A classic movie that came out in 1989 I was four years old when this came out and had way more interest with ninja turtles than racial issues. With the release of the DTRT Jordan III this Saturday I wanted to the watch the movie that inspired the shoe from start to finish since the last time I watched it was on VHS. Even though the poster for the movie and MARS (Spike Lee) Blackman the only inspiration. So I decided spend Easter Sunday morning watching this movie and the first thing I notice is the camera work, the imagery in this movie is absolutely perfect. Any and every scene can be paused and admired like the work of art it is. The movie, just like the shoe, has aged well considering clothing, music, and conversations have changed...somewhat since clothing has recycled and whats old is new, and music "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy which samples at least two James Brown songs, (yea people have been biting since the 80's not just Kanye) is played heard at least on fifteen separate occasions in the movie, lastly the conversations are all the same throughout life. I know alot of people like the three men on the corner crackin jokes, Mother Sister, Buggin' Out, Pino, and Mookie so the movie has a personal feel to it since I can relate to alot of the characters.
Here are my top five fav. quotes frome DTRT
1. Radio Raheem: "Let me tell you the story of "Right Hand, Left Hand." It's a tale of good and evil. Hate: It was with this hand that Cane iced his brother. Love: These five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand: the hand of love. The story of life is this: Static. One hand is always fighting the other hand; and the left hand is kicking much ass. I mean, it looks like the right hand, Love, is finished. But, hold on, stop the presses, the right hand is coming back. Yeah, he got the left hand on the ropes, now, that's right. Ooh, it's the devastating right and Hate is hurt, he's down. Left-Hand Hate K.O.ed by Love."
2. Sweet Dick Willie: "Man you out yo mind?! It aint never too hot or never too cold for fuckin!"
3. Mister Senor Love Daddy: "My people, my people, what can I say, say what I can. I saw it but didn't believe it, I didn't believe what I saw. Are we gonna live together, together are we gonna live?"
4: Pino: "You gold-teeth-gold-chain-wearin', fried-chicken-and-biscuit-eatin', monkey, ape, baboon, big thigh, fast-runnin', three-hundred-sixty-degree-basketball-dunkin' spade Moulan Yan."
5: Buggin' Out: "Hey, Sal, how come they ain't no brothas on the wall?"
Honorable Mentions:
"Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys a community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need. Because this is the situation, you and I have to preserve the right to do what is necessary to bring an end to that situation, and it doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't even call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence."
- Malcolm X
I think its weird that decied to do a DTRT colorway for the Jordan III instead of the Jordan IV since that is the shoe Buggin' Out was wearing in the movie, but whatever, later this year the Jordan Brand will be releasing the DTRT Spizike's no release date has been announced as of yet.
In the meantime....
Do The Right Thing
Dont forget the DTRT Jordan III Drops April 14!
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