C.on the background of the Oscar night and the winners’ titles still floating in thoughts, tonight at 21.25 on Rai 1 goes on the air Green Book – Peter Farrely film with Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali who won three statuettes in 2019.
The film, based on a true story, thrilled half the world thanks to friendship story among the rough bouncer Tony Vallelonga and the black pianist Don Shirley. A road movie that mixes a theme like the racism in the America of the sixties (and which reverberates to the present day) and precisely the relationship between two very different men which turns kilometer after kilometer. Green Book And a kind of Walking with Daisy with reversed roles.
Green Book: the plot
We are in 1962. Tony Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen) is an Italian-American who has always worked hard in New York clubs as a bouncer. One day, being out of work, he agrees to accompany the black pianist in his car Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) for a two-month tour of the Southern United States.
The two are the opposite of each other. Tony he is a man who grew up on the streetwhile Shirley is a composer cultured and elegant that every day has to deal with the humiliation of being born black. Together they will make a cathartic journeytheir relationship changes day by day and their friendship will grow stronger and stronger. Tony on several occasions defends his friend Don from the abuses of the whites: at the time, some states prevented black men from going out after dark.
An extraordinary Viggo Mortensen who was left without an Oscar
The film is supported by the interpretations of two extraordinary actors. Mahershala Ali won the Oscarwhile Viggo Mortensen was left with a dry mouth after the third nomination: the first came for The promise of the murderer of 2008, the second for Captain Fantastic of 2017.
Sooner or later Mortensen will be able to win that prize he deserves. To interpret Frank Tony Vallelongasaid Tony Lip, the de The Lord of the Rings (and who forgets his Aragorn?) is fattened by 20 kiloshe learned the Italian-American accent and a few words in Calabrian. Viggo had all the cards to take the prize home, but in 2019 he found himself up front Rami Maleck as Freddie Mercury. An impossible battle to win.
Viggo Mortensen at the film’s premiere. (Getty Images)
The turning point of Peter Farrely
A film that you do not really expect from a director of idiotic comedies how Peter Farrely, who together with his brother Bobby directed the two chapters of Dumb & + Dumb with Jim Carreythe cult Everyone’s crazy about Mary with Ben Stiller And Cameron Diaz And The heartbreaker. Then came the unexpected turn with Green Book.
We can’t wait to enjoy his next film The Greatest Beer Run Ever with Zac Efron, Russel Crowe and Bill Murray. Set over the years Sixty in Vietnam a former marine (Efron) will try to sneak among the soldiers at war to bring a message of support from their loved ones, along with a few bottles of beer.
Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in a scene from “Green Book”.
Green Book: from Toronto to the three Oscars
Green Book from the Toronto Film Festival, where he won the Audience Award, he began his triumphal ride around the world by conquering Golden Globe, Bafta and even three Oscar (out of 5 applications) like M.best moviefor Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali) and for Best Original Screenplay.
Mahershala Ali with the Oscar (Getty Images)
He managed to beat favorite films like Rome And BlacKkKlasman by Spike Lee. Surely the Trump era and the rampant racism in the United States stimulated Academy members to vote for Green Book.
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