The biggest mistake the makers of this movie made are calling it "Green Book."
The title suggests that it will have a lot to do with the Civil Rights movement. In reality, it has very little to do with it. It's also been criticized for portraying the typical "White savior" trope, which is doesn't (if any of the assholes who blow their shit over social media against it would've watched the movie, none of this would need to be explained). It is a story, to which I attribute closer to "Rain Man" than "Driving Miss Daisy."
The simple fact that a White guy wrote the script and another White guy directed it blew Black folk's mind. Not all, mind you. A lot saw it for the good that it was. Now, here's the rub. Hollywood is so fucking scared of social justice warriors and the wrath of an offended Black person, it bends over to change history so that it doesn't offend them. They're, essentially so Left they went Right. Not all the bullshit controversy surrounding a movie that is about...oh...love, acceptance, kindness and brotherhood. The controversy was over facts of a movie.
Nowhere was it ever promised a documentary on piano prodigy Doctor Don Shirley. It is about the man who drove him over a few months to tour the racist south.
The gist of the gripe of the movie stems from Blacks and guilt ridden Whites feeling butthurt over the lack of facts and details of Dr. Shirley's real life. In reality, NO ONE knew the real Dr. Shirley. The guy who wrote it can only be the voice of what happened in their road trip. Dr. Shirley's family were the most vocal about the inaccuracies of the man. Funny how the good Doc left them out of his will and this is what they go with (in reality, Shirley left everything to one of his students).
The other hilarious thing is...in attempting to chastise this movie, the guilt ridden Whites are essentially acting the role of the White savior. Ironic? Yep. White people are blasting the movie to protect the modern day Black community against...fuck if I know. The movie is beautiful tale of a self-proclaimed dumb passively racist man who was taught culture by a very intelligent man. Instead, this new Left group LOVE to play victim and decide they know everything based on nothing.
True, the family did officially come out to blast the film, however, others (including the man who Shirley eventually left money to) came out to praise it. It wasn't the facts that bogged them down, it was the spirit of the man, who was dignified and lived a life we got to know a bit about (or ended up researching as I did).
The other thing I'm hearing is that...we will never "get it." As a society, unless you kowtow to the Blacks and admit every wrong and crime you weren't born (nor neither your folks) to commit, then you are racist. Consider that for a second. EVERYONE understands being patronized.
When the Oscars were on, I was at the local cigar bar whose clientele were mostly Black people. Guess what they wanted to watch? The San Antonio Spurs versus the New York Knicks. None considered the Oscars. That's how little the well-off Black folk think of the social justice warriors.
I'm glad "Green Book" won Best Picture. It's a warm hug with a great message.
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