Open Thread: Do The Right Thing Edition
The 20th anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s ground-breaking movie Do The Right Thing, which dealt with a day in the life of a block in Bed Stuy, and in so doing brought the multi-layered issues of gentrification race coexistence and conflict in the inner city to a broader national audience. Two decades later,…
The 20th anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s ground-breaking movie Do The Right Thing, which dealt with a day in the life of a block in Bed Stuy, and in so doing brought the multi-layered issues of gentrification race coexistence and conflict in the inner city to a broader national audience. Two decades later, how much has changed and how much remains the same?
“obnoxious Euro tourists”
ENY, care to comment???
Hey Rob – if you’re bored, lots of obnoxious Euro tourists in front of Balthazar right now blocking the sidewalk while looking really confused.
Hey, Snappy! How’s your leg?
“DIBS: 3:15 from the slope with zero traffic.”
Hope you pack a radar detector. Beautiful area though.
“I don’t know if it was shame, guilt or fear motivated them, but it was comical watching the white theater members hauling ass to their cars once the movie finished. I had never seen white folks collectively so scared.”
Maybe it was all the pumped up Brothers looking to throw a garbage can through a window??????
“Rebel without a Pause”
That was a particularly good one.
“I don’t know if it was shame, guilt or fear motivated them, but it was comical watching the white theater members hauling ass to their cars once the movie finished. I had never seen white folks collectively so scared.”
ROFL! I now have to explain to the people walking past my office why I’m cracking up!!!
When “Do The Right Thing” came out I had just graduated from suburban Washington DC high school.
I don’t know if it was shame, guilt or fear motivated them, but it was comical watching the white theater members hauling ass to their cars once the movie finished. I had never seen white folks collectively so scared.
I remember playing “Fight the Power”, “Rebel without a Pause” and “Bring the Noise” for like 3 weeks straight after the movie.(Until my cassette got all jammed up in the player).
BHO, you and the other members of Team bear really need to listen to the comments being made by Mssrs. Case and Schiller….
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aIbMtWW6cVO4