meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Next Best Picture Podcast

"Do The Right Thing"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2542 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL EPISODE. Please check out the full episode on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture For our Patreon supporters, we asked them to pick a Spike Lee joint for this month's Throwback Review on the podcast to get us ready for his latest joint, "BlacKkKlansman." The winner was his 1989 masterpiece "Do The Right Thing." Joining me for this in-depth review into the film's themes, characters, social commentary and lack of Oscar success is Josh Parham. Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - @nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-…d1087678387?mt=2 And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

You are listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and this is our throwback review of the 1989 film, Do the Right Day.

0:08.5

Ooh, we.

0:10.9

It's going to be a scorching after day.

0:14.3

Universal Pictures presents a new film from Spike Lee.

0:18.2

Good morning, Miss Mother, Sister.

0:19.5

Namuqi don't work too hard today. The man says it's going to be hot as the devil. I've, Miss Mother, sister. Now, Mookie, don't work too hard today.

0:21.2

The man says it's going to be hot as the devil. I've been here 25 years when Sal's famous Pizz of Rie was here to stay. Trust me. Mookie, the last time I trusted you, we ended up with the sun. I know you can't stand it. You can't stand it. Hey, Sal, I'm going to get the brother from the war here. You want brothers on the wall? Love. Get your own place. You can do what you want to do. Ninety, ninety-nine the number. Another summer. What I tell you about that noise? What I tell you about that pitch? Give us what we want. You got some brother talk to him.

0:54.7

You the man.

0:55.3

No, you're the man. No, you're the man. No, you're the man. Right here, man, in the back. Y'all take a chill. Do you like to sign a petition to boycott South's famous pizzeria? Hear me what you ought to do is boycott that no good barber that messed up your head. And that's the double true.

1:11.8

Fute the power.

1:13.8

Fight the power. Fight the power. You know, deep down the side, I think we wish you were black. Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk my side of the block? Who told you to beat my neighborhood? I own this brownstone. Who told you to buy a brownstone? On my block in my neighborhood on my side of the street?

1:28.3

I can't even hear myself think.

1:30.3

From Spike Lee, Director of School Days, and she's got to have it.

1:38.3

Good people, please!

1:40.3

If we don't stop this, nobody can stop it now.

1:46.1

We're going to do something we're going to regret for the rest of our now.

1:54.1

Doctor?

1:54.4

Come on.

1:55.0

What?

1:55.8

Always do the right thing.

2:00.4

That's it?

2:01.1

That's it.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Next Best Picture Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Next Best Picture Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.