That was the final rallying cry of Spike Lee's previous picture, School Daze. And Do the Right Thing -- Lee's purposefully ambiguous exploration of escalating racial tensions on one Bedford-Stuyvesant block on the hottest day of the summer -- picks up where School Daze left off: with the very same rousing words.
"Waaaaake up!" calls Mr. Señor Love Daddy (Samuel L. Jackson), the 24-7-365 DJ for neighborhood radio station WE-LOVE as he holds a ringing alarm clock next to his studio microphone. From an intimate close-up of Love Daddy's lips, mic and clock, the camera pulls back, through the glass front of the WE-LOVE booth and out onto the street that is the sole setting for Do the Right Thing.
In both School Daze and Do the Right Thing,
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