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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 comedy-drama film about a tour of the Deep South in the 1960s by African American classical and jazz pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) and Tony Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen), an Italian American bouncer who served as Shirley's driver and bodyguard.
In New York City, four men wearing similar disguises and carrying concealed weapons board the same downtown 6 train, "Pelham 1-2-3", at different stations.Using the codenames Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, Mr. Grey and Mr. Brown, they take 18 people, including the conductor and an undercover police officer, hostage in the front car.
The production company boarded the movie as an investor alongside Participant Media, Dreamworks Pictures and Amblin Partners (in which Alibaba is a minority owner) in a summer 2018 move.
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 recordings.
Luis Guzmán as Phil Ramos / Mr. Green, former MTA motorman, one of the hijackers. The role, originally named "Harold Longman", alias "Mr. Green", was portrayed by Martin Balsam in the 1974 film. Richard Schiff played him in the 1998 film. Michael Rispoli as John Johnson, Garber's boss and head of the MTA's Rail Control Center
Vallelonga achieved prominence with Green Book, which he co-wrote and produced. Based on the friendship of his father and Don Shirley , Green Book was critically praised and received dozens of award nominations, although the film was not without controversy, as Shirley's family accused Vallelonga of falsifying information in the movie.
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