Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Kristy Puchko | Film | February 25, 2019
Green Book won Best Picture. The movie where a racist white man becomes marginally less racist through being around a heralded and deeply patient Black musician as he toured the very racist South. The movie that proudly took the word of a self-proclaimed “bullshit artist” over speaking to even a single member of Don Shirley’s family. The one directed by an admitted wang-flasher and written by a publicly outed Islamaphobe. That Green Book. Best Picture.
It was a surprise, to put it mildly. And Twitter had thoughts.
Can’t stop looking at the group of people collecting the Best Picture Oscar for Green Book, a film about racism in the South. pic.twitter.com/4NBNit588I
— Freddie Campion (@FreddieCampion) February 25, 2019
Green Book. Crash. Driving Miss Daisy. Why are all the worst Best Picture winners of my lifetime about white people thinking they’re solving racism? #Oscars pic.twitter.com/XMDo5xTqgm
— Kimber Myers (@kimbermyers) February 25, 2019
GREEN BOOK was directed by a man who has repeatedly exposed his penis to women and written by a man who believes anti-Arab conspiracy theories. Kiss my ass, #AcademyAwards.
— Matt Baldwin (@thisbrokenwheel) February 25, 2019
It's Hollywood's bigot night
— Megan Amram (@meganamram) February 25, 2019
I’ve said this before. I know people who like Green Book. I don’t know a single person who thinks it’s the BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR. That’s the baffling thing I’ll never understand. I feel like even Crash had more of that than this one.
— Brian Tallerico (@Brian_Tallerico) February 25, 2019
Congratulations @greenbookmovie - it was my favorite movie of last year.
— Larry King (@kingsthings) February 25, 2019
From Get Out….to Green Book. The Oscars are truly wild. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/ZYnA9tU0PK
— Olivia Truffaut-Wong (@iWatchiAm) February 25, 2019
Perfect tweet. https://t.co/wXzektcQOG
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) February 25, 2019
GREEN BOOK thinks that there's only one race: the human race. https://t.co/anUwpGqlOj
— hellresidentNY (@hellresidentNY) February 25, 2019
Green Book voted for Obama two times and would have done a third.
— bradley coleman (@bradleyccoleman) February 25, 2019
Green Book thinks if you don’t like how this country is, you should leave https://t.co/V6uwFq5c66
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) February 25, 2019
Green Book wants to touch your hair https://t.co/RQwTxARw4L
— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) February 25, 2019
Green Book wants to know where your family is from…no where are they REALLY from? https://t.co/7vbgTmxz7y
— Erica Jordan (@TheNYCFilmChick) February 25, 2019
Green Book thinks #AllLivesMatter
— Max Weiss (@maxthegirl) February 25, 2019
Green Book is just tired of "political correctness."
— Patrick De Oliveira (@PLSOliveira) February 25, 2019
Green Book just feels nobody should use the N-Word….but if y’all use it why can’t Green Book?
— Shareef (@DTerrysdavis1) February 25, 2019
Green Book doesn’t see what’s so bad about blackface.
— Fleur de MLIS (@fleurdemlis) February 25, 2019
Well actually I just call it Book because I don't see color
— Becks (@BecksWelker) February 25, 2019
Green Book is officially the new litmus test to quickly sus out which white people are not to be trusted. https://t.co/5FJMXE3IQb
— Genie Lauren (@MoreAndAgain) February 25, 2019
Something you wouldn’t have guessed, given how often the Oscars cut to Octavia Spencer, an executive producer for GREEN BOOK… she entered the Oscar lottery to win a seat at the ceremony
— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) February 25, 2019
I volunteered at the Center on Halsted in Chicago and was working a cowboy-themed Oscar party when Crash beat Brokeback Mountain. It was a sad party. But guess which movie endured beyond Oscar night?
— Emily V Gordon (@emilyvgordon) February 25, 2019
Nick Vallelonga is already scripting the biopic of Regina King’s big win.
— Kristy Puchko (@KristyPuchko) February 25, 2019
Chris Evans is the hero. #oscars
Green Book, like Crash, is a movie whose reputation will be destroyed by having won Best Picture
— Sam Adams (@SamuelAAdams) February 25, 2019
Mahershala Ali was in the best film of year
— Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) February 25, 2019
And he was in Green Book. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/GpVoHpwODt
