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I was fortunate enough to see the Peter Farrelly flick Green Book on Thursday. The film has been receiving a ton of critical acclaim and award show nominations for its leading men Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali. Mahershala, according to Gold Derby, is the frontrunner to win Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars next year, which would be his second win in that category in three years if that. The film’s treatment of Don Shirley’s sexuality belies the difficult realities that gay men of color like Jussie Smollett face to this day.

For the second time in three years, Mahershala Ali is a movie MVP. There’s a scene about 91 minutes into Green Book that made me certain the year-old, who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Green Book is a American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Farrelly. Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, the film is inspired by the true story of a tour of the Deep South by African-American pianist Don Shirley and Italian-American bouncer and later actor Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, who served as Shirley's.

Green Book - I'm Way Blacker Than You: Dr. Shirley (Mahershala Ali) and Tony (Viggo Mortensen) have a heated debate about race, identity, and acceptance in a segregated and racist world. Love film? In one harrowing scene, Tony and Shirley are pulled off the road by police because a local law forbids black people to be out after dark.

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We learn what we learn. The film then chronicles Tony and Dr. After two black workmen leave his kitchen, he picks up the water glasses they have drunk from and tosses them into the bin. Film Reviews. In an early scene, Tony also reveals himself to be an unthinking racist, setting up the problem the film will, of course, resolve.

The film heads inevitably toward a moment of brotherhood between two men who must have seemed unlikely friends in life, and are all too likely on screen. There is always the one movie that comes out in a given year that you can pretty much recommend to just about anyone — and this year, Green Book is that movie.

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Both really are leads. Next Post. Green Book might have a little of that, sure, but it also just gives us two beautifully drawn, brilliantly acted portraits of two people who lived and died in real life. September 20, Share Save. Inthe decorous, tightly-wound Shirley hires the brash Tony to drive and give him some thuggish protection on a concert tour through the segregated American South.

The most eye-opening aspect of the film exposes that everyday racism, which still shaped the Deep South in the early s. Keeping the film true to life is a pitiful excuse for the writer sdirector, and producer to succumb to the obligatory gay scene in an otherwise memorable film. Director Peter Farrelly has made broad comedies with his brother, including the perfectly named Dumb and Dumber and Something About Mary.

Oscar News. This has been a great year for movie-making, and what Viggo, Mahershala, Linda, Peter and the rest of the cast were able to do with this story is nothing short of amazing. Tony Vallelonga is a hot-tempered Italian-American nightclub bouncer. Green Book is at times as unaware as Tony, stumbling into the stereotypes it is supposedly trying to break down.

White-guilt culture has a history of movies that make white people look good in films about race, like Mississippi Burning, like Driving Miss Daisy, like The Help. They make the film watchable and often entertaining, despite its predictability and glaring flaws. This post was created by one of our Contributing Writers and does not reflect the opinion of Instinct Magazine or the other Contributing Writers when it comes to this subject.

Superman and the Films Coming in July July 2, June 16, The real Don Shirley was raised in Jamaica and thus carried with him a snobbery against classless Americans I was raised by a Jamaican, so I can attest to this.