 | MOVIE #1,806 •🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿• 07.10.24 a SPIKE LEE Director Focus Joint This movie is almost a bait and switch and I mean that as a compliment. The build-up to the climax is a highly enjoyable ride, brilliantly mixing comedy with drama and social commentary, but the ending is kicked up to an entirely new level. I wasn’t prepared for it. And that’s the point. The last half-hour is perfect filmmaking. The cast is SO good, even Spike Lee seems like a good actor (JK, but it’s by far his performance yet). It’s pretty telling that the only acting Oscar nom this garnered was for Danny Aiello (who is amazing, don’t get me wrong) and not any of the Black actors. Ossie Davis should have won Best Supporting Actor (he at least should have been nominated over Dan Aykroyd in Driving Miss Daisy lol). Yeah, it’s a timeless, 10/10 classic. The End. |
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Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American comedy-drama film produced, written and directed by Spike Lee. It stars Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro and Samuel L. Jackson and is the feature film debut of Martin Lawrence and Rosie Perez. The story explores a Brooklyn neighborhood's simmering racial tension between its African-American residents and the Italian-American owners of a local pizzeria, culminating in tragedy and violence on a hot summer's day. It was released on May 19, 1989.
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