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?
Was a great movie – but wasn’t about gentrification, even a bit…..and frankly I am glad that (for the most part) history has left that era behind. NYC was a very unpleasant place for lots of reasons back then and the movie captured allot of it. Now it makes a great historical piece.
I think the best scene – and in an ironic way, sums up the movie now 20yrs later – is the scene where Mookie and Vito argue about who is better Clemens or Gooden. Now knowing the fate of both of them sort of puts the whole time into perspective to me.
Enough is enough. Those of us in the the Slope’s vinyl siding district need to secede, lest we be tainted with the uncouth practices of our wealthier and more architecturally-endowed neighbors. From now on, I live in North Greenwood Heights, or was that Windsor Terrace West, or Gowanus Delta Heights? I’ll have to change my Brownstoner login, too, I guess.
The fake login is also the stupidest one ever.
youve seen it a lot too jawbreaker? hahah gross i guess these arent isolated incidences. funk that, next time i gotta go im not looking for a starbucks bathroom. why bother? ill just pop a squat and save the environment!
*rob*
Arkady, what do you expect from some lame lurker who can’t even come up with their own login?
Rob Makes Me Sad – That has to be the stupidest quote of the year.
Not to worry, Jon. I threw in a little harmless Park Slope bashing as well. 🙂
You got that right DIBS, the Co-op crowd are exactly the same crowd who I see letting their kids pee all over the place. I’ve seen it a lot lately.
Then again, the kids-peeing-in-the-gutter topic seems to be thriving regardless!