Buggin out left Brooklyn for New Mexico and started his own chicken restaurant.

@morgantaanji4298

4 жыл бұрын

Los Pollos Hermanos 🤣

When I first saw Mookie grab the trash can, I thought he was going to slam it on the ground to silence everyone and then start monologuing about how this pointless conflict took the life of his friend.

Comic book issues of Marvel's Black Panther were actually shown in the film in the scene where some of the neighborhood black youth says, "If Black Panther eats pizza, we eat Pizza"

@cabrondemente1

5 жыл бұрын

This is my problem with black films, they try so hard to stick black culture down the audience's throat.

@finisher3x

5 жыл бұрын

@@cabrondemente1 - The fact that you feel that a "black film" is trying to stick black culture "down your throat", says more about you and your racial preconceptions, than the movie itself. I've never watched a movie featuring all Italians, or Greeks, or American whites, and thought that the film was trying to "shove white culture down my throat". I chose to watch the movie. So how can something be shoved at me, if I choose to watch it?

One of the greatest movies of all time. It is still regrettably relevant to modern day life issues. One of the most interesting pieces of trivia about the movie is that the actor who played Sal didn't see his character as a racist while the writer/director Spike Lee did. It is fascinating to view the actors performance when taking into account that both of the artists have different interpretations of the character.

@BillClinton228

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry I dont see what the point of the movie is. Through out the movie I thought the message was that we should all get along and we are all bigots in some way and then at the end of the movie a bunch of guys go in to provoke a wh|te dude so they can burn his shop down and Mookie who initiates this action is left without a job. What is that supposed to teach us? Burn your place of work down for political reasons and be left on the street without a job? The movie could have had a positive message but it didnt and Spike has the screen presence of a glass of water. I'm African, but I found ALL (yes ALL) the characters unlikable at best... Mother Sister? Are you serious??

@jahimjauh-hey5653

4 жыл бұрын

@Yo I think the point was to illustrate how complex people can be and how repressed anger can lead to tragedy. All the characters have various degrees of good and bad qualities. Pino is filled with hate towards African Americans because his "friends make fun of him for working in an all black neighborhood" but Mookie points out that Pino enjoys black culture and that kind of shows if he embraced that more and ignored what others thought he might be a less miserable person. Or you can look at The Mayor who despite being a drunk is always trying to be nice and keep the peace in hostile situations. Some people have even speculated that the reason Mookie throws the trashcan through Sals window is because he didnt want the crowd to attack and kill Sal and his sons rather turn the crowds pent up aggression towards the building.

@dony2852

4 жыл бұрын

@@jahimjauh-hey5653 Spike Lee refuted the saving Sal theory.

@jahimjauh-hey5653

4 жыл бұрын

@@dony2852 yeah I never really bought into it myself but I think it's a fascinating read on the moment.

@luisalonsoecheverria

4 жыл бұрын

Yo Screen Prism did an analysis on this that I think hits home. It’s not whether or not Mookie did the right thing. He was passive throughout the entire film up until he saw one of his friends, a black man, get killed by police. By then he couldn’t sit idle. You ever notice how when he throws the trash can he yells out “hate”, which is referencing Radio Raheem’s speech about the struggle between love and hate. Mookie threw the trash can at Sal’s window and incited the riot. He reacted after seeing his friend get killed by the police. And here’s the thing. The point is not if Mookie’s one act of protest was the right thing or not. Instead, we should be asking who did the wrong thing. Even though all the characters in the film aren’t painted as completely morally in the right, the answer to who did the wrong thing is, objectively, the police who killed Radio Raheem, a black man. Director Spike Lee has said the film is about human life and how black lives are devalued in America. Police brutality against African-Americans perpetuates this notion. In Spike Lee’s own words “[The police] continue to do the wrong thing and nothing ever happens.” In the end, Sal is gonna collect the insurance money to rebuild his place and he’ll be fine and Mookie is out of the job again, square one, and will continue to hopelessly struggle because the black people in his neighborhood have no power to change things. Radio Raheem should not have died. Yet, he did, and despite Mookie’s one act of protest, nothing has changed and the struggle for black Americans continues.

Ahhhh, one of my favourites. When I first saw it, I'm not sure I got it, but then I saw Spike Lee say that a white man came up to him and asked him why Mookie did what he did at the end of the film, and Spike said no black person had ever asked him that before, and insight poured down from the heavens and into my skull.

@lynxminx4

5 жыл бұрын

I never asked why Mookie started the riot. The part that's weird for me is when he goes back the next morning and demands pay. I didn't get that then, and I still don't get it.

@lancemuller8859

5 жыл бұрын

​@@lynxminx4 To show that life still goes on after this. He's still gotta make a living and face his community. It's funny bc Mookie asking for the money is basically telling Sal to pay him for saving his life by diverting attention towards the actual pizzeria instead of harming the family.

@Mo-lf1qv

5 жыл бұрын

lynxminx4 He already did the work for the week; therefore he should get paid for his work. He was an employee, not a slave.

@lynxminx4

5 жыл бұрын

@@Mo-lf1qv He was an employee who deliberately smashed the storefront window, which then led to the loss of the entire restaurant. His back wages were a drop in the bucket of the cost of repairing the damage he caused.

@Mo-lf1qv

5 жыл бұрын

lynxminx4 As Mookie said, insurance will pay for the pizzeria. Sal will probably get all his money back and more.

Just a small side note, no one in fact breaks the fourth wall in this film, although it would appear that is does because the characters are looking directly at the camera. However they are not speaking to the audience. Instead the shot is taken from a first person POV which gives it that sense of breaking the 4th wall.

The bit that really got me this time is how they just carried off Radios body in the cruiser, imagine your buddy dying an unjust violent death and being denied even the most basic right and dignity to say goodbye to, bury and mourn them properly, i certainly can't. That bit got me hardest for some reason.

I walk by Spike Lee's production studio in Brooklyn fairly often--about a mile from where the movie is suppose to take place. There's a big statue of Radio right inside that you can see through the windows. Interesting place.

One of the very best of the 1980s.

@crashcourse

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed! - Nick J.

@willhuey4891

6 жыл бұрын

with this movie i keep thinking back to the LA riots.

@DeathlyTired

6 жыл бұрын

One of the few genuinely seminal American films of the last 30 years.

i hate this because im suppose to write an essay on this movie and this video is 100% exactly what my essay needs to be in every aspect and now i cant unhear it to write my own

Love this film... I also recommend Spike's "When the Levees broke: A requiem in 4 acts" on the horror of Hurricane Katrina and its impact in poor black and white citizens.... Brilliant

Boy howdy is this film more relevant now.

Now I wanna see this again

One of the finest films Ive ever seen(and Ive seen many). I think the message here is that, even though people may try to get along and often even do, there is a human tendency to dislike anyone who is different and, if pushed hard enough, like in this case by the intense discomfort of the broiling heat, which amplified all frustrations and antagonisms, it can bring people to crack up and allow their dislikes to explode into violence, as happened here.

You’ve done it again, algorithm.......

Imo no movie has handled racism as good as do the right thing It’s wild how smart this movie is. I wish it was more respected in film bro communities

Smiley was my favorite character in this movie, he was such a sweet spirit. Second favorite was probably Rosie or Mookie’s sister

I disagree that Sal is a 'harmful character'. The montage you celebrate shows that all the characters have the potential for harm. He only does three 'wrong' things- he refuses to put non-Italians on his wall, which was his prerogative; he flirts with Mookie's sister, which Lee suggests is inappropriate for reasons he explores more completely in Jungle Fever; and he smashes the boombox, and as much as I love Public Enemy I also wanted to smash it at that moment. Raheem was attacking Sal with the noise....then he literally attacks Sal, and to say Sal should have reasonably predicted that his action would result in Raheem's death is applying a fairytale filter counter to Lee's intention. In the heat of the moment, all Sal was trying to do was stop the noise. If Raheem had been another Italian demanding free extra cheese, the boombox would still have been doomed.

@peterwelsh1932

4 жыл бұрын

lynxminx4 yeah, it’s crazy racist to say that Sal should be the “white Adult” that handles all the black demands and attacks and eccentricities. Sal should just automatically be philosopher-Superman because he is white? And the thing where he can’t hang his own hero pics, that is insane. Literally the definition of racism to tell Sal that he has to change decorations in his own nest because of race. Based only on race

@Lis_Creates

4 жыл бұрын

But that is not the point. The point is that as much as he claims he "loves that everyone was raised with his pizza" and how "he doesn't mind them" (them being the black people) he still holds a lot of racial prejudice on the neighborhood people. He always called them "your people" instead of their names to mookie, he called their music "jungle music" which was a very racist remark, and was visually seen always holding a bat to tell the audience how he was always ready to fight anybody even though everybody else never displayed actual violence towards him. Yes, the radio was annoying but it was never actually harmful. We have to look at the big picture, when Raheem died, the only thing sal cared about was his business. Thats it. He didn't care about the unjust death of Raheem and three others who he claimed he "loved" (yes three others died and it was meant that no one noticed to illustrate real life events of those who also go missing). By the end of the day he only cared about profiting from low income poc's and that was it. Spike Lee did say he wanted to make it seem like he isn't a villain because that is just how racism is seen in actual life. We like people, even when certain racist remarks are said but we don't notice or refuse to see because we "like them" as a person. That is why he is a harmful character.

@denissdennis

4 жыл бұрын

@@Lis_Creates perfect analysis

I know this channel is usually a professional, educational setting but BEDSTUY IN DA HOUSSSSEEEEE!!!

@MrAbomb234

6 жыл бұрын

GirlYouAlreadyKnow looks like the white hipster chick feels like she has some sort of cred

@RADLadio

6 жыл бұрын

Where is professional or educational? lol

@theorderofthebees7308

4 жыл бұрын

lol

this movie is rich with potential criticism and you spend most of the time stating facts and not arguing for an interpretation

Very nice breakdown of the movie. I saw this movie when I was a kid in a theatre in the ghetto. I didn't really understand it back then, but I found the racial tension fairly playful at first and then the ending very uneasy.

Excellent synopsis. Well done. This movie was ahead of its time.

Outstanding review of a great film, Michael. Do the Right Thing still causes seismic waves. Looking forward to Lost in Translation.

I look forward to this every week!

I agree with the critic stating it's incoherent: Buggin' Out spends half the film trying and failing to boycott the pizzería, the characters refuse and outright laugh at the idea of doing anything against Sal, and Sal himself establishes that he has "never had any trouble with these people." Yet when the time comes, they take it on Sal for something everyone saw the cops did.

@sarahshipley3294

5 жыл бұрын

Watafu does that not reflect life though? if you take a recent riot over cops shooting unarmed black people, there is often and unfortunately people who also destroy businesses and cars, even though they are protesting the polices actions. this movie smartly portrays that common action and asks us to think of the question “is that the right thing?”, while also juxtapositions has it with past examples (ie MLK and Malcom x)

I remember watching it for the first time in my High School English class, and I remember myself hating it, I didn't get the point of a movie "telling the story of hypocritical people being extremely confrontational and violent toward each other". But what I remember the most was that our English teacher didn't say anything or leave assignment based on the movie, he simply wanted us to watch and feel and absorb and think. Although hating it, and not knowing what to make of it, the movie always remained on the back of my mind, a "mystery" yet to be cracked. It took me many years and a lot of maturing up to come to terms with this movie and appreciation that neither Spike Lee nor my English teacher tried to feed us an answer but to force us to think on our own.

Most of Spike Lee's movies were viewed as polarizing back in the 90's even in African American communities. I'm not some huge SL fan, but I understood some of the messaging in his movies. I also think he was quirky and annoying at times. PS: MALCOLM X was his best film.

Just saw the movie after watching the Crash Course video a few weeks ago. Such a brilliant, pertinent film, especially today.

This movie has been one of my favorites since I was young. I was curious to see how it would be summarized in this video. I actually enjoyed this. Very well said and explained. 👏👏 Im glad I came across this.

Love the star wars figurines in the background.

love the content pls never end the series

Thx for this video, learn so much more .. want more film talks !

you got a nice voice dude and gave a solid analysis of the movie

tbh this isn't a film criticism, it's just a summary

one of my favorite films that I watched in film class about to watch it again.

Spike Lee's heaviest joint. It's a trip that will resonate with me forever.

You're an excellent commentor with keen and eloquent insights.

Nice work Michael. I will have to make it a point to watch this movie. You are really very good at this btw. I don't really remember your background even though I have followed you and Hank for a half dozen years (don't get old , your memory goes to pot) but there is a spot for you in film reviewing. My compliments to the team as well.

Great video. One of my favorite films.

Brilliant and brilliantly done. Knew nothing about this film (though love Lee's Inside Man), I now want to see this.

A great work with lessons still relevant to this day.

Thank you, great analysis of this timeless movie.

I love this movie. When I first saw it as a kid in the mid '90s I knew it was something special, and was probably my first art film.

I grew up on them Bed-Sty streets, love seeing this video, it brought back memories! 👍🏼👍🏼

Great essay here. Easily, Lee's best written and directed film of all time. IMO. Some will say X, Mo Better Blues or even Inside Man but no, this film is brilliant.

By far my favorite Spike Lee film.

@davidbacon4278

4 жыл бұрын

This, Malcolm X, and 25th Hour are incredible films. He's got a great catalog.

I'm commenting for the KZread algorithm. Hey buddy, this is good content, push it to the top!

The dance in the beginning of the movie... 😂

Something I had realized in the point about Malcolm X and MLK’s advocation of two sides of the same coin, is that it can be traced to disagreements (largely needless) between their precursors in W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington. Both had positives and negatives to their theories for black advancement that should have motivated them to find a common ground. And if they had, perhaps MLK and X (and their modern day version in Louis Farrakhan) would have done similar.

I've never seen DTRT, I need to see it!

@KerwinStewart

6 жыл бұрын

Ca La Yes I did. A masterpiece.

I saw this last semester in my motion pictures class.

Finally I’ve been watching for years but finally I have the first comment!!!!!!! Now how to use this wonderful gift of being the very first......whoever you are whatever you are doing wherever you live know only that you are an amazing person keep being who you are and don’t let anyone ever change you ❤️💜🖤

@ajb408

6 жыл бұрын

lol this is hilarious

@ajb408

6 жыл бұрын

Sorry LouLou, blitz Turtle is the King

Thank you I am writing an exam on this film later today. I am not going to debate my opinion though saving it for the exam.

This is one of the few Spike Lee movies I've seen OldBoy Bamboozled and Get on The Bus being the others I remember, and maybe it's me but I can't say they grabbed me in any way. I remember seeing Do The Right Thing and thinking it's alright but it didn't feel all that ground breaking or anything.

I really liked this movie, which I watched after seeing this video so thanks! Also anyone who liked this film should check out the film "sorry to bother you" while watching it it reminded me of what I felt watching this film, which is a good thing

Excellent.

Excellent!

Love this movie!

I literally watched this movie yesterday! Thank you so much

@crashcourse

6 жыл бұрын

Just because or was it for a class? - Nick J.

Just saw this movie a couple days ago An easy classic

This is the best!

THE BLAME IS ON BUGGY AND THE COP

@johnpangarakis396

5 жыл бұрын

Mike Roch I mean, Sal didn’t have to break the radio. But Buggin Out and the Cop didn’t help the situation either

Spike Lee raised our level of consciousness years ago.Unfortunately, this issue of race seems to be driving itself in circles. If the USA is one of the greatest countries on earth, imagine how it would be without racism. Well enough of my wishful thinking so lets get back to bigotry and systematic racism.

Great video.

I live just a few blocks from where DO THE RIGHT THING was filmed in Bed-Stuy!

I don't think this Channel can be topped. Easily the best stuff on youtube, hands down.

You look like Phillip DeFranco and Joey from Friends morphed in our creator's blender.

As an outsider to this particular movie's world, and yet living in a similar racially charged universe, this movie would be more like a sutvival guide book for me. Letting us know the storm after the calm.

This review is so disconnected from the movie like that winter jacket is from the weather the movie depicts lol

Never seen this film but I will totally know !!!

I get the theory behind what you're saying about Sal, but I don't ultimately buy it. I just have a problem with the concept of a man being told what to do in his own private business, so when I see the final conflict unfold, it's due to Radio Raheem forcefully trying to impose himself and black culture upon Sal and drown him out. It's just a bit of a headscratcher to me as to how we're supposed to view Sal as this bad person at the end of it when the same argument can be made for half the characters.

@morgantaanji4298

4 жыл бұрын

I'm baffled that a lot of people don't share this point of view. I've maintained that Sal really was not a bad person. He was a benevolent man and he loved serving the neighborhood. The fact that bugging put and Radio Raheem decided to impose their culture upon someone in his own private property is preposterous.

The genius of the movie and of Lee himself is not interest in present villains but people with good thing and bad no one in the movie is the saint you can understand the point of view from all of them even when are in contradiction i understand why they want pictures of african americans in the wall and i understand why Sal only want pictures of italians, is his pizzeria and his culture and i see nothing wrong with Sal point of view (i know a barbershop from italians owners with a wall cover with pictures of italians celebrity never cross my mind go there and forced them to put pictures from venezuelan celebritys) and at the same time understand Giancarlo Esposito character argument very good movei dont give you anwsers but forced you to see how complex human interaction are mostly when exist a traditional separation

you guys should do Nollywood (Nigerian cinema)

@wordsandtricks

5 жыл бұрын

Please share your recommendations!

I didn't think it was an incitement to violence but I did find it very confusing. Like I tried so hard to get it but I couldn't put together a single idea

I'm waiting for three colors : blue Keep it up

I think Mookie's decision to throw the trashcan through the pizza store window was meant to divert the anger of the people (that had just witnessed the police kill Radio Raheem) from Sal to his restaurant. Thus, saving Sal's life.

@almahperditae

6 жыл бұрын

Funny... The first time I saw the movie I tought the exact same thing. But I guess it's not. It's more about a simbol of the community what unites them all. Sal pizzaria was what join the all community

@geziellnash5776

6 жыл бұрын

Wow that was deep! Never thought of that before!

@dzhellek

6 жыл бұрын

Given what you have been shown of the Mookie character, do you really think that he is that smart? Someone had to get things started so why not the director/writer/starring actor of the film?

@makouras

6 жыл бұрын

I thought so, too, at first. But judging from Mookie's later behavior towards Sal and Spike Lee's own answers to the matter, I think Mookie just lashed out at that moment.

@user-ns8ww5ug7p

6 жыл бұрын

Spike Lee himself has already stated in interviews, explicitly, that this was NOT the reason. He also said much later in a different interview that only white people ask him about why Mookie threw the trash can through the window. (lol)

Kathryn Bigelows Detroit did something similar though it was more on the nose brilliant film though shame the Academy didnt think so

...Did they forget to turn on the heater in the studio...?

@thelonelydirector

6 жыл бұрын

Studios are in a renovated basement so... it gets cold down there.

lost in translation yes!

Finally you tried to do a little bit of technical analysis and not the always sociological thing. I mean, it's sad to do a Course about Film Criticism and only talk about one key of analysis out of so many

The best analysis of the film. It was my first time watching it this evening- in full and 30 years on.

man u aint even criticize it, u just summarized it fam

good vest

Such a great film.

I like this guy in the video,, hes good for crash course,,

... you have a thick coat on inside of a building? Just something that jumped out at me during the video.

nice

Why no mention of Mr. Senor Love Daddy's name?

you should make a video about one flew over teh cuuckoo´s nest

feel bad for sal,

Giancarlo esposito the best😎

Still in the freezing studio?

This is an excellent movie, Im amazed I hadnt even heard of it before this series. That said, I dont fully agree with your analysis, you seem to be putting all the blame on Sal for the final altercation, and while he has part of the blame and obviously could have tried to deescalate the situation the same could be said of Bugging Out and Radio Raheem, you omit their flaws and only talk about Sal's.

based roger ebert. miss him.

this dude looks like a younger version of joey from friends

Man, how cold is it there in the Chad and Stacey Emigholz studio? subscribe on patreon to help that dude to put a heater on.

Criticize the Dark Knight.

@crashcourse

6 жыл бұрын

We have... in private... it was a wild conversation :) - Nick J.

@ADAJ3KINGANGEL

6 жыл бұрын

CrashCourse nice

judging by the title, i probably should watch this video

No Allen!

DAMN WHERE'S YOUR SPOILER ALERT THO