This is one of my favorite scenes in movie history, the scene feels as if someone put a camera in an actual Brooklyn neighborhood during the 80s. The scene feels so real and authentic that it makes me wonder if Spike Lee just told the actors to do their own thing for half of it.
This is the ONLY movie that I have ever seen that documented the whole inner-city ultimate Summer fun... that being, opening up the fire hydrant AND most importantly, how to get the "ends" off the can if you didn't have a can opener... something every inner city kid learns in the streets.
Scenario 1: When you are walking with your friends down a couple blocks... lets say maybe 4 5 blocks away from your home... and you come upon a fire hydrant that is open.. and all the kids are having fun spraying water... but YOU can't because you don't have an open can... what are you going to do? run home 5 blocks to go get a can opener? No. Ask every kid if you can use THEIR can? No... You find a can (which back in the 60, 70's, 80's you could actually do) and you scrape the ends off it. Scenario 2: When it is August, and both your parents are still at work and you are out in the streets for an hour or two before they get home... and you need a can opened, what do you do? Go and ask neighbors for a can opener? No... you scrape a found can open. Scenario 3: Do you Tony Moretti walk around with a can opener in your pocket? You need to live in the city to know these things... somehow I get the feeling you didn't grow up in the city. .
Back in the 80s summers in New York hit different I would sit on the steps of my brownstone in the east village and blast Ozzy Osbourne on my boombox. Good ol’ days
I’m 19 years old barely watched do the right thing for the first time I’m a big Martin fan been watching Since I was 12 years old ive always wondered why Martin was mad at Gina for throwing the do the right thing poster away and always mentioned it till I noticed he was actually in it and probably one of his first appearances 😩
As a kid in the '80s, I used to get dragged into the hydrant spray like that by my buddies! Shirt, long pants, socks and shoes!! Totally soaked through!
I know it's two different films and Goodfellas came out a year later but how cool would it have been if he told Martin "now run home and get your shinebox."
If you watch the beginning of this clip with the newspapers showing and google “ yes it’s hotter and muggier and yes your going crazy” you will see that was an actual real article and not movie made lol.
Would you rate " Do The Right Thing" Is to Spike Lee what Orson Welles was to "Citizen Kane" ,and what "The Great Dictator" was to Charlie Chaplin? I await your reply.
@@Kickin_It_Lyve_Since_85 Not at all. If you drive their right now, fire hydrants are all open, the music is blasting, and the party is in the streets.
yes he would have you don’t understand the climate back then also listen when they say “you ain’t got no business in this neighborhood anyway” he was always going to get wet
I count two assaults, three acts of destruction of public property, and one damaging of private property. Sounds about right for a Black neighborhood moment.
This is one of my favorite scenes in movie history, the scene feels as if someone put a camera in an actual Brooklyn neighborhood during the 80s. The scene feels so real and authentic that it makes me wonder if Spike Lee just told the actors to do their own thing for half of it.
"do your own thing"
@@AckzaTV Genius!
This is the ONLY movie that I have ever seen that documented the whole inner-city ultimate Summer fun... that being, opening up the fire hydrant AND most importantly, how to get the "ends" off the can if you didn't have a can opener... something every inner city kid learns in the streets.
And some nostalgic cultures.
I always just stab through the lid of the cans with a knife.
That’s some old school stuff breh
Who doesn't own a can opener
Scenario 1: When you are walking with your friends down a couple blocks... lets say maybe 4 5 blocks away from your home... and you come upon a fire hydrant that is open.. and all the kids are having fun spraying water... but YOU can't because you don't have an open can... what are you going to do? run home 5 blocks to go get a can opener? No. Ask every kid if you can use THEIR can? No... You find a can (which back in the 60, 70's, 80's you could actually do) and you scrape the ends off it.
Scenario 2: When it is August, and both your parents are still at work and you are out in the streets for an hour or two before they get home... and you need a can opened, what do you do? Go and ask neighbors for a can opener? No... you scrape a found can open.
Scenario 3: Do you Tony Moretti walk around with a can opener in your pocket?
You need to live in the city to know these things... somehow I get the feeling you didn't grow up in the city.
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This is one of those things that makes me a proud Newyorker💯
Love this part of this movie. This has to be the funniest part,especially when smiling out wet and made that noise.!!!!
Never wet a man's shinebox...
@1:06 the girl in the white shirt walking in the back tripped up lol.
Nice wan
1:04
LMAO! I luv this movie! this was the best part! lol................
LOL!
I’m watching it now
Radio walked up like break this shit up fight the power lmao💯
Back in the 80s summers in New York hit different I would sit on the steps of my brownstone in the east village and blast Ozzy Osbourne on my boombox. Good ol’ days
In real life, a policeman would ask that man in the car "why do you drive through this neighborhood"?
And the policeman would also say, "why didn't you enclose your antique car using the canvas rooftop before you pass the power hydrant, idiota?"
These are real cops
he tells him to leave before they pick it clean
I love the respect for Radio Raheem. Hell I love Radio Raheem
Me too! He’s my favorite character in the movie 💯
I ran in front of one of them and really cooled off! Oh, New Yorkers got it right!
Frank Vincent! The ultimate Brooklyn wiseguy/goodfella.
Considering what Joe Pesci has done to him in other movies, he had it easy here.
@@jbvader721 what? In Casino, he killed Pesci's character. The only film I can think of where he was killed by Pesci is Goodfellas.
@@mkphotofilmIn Raging Bull, Pesci’s character beats up Frank’s character at a nightclub
@@redpilledhispanic1239it was good fellas
Reminds me of Summer in my town lol every hood got a fire hydrant goin off.
Same here man
I’m 19 years old barely watched do the right thing for the first time I’m a big Martin fan been watching Since I was 12 years old ive always wondered why Martin was mad at Gina for throwing the do the right thing poster away and always mentioned it till I noticed he was actually in it and probably one of his first appearances 😩
Just some neighborhood fun is the best type of fun lol
I remember when my daddy use to drive through it, and dried his car off afterwards. He saw it as a free car wash.
Man miss those good old days.
Look, it's the 2 black guys in every mafia movie! 😂😹🤣
I remember them good old days with the fire hydrant
Okay That Seems Like So Much Fun Too I Wish They Did That In Here In Jacksonville Florida
Still a NY thang.
Same here man
Imagine what raheem would have done if they wet his radio on purpose
Like he couldn't go on the outer side of the street
Up until the incident at Sal’s people were annoyed with Raheem so nobody would’ve cared.
😂😂😂😂😂
This is exactly what happened in my childhood
2:17 a young martin lawrence
Talking like a broken record I liked his character in this movie but he was apart of the team of instigators mainly the 1 in purple
2:59 a man I’m serious man lol he wanted to laugh at Martin lol
Classic and so nostalgic
I love this movie so much. Is like tike paused and caught nyc at its prime. My childhood summers
>>> The Message Of This Legendary Film ,,, *always* ,,, Do The Right Thing ,,, Rest In Eternal Paradise BILL NUNN
You can tell this is a movie made by someone who understood inner city culture and not just some poser who only got his info from the news
Ye he grew up in Brooklyn
Drinking alcohol on a hot day makes it way worse
Yea it dehydrate u
True, but most people don't think about that same with soda.
Wait really
@@Ballowax really
It helps to avoid brain fry
Why is Phil Leotardo driving around in this hood?
shizzy35 The same reason anybody that does not live there drives through the hood.
TO SCORE, OR SOME BOOTY !!!!
He's gotta do a thing!
to score some fucking shineboxes
His fat ass wanted some pizza😂
Probably to score some drugs.
they get that slow boy wet then he lights the pizza place up at the end
Phil was just trying to get home and have some manicott'.
Lmfao Martin and Vince
Loved this movie. I lived in N Y at that time
Classic movie I love Spike movies
LOL @ 2:10 Why they had to do Smiley like that?
They want to let him have fun.
As a kid in the '80s, I used to get dragged into the hydrant spray like that by my buddies! Shirt, long pants, socks and shoes!! Totally soaked through!
I know it's two different films and Goodfellas came out a year later but how cool would it have been if he told Martin "now run home and get your shinebox."
Look likes his having car wash? 3:15
😂😂😂
It's hot in the summer 😃
Poor Smiley @2:10
Radio Raheem= 🤴🏿
Look at them like " really"
RIP Danny Aiello and Rick Aiello
"Mo and Jo what? Mo and Jo what?? MO AND JO SHINEBOX!"
Hence why he spent 20 years in a can making grilled cheese with a radiator.😂😂😂
hey dont be fuckin with the water, now!
LMFAO
If you watch the beginning of this clip with the newspapers showing and google “ yes it’s hotter and muggier and yes your going crazy” you will see that was an actual real article and not movie made lol.
The Boondocks Parodied This!
Would you rate " Do The Right Thing" Is to Spike Lee what Orson Welles was to "Citizen Kane" ,and what "The Great Dictator" was to Charlie Chaplin? I await your reply.
Nah but it’s a great movie
I enjoyed this more the the Great Dictator. But Citizen Kane is the best.
Yes. "Do The Right Thing" to this day remains Spike Lee's finest work IMO. And he's basically had a stellar film career.
It was hot in the summer of 1989
Yes it was
@@nicolehunter5927in my neighborhood we use to turn 🔛 the fire hydrant so can get wet💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦
phil before being in the can and fry chess on the radiator
20 years and not a fvckin peep.
RIP ❤ Bill Nunn AKA Radio Raheem ❤
Its fabulous film intéressant love it
He worked 20 fucking years for that car! 😂
Omg this is so classic
Memories
Only was 12 first watched in theaters
My window was broken and fell down while I was driving through near the fire hydrant in Washington heights two months ago.
Wait so WA Heights isn’t 100% gentrified?!?
@@Kickin_It_Lyve_Since_85 Not at all. If you drive their right now, fire hydrants are all open, the music is blasting, and the party is in the streets.
1:32 that is actually what I do too
Feels like this week
Yo, don't be fuckin with the shinebox now!
Should've just kept driving he had to be loud 🤣🤣🤣
It won't be the same around my neighborhood like that
See if the guy would have been polite his car wouldn’t have been soaked
yes he would have
you don’t understand the climate back then
also listen when they say “you ain’t got no business in this neighborhood anyway”
he was always going to get wet
What are they doing with the cans?
Sam Jack has has water-gun shades.
Watch the suit watch the suit. Now its watch the car watch the car .
There was nothing that could be done.. the fire hydrant was a made guy and he wasn’t.
Phil Leotardo been talking shit for years.
Says I look like the fuckin Shah of Iran.
RADIO RAHEEM Was So RESPECTED...
i want them locked unda the jail
2:13
Moe and Joe Black are still wanted
Italians used to do this too
Why didn’t the guy just put the top up in his car and got a free wash lol?
This was before the internat
What are they doing with the cans on the sidewalk?
If you didn't have can openers you'd run them against the ground to pop the lids off.
Phil Leotardo before he did 20 years in the can
why didnt they have the fire hydrant shoot up in summer legally by design ?
it wastes water
Why does the Shah of Iran sounds almost exactly like Tony Soprano?!
Just that NYC Italian accent ig
Too bad they didn't have a pool nearby, or they could've all gone swimming.
They must've gotten the beers from the Koreans.
I count two assaults, three acts of destruction of public property, and one damaging of private property.
Sounds about right for a Black neighborhood moment.
How come a guy who does a scene like that when he is 33 yrs old can do something like that 'Oldboy' garbage?
I think you’re thinking of the wrong guy
@@guy5529 He's not. Spike Lee did direct the American remake of Oldboy, which I'm told wasn't very good.
Was Martin Lawrence supposed to be gay or something 😂
Phil Leotardo would have em whacked
They whacked him first.
He was in prison at this time
Now go home and get your fucking shinebox
2:09