The Green Mile

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The Green Mile Aimee L. Freeman ENG 225 Introduction to Film Instructor: Denise Orpustan-Love July 23, 2012 “During the process of envisioning and designing a film, the director, production designer, and art director along with the cinematographer, are concerned with several major spatial and temporal elements. These design elements punctuate and underscore the movement of figures within the frame, including the following: setting, lighting, costuming, makeup, and hairstyles (Denise Orpustan-Love, 2012).” I have chosen to analyze a movie clip featuring The Green Mile, infected with evil scene produced by Frank Darabont and starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan. In the movie clip I chose Percy, (Doug Hutchinson) goes insane. After John arrives back from healing the captains wife, he releases the evil into Percy. All the guards are making sure Percy is alright when Percy walks away. Percy walks to an inmate’s cell, wild bill, and starts to cry and opens fire on him, killing him. The officers knock Percy to the ground. Percy opens his mouth and all the “evil” flies out. This concluded this movie clip. The director, Frank Darabont directed The Green Mile in 1999. Frank Darabont adapted The Green Mile from a Stephen King novel. The film was shot at Warner Hollywood Studios, West Hollywood, California, and on location in Shelbyville, Tennessee and Blowing Rock, North Carolina. “Frank Darabont was chosen to write and direct the movie of The Green Mile based on his success bringing another Stephen King prison story to life, 1994′s The Shawshank Redemption . Darabont retained the earthy language and ingenious storytelling of King’s novella, and he underlined King’s theme of hope in desperate circumstances without overselling it. As a result, he brought the novelist’s eerie existentialism to life in a way that no one else ever has (Noel

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