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Green Book beat Roma in the Best Picture shortlist at the 2019 Oscars. The winning film won not only the golden statuette, but the hearts of viewers. All thanks to his approach to American racism in the era of segregation. However, the story seems to have a small problem...
This is how Camilo Gómez tells it in an analysis published in El Espectador that is worth keeping an eye on. We transcribe below.
A story about racism in America returns France Mobile Number List to theaters to move Hollywood with the same formula: white heroism at the cost of black suffering. The story of the historic Green Book was minimized in Green Book.
There are books so essential in history that Hollywood makes movies about them for those who do not enjoy the habit of reading. A Clockwork Orange and Maids and Ladies are good examples of texts made into films, which, although they do not compare with the original reading, at least bring the viewer closer to the foundation of the story. But in Green Book, Peter Farrelly's new film based on the controversial Green Book, we barely see a timid approach to one of the most necessary readings on American history.
The Green Book was a text edited twenty-two times, published between 1937 and 1966 and created by the African-American Victor Hugo Green with the intention of saving some lives. It was above all a survival tool, a guide to avoid problems and face the harsh reality of a country as violent and segregating as the United States. Green's Green Book was a document that detailed places where black people could eat, drink, and spend the night without being harassed or beaten to death.
However, Farrelly's film, despite bearing the title of the book, touched little on its importance. Green Book is the story of how Frank Anthony Vallelonga, also known as Tony Lip, a racist Italian, although not extremely, became the driver of Doctor Don Shirley, a world-class black pianist. The two traveled from Manhattan to the deep American South for a concert tour in which they had to face racism in the most conservative states, not only white people, but also African Americans. And eventually on that trip, in which both built a classic cinematographic friendship surrounded by lessons and mutual support - as common as it was predictable -, Vallelonga used the advice of the famous Green Book to get his partner out of trouble.
But, although Green Book did little about the theme of its title, its dialogues and characters save the story by presenting something truly significant: an identity crisis. Unlike other films about racism in the United States, which put the violence and mistreatment to which African Americans were subjected, Green Book shows the great dilemma of one of them. Doctor Shirley feels that, even if he behaves like white people, even if he dresses like them and is passionate about their tastes, he will never be accepted as white; and although he is black, his deep disconnection from the culture of his community also generates rejection from it. Unable to fit into any group, Shirley becomes a solitary man in constant scourge to find peace with what he is and what he wants to be, even though the context does not allow it.
This is how Camilo Gómez tells it in an analysis published in El Espectador that is worth keeping an eye on. We transcribe below.
A story about racism in America returns France Mobile Number List to theaters to move Hollywood with the same formula: white heroism at the cost of black suffering. The story of the historic Green Book was minimized in Green Book.
There are books so essential in history that Hollywood makes movies about them for those who do not enjoy the habit of reading. A Clockwork Orange and Maids and Ladies are good examples of texts made into films, which, although they do not compare with the original reading, at least bring the viewer closer to the foundation of the story. But in Green Book, Peter Farrelly's new film based on the controversial Green Book, we barely see a timid approach to one of the most necessary readings on American history.
The Green Book was a text edited twenty-two times, published between 1937 and 1966 and created by the African-American Victor Hugo Green with the intention of saving some lives. It was above all a survival tool, a guide to avoid problems and face the harsh reality of a country as violent and segregating as the United States. Green's Green Book was a document that detailed places where black people could eat, drink, and spend the night without being harassed or beaten to death.
However, Farrelly's film, despite bearing the title of the book, touched little on its importance. Green Book is the story of how Frank Anthony Vallelonga, also known as Tony Lip, a racist Italian, although not extremely, became the driver of Doctor Don Shirley, a world-class black pianist. The two traveled from Manhattan to the deep American South for a concert tour in which they had to face racism in the most conservative states, not only white people, but also African Americans. And eventually on that trip, in which both built a classic cinematographic friendship surrounded by lessons and mutual support - as common as it was predictable -, Vallelonga used the advice of the famous Green Book to get his partner out of trouble.
But, although Green Book did little about the theme of its title, its dialogues and characters save the story by presenting something truly significant: an identity crisis. Unlike other films about racism in the United States, which put the violence and mistreatment to which African Americans were subjected, Green Book shows the great dilemma of one of them. Doctor Shirley feels that, even if he behaves like white people, even if he dresses like them and is passionate about their tastes, he will never be accepted as white; and although he is black, his deep disconnection from the culture of his community also generates rejection from it. Unable to fit into any group, Shirley becomes a solitary man in constant scourge to find peace with what he is and what he wants to be, even though the context does not allow it.