![]() ![]() It could also be because I went on the whole 'Green Mile' journey, picking up each installment of the serialized novel as they were being released, which was truly a one-of-a-kind experience and added to the overall Dickensian feeling of the piece. I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but of Frank Darabont's two Depression-era Stephen King prison movies, I actually prefer 'The Green Mile' over 'The Shawshank Redemption.' The main reason is that while 'Shawshank Redemption' indulged in every prison movie cliché in the book, 'The Green Mile' was happy to sidestep them, going instead for a mystical and weird (and admittedly sometimes too on-the-nose) allegory in a truly bleak place. ![]()
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