Yeah, the "inciting incident" is generally sooner than the one history remembers. Radio Raheem is the catalyst for the riot.. or it could be when Sal used the N word.. or when Buggin Out had an issue with the wall... or literally anything in the decades of racial friction beforehand. And that notion rings true to this day. George Floyd will be the name remembered, but it was bubbling under the surface ready to explode for years.
Insurance pays for it not that big of a deal in the long run. It was a sentimental thing for Sal more than a financial one. So requesting payment wasn’t the issue. Idk about you but idc what tf happens to my place employment. If I work, I get paid. It’s really a simple concept. Slavery was abolished almost 200 years ago.
Sal obviously had a soft spot for Mookie. He was a terrible employee yet he kept him around. There at the end after all the BS, Sal asks him what he is going to do with himself.
Back in the mid 80s, this guy in my class had a $100 bill, and it was so rare to have a $100 bill that he charged other kids a quarter just to get a look at it. Sal had five of them in his pocket.
His racist foolishness got a guy killed and his business destroyed. He is devasted and guilty at the end of the movie. You missed the point of the movie.
if i was sal, i wouldn’t took it out his check for that window 😂 got the nerve coming to me after being in conjunction of demolishing my place of business
@@toadvine7952 i’ll never miss a point on a subject matter about my people…our people. nor am i bias about the situation or have hate towards any ethnic, that’s just my opinion. -NINO
@@_ninovation Sal paid him out of guilt. His actions killed Radio Rahim and burnt his business to the ground. You are a racist so you don't understand his immense feelings of shame and guilt. That's why he pays Mookie.
You notice and the end what split them, money. Also they had genuine care for each other its almost like they wanted to hug it out but as always racism gets in the way of progress.
@@stryfetc1471oh, I didn't see your lame little NPC "tHeYD JuSt mAkE iT wOkE" response before I commented on your post, and I already regret engaging with you
Mookie is going off into the sunset to "get paid". Paid.... by whom? I've lived in Harlem. Brooklyn. Queens. Lower Manhattan. I never seen one black pizza shop. Heck, I've seen every race on the planet WORK in a pizza shop. Not one black person even working at one. Where's the sequal, Mookie, where you got yout next paycheck?
Prejudice and racism are not the same thing. For people confused about this beautiful movie, we are all prejudiced. It only becomes racism when you act on your prejudice.
Shows how little you know. The film is strong in every department. The notion of having Samuel L. Jackson as a Greek Chorus is brilliant. The film has stood the test of time and is worthy of being called a masterpiece--and I'll pit my film knowledge against practically anyone.
How do you figure? Define what it means to be a good actor. The problem is that nowadays, people confuse "good acting" with "most acting." Sometimes, less is more--and better.
@@jeromemaida4933 I respect Spike's movies, but his acting? C'mon. Spike isn't acting. He's playing a version of himself over and over and over in every movie he makes.
It is Sal's fault. He should've known better than to open up a pizza shop in that neighborhood. If you go swimming in the ocean and a shark bites you you don't blame the shark
As a Jamaican I don’t u defat and this movie. Obsession over where people are from is a huge American thing. I get it be proud of your roots but obsession ?
Did anyone else think that Sal paying Mookie was pretty stupid? Like I know insurance exists and Mookie's actually a good person, just pretty stupid and and Sal knows that but he threw a trash can through the window of his pizzaria and contributed to it being burned down
Mookie is not a good person. He is purely immediately self-interested, and it shows in every scene he's in. Pretty much every character in the movie is the same which is why some kind of tragedy was inevitable. Just like real life.
@@jeromemaida4933 The police killed his friend over a stupid argument over a radio. True, Sal didn't start the argument but still shares some blame for that because of the escalation. Mookie was on Sal's side during the argument, but after Sal lost it called everyone the n-word Mookie kind of looked at him differently, but it was a valid reaction from both sides. Mookie felt hurt and wanted revenge for his friend's death, so instead of hurting Sal he destroyed what Sal loved, the pizzeria. IMO it was the right thing to do, Sal can recover but "Radio Raheem is dead", he did the right thing.
Sal didn't really start this if I was there I would tell the people it's not worth it having Brothers on the wall when you have your own restaurant you get your own Brothers on the wall 🧱 and at the very end people can do the right thing
Hard to believe Spike Lee was 32 here he looked 19 or 20 tbh
That's crazy, I assumed he *had* to be a teenager
Low body fat, the right haircut and the right clothes can easily knock a decade off anyone.
It's not that strange. Many people in their 30s, especially nowadays look still pretty young
I love 80’s 90’s saxophone scenes
To be honest, Bugging Out started all of it with the wall. That is Sal's Joint and he can do with the wall as he wants.
Yeah, the "inciting incident" is generally sooner than the one history remembers. Radio Raheem is the catalyst for the riot.. or it could be when Sal used the N word.. or when Buggin Out had an issue with the wall... or literally anything in the decades of racial friction beforehand. And that notion rings true to this day. George Floyd will be the name remembered, but it was bubbling under the surface ready to explode for years.
turned out Bugging was more Italian in real life than Sal.
If buggin out had tried that bullshit in Los Pollos Hermanos, Gustavo would have him buried in the desert
that is 100% correct.
he was just 'Buggin out'
Imagine asking a dude who got his place burned down for money.
Sal got his place burned down. You are such a racist you don't understand the point of the movie.
Insurance pays for it not that big of a deal in the long run. It was a sentimental thing for Sal more than a financial one. So requesting payment wasn’t the issue. Idk about you but idc what tf happens to my place employment. If I work, I get paid. It’s really a simple concept. Slavery was abolished almost 200 years ago.
@@TrevJ91 well aren't you just a raisin in the sun raging against the machine
Entirely reasonable if he owes it to you for your labor that you've already done that helped earn him the profits to maintain that place to begin with
mookie threw the first thing through the window. he was the first person to trash the store.
The most unrealistic thing in this movie is still trying to believe Spike Lee got a woman like prime Rosie Perez.
Spike Lee wrote and directed, so it's his fantasy)))) that's why his get all these hot women
You sound salty over an old movie
Weirdo
I know, right???
He isnt a bad looking guy tbh... Spike Lee he just short
@@CoolGobyFishIn the 89/90's it was possible. People valued others differently.
Nobody did the right thing in this movie, but the cops killing Radio Raheem was objectively the wrong thing.
Not really. Mf walked around being aggressive and trying to be heavy handed with people.
In the spider man movies, spider man usually does the right thing despite his mistakes
Buggin Out really acted like he never been to the pizzeria before
Mookie got down on him. Lucky Mookie didn't break his jaw coming at him crazy throwing that money at him.
Sal was not racist just harsh, he sold his pizza to the kids in the neighbourhood for decades and this is is how he got rewarded for that.
due to that idiot bugging out
Sal was racist, it just was superceded that he treated his business like a fiefdom and the neighbourhood were his serfs
@@Reprodestruxion Buggin out pushed him to a boiling point after the picture rant
@@jasonfoley6502 yeah, unmask!
“You know, “you people” “
Spike gonna break his hip walking like that 0:02
Sal obviously had a soft spot for Mookie. He was a terrible employee yet he kept him around. There at the end after all the BS, Sal asks him what he is going to do with himself.
adjusting for inflation those $500 were 1,076.83
The economy must've been booming back then or Sal's running a lot more than a pizza joint
$250 a week? Sounds about right for 1989, doesn't it?
Back in the mid 80s, this guy in my class had a $100 bill, and it was so rare to have a $100 bill that he charged other kids a quarter just to get a look at it. Sal had five of them in his pocket.
Weren't $500 and $1000 in public currency back then?????
Are you talking like American money in Guatemala or something? They weren't that rare where I was in the United States.
Where did you go to school? 😂
@@alexander1902 No.
@@ladytichat Maybe he's like 150 years old and meant the 1880's.
If I was Sal I would have stomped out Mookie . Lmao
we all know you wouldn’t
@suffer1055 Who's is we all ?
@@davidmaez7253 we is
@gang6009 Quatro Flats Vato. If ya know, ya know
La Raza ......East Los mi Varrio is numero uno. We don't fake it we take it.
Sal was a good guy
sal a real man
His racist foolishness got a guy killed and his business destroyed. He is devasted and guilty at the end of the movie. You missed the point of the movie.
@@toadvine7952 He got himself killed, don't like a business then take it somewhere else
@@toadvine7952moron
@@toadvine7952 No the racism of buggin out and Radio Raheem got Raheem killed.
Mookie is the worst employee ever
Spike Lee's walk tho 🤣🤣
He is pigeon toed 😅
He walks like he's wearing your high heels 🤣
Mookie has nerve. He doesn’t deserve any salary
Your racism made it so you can't understand art.
@@toadvine7952no youre just anti white racist i bet you say the c word
He saved sal and his sons in breaking the window 🪟 da mayor
Got them across the street.
@@GregorySmith-xq8yt that was why he broke the window to save Sal?
He deserves his money, then they go there or is their? …. Separate ways.
The End 🎶 🎶🎶
if i was sal, i wouldn’t took it out his check for that window 😂 got the nerve coming to me after being in conjunction of demolishing my place of business
Your racism really made you miss the point of the movie.
@@toadvine7952 i’ll never miss a point on a subject matter about my people…our people. nor am i bias about the situation or have hate towards any ethnic, that’s just my opinion. -NINO
@@toadvine7952 even sal paid him off of principle. obviously you just watched the movie and didn’t really see it or overstand it
@@_ninovation Sal paid him out of guilt. His actions killed Radio Rahim and burnt his business to the ground. You are a racist so you don't understand his immense feelings of shame and guilt. That's why he pays Mookie.
@@toadvine7952Tool
I couldn't love a movie more. Such a beautiful scene.
Sal did good acting here. ❤🇺🇸🍻
He was playing himself.....
He was not a good choice for the role, too soft, not realistic. A typical hard headed Italian would be much more harsh dealing with problems.
Loved Sal...
Until The End.... Of The Movie Of Course. RIP Danny Aiello.🕊️
Spike Lee was always a better producer than an Actor!
yeah. lol. same with Tarantino. it's kind of embarrassing.
So is Quentin so what’s your point? Oh, and Spike is the Director.
Scorsese in Taxi Driver. That is memorable. And nuts.
@@DF99993 one of the better examples
You notice and the end what split them, money. Also they had genuine care for each other its almost like they wanted to hug it out but as always racism gets in the way of progress.
Racism with a black director???? NO FUKIN WAY!!😂😂
Mookie was more concerned about the $ he picked up off the ground vs Sal.
The fact he still wearing his work clothes 😂
Sal had pride he didn’t care about the insurance money
At the end.....Sal lost everything and Mookie took those last $100 bills....
Sal is racist but so is Mookie. In the end they realized they’re the same person just a different color.
different;
one is the cause, and the other is the effect.
Mookie is prejudiced… to be racist you have to have power … what power any Mookie in America has
Watching Americans twist and turn trying to say how their racism isn't true racism is pretty funny.
@@justicestyles You sound like an ideological idiot.
sal wasn’t racist
Spike Lee was so on point with this movie.
Couldn’t Sal say that his salary paid for the window he trashed?
Great film.
R.I.P. Danny Aiello!
Kinda feel for the both of them. After all were all humans
Just another bad but good day in the world...like Dog Day Afternoon but no heist
2:02 for me this point of the movie was doing the right thing.
Sal: "500 dollars, minus the broken window, means you own me a band ($1,000)." Now pay me or kick rocks.
This movie couldn't be made today.
Yes it could lmao.
@@alexramos7708
It would be so PC and filled with woke-isms
They could literally do a shot for shot remake with a new cast and it would be just as relevant
@@stryfetc1471oh, I didn't see your lame little NPC "tHeYD JuSt mAkE iT wOkE" response before I commented on your post, and I already regret engaging with you
@@stephengrigg5988 👋🏿✌🏾
Mookie is going off into the sunset to "get paid". Paid.... by whom? I've lived in Harlem. Brooklyn. Queens. Lower Manhattan. I never seen one black pizza shop. Heck, I've seen every race on the planet WORK in a pizza shop. Not one black person even working at one. Where's the sequal, Mookie, where you got yout next paycheck?
When you know Micheal Jordan and Denzel you are good
It was revealed in the Netflix series she's got to have it that Mookie never became anything in life.
Watching movies about racial change and American life means a lot to me I love ot
One of the greatest movies ever made. A classical play on film. You could do this on stage, easily.
Prejudice and racism are not the same thing. For people confused about this beautiful movie, we are all prejudiced. It only becomes racism when you act on your prejudice.
How smart was he burnt the place down and now he don’t have a job lmao
He going to remember us....
you remember that.....
I can't wait for the race swap of this movie to come out
I miss the old Spike, when was his last real good movie, 30 years ago?
25h Hour with Edward Norton, that wasn't bad. About 20 years old I think.
90% of these comments are missing the point of the scene/movie, along with mischaracterizing these two.
POS destroyed the business & he still wants his money.
This fulfills the stereotypes on so many levels 😂
Pizza is my favorite!
2 fifthy a week 😂😂😂😂😂
Gotta feel for mookie and sal.
Why have you got to feel sorry for mookie? He was a scumbag
This was the most new york thing I've seen in a while....the this could turn ugly real quick...but it turned out to be alright after it got heated AF
You know Mookie back after the credits rolled to see if that $200 was still on the ground.
He picked it up before the credits.
@@ibramblebush Naw, he picked up the $300 and told Sal he owed him $50.
@@MrIreneadler So you didn't watch the rest of the scene, got it.
Lloyd Banks- Impact song reference this scene
Mookie’s A G!
Brilliant.
If anything, it proves Sal was right the whole time. Never relax around…
Amen to that
All that over some pictures.
Past that intersection for years on my way to work, they painted over the Mike Tyson Tribute, Mookie was a little bit*h.
500 dollars and he´s rich? Not even back then, not so long ago still, did 500 get you especially far. Sal feels destroyed.
500 is a lot in a run down ghetto like Bed-Stuy
Meh. The only thing outstanding about this movie was Danny Aiello's performance.
Shows how little you know. The film is strong in every department. The notion of having Samuel L. Jackson as a Greek Chorus is brilliant. The film has stood the test of time and is worthy of being called a masterpiece--and I'll pit my film knowledge against practically anyone.
Spike Lee is a terrible actor lol
and director
How do you figure? Define what it means to be a good actor.
The problem is that nowadays, people confuse "good acting" with "most acting." Sometimes, less is more--and better.
There are many things you can criticize Spike for. "Bad actor" is not one of them.
@@jeromemaida4933 I respect Spike's movies, but his acting? C'mon. Spike isn't acting. He's playing a version of himself over and over and over in every movie he makes.
And a terrible person. He hates Quentin Tarrantino.
Sal did the right thing. The Mayor did the right thing. Everyone else is a worthless resentful bum.
Sis always did the right thing too
History has and will repeat itself. 2020 riots and beyond. SMH 😢
Because of stupidity
2 fitty ? God help us!!
It is Sal's fault. He should've known better than to open up a pizza shop in that neighborhood. If you go swimming in the ocean and a shark bites you you don't blame the shark
It’s implied in the movie that when Sal started the pizzeria it was an Italian neighborhood. He stuck around when it became black.
As a Jamaican I don’t u defat and this movie. Obsession over where people are from is a huge American thing. I get it be proud of your roots but obsession ?
How much money does Sal walk around with in his pocket??
A🦌or2
I do not prefer the movie creations of spike Lee.
This is his masterpiece along with oldboy imo...
Inside man, malcolm X, and black klansman are pretty good too
Did anyone else think that Sal paying Mookie was pretty stupid? Like I know insurance exists and Mookie's actually a good person, just pretty stupid and and Sal knows that but he threw a trash can through the window of his pizzaria and contributed to it being burned down
How is Mookie a good person, he's an arsehole
Nope
Mookie is not a good person. He is purely immediately self-interested, and it shows in every scene he's in. Pretty much every character in the movie is the same which is why some kind of tragedy was inevitable. Just like real life.
Sal is mean
Spike Lee's acting was terrible
Typical black reaction to anything in life.....
A lot more pollution back then..
Absolutely atrocious acting. I've seen better in Byker Grove...
Oh my....
I had to watch that movie in school 30 years ago. I hated it.
Me too
L opinion
Ngl it is a good movie
Well it's just the gist of it.
@@Slice2099But enough about your comment.
Beginning of the end for black male role models in film.
Mookie did the right thing.
How do you figure?
@@jeromemaida4933 The police killed his friend over a stupid argument over a radio. True, Sal didn't start the argument but still shares some blame for that because of the escalation. Mookie was on Sal's side during the argument, but after Sal lost it called everyone the n-word Mookie kind of looked at him differently, but it was a valid reaction from both sides. Mookie felt hurt and wanted revenge for his friend's death, so instead of hurting Sal he destroyed what Sal loved, the pizzeria. IMO it was the right thing to do, Sal can recover but "Radio Raheem is dead", he did the right thing.
@@ibramblebushit’s a worry there’s people like you who walk this earth
@@ibramblebush I disagree but I respect your opinion bro. So many different interpretations is what makes this movie so great.
@@ibramblebush Youre parents are Rachet
born in 69 was 20 when it came out...movie sucked then and still sucks now
Sal didn't really start this if I was there I would tell the people it's not worth it having Brothers on the wall when you have your own restaurant you get your own Brothers on the wall 🧱 and at the very end people can do the right thing