DO THE RIGHT THING (1989) Movie Reaction! | FIRST TIME WATCHING!
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- This was super unique in the way it was filmed and after a slow-ish build up throughout, the last 20 minutes were wild and intense and had you thinking a lot. Lots to discuss with this one, and I did indeed at the end.
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FYI the old lady yelling out the window at the old drunk man were married in real life they are Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee they were married for 50+ years until Davis passed
I was going to mention this too! They were a very famous acting couple!
And their son, Guy Davis, starred in Beat Street.
They were African-American theatrical and acting royalty as well as activists.
10:30 “I was born in Brooklyn.” 🤷🏾♂️🤣
Spike Lee captured everything perfectly; the Summer heat, the gossip, the pizza, the city, the humor, *the everyday conflict!*
Watching this movie is pretty relevant to what's happening in the world right now.
Always has been!
Hi Sam! (It's me Sally from Ashleigh's twitch) I really appreciate you watching this important film. It can be a hard pill to swallow for some, but it is a necessary lesson on racism and violence and getting along with our neighbor. Spike Lee's creative and innovative filmmaking is so special to me. When I went to film school in the 90s, we were borrowing from his techniques, he had a huge influence on us. Spike tells stories that everyone should see, and his use of unusual camera work, bold colors, and meaningful music...chef's kiss! Thank you so much for your close attention to this film. ✌❤
Hiiii Sally 👋
Thanks for watching!! This truly is an impactful film.
Thank you for reacting to this, Sam. It's a very tough but real and important film.
Spike Lee said he's been asked countless times why Mookie (played by Spike) threw the garbage pail through the window. But, he said, he's never been asked that by a Black person. There is a difference in where people see the problem starting. I think you realized it started way before Radio Raheem and Buggin' Out walked into Sal's.
By the way, in case nobody else pointed out out, Buggin' Out (the guy who wanted the boycott) was played by Giancarlo Esposito, the same guy who played Gus Fring in Breaking Bad.
I'm black, and I would ask him why he threw the garbage can. Because I think it was misdirected anger. Throw the trashcan at the racist son. I would have understood that.
@@diandriasmith889 Personally I think he just threw it because of Sal's being the symbol. How this whole argument started because of the place. The UA-cam channel The Take does a really great video explaining it
Thank you for watching this. Easily one of the most important films ever made.
Thanks for even doing this reaction, Sam. I started watching reaction channels in the past year. And one thing I noticed is that many iconic/groundbreaking hit movies have few to no reactions. I can count the number of Do the Right Thing reactions on one hand. (There are several movies from the 1960s that were massive hits, that shook up the culture, that won Oscars that have hardly any reactions.) Same goes for iconic directors. Billy Wilder is considered one of the greatest and most influential writer-directors of all time. And yet there are very, very few reactions to his movies. (Your channel accounts for many of them: Sunset Blvd, The Apartment, Some Like It Hot.)
Yet the fun thing about reaction channels is not being immersed in film history and going into a movie cold and not knowing what is going to happen.
So thank you for going off the beaten path.
When I was standing on that corner back in 2015, taking pictures and looking around for a few minutes taking it all in, a black woman starts walking towards me rather intently. She stops a few feet in front of me and politely says “Excuse me, do you mind if I ask what you’re doing? Why are you taking pictures of the buildings?” She was nice about it, but seemed genuinely concerned for some reason. She seemed a bit tense. I smiled and replied “Well, I’m not 100% sure, but I think this corner is where Sal’s Famous Pizzeria was located from Spike Lee’s movie called Do The Right Thing from back in the early 1990s.” She immediately relaxes and smiles and gives half a chuckle. She turns to look back up the block and yells to her woman friend near the next building. “He’s just looking for Sal’s!” Her friend just goes “Oohh!” And they both start laughing. I guess it happens sometimes, hehe. Since they obviously both know what I’m talking about I ask if I’m in the right spot. I’m not sure because there’s nothing on that corner but a small parking lot. “Yeah, this is the corner. They just built that building in the parking lot for the movie.” I reply “Oh yeah, cool. So this is the spot. Glad I found it. Hehe. I’m visiting for the weekend from Vancouver Island over on the west coast of Canada. I had to visit the street while I was here, if I could find it.” “Yeah, you found it. Hehe. We were worried you were some real estate person looking to buy up a building and move people out! Hehehe” “Nope, just a movie tourist. Haha” The relief on her face as soon as I said Sal’s made much more sense after we’d talked for a minute. Hehe.
Unfortunately, that block has been gentrified now. None of the characters in the movie could afford to live there now. Those women's fears were well founded.
This is a great story, thanks for sharing.
Hello fellow Vancouver Islander I'm from Duncan
@@K1ng1995 Cool. I grew up in Parksville and lived there most of my life. Moved over to Port Alberni a couple years ago.
@@ClaytonMacleod I loved camping in Parksville, I loved that big playground by the beach.
In my humble opinion, this is one of the most seminal American films ever made. As said before it's a hard watch but true. With the NYC weather going up it added gas to the fires brewing in that neighborhood. So well directed, written and acted. Everyone who was apart of this project gave a 110%.
And wonderful and honest commentary, Sam. Thanks for reviewing this film for this month.
Thanks for watching this. It truly captures Spike Lee style
It's depressing that this film is as relevant today as it was when it came out, which is also proof of the power of it. If Spike Lee never made another film people would still be talking about Do The Right Thing.
49:30 You have made quite a lot of sense in your assessment and review of the film, and I really appreciate the fact that you’ve tackled this complicated and controversial film, unlike most other movie reactors on UA-cam. Films like this help to advance the art of cinema, and this film is no different. It was a gigantic success among critics in 1989, ending up on several end-of-year best-of lists. Financially it did fine, but it has had a long life in the years since, and is regularly studied in film schools as well as social studies courses in colleges and occasionally high schools too. Writer-director Spike Lee, who played Mookie, is a director whose films should be studied, although his films aren’t always political or social commentary and they don’t always have to do with the Black experience. His films are actually quite diverse in their topics, tones, and styles, but one thing is almost always evident in them: they’re usually very well made.
I look forward to seeing your reactions to other Spike Lee films in the future! Great video, Sam!
There's of course a lot of irony in your repeatedly saying the movie might not be the best reaction material since nothing big really happens, since most of it really is just watching these people's regular lives...until it suddenly isn't. And that's Spike Lee's whole point, to get us to see all these people as just real folks, until the slow-boiling tension between them all finally explodes and we're left with nothing to indicate anything will get any better from here. Although in his 2012 film Red Hook Summer, Lee makes a cameo as Mookie which indicates Sal was able to rebuild and they're still on good terms.
Another Easter Egg: in Spike Lee's "Inside Man", characters order pizza, and when it's delivered, it says, "Sal's Famous Pizzeria" on the boxes. 🤣🤣
Most of the dialogue between the three older guys was improvised, which especially paid off with Robin Harris as Sweet Dick Willie. He was a comedian best known for his stories about babysitting the horribly bratty kids of his friend Bebe, and you can very much see that skill come through here. He sadly died very unexpectedly of a heart attack just a year later at age 36, and even worse, a couple years later his material was plundered for a terrible animated Bebe's Kids film which was in turn adapted into one of the most notoriously terrible video games ever.
RIP Robin Harris He died far too soon, and far too young.
wow I knew he passed but I didn't know he was only 36, only a year younger than me, way too young.
Your reaction was encouraging because it reflected your sense of HUMANITY…never feel hesitant to acknowledge your truth.
i appreciate someone reacting as this and School Daze are great films. They both are different than regular Hollywood films but have great messages
"buggin out" the guy with glasses gettin crazy over "no brothers on the wall" is the same guy who plays the one and only Gus Fring in breaking bad.
I love that you're watching this! I truly believe it's Spike Lee's masterpiece. This film is as relevant as ever! The only person TRYING to do the right thing was Da Mayor.
So many great actors in this movie Directed by Spike Lee. You've got Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Rosie Perez, Martin Lawrence, Bill Dunn, John Turturro, John Leguzamo, Spike Lee and Ruby Dee. And the lovely neighborhood of Bedford-Styvursant, aka Bed-Sty. Makes me want to NEVER go to New York City again in my life. Place is just too intense and full of freaks. Nice reaction Sam, very thoughtful and introspective.
You left out Giancarlo Esposito and Samuel L Jackson!
And probably a few others as well. I was just running out of space. Samuel L. Jackson as the DJ was his usual great self, in one of his first on screen appearances.@@izzonj
A couple of changes. Delete John Leguzamo. Add John Savage, in the Larry Bird shirt "I was BORN in Brooklyn", the gentleman on the left of the trio, I can't remember his name, but he was "English" in "The Shawshank Redemption", and I think it was Spike Lee's real life sister who Danny Aiello was schmoozing with just before the shit started.@@izzonj
You should do School Daze next, it's a Spike Lee guilty pleasure of mine over the decades since I saw it.
School Daze was a blast! I remember hearing E.U.'s "Da Butt" so much I bought the 12" single and would play it the nights I was spinning in the DJ booth in the bar I worked in. It always got people onto the dance floor.
@torontomame Doin da butt, awe that takes me back, Lol. Check it, this movie has stuck with me so much over the years that one of the songs popped into my head, randomly when I was working one of my first jobs as a teen. It had been years since I'd seen the movie, but I'm in the parking lot, pushing carts, and completely out of nowhere, unprompted by anything going on, I'm humming "Good or Bad Hair", word for word, Lol
You did a great job dissecting this film.
Thank you! 😁
There is a direct correlation between the murder rate and hotter seasonal temperatures. Part of the reason people are so prickly is because the summer heat is unbearable. The heat wave is a multilayer metaphor Spike uses.
Also kudos to you for choosing this film for a reaction.
I remember watching this several years ago. A very unique but important movie. Sadly, as you pointed out, it's still relevant today. 😢
Although the theme is timeless, some of this was based on true news stories of the time. There was a major incident in Howard Beach where a young black male was killed because he was in an Italian neighborhood. His name was Michael Griffith and he was sort of my generation's George Floyd. There was also the Tawana Brawley hoax(?) and a black woman named Eleanor Bumpers that was killed by the NYPD. This was like the BLM movement, but primarily based in NYC/NJ. Many theaters were scared to play this film because they were afraid it would cause real riots. The late 80s/early 90s had a LOT of racial tension in NYC with all types of groups but it's gotten a lot better.
40:43 - This film was released at a very racially charged time (late 80’s/early 90’s). And it depicts the era and it’s sentiments accurately. 1989 was the same year that the “Central Park 5” incident occurred in NYC and it was only a couple years before the Rodney King riots in LA and a few years after the MOVE bombings in Philadelphia. I think “Do the Right Thing” is a good reflection in what was going on in US major cities at the time. It’s sad that’s it still so relevant.
What you're saying about everyone seeming aggressive: the idea (I think) is that everyone's on edge because of the heat, and that irritability brings all the prejudices and tensions closer to the surface, where a spark can ignite it all. Plus everything is heightened because it's a movie that's kind of written like a play.
"In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none” - Kwame Ture
Great film, but Spike Lee's masterpiece is Malcolm X (1992) - his best movie and Denzel Washington's best performance.
Agreed!
@ 4:05.....give props to Spike Lee to introduce upcoming Black Panther to the screen.
i got a chance to meet "Buggin Out" at the airport a few years ago. he was a very cool guy. My parents met Mother Sister and The Mayor at a soul food restaurant. they said they were very nice and friendly.
Giancarlo Esposito might just be the most famous actor from this movie today. Except for Sam Jackson.
@@nastee10Martin Lawrence is the stuttering kid!
Finally! Freakin' finally!! It's about time reactors starting watching this film. Holy cow. 'Atta girl, get that train runnin'!
Social commentary through art at its finest. Glad you experienced such an important film of one of our greatest directors in film
I watch this film every two years. It is a masterpiece
Spike Lee said that instead of taking anger towards hot summer, it is easier for an ethnic group is taking anger towards another ethnic group.
The older black man named the mayor and the black woman that was in the window they were married in real life. Their names are Aussie Davis, and Ruby, Dee legends to black movies.
I saw them eating lunch at a spot in Harlem back in the late 90s. I didn't bother them for an autograph or anything. I just thought it was cute that they still had their dinner/lunch dates after all of those years. You could tell they were still in love.
One of my all-time favourites. When I finally got the chance to visit NYC from way over on Vancouver Island I had to go find this street in Brooklyn. It was trippy to be standing there. Public Enemy was/is one of my favourite groups, and their song Fight The Power was pretty popular just before the movie came out, and it was a movie I really wanted to see as a result. Had not heard of Spike Lee before that. This was his third movie, and I became a fan of his right away. He’s had a lot of good movies over the years. Glad to see someone finally react to it.
I love ❤ you pick this one. It's a Spike Lee flim.( if you look closely that's his sister in real life , that got special treatment at Sal's). Also the DJ. is Samuel Jackson. This movie is a soup of all flavors. Don't be afraid to laugh. Spike Lee did his movies in a documentary style.
To this day, when i think of Giancarlo Esposito, I think of Buggin' Out (and also his character from "Bob Roberts"), not Gus Fring from "Breaking Bad"!!!! When I first saw Breaking Bad and I saw his name in the credits, I kept looking for Buggin' Out (totally forgetting that both of us had aged 20 years! lol). Great movie, I'm only six minutes into the reaction but psyched to you do this one (and always psyched to see a classic movie reacted to that doesn't have many reactions!)
P.S. You're doing a great reaction for this, you don't have to apologize about just taking in the movie, and letting it unfold. It's a one of a kind movie, and to this day, I would think it's cited as one of the top films of all black cinema, if not THE top film of all black cinema. Spike Lee's never topped it. If you were watching this to kick off Black History Month, you couldn't pick a better film, not just because of the subject matter, but because it really was (and is) a huge achievement. Before this, black cinema was underground, experimental, "Blaxplotiation" or, in some rare cases, mainstream commercial comedies. This kicked open the doors (along with Spike's previous films) for a lot of people.
I will say that having just watched this reaction, aside from everything else including the tears I just shed as you read those quotes, I am going out and getting a slice of pizza today for lunch! I am now massively jonesing for pizza!! 😄 Really great reaction video, every comment you said was right on.
The sad part is that many people believe that a movie like this is no longer relevant. I once had a white coworker ask me why black people find it so necessary to continue to bring up race and I explained to her that we would love for it to no longer be necessary for "us" to have to talk about it. The very next day, a young African-American female employee at our job was brutally verbally attacked, someone recorded it, and it was national news. I texted my coworker and simply said, "That's why" without any other context. I really appreciate you taking on this movie because it is one that many would definitely shy away from.
Cool reaction as always Sam, you take care and have a great weekend sweetie 🥰❤️
Hello Sam, thanks for choosing and providing your observations. I think your summary and reaction was fair, honest and for the most part honest. Thanks for your fairness and willingness to see things through a different lens and not status quo. Hats off for the respect and honor to Black History Month.
For this month's theme, "Lilies of the Field" is a 1963 B/W film starring Sidney Poitier that is adorable. He's a transient fellow that does odd jobs along the way as he travels. He runs into a convent of German nuns who hire him to build a chapel. The head nun is a hardheaded woman, and they clash with each other in amusing ways. It's a heartwarming story.
Wrote a paper (unfortunately lost) on this for a film class. Very good film.
This is a great movie and it's funny but it's dark and heartbreaking too. Shoutout to Spike Lee (Mookie) for his acting directing and story telling. And thanks for reacting to this not many people have. Also can you react to the film "Malcolm X" Spike Lee (Mookie) also acted and directed in that as well.
Such a thoughtful reaction. 👍❣️
Hey OGB so a few facts
1: Buggin Out is played by Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito who's best known for playing Moff Gideon Star Wars The Mandalorian, Gus Fring in Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul. He's actually half Italian, his dad was Italian and his mom was black.
2: The Ice Cube Scene with Mookie's girlfriend played by Rosie Perez *This is actually her big film debut* the reason why you don't see her head is because she's crying because she didn’t like the scene. Her real life brother showed up to set with a Machete when he heard she was crying.
3: Barak and Michelle Obama saw this movie on their first date.
4: A lot of critics were worried this film would incite riots when it came out. Obviously it didn't but they did foreshadow the LA riots due to the death of Rodney King. Spike Lee even said "We had the crystal ball"
Devil In A Blue Dress should be on your Black History Month list. Go in blind to let the film come to you. Based on a book by Walter Mosley. He was born in Los Angeles.. His mother was Jewish. His father was an African American from Louisiana who was a supervising custodian at a Los Angeles public school.
"20 D Energizers". I always lol at that scene. 🤣
Great reaction.
This is actually one of my top films of all time, so I like seeing youtubers react to it.
finally someone else does this movie
If you get a chance ? Check out Jungle Fever, his follow up to Do The Right Thing. It's fascinating.
It's still like holding a mirror right up to who we still are. 💙
Do The Right Thing is studied in some psychology classes.
Mo Better Blues, by Spike Lee, is really good too.
Thank you for another wonderful first-time movie reaction, OGB; this time to a powerful classic from a legendary director whose work is woefully underseen by most reaction channels. Some other Spike Lee Joints to watch: Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1995), He Got Game (1998), 25th Hour (2002), Inside Man (2006), BlacKkKlansman (2018).
When I first saw this movie in 1989, it took at least a full minute for me to register that the cop had killed Radio Raheem. When I showed it to a college class a few years ago, one young women said, "As soon as I saw the police cars driving up, I knew somebody was going to die."
This is definitely a bold film to react to. I could imagine a lot of people would stay away from it due to the likelihood of offending someone. But you had the exact reaction I had watching it. It's not really a black and white (no pun untended) "who is right and who is wrong" type of movie. Other than the actions of the police, which were clearly wrong, most of the characters were a little right and a little wrong, contributing in their own way to building towards the climax. Also it was HOT, which always makes everything worse. On top of that, there can be conversations about child rearing, immigration, poverty, and so many other things aside from obvious topic of racism. This movie is definitely still relevant. It seems we are the same people we always were, just with more technology.
Agreed with all of this 100%!
@@OGBReacts I've watched like 10 reactions now; I think I should just subscribe LMAO.
@@diandriasmith889 😂😂😂 Thank you!
Ah this was a fun little film, filled with social commentary and racial tensions and upheaval in NYC:) Kudos to you for diving into this Spike Lee Joint. I also highly recommend Summer of Sam from 1999, also directed by Spike Lee:)
Hopefully this month you can get to watch Malcolm X. It’s in my top 5 movies of all time, Denzel’s best performance
The cop at 14:22 is Danny Aiello’s (Sal the pizzeria owner) son Rick.
Oh my God! One of my favorite movies ever and one that many reaction channels ignore...
Glad the algorithm brought me here
Thank you for reacting to this classic.
Great choice of film, nice reaction!
In 1967, after a car trip to Expo '67 in Montreal, we took a detour through Detroit. You've not seen anything until you've seen block after block of burned out buildings; simmering skeletons brought about from a seething undercurrent of rage harbored by people who feel impotent to fight the powers that be. Sal's was a microcosm of a national sickness.
Nice job. Thanks for being open, engaged and thoughtful.
I only just now realized that Mookie throwing the trash can through the window may have been a diversion for the mob to get them to attack the building rather than attacking Sal and his family.
That scene always confused me a bit, but this seems like as good an explanation as any.
This way, at least its property that is destroyed and not human lives. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Spike Lee has denied that was Mookie's motivation.
Sal should have stated that Mookies salary paid for the window he smashed
21:38 they were married in real life
When I tell people I don't like "do the right thing" it's like they want to revoke my black card 😞
Omg 💀
Heh, how are we watching a couple of the same movies at around the same time? 😄 I just watched In the Heat of the Night the night before (literally a day after you uploaded your reaction to it on UA-cam), and then I ended up watching Do the Right Thing last night. I've also seen some snippets of your other reactions in some reaction mash-up vids, so I may want to catch some more of your vids.
Of all the Spike Lee films I've seen, somehow I never got around to watching Do the Right Thing until now. I'm now up in the air which is the better of Lee's films between this and Malcolm X (another movie you might want to check out for Black History Month).
I saw this in 1989 in theaters when I was in high school. Growing up in Northern California, the bay area specifically, we have a very culturally and ethnically diverse communities here, however there are pockets of racism everywhere and unfortunately that hasn't changed. The only thing that has sort of changed since those days is today's society dealings with those situations. Watching this film now in 2024 goes to show how far we've come as a society (or not).
I havent watched this movie in years. Its very powerful.
Thanks!
So kind of you!! Thank you so much ♥️
❤️you should definitely watch these black classics during black history month:
Higher Learning 1995
Menace to society 1993
The wood 1999
fresh 1994
Hard Ball 2001
above the rim 1994 (Tupac is a lead)
3 Strikes 2000
South Central 1992
New Jersey Drive 1995 *
Dead Presidents 1995***
I got the hook up 1998
Sixth man 1997
Soul food 1997
Sunset park 1996
John Q 2002
Set it off 1996
Why do fools fall in love 1998
A Time to Kill 1996 (Samuel L Jackson in this. Very good movie)
A Low down Dirty Shame 1994 (A Literal Must watch)
Money Talks 1997 (Chris Tucker is the lead🔥 movie)
The Brothers 2001
I'm old enough to remember seeing this film in the theatres when it first came out. All my friends saw it, and we had good discussions about it. Technically, it's a great film from a young director - it was only his third feature film. Spike Lee shined a bright lite on the whole issue of racism in American life. After watching this film, I made sure to watch all of his films, but little by little I stopped. I like most of Lee's politics, but I get the feeling he doesn't think that people of different backgrounds can live together in harmony. It's unfortunate. If you want to see a more positive attitude, check out "Brother from Another Planet."
Not lost on me that Buggin (Giancarlo Esposito) is half Italian
Good reaction. BTW, it's been a year since you reacted to "2001: A space odyssey", can you react to its sequel "2010: The year we make contact", please?
Malcolm X (1992) please 🥺🥺🥺
Interestingly shot. Directed by Spike Lee. Thanks for watching/reviewing this one.
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Please watch Malcolm X starring Denzel Washington. He gives a great performance. Spike Lee directed and also acts in it.
Spike is a very good filmmaker willing to tackle tough topics, though I do prefer his more mainstream work (at least for Spike)
Try Summer Of Sam for an underrated one of Spike's
Hi Sam! Can you please react to “Life” (1999) next?
Want to know the craziest thing in the whole film. The Slice of Pizza was a dollar fifty but extra cheese is 2 dollars. So for the price of extra cheese you could buy a whole extra slice and still have 50 cents
A garbage can should’ve gone through the window for that alone😂😂😂
You misunderstood. A regular slice is $1.50, or if you want extra cheese then a slice with extra cheese is $2.00, meaning the extra cheese add-on is $0.50 on top of the $1.50, for a $2.00 total.
@@ClaytonMacleod Well, Sal gotta say what he means
@@gamexsimmonds3581 Trust me, New Yorkers know what he means.
Did Sam review Malcolm X yet
You got through it well. It seemed like you were uncomfortable talking about it.
I don’t know if you gonna see this message or my last message or even respond to it but the people should start doing it the Lords way, because stupid stuff is going to always be happening in the world until they do because the devil is here to kill everybody because he know his day is coming to an end And he wants to take out everybody. He can tell his time is up.
It's on and poppin' when it gets hot in the BK. What pissed me off was that it was Mookie throwing the can. . They gave you a job, if you didn't like it get another one. Then for him to have the balls to even think about coming back for the check after his life's work got burned down. BTW, it seems there was a Korean vet angle re: retirees ont he corner talking about the fruit stand. There's a you tuber that went to several places in CA claiming to be black owned, getting incentves but were not black. I'm older and from the South, so this is nothing to me. I also, after coming to NYC after getting out of the military with the hubby, live in the Bronx and have lots of friends in Little Italy I get my ravioli and noodles from (kid has to have #2 and can't be moved and manicotti); My friend Peter makes sausage to order for my daughter, they knew her since a baby, she's disabled and has had a lot of operations, her did is from Genoa. I go to confession and make the rounds on Saturady, do the feasts, man the tables and trucks, whether Sausage and Peppers or Zeppoles (changing more to Mexican, frood from South America now that most moved out and only come to man th emarket and stores). It's the only place outside of Manhattan and small Italian neighborhoods left, I can good veal, olive oil, mozz, fennel, marscapone, etc.. I've known them for decades and witnessed many things as the nabe changed. They filmed Bronx Tale other movie scenes around there and Chazz, other Italian actors, singers have always come around to get a piece of home and dodge the rat race for a sec. Close to me a loved decades long Chinese spot closed, they took their share of moments of abuse, usually from African raised, came over muslims. I've had to put them in their place many times. I saw them raise their kids, put them through college, of course they don't like to come back and help, heartbreaking. Wanting better for your kids then they have no interest in the family business that got them where they are. Same story in many families. I know so many farmers, kids go away to the city and they're quick to let their elders get thrown in a nursing home and sell off the farms. Infuriating, though a lot of work, pride, satisfaction. The gov't has made it so much harder. That Chinese spot struggled through broken windows by bussed in BLM protests, do did Jamaican, Indian, PR and Dominican pharmacies and stores, irony. Covid lifts after being one of the few businesses to survive, got rent tripled and had to be paid in 30 days. We went to city hall on it, to no avail. They destroy nabes. It's like Robert Moses putting the FDR down the East side, taken out so many established ethnic nabes and businesses or Olmsted and Vaux destoying black Seneca Village for what would become Central Park. There are no real nabes left, with bakers, butchers, groceries, dry goods, etc. left. Now it's Amazon this, lazy bring me whatever low quality food that you could have bought three meals worth of groceries to prepare yourself. Add the still shock of 9/11, seeing more of gov't that you wanted to, losing many elders with knowledge during covid (hey, no medicare costs and social security paid out, plus many time property/estates seized cause the families care less). What have we become. It's gonna be hard to reverse this. Love of family and less selfishness, looking at others struggles, listening to their stories. Being from the South where my kids got off the plane and saw a lot of white faces with a couple black dots and went into shock, store closing real early, no food variety, no wi-fi but a slow, calm beautiful life. They say they would never live there, but trust me, when they're through working or before, they will appreciate it... especially when they have kids here in NYC. Excuse the length. P.S. Recently, in view of current events, we've had a few issues with Yemeni bodega owners feeling a way about us being in Yemen bombing... The brothers tell them to go back home. They don't respect so called muslims that sell alcohol in the stores and seem to attempt to upcharge you all the time, this just brought it to the surface. It's amazing listening to others stories of how they got here, why they left and what they plan to do once they get enough bread. Some don't get to go home for decades, others more often. Most of the time I talk to movers, cabbies, biz owners, elders, teens, teachers, docs/nurses to get the pulse of the country, not from MSM.
I get that Millennials and Gen Z like to think that they invented social advocacy, but this was from 1989! And it contains a level of nuance and intelligence that is simply nowhere to be found in the popular conversations we have today about the exact same subjects. So what does that tell you?
12 Years a Slave: 2012
Creed: 2015
BlacKkKlansman: 2018
When They See Us: 2019
Moonlight: 2016
Da 5 Bloods: 2020
Harriet: 2019
The United States vs. Billie Holiday: 2021
Judas and the Black Messiah: 2021
Miss Juneteenth: 2020
@@moonbrooke27 With all due respect, internet commenter, the fact that you THINK you're saying something, when you're not at all, is kind-of the point I'm trying to make. Thanks for your help.
With all due respect. I have a name.
I'm someone who has seen every one of those films and is calling you out on claiming that good films about Race Commentary and the black lived experience that no longer exist.
I KNOW I'm saying something and the fact that you think a retort like that is anything else but being trollish says a lot about you.
Thank you for making it much easier to just have you banned for being a troll.
It was too hot that day
You ask about whether people were automatically aggressive in that time period, and I find this to be a very complex question worthy of debate. I can't speak to the urban experience at that time, but feel that "Clerks" made a few years later is a white/suburban equally Gen-X counterpart to how people interacted in that era. Both films depict characters very realistically and harshly, but they were still exaggerations...In Clerks there were some cartoony/surreal elements of story but based on Kevin Smith's experiences as a clerk, and in "Do the right thing" Spike uses the heat wave as a trigger for the heightened aggression. in both films and in the people of those times "Go F- yourself, and I don't give a F-" was the general attitude between people who thought differently from each other. Something to consider is that this film was 3 years before Rodney King and the L.A. riots, but it was prophetic of their coming along with George Floyd and the BLM movement. At that time, a generation grew up since the civil rights movement and at least on a surface level there was a fair amount of acceptance between races. There was a national cultural shared experience through the limited television and radio options in the pre-internet age, Cosby, Arsenio Hall, Eddie Murphy, and Michael Jackson were royalty in their field, a few years earlier Black people were listening to Madonna and Springsteen. In many ways I feel this film is a cautionary tale of the potential dangers of pride and identity politics. Virtually every conflict in this film is an aspect of an imagined personal slight against a character for something they take pride in. Scuffing up shoes, pictures on walls, blasting a radio are all aspects of pride and identity gone wrong. In this regard, I feel the reasons for human aggression are exponentially worse nowadays. Largely from social media trying to simultaneously force consensus while also trying to celebrate (contrived) identity. Everyone plays victim for others not valuing their values or adopting their personal world view. The phrase "happy holidays" is not an attack on Christianity, yet Fox news calls it "the war on Christmas". Somehow the phrases "Black Lives Matter", "All lives matter" and "Blue lives matter" are offensive to someone (in many contexts for good reason), yet objectively all statements are true. In the 80's and 90's the counterculture and social activists were working to destroy stereotypes in an effort to create equality and to recognize individuals as individuals. Younger generations and most modern social activists embrace stereotypes and demand special treatment based on them. I have been called "racist" because I oppose the use of the "N" word because of how disrespectful it is to previous generations who lived through segregation and people died to not be called that term, yet many younger POC see the term as one of endearment and part of their cultural identity. I have been called "anti-trans" online because I don't adopt the trans world view that people can choose their gender, yet my trans co-workers see me as a confidant, and I was the only person to confront my boss when they were singled out from dozens of employees to do busy work away from clients because hairy cleavage on a hot day was distracting. It seems insane that some of those who've accused me of being "anti" or a "phobe" due to perceived slights (or not completely agreeing with their world view) did nothing when the trans workers were actually being discriminated against, yet I did. The LGBTQ+ community literally defines people by who they want to sleep with and treat and demand each letter of the acronym to be treated differently. I know bi-sexual women who are harassed and ridiculed by lesbians for being "tourists" or "attention seekers"... As a member of Gen-X, born in 75 it seems like pure insanity that a group marginalized for exploring/expressing their sexuality would marginalize another for theirs. There's been huge progress in gay rights in my lifetime, it seems like pure nonsense that those same people are defining people by letters in an acronym. Pride and identity can be harmful and a source of conflict... I think we'd all be better off if we just got to know and treat people as the individuals they are rather than how they identify themselves. If someone introduces themself by their pronoun preference, sexuality, or vegan diet, I have little interest in knowing them further. I want people to show me who they are rather than tell me. I want to know others on a personal level or not at all.
She just did Clerks in the Patreon section so this is a good point.
cool, I'll have to check that out, I haven't gotten into Patreon yet, this might be as good a time as any.@@moonbrooke27
I am going to say this I love your reaction. I love your comment. Period. Period. Period but I will say the way things are going now. If people don’t start doing what have any father says to do to have a better life the devil is going to always win have any father is giving us a beautiful open door to come in into live peacefully, but the devil is blocking that and keeping people from realizing, there is a greater way so negativities is going to be always happening until people wake up and let go and they have any father do what he wants to do for us all black white red yellow it doesn’t matter what color you are he love us all and he wants to do for us all
FYI: The section with the slurs was probably copyrighted by Ice Cube. He has a song that uses that portion as it's intro.
OHHHHH that explains a lot 😂 I was so confused!
What is interesting is that the conversation between Radio Raheem and the shop owners while he is trying to buy batteries is also in an Ice Cube song but that wasn't claimed (I hope I didn't just jinx it)
@@DarthChef Ohhhhh… that also explains why that section was claimed as well 💀 That’s why that section is muffled to hell- I tried doing that so it wouldn’t get claimed and it still did. So currently my video is demonetized because of it but it’s still online which is all I care about. I had no clue why it was getting claimed but yup. That explains it.