We saw the movie GREENBOOK this past weekend. The GREENBOOK was a travel guide through the southern states before their was a such thing as Civil Rights. Blacks just were not allow in most motels, amusement parks, theaters, and most other places of enjoyment and dining. Victor Hugo Green, a New York City Postal employee is the one that created it and updated it regularly.
In the movie GREENBOOK the GREENBOOK Is mention or mentioned only a few times.
The movie is about a tough Italian bouncer of a popular nightclub being a chauffeur and body guard to a sophisticated frail classical black pianist.
It starred Veggio Mortensen who played Tony Lip and Marershela Ali playing Dr. Donald Shirley. Tony was a thug but had no fear. The good doctor thought Tony was repulsive, but just who he needed for a body guard, and he was right.
The movie was depressing that blacks just did not have the freedom white people had then , but the movie also had its comic reliefs ..
It is true story and after their "Road Trip" they kept up each other ther rest of their lives and died months of each other.
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