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- Spike Lee was inspired to write Do the Right Thing by what is now known as the Howard Beach incident. On December 20, 1986, a mob of twelve angry white men chased down and beat three black men who had just left a pizzeria in the predominantly Italian-American community.
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Jun 28, 2015 · Inspired in part by Michael Griffith’s story, Lee wanted to open with a Malcolm X quote and Mookie (played by Lee himself) shouting “Howard Beach!” as he threw a garbage can through the...
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- Spike Lee was inspired to write Do the Right Thing by what is now known as the Howard Beach incident. On December 20, 1986, a mob of twelve angry white men chased down and beat three black men who had just left a pizzeria in the predominantly Italian-American community.
- Lee had originally envisioned Robert De Niro for the role of Sal, which ended up going to Danny Aiello. Lee and De Niro had gotten together the night after the Howard Beach incident.
- For a few shots in the film, cinematographer Ernest Dickerson created the look of the hottest day of the summer by lighting a can of Sterno and holding it underneath the camera lens.
- Ruth E. Carter, the costume designer on Do the Right Thing and several other Spike Lee films, said that when it came to the wardrobe for Sal’s son, Pino, John Turturro “was very much involved in choosing it.”
Jun 27, 2019 · Do The Right Thing's powerful, witty and brutally honest dialogue landed the film a best original screenplay Oscar nomination, but astonishingly, the script didn't take long for Lee to write. In...
- Do The Right Thing Was Inspired by A Real-Life Incident That Happened in 1986.
- Spike Lee Wanted Robert de Niro to Play Sal in Do The Right thing.
- Do The Right Thing Contains Nods to A Few Classic Films.
- Rosie Perez's Dance Sequence Took Eight Hours to Film.
- Barack and Michelle Obama Saw Do The Right Thing on Their First Date.
On December 19, 1986, four black men—Michael Griffith, Timothy Grimes, Curtis Sylvester, and Cedric Sandiford—were traveling when their car broke down. They walked three miles to the predominantly Italian-American Howard Beach neighborhood of Queens, New York, where they got into an argument with some white teenagers before heading to New Park Pizz...
Oh, what might have been. It’s a no-brainer that Lee would have wanted Robert De Niro for the role of the brash Italian-American pizzeria owner, which eventually went to Danny Aiello (who scored an Oscar nomination for the film). “What young filmmaker wouldn’t want him to star in their film?” Lee said. “So, I gave him the script and he liked it, bu...
An avid cinephile and a student of film history, Lee is such a massive fan of Charles Laughton’s chest-thumper Night of the Hunter that he dropped part of it into the middle of Do the Right Thing. Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn) carries the knuckle ring version of Robert Mitchum’s Night of the Huntercharacter’s “Love” and “Hate” tattoos, and he explains t...
Even the opening credits of Do the Right Thingare iconic. Rosie Perez’s frenetic, emotional dance to the bowel-shaking bass boom of Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” sets the stage as well as any of Shakespeare’s prologues. “Spike didn’t tell me he needed anger and angst and exhaustion,” Perez explained. “Instead, he just said, ‘I need you to killit...
“He was trying to show me his sophisticated side by selecting an independent filmmaker,” Michelle Obama said, reflecting on seeing Do the Right Thing on her first date with her future husband—and the future president. On the 25th anniversary of Lee’s film, Barack Obama recorded a video message thanking Lee for helping him impress Michelle. Other op...
Nov 16, 2023 · After seeing the movie Doing the Right Thing, I was extremely curious on whether the film was based on a true story or was it entirely fictional. Upon some research, I realized that Do the Right Thing is actually based on the Howard Beach incident that happened on December 20, 1986.
Jun 30, 2014 · Out at Howard Beach, Michael Griffith met his end when he leaped from a highway overpass while being chased by a mob of white boys.
