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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe Green Mile. PROBABLE spoilers.
Do you think John Coffey may have been hundreds of years old?
Dash87
(3,220 posts)and if I remember correctly, it was as vague as the movie in that respect (but feel free to correct me - it's been years).
I think you can infer from the bit about the mouse's long life that John Coffey had also had an extremely long life.
Michael Clark Duncan ftw.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)From getting "a little of what I am"
A general mouse life span is maybe 2 or 3 years so the implications are horrifying for the Hanks character.
MiddleFingerMom
(25,163 posts).
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He was such an enormous innocent child, despite all the horrors he lived with.
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alphafemale
(18,497 posts)I've loved This story since King first published it. He published it in tiny little paperbacks a few chapters at a time that were released every month or so...
It was torture.
MiddleFingerMom
(25,163 posts)Incitatus
(5,317 posts)Initials JC, a wanderer who performed Miracles and unjustly executed.
EastTennesseeDem
(2,675 posts)The projector cast a halo around his head.
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)I'll look out for it next time I watch.