Today, we celebrate 25 years since filmmaker, Spike Lee, released the iconic urban classic, “Do The Right Thing”. This is one my top 5 favorite movies EVER!!! When Spike throws the trash can in the window!!!! LOL, my favorite part of all time, “Radioooooooo!!!” What’s yours?
The film about racial tension reaches a boiling point on a scorching summer day in Brooklyn. All the action takes place on one block in Bedford-Stuyvesant, one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City; a block where African-Americans and Puerto Ricans live, Koreans and Italians work and the New York Police Department plays dirty.
Do the Right Thing would go on to be nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay, where it ultimately lost out to Dead Poets Society. (The Academy Award for best picture that year went to Driving Miss Daisy, a film with vastly more timid portrayals of racial distrust and tension.)
