The Greatest Biopic That’s Never Been Made?

The Nod

Gimlet

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Della Reese deserves a showstopping biopic for the ages, packed with drama and triumph-- and maybe a fistfight or two-- but one has never been made. This week, Eric gives Brittany three reasons why the real life story of everyone’s favorite guardian angel deserves the silver screen treatment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Gimmert Media, this is The Knob, a show about black culture from Blackness's biggest
0:08.0	fans.
0:09.0	I'm Brittany Loose.
0:10.0	And I'm Eric Gettys.
0:12.0	So Brittany.
0:16.0	Yes.
0:17.0	I don't mean to dudge this up, but in February something terrible happened.
0:22.0	What happened in February?
0:24.0	The biopic Green Book, one, The Oscar, for best picture, causing black people everywhere
0:33.0	to groan almost collectively in unison.
0:37.0	The movie told the story of black classical pianist Don Shirley and his driver Frank Vellelonga
0:42.6	as a spent a year driving through the South experiencing racism along the way.
0:48.0	Yeah.
0:49.0	If you give me just a small taste of why black people might course at the idea of a movie
0:54.0	like Green Book?
0:55.0	Well, okay.
0:56.0	So I haven't seen the movie, but I do remember one specific moment from the trailer that
1:01.5	I was like, this is, I'm done here.
1:05.0	So like the driver is supposed to be this like white.
1:08.0	I don't know if he's like from New York, but it seems like a good fellow type guy.
1:13.0	And he's like, oh, you know, well, forget about it.
1:16.0	That type of guy.
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