So tell me Yea Forums... Did he deserve it?

No, but Mookie knew he had to redirect the mobs anger to the store so they wouldn't kill Sal

Bugging’ Out was an instigating motherfucker but Raheem made the choices that led to his death ultimately.

I don't think Spike was implying he did

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I don't even understand where he gets off. What did Sal do wrong? He literally did nothing wrong.

But really, who was in the wrong here?

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no, but (like jk rowling trying to retcon dumbledore as a homo) spike lee has changed what he claims the messages and themes of the movie are meant to be, and now says that sal deserved it and all the blacks were in the right (the coconut and koreans no longer have rights)

He wasn't "racist" in a serious way but more just didn't like being poked the wrong way and lived in an environment that continued to do that. He wasn't "racist" in an actual malicious way and seemed to acknowledge that he lived and worked in a neighborhood that wasn't his.

The boombox guy was kind of being a dick and even the other black people knew it; him getting killed by the cops just felt like a plot device to escalate things further.

he either changed his mind, its cashing on the new trends or he's just fucking around, the movie clearly doesn't lead you to make that conclusion

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Sal unironically related to and connected with Mookie more than any of the other blacks.

what was the deal with that white guy

Based Larry Bird fan

why are black people so fucking obsessed with their shoes in the first place

Radio Raheem didn't deserve to die and Sal didn't deserve to have his shop destroyed. I don't get how both /pol/ AND Spike Lee don't comprehend this

Raheem was on the brink of killing Sal before the cops arrived

Sal is racist in theory but not in practice. On an individual level he is kind and respectful by default to everyone and treats others according to how they treat him.
Buggin Out and Raheem are the opposite. They talk all the talk of unity and dismantling racism etc but then have nothing but hatred towards whites as a default. Whites have to go out of their prove they arent this awful racist caricature before they get their respect and even then the respect is tenuous.
The film is ironically and accidentally based in a lot of ways
Suffice it to say they did not do the right thing

Absolutely not. I don't think I've ever been so annoyed about a movie ending. Like even if that was Spike's intent, I still hate it.

It's the earliest status symbol a poor person generally gets. Look out for black guys with dirty shoes because they have nothing to lose.

>Did he deserve it?
>Who was in the wrong here?
>Why didn't he just shake his hand?
>What was his fucking problem?
I could stomp your fucking pinhead in and no one would remember you existed

top ten questions reddit STILL cant answer

>Sal is racist in theory
How? The only racist thing he even does is call Raheem a nigger in outburst after taking several minutes of his verbal shit and violence over the wall pictures that 99% of the neighborhood blacks saw as a non-issue.

Spike is a fucking retard. Radio Raheem was acting like a fucking violent thug, the police put him in a chokehold because he was resisting arrest and refused to calm down.

Martin Lawrence is an actor.

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he has an old school mentality in regards to race. i dont say that to malign him. the word racist is so full of baggage it makes it very difficult to talk about maybe my meaning was unclear

You are 100% wrong.
The message Spike is saying is that no matter how nice a white person is to a black person they will always think of that black person as a nigger. Throughout the entire movie Sal was the nicest guy. He loved the neighborhood and was proud that the people grew up on his food, he let Da Mayor sweep up for a dollar, he scolds his son for having hate in his heart towards blacks, he gets along great with Mookie's sister, and he even said to Mookie that the business is going well and they will all rich from it "you too Mookie".
But of course Spike can't have a nice white guy in the world and the second shit got too hot Sal started screaming "nigger".
Fuck Spike Lee.

I am should rewatch this, had a couple funny parts.

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"You're lucky a black man has a loving art". Jesus and I bet Spike really believed this.

I just love those Latina titties manyng

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that doesn't match the narrative. You are right about Sal being a good man up until the end where he is provoked and antagonized unfairly and then loses his cool for a brief moment and has his life's work burned to the ground down as consequence.
I don't see how that is as a portrayal of 'no matter what you do whiteys gonna keep you down because he hates you' or whatever it is youre saying

>I don't see how that is as a portrayal of 'no matter what you do whiteys gonna keep you down because he hates you' or whatever it is youre saying
I never said the white man is trying to keep blacks down. What I'm saying is that Spike's message is you can trust white people because you will always be a "nigger" to them. Even Sal, the nicest guy in the neighborhood who loves being there and the people love him (they even tell Buggin Out that they won't support his Sal's Pizza Protest).
Why else do you think Spike built him up as a Saint the entire movie? So he could tear him down at the very end, that's why.

All this movie taught me is that blacks have no empathy for whites. Even if you go into their neighborhood and feed them and put up with their bullshit day in and day out, employ a member of the community, and make friends with them, they will still fuck you over because they cannot empathize with you, they only care how they feel in the moment. And even after they fuck you over, ruin your life, it's just shrugs all around.

It’s racist to restrain niggers nigging’ that who they are.

How did he become "that guy" in every TV/streaming show

>white dude bumps black dude from the left, on the left
>right foot sneakers, on the right side, gets dirty
is the director being smart or dumb?

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Radio Raheem wasn't just resisting arrest, he was actively trying to murder Sal. And every other black person there was cheering him on, holding back Sal's sons so they couldn't save him.

Spike Lee thinks Sal deserved to die for saying the heckin' meanie word.

>The film is ironically and accidentally based in a lot of ways
The movie is, completely unintentionally, a brutal redpill on joggers.

Breaking Bad bux

Spike showed the complete autism and stupidity of black mobs
>blacks all cheering as Sal is attacked and keep cheering more when Mookie throws the can in the window
>5 seconds later they are all upset and Mother Sister is like "ohhh lawd how could dis happen!?"

Literally every film trying to do some big brain analysis on racism in Burgerstaghn boils down to pic related and how whiteoids or in this case Italians react to it.

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The fact that this movie can still generate so much discussion makes me think that Do the Right Thing truly is one of the best American movies, about an American issue, of all time.

>about an American issue
It's not an American issue, it's a black people issue

Very true. I've always said that Spike Lee is an idiot that manages to repeatedly stumble into greatness. There is nothing ambiguous about his personal opinions, and yet his movies are truly open-ended.

Do the Right Thing and Bamboozled are legitimately great movies and entertaining as fuck. I feel like the rest of his movies will be less entertaining and more heavy-handed.

Bamboozled is one of the most heavy-handed films ever made. And it sucks.

Lee doesn't even understand his own movie.

All the goofy-ass cutting and borderline experimental shit in Bamboozled makes it funny. The editing style reflects the over-the-top blackface really well.

New jack city was better

Blacks have a very unique history in the US, and Do the Right Thing really captures the racial tension well. For lefties it's a beautiful masterpiece of why truly they dindu nuffin wrong and for righties it's a glorious ode to the chimpout. What other movie manages to unite two polar opposites in such a way?

for blacks treating everyone equally is racist.

i thought the whole point of the movie was that no one could "do the right thing"
everyone thought they were doing the right thing if you look at it from their perspective
but in the end, it's hard to tell what really is the right or wrong thing in such a complicated situation

spike lee prob thought that by getting sal to say nigger would show that hes racist. but to a normal person everyone sees that sal is pushed to his limit and has the right to lash out at his tormentors.

"Why else do you think Spike built him up as a Saint the entire movie?"

this doesnt work thou, most people watching the movie would sympathize with sal.