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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.
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.
Jul 8, 2019 · Summary: Set on a city block during the hottest day of the summer in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant (‘Bed-Stuy’), Do The Right Thing follows the character of ‘Mookie’ (Spike Lee), a pizza delivery boy, and a day in the life of the neighborhood residents as the climate gives way to escalating encounters and disputes.
Do the Right Thing is an emblematic narrative about racial tension, policing, and the consequences of pent-up frustration in a culturally diverse community. The film presents a microcosm of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on the hottest day of the summer, where a boiling point of racial conflict reaches its inevitable climax.
"Do the Right Thing" tells an honest, unsentimental story about those who are left behind. It is a very well-made film, beautifully photographed by Ernest Dickerson and well-acted by an ensemble cast.
Jul 6, 2024 · Do the Right Thing, 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 .
Mar 22, 2017 · SYNOPSIS. On a sweltering hot day, the people of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Sal’s Pizzeria live out their daily lives while existing tensions simmer between them and threaten to explode. CRITERIA. 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.”
Nov 28, 2023 · The ending of “Do the Right Thing,” a critically acclaimed 1989 film by Spike Lee, is a powerful and complex culmination of the movie’s exploration of racial tensions. The film is set on a hot summer day in a Brooklyn neighborhood and follows the interactions of its diverse residents.
Jul 28, 2019 · Brian Eggert's essay about Do the Right Thing provides an in-depth critical analysis, exploring its production, history, and themes.
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...
