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] Memorable quotes from Do the Right Thing
Mookie & Buggin' Out
- 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
- Mookie: Pino, fuck you, fuck your fuckin' pizza, and fuck Frank Sinatra.
- Pino: Yeah? Well fuck you too, and fuck Michael Jackson.
Mookie & Da Mayor
- 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.
Radio Raheem
- Radio Raheem: Let me tell you a story about right and wrong. The left hand and the right hand. The left hand is hate. The right hand is love.
Tina
- Tina: Trust you? The last time I trusted you, Mookie, I ended up with a son.
Buggin' Out & Sal
- 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!
Sal
- Sal: Hey! The only ass-kicking that's gonna be done around here is gonna be done by me!
- Sal: The fuck is wrong with you? This ain't about money, I could give a fuck about money. You see this fucking place? I built this fucking place, with my bare fucking hands! Every light socket, every piece of tile, me, with these fucking hands!
Radio Raheem & Sonny
- 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.
Pino
- Pino: I detest this place like a sickness.
Sal & Pino & Vito
- 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 & Da Mayor
- 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 talkin' 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 no 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 & Clifton & Punchy
- 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 Jordan's 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 neighborhood?
- Clifton: I own this brownstone.
- Buggin' Out: Who told you to buy a brownstone on my block, in my neighborhood, on my side of the street? Yo, what you wanna live in a black neighborhood for anyway, man, motherfuck gentrification!
Mister Senor Love Daddy
- Mister Senor Love Daddy: Yes children, this is the cool-out corner. We're slowing it down for all the lovers in the house. I'll be giving you all the help you need, musically, that is.
- Mister Senor Love Daddy: My people, my people, what can I say, say what I can. I saw it but didn't believe it, I didn't believe what I saw. Are we gonna live together, together are we gonna live?
- Mister Senor Love Daddy: Whoa! Ya'll take a chill! You got to cool that shit off! And that's the double-truth, Ruth!
Mother Sister & Da Mayor
- 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.
Sweet Dick Willie
- Sweet Dick Willie: You wanna boycott someone? You ought to start with the goddamn barber that fucked up your head.
Smiley
- Smiley: [angrily, after someone was killed by the police] One of the police was black!
Remaining
- 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-and-sixty-degree-basketball-dunkin', titsoon, spade, moulinyan.
[edit] Closing
At the closing of the film, two quotes are shown, the first from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the second from Malcolm X;
- Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys a community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
- I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need. Because this is the situation, you and I have to preserve the right to do what is necessary to bring an end to that situation, and it doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't even call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence.
[edit] External Links
- Do the Right Thing Quotes on IMDb
