Do the Right Thing
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Do the Right Thing is a 1989 motion picture film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee and released by Universal Pictures. The film tells a tale of bigotry and racial conflict in a multi-ethnic community in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on the hottest day of the year. It stars Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn and John Turturro.
[edit] Quotes from the film
- Buggin' Out: Yo, Mookie.
- Mookie: What?
- Buggin' Out: Stay black.
- Buggin' Out: You the man.
- Mookie: No, you the man.
- Buggin' Out: You the man.
- Mookie: No, you the man.
- Buggin' Out: No, I'm just a struggling black man trying to keep my dick hard in a cruel and harsh world.
- Mookie: Pino, fuck you, fuck your fucking pizza, and fuck Frank Sinatra.
- Pino: Yeah? Well, fuck you, too, and fuck Michael Jackson.
- Radio Raheem: Let me tell you the story of right hand-left hand. It's a tale of good and evil. Hate: it was with this hand that Cain iced his brother. Love: these five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand: the hand of love. The story of life is this: static. One hand is always fighting the other hand, and the left hand is kicking much ass. I mean, it looks like the right hand--Love--is finished. But hold on, stop the presses; the right hand is coming back. Yeah, he got the left hand on the ropes now, that's right. Ooh, it's a devastating right and Hate is hurt. He's down. Left-Hand Hate KO-ed by Love.
- Da Mayor: Doctor.
- Mookie: C'mon, what? What?
- Da Mayor: Always do the right thing.
- Mookie: That's it?
- Da Mayor: That's it.
- Mookie: I got it. I'm gone.
- Buggin' Out: Yo, Sal, we're gonna boycott your fat pasta ass.
- Sal: You're gonna boycott me? You haven't got the balls to boycott me. Here. Here's your boycott, up your ass. You've got a boycott.
- Radio Raheem: Give me 20 "D" Energizers.
- Sonny: 20 "C" Energizers?
- Radio Raheem: Not "C", "D".
- Sonny: "C" Energizers?
- Radio Raheem: "D", motherfucker, "D". Learn to speak English first, all right?
- Kim: How many you say?
- Radio Raheem: 20, motherfucker, 20.
- Sonny: Motherfuck you.
- Radio Raheem: Motherfuck you? You, you all right, man.
- Sal: Pino, get a broom and sweep out front.
- Pino: Vito, get a broom and sweep out front.
- Vito: Huh?
- Pino: Get a broom and sweep out front.
- Vito: What?
- Pino: Get a broom and sweep out front!
- Vito: See, Pop, it's just what I was telling ya. Every time you tell Pino what to do, he tells me to do what you told him what to do.
- Mother-Sister: Hey, you old drunk! What did I tell you about drinking in front of my stoop? Move on. You're blocking my view. You are ugly enough. Don't stare at me. The Evil eye doesn't work on me.
- Da Mayor: Mother-Sister, you've been talking about me for 18 years. What have I ever done to you?
- Mother-Sister: You a drunk fool.
- Da Mayor: Besides that. Da Mayor don't bother nobody and nobody bother Da Mayor but you. The man just tends to his own business. I love everybody. I even love you.
- Mother-Sister: Hold your tongue. You don't have that much love.
- Da Mayor: One day, you're gonna be nice to me. We may both be dead and buried, but you're gonna be nice; at least civil.
- Buggin' Out: You almost knocked me down, man. The word is "Excuse me".
- Clifton: Ah, excuse me. I'm sorry.
- Buggin' Out: Not only did ya knock me down, you stepped on my brand-new white Air Jordans I just bought, and that's all you can say is "Excuse me"?
- Clifton: What, are you serious?
- Buggin' Out: Yeah, I'm serious. I'll fuck you up quick two times.
- Punchy: Two times.
- Buggin' Out: Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk on my side of the block? Who told you to be in my neighbourhood?
- Clifton: I own this brownstone.
- Buggin' Out: Who told you to buy a brownstone on my block, in my neighbourhood, on my side of the street? Yo, what you wanna live in a black neighbourhood for, anyway? Man, motherfuck gentrification.
- Mother-Sister: Good morning.
- Da Mayor: Is it a good morning?
- Mother-Sister: Yes, indeed. You almost got yourself killed last night.
- Da Mayor: I've done that before. Where did you sleep?
- Mother-Sister: I didn't.
- Da Mayor: Hope the block is still standing.
- Mother-Sister: We're still standing.
- Mookie: You garlic breath, pizza slinging, spaghetti bending, Vic Damone, Perry Como, Luciano Pavarotti, Sole Mio, non-singing motherfucker.
- Pino: You gold teeth, gold chain wearing, fried chicken and biscuit eating, monkey, ape, baboon, big thigh, fast running, high jumping, spear chucking, three-hundred-and-sixty-degree basketball dunking, titsun, spade, Moulan Yan. Take your fucking 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 kickboxing 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 Señor 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!
- ML: Well, gentlemen, the way I see it, if this hot weather continues, it's going to melt the polar caps and the whole wide world. And all the parts that ain't water already will surely be blooded.
- Coconut Sid: You're a simple motherfucker. Now where you read that shit, eh? Polar caps.
- ML: Don't worry about it. But when it happens, and I'm in my boat, and your black asses are drowning, don't call for me to throw you no rope, no lifesaver, or no nothing.
- Sweet Dick Willie: You fool! You're 30 cents away from having a quarter! Where the fuck you gon' get a boat?
- Buggin' Out: Why don't you go back to Massachusetts?
- Clifton: I was born in Brooklyn!
[edit] External links
- Do the Right Thing Quotes on IMDb
