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Aug 16, 2019 · This year is the 30th anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s game-changing drama “Do the Right Thing,” about the rise of racial tensions during one very hot day on a block in Brooklyn’s ...
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May 27, 2001 · I have been given only a few filmgoing experiences in my life to equal the first time I saw “Do the Right Thing.” Most movies remain up there on the screen. Only a few penetrate your soul. In May of 1989 I walked out of the screening at the Cannes Film Festival with tears in my eyes. Spike Lee had done an almost impossible thing. He'd made a movie about race in America that empathized with ...
Oct 5, 2019 · Do The Right Thing unfolds over the course of a hot summer day in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. The plot focuses on pizza delivery man Mookie, his Italian American pizzeria owner boss Sal and a host of other residents as simmering racial tensions in the neighborhood come to a head.
Jul 4, 2014 · “Do the Right Thing,” about a day in the life of a Bed-Stuy neighborhood on the hottest day of the year, starts with its heroes waking up and ends the next morning, after a night that includes ...
What begins as an uproarious comedy evolves into a provocative, disquieting drama as director Spike Lee chronicles trivial events that bring festering racial...
Nov 17, 2023 · 2. Touch base with others and act as soon as possible. Doing right by others is just as important as carrying out a right deed to avoid guilt. It doesn't have to be a formal “group debrief”, but speaking with other involved individuals afterwards can relieve some residue tension.
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Mar 22, 2017 · In one of the most iconic sequences from Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing, Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn) explains “the story of love and hate.”. As the camera pans, Raheem looks directly at the camera and proudly holds out his fists to us, revealing jewelry emblazoned “Love” on one fist, and “Hate” on the other.
