“Do the Right Thing” quotes
(1989)
Spike Lee
directed this movie
in 1989
Title Do the Right Thing
Year 1989
Director Spike Lee
Genre Drama
Year 1989
Director Spike Lee
Genre Drama
Plot – The movie shows the life in the pizzeria of the Italian-American Sal, who has been selling pizzas for years to black people, helped by his sons Vito and Pino. Mookie, a black guy, works there as delivery man, stopping often to his sister’s place or to the woman with whom he had a child. The lazy days follow one another, while the usual loyal clients drink beer. Among them, there are an old drunkard, a moralist who talks nonsense and sells Martin L. King and Malcom X’s pictures, the young ‘Radio’ Raheem and Buggin Out, who blames Sal to have just white people’s portraits in the pizzeria. Actually, Buggin Out is a true agitator and one night he attacks the restaurant to which the owner dedicated his entire life, causing Sal’s inevitable reaction.
All actors – Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Spike Lee, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Paul Benjamin, Frankie Faison, Robin Harris, Joie Lee, Miguel Sandoval, Rick Aiello, John Savage, Samuel L. Jackson, Rosie Perez, Roger Guenveur Smith, Steve White, Martin Lawrence, Leonard L. Thomas, Christa Rivers, Frank Vincent, Luis Antonio Ramos, Richard Habersham, Gwen McGee, Steve Park, Ginny Yang, Sherwin Park, Shawn Elliott, Diva Osorio, Chris Delaney, Ángel Ramírez, Sixto Ramos, Nelson Vasquez, Travell Lee Toulson, Joel Nagle, David E. Weinberg, Yattee Brown, Mecca Brunson, Shawn Stainback, Soquana Wallace, Erik Dellums, Leland Hardy, Garry Pastore, Nicholas Turturro
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“You gold-teeth-gold-chain-wearin', fried-chicken-and-biscuit-eatin', monkey, ape, baboon, big thigh, fast-runnin', high-jumpin', spear-chuckin', 360-degree-basketball-dunkin' titsun spade Moulan Yan. Take your fuckin' pizza-pizza and go the fuck back to Africa.”
“You wanna boycott someone? You ought to start with the goddamn barber that fucked up your head.”
“Put some extra mozzarella on that motherfucker and shit.”
“- Buggin' Out: Why don't you go back to Massachusetts?
- Clifton: I was born in Brooklyn!”“Trust you? The last time I trusted you, Mookie, I ended up with a son.”
“It ain't never too hot or never too cold for fucking!”
“Hey. The only ass-kicking that's gonna be done around here is gonna be done by me.”
“One day you're gonna be nice to me. We may both be dead and buried, but you're gonna be nice - at least civil.”
“You little slanty-eyed, me-no-speaky-American, own-every-fruit-and-vegetable-stand-in-New-York, bullshit, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Summer Olympics '88, Korean kick-boxing son of a bitch.”
“You're 30 cents away from having a quarter! Where the fuck you going to get a boat?”
“Let me tell you the story of Right Hand, Left Hand. It's a tale of good and evil. Hate: it was with this hand that Cain iced his brother. Love: these five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand: the hand of love. The story of life is this: static. One hand is always fighting the other hand, and the left hand is kicking much...” (continue)(continue reading)
“- Mookie: Pino, fuck you, fuck your fucking pizza, and fuck Frank Sinatra.
- Pino: Yeah? Well fuck you too, and fuck Michael Jackson.”“Dago, wop, guinea, garlic-breath, pizza-slingin', spaghetti-bendin', Vic Damone, Perry Como, Luciano Pavarotti, Sole Mio, nonsingin' motherfucker.”
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