It sounds like the set up for a joke: a director best known for films like “Dumb and Dumber” and “There’s Something About Mary” teams up with an Oscar winner and a two-time Oscar nominee to tell a fact-based story about mismatched travelers making their way through the Deep South in 1962, but “Green Book” is a very real film, and it seems to hint at a slight change of pace for filmmaker Peter Farrelly.Based on the — real-life! — story of a ’60s-set road trip involving an Italian-American bouncer-turned-driver and a famous pianist, “Green Book” is named after the guidebooks that black travelers would refer to when attempting to move through areas of segregation.
The film’s first trailer lays on the strangeness of the pairing, and while it doesn’t seem to strike an entirely dramatic tone, it still feels a fair bit different than what most movie-goers expect from Farrelly.
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