THE GREEN MILE
Director: Frank
Darabont
Actors: Tom Hanks,
Micheal Duncan,
David Moorse
Based on the novel
by Stephen King
Past form
• In 1999 Paul
Endgecob begins to
cry while watching the
movie top hat. He
rembers Jonh coffey
and begins to tell his
wife how he met jonh
coffey.
He she it = +s
• In 1935 Paul works in
the green mile,a
prison.There
prisoners are killed in
the electric chair.
• One day John Coffey
a black giant accused
of raping and killing
two young white girls,
arrives in the death
row. Coffey is a real
gentle giant, he is
shy: he speaks softly,
he is afraid of
darkness and he
often cries.
PRESENT SIMPLE: Subj + Verb + (s) + …..
He
speak
s
softly
Soon enough John
reveals extraordinary
powers by healing
Paul’s urinary tract
infection and
resurrecting a mouse
that belonged to
Jacob, an other
inmate. Meanwhile
another inmate
arrives to the prison,
Wild Bill. He is
sentenced to death
for killing three
people.
Wild Bill attacks the
guards who escorted
him. Later John
Coffey heals another
person who is going
to die: Melinda, wife
of Werden, head of
prison and friend of
Paul
GOING TO : Future Tense
Subj + am/is/are + going to + V
• The day before
condemnation to death Paul
enters Jonh’s cell to talk and
finds out that the killer of the
two girls was Wild bill. Paul
is shocked by this and asks
the prisoner if he wants to
escape but John wants to
stay and he wants to die
beacause he is tired to be
as “sparrow in the rain” who
is lonely. The day of the
execution arrives, in the
commotion of the guardians
for the injustice that is about
to happen, Paul holds
John’s hand and hardly
pronounces the words
before the execution.