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Green Book [DVD]
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October 29, 2019 "Please retry" | — | 1 | $19.99 | $15.99 |
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Genre | Drama, Comedy |
Format | NTSC, Subtitled |
Contributor | Charles B. Wessler, Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Nick Vallelonga, Linda Cardellini, Patrick J. Don Vito, Jim Burke, Peter Farrelly, Brian Currie See more |
Initial release date | 2019-03-12 |
Language | English |
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Tony LipHe’s the guy you don’t want to mess with. But as coarse and maybe as violent as he seems at first, he proves to be a man of his word who’s essentially decent. He’s a natural gentleman, and he did what he had to do to make some money, whether as a bouncer at nightclubs, driving a garbage truck or playing cards. |
Dr. Don ShirleyShirley, who made his professional concert debut at age 18 playing Tchaikovsky with the Boston Pops, was discouraged from pursuing a career in classical music by record executives who told him to focus on popular music because white audiences would not accept a Black man playing classical music. |
Dolores VallelongaDolores has to be stable, strong and resilient enough that she can hold the family, the household and their marriage together when a stroke of bad financial luck forces Tony to have to go on the road for two months. |
Product Description
Academy Award® nominee Viggo Mortensen and Academy Award® winner Mahershala Ali star in Green Book, a film inspired by a true friendship that transcended race, class, and the 1962 Mason-Dixon line. When Tony Lip (Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on "The Green Book" to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger as well as unexpected humanity and humor—they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime.
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- Aspect Ratio : 2:1
- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 1.9 Ounces
- Item model number : CDD-88
- Director : Peter Farrelly
- Media Format : NTSC, Subtitled
- Run time : 2 hours and 10 minutes
- Release date : March 12, 2019
- Actors : Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini
- Subtitles: : French, Spanish
- Producers : Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B07KBTKCFZ
- Writers : Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #269 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #20 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
- #22 in Drama DVDs
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Very well written. 👏
Coming from an Italian heritage, I can confess that my culture is guilty of having had a history of exclusivity that still lingers to this present day. It’s nothing personal, it’s an Italian thing. Didn’t matter if you’re Black or White, it was if you were or were not a ‘Goomba’.
Some of the terms used in the ‘60s are pejoratives today, particularly the n-word, which I’m relieved was refrained from use. The now derogatory term is derived from a reference to folks who hail from Niger.
Instead, the script substitutes ‘Black’, a term yet unused in that generational time period, but is the English equivalent for the Latin word negro — which, incidentally, is still used as a nickname by some Latino families (pronounced: nay’-gro)
Spoiler alert, there is an interesting scene where Tony drives into Kentucky for the first time and discovers a Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food restaurant and he gets a bucket, to the dismay of the proper Don Shirley.
I can personally vouch that I myself remember the first time eating fried chicken and being schooled by my family that it is fully appropriate, and not considered bad manners, to eat chicken without utensils. It’s the one main course that we are permitted to eat using our fingers themselves.
Even so, the bigger story here is that as they toured further into the south, there were interesting lessons in the distinctions of venues.
For example, Don Shirley was perfectly welcomed at the culturally blended dinner table where the host served up what was thought to be something Don Shirley must like.
Even so, Shirley might have been offended of their stereotypical presumptions for this menu selection without having the earlier exposure to the Kentucky Fried Chicken incident prior in the storyline.
Later in the film, this becomes more poignant as they learn that in the deeper south, the Virtuoso pianist wasn’t welcomed to sit and to simply eat in the same dining room with everyone.
It’s unconscionable and bewildering that identity politics still haunt us today. We shy to speak of varying strengths or weaknesses that tend to accompany different people groups.
Personally, I don’t like the term ‘race’ which is misleading since we are all a part of the only one human race on the planet. There are different nationalities, cultures, creeds, and complexions, but there is not a second race existent on God’s green earth, to borrow a phrase used in the film.
A good film uses the feature time to build the background story of the characters. It makes sense to me to begin in this worldview of the driver’s background, Tony the Italian, as he is a prototype of the ethnocentric world that they lived in of various migrants in America.
That world gets enchantingly swept into the world of the story’s main subject, Don Shirley, an accomplished Black pianist who is the benefactor and employer of a recent layed-off bouncer, Tony, to drive him on a musical tour into the southern countryland of the U.S... which leads to my favorite scene.
The movie poster shows our two stars sitting in the Cadillac, almost as if posing for a promotional billboard advertisement.
In fact, we find that it’s actually a scene from the film, and maybe the most phenomenal moment, without a word of dialogue.
After Tony refills water into an overheated engine and then opens the door for his impeccable employer, both their gazes fall onto the eyes of Black harvesters looking back from the fields.
It’s as if time stops!
Maybe this explains why the piano maestro, it is reported, actually did not want the biography shared while he was still living.
When we as individuals begin to open up and expose our vulnerabilities, we find that we are really more alike deep down than we are different.
We are all trying to ease our sufferings, only to find that there are others in the community who are facing even greater inequities.
Tony isn’t particularly skilled in any trade, so he’s reduced to being a bouncer without much of a retirement program.
Don Shirley is a financially independent and one-of-a-kind, successful pianist, but faces reprehensible discrimination.
Then there’s the ethnic workers tilling the land: men and women, young and old.
Looking into those eyes, the two main characters in this biographical movie ultimately realize their own multitude of ethical deviations, like Tony’s temper and total disregard to steal or toss waste out into the streets; and for Don Shirley those ethical challenges include finding solace in a bottle of scotch and not reaching out toward his estranged brother, the only surviving family member of his family.