You'll never understand what it was like to watch this film in a theatre and walk out with your jaw on the floor knowing you just watched something special and groundbreaking. Th-th-th-thank you, b-b-b-b black man.
I saw this classic "Spike Lee Joint" film "Do the right thing" when it first came out in summer of '89 at Beltway Plaza Mall Greenbelt, Maryland. I was 10 years old at the time. Now I'm 40 years old. For a movie that came out 30 years ago it sure seems like it was the summer of '89 just yesterday. Man time flies. This movie will always be a classic
"In 1989 The movie Batman, was the most advertised hyped-up movie of the year", my opinion. No one I knew even heard of (Do the right thing). But through word of mouth and nation media commenting on this movie. Helped to bring this movie to national attention, which made it a box office hit. It was the sleeper movie of the year. Thank you Spike Lee
To all the great actors and actresses that was apart of this great movie…, may you rest in peace. The summer of ‘89, I just graduated from high school, and hip-hop was at its peak. A couple of high school buddies called me up and told me that they were going to the movies and watch Do The Right Thing. We went to the showing and this movie was, and is an instant classic. I must have seen this movie a million times and it doesn’t get old. Today, at 53 we still have racism in this country and it’s a shame. We are not born with racism, we teach our kids racism. I still listen to Public Enemy and all the pioneers of hip-hop. Now in 2024, there is no music. Continue…, To Fight The Power.. latino man… ✊🏽
Just found this today. I'm so happy that this took place. "Do The Right Thing" is one of my favorite films and Spike Lee is my favorite director. Brooklyn looks different, but the heart of people is still beating strong. BK for days and days. ❤
Just saw the making of “Do the Right thing” awesome production. I saw the actual movie at Baldwin hills Theater in Los Angeles my cousin was the owner n I used to work there in mid 80’s. R.I.P to all the legendary actors that are not with us anymore 🙏🙏🙏Such a testament to our experience as young/old black people in the urban jungle.
Seeds were planted back in the 80s. Roots developed for over 40ys now. One of the most important Neighborhood concerning art, music and social values during the last 50years. Thanks from Italy to all the Community up there!
An absolute American classic! A rare special movie that was not just entertaining but, also showed those from the outside a realistic view of black urban life. Sadly the negative aspects is just as relevant today if not more than it was when released. Spike Lee’s masterpiece. Period!
I can't believe I missed this block party. I have a friend that's great friends with Spike too. Shit, had I known. I love Spike for putting my beautiful Puerto Rican people in his movies. Salud.
Nice documentary about classic movie Do The Right Thing. It's nice seeing Danny Aiello(RIP), Spike Lee, Bill Nunn(RIP), Rosie Perez, music rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy talking about Do The Right Thing in New York where the movie was filmed. RIP Ossie Davis. RIP Ruby Dee. RIP Robin Harris. RIP Paul Benjamin. I like John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel Jackson, Leonard Thomas, Steve White, Martin Lawrence, Frankie Faison in Do The Right Thing. I wish Robin Harris was alive. Robin Harris was funny hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. I like Al Jarreau Never Explain Love and Take 6 We Love jingle songs on Do The Right Thing soundtrack. RIP Al Jarreau. Spike Lee, John Singleton(RIP)are my favorite black movie directors.
I was not present for that block party, but I could feel the energy through my screen. I recently watched the “making of” documentary for this film the other day. I wonder how many people that lived in the neighborhood in 88’ still live there today. Some of them probably aren’t even alive anymore.
I love Spike Lee movies. 25th hour was my all time fav. He is a genius story teller and his use of music and camera angles and characters he uses are amazing
School Daze, Do The Right Thing, Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, X, Crooklyn & Kings Of Comedy are his best directed movies! Production movies: New Jersey Drive, Tales From The Hood, & Blackkklansman!😊
My cousins were raised at the red brownstone (bought it dirt cheap by my great uncle when he arrived in the United States in the 1930s.) located at Stuyvesant & madison st....Unfortunately, the greedy handful in our family sold the damn brownstone. 🤦♂
Dang. Even back in 89, I was 19..wanted so bad to buy one of them Brownstones. 2 of my relatives had one, but wound up "cashing out" sadly as well..but not for greed. Just age and Maintenance got too much for them.
Mann i drive past this block everyday & was here thinking Sal’s pizzeria was a block up on Greene on the corner i didn’t even realize it was just a movie prop this whole time & it’s the empty parking lot on the corner of Lexington lol 🤦🏾♂️
Wow such a classic film its very ironic that they would have that title Do the right thing because at the time when they was making the movie i was working for Transit in Brooklyn in 1988 and what we always say to each other on the job was DO THE RIGHT THING that was our motto and low and behold Spike Lee came out with a movie called DO THE RIGHT THING isn't that something so he owes us some royalties lol
0:35 So weird. I pass that lot 3-4 times a month, see the mural and never realized it’s the lot where Sal’s was. Always wondered where it was. 1:30 The new mural is here. Both lots are still empty today in 2024
Jesus Christ our Lord and our Savior, is The WAY, The TRUTH, and The LIFE! Confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord of your life. Believe in His death, burial and resurrection for the sins of all human-kind and you will be saved. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, may Father God, our Creator bless you in the Glorious name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. 🙏
The Most High GOD is Black, Christ is Black, The Angels are Black, GOD only loves the 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL ( So-called NEGROS, So-called Hispanics/ Latinos of native descent, So-called Native Americans of native descent). GOD hates Edomites Caucasians. It’s in the Bible.🤷🏾
It’s disturbing that black ppl clapped in the background of radio Raheem being choked to death. To hear a Black women yell in excitement was unsettling….
Do the right thing is a classic! Spike’s barometer is way off. Black peoples under no circumstance were cheering when Radio Raheem died!! R. I.P to Bill Nunn, Danny Aiello, Rick Aiello the Legendary Ozzie Davis and Ruby Dee
But Danny Aiello said his character Sal was not a racist....he even admitted that the things that Sal said is something Danny would have said...telling me he is not racist? he probably saw how big this movie became and ride it....but even white actors like him had racist thoughts back then it was the norm
I was there for the block party. It was awesome
Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Bill Nunn,Danny Aiello,Robin Harris,Paul Benjamin,Frank Vincent all great people R.I.P.
adding Rick Aiello
Rick Aiello died too . Danny's son who played the policeman
I was there for the block party. it was HOT that day, too.
More relevant now in June-2024 than it ever was! Thank you Spike & cast for this perpetually-necessary reminder.
Eric aint holding up so well these days I see. Still keeping tabs though on my hometown although im now in NC 😉
Yo New York
You'll never understand what it was like to watch this film in a theatre and walk out with your jaw on the floor knowing you just watched something special and groundbreaking. Th-th-th-thank you, b-b-b-b black man.
Yes! The entire audience walked out the theater silent. Very powerful movie for its time.
@@freddymedina774 It still is.
LOVE🤜 VS 🤛HATE
Endless Timeless Masterpiece.
I saw this classic "Spike Lee Joint" film "Do the right thing" when it first came out in summer of '89 at Beltway Plaza Mall Greenbelt, Maryland. I was 10 years old at the time. Now I'm 40 years old. For a movie that came out 30 years ago it sure seems like it was the summer of '89 just yesterday. Man time flies. This movie will always be a classic
I didn't you were 10 years old when U saw that movie at Greenbelt Plaza. I think this was before the Green line metro started to debut.
Also Great Story
Gorgeous Prince George's County
That was also my local movie theater!!
FIGHT THE POWER ! 1989 is the number ... another summer 😎🎭✌️
Best film of the 80s
Rosie Pérez 💕... She is so beautiful.. for real. Saludos From Chile 💕
One of the greatest films ever Mr. Lee!! Classic!!!
"In 1989 The movie Batman, was the most advertised hyped-up movie of the year", my opinion. No one I knew even heard of (Do the right thing). But through word of mouth and nation media commenting on this movie. Helped to bring this movie to national attention, which made it a box office hit. It was the sleeper movie of the year. Thank you Spike Lee
I love this film. Spikes best film ever imo. Brings back some very good memories being a young kid at 14.
He Got Game was better
To all the great actors and actresses that was apart of this great movie…, may you rest in peace.
The summer of ‘89, I just graduated from high school, and hip-hop was at its peak. A couple of high school buddies called me up and told me that they were going to the movies and watch Do The Right Thing. We went to the showing and this movie was, and is an instant classic. I must have seen this movie a million times and it doesn’t get old. Today, at 53 we still have racism in this country and it’s a shame. We are not born with racism, we teach our kids racism. I still listen to Public Enemy and all the pioneers of hip-hop. Now in 2024, there is no music.
Continue…, To Fight The Power..
latino man… ✊🏽
Just found this today. I'm so happy that this took place. "Do The Right Thing" is one of my favorite films and Spike Lee is my favorite director. Brooklyn looks different, but the heart of people is still beating strong. BK for days and days. ❤
East NY still hasn’t changed much 🤣
@@4stringz. Yes, East New York. My family lives right on Putnam Ave.
@@iluvmyboba wow! BK all the way. My ex used to live right near the L.
@@4stringz. That's why I left 7 years ago. I needed some change of scenery.. LINDEN PLAZA!
Do The Right Thing one of the best and greatest films ever made. Everyone should have to see it.
The cast of this film was phenomenal!
Love this movie, love you Spike, fight the power always.
Just saw the making of “Do the Right thing” awesome production. I saw the actual movie at Baldwin hills Theater in Los Angeles my cousin was the owner n I used to work there in mid 80’s. R.I.P to all the legendary actors that are not with us anymore 🙏🙏🙏Such a testament to our experience as young/old black people in the urban jungle.
Freaking Legends !!! Rip to so many🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Seeds were planted back in the 80s. Roots developed for over 40ys now. One of the most important Neighborhood concerning art, music and social values during the last 50years. Thanks from Italy to all the Community up there!
Did know Danny past. RIP to all the dearly departed. Esp....RADIO RAHEEM...BILL NUNN.....my Childen still love you.
An absolute American classic! A rare special movie that was not just entertaining but, also showed those from the outside a realistic view of black urban life. Sadly the negative aspects is just as relevant today if not more than it was when released. Spike Lee’s masterpiece. Period!
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee are the best husband and wife team actors in Cinema history
I can't believe I missed this block party. I have a friend that's great friends with Spike too. Shit, had I known. I love Spike for putting my beautiful Puerto Rican people in his movies. Salud.
1989 i was 18 years old when this movie came out.❤
I was 19😊
Nice documentary about classic movie Do The Right Thing. It's nice seeing Danny Aiello(RIP), Spike Lee, Bill Nunn(RIP), Rosie Perez, music rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy talking about Do The Right Thing in New York where the movie was filmed. RIP Ossie Davis. RIP Ruby Dee. RIP Robin Harris. RIP Paul Benjamin. I like John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel Jackson, Leonard Thomas, Steve White, Martin Lawrence, Frankie Faison in Do The Right Thing. I wish Robin Harris was alive. Robin Harris was funny hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. I like Al Jarreau Never Explain Love and Take 6 We Love jingle songs on Do The Right Thing soundtrack. RIP Al Jarreau. Spike Lee, John Singleton(RIP)are my favorite black movie directors.
This was one of my favorite films.
Dope....
Keith ShockLee producer Bomb Squad
Thank you for posting this! I love this movie! So many topics touched!
That kid didn’t know how close he was to all those legends😂
I was not present for that block party, but I could feel the energy through my screen.
I recently watched the “making of” documentary for this film the other day. I wonder how many people that lived in the neighborhood in 88’ still live there today.
Some of them probably aren’t even alive anymore.
History, absolute history right here!
We love you Dan 🙏😇RIP
I love Spike Lee movies. 25th hour was my all time fav. He is a genius story teller and his use of music and camera angles and characters he uses are amazing
I love the views of the New York City streets
Very iconic
@@samanthaargona8508 yep they are
2:10 I love how she corrects Spike Lee without skipping a beat. Lady knows her neighborhood.
This film stood the test of time. Classic!
May THE MOST HIGH bless Ruby Dee and Ozzie Davis !!! 🤎🤎🤎🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
✊🏻 ... suddenly a lot of onions in my room
Dope! Wish I was there! 40th I'm on it!
When you see this.. you just want to be black!!!
but Proud to be brown. Spike Lee is the Man!!! god bless!
Tino from Spain!
God bless you, Tino!
18:27 "Fight the power!" (sponsored by BeatsMusic™)
Rosie Perez with that Kmart Lakewood Box Fan. I always wonder did Ruby/ Ossie lived at Same apartment on 1991 Movie "Jungle Fever"
i live in Bed Stuy and i absolutely LOVE everything about this film! ❤️
I just watched the other documentary that was made during filming it was fantastic and this is one of the best movies of all time
Can you please tell us the title.
@@tulsacaupain2882just search for Do The Right Thing Behind The Scenes. It might be 90mins but WELL worth the watch
There is a lot of humanity and artistry in this film
School Daze, Do The Right Thing, Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, X, Crooklyn & Kings Of Comedy are his best directed movies! Production movies: New Jersey Drive, Tales From The Hood, & Blackkklansman!😊
people are beautiful when everyone is kind and help each other. its too bad this not always the case.
ik imagine how we would be smh
RIP Bill Nunn and Danny Aiello
It's so good to see Spike and Danny kicking it No racism at all they're just boys That's giving me chills seeing that fantastic
My cousins were raised at the red brownstone (bought it dirt cheap by my great uncle when he arrived in the United States in the 1930s.) located at Stuyvesant & madison st....Unfortunately, the greedy handful in our family sold the damn brownstone. 🤦♂
Dang. Even back in 89, I was 19..wanted so bad to buy one of them Brownstones. 2 of my relatives had one, but wound up "cashing out" sadly as well..but not for greed. Just age and Maintenance got too much for them.
The real Back to the future. Very powerful film.
you can tell this is ten years ago because you cant see any of the new tall buildings that are not in Brooklyn in the background
Flava Flav should have been on stage too
Definitely. But Chuck still killed it and the DJ scratching was on point. Flav is definitely needed though.
All time classic.
You got some good guests at the block party.
Im in Tears !
I really enjoyed my time and learned a lot living in Ft. Greene Brooklyn
Only thing missing when Chuck D hit the stage was the S1Ws steppin in the background.....🎉
Beyond dopeness
Damn I wish I wouldve known they had this event..I love this movie! I got stickers shirts all that but my philosophy is Do the Right thing
Great Vid....Great movie......
This looks like a really nice street to live in.
oh snap that was Ruiz from Power with the Puerto Rican radio crew in this movie
Mann i drive past this block everyday & was here thinking Sal’s pizzeria was a block up on Greene on the corner i didn’t even realize it was just a movie prop this whole time & it’s the empty parking lot on the corner of Lexington lol 🤦🏾♂️
Wow such a classic film its very ironic that they would have that title Do the right thing because at the time when they was making the movie i was working for Transit in Brooklyn in 1988 and what we always say to each other on the job was DO THE RIGHT THING that was our motto and low and behold Spike Lee came out with a movie called DO THE RIGHT THING isn't that something so he owes us some royalties lol
Yeah Really.
What happened to Christa Rivers? aka Ella
"if I love you, I love you, but if I hate u....."
Joie barely aged a day!
This film was basically a prediction of the Rodney King riots. 3 years before
...and George Floyd, and Gentrification....the list goes on!
0:35 So weird. I pass that lot 3-4 times a month, see the mural and never realized it’s the lot where Sal’s was. Always wondered where it was. 1:30 The new mural is here. Both lots are still empty today in 2024
19:13 I think Chuck D might have eaten Flavor Flav. That's what they get for putting him on last. He couldn't wait any longer.....
7:12 I would like to know what Madonna party he’s talking about
Probably some afterparty in NYC in the 80s.
The papa don't preach party😉
woo-Wooo
18:25 nice catch
R.i.p. Aielo
Only In Brooklyn. Made In Brooklyn 😊❤
I would love for Spike Lee and Sal do a reenactment of the scene where he throws the money at him.
He's a rich fuckin man
@19:18 my guy is recording on his phone to show alllll his friends later LOL
Jesus Christ our Lord and our Savior, is The WAY, The TRUTH, and The LIFE! Confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord of your life. Believe in His death, burial and resurrection for the sins of all human-kind and you will be saved.
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, may Father God, our Creator bless you in the Glorious name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. 🙏
AMEN AND AMEN THE PERFECT WILL OF DADDY YESHUAH JESUS CHRIST ELOHIM 🥰🙂🙂🥰🥰
The Most High GOD is Black, Christ is Black, The Angels are Black, GOD only loves the 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL ( So-called NEGROS, So-called Hispanics/ Latinos of native descent, So-called Native Americans of native descent). GOD hates Edomites Caucasians. It’s in the Bible.🤷🏾
RIP Danny A.
whole point was nearly everyone in the movie chose hate
Classic movie summer time
It’s disturbing that black ppl clapped in the background of radio Raheem being choked to death. To hear a Black women yell in excitement was unsettling….
Rip Danny Aeillo
Where was Flava Flav?
Probably on the set of some reality TV show 😉
I bet them neighbours are complaining anymore.
They probably don't even live there anymore. Complaining somewhere else, if not complaining in heaven.😂
gentrify all of it
so pretty
Do or die... Radio R getting choked out. How real is that given what's in the news these days?
George Floyd
@@MISTERKIC It was real then too, we just didn’t have cell phone cameras. That’s why it’s in the movie.
Gentrified Brooklyn probably kicked these black people out the last 7 years.
It wasn't only black people. You're ignorance shines
You mean people with little income. Wasn't just one race, plus there are longtime residents who now own...
🥺✌🏽😄
Do the right thing is a classic! Spike’s barometer is way off. Black peoples under no circumstance were cheering when Radio Raheem died!! R. I.P to Bill Nunn, Danny Aiello, Rick Aiello the Legendary Ozzie Davis and Ruby Dee
I think Chuck D ate Flavor Flav.
Do or die...
But Danny Aiello said his character Sal was not a racist....he even admitted that the things that Sal said is something Danny would have said...telling me he is not racist? he probably saw how big this movie became and ride it....but even white actors like him had racist thoughts back then it was the norm
Eric Adams ….smh
😂.Exactly. Im in N.C. now, but still check the news like I still live there.
If only they knew how Adams would turn out... 🤢🤮
black racism in BLoom