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Filmspotting

From the Archive: Top 5 Spike Lee Shots

Filmspotting

Telegraph Road Productions

Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Film History

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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With "Do The Right Thing" celebrating its 35th anniversary this summer - and Adam and Josh's Pantheon review coming Friday - we're sharing our Top 5 Spike Lee Shots from 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey Film Spotters, Adam and Josh here. We've got a Pantheon review of Do the Right Thing

0:06.6

coming on Friday. Josh, safe to say, Do The Right Thing will retain its place on our wall of

0:12.4

fame.

0:13.1

It's gonna be part of the pantheon forever.

0:15.0

Yeah, no surprise, but some surprises in the conversation.

0:18.8

I liked that we spent so much time on the epilogue. That time has maybe forgotten. That was that was maybe my favorite part of the

0:26.4

talk ahead of that discussion we're resharing our top five spike Lee shots.

0:30.8

This is a top five we originally did back in 2018 in conjunction with the release of a really good

0:37.2

spike Lee film Black Klandsman. You're probably going to hear a couple of do the right things.

0:41.8

Picks in this top five?

0:43.0

Yeah, I managed to restrict myself to one do the right thing pick, believe it or not.

0:47.0

Access to the film spotting archive is one of the perks of being a member of the film spotting family.

0:52.0

Learn more at film spotting family.

0:54.0

From 2018, here are our top five

0:57.0

Spike Lee shots.

0:59.0

But I'm here tonight to tell you

1:01.0

that it is time for you to stop running away from being black.

1:07.0

It is time for you to stop running away from being black, your college students, right?

1:17.0

You should think.

1:20.0

It is time for you to understand that you as the growing intellectuals of this country that you must define beauty for black people.

1:31.0

Now that's black power.

1:34.7

Corey Hawkins there as Kwame Turay in a great scene from

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