You say Sal's a racist, but where do you see his racism in the film? I don't think there is any racism from him in the film, someone remind me if I'm forgetting something. He treats all the black characters with kindness until the conflict at the end, even implicitly lectures John Tuturro against it.
You got yourself a new subscriber! xD Great review! I'm not usually one for wanting to know someone personally that I've found online, but after watching some of your top film picks and reviews I got a bit jealous that I didn't know you irl to relate love of visual artistry and cinematic classics (your taste is excellent...because it matches mine pretty closely :D). But you know, jealousy passes, whatever, life goes on. Then I scrolled down on your twitter feed and saw you championing Terence McKenna, MAPS, and Psychedelic Awareness and I nearly fainted. Shrooms, LSD and McKenna changed my life yo! Haha, just found the sharing of two rather niche subcultures to be rather great. Keep up the videos! You are quite eloquent and informative :)
I must have seen Do the Right Thing 50 times and really enjoyed your review. This film really does feel as important now as it was on it's release. The Malcolm X and Dr. King quotes at the end haunt my thinking to this day. Do the right thing.
"Menace II Society" is like a continuation of "Do the Right Thing," in a way. Spike Lee's film ends with the confrontation with the Asian storekeeper, while "Menace II Society" begins with it, and proceeds to tell a much darker story. Current society seems to have confirmed Lee's depressing vision in "Do the Right Thing," because race relation seems to have gotten worse instead of better. But the often-heard phrase "bad times make good movies" seems to be true. There have been quite a few great films about race relation in recent years.
Girl, I hope your career "blows up" I actually teared up a few times... My fantasy would be that you guest on TCM. Even though Mankiewicz knows his stuff and is a legacy, I prefer when he comments on modern stuff. His voice alone does not pull me into the movie like Osborne does. When I watch classics, I want to be taken into another world..... You have that quality.
TCM hired a young, pretty, female co-host last year that could've been you. She seems pretty bland to me, and you seem so much more interesting. No wonder people watch more UA-cam than cable TV.
I think the movie may have been a bit ahead of its time back in 1989. People weren't really prepared for it. Using its rather minor commercial success as evidence. Aside from that I think it's an interesting document or insight into the late 80's - an era that few captured well at the time.
I saw this movie in a film class a year or two ago and was really blown away. It examines very timely issues about racial tensions and the conflict of how to deal with that. And it does it with a genuine artistic eye that makes it feel unique from the countless other movies that examine the same thing. I think one of the things that makes it unique is that it isn't just Black vs white or Italian vs Black. It talks about the divisions between all races from white people to black people to Italians to Asians. It shows it as a much more complex issue than a lot of films are able to actualize. Spike Lee does a fantastic job of making each character feel unique and motivated. Each character, even ones that aren't on the screen much, have extremely memorable and distinct personalities and we get to know some of these characters so well that it's able to give us a new perspective on an issue we hear about all the time.
Smiley wasn’t in the original script. Roger Smith, who has a part in Spike Lee’s School Daze, was trying to get Spike to cast him, but Spike didn’t think he was right for any roles. So Roger invented the character of Smiley and wrote the speech where Smiley introduced himself. Spike liked the character, Roger was in, and some scenes were rewritten to include him.
I went to back to this review because ive been thinking about this film and im going to watch this film again soon. Its one of my all time favourites. Spike Lee is one of my favourite directors
I love it and Lee's movie I often haven't liked. He reminds me of Scorsese in that I think he is at his best on smaller scaled movies like this and 'Clockers'. Though in Scorsese's case I do love 'New York, New York'.
I feel like an idiot. I didn’t understand the movie and I was hoping that this review would help me understand it but I’m even more lost. I’m a big art house film lover so this is very frustrating for me to not understand that this movie is good. I loved the cinematography but I didn’t understand the point of the film. Yes, I realize that I’m coming across unintelligent but I’m serious. I didn’t get the point of this film. I wish I did though.
Sal was not “obviously” racist at all. In fact nothing in the film even hints to it. He takes pride in the neighborhood and has a fatherly relationship with Mookie. His fault is him holding his pizzeria and restaurant in such high regard. Which is a microcosm of Americans who put so much stock into property and ownership. A lot of people who aren’t black have trouble seeing the scenes where his building is getting destroyed yet don’t feel the same way about radio Raheem getting killed.
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You say Sal's a racist, but where do you see his racism in the film? I don't think there is any racism from him in the film, someone remind me if I'm forgetting something. He treats all the black characters with kindness until the conflict at the end, even implicitly lectures John Tuturro against it.
You got yourself a new subscriber! xD Great review!
I'm not usually one for wanting to know someone personally that I've found online, but after watching some of your top film picks and reviews I got a bit jealous that I didn't know you irl to relate love of visual artistry and cinematic classics (your taste is excellent...because it matches mine pretty closely :D). But you know, jealousy passes, whatever, life goes on. Then I scrolled down on your twitter feed and saw you championing Terence McKenna, MAPS, and Psychedelic Awareness and I nearly fainted. Shrooms, LSD and McKenna changed my life yo! Haha, just found the sharing of two rather niche subcultures to be rather great.
Keep up the videos! You are quite eloquent and informative :)
Thank you! :)
I must have seen Do the Right Thing 50 times and really enjoyed your review. This film really does feel as important now as it was on it's release. The Malcolm X and Dr. King quotes at the end haunt my thinking to this day.
Do the right thing.
"Menace II Society" is like a continuation of "Do the Right Thing," in a way. Spike Lee's film ends with the confrontation with the Asian storekeeper, while "Menace II Society" begins with it, and proceeds to tell a much darker story. Current society seems to have confirmed Lee's depressing vision in "Do the Right Thing," because race relation seems to have gotten worse instead of better. But the often-heard phrase "bad times make good movies" seems to be true. There have been quite a few great films about race relation in recent years.
Girl, I hope your career "blows up" I actually teared up a few times... My fantasy would be that you guest on TCM. Even though Mankiewicz knows his stuff and is a legacy, I prefer when he comments on modern stuff. His voice alone does not pull me into the movie like Osborne does. When I watch classics, I want to be taken into another world..... You have that quality.
Thank you. You are very kind. Yeah, that would be my dream job. :)
TCM hired a young, pretty, female co-host last year that could've been you. She seems pretty bland to me, and you seem so much more interesting. No wonder people watch more UA-cam than cable TV.
Thank you. :)
Not exactly sure why everyone thinks that sal is racist...
I think people are missing the point, the film shows how everybody has some racism in them including sal
I think the movie may have been a bit ahead of its time back in 1989. People weren't really prepared for it. Using its rather minor commercial success as evidence. Aside from that I think it's an interesting document or insight into the late 80's - an era that few captured well at the time.
I saw this movie in a film class a year or two ago and was really blown away. It examines very timely issues about racial tensions and the conflict of how to deal with that. And it does it with a genuine artistic eye that makes it feel unique from the countless other movies that examine the same thing.
I think one of the things that makes it unique is that it isn't just Black vs white or Italian vs Black. It talks about the divisions between all races from white people to black people to Italians to Asians. It shows it as a much more complex issue than a lot of films are able to actualize.
Spike Lee does a fantastic job of making each character feel unique and motivated. Each character, even ones that aren't on the screen much, have extremely memorable and distinct personalities and we get to know some of these characters so well that it's able to give us a new perspective on an issue we hear about all the time.
Smiley wasn’t in the original script. Roger Smith, who has a part in Spike Lee’s School Daze, was trying to get Spike to cast him, but Spike didn’t think he was right for any roles. So Roger invented the character of Smiley and wrote the speech where Smiley introduced himself. Spike liked the character, Roger was in, and some scenes were rewritten to include him.
I went to back to this review because ive been thinking about this film and im going to watch this film again soon. Its one of my all time favourites. Spike Lee is one of my favourite directors
I'm not super big on Spike Lee, but a rewatch made me realize this is actually a very good film. The man can tell a story and make a world vivid.
Inside Man is my favourite Spike Lee joint.
I need to watch this one as an adult though.
You got fans now. Keep up the good work.
I liked your review. I would like your opinion on who you think is a better actor Daniel day Lewis or Al Pacino
I love it and Lee's movie I often haven't liked. He reminds me of Scorsese in that I think he is at his best on smaller scaled movies like this and 'Clockers'.
Though in Scorsese's case I do love 'New York, New York'.
Sorry to ask the same question which you have already replied . I would like to know why you prefer Daniel day Lewis more compared to Al Pacino ?
I LOVE and cosign your ideas about Smiley.
Boycotting sals pizza joint was so freaking stupid and wrong.
Have you seen any of Takeshi Kitano's works?
No, I haven't.
this is in my top 10, i love it
Hi great to see your review again . Just out of curiosity who do you think is the greatest actor that ever lived.
I don't know. Too many to name.
do you like 25th hour?
never mind
Hi. Can you please do a review of Donnie Darko?
That's a great idea. I've been wanting to revisit that one. I'll add it to my list.
I feel like an idiot. I didn’t understand the movie and I was hoping that this review would help me understand it but I’m even more lost.
I’m a big art house film lover so this is very frustrating for me to not understand that this movie is good. I loved the cinematography but I didn’t understand the point of the film. Yes, I realize that I’m coming across unintelligent but I’m serious. I didn’t get the point of this film. I wish I did though.
Hey Jeff! Let me help you
The film asks the question, “who did the right thing?” You have to make up your mind and be in all the character’s shoes
What did you think of 'Malcolm X''?
***** You were boring as Muhammad Ali. Just saying...
That indeed was a great movie. Out of curiosity, what is your ethnicity?
I'm part Hispanic, part Caucasian.
deepfocuslens I'm half-black, half-Caucasian(German, Polish, Hungarian)
Sounds good I just ordered it online.
Love the style and director, but I could never love this film. 25th hour is a masterpiece though.
But tbh alot Italians feel some type of way about his movies
Sal was not “obviously” racist at all. In fact nothing in the film even hints to it. He takes pride in the neighborhood and has a fatherly relationship with Mookie. His fault is him holding his pizzeria and restaurant in such high regard. Which is a microcosm of Americans who put so much stock into property and ownership. A lot of people who aren’t black have trouble seeing the scenes where his building is getting destroyed yet don’t feel the same way about radio Raheem getting killed.
Seems especially ironic that you chose to review this movie at this nightmarish juncture in history.
Yes. I'm sick and devastated. I hope to do a vlog on this dark time very soon.
great review great film
Float like a butterfly; fight the powers that be!
Do the Right Thing opening credits
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This movie is god awful
All I got out of that film is 2 hours of my life i'll never get back.
Much better film than Higher learning which I hated
U got ur black people mixed up. HL was a John Singleton-directed film. Where's ur correlation? Racial tension?