Frank Darabont

This article by D.K. Holt has a list of director/writer Frank Darabont's movies he directed/wrote. The two most well-known movies are "Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile".

Holt compares and contrast's Darabont's directing for "Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile". He points out that Darabont likes to cast tall people, such as Tim Robbins and Michael Duncan, for his starring roles. Holt also states that Darabont is not a great director/writer, but he
"knows his limitations and mines cunningly his thin if abudent vein of his talent".

Later in the article, Holt writes about Darabont's connection with Stephen King, who's books were the basis of Darabont's blockbuster movies.

(Stephen) King's world is that of the '50s, and Darabont embraces it ultimately to his detriment. King is an American child of the Eisenhower era obsessed with bullies, with social approval, with high school hierarcies, with the pop culture that kids from the '50s experienced. As the victim of bullies, he also drifted toward respite in an easy liberalism that is manifested in The Green Mile as a portrayal of a black man as a simple soul with a noble spirit that shows dignity under oppression, a creature singled out by God for a special gift.