Fight the Power
Do The Right Thing was released 20 years ago this week.
Now, ordinarily, I am always willing to slam Spike Lee whenever he lets his umbrage get the better of his good sense, but his movie is a CLASSIC in the truest sense of the word.
So, in the spirit of charity, I will forgive Spike his foibles, and celebrate a great film. I might even buy a copy, and enrich his wallet a few bucks . . .
Now, ordinarily, I am always willing to slam Spike Lee whenever he lets his umbrage get the better of his good sense, but his movie is a CLASSIC in the truest sense of the word.
So, in the spirit of charity, I will forgive Spike his foibles, and celebrate a great film. I might even buy a copy, and enrich his wallet a few bucks . . .
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Mookie: Dago, wop, guinea, garlic-breath, pizza-slingin', spaghetti-bendin', Vic Damone, Perry Como, Luciano Pavarotti, Sole Mio, nonsingin' motherfucker.
Pino: You gold-teeth-gold-chain-wearin', fried-chicken-and-biscuit-eatin', monkey, ape, baboon, big thigh, fast-runnin', high-jumpin', spear-chuckin', three-hundred-sixty-degree-basketball-dunkin' titsun spade Moulan Yan. Take your fuckin' pizza-pizza and go the fuck back to Africa.
Stevie: You little slanty-eyed, me-no-speaky-American, own-every-fruit-and-vegetable-stand-in-New-York, bullshit, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Summer Olympics '88, Korean kick-boxing son of a bitch.
Officer Long: You Goya bean-eating, fifteen in a car, thirty in an apartment, pointed shoes, red-wearing, Menudo, meda-meda Puerto Rican cocksucker. Yeah, you!
Sonny: It's cheap, I got a good price for you, Mayor Koch, "How I'm doing," chocolate-egg-cream-drinking, bagel-and-lox, B'nai B'rith Jew asshole.
Mister Senor Love Daddy: Yo! Hold up! Time out! TIME OUT! Y'all take a chill! Ya need to cool that shit out! And that's the double truth, Ruth!