The Reel Rejects - THE GREEN MILE (1999) IS SOUL-CRUSHINGLY BEAUTIFUL!! MOVIE REVIEW!

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Starting point is 00:01:00 guys wow um if you're listening to this on that where spotify make sure uh you go and give us five stars or whatnot uh i want to thank people over prepper for cutting down these highlights thomas newman there we go um yeah so you guys can see this here on youtube um freaking a that was a movie and a half In fact. Yeah. So we're going to get into some questions in a little bit sent over by our patrons. But before we do that, John, how you feeling?

Starting point is 00:01:48 Boy. What are the feelings on the movie? I'm exhausted. I'm rung out. Bonnie Hunt, that's her name. Yeah, that was incredible. It's been fascinating to visit. these two Frank Deripont directed movies that are both, you know, adapting the more thoughtful

Starting point is 00:02:06 side of Stephen King. And God, what a tour to force both of these movies were. And so affecting and so well acted and so kind of thoughtful and poetic. It's fascinating. And I, and again, I wonder how this reads on paper. I wonder what details may have been spared because this is a thicker movie than Shawshank is but yeah this was so well done and yeah I went places I was not expecting

Starting point is 00:02:38 in terms of both the drama but also the supernatural aspects as well I'm going to be chewing on and processing this for a minute but this was just so beautifully done and it has a great ensemble

Starting point is 00:02:56 the production values are incredible uh this was you can really feel the the the love and the care that went into this definitely so yeah i thought this was really terrific about you oh man um yeah this movie was beautiful this movie was really sad and really allows you to appreciate life and you know we watch a lot of movies here for this channel and this is one of the ones where you know you just kind of like if you're watching this in a theater you just kind of walk out and just kind of in silence and just like sit in your car for a little bit and just like blonder the experience you just had and yeah with the movie like this you just kind of want to soak it in and kind of sit in

Starting point is 00:03:44 it to just reminisce over the things that you just experienced um and yeah i would say that's kind of home feeling right now i'm i'm feeling this of appreciation and analyzation of life and you know how we treat each other and what it or just what it means to to be good what it means to be human um and yeah just appreciation about a movie like this exists you know my whole life without seeing this movie and thinking about just the the altruistic nature of

Starting point is 00:04:31 who John Coffey was and how like this movie made me feel like this is a real guy like he was just he just cared and felt so deeply for human life

Starting point is 00:04:48 um yeah I feel like this guy really just passed before my eyes and I'm like kind of a little shuck by that, but also witnessing how the effects of somebody like that

Starting point is 00:05:02 play into the appreciation for the experience that Paul had. But also these performances were all incredible as well. If we're just talking about the film

Starting point is 00:05:17 on a technical level, the music was incredible. All the performances were really believable. You were I was extremely invested in, you know, Paul and John and their relationship, and I hated Bill, and I hated Percy. Oh, God. It was a passion. And I think that those two characters met their face in a way that was very narratively gratifying.

Starting point is 00:05:48 Yeah, dude, I'm, I'm befuddled. I'm just a little bit out of loss, but I think that's okay. That's so you know something added impact. Yeah, something special. You're just kind of caught in the afterglow. Exactly, yeah. But something I will say that's a major positive of this movie is that I did not feel the runtime.

Starting point is 00:06:13 I was just, yeah, it was extremely well-paced and did a good job of endearing you the characters from the jump. and yeah, I just really, really enjoyed it. Such a steady hand. Like, hats off to Frank Darabon. I mean, obviously, dude's been around. He's been doing a ton of, he's done a ton of movies, he's done TV, he's done everything. But watching both Shawshank and this in tight succession, like, these are incredible.

Starting point is 00:06:43 Like, these couple movies are especially incredible. And, like, the amount of assuredness it takes to pull something like this off, but also thoughtfulness is wild and uh i know that oftentimes things get changed in adapting stephen king stories or whatever but um he just seems to be a guy who like is so well attuned to the spirits of what these stories want to be i assume i imagine it feels that way certainly like these movies feel definitive sure yeah and yeah just like so much craft and skill on display and and and it's not distracting it's never like oh look at me you know it's just it's to make a movie like this that yeah that that glides and that is affecting and that yeah never drags or anything like

Starting point is 00:07:32 that is it is really a mark of immense you know skill and prowess yeah i uh i wholeheartedly agree but uh i have to imagine we have some some questions uh that kind of color the rest of our conversation here absolutely do all righty okay all right we are now getting into the questions um some small period of time has passed between the last thing i said now because it is very cold in the studio so i currently have a this is the coldest studio we have they're all in the same air conditioning unit and so every shooting space it responds differently to that we are in the room that gets coldest fastest yeah we Yeah, this room, another studio in the podcast room.

Starting point is 00:08:24 And yeah, this is the coldest of the three. To get the others temperate, we have to go into like a freezing mode in this room. So this is a little hard to work against, especially when you're like, well, I have to leave the AC on. Otherwise, they're going to boil. So anyway. Right. Yeah. So you guys, thank you.

Starting point is 00:08:43 We got a bunch of questions today. Thank you so much for sending these in. I'm excited to get into the questions. So without further ado, Lobstar, the Green Mile. I'm so glad you guys are watching this movie. It's, in my opinion, the best Stephen King adaptation. Question is, what do you think of everyone's performances? I think no character was wasted in this film.

Starting point is 00:09:10 Agree? I know. It was a terrific ensemble. Everyone's really well cast and everybody shows up. and leaves an impression even characters who are only there for a small period of time you know even people who are like in these incidental almost sort of uh stream of consciousness feeling bits or whatever like yeah this was a real tour to force in terms of acting and casting all around like there's almost not enough that you could say to encompass uh yeah just the the the terrific

Starting point is 00:09:45 work on display yeah i wholeheartedly agree i think yeah Tom Cruise not Tom Cruise Tom Hanks was great Michael Claude Duncan RAP Oh man I didn't even I didn't think about that He was actually dead in real life as well

Starting point is 00:09:59 Yeah he was amazing in this movie I don't know if he got nominated But he definitely should have Because I feel like it's a Not an easy role to Believeably play somebody who is physically You know Very imposing

Starting point is 00:10:16 Yet someone who is so warm and so loving and gentle and gentle at the same time and but you without feel like it's a hard balance to sort of walk to be somebody who does physically look so intimidating we're also being so sincerely warm and and you like you feel protective of him in in a way where you're you know he's he's too good for this world you know you you want him to be this this guy who is so i don't know he's you feel like he deserves better and it sucks that he is someone who got the faith that he did but everyone else is so also is really great in the movie as well yeah i i absolutely loved all the performances sam rockwell was definitely an unexpected

Starting point is 00:11:18 surprise and you hated him so much in this movie didn't fantastic job you also hated percy and all the other all the other guards you know you really felt for them as well you really believe that these four guys were above the the average interpretation of what we perceive like prison guards to be because it's normally some like some foul player like you know they're really abusing their power sadistic exactly so i feel like they did a good job of portraying these empathetic guys who just wanted to do their jobs and really believed in what this guy John Coffey could do for for the world and for healing people and yeah really felt his loss so everyone did a great job thank you so much for the question

Starting point is 00:12:07 lobster here here all right star dust and madness this is one of those movies that should have won all the awards my clogged duncan is phenomenal in the role of john coffee and i think he was robbed of an oscar wow i wholeheartedly agree yeah um who do you think was the cruelest character ever created for a work of fiction and why is it percy wetmore oh golly oh god there are a lot of oh there's a lot of really freak messed up characters in movies um percy because he's just a conniving little bitch who hates people and who you know he has a power complex of like wanting to impose his will on these people that are gonna they're dying anyway and he's just so petty he just freaking sucked but there's a lot of really great bad guys in movies um and just works a fiction in general so it's hard for me to pin one down because there's so many but Out of the top of my head, Percy was pretty awful. And so was Bill.

Starting point is 00:13:17 Bill was all flea trash. They were both trash. So, yeah, any bad characters coming off of your mind right now? Max Cady in Cape Fear. Never seen. Pretty cruel, cruel guy. Nurse Ratchet, ratchet in One Flew over the Cougues Nest. a very very cruel character like i i'm half curious to watch a clockwork orange again when i saw it

Starting point is 00:13:51 i found it i know people love that movie i found it rather off-putting and uh alex delarge is very off-putting characters uh and is you know gleefully cruel um i need to watch it again i've watched it since high school so i don't really remember what happened frigin denzil and training day pretty freaking cruel after a while uh calvin candy and jango's pretty cruel that is an immensely cruel role i thought he should have uh i thought he should have got the Oscar for that one because uh terrible yeah there are there are a lot of good ones though i'm trying to see if there's anybody i might have forgotten glorious bastards uh yeah pretty cruel i mean you know what's the guy's name in schindler's list Certainly.

Starting point is 00:14:38 Never seen show in those lists. Certainly Mad Cruel. It's been a minute since I've seen it. But, uh, yeah. I'm sure there are other good ones, but those are a few that came to my mind. Yeah. I'm sure there are a lot of war movies of the characters like that, too. Just looking up hateable villains right now.

Starting point is 00:14:54 Yeah, I was looking up like, you know, oh, I want to watch Road to Pitch. Oh, you know what I just watched? Who's a pretty hateable dude? Who's that? Christopher Lloyd and, um, Jim Roger Rabbit. That guy sucks. He was very evil. He was very evil.

Starting point is 00:15:10 I will give you that. It was very fun to watch, but also it was very evil. Joe Pesci in what casino? He's a pretty pretty freaking cruel and unpredictable, scary guy. Baby Jane. Whenever happened to baby Jane, it's pretty cruel. There were a lot. We could go on.

Starting point is 00:15:33 But yeah, those are something that came to my mind. Yeah, those are definitely. some are some good ones but i mean percy uh percy certainly was uh definitely again props to that actor because uh thankless role hateable guy and uh yeah and and brought you could tell you could extrapolate who this guy is from his choices and that's good it's like he brought the humanity even though you're never getting very sympathetic with him so yeah but yeah certainly earns a spot among the cruelest especially in an environment where he provides such a contract and he's the guy you were expecting the other guards to be essentially, you know.

Starting point is 00:16:14 Yeah, well, definitely thank you for the question, Stardust and Madness. Absolutely. You're a gem, you're a superstar. Hugo Torres, if you were a death on death row, what would be your last meal? Oh, it would be like an ADD feast. It would be like, give me some sushi. Give me a Burger King, original chicken. chicken sandwich. I want a facotcha bread pizza. I want a cream soda. I want like an Oreo milkshake. I want

Starting point is 00:16:47 an ice coffee. I want all this shit that I love. Give me some with lemon in it. Oh, that would be nice. Oh, man. That's tough because I'm like, there's so many good foods that I like. Tiram Sue, lemon cake. If I could just have something that I, if I knew I wouldn't get sick and I can just eat all the things that I wanted to eat, oh man let's that's freaking give me an omelette give me like a nice hearty steak give me a good burger some of the best chicken strips in the world give me some of the best fries in the world um some bomb sushi as well oh okay we gotta go stupid with it what else can we get uh oh yeah like a fucking tomahawk steak never had one of those before okay um yeah maybe some i don't know some fried tacos

Starting point is 00:17:38 Give me one last Hot dog Classic Sure, you know Keep it easy Keep it simple But yeah I would say those

Starting point is 00:17:50 Would be my Yeah for sure An ADD Concophony of Of different things Also some chocolate milk Because I love me Some chocolate milk

Starting point is 00:17:57 Absolutely Yeah But I feel like that answers the question What would your last meal be guys I'm curious to hear all them last meals Yeah Thanks for sending in the question Here you go

Starting point is 00:18:06 Appreciate you a double clap all righty then melissa taylor hey john and aaron this is a powerful film disturbing heartbreaking and hopeful all it wants between playing tombs on the x-files and percy whitmore in this film doug hutcherson sure had a knack of for playing evil sadistic characters do you think the film was successful in using percy's cruelty to highlight the potential for abuse of power in the justice system. Johnny? Yeah, I mean, we've seen characters like this in films that have highlighted, I think, something similar. I think it's interesting the way it is presented here.

Starting point is 00:18:52 And I think that, yeah, he represents the kind of person who you suspect, like, you know, the things that get them off and the things that make them feel, you know, powerful or successful or whatever you want to call it, you know, are not that. far away from the people that you know he's on the other side of the bars from and there are lots of obviously movies that kind of highlight that fact of like you know the only difference between these criminals and those criminals are the bars and you're getting paid to treat us terribly blah blah blah um but i mean yeah like certainly he seems like a guy who you know has all these connections wants to be here who thinks he wants to be the executioner who wants to you know be that

Starting point is 00:19:34 cold iron hand of quote justice and yet you feel yeah the evil in this guy and there are certainly probably people who get into i mean you know it's well documented people's who can can not always but can join the military as an excuse to you know let out their bloodlust there are also people who might you know go into a place like a prison which is you know obviously theoretically intended for either rehabilitation or to house people until the end of life and uh and yeah this seems like a guy who wants kind of a free legal license to be cruel and to lord power uh and that's a very real thing so uh yeah i feel like he it you know in a it was an interesting way to do it having him be the one guard who most heavily embodies that and the

Starting point is 00:20:25 rest of the guards the rest of the prison staff are relatively sympathetic in this movie and i think it's it does nicely for what the story's trying to do and also you know pays service to that idea that yeah like you know a lot of the people guarding and conducting the prisons are no better you know yeah no i think um they did a great job of performing in this role and i think that yeah it you know we said it multiple times in the film that it is surprising that some of the other characters were not of that sadistic vein but and i think that stems from you know both in real life and in other films, the trope of the evil or, you know, power abusing guards is very prevalent. You know, I think a lot of people want to feel powerful who view themselves as weak, so they project this thing of being powerful and being, in lording that power over people who they feel otherwise would not submit to them.

Starting point is 00:21:34 so yeah it is really messed up um the highlighting the potential for abuse in power yeah i think that did a great a great job of of showcasing that and yeah i think there just needs to be greater screenings for people in their tendencies and and psych evals for people in power because it happens all the time um in prisons on the streets um other countries and it needs to stop and in deac there's a lot of pain it's being caused a lot of death unnecessary death is happening

Starting point is 00:22:11 all over the world one too it's like he's not only doing this to take out something on the prisoners themselves he's also sort of inflated his own sense of status due to his connections and so he's able to like try and leverage that on to the people he

Starting point is 00:22:27 works with and you know yada yada so there is that too it's like it plays on both sides It's not only his torture of the inmates who are under his, quote, care, but also the way in which he tries to push his superiors and peers around with his unique connections and whatnot, a person who thinks they're above and outside of the law, essentially. Yeah, yeah. It's really aggravating to watch in the context of the film. And I have to imagine there's definitely a lot of people in positions of power that, you know, toss their weight around because like, oh, my dad's a senator, like some shit like that. Yeah, I'm happy you got his comeuppets because like dude freaking sucked.

Starting point is 00:23:15 He's a little little little bitch boy. Bad, bad, bad, bad boy. Bad dude. Thank you so much with the questions. I appreciate you. All right. brandy davis thank you for sending in the question uh just to get it out of the way i absolutely adore you guys we adore you too love you thank you appreciate you i always kind of wish percy

Starting point is 00:23:39 had ended up on the mild what do you think of that versus where he ended up also rest in peace graham green yeah r i p graham green for sure um that's fresh um wolf yeah i don't know that's tough Because, like, yeah, because I think that would have been a, you know, a suitable fate for him. Granted, the only person he killed in the movie was a mouse. And then I guess the, and then that mouth went to far exceed his lifespan, presumably. But, yeah, I think that could have been satisfying. But also him just like in a daze and finally getting out of that place and him, you know, being a different kind of prisoner and another. location in a mental facility because that dude was messed up. He had problems, even if he didn't

Starting point is 00:24:32 murder anybody. So I think for me was satisfying because he would never be the same after the experience of that prison and John Coffey. So yeah, I think that would have been nice. I don't think it would have narratively made sense. But I think that from a fan gratification point of view, it would have been very satisfying to hit him in the chair without the wet spun so he could feel what Dale field right before he passed and tell him some stuff he doesn't want to know in his final days and hours like well actually we talk to everyone you've ever been with and they say you have a very small penis and they're all here to watch you die and they're going to laugh at you but yeah those are my short thoughts on there. what about you bet um i i was happy i was content with where he wound up because it's a death unto itself really and i get how like yeah uh yeah it's that weird uh the transitory nature of him taking on this darkness that you know john coffee is absorbed and and you know all of that pain and ugliness swirling around inside and you have to imagine that you know

Starting point is 00:25:53 Bill's actions were in there too. And, you know, Bill is the guy who did, you know, traumatize this, you know, for all the things you can say about Percy, certainly nobody deserves whatever horrid altercation happened when, you know, Bill pulls him up in the thing and starts canoodling his bum. You know, I feel like, yeah, for me, it was proportional and it made sense that he should, you know, like go into this sort of fugue. you know, unload on Bill, who is, like, in a lot of ways, the target of his, you know, pain and frustration here initially, the number one person who has undermined him here.

Starting point is 00:26:36 And so to have him take him out, who's like, you know, character who we really hate and we know, it's funny. I've been watching, you know, Dexter, obviously on the channel and a big thing that factors into that is like the code. And so, like, it seems like Bill has done more than enough things to justify, you know, know being shuffled off the mortal coil percy's an asshole and a you know small person spiritually speaking uh but i don't know if i would have put him on death row necessarily and i think the poetic irony of him you know one way or another getting that transfer you know is is is pretty good

Starting point is 00:27:18 you know i think that as a as a literary kind of payoff is is nicely proportioned so while again, yes, as like a, as like a movie watching fan, you know, in my id brain, I'm like, yeah, cook them. At the same time, I'm like, I think this is a more poetic end and something that, yeah, certainly still harkens toward the death of something. And it seems like he's just going to spend the rest of his life in a catatonic state. So, you know, it's almost worse having to just live and suffer and be this husk than it is to, you know, have it. I mean, you know, it is also terrible to die because that is permanent and final but at the same time it seems like yeah he is able to go on suffering and in a way that uh you know now he is a prisoner himself and he gets

Starting point is 00:28:04 to kind of you know somewhere down the dark corridor of his own mind live out you know some version of what he was on the other side of so uh as much as it would be more that if he wound up on the mile i don't know if it would be you would have to do too much stuff and focus on other things too much, I think, in the context of this to do that and then have him show up. I just feel like it would add a whole other wing of the movie, whereas doing this I thought was like a really nice little ribbon on that story. This episode is brought to you by prize picks, the app that finally let me crash my wife's fantasy sports click. Yes, I used to over here her and her friends bonding while I sat in the

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Starting point is 00:29:51 dollar lineup that's code rejects to get $50 in lineups after your first $5 lineup prize picks it's good to be right yeah i think it wouldn't have flowed the same i thought yeah it was suitable for what he uh had uh went through yeah or yeah but appreciate the question thank you so much all right jane roads jane rose talking about the green mile ha ha i'm not sure you if you've cried as much watching the movie before all actors bring it um but my question is i think it's i'm not sure i've cried as much watching oh my bad i'm dyslexic a little bit no no no it's it's okay it's how it is written uh there must have been an auto correct somewhere in there but yeah i'm not sure if i've cried as much watching a movie before all the actors bring it they do they do

Starting point is 00:30:46 But my question is, since this is a Stephen King's story, do you think this sticks as one of his best or do you all prefer some other ones? I think this is one of his best. Granted, I can't speak to all. I don't have like a large experience of all of his work. I have it. And then I got this and maybe a couple other ones that I did not know were him. So yeah. What about you, man?

Starting point is 00:31:13 What do you think? Yeah, there are certain ones I have to see. I've never seen misery I mean you know there's what Carrie there's I like the mist a lot yeah

Starting point is 00:31:24 the secret window 1408 there's a bunch of stuff in the Stephen King filmog this is definitely one of the bet I mean like it's it's a toss up between like a Shawshank or the Shining

Starting point is 00:31:39 or this and I'm not really yeah I forgot the shining was him as well he is just such a wide variety variety of different types of storytelling. Yeah. So that's, it is tough to kind of pick one. But this one for sure stands

Starting point is 00:31:53 towards the top for me, just because I think that it just captures a lot of heart and and pain and humanity. In a lot of ways, yeah, it's this and, uh, and Shawshank kind of duking it out.

Starting point is 00:32:09 And, uh, you know, at the top, because they're both, they, they have similarities obviously. Shawshank is. is, you know, more grounded and has a different kind of payoff that's a little less, you know, heart-wrenching by the end. It's, it's more of sort of tears of joy and relief, whereas this is, you know, certainly bittersweet. But I think these two movies are absolutely toward a force. I mean, it's hard to pick between them. And I don't know how they read on paper, which is why, like, oftentimes, if you're saying, like, what's the best Stephen King story?

Starting point is 00:32:44 it's like you can't i don't necessarily foist the shining first because i'm well aware that it is not very similar to the book uh and so i don't know how this or shashank you know uh correspond to their source material um but this is definitely yeah one of the best uh as far as i'm concerned and uh and yeah it's either this or shashank like it's they're both fresh in my mind too so it would be really hard to choose one or the other they're both super emotional super touching they contemplate a lot about the human spirit and the sort of peripheral magic and spirituality of life. And what struck me about this was that this does that, but also with a supernatural element and a certain, it's weird. This is the other side of Stephen King. There's a

Starting point is 00:33:34 stand by me too, which I haven't seen in a long, long, long time. I feel like, I feel like that could be a contender too. But yeah, this one struck. me in that yeah it's it's every bit is like the thoughtful stephen king i've come to understand but also with some of the more supernatural some of the more you know at i wouldn't say horror in totality but there is horror in a story like this both of the human variety and of again the sort of mystery of the supernatural um so yeah it's got to be one of these two i would imagine but ask me again on a different day and i might give you a different answer so much these are really terrific films.

Starting point is 00:34:14 Yeah. Thank you so much for the question. We appreciate you. Yeah. All right. I want to read this one? Roby Bobarp

Starting point is 00:34:21 Pirate for John and Aaron on the Green Mile. Hi guys. How's it going? One. This is one of Tom Hanks' best performances.

Starting point is 00:34:29 So which other performance of his is your favorite and why? That's a good question too. Damn. And two, what is your favorite Stephen King novel

Starting point is 00:34:38 and which your favorite adaptation and why? Keep up the good work and chow from Sar. you know what i have read precious little stephen king i'm not very qualified to comment on the actual adaptation of and by extension my favorite king novel uh i remember we got really into secret window back in the day and i picked up that one that collection of short stories for minutes to

Starting point is 00:35:05 midnight or whatever's called um but i definitely need to read some stephen king to get you a real answer on this question. It's, you know, because of the movies and stuff, you have such a cultural osmosis for a lot of his work. Um, I don't have to think for a second on, on my other favorite Tom Hanks performance. Uh, I would love to see Road to Perdition again. It's been a long as time since I saw that movie about. I remember him being amazing in that. Um, huh, I remember I watched it like a couple years ago. I really liked him in Terminal. Hey, I like The Terminal. Terminal's fun.

Starting point is 00:35:41 Victim Novorski. Yeah, I think it's, uh, it's underrated. He chit. Yeah, man. I like that movie. Obviously, Forrest Gump is one of his classics. Yeah, 100% of course. Yeah, I think I'm blanking on some.

Starting point is 00:35:56 I need to see my, uh, my Tom. Castaway. Big. Captain Phillips. Big. Never seen Captain Phillips. I need to see, I need to watch a lot more Tom Hanks. But the ones I have seen, those are great.

Starting point is 00:36:09 great obviously great is as woody definitive answer is actually Elvis played Elvis oh no he's in Elvis that's right no he's uh he's in that as a very contentious portrayal uh oh da Vinci code of course doi ever seen da Vinci got to be divinci code I'm gonna look at this man's or or uh you know we got how about Larry Crown that's the best one ever seen Larry Crown I haven't seen I even see you don't worry You're in good presence

Starting point is 00:36:43 You're in good company Polar Express That's the best one He's awesome Polar Express He's actually He's pretty great And catch me if you can I'd throw that up there

Starting point is 00:36:51 Catch me can It was great Catch me if you can It was rad Um I mean this is easily Up there with them This movie was

Starting point is 00:36:58 Fantastic Saving Private Ryan Is one you got a shout out I feel like for sure Oh okay Apollo 13's great I've never seen Philadelphia I would love to see Philadelphia

Starting point is 00:37:12 I'd love to see the burbs Never seen that Or Joe versus the volcano I remember liking him as Walt Disney Oh that's right Yeah and saving Mr. Banks Yeah Whatever that is

Starting point is 00:37:27 There's a Woody car In the cars movie hitter I'm not remember that Well look out now Oh Shout out to the lady killers I know nobody likes that movie But he is

Starting point is 00:37:38 He is very fun to watch, I thought, as that weird character that he does. In The Lady Killer's, the Coen Brothers version, he is like one of the most charactery performances I've seen Tom Hanks put on. A lot of quirks. Okay, I need to watch more Tom Hanks. Yeah, man.

Starting point is 00:37:59 This might be it. This and this one and what's the other one I was thinking of? League of their own. The Forrest Gump might be his best for me. He's Green Polar Express. Yeah, those are my two answers. Hell yeah. Thank you for the question dog.

Starting point is 00:38:20 For sure. Thank you, Roby. All right. All right. Tara Erickson. Ola. Just kidding. Terra.

Starting point is 00:38:29 Mononymous Tara. Hi, John and Aaron. Hello to you. Well, this answers my question during the Shawshank Redemption Q&A, whether you had seen this yes in fact keep your eyes out that video is probably up by now um i love this movie but i know people who will never watch it again because it was difficult to get through what are your thoughts on that would you watch this movie again uh someone already asked you about other evil characters other than percy i can think of one from game of thrones oh yeah yeah yeah

Starting point is 00:38:55 joffrey ramsie oh yeah terrible shit bags on game of thrones um but how would you compare percy and wild bill as always i love your reactions and thoughts thank you so much terra oh goodness gracious me oh okay um i i could this shaw shank again is more uplifting yeah as on on the whole uh i would watch this again i would too i don't think i would not i mean it is very emotional and uh and there is a lot of heaviness to it but that's not the only flavor it's not like oppressive wall to wall the entire time there's a lot that's a lot that's very beautiful that that is uplifting that is sort of triumph of the human spirit but also thoughtful and spiritual and this is the kind of movie that I would be very curious to go back

Starting point is 00:39:46 to see again and to pick up different details from or read into certain things a little more deeply or whatever so I can see why you wouldn't want to put yourself through this again because again it is very emotional and heartbreaking and I know that this is you know sort of among the great cry movies. But I could definitely watch this again. There's just so much great work. Yeah, I wholeheartedly agree. I think we watch a lot of movies here.

Starting point is 00:40:15 And, you know, some of them I'd put on again. And, you know, just for my own entertainment, because I want to show people. Other ones, you know, I don't want to think of that again. Smurfs. But anyway. Truly traumatic. Truly a traumatizing.

Starting point is 00:40:30 experience that really so much smirfs uh requiem for a dream all those you watch recordum for a dream yeah i still have not seen it actually but uh somebody here just just just watched it i heard it was yeah that is the number one film of of people saying you know great movie i'll never watch again i uh yeah i reacted to the with the person who watched it afterwards and they were definitely messed up by the experience after the fact

Starting point is 00:40:56 going into a lighter movie was definitely the move after but yeah I think that it is someone when I would watch and I would want to invite people who have not seen it to experience it and then talk about it because I don't think it's like a the beautiful thing about this movie is the fact that it's three hours and it's not a tedious watch it's not a slog fest yeah it's very well-paced and it has interesting characters and people you care about and I feel like this is one of those. those movies that you may even benefit from multiple viewings in the first place and you knowing the fate of what happens may make watching it even more bittersweet i don't know i feel like this is one of those ones i would you know uh like a fine wine you know it would age well with with more viewings but uh what was the other question was there a second question one and knowing where it's going to land on a second viewing i think might make it a bit easier because again you can kind of observe and you know what is coming but also even his acceptance of death is sort of beautiful in its own way yeah i i heard a dower even though it's like heartbreaking it's not a dower movie no i weirdly feel i want to say hova i think that's the right word but yeah it makes you just want to show more care for people want to show more love for people in the world and you know address those in pain i feel like that's my takeaway

Starting point is 00:42:29 from the movie is to just be a better person just to go out of your way to try to do what you can to aid and help people in pain in your small corner of the world. I think that is the legacy of Mr. John Coffey and what we should take away from it or at least what I'll take away from it. But yeah, thank you for the question, Tara. Appreciate you. Do we get Percy and Wild Bill? Oh, my bad. We've already talked some about this. we did uh how did you compare them i think wild bill is actually a psychopath and i feel like percy may be a sociopath um feels like nature and nurture like wild bill just feels like this feral thing whereas uh percy sucks but certainly feels like a more political animal

Starting point is 00:43:23 you can kind of see how this guy might have got this way or you could imagine what influences led to this whereas wild bill just seems completely unhinged he had some craziness in him before wild billion came to the picture because he was like tearing the place apart trying to get that mouse was like i'll squish it i'll squish the life at that mouse oh yeah yeah so there are some you know it's like you said he's like you said he reeks of a guy who's been made to feel small and who wants power but doesn't really have the grit yet to

Starting point is 00:43:53 actually be shit yeah you know i feel like he yeah he was a little small dick of boy and he wanted to be a big dick boy but he didn't have the energy to do that so that sucks on you you'll go fucking rodding a hole and think about what you did forever on the loop but yeah that's

Starting point is 00:44:12 how I feel about that thank you so much for the question Tara appreciate you all right Johnny boy is our last question Keanu Chanel thank you for chiming in the green mile hey studs hey yourself hope y'all are doing swell

Starting point is 00:44:28 fine Friday slash whenever this is uploaded slash the day when this is uploaded this movie is incredible and heartbreaking the performances are top notch especially from michael clark duncan rest in peace and tom hanks do you all think justice was served in the end despite mcd still dying and do you think mr jingles is still alive and thriving again hope y'all and all of the fine citizens of rejection have a swell day and week same to you hope you're doing well out there thank you for taking the time, you know, to check this one out, because this is a thick boy. Thick'em's. But yeah.

Starting point is 00:45:06 Yeah. I would say you. I do think justice was served for Percy and Wild Bill. And it's unfortunate because, yeah, I feel like John Coffey made peace with his fate in the end. He was just in so much pain because of how much empathy he had that he wanted it to stop but part of me feels like yeah i don't know he could have done more good in the world but then also he's like in 1935 like racist america so i think he still could have done good but i feel like the hate he would have received would have not stopped beyond his time within this film i feel like

Starting point is 00:45:48 he would have experienced that for many more years to come and experience many people in pain and i feel like he i don't know yeah i i don't think he deserve to die and it really sucks that he died in front of a room people hating him and you know he's not the guy the type of guy who would do good for for the sake of being uh praise he just did good because it was the right thing to do because it was just his nature yeah he's just a a a saint in that way so yeah he was literally yeah he was in a way like the the the the jesus figure you know he died in front of a group he's people hating him even though he did miracles and stuff and yeah there were definitely some parallels there for sure and um yeah any other thoughts on that

Starting point is 00:46:41 it's that it kept reminding me of that that that him that you know whatsoever you do to the least of my people that you do unto me you know this guy who certainly is on a bottom rung of society who is, you know, absorbing these cruelties and, you know, performing healing in the face of them. Like, you know, yeah, there is something very Christly about him. And yeah, again, it's that bittersweet thing of like in some ways justice is served. In some ways it's not because obviously his name isn't cleared. People don't know the truth. But a couple people do. And that's important. You know, there were people there to mourn him. There were people there to love him in his final moments to some extent and some people at least learn the truth and you know in isolation in the

Starting point is 00:47:30 room where it happened you know justice is arguably served i mean you know wild bill had to go bill billy the kid had to go bad bad evil guy and so like you know that circle of things him passing this you know this pestilence on to percy and then And, you know, it's, it's a fascinating little moment because, yeah, it's like, you know, the guy who John Coffey is here in place of is also here. And, uh, and, you know, the balance is somewhat, uh, adjusted when he is killed and when the truth is passed along. And yeah, not everybody's going to see it. So there is some level of injustice to his end. But I do appreciate it's weird, you know, because he accepts death and he wants the relief. and in some ways, you know, he gets to rest peacefully now,

Starting point is 00:48:27 and that's a beautiful reward. But at the same time, you bargain and you're like, man, though, if he could have gone living with a clear name somehow, but who's to say the trouble wouldn't befall him someplace else down the line? Because he is such a gentle giant. He is so childlike in so many ways. And, yeah, it's weird. There's definitely stuff that obviously you wish it worked out differently.

Starting point is 00:48:51 but there is justice afoot. It's just not, I guess, you know, the full breadth of it that you would hope for, you know, for this guy to be vindicated and, you know, revered in some way for his ability, for his link to, I assume, some divine higher power. Yeah, it's a, it's a rich handling of the stuff to make you think about it and to, you know, make you sort of probe it from multiple angles. Um, and I do, and I would venture to imagine that I'm just going to, I'm just going to hope that Mr. Jingles is still out there, even still.

Starting point is 00:49:28 I'm hoping Mr. Jingles is out there. And I want to make an addendum to my statement. I think that Wild Bill should have gotten the, the dry sponge treatment. I mean, yeah, dude. He went out too easily. Yeah. And it's weird because it's like, you know, Percy shooting him in a lot of ways.

Starting point is 00:49:48 There's, there's, there's a lot of interesting stuff about having it go down. down the way it goes down and for percy it's weird even though he is sort of this vessel of judgment and from then on is just sort of gone at the same time he is sort of getting a revenge of sorts you know for a pretty in isolation shitty situation so this is my but hole blah blah yeah exactly uh this is for my dignity and my butt cheeks and uh but uh you know also yeah frying there is almost no fate too awful for bill some might say that yeah it's fast he got off easy you know if he had been cooked without the sponge it would be hard to have that much sympathy because he truly was just awful every ounce of time he was on screen even when he was

Starting point is 00:50:38 being kind of quiet yeah no every awful awful guy and i wonder if like because some actors are so good at playing these roles that you know they get those hate that hate in real life i wonder if this period in samaracko's life people were just like yo fuck you yeah dude and i mean too he's bounce back and fight other characters because yeah this is a real piece of p o s character to try to play well yeah and i mean multiple you know there were racist characters but like easily the most overtly racist piece of shit on screen too like the way he talks to john coffee constantly is just disgusting yeah uh yeah like in a movie full of nuances like the one character who is just awful and uh and i have no sympathy for him whatsoever yeah but uh yeah you guys well first off

Starting point is 00:51:28 thank you so much we appreciate you guys so much yeah this was terrific this is really great this was a great film and i will cherish it forever and i'm gonna think on it i'm I might drive home today. Yeah. But yeah, that'll be it for us today. We love you guys. And stay good out there. Stay kind.

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