Continuity mistake: When Del finally dies his jaw is slack, but when it shows his body on the gurney his teeth are clenched tight.
MovieFan612
21st Nov 2015
The Green Mile (1999)
27th Jun 2016
The Green Mile (1999)
Continuity mistake: The two dead girls' hair is covered in blood, but in a few shots their hair is clean.
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Suggested correction: Too vague. The girls are represented by dummies and the scene is consistent.
15th Mar 2004
The Green Mile (1999)
Continuity mistake: When they tape Percy's mouth shut before putting him in the restraint room, the handkerchief is partly outside his mouth and gets stuck to the tape, when they let Percy out, the handkerchief has moved. If he's been locked in there with the straight jacket on, there is no way he could have moved it.
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Suggested correction: He could have and likely did move the handkerchief with his mouth.
21st Sep 2014
The Green Mile (1999)
Corrected entry: The paper states that the date of the execution is July 10, 1935. Then at the end of the movie you can see that Paul and John are watching a film called Top Hat. The problem is that the movie was released on August 29, 1935. They watched it just before execution so maybe July 9, 1935, and at that time the movie wasn't released.
Correction: The July 10 execution was Arlen Bitterbuck's, not John Coffey's. Coffey's was in November, so John could have seen "Top Hat."
25th Apr 2005
The Green Mile (1999)
Corrected entry: When the Indian inmate (first one executed) is in the electric chair, after they've hooked him up and before they begin the electrocution they show him up close with the black hood on breathing hard. You can see that he already has the markings and blood on his forehead from the electrocution before they even begin electrocuting him.
Correction: You are seeing shadows from the hood being pulled down. It makes absolutely no sense to use makeup during this scene when we don't see his body and the effects of the botched execution until the next scene.
27th Mar 2007
The Green Mile (1999)
Corrected entry: When the guards are fighting to get control of "Wild Bill," Edgecomb gets kneed in the groin. If you watch closely, you'll see that Wild Bill's knee actually hits Edgecomb on his left thigh/buttocks area.
Correction: The whole point was that Wild Bill struck Paul in the area of his urinary tract infection, i.e., the bladder and that area. This is accomplished with the way Bill struck Paul in this scene.
19th Sep 2004
The Green Mile (1999)
Corrected entry: When Paul Edgecomb is in the cell with new arrival John Coffey, there is a definite blue square behind Paul. Later when the camera angle is changed, it disappears and only the brick wall is there. (00:14:45 - 00:15:45)
Correction: That "blue square" is a shelf - it's visible throughout the entire movie, depending upon the camera angle.
28th Mar 2006
The Green Mile (1999)
Corrected entry: When Percy is grabbed by John Coffey, he drops his nightstick during the struggle. You can plainly see the short thong on the handle as it hits the floor. When Percy turns to walk away however, the nightstick is dangling from his side.
Correction: No, there is a long strap hanging from Percy's waist and the nightstick is still laying on the floor outside Coffey's cell after Percy is tackled by the other guards.
16th Feb 2010
The Green Mile (1999)
Corrected entry: At around 2 hours and 5 minutes into the film, Hanks has just come back from the place where the man was executed without a wet sponge. He looks up and notices the light is smashed, and all the lights are out. He walks up to one cage, then over to John (the magical healing man), and you can see in this shot, all the lights are now back on and not one is smashed.
Correction: The broken light fixture cannot be seen from John's cell. It is further up "the mile" from any vantage point to which you refer.
5th Feb 2007
The Green Mile (1999)
Corrected entry: When John Coffey is first brought into the jail cell, he shakes Paul Edgecomb's hand. Look closely at the size of Paul's hand. It is a child's hand, to make John's hand seem much larger. But when John is in the electric chair, Paul reaches out to shake John's hand and it is now the size of a normal adult male.
Correction: There is no "child's hand" - it's Tom Hanks' hand but he keeps his fingers tight together and his hand rounded a bit to demonstrate the contrast to John's huge hand. This is discussed in the commentary. The size difference between the two scenes is also symbolic of the evolution of Paul Edgecomb: in the beginning, all he could see was a giant "monster" and in the end, they were both just men, saying goodbye with a handshake.
30th Jul 2009
The Green Mile (1999)
Corrected entry: They needed to keep the mercy mission silent, so Percy was locked up and Wild Bill was drugged in his cell. So what became of the prisoner who was very rude to the warders about Mae West? He wasn't executed in the film and seems to have just vanished from his cell. Only two prisoners were executed.
Correction: Toot was Trustee, a minimum security lifer/prisoner who had privileges no other inmate had. He sold notions (i.e. the moonpie he sold to Wild Bill) and assisted with execution practice. He wasn't a resident of the Green Mile and there is no plot hole.
Suggested correction: How can you tell his jaw is slack when he had a hood over it the entire time?
lartaker1975
I have the movie and during Del's execution, the hood is partially burned off. After he finally dies, his jaw is completely slack.
I also have the movie and can confirm that not only is Del's jaw slack but, when the hood is burned off it looks like most of his face has been burned off leaving nothing but a skull. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh3u3Kqdynw.
Suggested correction: Rigor mortis can occur as quickly as 2 hours after death. One of the first muscles of the body to stiffen is the jaw. It also depends on the age of the deceased and calcium amount.
lionhead
Suggested correction: The guards would have done what they could to make his remains less grotesque. Closing his jaw is probably one of their regular duties.
MovieFan612 ★
Once the body dies, muscles can not constrict, and they relax. A guard could never close the jaw or mouth after death anymore than he could close a dead man's eyes shortly after death. That's a movie myth.
Bishop73