What's the Difference between The Green Mile the Book and The Green Mile the Movie?
The Green Mile Book vs Movie
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John Coffey is a huge man of seven feet. |
He is only about 6'6". |
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The main story takes place in 1932. |
The year is 1935.
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Paul is in the nursing home and the brutality of Brad Dolan who works there. It reminds him of Percy Whetmore. |
This isn't shown. |
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Paul is writing the story of the Green Mile as a novel. |
He is telling his life experience to his girlfriend Elaine.
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The Warden, Hal Moores has an assistant named Curtis Anderson. |
He doesn't. |
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The story is not told chronologically. |
It happens in sequence.
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When John is brought in, the only other inmate is Delacroix. |
Delacroix is there as well as Bitterbuck. |
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When John first arrives, Paul tells Percy to leave and he then yells at another guard on his way out. |
He doesn't yell at a guard. He hits Delacroix fingers with his baton.
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When John is discovered with the twins he is wearing a red bandanna on his head and there are a swarm of gnats around his head. |
He isn't wearing anything on his head and there are no gnats. |
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The Detterick twins are naked when they are found with John. |
They are wearing clothes.
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It's explained why Delacroix and Bitterbuck are on death row. Delacroix is an arsonist, rapist and murderer, while Bitterbuck murdered a man in an argument over a pair of boots. |
Not specified. |
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Paul found out Wild Bill was guilty of the murder of the two girls that John was to die for through his own research and some logic. |
John holds Paul's hand and Paul sees what happened through the eyes of Wild Bill.
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Paul is 104 years old when the story ends. |
He is 108. |
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Mr. Jingles dies 64 years after John brought him back to life. |
He is still alive at the end.
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