, and the two girls may have been dead for quite some time before he found them. It was briefly explained with the case of Mr. Jingle, the mouse. John did not say that he will save it, but rather said " There might still time..." This indicates that there is a certain limit to his power.
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** It seems John Coffey can only save beings who have been dead for a short period of time, and the two girls may have been dead for quite some time before he found them. It was briefly explained with the case of Mr. Jingle, the mouse. John did not say that he will save it, but rather said " There might still be time..." This indicates that there is a certain limit to his power.
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** Melinda outlived her husband Hal by two years, but she still did pass away years before Paul begins to tell Elaine his story.
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** Melinda outlived her husband Hal by two years, but she still did pass away years before Paul begins to tell Elaine his story.story.
** Because it wasn't the healing that caused the longevity, it was a bit of John's power being passed on to them. Mr. Jingles got some by pure accident, from the stress and pain of John feeling Del's execution. Paul got some when John showed him the truth about Wild Bill.
** Because it wasn't the healing that caused the longevity, it was a bit of John's power being passed on to them. Mr. Jingles got some by pure accident, from the stress and pain of John feeling Del's execution. Paul got some when John showed him the truth about Wild Bill.
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Melinda outlived her husband Hal by two years, but she still did pass away years before Paul begins to tell Elaine his story.
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** Melinda outlived her husband Hal by two years, but she still did pass away years before Paul begins to tell Elaine his story.
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Melinda outlived her husband Hal by two years.
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Melinda outlived her husband Hal by two years.years, but she still did pass away years before Paul begins to tell Elaine his story.
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** We only see what amounts to a small portion of Coffey's time in the mile. And that aside, it could easily just be that Dean is a more outwardly emotional person than his peers.
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* I've only seen the movie, so maybe it was explained in the book: What happened to Melinda? Did she also receive the same longevity Paul and Mr. Jingles did? She was healed in the same way they were so why not? If so why doesn't Paul stay with her? She'd be about the only person on earth who could actually understand what he was going through.
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**From the book: Del stumbled getting off the bus, and his hand brushed Percy's penis. Percy, being somewhat self-absorbed, accused him of trying to cop a feel and ran with it.
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*** Why would that be so obvious? The fact that he's still there wouldn't automatically rule him out as the killer. He's not just in the area where the girls are found. Like the person posting before me notes, we know that Coffey is innocent, so we sympathize with him when he's arrested. In defense of posse who arrests him, you have two apparently kidnapped little girls and when you find them there is a man screaming maniacally, holding their dead bodies and stroking their hair. That does not seem like the actions of a sane man who happened to find them already dead. As also previously noted, him saying he couldn't help it and tried to take it back doesn't sound like something an innocent or sane person would say either. We know what he means, but a posse and a jury would have no reason to believe he wasn't the killer. Everything he said and did when they found him makes him look like a complete psychopath. Him being black probably didn't help, but I agree that the same thing would probably have happened to him if he'd been white.
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* Michael Jeter was an openly gay actor, but what about Del? Percy repeatedly hurled a homophobic slur towards him, even though he really displayed no inclination that could've been perceived as being gay (unless maybe you count that cheeky smile he gave Percy, which prompted him to bust his fingers with his nightstick). In hindsight, it definitely comes off as unnecessarily and needlessly uncomfortable, not to mention out of left field.
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* Why exactly was Dean the most emotional about Coffey's execution - even to the point that Paul quietly instructs him to wipe the tears from his face before he stands back up after strapping him to Old Sparky - when he probably had the least amount of interaction with him? Paul, and Brutal to a lesser extent, had the most interactions with Coffey, and they clearly had tears lining their eyes as well, but they remain composed during the execution. Harry, meanwhile, had minimal interaction with Coffey as well, but he also was clearly the most composed during the execution as he stood there in quiet dignity. Dean, however, was just a blubbering mess, and only had maybe two significant interactions with Coffey the entire time.
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** Mr. Jingles is there give to give some solace to Paul in the prision that is his longevity, much like the mouse did to Dal in his final days in the green mile.
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** If it was supposed to be a divine punishment, then that raises the question of why was Mr. Jingles also given such longevity, how can a mouse be at fault?
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** It seems John Coffey can only save person who has just died for a short period of time, and the two girls may have died for quite some time before he found them. It was briefly explained with the case of Mr.Jingle, the mouse. John did not say that he will save it,but rather said " There might still time..." This indicates that there is a certain limit to his power.
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** It seems John Coffey can only save person beings who has just died have been dead for a short period of time, and the two girls may have died been dead for quite some time before he found them. It was briefly explained with the case of Mr. Jingle, the mouse. John did not say that he will save it,but it, but rather said " There might still time..." This indicates that there is a certain limit to his power.
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*** Yeah, pretty much. Plus, a black man in the deep south in the 1930s being caught with two young white girls who have been brutally raped and murdered? Even if he hadn't said it, he probably wouldn't have had much of a chance anyway.
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*** Yeah, pretty much. Plus, a black man in the deep south Deep South in the 1930s being caught with two young white girls who have been brutally raped and murdered? Even if he hadn't said it, he probably wouldn't have had much of a chance anyway.
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** It's more likely his catatonia comes from John showing him the truth about Wild Bill. What John did was invasive, shocking and probably would've been fairly traumatizing by itself, especially given Percy's earlier encounter with Wild Bill. And that's before you get into the vivid visions Percy must've gotten about the murder. He probably received the visions and was just lucid enough that he decided the electric chair was too good for Wild Bill. He walked over, emptied his gun in him and there went the last bit of his sanity.
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* When John trasfers the affliction he has extracted from Melinda to Percy, does it actually cause Percy to develop brain cancer, or does it just manifest as the acute catatonic state he displays by the end of the film?
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** Seems to me like a case of WritersCantDoMath. This is not unprecedented with Creator/StephenKing, if you notice some of the dates in ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'', for example.
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** Seems to me like a case of WritersCantDoMath.WritersCannotDoMath. This is not unprecedented with Creator/StephenKing, if you notice some of the dates in ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'', for example.
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** Seems to me like a case of WritersCantDoMath. This is not unprecedented with Creator/StephenKing, if you notice some of the dates in ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'', for example.
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*** I can't help but note that this is something more people who put up headscratchers need to keep in mind. To us it's extremely obvious that Coffey is innocent, because we know that's an aspect of the story (it's an obvious trope) and also because it lets us scornfully dismiss the people of the past as small-minded bigots, which is also a part of the intention of the story, arguably one of its small handful of "feel good" factors in letting us feel superior in judging the past. But in this case, the way the setup happened, and the time period, Coffey probably would have ridden the lightning for the rape/murder even if he'd been white. Even in more tolerant times he would have probably at best hoped for being sent to a mental hospital due to being ruled not culpable by reason of mental defect. Even today he might have at best hoped for exoneration by dint of DNA evidence ruling him out of at least having committed the rape.
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** Well, sure, it's said outright that they got married young, but even if we accept that they got married that young, in order for the timeline to work, they would have to have become grandparents in their (or at least Jan's) early 30s, plus their children would have to have been married and having children in their mid-teens. It feels extreme, and would have been an easy problem to fix by making Paul and Jan a little older and/or shrinking the age difference between them.
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** He was holding the bodies of the two victims and saying "I couldn't help it; I tried to take it back, but it was too late." Black, white, or orange, what would ''you'' have figured the situation was?
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** It's well-established in the novel that Coffey, in addition to having healing powers, can also hypnotize people who are near him. By the time he got to Melinda Moores's room, he'd essentially put a spell on every one of the guards. It's never outright mentioned in the film, but some visual cues (especially in the interaction between Coffey and Moores) indicate that, for whatever supernatural reason, it's exceedingly difficult to stand between Coffey and someone he intends to help.
