"Do The Right Thing" was Spike Lee's breakthrough movie in 1989. Spike Lee wrote and directed the movie, and it gave him his first Oscar nomination. The setting of Lee's movie is a hot day on a block in the Brooklyn district of Bedford-Stuyvesant. Spike Lee shows his audience through the course of a single day, how hate and bigotry can smolder and grow until it explodes into violence. Some of the main characters in "Do the Right Thing" are an African American pizza delivery man named Mookie, the racially sensitive local resident Buggin' Out, and the boom-box-blasting Radio Raheem. Other characters are Sal, an Italian-American and owner of Sal's Pizzeria, and Sal's two sons, Pino and Vito. Each of Sal's sons hold completely opposing attitu
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