vallelonga in A Sentence

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    Mr. Vallelonga. Sorry to keep you waiting.

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    Vallelonga. Yeah. That's me.

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    Here's the deal, Mr. Vallelonga.

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    Do not drive, Mr. Vallelonga.

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    This is Mr. Tony Vallelonga.

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    Well, then it's Tony Vallelonga.

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    Deep South Vallelonga.

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    It's for“travelling while black”, explains Tony Vallelonga to his incredulous wife, Dolores.

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    Hired by Shirley as a driver/bodyguard for a concert tour of America's Deep South, Vallelonga is unrefined, quick-tempered and displays racist attitudes.

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    Vallelonga expects“problems” to arise on the trip, but has only a vague sense of the humiliating reality of life for many African Americans.

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    And while the film is anchored around Vallelonga- we meet his family, his character experiences a far greater evolution through the narrative- Shirley's character is also explored.

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    Hailing from multicultural New York and part of an established Italian American community, the argument goes, Vallelonga appears to have been shielded from the significant jeopardy suffered by black Americans.

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    We're told at the outset that it was inspired by a true story, and the screenplay was co-written by Vallelonga's son Nick, a director and screenwriter, who describes researching the story with Shirley and his father.

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    Set in 1962, the film is inspired by the true story of a tour of the Deep South by African American classical and jazz pianist Don Shirley(Mahershala Ali) and Italian American bouncer Tony Vallelonga(Viggo Mortensen) who served as Shirley's driver and bodyguard.

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    The film also seeks to emphasise that a cultural conditioning of white superiority underpins both the profound racism woven into the fabric of Jim Crow, and also the racial prejudice Vallelonga exhibits at a different end of the spectrum- something he initially refutes but comes to understand.

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