I just can't see God putting a gift like that in the hands of a man who would kill a child.
No 331 - The Green Mile Director - Frank Darabont Saturday was the excellent Karmageddon . Which I compered. Where I got drunk and left my compere's notebook at the venue. It had my Green Mile notes in. Time to wing it. Frank Darabont seems to do quite well with Stephen King's material, especially within a prison setting. He made the excellent Shawshank Redemption and then he pulled this out the bag. Both deal with people being wrongly accused and imprisoned. Both films are slow and meandering, winding through a series of characters rater than an intense plot. The plot for The Green Mile can be explained in one sentence. A man with healing powers is sentenced to death. The rest of the film is just a series of events which happen in that setting. That seems like a weird way to describe a film, surely all films are just a series of events in a setting. But what is important about the Green Mile is that a lot of the events aren't important to the plot. There are no interweav...