A pizza parlor was erected, murals painted, the street cleaned up, a block party thrown and the shoot was under way. Sets were reconstructed from gutted buildings behind the film’s Korean fruit stand stood an empty shell. With them, he also cleared the block of three crack houses. To pave way for the production, Lee rejected the usual police surveillance from the Mayor’s Office of Motion Pictures and instead installed members of the Fruit of Islam. It was shot in Bed-Stuy using an almost all-black crew (a rarity in the film industry) during a record breaking heatwave. While Spike Lee’s previous films looked at the under- and crosscurrents of male/female and light/dark-skinned black interactions, in his third feature, Do the Right Thing, Lee takes a magnifying glass-under-a-hot-sun look at black/white relations and the result-no surprise-is fire.ĭo the Right Thing stars Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Danny Aiello, John Turturro, Richard Edson, and Lee veterans Joie Lee, Bill Nunn Sam Jackson and Giancarlo Esposito, along with newcomer Rosie Perez. It’s the hottest day of summer in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, where the only thing hotter are people’s tempers and a ghetto blaster not only rocks the house but burns it down. Make everybody see, in order to fight the powers that be…. What we got to say, power to the people, no delay, Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamp Our freedom of speech is freedom of deathįrom the heart it’s a start a work of art Spike Lee will be honored by Film at Lincoln Center at the 46th Chaplin Award Gala.
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