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industry (industry):
Driving Miss Daisy → Do the Right Thing.
The year before, Driving Miss Daisy won the Oscar over Do the Right Thing, making it a back-to-back miss.
“89 is when driving Miss Daisy wins over.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:28:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Mo' Better Blues → Do the Right Thing.
Mo' Better Blues is a completely different follow-up to Do the Right Thing.
“Spike Lee's amazing, completely different follow-up to do the right thing”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:28:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Do the Right Thing → Driving Miss Daisy.
Do the Right Thing, not even nominated, should have beaten Driving Miss Daisy.
“I do the right thing, which was not nominated over driving was Daisy.”
The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:41:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them) -
people (actor's earlier work):
Steve Park → Do the Right Thing.
At the time of Fargo, Park was best known for Do the Right Thing and In Living Color.
“Steve Park, at this point in time, was most known for do the right thing and in living color.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fargo with Zach Cregger · 2:07:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
The Ice Storm → Do the Right Thing.
The Ice Storm gets cold weather as right as Do the Right Thing gets hot weather, trading rage for malaise.
“I think this movie gets cold weather as right as do the right thing gets hot weather.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:10:53 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Driving Miss Daisy → Do the Right Thing.
Do the Right Thing going un-nominated the year Driving Miss Daisy won says it all.
“do the right thing doesn't even get nominated in the year when driving Miss Staisy wins, that tells you everything.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:33:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (era shift):
Do the Right Thing → Eddie Murphy.
Do the Right Thing marks the shift at the end of the decade away from Murphy's sole mainstream prominence.
“Things like do the right thing come in and then it starts to shift.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:27:04 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them) -
people (that guy filmography):
Richard Edson → Do the Right Thing.
Edson appears in Stranger Than Paradise, Desperately Seeking Susan, Platoon, Good Morning Vietnam, Eight Men Out and Do the Right Thing.
“he's in Stranger Than Paradise, desperately seeking Susan Platoon. Good morning Vietnam, 8 men out, and then do the right thing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:41 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them) -
industry (Oscar snub):
Do the Right Thing → Driving Miss Daisy.
Driving Miss Daisy won best picture the year Do the Right Thing was not nominated; the snub is the reason the film is remembered in awards history.
“This is, of course, the year that driving Miss Daisy won best picture.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them) -
industry (release-weekend memory):
Do the Right Thing → Weekend at Bernie's.
Wesley, 13, was far more interested in seeing Weekend at Bernie's that same stretch than Do the Right Thing.
“That was the weekend that weekend at Bernie's.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:05:29 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Do the Right Thing → Ernest Dickerson.
The speaker calls it one of the most beautifully shot films he has seen, crediting Dickerson's color, weather and tilted camera angles.
“It's one of the most beautifully shot films I've ever seen. Ernest Dickerson.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:12:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (thematic follow-up):
Jungle Fever → Do the Right Thing.
Jungle Fever explored the Bensonhurst setting a couple of years later, rehearsing part of that story.
“which I think is explored in jungle fever a couple years later”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:14:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70 sure it was them) -
contrast (tone contrast):
Do the Right Thing → Wedding Crashers.
Most Rewatchables picks are quotable fun like Wedding Crashers; this movie is different.
“a lot of the movies we do on this show are like wedding crashers.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:16:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them) -
contrast (tone contrast):
Do the Right Thing → Beverly Hills Cop.
Beverly Hills Cop is a comfort rewatch whose social import is extra-textual; Do the Right Thing is working hard to be important and disrupt comfort.
“it's working hard to be important, and it's working hard to disrupt your feeling of ease and comfort.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them) -
lineage (pseudo-sequel):
Red Hook Summer → Do the Right Thing.
Mookie reappears delivering for a Sal's that has relocated to Red Hook, though Spike insisted it was not a sequel.
“he made a movie called Red Hook Summer.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:19:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them) -
career (career critique):
Do the Right Thing → Mo' Better Blues.
Critics bring up Spike's money and commercial work even when judging unrelated films like Mo' Better Blues.
“Nothing to do about Better Blues, whether Mo Better Blues is a good movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:26:18 · Wesley Morris (0.60 sure it was them) -
unmapped (joke answer):
Do the Right Thing → Steel Magnolias.
Joke answer to 'favorite movie' versus the real answer, Do the Right Thing.
“Number one, steel magnolias.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:30:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them) -
contrast (pretension contrast):
Do the Right Thing → Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.
Naming Uncle Boonmee as a favorite sounds pretentious; naming Do the Right Thing gets you labeled a black critic.
“If you said Uncle Boone me, people would say you're pretentious, but if you say, do the right thing, people say, oh, he's a black critic.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:32:10 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them) -
verdict (best-of-decade contender):
Do the Right Thing → Broadcast News.
Both come up as perfect movies in the best-movie-of-the-80s conversation.
“Adam, we had a conversation on this show about Broadcast News a few months ago.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:32:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them) -
unmapped (pop answer):
Do the Right Thing → Die Hard.
Die Hard is the pop answer to best American movie of the 80s but would not make Wesley's top ten.
“I wouldn't put die hard in my top 10.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:32:50 · Wesley Morris (0.60 sure it was them) -
unmapped (decade bookend):
Raging Bull → Do the Right Thing.
Raging Bull (1980) and Do the Right Thing (1989) bookend the decade as New York movies.
“Raging Bull, 1980. Do the right thing, 1989.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:32:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them) -
lineage (callback):
25th Hour → Do the Right Thing.
25th Hour repeats the racial slur montage as Ed Norton's mirror monologue; Wesley says the repeats made the original less effective for him but 25th Hour has greatness.
“There's a 25th hour version of that too.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them) -
unmapped (commissioned anthem):
Do the Right Thing → Public Enemy.
Spike asked Chuck D for an anthem, producing Fight the Power for the film.
“This song was written specifically for the movie because Spike approached Chuck D and said, I need an anthem.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:48:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them) -
lineage (influence):
Wes Anderson → Do the Right Thing.
Direct address to camera (Mr. Senor Love Daddy and the like) was taken up by the whole indie revolution, Wes Anderson most of all.
“Using direct address into the camera as a style, which has been now jacked by basically the whole indie revolution that came after him.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:50:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them) -
unmapped (borrowed line):
Quentin Tarantino → Do the Right Thing.
Sean says Tarantino lifted the 'shoot me in a dream, wake up and apologize' line from Do the Right Thing into Reservoir Dogs.
“you shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize, which is something that I think Robin Harris says in the movie, which later appears in Reservoir Dogs”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:50:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them) -
unmapped (borrowed speech):
True Romance → Do the Right Thing.
The Sicilians-and-Moors speech in True Romance echoes what Mookie says to Pino in Sal's.
“Well, Sicilians and and Africans and the Moors in that whole speech that appears in true romance, which is also something that Mookie essentially says to Pino”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:51:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them) -
what-if (casting what-if):
Robert De Niro → Do the Right Thing.
Spike campaigned for De Niro as Sal; Wesley argues his baggage would have tipped the film's equal-weighted balance and made it a different movie.
“Spike Lee campaigned for Robert De Niro as so.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:59:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them) -
lineage (inspiration):
Do the Right Thing → Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Shopping for Death.
Spike got the idea after seeing the Hitchcock Presents episode where characters theorize hot weather increases violence.
“Spike Lee 1st got the idea for this film after watching the Alfred Hitchcock presents episode shopping for death”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:06:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them) -
lineage (real-events inspiration):
Do the Right Thing → Eleanor Bumpurs.
The film was inspired by Howard Beach and Eleanor Bumpers, plus a list of other deaths in 1980s New York.
“It was also inspired, as you mentioned, by the Howard Beach racial incident in Eleanor Bumpers.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:06:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them) -
unmapped (double standard):
Do the Right Thing → Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Spike points out nobody feared audiences leaving Schwarzenegger films to kill people.
“I don't remember people saying people were going to come out of theaters killing people after they watched an Arnold Schwarzenegger film.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:09:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them) -
unmapped (same-summer):
Do the Right Thing → Sex, Lies, and Videotape.
Same summer of Batman and sex, lies, and videotape, which also did not make that much money.
“Sex lives and videotape on its way, it didn't make that much money either.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:12:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (moral-panic parallel):
Do the Right Thing → Basic Instinct.
Basic Instinct raised concern about its effect, a different kind of fear than Do the Right Thing.
“There was concern, though, about whether or not basic instinct was going to what effect it was going to have.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:13:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them) -
theme (moral-panic parallel):
Do the Right Thing → The Matrix.
Sean offers The Matrix as a film that attracted retroactive concern about violence, unlike the contemporaneous panic over Do the Right Thing.
“I think there's been a lot of retroactive energy on the Matrix.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:13:36 · Wesley Morris (0.60 sure it was them) -
lineage (callback):
Inside Man → Do the Right Thing.
In Inside Man the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages.
“In Lee's 2006 film Inside Man, the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:15:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them) -
unmapped (date movie):
Do the Right Thing → Barack and Michelle Obama.
The Obamas said they saw it together on their first date.
“And in 2014, the 25th anniversary of the film, Barack and Michelle Obama praised the film and said they went to see it together on their 1st date.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:15:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them) -
contrast (screenplay contrast):
BlacKkKlansman → Do the Right Thing.
Spike's screenwriting is sometimes the problem, as with BlacKkKlansman, whereas Do the Right Thing's screenplay is perfect.
“This is a Black Lansman thing too.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:17:31 · Wesley Morris (0.50 sure it was them) -
programming (perfection pairing):
Inside Man → Do the Right Thing.
Sometimes perfection happens, and Inside Man is cited as another.
“I mean, sometimes there's perfection like inside man is perfection.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:17:39 · Wesley Morris (0.50 sure it was them) -
verdict (apex debate):
Do the Right Thing → 4 Little Girls.
Wesley argues 4 Little Girls and other work challenge the claim that Do the Right Thing is the Spike apex; Sean says the screenplay is why this one is, for fiction.
“the reason that I'm saying do the right thing is the apex of his filmmaking.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:17:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them) -
unmapped (prescient detail):
Do the Right Thing → Black Panther.
A character holds a Black Panther comic and eats pizza; Sean first noticed it in the age of Coogler.
“Black Panther eat pizza.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:22:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them) -
lineage (TV adaptation question):
Do the Right Thing → She's Gotta Have It.
Asked whether it could work as a 10-episode Netflix show, Wesley says no, noting Spike already made a TV show of She's Gotta Have It.
“As we know, he already made a TV show out of she's got to have it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:30:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them) -
verdict (peer ranking):
Do the Right Thing → Clockers.
Clockers is Wesley's second favorite Spike Lee film, with the greatest ending of any of his movies, with Spike solving Richard Price script problems.
“Clockers, my 2nd favorite Spike Lee movie has the greatest ending of all Spike Lee's movies.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:38:05 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Reservoir Dogs → Do the Right Thing.
Chris argues Do the Right Thing is a 1989 film that feels like a 1990s one from its influence.
“the influence that movie had for everything that happened in the 1990s makes it feel like it was a 1990s movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:03:40 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)