Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

  • Director: Spike Lee
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English, Italian, Spanish, Korean
  • Release date: July 21, 1989
  • Sound mix: Dolby SR, Dolby Digital
  • Also known as: Heatwave
  • "Do the Right Thing" is a feature film produced by 40 Acres & a Mule Filmworks, directed by Spike Lee and starring Ossie Davis , Danny Aiello , Spike Lee , Bill Nunn and John Turturro . It was released in the United States on June 30, 1989.
    The film tells the story of a series of conflicts that occurred in the hottest day in the black neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, due to the appearance of characters in a pizzeria   .

    Details

    • Release date July 21, 1989
    • Filming locations Stuyvesant Street, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks

    Box office

    Budget

    $6,500,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $27,545,445

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $3,563,535

    Gross worldwide

    $37,295,445

    Movie reviews

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    • By Francisco 2022-03-24 09:01:53

      Actually nothing changed



      Usually I pay attention to the characters in the film, it seems that everyone in "Do It" is the main character, I can't name them, the black clerk, the black big man with the tape recorder, the black old man, the black old woman, italian pizza Shop people, Korean couples, etc. Although some people don't have a few lines of dialogue, they can be seen as the protagonists.

      Brooklyn,...

    • By Burley 2022-03-24 09:01:53

      don't do anything wrong

      As director Spike Lee's third work, "Do As You Should" shows the audience its proficient narrative ability, especially in the mastery of group portraits. There is a famous joke here. The film was shortlisted in the main competition of Cannes that year. The confident Spike Lee believed that winning the Palme d'Or was inevitable. Unexpectedly, the final prize went to Steven Soderbergh's debut work "Sex, Lies and Video", which made Spike Lee was dissatisfied and threatened to engrave the name of...

    • By Trystan 2022-03-24 09:01:53

      do as it should

      Spike Lee's peak work, the story chose a day in Brooklyn, New York, where Italians, Americans, blacks, Koreans, etc. lived. The small contradictions between the characters gradually accumulated and caused interracial hatred. The director starts from the details, does not classify people by skin color, and focuses on the contradictions formed by differences in personality and cognition, so there are kind-hearted Da Mayor and Vito, Radio Raheem and Pino who like to have trouble, and all kinds of...

    • By Laurie 2022-03-24 09:01:53

      Just some notes of this interesting film

      Spike Lee films a one-day story in Brooklyn, a black metropolis. What interesting is that it is not a story about gangs, drugs, but an ordinary story about neighborhood and daily life, although it ends with a unordinary riot and looting. We all know a good story should have contradiction even confrontation. In this story it is not a confrontation as we imagine between black and whites, but black and immigrants, no matter the Italian, or the Korean, who are actually the minority in this...

    • By Alexandra 2022-03-23 09:01:55

      A point of view on the formation of group portraits

      If watching a movie can correspond to the time of day, it will give birth to more meanings. When the rain is pouring, I think of Andy escaping from Shawshank Prison. He climbed through the filth and ran to the sea of ​​freedom; ; In order not to form a ratio, this is the example.
       It was sweltering heat, and the weather was too hot to go out. I casually flipped through movies at home and saw Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing". What are you doing?" This sounds more interesting. And this movie...

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    • By Marcelle 2022-04-24 07:01:06

      Shocking, isn't this what happened today? Take out your anger at the police, the power apparatus, and the social fabric on your neighbor's shop, and what's the problem? But in the hot weather with such turbulent emotions, the roar can no longer be heard, and perhaps the only way to communicate is violence. And if their next generation can only grow up in rough, then this vicious circle will never...

    • By Pascale 2022-04-24 07:01:06

      After seeing the first two-thirds, I still think, this is the funniest film I have seen in a long time (stepping on shoes, buying batteries, I laughed so hard, the two brothers of the Sa family are in love, and the little black brother has sexy eyes). I thought I would laugh to the end, but I didn't expect that all the clues, foreshadowing, and all kinds of secret and unannounced emotions would suddenly converge to one point, and it would explode like a chemical reaction of gunpowder explosion,...

    • By Zachary 2022-04-24 07:01:06

      I happened to watch the documentary about the costume design of this film. The bright costume colors refer to the African flag. No wonder there is a familiar harmony. (Racial talent is really enviable, lee's lead legs are so long and long) Strong tones and dazzling mirror movements, violence and poverty, this is a 38-degree...

    • By Cleora 2022-04-24 07:01:06

      Everyone's screaming from start to finish, but it just makes you feel like everyone's real and cute, until the end of the irreversible riot. Spike Lee has pride, confidence, and introspection on the black neighborhood. Why are Koreans able to open a food store within a year of coming, while a few black old men sit on the street and drink beer all their lives? Italians who refuse to post pictures of black people in restaurants can bring disaster, but what did the Asians on the opposite side do...

    • By Godfrey 2022-04-24 07:01:06

      90 minutes of croaking in exchange for the final climax. Fight the power!

    Behind the scenes gags

    There is a nude scene of Tina played by Rosie Perez in the film, but her face does not appear, she feels embarrassed and has cried.
    The four-finger ring with "love and hate" on Raheem's hand is to pay tribute to Robert Mitchum in " The Night Of The Hunter ".
    Spike Lee initially wanted Robert De Niro to star in the pizzeria owner Thrall, and Matt Dillon as the pizzeria owner’s son....
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    Evaluation action

    Rosie Perez's provocative dance at the beginning of "Do the Right Thing", and the final "strike power" announcement, Spike Lee's film did not disappoint the audience (Sohu Entertainment Review)  .
    "Do the Right Thing" has no clear main line, or the lazy and absurd daily life of the black community is the main line of the film, and the climax of the scene is derived from the brutal growth of one of the story lines. The timeline of the...
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    Movie quotes

    • Sweet Dick Willie: You wanna boycott someone? You ought to start with the goddamn barber that fucked up your head.

    • Smiley: [angrily, after Raheem is killed by police] One of the police was Black.

    • Mookie: Dago, wop, guinea, garlic-breath, pizza-slingin', spaghetti-bendin', Vic Damone, Perry Como, Luciano Pavarotti, Sole Mio, nonsingin' motherfucker.

      Pino: You gold-teeth-gold-chain-wearin', fried-chicken-and-biscuit-eatin', monkey, ape, baboon, big thigh, fast-runnin', high-jumpin', spear-chuckin', 360-degree-basketball-dunkin' titsun spade Moulan Yan. Take your fuckin' pizza-pizza and go the fuck back to Africa.

      Stevie: You little slanty-eyed, me-no-speaky-American, own-every-fruit-and-vegetable-stand-in-New-York, bullshit, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Summer Olympics '88, Korean kick-boxing son of a bitch.

      Officer Long: You Goya bean-eating, 15-in-a-car, 30-in-an-apartment, pointed shoes, red-wearing, Menudo, mire-mire Puerto Rican cocksucker. Yeah, you!

      Sonny: It's cheap, I got a good price for you, Mayor Koch, "How I'm doing," chocolate-egg-cream-drinking, bagel-and-lox, B'nai B'rith Jew asshole.

      Mister Senor Love Daddy: Yo! Hold up! Time out! TIME OUT! Y'all take a chill! Ya need to cool that shit out! And that's the double truth, Ruth!