Fantasies

Still Processing

The New York Times

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Arts

4.8 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We revisit “Do the Right Thing” almost three decades after it was snubbed at the Oscars.

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0:00.0	I'm Jenna Wortham.
0:04.3	I'm Wesley Morris.
0:05.6	We're two culture writers at the New York Times.
0:08.3	This is still processing.
0:11.6	Mr. Wesley Morris.
0:19.2	Miss Jenna Wortham.
0:20.5	I know we already talked about Green Book.
0:22.4	I sure did.
0:23.6	But the Oscars are this Sunday.
0:25.8	And this movie might win best picture.
0:27.1	Oh, Lord, no.
0:28.2	Roma, please let Roma win.
0:30.7	I think we have to talk about it,
0:31.8	because there's one scene that I cannot get out of my mind.
0:35.1	OK, which one?
0:36.6	So it's the scene where Tony Valonga, who
0:39.1	is the Italian-American guy from the Bronx,
0:41.2	who's been hired to drive dawn Shirley, this black musician,
0:45.0	to his gigs.
0:45.7	OK, so it's the scene where Tony saves
0:47.9	Don from a bunch of unruly races at a bar.
0:50.8	I mean, I can imagine what bothered you about that.
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