Green Book film: analysis and summary

Green book, director Peter Farrelly, tells a true story of an unexpected friendship between the pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) and his motorist Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) in an extremely racist North American context for two years sixty.

The film was indicated for the Globo de Ouro 2019 in five categories. No final da noite, Green book levou for casa três troféus: Melhor Ator Coadjuvante (Mahershala Ali), Melhor Filme Cômico and Melhor Roteiro de Cinema.

Mahershala Ali also received the BAFTA 2019 in the Melhor Ator Coadjuvante category.

O longa was Indicated for Oscar 2019 in four categories: Melhor Filme, Melhor Ator (Viggo Mortensen), Melhor Ator Coadjuvante (Mahershala Ali), Melhor Roteiro Original and Melhor Montagem. Green Book - O Guide win the statutes of Melhor Filme, Melhor Ator Coadjuvante (Mahershala Ali) and Melhor Roteiro Original.

I summarize

Don Shirley (played by Mahershala Ali) is a brilliant black pianist who wants to play a game tour not in the United States, a region marked by backward hair, hair preconception e pela racial violence.

To accompany him during these two months of shows he resolves to go and find a motorist / assistant.

Tony Vallelonga (lived by Viggo Mortensen) - also known as Tony Lip - is a thug of Italian origin who works na noite in Nova Iorque. A boate where he atuava, girl Copacabana, needs to be dated and Tony sees himself working for a few months.

Responsible for the support of the family, Tony, who was married to Dolores and had two small children, began to seek employment to survive for the months since it was dated.

[Attention, from now on I can find spoilers]

Or start of the trip

Um beautiful day, Tony received a phone call from a conhesion announcing that a doctor was looking for a motorcyclist. I know what he's waiting for, Tony is going to interview. Going to the place, he sat-lost because he went to a theater.

When Don Shirley meets, in an interview, Tony is surprised to know that or such a master is a true master of piano art. And he is black. An especially delicate question for Tony who, despite denying, was also prejudicial as a large part of the company in which he was inserted.

Muito conceited between the public, Shirley used to be called a doutor as a sign of admiration. From some disagreements, Tony, who wanted to be just a motorcyclist and not a personal assistant, here is not to work with Shirley, especially with a proposed remuneration.

No day to follow, I received an unexpected phone call from a famous pianist, who wanted to ask authorization of Dolores, Tony's wife, to hire him, fulfilling the demands that the husband of the havia ugly. Or I agreed and dated and you two embarked on the shows in South of the country.

Or North American context two sixties

It is worth noting that, in a reality of two sixties, that it was the time in which the film was passed, there was an extreme racial preconception not a country.

Over the years we see some explicit cases of segregation. During a few apresentações, for example, the pianist is prevented from using or banheiro do espaço, intended only for white people.

On another occasion, Shirley was forbidden to use the same restaurant where her public was. Ao long gives tour, or musician also cannot stay in a series of hotels reserved only for brancos.

Tony is a few years old, growing up with a peculiar pianist and he gets irritated by the old and racist rules of the region.

You are gradually raising a laço of affection and growing personally with the experience of life with another, with different personalities.

Personagens principais

Tony Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen)

Of Italian origin, Tony Vallelonga, also known as Lip, is married to Dolores and has two filhos. He works as a new security species in New York because he finds himself in financial difficulties when the nightclub decides to date the portals for two months.

During this period, or courage needs to find a temporary job to pay the bills for the house and ends up being hired by Don Shirley to act as a motorcyclist.

A long time ago, his journey through the two United States began to feel a fight or racism experienced by the Afro-descendant pianist. On the other hand, it served as an alert for him, who was a common white American citizen, born and raised in the Bronx, who does not have to deal with any difficulties due to his fight.

Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali)

Extremely solitary, or pianist, who is a virtuoso, has no friends or family. He quickly mentions um irmão, as he has not been contacted at a very short time. In a conversation with Tony, he also let me escape that he had never been married, rather than that he was married because of this after years of career commitments.

Straightforward and honest, Tony often gets irritated with some biker attitudes, that he has a more fluid notion of right / wrong.

Rude, many times he is unfriendly and arrogant, Shirley is letting herself be caressed by Tony and you are raising as a tempo a harmonious coexistence that transforms itself into a full amizade.

Don represents North American blacks who suffer from a series of daily limitations and humiliations due solely and exclusively to each other.

Dolores (Linda Cardellini)

Tony's wife is understanding as husband, but she remains extremely concerned as the fate of the family. Responsible, she is a housewife, caretaker, two filhos e da gestão do orçamento domestic. When Boate Copacabana has a temporary date, Dolores despairs of knowing how she will do to pay the bills.

Twelve, loving and gentle, a character played by Linda Cardellini is a typical North American woman two years sixties: turned to the family, responsible for the raising of two children and for the maintenance of the rotina do lar.

Film analysis Green book

Based on real data

It was not the year 1962, or the famous black pianist Don Shirley resolved to make a tour of the United States.

A viagem is managed by Columbia Artists, a company that manages the artist's career, and It lasted close to a year and a half (or a film in truth condenses history, as it turns out to last two months). During o trajeto, or pianist played just for an audience composed by brancos.

Shirley felt that she needed a motorcyclist, but also a personal assistant and a kind of coast guard.

It is worth noting that the concern with the security was not excessive, just a few years before (on April 12, 1956), or also a black musician Nat King Cole was attacked no stage when he appeared for a white audience no Alabama.

Or true pianist Don Shirley

Or Don Shirley gives real life born in Florida, not on January 29, 1927, filho from Jamaican immigrant countries. O pai do pianista was a pastor and more than he was a teacher. Shirley made my name when he was only nine years old.

Deeply linked to music, he began to play when he was barely two years old and he appeared professionally for years.

As the film quickly mentions, Shirley would go on to be followed by a classical pianist career, but she ended up by revealing no jazz because he ouviu conselhos of producers who affirm that the North American public is not oily um black playing songs classical.

Some habits in the residence of the pianist, which appear not long, are also compatible with reality. Don Shirley has lived in a sumptuous apartment in Carnegie Hall for nearly fifty years.

A pianist sought by that person who or accompanied has turned out to be uncovered from the security of boate Tony Vallelonga, who works in a nightclub called Copacabana.

As a temporary date of the space, Tony, who is in the business of supporting the family, is seeking sporadic work.

Or did I find Tony

Raised outside of the Bronx, not owned by an Italian-American family, Tony was the provider of a lot of compost for women and for two years.

Embora does not film or character does not declare himself preconceitious, to woman, Dolores, letting this husband's fault show through, that he is compatible with real history.

Just after a brief dinner we see a little of Tony's previous preconception. When two blacks were at his house, ao take Louça from the table, Tony, ao chegar na cozinha, joga no lixo you dois flakes that the blacks will use. Another time that this preconception arises when Tony is a pianist, using a series of stereotypes to characterize blacks.

A story told by Tony's hair

Green book He was like a two roteirists or Tony's filho, which includes a series of real dice. The love letters addressed to Dolores were effectively written by Nick's father as a help from the pianist.

A story is very real because or filho, since the 1980s, I was interested in making a film about an improvavel do pai com Don Shirley. He has recorded a series of detailed interviews about what you do live on tour.

Or fate of Tony e Don Shirley

When the trip ends and you go back home, second or film Tony turned to work in Copacabana, more elect or pianist still being great friends até or end of life. Curiously, you two are failing in very close dates: Tony Morre in January 4, 2013 and Don in April 6, 2013.

In real life, not so much, part of the pianist's family - that aliás is opposed to criação do film Green book - I guarantee in a series of interviews that Don Shirley is a pianist who is not ficaram friends até à morte.

A history of opposites

Usually a society was used to assisting a black man working for a white man, few times or status quo He altered and widowed a white man working for a black man.

This social strangeness appears many times without a film, when, for example, not Sul, the police stop by where Tony and Shirley meet to ask for clarification.

I temporarily put aside the social questions, in terms of personality Don and Tony seem to be opposed: o First I am very concerned with a social question (with an image, with a behavior) and the second is out of control and irreverent. Logically, two opposites appear to be thought not at the level of refinement and culture of both people.

Assim like in real life, Don carrega much more a notion of requinte, knowledge and study of that Tony, who has been able to fight white.

Historically, blacks have little access to information and training, the history of the pianist logic is inverted and we see a very cultured subject of black skin and um, in a certain way, ignorant, of skin white.

Don lives immersed in an atmosphere of high culture and frequent large saloes enquanto Tony never leaves Seu bairro of immigrants of low class, always coexisting with a very similar universe of individuals.

Outra distinction of behavior is given to think of two friends social behavior. Shirley demonstrates being aware of racism and class struggle, Tony, for the time being, seems to be thinking about these questions and wishes to solve the Pontifical cases in which he confronted through brute force.

Extremely rational, or a pianist thinks about every movement and its consequences, deeply impulsive, Tony lives in full bloom and moves his feelings from him.

Why or film is chama The Green Book?

The Negro Motorist Green Book, edited by Victor Hugo Green, It was a kind of travel guide for blacks who wanted to travel without worrying about a security.

The idea was to establish a list of restaurants, hotels and tourist places that guarantee that they will be treated as equal as brancos, with any kind of preconception.

The book was published for the first time in 1936 and continued to be sold until 1966. Usually distributed to gasoline stations, or guide sold about 15,000 copies per year.

Data sheet

Original title	Green book
Launching	January 24, 2019
Director	Peter farrelly
Roteirist	Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly
Gender	Dramatic comedy, biography
Duration	2h10min
Atores principais	Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini
Awards	Winner of Globo de Ouro 2019 in the categories Melhor Ator Coadjuvante, Melhor Filme Cômico and Melhor Roteiro de Cinema. Winner of BAFTA 2019 in the category Melhor Ator Coadjuvante (Mahershala Ali). Winner of the Oscar 2019 in the categories Melhor Filme, Melhor Ator Coadjuvante (Mahershala Ali) and Melhor Roteiro Original.

Trailer

Conheça also

• Melhores filmes do Amazon Prime
• Filme A Favorita, by Yórgos Lánthimos
• Filme Vice, by Adam McKay
• Film Bohemian Rhapsody