Did he do the right thing?

Did he do the right thing?

He was just following his nigger instincts. They can't help but chimp out.

>making movies that portray all White men as murderous homosexual rapists

Yes he did.

mods, please remove faggots.

What the fuck why did the janitor remove my post, it was a legitimate question.

nope

I used to think this movie was a nuanced look at race relations, and that Mookie threw the trash can through the window to save t he pizzeria. Then I read an interview with Spike where he said Mookie just did it because he was pissed. What a fucking nigger. I hate Spike Lee

He Got Game was good though

No, no one in the movie does. That's the point.

>Then I read an interview with Spike where he said Mookie just did it because he was pissed.
Is this for real? I'm going to be really disappointed if that's true because I genuinely thought the same as you. It makes it a much smarter movie if it's the former.

seriously, that's it. I'm not joking.

The homeless drunk guy did the right thing though.

Welp I lost my respect for this movie.
At least it still has Billy Batts in it.

>"aaaaah. i'm spike lee. aaaaaaaah."

the mane was truly autistic

Spike Lee has remarked that he has only ever been asked by white viewers whether Mookie did the right thing; black viewers do not ask the question.[15] 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 failing to see the difference between property and the life of a black man

'Spike Lee's Last Word', special feature on the Criterion Collection DVD (2000)
^ Jump up to: a b

reading this again just makes me so mad, so glad Trump won and got this jigaboo all butthurt

That's not all. Lee actually claims that Mookie did the right thing by trashing the pizzeria

In an interview a few years ago, he said that people who think the destruction wasn't justified think the pizzeria is worth more than the life of a black man. So yeah, it's what he thinks.

But I don't think it's what he meant when he made the movie. I mean, it's been over 25 years, and he's had time to change his opinion, especially since it was such a controversial ending and he's built his career on being a radical. If that's really what the ending meant, then the movie doesn't make any sense. Every character is a loose canon, and no one is portrayed as being completely in the right. The destruction being revenge doesn't even make sense, since Sal didn't kill Raheem. Even when Mookie throws the trash can, he doesn't look angry, it looks more like he's frustrated and is resigning himself to a hard choice. The reason almost everyone who's seen the movie thinks that what happens is because that's what the movie presents.

Jesus Christ, that actually annoys me quite a bit.
Radio Raheem started breaking shit inside a private store because muh black pictures (or whatever he and that other guy were pissed about) to the point of assaulting the store owner (who defended them for a long time until they pushed him to the edge).

Sal did nothing wrong and if the rioters wanted to get revenge they should have done it against the cops that beat Raheem rather than Sal (who again literally did nothing wrong in this situation).

Spike Lee hasn't changed at all in 25 years. He was the commencement speaker at my school, he is exactly the same. A social justice loving nigger. He's exactly the type of "minority" that holds us all back.

>tfw Spike Lee went from a respectable filmmaker to some black supremacist asshole
Same happened to the guy who directed Boyz n the Hood, seems like they completely forgot what their own films were about.

It would seem like the message is that people are more willing to turn on the first viable target rather than get at the more difficult forms of oppression, but the movie ends before it gets there and nothing Lee has said in the 25 years since supports that.

I agree with you. I really like (still do, I guess) Boyz n the Hood. I mean, i find it hard to enjoy it in the same way now though--after knowing how they intended the films to be received.

Was he right?

One of the most annoying movie characters ever, I was actually hoping he would get killed instead of Raheem.

No

It sort of makes sense, though. Spike Lee started his career at a time when the fact that he made a movie about black people dealing with problems was considered a radical act. The guy was always an activist, but it doesn't seem like he was really as angry and radical as the media presented him when he was younger. But, years of the media presenting a story about an angry radical, and being treated like a hero in the black community because of that narrative is bound to make anyone live up to it at some point.

>"Sir, I know that this is your restaurant and you can do whatever you want with it, but I think it would be nice to represent the community of your main consumerbase by paying tribute to famous black persons and framing their pictures on the wall."

>people who think the destruction wasn't justified think the pizzeria is worth more than the life of a black man
Whereas Spike Lee believes the pizzeria is worth as much as a black man?
God what shit. That also makes no sense because Sal didn't fucking kill RR. That's not even fucking payback.
>this is what liberals actually believe
BAKE THAT NAZI CAKE, JEW

Except there were already black people on the wall.

niggers destroy their own neighborhood, rebuild nothing. loved it.

2$ for extra cheese is pretty bullshit though


>gus fring was Buggin Out

I enjoyed the aesthetics of this movie

All niggers are worthless and should be eradicated or sent back to Africa to die of starvation and disease until their population stabilizes, then they should be reconquered and genocided.

Nigger lovers have to go also.

>try to send them back
>get assassinated
Damn Jews

Why did they spare the Koreans?

The thing is I'm not even concerned about the pizzaria vs radio Raheem's life. It's more about WHY Mookie threw the trash can, and if Lee said it was just cause "he wuz mad", that's just nonsense, because I really think there should be a deeper symbolism to that action.

Tbh not even relevent to the discussion

Spike Lee has changed his claim of what the movie means multiple times. It's up to you to decide. Death of the author and all that.

I just remember having to watch this in uni for a film course, the whole class was just "boo hoo poor Raheem, why couldn't the pizza guy just put up pictures of black people?"
No notion of wrongdoing when people demand what a man does with his own business, or walk around playing loud, shitty music on private property to harass people, or destroy a business just because "we mad now"

Man your Jordans are FUCKED up!

what was this character all about?

it's such a boring, empty movie that i can't even remember anything beyond raheem's getting killed. another overrated "great film"

What did he mean by this?

why?

There are plenty of highly praised movies that are boring, but DTRT is anything but that. Some of the acting is pretty bad (especially Lee), and the whole racial tension theme isn't everyone's cup of tea, but nearly every scene is standalone entertaining in some regard.

Yeah, Boyz n the Hood (despite the director's shit) still shows how bad shit is in the hood and actually shows that violence and gang banging should be ended there.

Also just remembered that Radio Raheem died this year and was in the Raimi Spider-Man movies.

I agree, it felt like there was always something interesting going on around their neighborhood.

Holy shit dude

Yeah I feel like Lee has purposely made it ambiguous, considering he literally evoked pathos for Sal right before the riot happened.

poor autistic dude

guess i just didn't get it then. i almost fell asleep if i'm honest

racists BTFO'D

he didn't watch the movie, he's (You)-baiting like a fucking waste of life.

Stick to capeshit I guess. Classic film is not for you.

odd assumption, but whatever. enjoy your circa 1989 "classic"

I feel like he symbolizes something though

Pretty sure nobody did the right thing.

?

if you can't stay awake for DTRT there's no way you're staying awake for anything older.

I made a judgment call about capeshit and I'm almost positive I'm right.

The irony is he didn't do the right thing in his past, and look where it lead him.

He symbolizes being the only white dude allowed to live peacefully in the hood due to being on a similar mental level

you're wrong, but it's not important. i just found the movie dull is all

I meant in regards to his obsession with MLK and Malcolm X

Nothing wrong with liking capeshit, my friend. Just don't be surprised when a movie goes 5 minutes without explosions or someone flying through the air. Also, how was Dr. Strange my man?

He didn't tell the police who ruined billy batts' car

>chimping out and destroying his own neighbourhood

He did the black thing.

I assume he just thought they seemed like good guys to him since everybody else in the neighborhood idolized them and he wanted to fit in despite his mental problems.

NOW GO HOME AND FILE YOUR FUCKIN' POLICE REPORT

i wouldn't know. i don't watch superhero movies (unless superman '78 counts)

Pretty much. Spike claiming that Mookie did the right thing rings kind of hollow in comparison with the MLK/Malcolm X quotes at the end.

Why are so many black people obsessed with race like Spike Lee? I mean it can't be healthy to base that much of your identity around your skin colour

I remember liking nigger movies as a kid, thinking it's cool to hang out on the stairwalls all day while listening to rap. But then I turned 14.

I don't think it's just skin color though, it's a culture people grow up with, it's all he knows. Isn't that one of the best ways to make something: write about what you know?

why didn't he just put the top up?

Self-identity is largely informed by you're seen by society at large.

this is bait right? no body, not even Sup Forums can be this stupid

that's what I mean though black culture is obsessed with race in a way no other is, even Sup Forums isn't as bad as them

He was just breaking some balls

Because they can't offer anything else to society, and deep down they know it, hence why they use race-baiting to get more gibs. They're worthless unless you like NBA and NFL.

>555-COME-ON-NOW

It's a good question. Why put so much emphasis on your race? MLK wanted to move past a racialist society
He should have impacted their bottoms

I dunno I think after years of oppression, they probably feel threatened by the idea of losing an individual cultural identity. Exploiting it is a way to make sure it doesn't become irrelevent in the future.

Most American whites don't have a cultural identity. They're all mutts of different European cultures.

>Tfw your film professor gave you shit for having an opinion interpreting the right thing being the decision to rebel in terms of property damage rather than personal human and it meaning you a B in the class

Don't let them tell you a film study degree is worthless that shit is the only humanity curriculum worth its salt

shoo shoo Sup Forums, we're discussing film here

it's bait because DTRT isn't about black people, it's about race. There's as much about Italian Americans as there is about Black Americans in the movie.

that Sup Forumsster just wants to focus on blacks because he's cucked.

>shoo shoo Sup Forums, we're discussing film here

Newfagging much? It's so easy to spot you reditors, you always reveal yourselves, all you gotta do is edge a little bit and you'll react like that blood sample from The Thing.

but Italian Americans didn't kill anyone or burn down a pizzeria in that movie

>everyone I don't agree with is Sup Forums
The whole movie is literally about race relations

I mean yeah, but in contemporary society most white Americans would probably identify their cultural identity as American, whatever that may entail, I still don't really know. I was talking about black culture though.

I love it when Sup Forums calls others newfags when they have direct 1-1 correspondence with an actual subreddit.

look, the movie is about race relations, and racism. It's about the intersection of class, race, and culture on the hottest day in NY. If you think it's about "blacks chimping out" then I dont know what to say to you.

But they did chimp out

>tfw no one realizes the entire point of the film is that the contradictory legacies of Malcolm X and MLK Jr. leave the black community tongue-tied (see: Smiley) and that the only thing that can be done is "the right thing". What "the right thing" is entirely up to consideration, and left up to interpretation for the audience
>the film itself offers several interpretations, and the final say it has it that in the end it's gotta be "love"
>lee's interpretation is not the be-all, end-all, and he stacks the argument in such a way that one may disagree with his take without inherently being wrong

but they do chimp out user, it's a fact of the movie..

He represents the struggle of the civil rights movement to resolve the contradicting legacies of MLK Jr. (peaceful resistance) and Malcolm X (violent resistance). He's mute because both the black and white community don't know what to say

>niggers
>culture