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Lee does not ask us to forgive them, or even to understand everything they do, but he wants us to identify with their fears and frustrations. "Do the Right Thing" doesn't ask its audiences to choose sides; it is scrupulously fair to both sides, in a story where it is our society itself that is not fair. Indie. Drama. Crime.
Introductions by Lee. Making “Do the Right Thing,” a documentary from 1989 by St. Clair Bourne, in a new 2K digital transfer. New interviews with costume designer Ruth E. Carter, New York City Council Member Robert Cornegy Jr., writer Nelson George, and filmmaker Darnell Martin. Three programs from 2000 and 2009, featuring Lee and cast and ...
May 5, 2020 · May 5, 2020. For our latest Weekend Watch Party, we revisited the broiling Brooklyn of Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing,” a film whose unflinching, complex depiction of racial tension has not ...
Synopsis. Mookie (Spike Lee) is a young man living in a black and Puerto Rican neighborhood in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn with his sister, Jade (Joie Lee), and works as a pizza delivery man for a local pizzeria. Salvatore "Sal" Frangione (Danny Aiello), the pizzeria's Italian-American owner, has owned it for 25 years.
Smart, vibrant, and urgent without being didactic, Do the Right Thing is one of Spike Lee's most fully realized efforts -- and one of the most important films of the 1980s. Salvatore "Sal ...
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Jun 28, 2019 · In “Do the Right Thing,” Lee depicts a different sort of division, one that’s of deep political import but isn’t directly dramatized: the apparent ideological division between Dr. Martin ...
Aug 2, 2019 · The film closes with contrasting statements from Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, one saying that violence is never justified and the other that it is in self-defence. Malcolm X effectively gets ...
