'Do the Right Thing' still has something to say

Courtesy CNN.com - Entertainment  Mon, 07/20/2009 - 06:05

In 1989, the warnings were dire. The Spike Lee film "Do the Right Thing," critics and columnists said, would provoke violence and disrupt race relations.

Instead, what it provoked was ... talk. Twenty years later, the film still maintains a hold on the imagination.

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Do the Right Thing

Posted by Dan on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 12:10.

Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" may still have something to say today...
but no one can still understand why Mookie threw that trash can through the windo at the end of the movie!

Perplexing.

rioting

Posted by Visitor on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 11:28.

Was anyone afraid at the time white people would go out rampaging and looting and rioting? No I doubt it.

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