A real man who is a racist Italian American played by vehicle boards and in the film becomes the chauffeur of a very successful black musician and together in one nine hundred sixty s. Segregationist southern america they travel through the Southern States and. If i describe it you briefly probably say its a bit like driving miss daisy except in kate instead of Morgan Freeman being the chauffeur just that handy in this case you have a white man doing the driving ok so im detecting a slight note of skepticism there but we do learn about the actual green book kind of a Survival Guide for black people traveling in the Southern States at the time and so we went to the source to find out more about it. Columbia South Carolina the deep south musician reggie scott experienced firsthand the dangers that black travellers once faced in the region visitors from the north unfamiliar with the strict racial segregation laws in the south were specially at risk. Your own room you always knew. Because you. You have to do anything to be stopped by us they wouldnt consider harassing through us to be just serious and stop starting in the one nine hundred forty scots on to mother offered lodging in this house to travellers who were banned from staying at the hotels for whites only the address was listed in the green book named for its publisher Victor Greene and that was the only indication that the cornwell familys hotel even existed. Begin to me that. This is a book i was telling you that in the film white chauffeur frank vellar longer is given a copy of the special travel guide before driving black pianist don surely on a tour through the south the story is set in the one nine hundred sixty s. Rich southern whites want to attend the famous musicians concerts but they make it clear that he does not belong to their circle if you look if i come over here sack ill let me help you its right out there for all that. Alice broadwater seen here with her son also traveled with the help of the green book. Her own copy of the guide has been lost but she hasnt forgotten the discrimination she faced on trips with her husband who was a lawyer it was demeaning that you were not considered a human being. And accepted in a stablish meant that served people in europe paying money youre not begging to stay there. Going to eat there a real person film shows how surely is refused service in restaurants he can easily afford and how he is forced to stay at the lowest budget accommodations reserved especially for black people. Reggie scotts home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places but he lacks the funds for necessary upkeep perhaps the success of green book will benefit this time capsule of the segregation era in american south. So i just thats about thats going to make a very good airplane movie i just want to get to the point that theres been a lot of controversy quite hefty actually that this film won best picture some very strong words out there on social media and obviously you werent thrilled about the choice yourself tell us more about why yeah i guess the problem i have this film it seems really like a throwback its another story about races america told from a white mans perspective and weve had plenty of those i really think maybe thats not the correct perspective to take perfectly in the twenty First Century and weve had enough of these type of films of you know how a white person was nice to a black person the one nine hundred sixty s. I dont know if we need another of those movies i think its maybe time to have some new perspective new perspective thats what people were after in twenty fifteen twenty sixteen with oscar so white and not push for more diversity in hollywood something that they cademy has really been at pains to correct it seems of trying desperately to change whats your take on this years crop have they succeeded yeah i mean its mixed a bit but one thing you do have to take out any credit for what comes the nominations this year theyve made huge progress i think have the most Diverse Group of nominees ever if you have films like on a black panther or beale street could talk all black cast fact that spike lee won his first oscar finally that is definitely definitely a sign of progress the latest and i mean obviously but this idea of looking at narratives from a different perspective are almost perhaps the best. The. Sample is definitely i mean. Personal story of growing up in ninety seven but interesting what he did with that film is telling it from his perspective a sort of a privileged white kid growing up in mexico he told from the perspective of his indigenous domestic servant to actually raised him and by switching that perspective by telling it from telling a story we havent seen before that gave the film its power and thats really why i think its one of the most amazing films of the year and maybe what the academy should be given a little bit more recognition and allowed but allowed it nevertheless to beat out a very strong field for the best Foreign Language film oscar thanks very much scott rockstro for bringing us those background insights. Back in one nine hundred eighty the oscar for best Foreign Language film went to dos adaptation of the tin drum the one nine hundred fifty nine novel has been hailed as the masterpiece of german post for literature and in our series one hundred german must reach my colleague David Leavitts tells us why despite its whopping six hundred pages every one of them is worth it. And it gets worse. And. Scream went around the world its the sound of goods or classic novel the ten drum the drum is about oscar a tiny young man with a scream can shatter glass oscar is born in own home town and present day poland hes born the mind of an adult. I first saw the light of this world in the form of two sixty watt bulbs with the exception of the obligatory perennial tear my birth went smoothly for closely i freed myself from the head first position favored by mothers embryos and midwives alike let me say it once i was one of those clairaudient and friends whose mental development. Complete at birth and thereafter simply confirmed at the age of three oscar decides hes had enough of growing and so he just stops from there on out he goes through life with the ten drowned. Experiences the rise of the nazis in World War Two and the destruction that follows telling his story with a mixture of might even today and malevolence and unreliable narrator who may or may not be crazy. When cast published the ten drum it caused a scandal no one had written about World War Two with such crassness such brutality and such humor it took forty years but finally won the nobel prize by the way the american author john irving has called the ten drum the best novel of the twentieth century. And then theres the movie director for it won an Academy Award for his version of the ten drama the book and the movie are brilliant but if you read the book youll fall hard for good authors page turning writing and that is a guarantee. Well i can also guarantee you that cat men shake is one of germanys most sought after illustrators pictures are in magazines newspapers comic books and novels and shes also the favorite illustrator of the bestselling japanese author Haruki Murakami and we met up with her here in berlin interested you. Welcome to the world of kept mentioning where the prize where the literature crime thriller as cookbooks all gardening books distinctive illustrations turn them all into the overall art. With author tilman schleck elves and men she put a modern spin on old songs as they launch their retelling of the Georgia National epic poem the night in the panther skin at the two thousand eight hundred frankfurt book fair. Mentioned has illustrated the graphic novel version of babylon berlin was the focus also chance to with illustrating its prequel beat at the same time the t. V. Series was shot but men she didnt want her drawings to be a storyboard for it. Kind of illustrating i do allows me the greatest possible freedom because the text is in the book in this case the reader can immerse themselves in one thousand twenty lens through the words so im not obliged to draw it all. On the. Desk to tell you. The result is a book in the format of a nineteen twenties magazine the story is told in the form of an article complete without virtues months and illustrations for example a character in the story falling ill is accompanied by pictures of the appropriate medication. They have recently so the most crucial call of my career came from to moment many many years ago the publisher asked me if a i was familiar with more a commie and b. Whether i wanted to illustrate one of his short stories. And. I was standing in my garden at the time i knelt down in front of my cherry tree and thought a yes im familiar with more a commie totally admire him i have read all his work and yes i absolutely want to illustrate. How rukia more a commie was. So pleased he had her illustrate all his stories from then on. The japanese author even signed one of her pictures. In february a cookbook is coming out about her quote desperate attempts despite extreme dislike of cooking to throw something tasty together this book about her garden in brandenburg was voted one of twenty fourteens most beautiful german books in it men she tells personal anecdotes with plenty of self mockery for example how she and her daughter nearly poisoned themselves with elderberry juice. And tales of the legendary garden parties she throws every year for over one hundred good friends. Just saw a copy of that cookbook in a window the other day so it looks like its worth looking into a copy of kept mentioning lots of fodder for your cultural to do list that is all for this edition of arts and culture you can find out more on this and other stories on d w dot com slash culture thats our website check it out and until next time all the best from us here in berlin and by. Phone. A new summit and a new round of political poker. The two sides will have to overcome decades of hostility. Stoked by an unpredictable us Foreign Policy machine mom and a family of dictators united by one obsession getting their own atomic bomb. On the kim dynasty. In thirty minutes on g. W. Its all happening dont you get a for. Your link to news from africa the world your link to exception the stories and discussions can you and will come to see their views on figuring program tonight from funny jenny from the news of these leave our website do them. Copes much africa joined us on facebook t. W. 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