The Shawshank Redemption Vs. The Green Mile .... Which was a Better Movie

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Better Movie ? The Shawshank Redemption or The Green mile

  • The Shawshank Redemption

    Votes: 39 86.7%
  • The Green Mile

    Votes: 6 13.3%

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Strange that you asked this.......Shawshank is one of my all time favorite movies and believe it or not I have NEVER seen The Green Mile.
 

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Strange that you asked this.......Shawshank is one of my all time favorite movies and believe it or not I have NEVER seen The Green Mile.

great movie... definitely take some time to watch it...

Before I answer this, I am going to have a movie night with the wife on Tuesday and watch the green mile.

Good question BAS... If I ask her favorite movies... these both come up...
 
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Strange that you asked this.......Shawshank is one of my all time favorite movies and believe it or not I have NEVER seen The Green Mile.

Never seen the Green Mile ?? Wow

I know Football is on now, but it just started at 4:50pm on Showtime Extreme

again at 7:50pm on Showtime extreme West, or I would guess if you have Showtime on demand
 

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I think they both are great but when Red walks along the beach to meet his old friend Andy on the Mexican beach had me in tears
 

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I think they both are great but when Red walks along the beach to meet his old friend Andy on the Mexican beach had me in tears
One of the best endings ever ! My all time favorite Movie !
 

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SR is one of the best movies ever!
 
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Not sure if that was the "Best" Ending of a Movie, But Yes a GREAT Movie.


FWIW.... Both Movies were Written By one of My All Time favs... Steven King :103631605
 

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Shawshank but Green Mile is good as well. Shawshank is a bit overplayed though but the first time is one of the best movies. And yeah, Stephen King wrote the novela for Shawshank but if you look at the amount of work that the screenwriter did you'll realize he's the one who made it into the great movie it is.

Go buy the Bluray, it's got all the extra info. Like the character Brooks, the old man, is never in the actual book. The ending is also different from the book.
 

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Shawshank: King vs Darabont

20 Aug 2011
written by Rob Rich


Darabont knew what to leave in, what to leave out, what to add, and what to alter. There are the little things, like Red being Irish, or Andy being a small man who wore gold-rimmed spectacles, or Andy sneaking five hundred dollars cash in small bills up his ass into the prison (how did you think he was able to buy all that stuff from Red?). Then, there are the big things, like Andy being a World War II veteran. Did you ever notice the film chooses to not reveal Red’s crime? Stephen King lets us know on page one:
I came to Shawshank when I was just twenty, and I am one of the few people in our happy little family who is willing to own up to what he did. I committed murder. I put a large insurance policy on my wife, who was three years older than I was, and then I fixed the brakes of the Chevrolet coupe her father had given us as a wedding present. It worked out exactly as I had planned, except I hadn’t planned on her stopping to pick up the neighbour woman and the neighbour woman’s infant son on the way down Castle Hill and into town. The brakes let go and the car crashed through the bushes at the edge of the town common, gathering speed. Bystanders said it must have been doing fifty or better when it hit the base of the Civil War statue and burst into flames. 1
Audiences would have had a hard time liking a character that committed such a crime. I’m not saying its impossible, but more a risk they weren’t willing to take. The lesson: sometimes less is more. Red admits his guilt, he’s spent the majority of his life behind bars, there’s not a day that goes by he doesn’t feel regret, and that’s all that’s needed.
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King described Brooks Hatlen as “a tough old con” with a college education who murdered his wife and daughter. King’s Jake was a pigeon (not a crow) and he didn’t have a thing to do with Brooks. Jake belonged to a fella by the name of Sherwood Bolton. Upon his release, Sherwood let Jake go, and a week later, Red discovered the bird dead in the exercise yard. But back to Brooks…he’s mentioned in just a few paragraphs, mainly to setup Andy’s job as Shawshank’s librarian. King doesn’t follow Brooks outside. Brooks never writes to the boys. Brooks never chisels his name or commits suicide. In the novella, Red says about Brooks, “they trained him to like it inside the shithouse and then they threw him out.” The idea was there and Darabont molded it into one of the film’s most memorable characters.​
Finally, the scene where Andy broadcasts Mozart over the prison’s P.A. was Darabont’s creation. It’s the midpoint of the film, where Andy faces off against the Warden, not accepting his rules anymore. It represents a transition. Andy’s slowly breaking out, not physically, but in his mind. Just like Andy’s accomplishments with Shawshank’s library, the music is also a gift to his fellow inmates. He discovers something the Warden and Hadley can’t touch. It’s psychological. It’s called hope.
Other key differences:

  • The poster covering the hole at the time of Andy’s escape was of Linda Rondstadt, not Raquel Welch.
  • There were three wardens during Andy’s time at Shawshank.
  • Warden Norton has Tommy transferred to a minimum security prison, not killed.
  • Warden Norton does not kill himself. He quietly resigns after Andy’s escape.
  • Andy escapes to Mexico with his money, not the Warden’s (after his appeal was turned down, one of Andy’s close friends from the war created a false identity for him under the name Peter Stevens. He took over three hundred thousand dollars of Andy’s money and setup a bank account in Stevens’ name).
It’s not uncommon for films to differ from their source material. I highly recommend checking out King’s novella and Shawshank‘s shooting script. They’re both worth studying. For detailed analysis on The Shawshank Redemption, check out my Shawshank Redemption Screenplay Analysis.



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SR...narration made it what it was....

Green Mile a close second...Tom Hanks was incredible...
 

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I like when Andy gets his crew beers on the roof....no brainer SR
 

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shawshank,more realistic than the green mile
 

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I read both (by King) when they were released. Saw both movies upon release. Have seen both on cable numerous times. For me Shawshank is an all time classic - green mile is entertaining but not even close to Shawshank-- in my opinion. For those who didn't know those were based on Stephen King books / novellas... it's worth noting that "The Shining" (starring Jack Nicholson) was also based on a King book. That's a different genre, but is also a classic IMO.
 

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The Green Mile is a mini sci-fi movie.

Both are good movies.
 

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