{"id":2800,"date":"2009-08-09T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=2800"},"modified":"2009-08-09T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T21:10:10","slug":"do-the-right-thing-1989-spike-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/2800","title":{"rendered":"Do The Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve become obsessed with this since watching it again at the Fox.  Found a book about the making-of, which I&#8217;ve just begun to read.  The post-film Q&#038;A with Spike and Joie and fellow Atlanta college grad Radio Raheem was nothing earth-shattering, but it&#8217;s an honor to be in the same room as Spike Lee.  Learned about the cast: Ruby Dee is still alive and working, Richard Edson (Turturro&#8217;s friendly brother Vito) was Sonic Youth&#8217;s original drummer, one of the shit-talking guys on the corner is Commissioner Burrell on <em>The Wire<\/em>, and Martin Lawrence&#8217;s comic-relief role cracks people up more than it probably should.  Looked beautiful on the big screen.  Must watch again soon and show to Katy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve become obsessed with this since watching it again at the Fox. Found a book about the making-of, which I&#8217;ve just begun to read. The post-film Q&#038;A with Spike and Joie and fellow Atlanta college grad Radio Raheem was nothing earth-shattering, but it&#8217;s an honor to be in the same room as Spike Lee. Learned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,13,913,361,912,643,359],"class_list":["post-2800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-criterion","tag-john-turturro","tag-new-york","tag-ossie-davis","tag-samuel-l-jackson","tag-spike-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2800"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2898,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}