![]() And indeed, Green Book’s treatment of racism is uneven at best. And that’s not a bad thing.Farrelly’s speech is of a piece with the film’s approach to racism, common to Hollywood films, which is to suggest that relationships between individuals will heal centuries of racism. ![]() We all want the same thing: We want love and happiness and want to be treated equally. This story, when I heard it, gave me hope, and I wanted to share this hope with you. ![]() Yet he went on to create his own music that still resonates to this day. Don Shirley was a great man and underappreciated genius who couldn’t play the music he wanted to play, simply because of the color of his skin. This is a story of the trip that Don Shirley took in the pre-Civil Rights era of the 1960s. Indeed, we typically see it only when Tony quietly picks it up to find motels in which Shirley can safely stay.When Farrelly took the stage to accept the Golden Globe for Best Comedy or Musical, he used the opportunity to reiterate the film’s themes (and demand that the orchestra not play him off):Green Book is a story of a trip that - to the orchestra please, no, turn that off. ![]() Universal PicturesBut after that, the book is not mentioned by name, even as the pair encounter the full gamut of racism during the trip - ranging from casual remarks to “genteel” discrimination to violent hostility from civilians, bar patrons, and police. Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in Green Book. ![]()
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