Do the Right Thing: WTF
12-27-05, 12:28 PM
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Do the Right Thing: WTF
Was this a movie of reverse racism? was this a movie of all nationalities interacting...
i mean the ending was messed up for the pizza place and the owners but i just didnt get the morale of the story...
please explain
i mean the ending was messed up for the pizza place and the owners but i just didnt get the morale of the story...
please explain
12-27-05, 12:44 PM
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The black dude with the boom box got killed by the police. So, the other black dudes wanted revenge. Mookie ends up saving Sal and his sons by diverting the attention of the angry mob to the Pizza Place instead of Sal and his sons.
12-27-05, 12:49 PM
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it was about "waking up". DTRT isn't a fable, there is no "moral to the story...". it's a day in the life of an ethnic community. it's funky, entertaining, insightful, and political in the best, most responsible sense.
12-27-05, 12:52 PM
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ok.... so in other words... Mookie saved Sal and his sons from a beat down but decided to destroy the place. the angry mob was ignorant and blamed sal for the death of radio raheim.... hmmm
i guess
i guess
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I thought Mookie was rather an opportunist. He started a riot for the chance to "fight the power" against Sal's oppression and control on him. Mookie obviously did not "do the right thing" in my opinion, which the film try to convey.
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Originally Posted by Apone
I thought Mookie was rather an opportunist. He started a riot for the chance to "fight the power" against Sal's oppression and control on him. Mookie obviously did not "do the right thing" in my opinion, which the film try to convey.
12-27-05, 01:15 PM
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i mean the ending was messed up for the pizza place and the owners but i just didnt get the morale of the story...
12-27-05, 06:14 PM
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The point is that it's a film filled with moral ambiguities. NONE of the major characters are completely good or completely bad. All have their moments of goodness and heroism, and they all have their moments of weakness, pettiness, and hatred. It's been years since I've seen it, but I remember walking out of the movie theater thinking, "damn, that was one overwhelming statement." I think Spike Lee was just trying to say that racism is common throughout our society, you can't escape it, and dealing with it and not succumbing to it is a daily struggle for just about everyone.
12-28-05, 06:38 AM
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see thats what i thought too....Sal and his boys got screwed.... i mean he was nice to all of them and it was because of Sal that they opened the store again for martin and his friends....
12-28-05, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Trout
The only reason Spike Lee made this movie was to film the "ice" scene with Rosie Perez.
he must have been desperate
