{"id":3284,"date":"2015-01-04T20:35:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T20:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2020-04-04T18:33:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T18:33:18","slug":"do-the-right-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=3284","title":{"rendered":"Do the Right Thing  [Spike Lee, 1989]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2022\u2192&nbsp;<a title=\"Permalink to Spike Lee Movie Scripts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scripts.com\/writer\/spike_lee\/390\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\">Spike Lee Movie Scripts<\/a> \u21d0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4491 alignright\" title=\"we-serve-whites\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/we-serve-whites.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/we-serve-whites.jpg 361w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/we-serve-whites-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/we-serve-whites-150x125.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director <strong>Spike Lee<\/strong> dives head-first into a maelstrom of racial and social ills, using as his springboard the hottest day of the year on one block in Brooklyn, NY.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three businesses dominate the block: a storefront radio station, where a smooth-talkin&#8217; deejay (Samuel L. Jackson) spins the platters that matter; a convenience store owned by a Korean couple; and Sal&#8217;s Famous Pizzeria, the only white-operated business in the neighborhood. Sal (Danny Aiello) serves up slices with his two sons, genial Vito (Richard Edson) and angry, racist Pino (John Turturro).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;In this scene, Pino (John Turturro) \u00abexplains\u00bb to his employee Mookie (Spike Lee) how he feels about the blacks. Other neighbours use a lot of words of abuse to refer to other races&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gLYTObRhcSY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>ANGLE&#8211;PIZZERIA<\/b>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8211; &nbsp;<strong>MOOKIE: &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><em><em>Who&#8217;s your favorite basketball player?<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><b> PINO <\/b> Magic Johnson. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><b> MOOKIE <\/b> And not Larry Bird? Who&#8217;s your favorite movie star? <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><b> PINO <\/b> Eddie Murphy. Mookie is smiling now. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><b> MOOKIE <\/b> Last question: Who&#8217;s your favorite rock star? <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Pino doesn&#8217;t answer, because he sees the trap he&#8217;s already fallen into)<\/p>\n<p><em><em><b> MOOKIE <\/b> Barry Manilow? &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/em><\/em>(Mookie and Vito laugh)<\/p>\n<p><em><em><b> MOOKIE <\/b> Pino, no joke. C&#8217;mon, answer. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><b> VITO <\/b> It&#8217;s Prince. He&#8217;s a Prince freak. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><b> PINO <\/b> Shut up. The Boss! Bruuucce!!!! <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><b> MOOKIE <\/b> Sounds funny to me. As much as you say nigger this and nigger that, all your favorite people are \u00abniggers.\u00bb <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><b> PINO &nbsp;<\/b><em>It&#8217;s different. Magic, Eddie, Prince are not niggers, I mean, are not Black. I mean, they&#8217;re Black but not really Black.&nbsp;They&#8217;re more than Black. It&#8217;s different. With each word Pino is hanging himself even further.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><b> MOOKIE <\/b> Pino, I think secretly that you wish you were Black. &nbsp;That&#8217;s what I think. Vito, what do you say? <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><b> PINO <\/b> Y&#8217;know, I&#8217;ve been listening and reading &#8216;bout Farrakhan, ya didn&#8217;t know that, did you? <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><b> MOOKIE <\/b> I didn&#8217;t know you could read. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><b> PINO <\/b> Fuck you. Anyway, Minister Farrakhan always talks about the so-called \u00abday\u00bb when the Black man will rise.<br \/>\n\u00abWe will one day rule the earth as we did in our glorious past.\u00bb You really believe that shit? <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><b> MOOKIE <\/b> It&#8217;s e-vit-able. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><b> PINO <\/b> Keep dreaming. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><b> MOOKIE <\/b> Fuck you, fuck pizza, and fuck Frank Sinatra, too. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><b> PINO <\/b> Well, fuck you, too, and fuck Michael Jordan. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><b> CUT TO:<\/b> <b>RACIAL SLUR MONTAGE<\/b>&nbsp;&#8211; (The following will be a QUICK-CUTTING MONTAGE of racial slurs, with different ethnic groups pointing the finger at one another. Each person looks directly INTO THE CAMERA)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em>CLOSE-<b>-MOOKIE<\/b> <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dago, wop, garlic-breath, guinea, pizza-slinging, spaghetti-bending, Vic Damone, Perry Como, Luciano Pavarotti, Sole Mio, nonsinging motherfucker.<\/p>\n<p>CUT TO: CLOSE&#8211;<strong>PINO <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You gold-teeth, gold-chain-wearing, fried-chicken-and-biscuit-eatin&#8217;, monkey, ape, baboon, big thigh, fast-running, three-hundred-sixty- degree-basketball-dunking spade Moulan Yan.<\/p>\n<p>CUT TO: CLOSE&#8211;<strong>STEVIE <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You slant-eyed, me-no-speak-American, own every fruit and vegetable stand in New York, Reverend Moon, Summer Olympics&#8217;88, Korean kick-boxing bastard.<\/p>\n<p>CUT TO: CLOSE&#8211;<strong>OFFICER LONG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Goya bean-eating, fifteen in a car, thirty in an apartment, pointed shoes, red-wearing, Menudo, meda-meda Puerto Rican cocksucker.<\/p>\n<p>CUT TO: CLOSE&#8211;<strong>KOREAN CLERK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s cheap, I got a good price for you, Mayor Koch, \u00abHow I&#8217;m doing,\u00bb chocolate-egg-cream-drinking, bagel and lox, B&#8217;nai B&#8217;rith asshole.<\/p>\n<p>CUT TO: INT: WE LOVE RADIO STATION CONTROL ROOM&#8211;DAY CLOSE&#8211;<strong>MISTER SE\u00d1OR LOVE DADDY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yo! Hold up! Time out! Time out! Y&#8217;all take a chill. Ya need to cool that shit out&#8230; and that&#8217;s the truth, Ruth.<\/p>\n<div id=\"img_box\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a4 &nbsp;Spike Lee Biography:&nbsp; &nbsp;Life and Career of the Director&nbsp; \u21d3<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This American director is no stranger to controversy. Welcome to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VZu6PUE_mlc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-51516\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Spike-Lee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Spike-Lee.jpg 201w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Spike-Lee-120x150.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a> <em>WatchMojo.com<\/em> and today we\u2019re taking a look at the life and career of Spike Lee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2022&nbsp;Early Exposure to Arts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shelton Jackson \u201cSpike\u201d Lee was born March 20th, 1957 and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Since his mother taught the arts and his father played jazz, he was exposed to the arts early on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2022&nbsp;Student Films<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After graduating high school, Lee began making student films in college. He already started to make a name for himself during the early 1980s while studying for his MFA at New York University; in fact, the independent film he submitted as his thesis was honored with a Student Academy Award.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2022&nbsp;Music Videos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During this period, Lee also began directing music videos and he pursued this avenue of his career for decades. Notable artists he created videos for include Public Enemy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1G_Gm1S368s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Naughty by Nature<\/strong><\/a> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/8421140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Jackson<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2022&nbsp;\u201cShe\u2019s Gotta Have It\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His first feature-length movie was 1986\u2019s <em>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ac2_RCD-ZvA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>She\u2019s Gotta Have It<\/strong>.<\/a>\u201d<\/em> Lee wrote, directed, co-produced, edited and appeared in the comedy-drama that explored relationships between African-American men and women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2022&nbsp;TV Commercials<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its success at the box office essentially launched Lee into a career directing television commercials. Though Nike was one of the first companies to approach him, Lee later worked with several other brands through his production company 40 Acres &amp; a Mule Filmworks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2022&nbsp;\u201cSchool Daze\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lee also wrote, directed and acted in his second feature film, <em>\u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5HUUvQ3Yac8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">School Daze<\/a><\/strong>.\u201d<\/em> The 1988 musical drama became a commercial success and raised controversy for its depiction of student life at a historically black college.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2022&nbsp;\u201cDo the Right Thing\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Success and controversy once more followed Lee after 1989\u2019s <em>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cnGycFSewRU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Do the Right Thing<\/strong>.<\/a>\u201d<\/em> Tackling issues such as race, politics and violence, the comedy-drama was recognized with numerous Oscar and Golden Globe award nominations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2022&nbsp;\u201cMo\u2019 Better Blues\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lee next directed Denzel Washington in the 1990 drama<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qMlQ3uiKEaU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em> \u201c<strong>Mo\u2019 Better Blues<\/strong>,\u201d<\/em><\/a> and then returned to his examination of socio-political and racial themes with his next two films.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2022&nbsp;Race and Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1991\u2019s <em>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VYxZhWQQRZQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Jungle Fever<\/strong><\/a>\u201d<\/em> dealt with dating between different racial groups and featured Samuel L. Jackson in the role that truly made him a star. The next year saw Lee explore the life of an African-American Muslim who fought for equal rights in the critically acclaimed <em>\u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v3D73aXKoUA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malcolm X<\/a><\/strong>.\u201d<\/em> Washington\u2019s admirable performance as the title character earned him an Oscar nomination in the process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2022&nbsp;Varied Movies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1994, Lee released the motion picture <em>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Eyat5LL8QSQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Crooklyn<\/strong>,<\/a>\u201d<\/em> in which his sister, Joie Lee, had a small role. This was followed by the crime thriller <em>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YsFUoioGePc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Clockers<\/strong>,<\/a>\u201d<\/em> starring frequent collaborator, John Turturro. In 1996, Lee received poor reviews for the comedy <em>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PfCrH98kmhg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Girl 6<\/strong>,<\/a>\u201d<\/em> but things turned around later that year with the positively reviewed drama <em>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A104gXyW1Ts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Get on the Bus<\/strong>.<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2022&nbsp;Oscar-nominated Documentary and Dramas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lee next earned an Oscar nomination for his venture into documentary filmmaking with <em>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GyKTgRaWTs8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>4 Little Girls<\/strong>.<\/a>\u201d<\/em> He then returned to fiction with the sports-drama <em>\u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IHHGixZhV2I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He Got Game<\/a><\/strong>\u201d<\/em> in 1998. He ended off the decade by entering dark territory with the crime-drama <em>\u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a9zAwti5UCo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Summer of Sam<\/a><\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2022&nbsp;More Films<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After opening the new century directing the film <em>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7g7MDO011go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Original Kings of Comedy<\/strong>\u201d<\/a><\/em> with comedians like Steve Harvey and Bernie Mac, Lee experimented with satire and blackface in the movie \u201c<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_UgHR4Ddek8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Bamboozled<\/strong>.<\/a>\u201d<\/em> 2002 saw the release of <em>\u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8J5EivJ2308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">25th Hour<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d<\/em> which was a well-received film based on a novel. Two years later, Lee took the indie route with the comedy-drama <em>\u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/6443864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">She Hate Me<\/a><\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2022&nbsp;Success of \u201cInside Man\u201d and \u201cWhen the Levees Broke\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following a few documentaries, some production work and smaller projects, Lee was back in theatres in 2006 with the crime-thriller <em>\u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FSH-dbbiroI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inside Man<\/a><\/strong>.\u201d<\/em> The well-received movie featured respected actors like Jodie Foster, Clive Owen, Willem Dafoe and Denzel Washington, and became his highest-grossing film to that point. Next, he directed the television documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=12xj1sHvIWA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201c<strong><em>When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d<\/a> which dealt with life in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9vuQKo_uuKE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina<\/a>, and won several Primetime Emmy awards for his work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2022&nbsp;More Feature Films and Other Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the next few years, Lee continued working on feature films like the 2008 war movie <em>\u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wJ-XtII4SdQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Miracle at St. Anna<\/a><\/strong>\u201d<\/em> and documentaries like 2009\u2019s <em>\u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Chi8zcJUib4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kobe Doin\u2019 Work<\/a><\/strong>.\u201d<\/em> Things didn\u2019t slow down the next decade as he continued to write, direct, produce and develop several projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2022&nbsp;A Talented Director<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sho Nuff, Spike Lee is a talented director. Through his films, he\u2019s always been willing to share his passion for socio-political causes by any means necessary and that is what truly makes them Spike Lee Joints. Ya dig?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2022\u2192&nbsp;Spike Lee Movie Scripts \u21d0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director Spike Lee dives head-first into a maelstrom of racial and social ills, using as his springboard the hottest day of the year on one block in Brooklyn, NY.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three businesses dominate the block: a storefront radio station, where a smooth-talkin&#8217; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":3283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[195,201,313],"class_list":["post-3284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-directors","tag-biography","tag-link","tag-america","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51630,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions\/51630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}