Turns out he's the worst of them by far, enough to make Percy look positively sympathetic by comparison, and the real killer of the Detterick girls. It doesn't hurt that he directs a large part of his bad behavior towards Percy. Bait the Dog: William Wharton is a total asshole who causes chaos for the guards, but he's very outrageous and very amusing, so like the rest of the Death Row prisoners on the mile, you wonder whether he really deserves it.Non-lethal example with Percy, who is mind-controlled into killing Wharton, the process of which ends up destroying his mind.Although the rest of the guards are disturbed by Coffey using Percy for the deed, no one disputes that the victim deserved it. John Coffey mind-controls Percy into shooting him because of it. Wild Bill Wharton is a psychopathic child rapist and murderer who not only killed the Detterick girls, but gloated about it to John Coffey and seems to be delighted with the fact that Coffey's getting blamed for his crime.
Further, several other people died in the fire he started in an attempt to cover up his previous crime. While his death was indeed gruesome and drawn-out, he did brutally rape and murder a young girl. A Rare Sentence: He infected you with life?.Angel Unaware: It's strongly implied that John Coffey is one, especially considering he remembers nothing about his past and his lawyer couldn't find any information on him, despite his enormous size.Anachronism Stew: The film is set in 1935, but Louisiana did not start using the electric chair to execute criminals until 1940.On the other hand, he genuinely believes Coffey to be guilty of killing two girls, and his fear was born from the fact that his son was partly blinded by a dog. On the one hand, he is obviously bigoted toward black people and thinks they should be put down like mad dogs if they act out.
Amoral Attorney: Downplayed with Burt Hammersmith.Still, even considering their contempt for him, the guards are more than a little creeped out by what happens to Percy. Contrasted by Wharton and Percy Wetmore, who John Coffey punishes because they were bad men.Alas, Poor Villain: Delacroix is guilty of a very heinous crime, but is actually well liked by the fellow inmates and guards and is genuinely sorry for what he did, which makes his horrible death even sadder.Jingles adopts Eduard Delacroix when he arrives and entertains all with his spool fetching trick, even performing a show for the guards on another block. They decide not to kill him, aside from the Jerkass Percy, because of his unusual behavior: fearless in the face of humans, accepts food only from the regular guards, and his searching of the cells as if he's awaiting for somebody. Jingles / Steamboat Willy, a mouse found running around the death row cells.
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The fact that the film changed the year he met John Coffey from 1932 to 1935 is most likely why. In the film, he's 44 in the past and 108 in the present.
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