Lee perfectly balanced these elements to craft one of the best films of his long prolific career.ĭo The Right Thing returns to the Criterion Collection in a beautiful 2-disc set. At any time the film is a searing racial drama, a heartfelt family flick, and a damn funny situational comedy. It's a hell of a film and one I feel requires multiple viewings in order to fully absorb. Warts and all, it's his home and when tensions boil over he's the one to flip the steam vent the only way he knows how. As Mookie travels around his neighborhood we see a little piece of the America he knows. Even in that cropped 4:3 television screen the framing, the colors, the editing style, all of these hallmarks of Lee's films came together in this picture-perfect mosaic of everyday life. Do The Right Thing was just a stunning feature to me. I had seen Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, and enjoyed Summer of Sam quite a bit despite some odd story tangents. This wasn't my introduction to Spike Lee's movies. ![]() Do The Right Thing was one of many films I watched that week that simply blew me away. I had an amazing crash course on a wide variety of genres from Italian Giallo movies to German silent films. I spent that entire week shuffling to this one video rental shop in Ann Arbor that offered 6 classic movie rentals for $5 for 5 Days. My parents were going to be gone for a week to celebrate their anniversary together and I took a week off my crappy summer job so I could have some fun too. Back in the early 2000s, several years before Blu-ray or digital streaming or even Netflix's by-mail rentals were a thing, I discovered Do The Right Thing like most folks. All I can add is how I discovered this movie. This film has been dissected and digested by so many that I don't really have any real analysis left to offer. Enois Duarte took a look at Universal's first Blu-ray outing and wrote a terrific REVIEW. But unlike every other day, simmering gripes and festering prejudices will come to a boil and the neighborhood will never be the same again.īack in 2009 our man M. Like every other day, Mookie scuttles up and down the block making deliveries bumping into colorful locals like Da Mayer (Ossie Davis), Mother Sister (Ruby Dee), the music-loving Radio (Bill Nunn), and Buggin (Giancarlo Esposito) all while local DJ Señor Love Daddy (Samuel L. Like every other day, Mookie gets caught in the squabbles of Sal's two sons Pino (John Turturro) and Vito (Richard Edson). Delivery man Mookie (Spike Lee) is out to get paid by his pizzeria boss Sal (Danny Aiello). ![]() In Brooklyn's small Bed-Stuy neighborhood, things are going to get even hotter. It's going to be a hot one in New York with temperatures in the scorching 100s and beyond.
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