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Sal
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A film by Spike Lee about racial tensions and violence in a Brooklyn neighborhood on a hot summer day. Follow Mookie, a pizza delivery boy, and his interactions with Sal, the pizzeria owner, and other characters on the street.
Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American comedy-drama film produced, written and directed by Spike Lee. It stars Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro and Samuel L. Jackson and is the feature film debut of Martin Lawrence and Rosie Perez. The story explores a Brooklyn neighborhood's ...
- $37.3 million
- Spike Lee
- $6 million
- Bill Lee
In Do the Right Thing, the destruction of Sal’s Pizzeria is the physical representation of this suppressed anger breaking free. The community feels disenfranchised, and this explosive display of defiance becomes a means to voice their longstanding grievances. The riot, in this sense, becomes a form of catharsis, an emotional release for the ...
Jul 8, 2019 · A film analysis of Spike Lee's 1989 classic Do The Right Thing, which depicts the cultural and ethnic conflicts of a Brooklyn neighborhood on a hot summer day. The film explores the themes of hip-hop, gentrification, police brutality, and the black public sphere through a 24-hour plotting of the hottest day of the year.
Spike Lee's film depicts a day of racial tension and violence in a Brooklyn neighborhood. Roger Ebert praises its honesty, realism and masterful direction, but warns against expecting answers or solutions.
Jul 21, 1989 · A comedy drama film by Spike Lee about racial tensions and violence in a Brooklyn neighborhood on a hot summer day. The film explores the themes of hate, love, and justice through the characters of Sal, Mookie, Radio Raheem, and others.
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Do the Right Thing is a comedy-drama film, released in 1989, that focuses on the racial tensions in a neighborhood in New York City as they come to a head on the hottest day of the year. The acclaimed yet controversial film was written and directed by Spike Lee and was nominated for two Academy Awards. It is included on the American Film Institute’s list of 100 greatest American films of all ...
