"GREEN BOOK" SPEAKING ACTIVITY

PAIR WORK ACTIVITY

Students A watch the first 35 seconds of the scene with no sound and describe it to their B partners who won't be facing the screen, And then, switch roles. Allow them to watch 1 minute as there is less action.

Describe what you see as much as you can. Not only actions, the way they move, what they are wearing, the atmosphere, what you can guess about the people, their feelings, time, country, etc.

They should then be allowed to watch the whole scene so they can check if the description they heard from their classmates was accurate.

The scene was  taken from the film "GREEN BOOK".  In the segment you will watch the scene with comments from Peter Farelly, director and co-writer of the film

There are lots of scenes commented mostly by their directors on Anatomy of a scene (USEFUL LINKS IN THIS BLOG) a great section of THE NEW YORK TIMES

                                    
GREEN BOOK

Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen are two excellent actors in this amiable, feelgood entertainment, inspired by a true story. Mortensen plays Tony Vallelonga, a 1960s nightclub bouncer from New York who got a job as personal driver and minder to African-American jazz musician Don Shirley (Ali) on a tour through the Jim Crow south – armed with The Green Book, a guide to hotels and restaurants hospitable to black people.

The movie, in fact, has its own green book, negotiating subjects and areas where it needs to tread carefully. Class and race aren’t the only issues – there is also sexual identity, which the film touches on once and then moves on without the principals ever saying another word about it.

In real life, Tony became a show business figure, acting in Goodfellas and The Sopranos; he died in 2013 and his son Nick is this film’s producer and co-screenwriter, with Peter Farrelly directing. It’s a standard-issue heartwarmer, a liberal white/black tale like Driving Miss Daisy or the recent The Upside. (There are some eerily close resemblances to the latter film, including a moment in which the servant must teach the master about Aretha Franklin.)

If you wish to go on reading click on the following link

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/30/green-book-review-mahershala-ali-viggo-mortensen-peter-farrelly

And also
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/movies/green-book-review.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6966692/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv

I know how busy you are but in case you find a couple of hours and want to see the film in English,  it is being shown at Cines Norte this week.

I haven't seen it yet but may watch it this week.
If you are fond of love stories COLD WAR  is the one to watch.  Beautiful story, photography, music. We won't be working with as it is Polish :) but worth watching it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/movies/cold-war-review.html