In deference to recently deceased artist/producer Quincy Jones who commented on this movie [quoted here via the Wikipedia article of this film]: Jazz artist Quincy Jones said to a crowd after a screening: "I had the pleasure of being acquainted with Don Shirley while I was working as an arranger in New York in the '50s, and he was without question one of America's greatest pianists ... as skilled a musician as Leonard Bernstein or Van Cliburn ... So it is wonderful that his story is finally being told and celebrated. Mahershala, you did an absolutely fantastic job playing him, and I think yours and Viggo's performances will go down as one of the great friendships captured on film."
I've seen this movie many times and it still moves me! Great to see two cultures at the time that clashed come together to become friends! I liked how Dr Shirley would help Tony Lip write to his wife and in the end she knew and was thankful! Great reaction Emma! ❤️💛 The music in this movie was Awesome!
The first scene that Dr Shirley was playing with his trio I thought was brilliant. Tony The lip was the token white valet and he was enjoying the music with the black valets and Dr Shirley was the token black person inside that mansion.
He didn't take the other guys money and didn't leave the Dr because he had a deal and hes a man of his word. A mans word meant a whole lot more back then then it does these days
Tony is a pretty scummy character if we’re honest, he’s not above making money at any means necessary for his family, I do think the original deal was a part of it but I think just the general understanding of each other was a lot of it and especially how much he realized that even if the doctor never showed or expressed it, he valued tony tremendously.
This is a great movie! But if you like Jazz and want a movie with a more nuanced, musical theme yet hits you like a ton of bricks, "Whiplash" is one you should check out...then hold on for a wild ride!
I think it’s more just about being exposed to different situations can make you less ignorant. Tony is just extremely ignorant and learns along the way and helps the doctor loosen up aswell.
This movie shows you a lot of course. One thing I always got out of it is that any man is and can be genuinely good inside. It's just a matter of the programming/conditioning he has received in his lifetime which creates resistance in him. Tony Lip was brought up to be racist, but he was a man of integrity. And spending time with the Doctor made him realize a lot of his programming/conditioning wasn't real and therefore he became a lot more open towards black people in general. Bottom line is, Tony was open to the idea of growth.
Thanks for the review. Now I have to go and watch the whole movie. Adding it to my list: # 21 300 3 Ninjas 3:10 to Yuma A A Beautiful Mind. A River runs through it A Walk in the Woods Accepted An American Werewolf in Paris Airhead Aladdin. Amadeus. American Gangster American History X American Hustle American Psycho Anchorman Angels in the Outfield Anger Management Apocalypto. Arachnophobia. Armageddon Arrival Artificial Intelligence As Above So Below August Rush. B Babys Day Out Beethoven Big Daddy Big Fish. Blair Witch Project. Blood Diamond Blow Bluestreak. Boondock Saints.. Bottle Shock Bram Stokers: Dracula Braveheart C Cargo. Cast Away Chappie Charlotte's Web Chef Cinderella Man. Cobbler Congo Crimson Tide D Dallas Buyers Club Dances with Wolves. Dead poets society Death becomes her Defiance. Devils Advocate District 9. Dragon heart Drillbit Taylor Drop Dead Fred. Drunken Master 2. E E.T Edward Scissorhands Eldorado Elf Enemy at the Gates. Equilibrium Event Horizon Evolution F Fargo Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Field of Dreams Fight Club First Strike Flubber Ford V. Ferrari Forest Gump Fracture Fried Green Tomatoes From Paris with Love Full Metal Jacket Fury G Galaxy Quest Gangs of New York Gattacca Get Hard Get the Gringo Gladiator. Glory Gold Good Will Hunting. "Green Book." Green Mile H Hacksaw Ridge Hall Pass Hangover Harry and the Hendersons Hidalgo. Homeward Bound Horrible Bosses Hot Rod I IP Man. Inglorious Bastards Interstellar Interview with the Vampire Into the Wild J John Q Jungle 2 Jurassic Park K K-Pax Kid Cannabis Kingpin L Last of the Mohicans. Law Abiding Citizen Lawless Lawrence of Arabia Legends of the Fall Life Little Nicky Little Shop of Horrors Lucy M Man on Fire Mars Attacks Men of Honor.. Milo and Otis Misery Monster Mousehunt Mr. Brooks Mrs.Doubtfire Mulan N Napoleon Dynamite Night at the Roxbury No Country for Old Men No Escape Noah North O O Brother Where Art Thou Oceans 11 October Sky. Office Space Old School Oppenheimer. Orange County P Parasite Patch Adam's Phenomenon Pineapple Express Prometheus Pulp Fiction R Ratatouille Ravenous. Real Genius Red Planet Remember the Titans Repo Men Rescue Dawn Reservoir Dogs Revenge of the Nerds Road to Perdition Rookie of the Year Rumble in the Bronx Rush S Sahara Saving Private Ryan. Scarface School of Rock Seabiscuit Seven Years in Tibet Shanghai Noon Shawshank Redemption Shooter Signs Snatch Snow piercer Spectral Split Starship Troopers. Step Brothers T T-34. Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny The 13th Warrior. The Big Short The Blindside The Bodyguard The Bone Collector The Book of Eli The Bucket list The Cabin in the Woods The Count of Monte Cristo.. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Departed The Edge. The Fifth Element. The Fighter The Ghost and the Darkness The Grand Budapest hotel The Greatest Game ever played The History of Violence The Horse Whisperer The Huntchback of Notre Dam The Hunt for Red October The Illusionist. The Italian Job The Last Castle The Last Samurai The Last of the Mohicans.. The Life of Pi The Lincoln Lawyer The Lion King.. The Martian. The Mask of Zorro The Matrix. The Money Pit The Never Ending Story The Nutty Professor The Notebook The Old Guard The Patriot. The Pope's Exorcist The Presteige The Prince of Egypt The Revenant The Rite The Road The Rookie The Santa Clause The Shining The Silence of the Lambs The Sixth Sense The Water Boy The Whole Nine Yards The Wizard of Oz The Wolf of Wallstreet The World's Fastest Indian.. Titanic. Tombstone Traffic Train to Busan. Training Day Troll Hunter. Tropic Thunder Troy Tucker&Dale Vs. Evil U U-571 W Wanted Water World. We are Marshall We're the Miller's Wedding Crashers What's Eating Gilbert Grape Who am I Who framed Roger Rabbit Willow.. Y You've got mail Z Zombieland
@29:20 those are sharecroppers. Laborers who were the offspring of slaves and freedmen but the former slavers created new systems of economic control after 1865 and things really just continued as is in many ways
You might enjoy a movie about Beethoven called" Copying Beethoven" a Young women is sent to assist Ludwig Von Beethoven to help him put his music to paper because of his deafness
That was a really good movie, and one I need to see all of some times. I had heard there were some controversies around the portrayal of the two men's relationship (I think the movie is based on a book that the driver wrote), although I far from know the full ins and outs of that, I had just heard that. Unquestionable Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen are both wonderful though.
I've been seeing shorts of this movie around on YT but they never said what it's name was. Thanks you, now I know what's it's called so I can look for it on my own.
Emma, your dear reactions are so enjoyed. This is a very fine movie. It may get added to my Christmas repertoire with Die Hard, Trading Places and others...the final Christmas scene is pretty close to reality in its time. Laugh at me, but I love Nobody's Fool for similar reasons (Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, etc.)
While based on a true story, Hollywood took it's liberties with some scenes. The controversy with the movie started with it being written and produced by Tony Lip's grandson, so it took on the air of the "White Savior" stereotype. The Shirley family wasn't contacted until the movie was already in production, so they had little influence on the film. Dr. Shirley and Tony spent over a year on the road. Having a bodyguard was recommended to Dr. Shirley from Nat King Cole who was attacked 6 years earlier performing in Alabama. Victor Hugo Green wrote "The Negro Motorist Green-Book" for black motorist and families traveling. It wasn't just the Jim Crow South that had "Sun Down Towns". In fact I have 2 copies of Green Books that were my father's. The movie potrayed Dr. Shitley having to be introduced to black culture. He was friends with Nat Cole, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Quincy Jones and other black artist and he didn’t need Tony to introduce him to soul food. Dr. Shirley was also friends with Robert F. Kennedy, Dr. King and other leaders in the Civil Rights movement.
@SutekhDaSteemroller he was far from weak, but as I mentioned they were parts that were misleading. Dr Shirley was friends with plenty of artists who had to play the Chitlin' Circuit, but the movie will have you believing Tony introduced him to Soul and Blues music, just as they'll have you believing Dr Shirley never had fried chicken until Tony introduced him to KFC. It was a good movie, but they should've had Dr Shirley's family's input
I thought Viggo Mortensen's performance was Oscar-worthy, but unfortunately he was up against Rami Malek, Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale, and Willem effin' Dafoe that year. Bad luck.
"Sundown town" is a place where Black people are forbidden to travel after a certain hour. This is the reality of the South in the 1950's and 1960's. I know you feel uncomfortable about this, but this is what life is like, especially during thing period of time.
Emma i love this movie first of all. Also during the video, i felt the happiness in your eyes while you watch the movie. I really felt it. Loved your reaction video. Thanks :)
Hi, I know you don't answer the questions, but maybe someone else will answer me... Are there new reactions on this channel, firts time watching, or is it just a re-upload from the old channel? Thanks
Seeing the movie thru this video. (Oops) But glad I didn’t miss it entirely! You’re so charming, Emma. THX for introducing me to such a good film. Am a music lover and a movie lover.
Liked the movie. I don’t think it was a great film but solid. I remember reading an article that said the Shirley family said the story was exaggerated in a number of ways. I obviously dont know
Glad to see you’re reacting to this gem. I feel like for most people this movie just flew under their radar but thankfully that wasn’t the case for you. And it’s always a plus to see you enjoying the music since this movie was filled with songs and pieces throughout.
In deference to recently deceased artist/producer Quincy Jones who commented on this movie [quoted here via the Wikipedia article of this film]:
Jazz artist Quincy Jones said to a crowd after a screening: "I had the pleasure of being acquainted with Don Shirley while I was working as an arranger in New York in the '50s, and he was without question one of America's greatest pianists ... as skilled a musician as Leonard Bernstein or Van Cliburn ... So it is wonderful that his story is finally being told and celebrated. Mahershala, you did an absolutely fantastic job playing him, and I think yours and Viggo's performances will go down as one of the great friendships captured on film."
I've seen this movie many times and it still moves me! Great to see two cultures at the time that clashed come together to become friends! I liked how Dr Shirley would help Tony Lip write to his wife and in the end she knew and was thankful! Great reaction Emma! ❤️💛 The music in this movie was Awesome!
The first scene that Dr Shirley was playing with his trio I thought was brilliant. Tony The lip was the token white valet and he was enjoying the music with the black valets and Dr Shirley was the token black person inside that mansion.
Green Book is a brilliant movie, seen this twice now, and loved it both times.
He didn't take the other guys money and didn't leave the Dr because he had a deal and hes a man of his word. A mans word meant a whole lot more back then then it does these days
Oh yeah, it’s true ✨✨
Tony is a pretty scummy character if we’re honest, he’s not above making money at any means necessary for his family, I do think the original deal was a part of it but I think just the general understanding of each other was a lot of it and especially how much he realized that even if the doctor never showed or expressed it, he valued tony tremendously.
I really love seeing how passionate you get about music. 🥰
I watch this movie at every opportunity. It's one of my favorites.
i love this movie. GREAT MOVIE GREAT REACTION thx
Fun Fact: The real Tony Lip played NY Boss Carmine Lupertazzi in the Sopranos.
This is a great movie!
But if you like Jazz and want a movie with a more nuanced, musical theme yet hits you like a ton of bricks, "Whiplash" is one you should check out...then hold on for a wild ride!
i am SO GLAD you watched THIS movie! 😁 it IS about friendship and friends change you for the BETTER! 🙏 WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL, reaction! 👍☺
It's so good!
I think it’s more just about being exposed to different situations can make you less ignorant. Tony is just extremely ignorant and learns along the way and helps the doctor loosen up aswell.
The world is full of lonely people afraid to make the first move. that just hits perfectly.
When I watched this I got the idea that Doctor Shirley called Robert Kennedy from the jail.
great movie
This movie shows you a lot of course. One thing I always got out of it is that any man is and can be genuinely good inside. It's just a matter of the programming/conditioning he has received in his lifetime which creates resistance in him. Tony Lip was brought up to be racist, but he was a man of integrity. And spending time with the Doctor made him realize a lot of his programming/conditioning wasn't real and therefore he became a lot more open towards black people in general. Bottom line is, Tony was open to the idea of growth.
Thanks for the review. Now I have to go and watch the whole movie. Adding it to my list:
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300
3 Ninjas
3:10 to Yuma
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A Beautiful Mind.
A River runs through it
A Walk in the Woods
Accepted
An American Werewolf in Paris
Airhead
Aladdin.
Amadeus.
American Gangster
American History X
American Hustle
American Psycho
Anchorman
Angels in the Outfield
Anger Management
Apocalypto.
Arachnophobia.
Armageddon
Arrival
Artificial Intelligence
As Above So Below
August Rush.
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Babys Day Out
Beethoven
Big Daddy
Big Fish.
Blair Witch Project.
Blood Diamond
Blow
Bluestreak.
Boondock Saints..
Bottle Shock
Bram Stokers: Dracula
Braveheart
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Cargo.
Cast Away
Chappie
Charlotte's Web
Chef
Cinderella Man.
Cobbler
Congo
Crimson Tide
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Dallas Buyers Club
Dances with Wolves.
Dead poets society
Death becomes her
Defiance.
Devils Advocate
District 9.
Dragon heart
Drillbit Taylor
Drop Dead Fred.
Drunken Master 2.
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E.T
Edward Scissorhands
Eldorado
Elf
Enemy at the Gates.
Equilibrium
Event Horizon
Evolution
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Fargo
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Field of Dreams
Fight Club
First Strike
Flubber
Ford V. Ferrari
Forest Gump
Fracture
Fried Green Tomatoes
From Paris with Love
Full Metal Jacket
Fury
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Galaxy Quest
Gangs of New York
Gattacca
Get Hard
Get the Gringo
Gladiator.
Glory
Gold
Good Will Hunting.
"Green Book."
Green Mile
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Hacksaw Ridge
Hall Pass
Hangover
Harry and the Hendersons
Hidalgo.
Homeward Bound
Horrible Bosses
Hot Rod
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IP Man.
Inglorious Bastards
Interstellar
Interview with the Vampire
Into the Wild
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John Q
Jungle 2
Jurassic Park
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K-Pax
Kid Cannabis
Kingpin
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Last of the Mohicans.
Law Abiding Citizen
Lawless
Lawrence of Arabia
Legends of the Fall
Life
Little Nicky
Little Shop of Horrors
Lucy
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Man on Fire
Mars Attacks
Men of Honor..
Milo and Otis
Misery
Monster
Mousehunt
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Mrs.Doubtfire
Mulan
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Napoleon Dynamite
Night at the Roxbury
No Country for Old Men
No Escape
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O Brother Where Art Thou
Oceans 11
October Sky.
Office Space
Old School
Oppenheimer.
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Parasite
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Prometheus
Pulp Fiction
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Ratatouille
Ravenous.
Real Genius
Red Planet
Remember the Titans
Repo Men
Rescue Dawn
Reservoir Dogs
Revenge of the Nerds
Road to Perdition
Rookie of the Year
Rumble in the Bronx
Rush
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Sahara
Saving Private Ryan.
Scarface
School of Rock
Seabiscuit
Seven Years in Tibet
Shanghai Noon
Shawshank Redemption
Shooter
Signs
Snatch
Snow piercer
Spectral
Split
Starship Troopers.
Step Brothers
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T-34.
Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny
The 13th Warrior.
The Big Short
The Blindside
The Bodyguard
The Bone Collector
The Book of Eli
The Bucket list
The Cabin in the Woods
The Count of Monte Cristo..
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Departed
The Edge.
The Fifth Element.
The Fighter
The Ghost and the Darkness
The Grand Budapest hotel
The Greatest Game ever played
The History of Violence
The Horse Whisperer
The Huntchback of Notre Dam
The Hunt for Red October
The Illusionist.
The Italian Job
The Last Castle
The Last Samurai
The Last of the Mohicans..
The Life of Pi
The Lincoln Lawyer
The Lion King..
The Martian.
The Mask of Zorro
The Matrix.
The Money Pit
The Never Ending Story
The Nutty Professor
The Notebook
The Old Guard
The Patriot.
The Pope's Exorcist
The Presteige
The Prince of Egypt
The Revenant
The Rite
The Road
The Rookie
The Santa Clause
The Shining
The Silence of the Lambs
The Sixth Sense
The Water Boy
The Whole Nine Yards
The Wizard of Oz
The Wolf of Wallstreet
The World's Fastest Indian..
Titanic.
Tombstone
Traffic
Train to Busan.
Training Day
Troll Hunter.
Tropic Thunder
Troy
Tucker&Dale Vs. Evil
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U-571
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Wanted
Water World.
We are Marshall
We're the Miller's
Wedding Crashers
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Who am I
Who framed Roger Rabbit
Willow..
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You've got mail
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Zombieland
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@29:20 those are sharecroppers. Laborers who were the offspring of slaves and freedmen but the former slavers created new systems of economic control after 1865 and things really just continued as is in many ways
Love your laugh 😊
I've never seen this film. That was great and I'll definitely have to sit down and watch it myself
You might enjoy a movie about Beethoven called" Copying Beethoven" a Young women is sent to assist Ludwig Von Beethoven to help him put his music to paper because of his deafness
The early 60's in the US was a difficult time for race relations.
That was a really good movie, and one I need to see all of some times. I had heard there were some controversies around the portrayal of the two men's relationship (I think the movie is based on a book that the driver wrote), although I far from know the full ins and outs of that, I had just heard that. Unquestionable Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen are both wonderful though.
thank you emma i love your reaction emma
The hall is "Carnegie Hall". It is famous.
I've been seeing shorts of this movie around on YT but they never said what it's name was. Thanks you, now I know what's it's called so I can look for it on my own.
Not many reactions to this fine movie
So glad to see this one from Emma
🙏😉🙏😉🙏😉🙏😉
Yay
Emma, your dear reactions are so enjoyed. This is a very fine movie. It may get added to my Christmas repertoire with Die Hard, Trading Places and others...the final Christmas scene is pretty close to reality in its time. Laugh at me, but I love Nobody's Fool for similar reasons (Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, etc.)
Really great movie choice, enjoyed it!
48:44 this is why so many of my fellow Americans carry firearms. It's better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
Emma Awesome Video Today!!🔥🐐🐐💎
Thank you!! 😁 😘😘😘✨✨✨
While based on a true story, Hollywood took it's liberties with some scenes. The controversy with the movie started with it being written and produced by Tony Lip's grandson, so it took on the air of the "White Savior" stereotype. The Shirley family wasn't contacted until the movie was already in production, so they had little influence on the film. Dr. Shirley and Tony spent over a year on the road. Having a bodyguard was recommended to Dr. Shirley from Nat King Cole who was attacked 6 years earlier performing in Alabama. Victor Hugo Green wrote "The Negro Motorist Green-Book" for black motorist and families traveling. It wasn't just the Jim Crow South that had "Sun Down Towns". In fact I have 2 copies of Green Books that were my father's. The movie potrayed Dr. Shitley having to be introduced to black culture. He was friends with Nat Cole, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Quincy Jones and other black artist and he didn’t need Tony to introduce him to soul food. Dr. Shirley was also friends with Robert F. Kennedy, Dr. King and other leaders in the Civil Rights movement.
Theres a lot of white savior films but this wasn't one of them to me. Dr Shirley wasn't portrayed as weak and he taught Tony Lip a lot about life.
@SutekhDaSteemroller he was far from weak, but as I mentioned they were parts that were misleading. Dr Shirley was friends with plenty of artists who had to play the Chitlin' Circuit, but the movie will have you believing Tony introduced him to Soul and Blues music, just as they'll have you believing Dr Shirley never had fried chicken until Tony introduced him to KFC. It was a good movie, but they should've had Dr Shirley's family's input
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Aragorn is no longer the same😢
glad you react this movie emma.
i hope you react to japanese movie
title: confessions
new sub here from indonesia 😅
I thought Viggo Mortensen's performance was Oscar-worthy, but unfortunately he was up against Rami Malek, Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale, and Willem effin' Dafoe that year. Bad luck.
"Sundown town" is a place where Black people are forbidden to travel after a certain hour. This is the reality of the South in the 1950's and 1960's. I know you feel uncomfortable about this, but this is what life is like, especially during thing period of time.
Aragorn...
Emma i love this movie first of all.
Also during the video, i felt the happiness in your eyes while you watch the movie. I really felt it. Loved your reaction video. Thanks :)
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Hi, I know you don't answer the questions, but maybe someone else will answer me... Are there new reactions on this channel, firts time watching, or is it just a re-upload from the old channel? Thanks
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Seeing the movie thru this video. (Oops) But glad I didn’t miss it entirely! You’re so charming, Emma. THX for introducing me to such a good film. Am a music lover and a movie lover.
You're so welcome!😉
A lot of working class would not have had phones btw
Liked the movie. I don’t think it was a great film but solid. I remember reading an article that said the Shirley family said the story was exaggerated in a number of ways. I obviously dont know
not for nothing but only Dr Shirley and Tony Lip could say what was exaggerated and they're both deceased so...
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True
Winner of 3 Oscars including Best Picture.
That's because Hollywood is racist. .This movie is Rubbish
Comedy drama?
Yes 👍
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Why 9 in 10 movies get russian talk wrong
Is that hard to pay someone to get it right?
I'm not russian btw just saying
Glad to see you’re reacting to this gem. I feel like for most people this movie just flew under their radar but thankfully that wasn’t the case for you. And it’s always a plus to see you enjoying the music since this movie was filled with songs and pieces throughout.
Watch the movie Coma 2019. Country Russia❤❤❤
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