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Green Book is a 2018 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Farrelly.Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, the film is inspired by the true story of a 1962 tour of the Deep South by African American pianist Don Shirley and Italian American bouncer and later actor Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, who served as Shirley's driver and bodyguard.
Green Book is a 2018 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Farrelly.The film is set in 1962 and follows Italian–American bouncer Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen), who is hired as a chauffeur by African American pianist Don Shirley for a tour of concert venues in the Deep South.
Nicholas Anthony Vallelonga (born September 13, 1959) [1] is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for co-writing and producing the film Green Book, for which he received two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture. [2]
Green Book (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 2018 film of the same name, released digitally on November 16, 2018, [1] and via CD on November 30, by Milan Records. [2] For the film's soundtrack, director Peter Farrelly incorporated an original score by composer Kris Bowers and one of Don Shirley's own
The Green Book, an Irish Republican Army training manual; The Green Book, a book setting out the political philosophy of Muammar Gaddafi; The Green Book, UK Treasury guidance on appraisal and evaluation of central government projects; The Green Book: A Guide to Members' Allowances, a publication of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The documentary film The Green Book: Guide to Freedom by Yoruba Richen was scheduled to first air on February 25, 2019, on the Smithsonian Channel in the US. [68] [69] [70] The 2019 virtual reality documentary Traveling While Black places the viewer directly inside a portrait of African American travelers making use of the Green Book. [71]
The Negro Motorist Green Book is featured in the film Green Book, which was inspired by Shirley's tour in the Deep South in 1962. During the 1960s, Shirley went on a number of concert tours, some in Southern states, believing that he could change some minds with his performances.
The popularity of the books and subsequent film adaptations is credited with inspiring the design and naming of buildings "Green Gables". An example still standing is an apartment block called "Green Gables" built in the 1930s, in New Farm, Queensland, Australia.