As a person who has read Stephen King‘s „IT“ it‘s so hard to believe that King, being able to scare the living shit out of people with just words, also wrote this heart-wrenching story. Just goes to show how talented he really is.

“Too crazy for cornbread,” is my new favourite thing to say.

Cried like a baby watching that movie. John Coffey is too pure for this world

I'm so glad you reacted to this film. Michael Clark Duncan was incredible as John Coffey. Percy is the most hated character. Tom Hanks always does a great job in any film he does. I cry every time I watch this film.

Just thinking about the dialog at the end makes me cry. "He kill them with their love. That's how it is all over the world."

Nice reaction. Checking out "Green Mile", "Shawshank Redemption", and "Stand By Me" is going to forever broaden your perception of Stephen King being "just" a horror writer.

I couldn't tell you how many dozens of times I've seen this movie & I still bawl every time. And I agree with you that this story had to unfold gradually the way it did. I never thought about how Mr Jangles exposes everyone's nature as you pointed out. Great theory.

It being saint Christopher is that he is the patron Saint of wonders and travelers and its believed he will help watch over people who are on a journey. John Coffey (JC get it) is a wonderer and was always moving from place to place.

He said "flicker show" basically big screen. Typing through tears

Literally makes me cry EVERYTIME.

Sam Rockwell was the actor that played Billy the Kid. This was the first role I ever saw him in, and it took me a while to like him as other characters. 🤣 That's how you know he nailed it.

Every scene between Michael Clarke Duncan and Tom Hanks has some of the greatest cinematic moments in history. Duncan really should have won the Academy Award for his performance. Jon Coffee breaks my heart every time I watch this film.

Crying wasn’t originally on my agenda for today, but this movie gets me every single time

Stephen King Superfan here! I think your reaction is right on. John Coffee is literally a metaphor for Jesus Christ. He performed miracles and then was persecuted. Even their initials line up.

The longest documented life of a mouse was 4 years. Paul was 108 when he told this tale, 64 years after meeting the mouse. There's no basis for math that provides any reliable sense of how long Paul will live, but speculation can be much wrong if, barring accidents, it turns out to be centuries. I think you missed it when Paul tells his wife he's been putting off going to the doctor because the doc would only put him on sulfa drugs (he's had this before) and it makes him puke a lot, even at work. It's not just the usual objection to seeing a doctor, but a semi-practical one. Tom Hanks has a very varied career. I would look to "Cloud Atlas" as a good place to see him playing an evil character. Hanks, in makeup, prosthetics, and a thick accent, is almost unrecognizable but totally believable as a writer at a cocktail party who grabs a critic (who had written a bad review of his book) and flung him out of a window multi-stories up. Totally evil and unapologetic. The literature this story is taken from specifies the horrific crimes these prisoners committed, but Hanks's character Paul seems to understand that what follows these men is the notoriety of what these men did on their worst day, not the sum of the good they did on their best ones. That seems to be what goes along with trying to keep things 'chill' and not over stress the prisoners. But there is definitely an attempt to leave these condemned men some vestige of dignity and accord them some remaining respect. The speculation over the 'gnats' is that it's a manifestation (whether actual or created by Coffey's understanding) of the evil that causes illness in living things. God the Father wants only good for His children, but Satan/Beelzebub the Prince of Flies/Lies infests us with dis-ease/disease. Coffey extracts them, then as they escape in the blessed air, they snuff out like embers, leaving little smoke trails. Flies, gnats...toMAYto, toMAHto; they aren't meant to be anything but a generic species. Good catch on a lot of things other reactors miss, like Coffey FEELING the execution pain. Coffey is a total empath, which is why existing in this world is so hard on him. I really appreciate the intelligence & compassion in your reaction.

Stephen King is an amazing story teller. It always touches me and brings a tear. I'm not that old, but with my mother having passed in Feb of this year, I've pretty much lost the last person I loved. It does get lonely when your folks, your loved family and friends are all gone. I'm just waiting for my turn. 🍻

Seeing you tear up when Paul is in bed with his wife wondering aloud how he'll ever cope without her, not something I've seen bring anyone else to tears, tells me it has very personal meaning to you.

39:09 Whoa! That volume jump nearly gave me a heart attack.

Percy is one of my most hated movie characters of all time. Such a great villain though.

Omg this film!! Every time I watch it I cry my eyes out. It’s such a great film. It’s also sad that Michael Duncan (John Coffey) died in real life 😢. So happy you reacted to this, it is personally one of my favourites!!! I would love for you to watch Shawshank Redemption, which is directed by the same person as The Green Mile. 😁👍🏻

"Too crazy for cornbread" I'm totally using that one...

One of the details that I appreciate, especially since I've lived in the Southeast my whole life, is how the actors always look like they're sweating. As for the prisoners, if I remember correctly, the first guy to be executed killed a man in a bar brawl. Dale raped and killed a girl, then set the building on fire to cover it up.

Here's some tidbit of info: 1) Michael Clarke Duncan paid tribute to Tom Hanks at a celebration of Tom and saying that Tom was the one who helped/guided him how to do this character. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ap2XpbepzdqyaKM.html 2) Gary Sinise (the man sitting on the porch of the house talking about John Coffey) was the second movie that Gary did with Tom. The first one was Forest Gump, the second one was this one and the third was Appollo 13. In the scene where Lt Dan shows his new legs (titanium same as the shuttle), gives a hint of Appollo 13. Gary was so recognized after the movie Forest Gump, that people started seeing him in public and saying Hi Lt Dan ... so Gary started a band called the Lt Dan Band, and goes around to entertain the Veterans and is heavily involved with the Veterans and military as he has many in his immediate family (and his wife's family) that went to war and knows about PTSD, etc. Listen to his story here. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aciSh7Kbp8-bnnU.html Also, of course Gary Sinise would be at the same function as Michael and took to the stage to do a tribute to Hanks. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qKiYf5WA39rLdo0.html BTW, here is a video of Tom Hanks surprising Gary Sinise, as Forest Gump when the Lt Dan Band is doing a live concert. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y8eTZbaXururiok.html 3) Some may not be too religious, but if you notice, John Coffey's initials are JC ... coincidence? 4) When Belinda asks where did John get his scars, he doesn't remember, but some have said that since there was no record of him before the girls' incident, that he may have gotten his scars from the days of slavery. 5) The movie where Paul loses it at the beginning and again, near the end when John is watching it, is the classic movie Top Hat, with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing to the song Cheek-to-Cheek.

Another Stephen King adaptation worth watching is Delores Claiborne, with Kathy Bates in the title role. There's no supernatural element but it is an amazing movie. The performances, the script, the cinematography all come together perfectly. I personally think it's Kathy Bates' greatest role.

One of my all time favorite movies. Nice to watch it again with you.

Del said while seated in Ol' Sparky: "I'm sorry for what I do. ..." When John awaited in the chair of death: "I'm sorry for what I am." A world of difference between those sentiments.

One of my absolute favourite films that never fails to choke me up by the end, and I really enjoyed your thoughtful, empathetic reaction as always :) Also, your comment about Tom Hanks - "I mean, it's Tom Hanks, he usually plays good people" - brought to mind one of my favourite roles of his in an excellent movie called Road to Perdition that you should definitely check out if you want to see Hanks as a more morally ambiguous character

Excellent reaction and commentary! Subscribed. I thought the film was a very faithful adaptation of the book. The film deliberately doesn't focus on the crimes committed by the inmates on death row so as to maximize the empathy we feel for them and increase the hatred we feel toward Percy, who could easily be the most hated film character ever. I've watched dozens of these reactions to the film and without exception, every reactor wants to punch Percy in the face (or have him suffer a much worse fate), almost from the first minute of the film. It's also interesting to see how reactors deal with the idea of witnesses to the execution. These aren't people off the street who just want to see a random person fry. They're the family and friends of the victims who are seeking closure by seeing the murderer of their loved ones punished for their crimes. (Although personally, I wonder if watching such an execution doesn't further traumatize them.) Thanks for reacting to this one. It's one of my favorites. Looking forward to more of your reactions. A few quality films you might consider: Shawshank Redemption, Arrival, V for Vendetta, and Ex Machina.

I was absolutely tickled when you mentioned Saving Private Ryan, and then in the next moment when Barry Pepper is onscreen you recognize him from some Spike Lee film instead of the sniper from Saving Private Ryan.

41:27 _The Green Mile_ is set in 1935. _Casablanca_ was released in 1942.

I’m really loving your reactions to these classics Thor. Your sensitivity to this film was really touching to watch. I really liked your reaction to that scene where the man was talking about the the woman he loved as “heaven” for him. And it’s so true what you said…criminals were not always criminals. Wild Bill is not the norm, and I don’t even think he was fully sane to begin with. That’s why this film was so emotional because, yes, we do not know the extent of the crimes committed and perhaps that’s why I really sympathised with them more than I probably should have (like Del for example), but in the end they are still people. People make mistakes and make poor choices for so many different reasons…sometimes out of their own trauma, sometimes out of desperation…I know that doesn’t excuse their crime but the execution scenes were just so inhumane and brutal to watch. Honestly, for all the talk about the afterlife, death and repentance, I kept thinking, dang I’m sure God is more merciful and forgiving than people think. Sometimes I think all this fear of condemnation is just us punishing ourselves. PS: The blonde actor was the sniper in “Saving Private Ryan” and I just realised that the guy talking about putting his dog down was Lt. Dan from “Forrest Gump.” I’m not good with names either but I’m usually very good with faces :)

One of the only films I consider truly perfect (alongside 1957's 12 Angry Men). Imo it's perfect in it's acting, pacing, story, & emotion. It invested me in everything happening and made me care. And it definitely made me cry on numerous occasions.

I have only sat and watched this movie 3 times myself. And yes, I spend the last 30 minutes of the movie crying my eyes out every time. But I love watching reactors watch this movie. From complaining how long the movie is, to getting into the story, to the utter confusion at John’s first miracle, to them hating Percy with pure rage as you should, to shock at horror at Dale’s turn. Finally to crying over John and the correction officers. Idk why but I love watching people go on this heart wrenching emotional journey. One reactor said “It breaks your soul but in a good way. This makes you a better person.”

I'm so happy that you're the type of guy who's not afraid to show your genuine emotion on camera...this is one of the reasons I enjoy watching your reactions...💖💖💖

Stephen King actually published this story in little segments. He had death threats sent to finish the story (which seems counterproductive to me…)

I watched this movie in school at the age of 16. The whole class cried. It was so much. And to this day I get emotional when I hear the song "Heaven". Edit: I just wanted to add, every actor in this movie does a phenomenal job. This was my first movie with Sam Rockwell and I will never be able to see him without thinking of this movie, and I've seen him in a lot of movies by now, and I am pretty sure he is a very nice guy, but I can't shake it off somehow. Not even in Galaxy Quest, and I loved him in Galaxy Quest 🤣

One if the greatest movies ever made. Beautifully shot, skillfully written and flawlessly acted by a stellar cast with a special mention for Doug Hutchison playing Percy. I do not remember hating a character as much as Percy in this movie and that speaks volumes about Hutchison's performance. Absolute masterpiece.

I had moved to France years earlier, so I had lost track of Stephen King. But during one visit my parents gave me The Green Mile to read, which was actually issued in a 5 part serial novel instead of just one big book. I'm glad they also got to see the movie, which they loved. I still have the five little paperbacks somewhere.

Amaizing movie with unique story. I`m very pleased that you chose "The Green Mile" for your reaction video . And l hope you would do more videos with this kind of movies more often.

All of your reactions that I've watched have been really good but this one is my favorite. I love this movie alot but it makes me cry every single time, stellar performances all around especially Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan. 🥺🙏

I've watched this movie and reactions to this movie so many times I can't count This movie always gets me and tears just come. When Paul asks what is he going to tell God that's always my breaking point.

he has healing power and the power to make others remember their past

BY LAW every execution has to be "witnessed" by a certain number of people, even today

Even today witnesses are required at an execution. Often family of the victims are invited to witness. There were actually 17 trained mice, each taught a separate trick. There's another Tom Hanks depression Era movie you might enjoy called Road to Perdition.

Wild Bill was played by Sam Rockwell, who is always terrific in every part he plays, you should definitely delve into his filmography.

The book is one of my favorite Stephen King books. And the movie is one of the best book adaptations from his books. I still cry when I see the _Top Hat_ moments. _The Shawshank Redemption_ is another great Stephen King movie for the list.

This movie is one of my all time favorites. I read the novellas as they came out. I believe there is a total of 8 about 90 to 100 pages each. In the books, it goes into detail about the crimes of each inmate on The Green Mile. Both, the books & the movie made me cry. O, to answer your question about whether or not they still allow witnesses into executions, yes, yes they do. Most often it's the families of the murderer's victims that are asked if they want to witness it. I see from comments The Shawshank Redemption was also recommended. That screenplay was also adapted from a story by Stephen King which I also read. It is another excellent movie.

The Green Mile was initially reased as a serial novel. I believe there were seven mini-paperback books released a few weeks or months apart from each other. They were reedited into a single hard cover novel a year or so later.

I will cry every single time I watch this. Every time. This poor innocent man...I was actually watching this on TV one day years ago and it had the "In Memory" for Michael Clarke Duncan and I really just kinda broke down for a minute there. Really glad you watched this one. Stephen King is a talented writer and the cast is absolutely incredible.

It definitely takes a masterpiece to make you upset/horrified by the murder of a mouse. Such a powerful movie! Excellent cast, script, storytelling that when it ends, you can't believe it's been 3 hours. Just an amazing movie that touches everyone who watches it.

Sam Rockwell in The Way Way Back is one of my favorite performances with him and he is also really good in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

This film and The shawshank Redemption are both in my Top 10 flavorite films of all time and both written by Stephen King

My friend had a pet mouse. When his kid was sick, the mouse would take his favorite treats to the kid and try to give them to him. He said the mouse was normally obsessive about these treats and they fully believed this showed a deep love from the mouse.

Loved the reaction. This film was superb and so emotional 🥲 The book was great too. You learn what Del did too and why he was on death row.

@Thor Reacts, ​you should react to the movies: Bicentennial Man, Meet Joe Black, The Stepmom, Steel Magnolias, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Benny & Joon, and The Family Stone! These are all dramas and very focused on how we all go about living life. Nearly no one reacts to these movies, but I’d really like to see more people get introduced to them. 🤗🥰

Dude, I'm a guy and I've had TWO UTIs and it feels EXTREMELY painful to urinate!!!! Like peeing razor blades, man! Antibiotics work wonders but unfortunately they didn't have the complete medical knowledge of them in 1935 as they do now.

they used camera angles with risers and walkways to make Michael Clarke Duncan look bigger

Such a beautifully directed film 💯👍 never fails to blow my mind every time I watch it.. the scene at home after he gets healed by john is one of my favourites.. the slow camera movement, the warm lighting in the kitchen, the music, it's just so well done! Frank Darabont really did a good job.

Mice and rats are extremely smart and can most definitely be trained to do all kinds of things. In some places, they even train rats to sniff out land minds and search for disaster victims buried under rubble.

This is an amazing adaptation of Stephen King’s novel. Btw, it’s Sam “Rockwell”, Nick 😉 When is the next Buffy? I’m loving your journey & discussion of each episode! 🖤🌹🖤🧛🏻‍♀️

Welcome to the club of “Percy - Top 5 cinema villains of all time!” A beautiful heart wrenching film. Did you recognise Gary Sinise - (Lt Dan from Forrest Gump) And the wonderful Sam Rockwell as Wild Bill!

Good reaction! This movie makes me cry everytime I watch it! You said it best...killing John was like killing a child..he's pure & innocent and has done nothing wrong! I've read the book...of course it goes in a little more detail on some things but pretty much the same. One thing left out was John says a prayer on the way to his execution...wish they wld have kept that in!

So funny when you mentioned Saving Private Ryan, then immediately saw two actors who are in Saving Private Ryan but couldn't remember where you know them from...

In 1935, they probably wouldn’t have had any record of Billy the Kid being on the same farm as the girls. He was a drifter who did odd jobs for money and food. He got caught for another murder and they just never knew he was on the farm.

Wow you're really not an airhead when it comes to descriptions, a lot of reactions are very simple and that's it. I really recommend doing a reaction video on Shawshank redemption because it's just as great as The Green Mile. Pleeeeease. 😉

How long is he going to live? Imagine that the mouse lived for 60 years, when they normally only live for about two.

I don't think I've ever watched this without crying

Your commentary is on point as usual and I really appreciate the feeling you incorporate as well as the insightful dissection of the story.

42:36 they don’t make electric ⚡️ 🪑 anymore.

One of my favorites

I'm so glad that the mouse wasn't anything evil, when it very well could have been. XD "Monster mouse!"

I love your composure, and perspective on this beautiful sad masterpiece

I think your interpretation is spot on and I totally agree . I read this when it came out I think I was 17 it really hit me hard. They do a great job with the movie.

I think John Coffey is scared of the dark, because that’s where he goes in his mind when feeling other people’s pain and healing them. When he heals Melinda, she says that she dreamed that they “found each other in the dark.”

You have to watch the Stephen King novel-to-film Misery from 1990 starring Kathy Bates, it'll blow your mind!

This cast is really fantastic. You might know Barry Pepper from Saving Private Ryan along with Tom Hanks. David Morse. Jeffrey DeMunn who works often with Frank Darabont, recently in The Walking Dead. James Cromwell. Gary Sinese who can be seen in Forrest Gump along with Tom Hanks. Even Graham Greene in a small role.

He remembers Tom Hanks being in *Saving Private Ryan* when watching The Green Mile, but he doesn’t remember *Barry Pepper (who played Pvt. Jackson) from Saving Private Ryan* whilst watching *The Green Mile*

I love this movie. The book originally came out in 6 parts. After that they eventually came out with a hardcover of the book. Great book. A competing Author, John Saul did the same thing around the same time with Blackstone Chronicles. It was a good book too.

In addition to being the patron saint of travelers, Saint Christopher is believed to protect people from epilepsy, lightning, storms, pestilence, and floods. Many soldiers also pay tribute to Saint Christopher by wearing his medal or carrying a prayer card with them.

now my collection of favorite reactions to The Green Mile is finally complete

He described the actors in the flicker show like angels in Heaven..earlier LT DAN said it was as if he just dropped out of the sky..these were clues as to his true identity..

I love how it has a supernatural aspect, but all the horror is grounded in reality.

Tom Hanks and Bonnie Hunt did make a great love story.

@42:49 Saint Christopher is the patron saint of travelers. According to legend, Saint Christopher devoted his life to carrying the weak and poor across a river. One night, when he was carrying a child, he felt his burden grow heavier with each step. When questioned, the child declared that he was Christ and that Christopher was thus bearing the weight of the world. Saint Christopher is depicted as a giant of a man carrying a small child (Jesus Christ) on his shoulder.

I’ve watched a whole slew of these reaction videos lately & I’ve only just noticed what a ridiculous amount of furniture is jammed into that teeny little restraint room! Is it a TARDIS?! 😂😂😂😂

You said you would have gone with _Casa Blanca_ instead of _Top Hat_ (the Fred Astaire movie the guards ran for John Coffey), but Casa Blanca didn't come out until 1943. This movie makes clear right at the start that the year of John Coffey was 1935, which was also the year _Top Hat_ was released. They were showing John a current movie. flicker show --> flick --> movie

In the book, Del was found guilty of a rape/murder and then he set a fire to cover the evidence, and it spread to an adjacent building, killing 6 people. Arlen ("Chief") killed a man in a bar fight, crushing his skull with a cinder block.

1st time commenter. A quick note about the book/s. When The Green Mile was written, it was written as a sort of experiment for King where he wrote it in six volumes. It was later collected into one "novel" but he wrote it in parts and did not know where the story would end when he began writing the first volume. It speaks to how everyone here talks about the "gradual" way the story unfolds. Really enjoy your reactions, keep it up!

Paul was 44 the year John Coffey walked the Green Mile (1935) which means he was born in 1891. So, in '99 Paul was 108 and Mr Jingles was 64 or 65 years old. A pet mouse in captivity has an average life expectancy of about 4-5 years... makes you wonder how long Paul will live, eh?! Several hundred years probably. And his penance is to lose everyone he loves, to outlive them all.

So here's the thing - Sam Rockwell's character is meant to suffer from a mental condition that I can't recall the title for, but it basically makes someone act out, often violently, towards anyone perceived as an authority. Most who suffer from it are teens, usually boys, and it often goes away by the time they hit their latter teens, but it can cause serious issues if left untreated. There's a small minority of these who only get worse...and he's one of them.

Lifespan of a field mouse is like 3 years max. And this one lived for decades. Could you imagine how long Tom Hank's character is gonna live before he dies if you scale it to a human lifespan? Man's going to be hundred of years old at a minimum.

Thanks for your content Thor, endless love and support to you from SATX ♥️

Time for the other big prison movie based on a story by Stephen King - Shawshank Redemption starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.

You have to put this into perspective, the time this takes place is during the depression in the 30's. Medical treatments were not great then.

Yes, Percy could easly be the cover boy for "Punchable Faces Magazine". Great rection on this and Forrest Gump! Watching back-to-back.

Great Reaction!! Cast Away and Forrest Gump also great Tom hanks movies. Also check out. Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, The Color Purple

Btw to answer your question, yes they still let people watch, but it's limited to immidiate family of the victim

Casablanca was 1942..the time was 1935..so Fred Astaire had to do..moving pictures were originally flicker shows..cuz the light did a little flickering when talkies first started..talking pictures took awhile to perfect..from when they started at the beginning of the 20’s..

soo glad that you finally reacted to this masterpiece :))

Beautiful reaction as always Nick, you're a fabulous reactor, just subscribed.