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# Why Is The Poster For The Green Mile So Bad?
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/why-is-the-poster-for-the-green-mile-so-bad-12-2020/
- Published: 2020-12-11T16:00:32.000Z
- Updated: 2020-12-10T08:30:45.000Z
- Author: Heather
- Tags: fugs, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 08:15

Tom Hanks is in this movie -- although in the end, it was Michael Clarke Duncan who got the acting accolades -- and he was arguably the most famous person in the cast, so I get making him the face of the film. He's Tom Hanks. He'd won two Oscars at this point and was nominated for two more (did you know he scored a nod for Big?), including for *Saving Private Ryan* the year before. So yeah. He's Tom Hanks, he was Tom Hanks, he will always be Tom Hanks, and for a lot of people the simple act of slapping Tom Hanks's face on a poster will be enough to get their butts in seats.

But... then why not just use Tom Hanks's actual face? This is not a photo of Tom Hanks. This is an artist's recreation of what would happen if you melted down Tom Hanks and then tried to rebuild him from memory -- but you'd recently banged your head and so everything was a little shaky, including your manual dexterity. They would have been better off replacing his face with the words, "THIS GUY DIRECTED *SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION*, SO MAYBE THIS MOVIE IS JUST AS GOOD," and crossing their fingers.