"Do the right thing" by Spike Lee: the conflict between Buggin'Out and Sal

Résumé du document

The document is a scene taken from the film "Do the right thing" by Spike Lee, released in 1989. This scene takes place in a pizzeria located in Brooklyn. This pizzeria belongs to Sal, an Italian American. Sal has two sons, Pino and Vito, who also work on the pizzeria. The main customer of this restaurant is Buggin'Out, who comes to the pizzeria at least three times a day. The two main protagonists of the scene are Sal and Buggin?out. Buggin?out is a young African American, proud of his origins. He has a lot of admiration for the black personalities who marked history and who struggled for the blacks? right as Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X or Martin Luther King.

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[...] He suggests to Buggin'out to open up his own restaurant so that he can put his “brothers” and even all the members of his family on the wall if he wants it! Then, Sal loses his calmness and tells Buggin'out that he is a troublemaker and orders him to kick away. Sal gets more and more nervous because Buggin'out is impertinent and throws his towel on the ground. In this scene, Mookie is in a delicate situation because on one hand, Buggin'out is his friend and he has to defend him, and on the other hand Mookie works in this pizzeria and if Buggin'out makes trouble Mookie could lose his job. [...]

[...] I think that Sal is right to be annoyed in front of Buggin'out's attitude. At the beginning, he tries to stay quiet. However, I find that he gets excited too fast and becomes violent because he takes a baseball bat and wants to hit Buggin'out. Buggin'out defends his community, is very attached to the personalities who fighted for the right of the blacks but he is too impulsive and is sometimes impertinent. He should defend his community in a more quiet way. [...]

[...] the right thing” by Spike Lee: the conflict between Buggin'Out and Sal The document is a scene taken from the film the right thing Spike Lee, released in 1989. This scene takes place in a pizzeria located in Brooklyn. This pizzeria belongs to Sal, an Italian American. Sal has two sons, Pino and Vito, who also work on the pizzeria. The main customer of this restaurant is Buggin' out, who comes to the pizzeria at least three times a day. [...]