Gary Sinise
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The Green Mile (1999)
Directed by Frank Darabont
influenced by Of Mice and Men (1992)
Characters Themes
Coffey is the virtuous innocent -- like a less hapless Lenny from "Of Mice and Men" with a few extra IQ points.
Like Lenny in Of Mice And Men, Duncan's character, John Coffey, is a simple-minded giant who is gentle as a lamb, afraid of the dark, and occasionally bursts into tears.
"The Green Mile" reminds one of John Steinbeck's classic story "Of Mice and Men" because of its theme and the illiterate giant at its center.
Good Time (2017)
Directed by Benny Safdie
influenced by Of Mice and Men (1992)
Plot Characters Themes
Nick is mentally disabled; Connie has vague, "Of Mice and Men" dreams of getting enough money to buy a farm somewhere, or at least to get the two of them as far away from Queens as possible.
Connie and Nick were raised by their abusive grandmother, and there’s an “Of Mice and Men”-type bond between the two brothers, with Connie looking out for the hapless Nick.
Robert Pattinson stars as the scuzzy Connie Nikas, who harbors a misguided “Of Mice and Men” fantasy about moving to a farm in Virginia with his developmentally disabled brother, Nick (played quite affectingly by co-director Benny Safdie.)
The setup has faint echoes of Of Mice and Men, but the movie does not aspire to that level of human dignity, and in any event, the script separates the two characters in short order.
In “Good Time,” a variation upon a theme of John Steinbeck’s classic 1937 novella “Of Mice and Men,” Pattinson plays Constantine “Connie” Nikas, the not-much-smarter Queens, N.Y., brother of occasionally violent, mentally handicapped Nick Nikas (co-director Benny Safdie).
What starts out feeling vaguely like a modern take on "Of Mice and Men," however, becomes something different entirely when a botched bank robbery sees Nick thrown in jail.
(Director/actor Sinise unquestionably has an affinity for Steinbeck: he's staged a successful adaptation of Of Mice and Men at his Chicago Steppenwolf Theatre, as well as an ambitious Broadway production for The Grapes of Wrath, the writer's most famous -- and subversive -- work.)
I’d be tempted to call this gorgeous, unbelievably sad movie a sort of contemporary “Of Mice and Men,” but in actuality it’s more like “Of Mouse and Children,” as Baker movingly tells the tale of a handful of resilient 6-year-olds living hand to mouth in low-budget motels just beyond the shadows of a gleaming, fantasy-filled Walt Disney World in Orlando.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
Directed by Peter Jackson
influenced by Of Mice and Men (1992)
It was once said of director Oliver Stone that he was much like Lennie from "Of Mice and Men" — that he could take any good idea and smother it to death just as John Steinbeck's tragic figure does to mice and lonely women who are desperate to be heard.
Inasmuch as Miles is the smaller and brighter of the two men and Jack is the bigger and more brainless, they reminded me a good deal of George and Lennie in John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," with Miles continually having to get Jack out of trouble.
It's too Of Mice and Men for this wised-up movie: she appears poised to talk about how they'll “live off the fatta the lan'” and “get to tend the rabbits.”
Reggie is slick and confident, while Ronnie, a paranoid schizophrenic with strong sadistic tendencies, is like Lenny in “Of Mice And Men” if Lenny had been an East London mook, and evil to boot.
The episodic structure can be wearying, but the suspects comprise a fine collection of character actors given gleefully inappropriate things to say, from a still-kicking M. Emmet Walsh (Blood Simple) as an American writer to Chris O'Dowd (coming off his Tony-nominated work in Of Mice and Men) as a wife-beating butcher, Dylan Moran (who oughta be a household name on these shores as he is at home for Black Books) as a misanthropic millionaire to Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones) as a nastily cynical doctor, not to mention that adulterous mechanic from the Ivory Coast (Isaach De Bankolé of The Limits of Control).
It’s a sad little life – the boat is basically the rabbit farm in Of Mice and Men – and it’s certainly no retirement for former heroes.
The relationship between the two feels a bit reminiscent of Of Mice and Men or Encino Man as Hank tries his damnedest to educate his newfound friend.
Léon: The Professional (1994)
Directed by Luc Besson
influenced by Of Mice and Men (1992)
Characters
On the other hand, Reno and Portman deliver compelling performances throughout this odd tale of a couple New Yorkers who, at times, seem like the two drifters from John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men."