The Green Mile Page #4
PAUL:
I guess sometimes the past just
catches up with you, whether you
want it to or not. It's silly.
ELAINE:
Was it the film?
(off his look)
It was, wasn't it?
PAUL:
I haven't spoken of these things
in a long time, Ellie. Over sixty
years.
She reaches out, gently takes his hand.
ELAINE:
Paul. I'm your friend.
PAUL:
Yes. Yes you are.
Paul wonders if he's even up to talking about it after all
this time...and decides that perhaps he is:
PAUL:
I ever tell you I was a prison
guard during the depression?
ELAINE:
You've mentioned it.
PAUL:
Did I mention I was in charge of
death row? That I supervised all
the executions?
This does come as a surprise. She shakes her head.
PAUL:
They usually call death row the
Last Mile, but we called ours the
Green Mile, because the floor was
the color of faded limes. We had
Sparky, we called it.
(beat)
I've lived a lot of years, Ellie,
but 1935 takes the prize. That was
the year I had the worst urinary
infection of my life. That was
also the year of John Coffey, and
the two dead girls...
FADE TO BLACK:
In blackness, a title card appears:
"The Two Dead Girls"
CUT TO:
EXT. GEORGIA COUNTRYSIDE - DAY (1935)
HUNDREDS OF PRISONERS work the fields, pickaxes rising and
falling in waves, a prison song being sung in cadence with
the work. GUARDS patrol on horseback, rifles aimed at the sky.
A late 20's Ford PRISON TRUCK comes chugging into view along
the road, kicking up a long trail of dust in the heat. It
seems to be riding unusually low on its rear suspension.
EXT. COLD MOUNTAIN PENITENTIARY - ESTABLISHING - DAY
A Depression-era prison in the south. The prison truck sways
down the rutted dirt road toward the main gate...
...while Paul Edgecomb, early 40's, stands in a cramped
toilet in his guard's uniform, trying to piss. His face is
pained, his forehead beaded with sweat.
INT. E BLOCK (THE GREEN MILE) - DAY
BRUTUS HOWELL(nicknamed "Brutal" for his intimidating size,
but he's actually rather thoughtful by nature) stands at the
entry door of the cellblock, peering out through a viewing
slot. He sees the prison truck arrive at the main gate.
He turns and nods to fellow guard DEAN STANTON sitting at the
duty desk, then cross the Green Mile--a wide corridor of
faded green linoleum running some sixty paces top to bottom,
with four large cells to a side.
Brutal steps to the bathroom, listen a moment, knocks softly.
BRUTAL:
Paul? Prisoner.
PAUL (O.S.)
Christ. Gimme a minute.
Brutal waits patiently, a bit embarrassed. He finally hears
a THIN TRICKLE, accompanied by a stifled groan of pain.
BRUTAL:
You all right in there?
PAUL (O.S.)
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