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Do the Right Thing
Directed by Spike Lee
Sal is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise. From TMDB
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Do the Right Thing is a 1989 drama film, directed by Spike Lee, starring Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.
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60 of 186 · most liked firstMy students are doing a Movie Poster Assignment, and I'm also participating. I chose Do the Right Thing
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing. It’s on Netflix. My GOD, it’s such a brilliant film (it’s not perfect, no film is) and STILL relevant in its topic. Spike Lee is *not* underrated, but he should be up there with Spielberg, Scorsese, etc. His greatest works shift the needle so hard.
positive · AI labelView post →"Fight the Power" is the definitive political anthem by Public Enemy, originally commissioned by director Spike Lee for his 1989 film Do the Right Thing. It is widely regarded as one of the most influential songs in music history, recently ranked #2 on Rolling Stone's 2025
neutral · AI labelView post →People can comment on art; this is known. Less discussed is the fact that art can comment on people. My favorite example of a movie that got much of its audience to tell on itself is Spike Lee’s DO THE RIGHT THING, which is in my opinion a masterpiece. www.the-reframe.com/always-do-th...
positive · AI labelView post →Watched Do the Right Thing for the first time in a decade, my god what a perfect film. Biggest Oscar snub I can think of too.
positive · AI labelView post →I was asked for Independence Day film recs beyond Jaws, Zodiac, Nashville, & Blow Out. I feel like right now, Do the Right Thing still has the most urgent & vital things to say about America, but my go-to is The Right Stuff, featuring Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager in the goddamn hero shot of all time.
neutral · AI labelView post →I spent my 4th of July watching a Prince concert and DO THE RIGHT THING. I am making this article free for a day or two because it really punched me in the face again last night. DO THE RIGHT THING is one of the very best films about America. Ever. By anyone. www.drewmcweeny.com/the-hip-pock...
positive · AI labelView post →Family movie pick this week was one of our American masterpieces: Do the Right Thing.
positive · AI labelView post →Watching DO THE RIGHT THING has me questioning why we are not constantly talking about what a masterpiece this movie is. The opening credits with Rosie Perez dancing is the most iconic. The cinematography, the social commentary that is still relevant. Fills me with passion, joy & rage. 🎥 #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →this hasn't paid off yet, but sometimes i'll pick up a trash can on the sidewalk and chuck it through a store window in case it turns out to be the right thing to do. i learned this move from the film Do The Right Thing
neutral · AI labelView post →Putting a marker down that "Eddington" is going to be the "Do the Right Thing" of our time, this movie snubbed by the Oscars that decades later everyone agrees captured the zeitgeist better than anything else
neutral · AI labelView post →seriously, does any movie capture what it feels like to be this goddamn hot better than Do the Right Thing?
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight’s film: Do the Right Thing, in 35mm. Went in totally blind, no expectations. I really enjoyed it. So fun at first, and then quite the turn. Lots to think about.
positive · AI labelView post →3/3 Tecsonic boombox carried by Radio Raheem in the film Do the Right Thing (1989)
neutral · AI labelView post →Just feel like it's important to mention that if it's been a long time or you've never seen Do The Right Thing you should get in there. Incredible movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Rewatch: Do the Right Thing (1989, dir. Spike Lee). I really enjoyed revisiting this old teenage fave, a vivid mural of a film about community tensions in Brooklyn. Released a couple of years before the Rodney King beating and LA Riots, it was and remains a relevant movie. 1/3
positive · AI labelView post →Two interviews for the i this week. (1) Spoke to Spike Lee about Highest 2 Lowest, Do the Right Thing, Trump's erasure of black history, why he hates AI in film-making, and learning to pick his battles inews.co.uk/culture/film...
neutral · AI labelView post →Juneteenth movie marathon: Get Out Friday The Photograph Higher Learning The Serpent and the Rainbow Us Do the Right Thing Hidden Figures They Cloned Tyrone Juice Chiraq Malcolm X Boyz N The Hood Judas & The Black Messiah Sinners
neutral · AI labelView post →Plenty of us care a lot. Just rewatched Do the Right Thing. Spike is the #GOAT and I'll be there Day One for this.
positive · AI labelView post →Remembering when someone asked at a Do the Right Thing screening Spike Lee why he didn’t make an uplifting film about nonviolent solutions. His response “Shut up and make your own damn movie.”
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching DO THE RIGHT THING (1989), an incendiary film with a blazing soundtrack. There’s trouble in the neighborhood on the hottest day of the year. Haven’t watched in many years. #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →i think they're both great and it's not like lee is a paragon of "everyone gets this" - DO THE RIGHT THING is a movie that I think is intentionally designed by Lee to be misunderstood by clueless white people
positive · AI labelView post →I love my dad. He’s the best. He suffers from, what I describe as, “Do the Right Thing” racism. One of the main characters is named Sal and makes some out of pocket statements throughout the film. Despite that, it doesn’t seem to stem from hatred. It's hard to explain
neutral · AI labelView post →Do the Right Thing (1989): Rosie Perez’ Dance Watercolor on 9” x 12” watercolor paper #5 in the 40 movies I haven’t seen from the AFI 100! Unfortunately a very timely movie for today’s world. #art #movies #painting #watercolor
neutral · AI labelView post →#1C000lest #MusicChallenge 2️⃣6️⃣ Public Enemy - "Fight the Power" (1989). Spike Lee on the theme song for his great film DO THE RIGHT THING: "I wanted it to be defiant, I wanted it to be angry, I wanted it to be very rhythmic. I thought right away of Public Enemy." youtu.be/EYUH2g3bshA
neutral · AI labelView post →We watched Do the Right Thing tonight, I hadnt seen in a long time. I cant believe that movie is almost 40 years old, it still looks fresher than so much of the new stuff coming out.
positive · AI labelView post →got to our downtown 1940 Art Deco movie theater for my class screening of Do the Right Thing and as preshow music they’re blasting Public Enemy
neutral · AI labelView post →Only two years earlier, Spike Lee made Do the Right Thing, another real feel-good family movie about everything being just hunky-dory in America.
neutral · AI labelView post →Do the Right Thing. As a teenager in the late 80s, I found it so exciting that I kept seeing it over and over at the movie theater. It's one of the key works that made me a hardcore film nut.
positive · AI labelView post →If you’re near the Pickford Film Center in beautiful Bellingham, WA, come out for their three film Spike Lee series. I’m sending recorded video introductions to be played before each film: DO THE RIGHT THING - 2/13 MALCOLM X - 2/20 BLACKKKLANSMAN - 2/27 www.pickfordfilmcenter.org/spike-lee/
neutral · AI labelView post →When I was a high school junior living in Baltimore, but homesick for NYC, I saw the 1980 film Times Square about four or five times. Tim Curry played one of my favorite movie DJs, right up there with Lynne Thigpen in The Warriors and Samuel Jackson in Do the Right Thing.
neutral · AI labelView post →Spike Lee’s ‘Do the Right Thing’ (1989) is now available to watch for free (with ads) on YouTube. The film stars Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Rosie Perez Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Samuel L. Jackson, & John Savage. 🔗: (youtu.be/_hKTuufy-jA?...)
neutral · AI labelView post →Adjust a movie title to express your current mood. "Last Fuck Gone in 60 Seconds" "Do The Right Thing, You Cowards" "I Want To Tie Their Nuts To A Raging Bull" #MovieTitleMood
neutral · AI labelView post →THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK looks terrific, and as a DO THE RIGHT THING fan, it does the heart good to see Buggin' Out and Pino in a movie together in 2026.
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyway...in light of Cody's racism, go watch the all-time great film 'Do the Right Thing' - where a black man named Raheem is killed by the police while protesting. 🤼
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day in 1989. Do the Right Thing was released in theatres. Love this movie. 🍿❤️ #PINKS #Movies #SpikeLee youtu.be/sPHOpLG91bo?...
positive · AI labelView post →I love that the 1989 song Do The Right Thing is not in the 1989 movie Do The Right Thing, but is in fact the credit song for Wes Craven's The People Under The Stairs.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's Friday. You know what that means. A NEW episode of Stand N' Watch is available now!!!! You should do the right thing and go give it a listen because we are taking a look at DO THE RIGHT THING Is it a Dad Movie? Find out Listen Now: linktr.ee/standnwatch
neutral · AI labelView post →The director also discusses the influence of 'Do the Right Thing,' designing the Coney Island Mermaid Parade, and why divine femininity sits at the heart of Julián's journey. www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...
neutral · AI labelView post →5/19/89: Spike Lee's spectacular Do The Right Thing More: @billsimmons.bsky.social Rewatchables podcast w/ @seanfennessey.bsky.social & Wesley Morris: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... @kearse.bsky.social: pitchfork.com/thepitch/why... @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Now seated for the Regal Month Of Masterpieces™ screening of Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing. Haven't watched this in ages and I'm psyched to have the chance to see it on the big screen #Filmsky 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →Share a movie with an awesome dance scene 💃🪩🕺 Do the Right Thing
neutral · AI labelView post →Every time I show DO THE RIGHT THING to film students I explain what Chuck D meant to many of us during the Poppy Bush Interzone. Those Public Enemy records through 1998 sound fabulous. Happy birthday. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/c...
neutral · AI labelView post →25: Movie you recommend the most I don't know that there's one I recommend the most, but this is one of my favorites and is worth recommending. "Do The Right Thing" 1989 #MovieMadness
positive · AI labelView post →Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18 (it's not he best film of the year. That's Do The Right Thing. But it's the best Indiana Jones movie, and that's a lot)
neutral · AI labelView post →Daughters of the dust. I wanna start with that. JDs Revenge for blaxspoitation. The movie Sun-Ra made because SPACE IS THE PLACE, To Sleep with Anger, The Inkwell, Do the Right Thing -purposefully hopping all over the place here...
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally… the first big screen appearance of Black Panther wasn’t in this film. And it didn’t involve Wesley Snipes. It came 29 years earlier in Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing. Punchy refuses to boycott a pizzeria, exclaiming “Black Panther eat pizza… we eat pizza!” 55/55
neutral · AI labelView post →i really like Do The Right Thing, i think it’s his best film (though i am partially biased because it was filmed near where i grew up)
positive · AI labelView post →just watched Do The Right Thing (1989) and i don't think i've ever seen something where the last 1/3 of the movie changes the framing of the first 2/3 this much damn
positive · AI labelView post →I mean I may have to fight you on the *best* Spike Lee movie: cough (Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X), but I will accept the best Spike Lee movie of the ‘00s, and the best 9/11 par none.
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite first-time 📽️ views, June: Exquisite Corpses Rome, Open City Don't Cry, Pretty Girls! Do the Right Thing "100 Boyfriends Mixtape (The Demo)" (short film) The Good, the Bad & the Ugly Where the Lilies Bloom Les Sièges de l'Alcazar Nine Queens Buck & the Preacher
neutral · AI labelView post →1989: Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” premieres at the Cannes Film Festival. The movie was named one of the American Film Institute’s 100 greatest movies of all time in 2007. 1991: Willy T. Ribbs becomes the first Black driver to compete in the Indianapolis 500.
neutral · AI labelView post →near-final film roster for US pop culture history class: Sunrise (1927), Duck Soup (1933), Notorious (1946), The Searchers (1956), West Side Story (1961), Jaws (1975), Do The Right Thing (1989), The Matrix (1999). It's a broad pup culture class, not film focused, so I have a limited number to show.
neutral · AI labelView post →My Film Arts class has moved into the "Social Commentary" segment of the course. First movie we are assigned to watch (and discuss in class) is Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989).
neutral · AI labelView post →Do the Right Thing, as it's a really powerful and motivating movie that still manages to feel relevant these days, and I loved what Spike Lee cooked up so hard by offering an interesting social commentary that critiques upon the issues of racial tensions and the systemic injustices.✊✊
positive · AI labelView post →#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 30: Someone on the radio in a movie Do the Right Thing (1989) dir. Spike Lee
neutral · AI labelView post →You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature? All the President's Men and Do the Right Thing
neutral · AI labelView post →Whether you think Do The Right Thing or Raging Bull is the best movie of the 1980s, Frank Vincent has got your back. #TCMParty
neutral · AI labelView post →Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are Muppets. Do The Right Thing Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn)
neutral · AI labelView post →My film tutorial where a student compared Sal in Do the Right Thing to Thanos
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