identity

Briana 2022-04-20 09:01:11

The unexpected surprise in life is thinking that there will be a greenbook for the next movie

If you want to show a big topic in a movie, it's easy to be monotonous and boring. It's hard to define a person's identity. According to skin color, status, education, and other people's vision standards arrived

Don preached after Tony failed to control violence with violence: you never win with violence, but you win with dignity

But Don, who plays for 'high class' as a black-skinned man, is not allowed to share a toilet with white people. After the owner of a clothing store who knows that he is treated differently because of his skin color, he refuses his request to try on clothes. He still pretends to be calm and maintain his dignity. I can only vent my unnecessary changes through piano performance

Finally when he was invited to a manor that played for white people and wasn't allowed to dine in he was given two options either let me dine in or stop performing

It's good that Don and Tony made the same choice at this moment, I don't play, it's still violence against violence, just not physically violent but well done

They went to a black bar being the only white man in the bar watching Don playing the piano to his people Tony's eyes were filled with joy and pride This pride has nothing to do with skin color or status just because Tony thinks Don has found himself

The little details in Greenbook really elevate the tone of the whole film

Within two months of the couple's separation, Mrs. Tony asked him to write a letter. It's embarrassing for this uneducated man to say I can't write, okay? But he insisted on writing.

"I had a good sandwich for dinner and went to Don's concert, I didn't understand it, but I thought he was a genius"

"When I wrote to you, I was eating potato chips, and then I got thirsty..."

Don insisted on using his beautiful writing to teach Tony to write letters to his wife and Tony did as a child

That letter became a love letter that Mrs. Tony took out and read aloud at every party.

But on Christmas, Don unexpectedly showed up at Tony's house and his wife hugged Don and said thank you letter

Of course she knew that her husband didn't do that twice.

Although it takes courage to change people's hearts, no matter how hard you try you can't change

What our identity is does not need to be established by someone else What we are is what it is

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Extended Reading
  • Greyson 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    I know why Spike Lee hates this movie so much. It's the opposite of "Black Gangster". It is also the "good brother" model of the combination of white and black. "Green Book" talks about the influence of the two being changed. Of course, most of them are the changes of black pianists. The conversion of white Italians is almost negligible, but "Black Party Member" is also a black man who wants to integrate into the white class, but he is not at all lost in his identity. Instead, he has been respected with his character and abilities from beginning to end. The expression of discrimination in "Green Book" is dull and direct, while "Black Party Members" is ridiculous and ironic, making judgments. "Green Book" is Hollywood The successful assembly line work, and "Black Party Member" is the authorization of Spike Lee through the classic Hollywood narrative model. Its anti-climax, its "tribute", and its "routine" are extremely profound. However, the discussion of identity in "Green Book" has always felt like an ordinary road movie.

  • Dannie 2022-03-24 09:01:16

    The audience in the theater likes the constant laughter. It is true that there are some American sensationalism and white self-salvation, but it is impossible to ignore the ingenuity of the script itself. The overall degree of completion is also good, but the second policeman and the bridge section of Christmas Eve made me roll my eyes a few times.

Green Book quotes

  • Tony Lip: You know, when you first hired me, my wife went out and bought one of your records. The one about the orphans?

    Dr. Don Shirley: Orphans?

    Tony Lip: Yeah. Cover had a bunch of kids sittin' around a campfire?

    Dr. Don Shirley: Orpheus.

    Tony Lip: ...Yeah.

    Dr. Don Shirley: Orpheus in the Underworld. It's based on a French opera. And those weren't children on the cover, those were demons in the bowels of Hell.

    Tony Lip: No shit! They must've been naughty kids!

  • Dr. Don Shirley: So where did this "Tony the Lip" moniker come from?

    Tony Lip: [laughs] It's not "Tony the Lip", it's "Tony Lip". One word. I got it when I was a kid 'cause my friends said I was the best bullshit artist in the Bronx.

    [Chuckles]

    Dr. Don Shirley: [Horrified] Why are you smiling?

    Tony Lip: What do you mean?

    Dr. Don Shirley: It doesn't bother you that your friends - the people closest to you - consider you a liar?

    Tony Lip: Who said liar? I said bullshit artist!

    Dr. Don Shirley: And what's the difference?

    Tony Lip: 'Cause I don't lie! Ever! I'm just good at talkin' people into... y'know, doin' things they don't wanna do... By bullshittin' 'em.

    [Grins]

    Dr. Don Shirley: And you're proud of that?

    Tony Lip: Well, it got me this job.