Furiounova
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yeah, it was a pretty awesome performance.
i've been a big SK fan since i was a teenager, and i bought the green mile in pieces when it was first released a few chapters at a time. i was excited when i found out that it was going to become a movie, but i was also fairly worried. some SK books become great movies, like Shawshank or Stand by Me. others completely miss the feel of the book. luckily, the Green Mile was written, cast, and produced perfectly. much of that depended on Coffey; Duncan really brought him to life.
I did the GM bit by bit too and yeah...some SK stories really blow on the big screen. Seems to me they made the best movies from his shortest stories.
Duncan did a great job of a Forest Gump type innocence while having knowledge of the darkest of human hell. That is what made his character so unique to me.