Green Book: History vs. Hollywood 

Perhaps you're right about Virgo, but the story was almost completely fictionalized.

Unfortunately, he’s not allowed to win anymore. Hollywood got WOKE!

*viggo

The king of Gondor is truly amazing

@@TampaJohn why do you say that

I enjoyed the movie and your comments about it. Thank you for emphasizing the truth vs. fiction facts concerning the movie. To me it was easy to see the change of racism in Tonylip which was based on understanding Mr. Shirley's gifted life. It will always be one of my favorite films

@Jayden Chris Wow amazing! I was totally not paid to comment on random videos about bullshit products.

...I think as a young man, in early 50s, my father went through a "Tony", life changing experience...

I have heard audio recordings of Shirley describing how he 100% trusted his life in the hands of Tony, how he teached him to speak english because "Lip was one of those Lower East Side Italians who had jaw of a bulldog", how Lip saved him in that bar from armed locals (depicted in the movie) and other things.

@@joonaslehtonen7965 Still doesn't prove everything in this movie is accurate.

I wouldn't call Tony likable in totality. Tony was racist! He only changed his mind after an occurrence with one black person, which didn't change behaviors and fertility because he still inserted his micro aggressions on others!

So did ur uncle really snitch to dr Shirley about tony lip stealing that rock? Lol

Eric thank you for sharing

In the movie, he didn't drink around the 2 other band members. Plus, he was staying at the hotels where only the African American's would stay. That's when he would rink. How would your uncle know this, if he wasn't staying at the same hotel, etc?

Eric Taht is You’re uncle still alive?

@@yannickleroux3212 Yes. He is currently living in Estonia and has become a minor celebrity since the movie come out. He is the last surviving member of the Don Shirley Trio. Here is a link to an article that was written in Estonia by his Daughter in Law. You can use Google Translate to read the article. There is a current picture of him with the cello he played during his time with Shirley. tartu.postimees.ee/6538200/oscari-filmi-tsellisti-prototuup-juri-taht-roheline-raamat-voimendab-rassilist-eristamist?fbclid=IwAR1k3SGh0zlPzh4YvcGYfcTKPQGO5tnUR8AEr5W2VngjCQGgaA5MGuqf9uk

Very interesting! This began in 1962, the year I graduated....

We have to see it.....

I'm sorry that happened to you and your family. It's all about control

That's pretty damn cool.

Kathy Michael: Thank you for sharing your personal story.👍✌🤘😷🤘

Timers are everything! @Robyn Carlson

I loved the movie, too. Also, I hope you took your pie out of the oven by now! 🙂

Yea that is pretty rad

I couldn't believe my eyes when i saw his real life picture in the credits. Seems just so random.

I recognized the name but figured it was a different Tony.

He was also in the open wedding scene in The Godfather smoking a cigar.

How this film didn't singlehandedly end racism boggles my mind.

Good for Viggo, but this is a "white savior" b.s. movie. Oh, look at the Italian guy show the poor black man how to eat fried chicken, or HOW TO PLAY HIS OWN MUSIC. Smh.

@@kateichacker3145 Umm... no? The fried chicken bit is a lighthearted scene to showcase their developing friendship, the "play his own music" bit is intended to come off as ignorant because Tony is ignorant. He develops throughout the movie but he's still a human being on a journey to become someone better. The people who call this a "white savior" movie have a fundamental misunderstanding of the role that race plays in this film. Yes, the plot and theme are racially driven, but race plays a much smaller part in the interactions between Tony and Shirley, the more prominent influence on behaviors being class. Shirley teaches Tony to write and enunciate because he's educated and refined; Tony teaches Shirley to eat with his hands and throw bones out of the window because he's blue collar and relaxed. Most importantly, Shirley is not the only one being "saved", both Tony and Shirley become better people for knowing one another.

Go look up how Shirley's actual family feels about this film, then come back to me with your facile bullshit.

@@kateichacker3145 It's a movie, how Shirley's family "feels" about it is irrelevant.

@@farshimelt no, it isn't. If a movie character is based on a real person, that person's family has every right to be offended, if the portrayal is inaccurate.

Same, made me cry too

Yes, I've watched it several times, never gets boring 😊

@@marzplayz2709 i was holding my tears.. Till dolores hug him and said thank u about the letter.. 🤣

drives me nuts when they mis - pronounce porshe too . ugh

Concherto

Tameka P and it drives me nuts when Porsche is misspelled....just saying.

Never mind the fact that he's also butchers g the hell out of Viggo Mortensen's name! It's quite distracting.

You're wrong. It's pronounced concherto. Dont be a clever dick.

I think she’s from freaks and geeks

Fried chicken

I think we all know what they move their hand too... Assume what I mean, whoever gets it correct I will call out and edit this to that answer

@@evanextreme6157 I don't have the time to do that for I am a very busy man.

GullyBop If you had the time to type that down, not that busy :/

OH MY GOD HE'S ARAGORN?! That's why I kept finding him extremely attractive!! (it's because he's extremely attractive)

People pronounce words differently? No way!

Its leviOsa, not leviosAH

Are you sure you are a fan? If I was a fan, I would make sure to write his name correctly, lol. 🙂

There are millions of dollars at stake.

@@flightofthebumblebee9529 Again with the money?

The don doesn’t wear shorts

Not if you want him clipped over it

other way around..

Sharee Brown I hear you. Great point. When were “all things being equal?”

A shame, but not a surprise.

Read the book slavery by another name “Green Book” was the least racist thing Hollywood was willing to include in that movie

@Danielle Jaeger There are social classes, but its about money not race.

@@rickyray2794 maybe now but it didn’t use to be. Economic segregation followed racial segregation.

He was a homosexual - as portrayed in the movie

as soon as I heard that it brought be back to that scene in the golf course when he dies with egg salad coming out his mouth

Brings me back to "yeah, again with the money! so either name a price, or get the fuck over it!"

cuong bui he also is an extra In the first godfather

Same here

I think back to Uncle June saying "he's a slippery fuck isn't he, with those big fish lips." Lmao blew my mind too

Steve, I'm glad you enjoyed the video and found it helpful. I enjoyed he film as well. As for your questions, no, I never came across any mention of the lucky rock. My guess is that it's fictional. With regard to the bar incident, a very similar incident did occur in real life, and it resulted in them being chased by an armed pack of white locals. The notion that they remained lifelong friends is questionable. I came across an interview with another friend who said that he didn't know of any other friends besides himself that Shirley had later in life. It's nice to imagine, but it seems that they may have lost touch.

@@HistoryvsHollywoodOfficial Cool, thanks. I did stumble across a few recordings of Tony talking about the trip, which I'm sure you did as well. According to his son, Nick, there are hours and hours of tapes. I wish they would release all of them, because they're pretty interesting. I only heard one clip of Shirley. It's where is talking about how he trusted Tony implicity and that he was more than just an employee. Would be nice to hear more.

@@HistoryvsHollywoodOfficial Where's the tapes of him claiming that he was out-casted by his family and the entire black community because that just sounds like a way too much 'creative license' coming from the screenwriters.

@Moana Lahi its a white man white washing a black mans history like a puppet and trying to delegitimise his families concerns, and the academy just drooled and jizzed all over the film because its white control over the black experience and a downplaying of racism.

@Moana Lahi The writer claimed that Shirley himself told him not to contact his family in regards to the movie, throwing their relationship and intentions into question; I won't say either party is implicitly correct because it's really a "he said, she said" situation, but it's important to consider both perspectives and not take everything at face value.

So was Tony's wife. She was so nice.

You know how to get to Carnegie Hall??????????????????? Practice! :))

I sure agree not enough of Shirley's music in it. That may have been the main reason I didn't love the film.

Don't call me Shirley.

My new favorite movie. Bronx Tale held me down for the past 25 years....now Green Book will be in heavy rotation.

Yes Indeed Love the Fried chicken seen

The same with "Sundown Towns". Films like this give you a small taste of just how much America hides it's inglorious past - how it tries to sweep such situations under the carpet and hope that it never rears it's ugly head again (ie never spoken about). That partially explains why that country has such problems in this department today - because they never really addressed the issues - the just tried to ignore them - possibly out of embarrassment - but more likely out of ignorance

Very well said Margaret

Of course, that's what he meant.

It was just the times honey. Try not to take it personal

@@3myway D: and try not to take it personal when someone has taken the time to shift the wording in a subtle but important way that doesn't focus on the skin color as a problem, but on the actual source of the problem. Timely to do this, as we whites need to realize our people have very often been the problem, not the ones who had to grow up throwing off shame constantly as if THEIR color was a problem. Words frame how we think and feel about things. Something that may seem unimportant to you may in fact be more important than you can at first imagine.

Biden loves you

He’s also carmine senior in the sopranos

First time glad I watched it...

Can priests and pastors make fried chicken?

@@ede5302 Priests and Pastors don't do the cooking, that is done by the women of the congregation, Y'all.

Historically, Carmine always said the Sopranos were nothing more than a glorified crew

Con-CHAIR-to, not Con-SERT-o...and Viggo M....?

Made this nearly unwatchable. It's not as if it was a language barrier issue, more like a lack of research, issue. Seriously, who doesn't know how to pronounce Carnegie Hall?

Srsly... *smh*

Autism?

Why do people have to over stress over such small things that's what I'd like to know. Just enjoy your movies and clips. Enjoy life without over thinking every little detail. sheesh. You'll be happier that way :)

@BiteMe. Sundown towns were also common in the North. East Falls, a Philly neighborhood where Grace Kelley grew up, was one. Another one was next to Wynnewood , in Montgomery County outside Philly. There were quite a few of them_ up in the Poconos are more.

I agree, I’d like to know.

Heavy fabric or carpet on walls...

i heard clarity, then an almost muffled speech throughout, then clarity on the fried chicken edit, then muffled again.

In the TV show Little House on the Prairie, Michael Landon ordered KFC to use as the Ingalls ate fried chicken on the show. (Dinty Moore Beef Stew for the Beef Stew.)

​@@LiveINtheGood53Michael's daughter is on Yellowstone as Teeter the ranch wrangler.

Your funny

no no it was not it was very innacurate it was just a white feel good film it made this biopic be about the white guy rather than ya know the actual famus person whos life the movie is ment to be about hell dons own family called the movie out (who the writer never bothered to even contact)

@@ladyaceina If you're so mad, pay off the jews who wrote this movie and make your own. What you don't think they made whites look bad enough? Christ this was 60 years ago. I swear you people crave the victimhood you never even experienced 1st hand!

@@mickdavis2385 we still have racists to this day but people like you dont want to listen to those who experience it you just call them snow flakes or say fake news or wtv buzzword is trending rather than listen to peoples own experiences and again this film was not accurate at all and focused on the white guy rather than the famous black man its ab out the entire production staff was white even its a white feel good film to make white people feel better about their racist past get over it snow flake this film was BS the family of the man its about where not even contacted

@@ladyaceina The only "racists" today are in your imagination. Jussie Smollett mentality. Fake a hate crime because your victim card is long expired. Sad!