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?
oh wow someone had to make a ghostie nic to say something nasty. yeah big deal, i didnt see some random movie. jeez.
sorry if that makes you so sad. it’s more sad you couldnt say it with your regular nic!
*rob*
“never saw the movie. is it good?
*rob*”
i hope you are kidding???? are you a philistine or just stupid????
If we are going to define “gentrification” as a “white guy buying a house in a black neighborhood” then fine. But I think that is much too narrow. Hell, the latin residents are gentrifying Canarsie as we speak!!!
When I first moved to an area of greater Lincoln Park in Chicago in 1980, “gentrification” had already spread to the western edges by the mid 1970s. It begins at different times in different cities.
hmmm,I don’t even remember that scene. Still from what I remember not the issue of the film.
more like non-black owned businesses in ‘ghetto’. the white pizza parlor and asian .
Do the right thing was just as much sbout white flight as it was about gentrification. What it’s REALLY about IMHO is a block of bed-stuy as a microcasm of The urban U.S. in the 20th Century.
forgot that part bstoner, i stand corrected, guess gentrification meant something else ‘back then’, if one guy moves in.
a white guy buying a house in a black neighborhood is NOT gentrification. that’s like saying a piece of construction paper is art.
*rob*
neither groundbreaking nor about gentrification. an enjoyable good movie, yes.
Born and raised in Brooklyn. My grandparents used to let me go in the drain in the backyard. On the street somehow seems a little low class though…