This guy left and opened his own Chicken place years later, had some business on the side too. Sadly he died in a nursing home explosion a few years back.
What's even funnier is that Samuel L. Jackson won the award for portraying a crackhead in "Jungle Fever" while being an actual crackhead at the moment of filming.
Remember folks, this man complaining about more cheese on the pizza went on to become Gustavo Fring, one of the greatest and most feared villains in TV history.
R.I.P. also to Robin Harris (Sweet Dick Willie), Bill Nunn (Radio Raheem), Ruby Dee (Mother Sister), Rick Aiello (Officer Gary Long) and Paul Benjamin (ML). This movie rocks!
An underrated brilliance of this scene is it tortures you with that pizza. It actually looks really good, and you just want him to take a fucking bite, but he never does. It gets so frustrating by the end of the scene that you feel the characters frustration.
I watched this movie in the theater. I thought it was amazing how every character is flawed, but their flaws are understandable. I think the movie was a great portrait of people living together in spite of their flaws and differences. They obviously don’t live without conflict, but that’s just reality.
That's not "reality" that's Harlem. It was a shit hole in the 80's and it's a shit hole in 2024. This kind of behavior is not reasonable anywhere, but we make excuses for it because they're black. That is reality.
@@patrickfors815 HOW!? thats HIS place of business, they are HIS customers and thats HIS wall i agree everyone is flawed but its buggin out's boycott for a PIZZERIA (he instigates all over the place from the slice of pizza to extra parm cheese) (and STILL isnt done making a complete ass of himself in his first scene) far worse than any of the main characters in the film what was SAL doing that even compared to that? (in this scene ONLY mind you) the disrespect he takes from that (including having Buggin Out THROW TRASH ON THE FLOOR AND NOT CLEAN IT UP) was Sal supposed to back step and be seen to lower his prices? that can snowball real fast into other customers doing the same or not charge for extra cheese (dumb as it may sound ITS HIS RESTAURANT and he has to earn a living) everyone has their flaws played for exaggerated value of varying degrees i dont und
would you be ok with someone coming into your job and slapping the Di~~~ sorry, let me try again i dont see where the two of them (sal and bug; great fu¢king name BTW) are neck and neck to see who is morally bankrupt or more in the wrong if you dont like the pizza or the prices or the owner or the pictures up on the wall GO SOMEWHERE ELSE and that would have been that, tragedy averted BTW, hes gonna boycott and raise hell over a slice of pizza but how much did those Jordan's cost? priorities motherfu¢kers, priorities sorry i repeated myself over and over but what trouble did Sal stir up here that lead to a death (raheem is a whole chapter to himself; but would he have been there boycotting w/ smiley had BUGGIN OUT not been going around stirring up $hit over PICTURES ON A FU¢KING WALL & $2.00 for extra cheese?), a riot, his business being raised, and his reputation ruined w/ the community that he had been a part of for decades well?
but at the same time, Sal was willing to beat up Buggin Out over suggesting to put up black people on the wall, which isn't an unreasonable request especially given that Sal understands how the black people in bed stuy have kept his business afloat ,and even mentions how appreciative he is of them. not to mention that the film alludes to the Howard beach incident where black men were beaten by racists in a pizzeria, so Buggin Out's reaction seems reasonable when considering the cultural context. I don't think asking for extra cheese (which is more expensive than the cost of the pizza itself, no one talks about that haha), littering, or instigating warrants getting beaten with a bat, which was Sal's immediate reaction. Either way, both characters are seen to be extreme in nature, so of course there were better ways the both of them could have handled that situation for sure!
@@jeamarahlagrandeur3959 always looked at Buggin Out's intentional littering on the floor (in Sal's place of business, mind you) as his reasoning for picking up the bat. not that that sounds any more rational than taking up the bat over who should be on whose wall, just didnt register with me before. agreed, they are both extremes and i wasnt old enough to remember the social climate at the time.
It’s amazing that Michael Jordan hadn’t even won a championship yet and was already considered the most famous and best basketball player in the world.
"You want brothers up on the wall, get your own place. You can do what you want to do. You can put your brothers and uncles and nieces and nephews, step-fathers, step-mothers, whoever you want." 😂 Love that! Sounds 100% improvised!
@@bigol9223 i guess you don't have enough stuff behind your nose, if you simply fail in communism-fasizm definition. by the way, humoro, explain then how you deide to whom the Moon belongs
My dad turned me on to Spike Lee films at an age where I was mostly just into action and superheroes or cartoons. Granted he probably shouldn't have but the stories were compelling. And I can appreciate them even more as an adult. Spike Lee knew what he was doing. The shot selection he would use and the duration of takes without incessant or abundant editing. Extended takes. Single takes even. That's directing. That's how you capture the moment. The feeling and emotion you want to convey. Charles Dutton's scene at the end of Get on the Bus as an example. Done in one extended take. That and this are probably his best films.
@@jameswalker6864saw it as a kid too when it first came out on VHS with the whole family. Summer time at my grandparents aunts and uncles would all come to visit. We all watched it one afternoon then again that night. Been one of my favorite movies ever since
Here's a fun fact: in the scene with the ice cubes they never show Rosie Perez's face. Thats because she was crying the entire time they filmed it and that's Spike Lee rubbing her nipples.
I can't front, Sal was a great cook, and he looked out for the neighborhood by making his food very affordable. A 1.50 a slice, man. It's not in this scene, but I loved how he explained to Vito that he wasn't moving his business into an Italian neighborhood, and that Sal's was here to stay. When Sal broke it down that the entire neighborhood grew up on his food, and how proud he was of that, I really felt those words!!!
I think the hate comes from his friends. When his dad asks him why does he have so much hate in him he says because his friends make fun of him for having a restaurant in Bed Stuy. And like Millie told him. Deep down he wishes he was black.
Also 40 Years ago Giancarlo Esposito was a Day Player on Guiding Light. He was in The 1982 Cast Picture when the show celebrated Two Anniversaries. 45 overall (Debuting on Radio in 1937) then on TV on June 30th 1952. So many African Americans appeared on The Show. Taye Diggs, Sharon Leal, The "Original" Dreamgirl Jennifer Holliday, Jesse L. Martin, Karla Mosley, and Kevin Mambo who won Two Daytime Emmys for playing Marcus Williams.
@@user-dp9mn3db6g his place he can do what he wants lmfao, for example I live in a predominantly black neighborhood but do I go to my local Chinese restaurant and say “hey how come they ain’t no brothers on the wall” lmfaooooo
@@user-dp9mn3db6g His heritage IS the business. Thats more than enough support. Go to the soul food restaurant for brothers on the wall. You go to Sal's pizzeria, for Pizza.
LET ME SEE. I was walking down Rodeo Dr, about 6 years ago. I'm wearing my Jordans, lookin' like an innocent good for something citizen. To my surprise, I see lots of White Folk at a Indian Restaurant, off of Rodeo. I BET, those relatives of Hitler were like........ *You Mf'zzzzzz ain't got no pictures of my grand daddy Hitler up in yo restaurant and you in Rodeo* !!!!
Sal and Buggin Out are two sides of the same coin in this scene. Neither man owes the other anything beyond the exchange of a slice of pizza for $1.50. But they both behave as if they are owed something. Buggin Out believes that because he and other Black neighbors spend money in Sal's shop, they are entitled to a picture of Malcolm X on the wall. Sal believes that, because it's his shop, he can do as he pleases and owes his customers nothing, even though their patronage supports his family. Both men have valid arguments, and neither attempts to look at things from the perspective of the other man. They're more concerned with being right than showing empathy. In a community, a neighborhood, you can't be so concerned with what you deserve or what you are entitled to. You have to find common ground. This is the entitlement I speak of. Sal and Buggin Out both dig their heels in, take up opposing positions and push each other apart instead of trying to find common ground. If they were thinking level-headedly and behaving rationally, they would each see that the other man has a reasonable position, and they would treat each other with respect. In the fairytale version of this story, Sal would probably hang pictures of Nelson Mandela and Michael Jordan alongside Frank Sinatra and Al Pacino, and the community would come together more closely -- but that's a fairytale. Instead, they are each concerned with what they are owed, which is amplified by racism and the unrelenting heat. It's a powder keg. The subsequent death of Radio Raheem by the police is the spark that finally burns it all down. At least, that's my interpretation of this scene.
@@philosophyversuslogic the special thing about that was that everything went downhill from there. Buggin out had been going there for years and he just wanted to look for trouble that day.
I agree. All he had to do was eat his food and shut up. I’m a brotha and i totally disagree with “Bugging Out”. I agree with Sal. Regardless of race, no one should walk in a place, order something, sit and eat, then beef bout the place you’re eating in.
@@ghanasoul So, in other words, you like seeing black people put in their place on TV and in real life. Nice seeing you showcase your tommish tendencies.
Unfortunately, I don't think a time will come when it's not relevant. This is a study of human nature and raw emotion as much as it's a study on race and cultural friction.
I love how someone can be so entitled to think if they spend money at a privately owned establishment, then they have some right to say how the place is ran. Here’s how capitalism works, if you don’t like it, don’t spend your money there, if enough people don’t spend their money there, they will either change or shut down.
You don’t come into a persons place of business and tell them what to do or what to hang up on their wall. Dude was being a gigantic smartass, he’s lucky Sal didn’t whoop his ass.
In an interview with Giancarlo where he’s talked about how he’s felt ostricized by the Italian community despite the fact that he’s more Italian than most people really feels like subtext in this scene
Spike Lee is one of our greatest filmmakers. It’s a real shame that he isn’t regarded as much as the likes of Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Spielberg, and other greats. He’s never gotten his due in my opinion.
Read comedy of coffin on kindle written by Avijit Kabiraj. Introduction : Two unemployed boys were employed by a mafia boss, their job is to bury a dead chef in the criminal's cemetery. The chef is the pasta maker whom the boss accidentally shot dead. The boys were chased by the police, shot by a sniper, rested in a church, kidnapped by an evil doctor, electrocuted, freezed, roasted, couple of ladies didn't spare them, survived the strange graveyard but when they returned after burying the dead chef, found the boss in a coffin..
he’s no where near the level of stanley kubrick, comparing a literal genius to a decent filmmaker 😂, bruh i also don’t recall kubrick having a movie like oldboy (2013) in his filmography 💀
I want to see the 60 minute director's cut version of this flick where Sal relents and puts brothers up on the wall of his pizza place and the film simply ends with nods of mutual respect.
It’s an Italian joint, it only makes sense for Italians to be on the wall regardless what neighborhood..as an Italian American myself if I go to a local Mexican joint and I see Italians on a wall I’d be like “um wtf?” Lol would be expecting to see Mexicans only
that is the irony the film speaks of. people in the film repeatedly keep thinking that they're on the right side for doing what they're doing, but indeed they don't even know what the hell they're actually talking about. this scene is like complaining about why there's no photo of albert einstein in an indian restaurant.
The great thing about this movie is everyone is right and wrong at the same time. It’s crazy how well this movie was laid out. Just imagine if a black man tried to open a soul food spot in the middle of little Italy. You think it would be a lot harder than it is for an Italian to open a pizza spot in a black neighborhood right. Now ask yourself why that is
@@GeronFletcher Little Italy holds more precedence than just a black neighborhood, one is specifically attached toward a certain racial ideal while another can have any degree of black admixture. If a black person opened a soul food restaurant in a white neighborhood, nobody would bat an eye, since most whites enjoy soul food, and racially mixed whites have less individual culture than racially "pure" Italians, meaning they'd be less likely to hold racial biases, especially in the modern day, given how media, education, and basically everything else screams at white people to respect other cultures and be anti-racist. The same could also be said of an Italian man opening a pizzeria in a black neighborhood, since black people, proportionally speaking, eat pizza more often than other races, and also endure similar anti-racist education. A black man opening a soul food restaurant in little Italy is like an Italian opening a pizzeria in a Ugandan village. Totally different flavor profiles, values, and people.
@@cooldud7071again you not making since here black people have tons of white people on their walls . He was rude to a community that he made a profit off.
This movie is such a masterpiece. I have been saying it since I saw it, learning Shakespeare in school was worthless to me, the screen play of this movie is more relevant and powerful than Romeo and Juliet
My work has a board featuring pictures of all the top employees of the month. Currently all of the faces are black, and as a giant fan of this movie it really makes me want to make some variation of "brothas on the wall" as a joke to my coworkers but I just can't tool the joke right to where people will both get the reference and I won't get fired. Should probably just put that idea in the trash bin.
Sal's Pizzeria is a restaurant run by Sal, who has owned it for 25 years (circa since 1964). His staff includes his sons Vito and Pino, and Mookie. Sal and his sons make the pizza and customer service, while Mookie is the delivery boy. The pizzeria is opposite the Korean grocery store. Sal has a Wall of Fame in the pizzeria which includes Italian-American celebrities. Buggin' Out complains to Sal about how there are no black people on the wall and tells people to boycott the place when he gets kicked out.
Robert Dinero on the wall of fame ? His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French..uh so I guess he's allowed LOL
"It's the hottest day of the year, there's racial tension everywhere, and we ain't patronizing your pizzeria till there's some brothas up on that wall!"
This guy left and opened his own Chicken place years later, had some business on the side too. Sadly he died in a nursing home explosion a few years back.
And then he went on to become the head of a pharmaceutical/superhero conglomerate, making serums that give people super powers.
@@gamer7916 what a day and age to be alive. If he can do it, we all can!!
Yeah, I heard about that unfortunate gas leak in the nursing home.
I feel sorry for the man, he always paid a visit to that disabled oldman, his name was something Fring
@@thetooginator153 Coming up, Def Leppard and Aerosmith!
What’s funny here is that the actor Giancarlo Esposito is half Italian American himself LMAO
What's even funnier is that Samuel L. Jackson won the award for portraying a crackhead in "Jungle Fever" while being an actual crackhead at the moment of filming.
@@DOTHERIGHTTHING1989 he was on crack when they were filming?
@@MrWolfchamp-xi3cu Yes. By the way Flavor Flav was on crack while Public Enemy were filming "Night Of The Living Baseheads" as well.
half Italian American? You could say he's Italian American: Italian dad, American mother
@@Dragon_Gaming2020 wtf how lol
That's a fantastic shot at 2:50 when the camera follows them out into the street and then follows Mookie back in.
So innovated
Yea that was
Camera stopped at door then focused in on them.
Loved it. Ernest Dickerson is an underrated cinematographer.
@@sPaCe_NiNjA187 it was like a dolly zoom, I doubt the camera got to the door
Remember folks, this man complaining about more cheese on the pizza went on to become Gustavo Fring, one of the greatest and most feared villains in TV history.
Yup. Very few people make the connection. Pure brilliance.
When I first found this out I was blown away
holy shit, you blew my mind. never thought it was him.
I would still call him Buggin Out all through that series. Buggin out had the best chicken.😅
and a complete hypocrite since i dont exactly recall there being any brothers up on the walls over at los pollos hermanos either.
Giancarlo Esposito saying he doesn’t see any American Italians, great casting.
The slice was...not up to Pollos standards
Is a sicilian r4p3 baby born in Denmark an American Italian?
Sicilian is even better @@pubwinner7867
I can 100% guarantee you are not @@pubwinner7867
@@pubwinner7867 nice bait troll
Man you really feel the heat in this movie
BRUH
A modern cinematic masterpiece! RIP Danny Aiello & Ossie Davis.
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He was great in Jacob's Ladder as well.
R.I.P. also to Robin Harris (Sweet Dick Willie), Bill Nunn (Radio Raheem), Ruby Dee (Mother Sister), Rick Aiello (Officer Gary Long) and Paul Benjamin (ML). This movie rocks!
Don’t forget, Robin Harris! RIP Legend!
And Bill Nunn, as well. He was another great versatile actor RIP
An underrated brilliance of this scene is it tortures you with that pizza. It actually looks really good, and you just want him to take a fucking bite, but he never does. It gets so frustrating by the end of the scene that you feel the characters frustration.
It's also probably not edible considering they need it to last for multiple takes
Agreed and I was also frustrated by the lack of a plate!
@@MikeDunnEast coast swag. We like eating from napkins
I watched this movie in the theater. I thought it was amazing how every character is flawed, but their flaws are understandable. I think the movie was a great portrait of people living together in spite of their flaws and differences. They obviously don’t live without conflict, but that’s just reality.
This was the original "Friday"
I agree...excellent cinematic epic.
Very well said.
That's not "reality" that's Harlem. It was a shit hole in the 80's and it's a shit hole in 2024. This kind of behavior is not reasonable anywhere, but we make excuses for it because they're black. That is reality.
Jade and Señor Love Daddy had no flaws. Da Mayor always did the right thing except he was a drunk so that was his only flaw.
Hard to believe Buggin Out is played by the same guy who played Gustavo Fring. Giancarlo is truly an amazing actor.
Watch Fresh to be even more impressed
it’s crazy how Buggin Out looking up at the wall for a quick second leads to the death of a man by the end of the same day
But it’s just as much if not more sal starting trouble
@@patrickfors815 HOW!? thats HIS place of business, they are HIS customers and thats HIS wall
i agree everyone is flawed but its buggin out's boycott for a PIZZERIA (he instigates all over the place from the slice of pizza to extra parm cheese)
(and STILL isnt done making a complete ass of himself in his first scene)
far worse than any of the main characters in the film
what was SAL doing that even compared to that? (in this scene ONLY mind you)
the disrespect he takes from that (including having Buggin Out THROW TRASH ON THE FLOOR AND NOT CLEAN IT UP)
was Sal supposed to back step and be seen to lower his prices? that can snowball real fast into other customers doing the same
or not charge for extra cheese (dumb as it may sound ITS HIS RESTAURANT and he has to earn a living)
everyone has their flaws played for exaggerated value of varying degrees
i dont und
would you be ok with someone coming into your job and slapping the Di~~~ sorry, let me try again
i dont see where the two of them (sal and bug; great fu¢king name BTW) are neck and neck to see who is morally bankrupt or more in the wrong
if you dont like the pizza
or the prices
or the owner
or the pictures up on the wall
GO SOMEWHERE ELSE
and that would have been that,
tragedy averted
BTW, hes gonna boycott and raise hell over a slice of pizza
but how much did those Jordan's cost? priorities motherfu¢kers, priorities
sorry i repeated myself over and over but what trouble did Sal stir up here that lead to a death (raheem is a whole chapter to himself; but would he have been there boycotting w/ smiley had BUGGIN OUT not been going around stirring up $hit over PICTURES ON A FU¢KING WALL & $2.00 for extra cheese?),
a riot, his business being raised, and his reputation ruined w/ the community that he had been a part of for decades
well?
but at the same time, Sal was willing to beat up Buggin Out over suggesting to put up black people on the wall, which isn't an unreasonable request especially given that Sal understands how the black people in bed stuy have kept his business afloat ,and even mentions how appreciative he is of them. not to mention that the film alludes to the Howard beach incident where black men were beaten by racists in a pizzeria, so Buggin Out's reaction seems reasonable when considering the cultural context. I don't think asking for extra cheese (which is more expensive than the cost of the pizza itself, no one talks about that haha), littering, or instigating warrants getting beaten with a bat, which was Sal's immediate reaction. Either way, both characters are seen to be extreme in nature, so of course there were better ways the both of them could have handled that situation for sure!
@@jeamarahlagrandeur3959 always looked at Buggin Out's intentional littering on the floor (in Sal's place of business, mind you) as his reasoning for picking up the bat. not that that sounds any more rational than taking up the bat over who should be on whose wall, just didnt register with me before. agreed, they are both extremes and i wasnt old enough to remember the social climate at the time.
Damn back then one slice of pizza was a $1.50, now a days it’s like $5.00
in some parts of the city, yes
Dude what shithole do you live in where that's true?
I know a year ago little caesars was still like 6 bucks a pizza. It can't be that bad now.
i always wondered what is the equivalent of Sal's pizzaria
Extra cheese $2.00....
Biden inflation and high minimum wages like $15 or above.
He played the antagonist in this movie. If you look at everything that happened, all the problems, all the chaos, it was him.
All it takes is one, just one
Dogg, don't even.
@@Y20XTongvaLand 😏
Lmaoo
@@willie417 say what you really mean. Or you too scared?
The camera work in this movie is brilliant.
Spike Lee is one of the greatest!
Michael Jor-DAN😂😂😂😂
It’s amazing that Michael Jordan hadn’t even won a championship yet and was already considered the most famous and best basketball player in the world.
He was so mad, he moved to New Mexico and established his own chain of restaurants, "Los Pollos Hermanos"
That was the chicken man?
No, he and his pals bulled that caps Sal out with his 'ownership' guts. Capitalists regret about this things as always
@@nocturnalrecluse1216 yep
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"You want brothers up on the wall, get your own place. You can do what you want to do. You can put your brothers and uncles and nieces and nephews, step-fathers, step-mothers, whoever you want." 😂
Love that! Sounds 100% improvised!
'Own place'? All places are common.
@@philosophyversuslogiclol that’s some cope for wanting to run other peoples lives
If they had pictures of "brothers" on the wall then the crybabies would complain about "cultural appropriation" anyway.
@@philosophyversuslogic can you please put up some pictures of Hitler in a superman suit in every room of your house? I noticed you don't have any.
@@bigol9223 i guess you don't have enough stuff behind your nose, if you simply fail in communism-fasizm definition. by the way, humoro, explain then how you deide to whom the Moon belongs
My dad turned me on to Spike Lee films at an age where I was mostly just into action and superheroes or cartoons. Granted he probably shouldn't have but the stories were compelling. And I can appreciate them even more as an adult. Spike Lee knew what he was doing. The shot selection he would use and the duration of takes without incessant or abundant editing. Extended takes. Single takes even. That's directing. That's how you capture the moment. The feeling and emotion you want to convey. Charles Dutton's scene at the end of Get on the Bus as an example. Done in one extended take. That and this are probably his best films.
this is the type of film people need to see tho even at a young age
I saw this movie as a kid. Best possible age to see it for the first time.
@@jameswalker6864saw it as a kid too when it first came out on VHS with the whole family. Summer time at my grandparents aunts and uncles would all come to visit. We all watched it one afternoon then again that night. Been one of my favorite movies ever since
Here's a fun fact: in the scene with the ice cubes they never show Rosie Perez's face. Thats because she was crying the entire time they filmed it and that's Spike Lee rubbing her nipples.
@@DeadEndGoose Why was she crying?
The Mayor is such a great character. I love the real time nature of this film, how individuals and conversations bleed into each frame. Superb
Growing up in NYC every pizza shop and barber shop (Italian owned) had posters of Bruno Sammartino ! He was an icon !!
This film is a masterpiece.
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I can't front, Sal was a great cook, and he looked out for the neighborhood by making his food very affordable. A 1.50 a slice, man. It's not in this scene, but I loved how he explained to Vito that he wasn't moving his business into an Italian neighborhood, and that Sal's was here to stay. When Sal broke it down that the entire neighborhood grew up on his food, and how proud he was of that, I really felt those words!!!
“Who Else Went Straight To The Comments?”
...
Me.
Line that sparked disaster:
"Sal, how come there ain't brothas on the wall?"
because he Italian and he does not wont any stupid monkeys on wall
@@IssacLHunt Monkeys? Really dude? REALLY?
😂 he was definitely looking for trouble
John Turturro's character is very racist in the movie, but he is also level headed and takes the bat from his dad's hand.
Crazy not stupid
I think the hate comes from his friends. When his dad asks him why does he have so much hate in him he says because his friends make fun of him for having a restaurant in Bed Stuy. And like Millie told him. Deep down he wishes he was black.
Also 40 Years ago Giancarlo Esposito was a Day Player on Guiding Light. He was in The 1982 Cast Picture when the show celebrated Two Anniversaries. 45 overall (Debuting on Radio in 1937) then on TV on June 30th 1952. So many African Americans appeared on The Show. Taye Diggs, Sharon Leal, The "Original" Dreamgirl Jennifer Holliday, Jesse L. Martin, Karla Mosley, and Kevin Mambo who won Two Daytime Emmys for playing Marcus Williams.
Sal is right. It's his business and he's promoting his heritage.
his heritage aren’t supporting his buisness tho
@@user-dp9mn3db6g but it is his business he isn't forcing people to come in his resturant.
@@user-dp9mn3db6g his place he can do what he wants lmfao, for example I live in a predominantly black neighborhood but do I go to my local Chinese restaurant and say “hey how come they ain’t no brothers on the wall” lmfaooooo
@@user-dp9mn3db6g His heritage IS the business. Thats more than enough support. Go to the soul food restaurant for brothers on the wall. You go to Sal's pizzeria, for Pizza.
He should boycott himself.
A guy goes into an Italian restaurant and complains about no brothers on a wall for an Italian restaurant.
Ain’t no Italians eating dat shit
You don't get it
@@brylerthecreator well explain to me than
@@mitchjames9350 look at all the customers dumbass
@@mitchjames9350 black people feel the need to be everywhere attention starved just like chicks with no fathers
Thats movie is absolute briljant, my favorite Spike Lee movie with as second Jungle Fever (Jacksons best performance ever)
You always have such great ideas.
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Guy boycotted a place because an Italian guy has pictures of Italian celebrities on his wall
Basketball mentality
In a restaurant that serves Italian food 💀
LET ME SEE.
I was walking down Rodeo Dr, about 6 years ago.
I'm wearing my Jordans, lookin' like an innocent good for something citizen.
To my surprise, I see lots of White Folk at a Indian Restaurant, off of Rodeo.
I BET, those relatives of Hitler were like........
*You Mf'zzzzzz ain't got no pictures of my grand daddy Hitler up in yo restaurant and you in Rodeo* !!!!
He wouldn't gone as far as a boycott if Sal hadn't thrown him out. The film is a series of bad but understandable decisions which lead to catastrophe.
Good job not getting the point 😂
Sal and Buggin Out are two sides of the same coin in this scene. Neither man owes the other anything beyond the exchange of a slice of pizza for $1.50. But they both behave as if they are owed something. Buggin Out believes that because he and other Black neighbors spend money in Sal's shop, they are entitled to a picture of Malcolm X on the wall. Sal believes that, because it's his shop, he can do as he pleases and owes his customers nothing, even though their patronage supports his family. Both men have valid arguments, and neither attempts to look at things from the perspective of the other man. They're more concerned with being right than showing empathy. In a community, a neighborhood, you can't be so concerned with what you deserve or what you are entitled to. You have to find common ground. This is the entitlement I speak of. Sal and Buggin Out both dig their heels in, take up opposing positions and push each other apart instead of trying to find common ground. If they were thinking level-headedly and behaving rationally, they would each see that the other man has a reasonable position, and they would treat each other with respect. In the fairytale version of this story, Sal would probably hang pictures of Nelson Mandela and Michael Jordan alongside Frank Sinatra and Al Pacino, and the community would come together more closely -- but that's a fairytale. Instead, they are each concerned with what they are owed, which is amplified by racism and the unrelenting heat. It's a powder keg. The subsequent death of Radio Raheem by the police is the spark that finally burns it all down. At least, that's my interpretation of this scene.
I love this movie so much and i only just realised Gus Fring was Buggin Out.
lol, my god, Sal's gotta have the patience of a freakin Buddhist monk
True, dealing with the eternal children, it's a must.
@@MrSinister718 Patience is one of the greatest of virtues.
I like his attitude of this in "Jacob's Ladder"
Sal was racist
@@MichaelThomas-x5j He was an asshole. He should have hung those damned pictures, not be that stupid kind of capitalist
Danny Aiello is incredible in this scene. The mannerisms and the gestures. That is professional acting
Man I love this film. I watched this so many times as a kid. Excellent masterpiece from Spike Lee.
🤣😂🤣I’ll never forget those words, “I’m a trouble maker, making trouble.” What a great movie! 😁
But what's so special in those words?
@@philosophyversuslogic the special thing about that was that everything went downhill from there. Buggin out had been going there for years and he just wanted to look for trouble that day.
Buggin’ Out was the real villain.
How?
I agree. All he had to do was eat his food and shut up. I’m a brotha and i totally disagree with “Bugging Out”. I agree with Sal. Regardless of race, no one should walk in a place, order something, sit and eat, then beef bout the place you’re eating in.
@@ghanasoul So, in other words, you like seeing black people put in their place on TV and in real life. Nice seeing you showcase your tommish tendencies.
@@saj8 😁😆🤣😂
i love how his frustration is something real and relatable, but he takes it out on the wrong people
It's so crazy how this crap is still relevant right now in 2021
Yeah it's very relevant.
Yup. Especially because some people demand to creators what was demanded to Sal.
Unfortunately, I don't think a time will come when it's not relevant. This is a study of human nature and raw emotion as much as it's a study on race and cultural friction.
Yes italian culture vs morons
@@SergioLeonardoCornejo The victim industrial complex is a big money spinner today.
i would have never guessed that was giancarlo, its insane how young he was
I love how someone can be so entitled to think if they spend money at a privately owned establishment, then they have some right to say how the place is ran. Here’s how capitalism works, if you don’t like it, don’t spend your money there, if enough people don’t spend their money there, they will either change or shut down.
This remaster's so dark it's like they turned off half of the lights on the set.
Even how he tosses the balled up napkin and says Boop is great stuff.
such a masterpiece.
I love how when Sal is going off, Mookie is outside, making fun of him 😂
One of the greatest movies ever made. Magic
God I love this movie. I don't think Spike ever did anything else as good as this.
nooooope
Clockers
@@larrydanadavid2435- Book is better
Jungle Fever was brilliant.
Malcolm X
You don’t come into a persons place of business and tell them what to do or what to hang up on their wall. Dude was being a gigantic smartass, he’s lucky Sal didn’t whoop his ass.
You think he asks that at Los Pollos Hermanos?
This is such a great film. I saw it in the theaters way back in the day.
No bruthus because it's an Italian restaurant. Duh
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But the restaurant is in a black neighbourhood so the brothas do get some say
@@overtothisside504 Das rite. But if we move into an Italian hood they better not say nuffin or we straight up lootin
yea and hes in a black neighbourhood selling to black people a little understanding would be nice
@@overtothisside504black neighborhood, lol when did slaves own a neighborhood. They just live there that doesn't mean they own it
In an interview with Giancarlo where he’s talked about how he’s felt ostricized by the Italian community despite the fact that he’s more Italian than most people really feels like subtext in this scene
Spike Lee is the greatest storyteller of my generation
I agree one of the greatest baiters of all time !
Spike Lee wouldn't be the greatest storyteller in the room if he was sitting by himself. To say nothing of a generation.
James Earl Jones called him a no-talent bigmouth.
He was the original professional victim..
Spike Lee is one of our greatest filmmakers. It’s a real shame that he isn’t regarded as much as the likes of Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Spielberg, and other greats. He’s never gotten his due in my opinion.
Read comedy of coffin on kindle written by Avijit Kabiraj. Introduction : Two unemployed boys were employed by a mafia boss, their job is to bury a dead chef in the criminal's cemetery. The chef is the pasta maker whom the boss accidentally shot dead. The boys were chased by the police, shot by a sniper, rested in a church, kidnapped by an evil doctor, electrocuted, freezed, roasted, couple of ladies didn't spare them, survived the strange graveyard but when they returned after burying the dead chef, found the boss in a coffin..
he’s no where near the level of stanley kubrick, comparing a literal genius to a decent filmmaker 😂, bruh i also don’t recall kubrick having a movie like oldboy (2013) in his filmography 💀
Love spike Lee.
Love all the above directors.
History has a way of balancing things. He'll be right there with the rest.
Do the right thing
i really enjoyed it so much thsnk you for haveing me to xxxxx
“Hey Mando… how come you ain’t got no stormtroopers up on the wall here?”
Rip Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis , Ruby Dee, & Bill Nunn
I want to see the 60 minute director's cut version of this flick where Sal relents and puts brothers up on the wall of his pizza place and the film simply ends with nods of mutual respect.
Will always bother me that I didn't see him take one bite of that slice of pizza.
I always felt that too. Just enjoy the pizza, man! Fuhgeddaboutit
Great cinematography
You're gonna pay now or you're gonna pay on layaway?
very realistic to how they sure can cry about this and that
Like those that ran from THEIR country to come over to another, and receive all sorts of handouts, like today. LOL.
No soul food here 😂
Such a,”slice” of Urban America. Spike Lee is a genius.
This is just a great movie through and though, quite an achievement in American filmmaking history
LOL 2:38 Check out Smiley outside.
Smiley the spastic
It’s an Italian joint, it only makes sense for Italians to be on the wall regardless what neighborhood..as an Italian American myself if I go to a local Mexican joint and I see Italians on a wall I’d be like “um wtf?” Lol would be expecting to see Mexicans only
Bugging out was a professional victim.
that is the irony the film speaks of. people in the film repeatedly keep thinking that they're on the right side for doing what they're doing, but indeed they don't even know what the hell they're actually talking about. this scene is like complaining about why there's no photo of albert einstein in an indian restaurant.
The great thing about this movie is everyone is right and wrong at the same time. It’s crazy how well this movie was laid out. Just imagine if a black man tried to open a soul food spot in the middle of little Italy. You think it would be a lot harder than it is for an Italian to open a pizza spot in a black neighborhood right. Now ask yourself why that is
@@GeronFletcher Little Italy holds more precedence than just a black neighborhood, one is specifically attached toward a certain racial ideal while another can have any degree of black admixture. If a black person opened a soul food restaurant in a white neighborhood, nobody would bat an eye, since most whites enjoy soul food, and racially mixed whites have less individual culture than racially "pure" Italians, meaning they'd be less likely to hold racial biases, especially in the modern day, given how media, education, and basically everything else screams at white people to respect other cultures and be anti-racist. The same could also be said of an Italian man opening a pizzeria in a black neighborhood, since black people, proportionally speaking, eat pizza more often than other races, and also endure similar anti-racist education.
A black man opening a soul food restaurant in little Italy is like an Italian opening a pizzeria in a Ugandan village. Totally different flavor profiles, values, and people.
@@cooldud7071again you not making since here black people have tons of white people on their walls . He was rude to a community that he made a profit off.
Classic scene! Great acting all around
And what Sal did is how creators should respond to demands of representation of any kind.
What cracks me up everytime is the fact he sits down and about to enjoy his meal until he looks up at the pictures 😂
Does anyone know the name of the actress at 2:23?
Giancarlo. Can't believe that's breaking bad's baddest. What an amazing actor.
he went in there a few time a day, everyday, eating pizza and complaining about anything he could, there are people like that too
This movie is such a masterpiece. I have been saying it since I saw it, learning Shakespeare in school was worthless to me, the screen play of this movie is more relevant and powerful than Romeo and Juliet
The Audacity to go in somebody else's business and try to run their place smh. Always thought Sal was in the right.
It's mind boggling how different he was here compared to his roles now.
And now he's an Imperial Moff.
I love his chicken.
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Now?, nope that was a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.😊
Still a good movie after this many years
It’s crazy how I talk to some people about this movie and it completely goes over their heads. Some people do not get this movie and the point
What’s your take on the point?
One of My Favorite Movies From Spike Lee at #1!
The same reason you don't have Italians on your wall. (character, not the actor).
Giancarlo Espostio is a great actor and a handsome man RIP Danny Aiello 🙏🏿
My work has a board featuring pictures of all the top employees of the month. Currently all of the faces are black, and as a giant fan of this movie it really makes me want to make some variation of "brothas on the wall" as a joke to my coworkers but I just can't tool the joke right to where people will both get the reference and I won't get fired. Should probably just put that idea in the trash bin.
The pizza shop and Danny Aiello was the best stuff about this show.
Sal's Pizzeria is a restaurant run by Sal, who has owned it for 25 years (circa since 1964). His staff includes his sons Vito and Pino, and Mookie. Sal and his sons make the pizza and customer service, while Mookie is the delivery boy. The pizzeria is opposite the Korean grocery store.
Sal has a Wall of Fame in the pizzeria which includes Italian-American celebrities. Buggin' Out complains to Sal about how there are no black people on the wall and tells people to boycott the place when he gets kicked out.
He bugging out cause there no monkeys on the wall.
Not enough cheese drove him away from pizza and made him become the Chicken Man
Boa noite, esse filme é um clássico, dos bons. Adorei o vídeo.
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Giancarlo Esposito is one of the greats.
so if i walk into a soul food restaurant and ask the opposite question would they make a movie about that?
It’s a film scene genius
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What, you gonna ask for pictures of Vanilla Ice to be put up on the wall?? Go for it champ! 👍
Bro this is Spike Lee, renowned racist
Someone hasn’t seen the film lol
Back when you can somewhat work a shitty job and still make it
Yeah, Mookie was making $250 a week plus tips as a delivery boy in 1989. There’s delivery boys thy are still making just that today in 2024.
It hard to believe that’s the future Gustavo Fring
One of my favorites of all time. #dotherighthing
This Movie is My Personal Favorite Movie From Spike Lee!
Robert Dinero on the wall of fame ? His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French..uh so I guess he's allowed LOL
Well tbf he grew up in an Italian American community and traditionally played Italian Americans
" No Sal this is important. This is important ". BOOM !
" Mookie!!! let's get outttaaaheee!!! " ........Alot of people probably wont understand you comment lmfao!!!
Imagine walking into a black soul food restaurant and asking why there's no white people on the wall what response you'd get.
exactly theyll never understand and dont even want to try
it would be a humourous response not a violent one
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Shiiiiieeeetttt they better have Trump up on that wall!!!
Black people where the main customers at this restaurant in this movie.
One of my favourite scenes in any film
"It's the hottest day of the year, there's racial tension everywhere, and we ain't patronizing your pizzeria till there's some brothas up on that wall!"
If you’re more than 40 years old then I don’t see any point of reliving this moment. Maybe it’s just the right time to move on…
Great movie!!!
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