You're not black, you don't get the film.

>Spike Lee

sage

>>3397086
That's a cop-out.

Spike Lee thinks that all white people hate him and want black people to die.

He would be thrilled by 4chan, btw.

This film is untrollable. Don't even try.

>>3397109
Not trolling, it was a ridiculous movie. Right down to the contradictory quotes at the end. Morally ambiguous my ass, just plain stupid.

100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/do_the_right_thing/reviews_users.php#contentReviews

>>3397197

>>3397197
It's a shame. People love to lick Spike's nuts.

>>3397206
cock goes where?

>>3397078
No, it's supposed to make you hungry for pizza.

>>3397197
Oh wow.

25th Hour is Spike's best movie btw

>>3397128

Yeah, what dumbfuck move, letting people decide on their own who's right!

>One of many questions at the end of the film is whether Mookie 'does the right thing' when he throws the garbage can through the window, thus inciting the riot that destroys Sal's pizzeria. The question is directly raised by the contradictory quotations that end the film, one advocating non-violence, the other advocating violent self-defense in response to oppression. Spike Lee himself, however, has stated that only white viewers ask this question. Lee believes the key point is that Mookie was angry at the death of Radio Raheem, and that viewers who question the riot's justification are implicitly valuing white property over the life of a black man.

Because having courts and laws is racist, amirite?

>>3397228
Agreed.

>>3397239
Your opinion isn't as good as mine.

You tools, the point is not whether the riot was the right thing to do. If it was, Lee would have ended the movie right there. Instead, he shows the aftermath and shows the people consoling one another and having to deal with their actions. Samuel L. Jackson even fucking tells you to sign up and vote to make a change.

But lol who cares spike lee black

YOUR JORDANS ARE FUCKED UP!

>>3397239
I used to think this. Then I saw Spike Lee's comments on the film and realized that it was a monument to his racist fucktardedness and personal persecution complex.

>>3397254
not just black. he's a nigger.

>>3397266

oh right lol thanks bro

Great movie

>>3397254
Hah! Wrong. Spike says it was the right thing to do. He says only white folk question his character's actions because we "think a white man's property is more valuable than a black man's life".

>>3397277

You do know that the riot itself was not accepted by all the characters in the movie? Like, not every single person in the neighborhood was up in arms, ready to fuck shit up? Right? And that the riot itself could be considered a heroic act because it diverted the crowd's attention away from Sal and his sons, stopping them from ripping them apart?

Lee's clearly not picking a side within the movie and if you believe that he believes the riot was the right thing to do, you're misreading his quote.

>>3397295
We're talking about the mind behind the movie. He agrees with the actions taken in the movie.

Also, like one person in the movie other than Sal and his sons didn't agree with the rioting.

>>3397304
It's from the DVD commentary. He's pretty explicit about it.

>>3397304
>Lee's clearly not picking a side within the movie and if you believe that he believes the riot was the right thing to do, you're misreading his quote.

And thus, you've proven you don't know what you're talking about.

>>3397310

At least three people within the movie didn't approve of the riot.

What's your point with that first comment? The director uses the characters and the story to get his point across.

>>3397320

Jesus, he's criticizing people for focusing on the riot itself, not the fact that a man was just killed or the rebuilding that happens afterward.

>>3397331
Have you even seen the movie? Name the people who didn't approve.

The first comment is about Spike's own bigotry. His "point" is ludicrous. He's an idiot.

>>3397339

Da Mayor, Mister Senor, and Mother Sister.

>>3397304
Listen, if you want to differentiate the art from the artist, I'm all for that. Granted that the movie leaves the question open, and Lee was good about at least trying to include viewpoints other than his own. Yes, the movie is ambiguous.

But Spike Lee is, or at least was, a dirty racist motherfucker who did see a clear cut answer to the question whether the right thing was done. Lee answers, resoundingly, "YES, and the only people who can't see that are white people, because they're all secretly racist".

>>3397342
Copy from Wikipedia much? Get lost, kid. In the movie Mother Sister is yelling "burn it down!" and Senor stands and watches and doesn't show support or contempt.

>>3397347

As far as I can tell, Lee said that throwing that trash can is the only way Mookie can fight back in response to what has just happened. He's also said that people are wrong to focus on whether or not the riot was justified, instead of focusing on the scenes surrounding the riot. All from the commentary.

>>3397382
"I'll throw this trashcan throw that white guy's window because I'm a pack monkey. All he's ever done is give me work and consider me a son, but fuck that! My nigra's dead because of the cops! All my nigra did was barge into the man's place of business, refuse to leave and assault the owner! It's all this cracker's fault! HATE!"

>>3397397

Yeah, it's not like it's important that somebody was just killed. Or that Sal had the option to make peace with the crowd, like the Korean shop owners. But nope, you gotta do what you gotta do.

>>3397382
Spike's actual words trump your interpretation, sorry.

>>3397382
Ok, so...

>throwing that trash can is the only way Mookie can fight back in response to what has just happened
Bypassing the legal system in the process. Why is this the only thing he could have done? I'll agree that it's the only thing he could have done IMMEDIATELY, but was it a good idea to (re)act immediately?

>people are wrong to focus on whether or not the riot was justified
Why? Isn't this just trying to understand the motivations of the characters, which is part and parcel of critical movie watching? More poignantly, understanding the motivation behind rational acts is what allows us to ascribe free-will to humans, as opposed to people whose actions are determined by mental illness or raw emotion (i.e. impulse).

>>3397078
It was supposed to make bblacks feel empowered after black racists start shit in a pizza place, the pizza place owner defends himself, and the blacks get made to be victims for staring shit needlessly.

>>3397416
>>Why?

Because of Lee wanted you to focus on the riot, he would have ended the movie with the picture of MLK and Malcolm X being put up on the wall. Hell, anybody would have thrown a trashcan through a pizzeria window after that. But instead, he continues with the movie, showing people having to deal with their consequences by rebuilding and making condolences. Mookie and Sal even make peace at the end of the movie, after all that happened. Then the DJ outright tells you to vote and raise awareness.

>>3397425

>>3397436
Oh okay. I guess that's also why slavery doesn't matter at all anymore, to anyone, because whites and blacks eventually made up. So we don't even have to worry about whether it was justified, because it's all good now.

>>3397436
>Hell, anybody would have thrown a trashcan through a pizzeria window after that

lolwut? Sure thing, Leroy. Get off Spike's dick.