From the director of ‘Dumb and Dumber’ comes a charming-looking story about race, music, and opposing personalities.
“You never win with violence, you only win when you maintain your dignity,” says Mahershala Ali in the first trailer for Green Book. The awards season contender will see Ali portraying legendary pianist Don Shirley, as he embarks upon a tour of the deep south.
Although, this taking place in 1962, that will prove to be difficult for the African American musician. Which is where Viggo Mortensen‘s Tony Lip, an Italian American bouncer (and later actor) with a very different worldview, comes in.
The film is based on true events, where Lip was hired by Shirley to drive him around on tour and takes its name from the “The Negro Motorist Green Book.” A yearly travel guide published by Victor Hugo Green, which informed African Americans of businesses welcoming to them at the height of the Jim Crow era.
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