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Uh muh Guh! Stephen King!
Mar. 9th, 2007 12:59 pmI 'marathoned' over half of The Green Mile yesterday and finished it. Goddamn, it's one hell of a novel. It was originally serialized - released in six volumes - and each volume was on the New York Times bestseller list simultaneously. If that isn't a literary event, I don't know what is.
We have the movie taped on VHS, and we've had that tape since we lived in Weimar. The tape is old and has a ton of tracking, but Dad and I managed to get it looking decent with the remote. I went to bed around 1:40 this morning. Great book, great adaptation of the book. I don't think I'd seen the beginning of the movie back in Weimar.
The movie is just over three hours long, but the book can fit much more in its pages than a movie can in its reels, of course. I love both versions. The movie mostly leaves out the details from the book that are not vital to the plot. (For example, book-Paul is writing his story in the old folks' home and gives his pages to Ellie to read; movie-Paul simply tells the story to Ellie.)
And KUDOS to that freaking cast. God damn. Doug Hutchison is fantastic as Percy, that evil, whiny little bastard.... I love it when an actor can pull off a character like Percy so well. (Hutchison was in two first-season episodes of The X-Files - "Squeeze" and "Tooms" - as a limb-stretching, liver-eating mutant.) Tom Hanks, David Morse (who played Michael Tritter in not-to-distant House episodes), Michael Clarke Duncan, Michael Jeter (RIP).... ARGH. Kickass. So much kickass. Sam Rockwell - as William 'Wild Bill' Wharton - is truly, truly despicable... but I love that scene where he threatens Percy. Very well done.
The book is more brutal than the movie is. Eduard Delacroix's execution is even more horrific in the book. Melinda's swearing, brought on by her brain tumor, is more foul in the book. But the movie adaptation is just wonderful.
ANYWAY, I could go on and on about the book and movie and how they rock, but until then, I'm going to surf IMDb for a while. Maybe I should read Dreamcatcher next.
We have the movie taped on VHS, and we've had that tape since we lived in Weimar. The tape is old and has a ton of tracking, but Dad and I managed to get it looking decent with the remote. I went to bed around 1:40 this morning. Great book, great adaptation of the book. I don't think I'd seen the beginning of the movie back in Weimar.
The movie is just over three hours long, but the book can fit much more in its pages than a movie can in its reels, of course. I love both versions. The movie mostly leaves out the details from the book that are not vital to the plot. (For example, book-Paul is writing his story in the old folks' home and gives his pages to Ellie to read; movie-Paul simply tells the story to Ellie.)
And KUDOS to that freaking cast. God damn. Doug Hutchison is fantastic as Percy, that evil, whiny little bastard.... I love it when an actor can pull off a character like Percy so well. (Hutchison was in two first-season episodes of The X-Files - "Squeeze" and "Tooms" - as a limb-stretching, liver-eating mutant.) Tom Hanks, David Morse (who played Michael Tritter in not-to-distant House episodes), Michael Clarke Duncan, Michael Jeter (RIP).... ARGH. Kickass. So much kickass. Sam Rockwell - as William 'Wild Bill' Wharton - is truly, truly despicable... but I love that scene where he threatens Percy. Very well done.
The book is more brutal than the movie is. Eduard Delacroix's execution is even more horrific in the book. Melinda's swearing, brought on by her brain tumor, is more foul in the book. But the movie adaptation is just wonderful.
ANYWAY, I could go on and on about the book and movie and how they rock, but until then, I'm going to surf IMDb for a while. Maybe I should read Dreamcatcher next.
