Do the Right Thing Page #6

ANGLE--POLICE CAR

It drives off.

ANGLE--CORNER

COCONUT SID:

As I was saying before we were so

rudely interrupted by the finest.

ML:

What was you saying?

Coconut Sid blanks.

SWEET DICK WILLIE

Motherf***er wasn't saying sh*t.

ML:

Look at that.

COCONUT SID:

Look at what?

ML points across the street to the Korean fruit and vegetable

stand.

ML:

It's a f***ing shame.

SWEET DICK WILLIE

What is?

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ML:

Sweet Dick Willie.

SWEET DICK WILLIE

That's my name.

ML:

Do I have to spell it out?

COCONUT SID:

Make it plain.

ML:

OK, but listen up. I'm gonna break

it down.

SWEET DICK WILLIE

Let it be broke.

ML:

Can ya dig it?

SWEET DICK WILLIE

It's dug.

CLOSE--ML

ML:

Look at those Korean motherfuckers

across the street. I betcha they

haven't been a year off da

motherfucking boat before they

opened up their own place.

CLOSE--COCONUT SID

COCONUT SID:

It's been about a year.

CLOSE--ML

ML:

A motherfucking year off the

motherfucking boat and got a good

business in our neighborhood

occupying a building that had been

boarded up for longer than I care

to remember and I've been here a

long time.

CLOSE--SWEET DICK WILLIE

SWEET DICK WILLIE

It has been a long time.

36.

CLOSE--COCONUT SID

COCONUT SID:

How long?

CLOSE--ML

ML:

Too long! Too long. Now for the

life of me, I haven't been able to

figger this out. Either dem

Koreans are geniuses or we Blacks

are dumb.

This is truly a stupefying question and all three are silent.

What is the answer?

COCONUT SID:

It's gotta be cuz we're Black. No

other explanation, nobody don't

want the Black man to be about sh*t.

SWEET DICK WILLIE

Old excuse.

ML:

I'll be one happy fool to see us

have our own business right here.

Yes, sir. I'd be the first in line

to spend the little money I got.

Sweet Dick Willie gets up from his folding chair.

SWEET DICK WILLIE

It's Miller time. Let me go give

these Koreans s'more business.

ML:

It's a motherfucking shame.

COCONUT SID:

Ain't that a b*tch.

EXT:
STOOP--DAY

Da Mayor sits on his stoop and a kid, EDDIE, runs by.

DA MAYOR:

Sonny! Sonny!

Eddie stops.

DA MAYOR:

Doctor, what's your name?

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EDDIE:

Eddie Lovell.

DA MAYOR:

How old are you?

EDDIE:

Ten.

DA MAYOR:

What makes Sammy run?

EDDIE:

My name is Eddie.

DA MAYOR:

What makes Sammy run?

EDDIE:

I said my name is Eddie Lovell.

DA MAYOR:

Relax, Eddie, I want you to go to

the corner store. How much will it

cost me?

EDDIE:

How would I know how much it's

gonna cost if I don't know what I'm

buying?

DA MAYOR:

Eddie, you're too smart for your

own britches. Listen to me. How

much do you want to run to the

store for Da Mayor?

EDDIE:

Fifty cents.

DA MAYOR:

You got a deal.

He gives Eddie some money.

DA MAYOR:

Git me a quart of beer, Budweiser,

say it's for your father, if they

bother you.

Eddie runs down the block just as Ahmad, Cee, Punchy, and

Ella pass him.

38.

AHMAD:

Who told him he was Da Mayor of

this block?

CEE:

He's self-appointed.

ELLA:

Leave him alone.

PUNCHY:

Shut up.

DA MAYOR:

Go on now. Leave me be.

AHMAD:

You walk up and down this block

like you own it.

CEE:

Da Mayor.

PUNCHY:

You're old.

AHMAD:

A old drunk bum.

Da Mayor stands up from his seat cushion on the stoop.

AHMAD:

What do you have to say?

DA MAYOR:

What do you know 'bout me? Y'all

can't even pee straight. What do

you know? Until you have stood in

the doorway and heard the hunger of

your five children, unable to do a

damn thing about it, you don't know

sh*t. You don't know my pain, you

don't know me. Don't call me a

bum, don't call me a drunk, you

don't know me, and it's

disrespectful. I know your parents

raised you better.

The teenagers look at Da Mayor.

ELLA:

He told you off.

Da Mayor sits back down on his seat cushion on his stoop.

39.

INT:
SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY

ANGLE--PAY PHONE ON WALL

Mookie is on the phone.

MOOKIE:

I know I haven't seen you in four

days. I'm a working man.

TINA (VO)

I work too, but I still make time.

MOOKIE:

Tina, what do you want me to do?

TINA (VO)

I want you to spend some time with

me. I want you to try and make

this relationship work. If not,

I'd rather not be bothered.

MOOKIE:

Alright. Alright. I'll be over

there sometime today.

TINA (VO)

When?

MOOKIE:

Before I get off work.

TINA (VO)

Bring some ice cream, I'm burning

up. Do you love me?

MOOKIE:

Do I love you?

CLOSE--SAL

SAL:

Mookie, get offa da phone.

CLOSE--MOOKIE

MOOKIE:

Be off in a second. Tina, I

dedicated a record on Mister Señor

Love Daddy's show to you.

TINA (VO)

Big deal.

40.

CLOSE--SAL

SAL:

Mookie! How is anybody gonna call

in?

CLOSE--MOOKIE

MOOKIE:

Big deal? If that's not LOVE, I

don't know what is.

CLOSE--PINO

PINO:

You deaf or what?

CLOSE--MOOKIE

MOOKIE:

Gotta go. See ya soon.

(he hangs up)

Everybody happy now?

The phone rings right away and Pino picks it up.

ANGLE--PINO

PINO:

Sal's Famous Pizzeria, yeah, two

large pizzas, pepperoni and

anchovies, hold on... See, Pop,

Mookie f***ing talking on the phone

and people are trying to call in

orders. He's making us lose

business.

CLOSE--SAL

SAL:

Mookie, you're f***ing up.

PINO:

Twenty minutes.

(he hangs up the phone)

How come you n*ggers are so stupid?

CLOSE--MOOKIE

MOOKIE:

If ya see a n*gger here, kick his

ass.

CLOSE--PINO

41.

PINO:

F*** you and stay off the phone.

CLOSE--VITO

VITO:

Forget it, Mookie.

ANGLE--PIZZERIA

MOOKIE:

Who's your favorite basketball

player?

PINO:

Magic Johnson.

MOOKIE:

And not Larry Bird? Who's your

favorite movie star?

PINO:

Eddie Murphy.

Mookie is smiling now.

MOOKIE:

Last question:
Who's your favorite

rock star?

Pino doesn't answer, because he sees the trap he's already

fallen into.

MOOKIE:

Barry Manilow?

Mookie and Vito laugh.

MOOKIE:

Pino, no joke. C'mon, answer.

VITO:

It's Prince. He's a Prince freak.

PINO:

Shut up. The Boss! Bruuucce!!!!

MOOKIE:

Sounds funny to me. As much as you

say n*gger this and n*gger that,

all your favorite people are

"n*ggers."

42.

PINO:

It's different. Magic, Eddie,

Prince are not n*ggers, I mean, are

not Black. I mean, they're Black

but not really Black. They're more

than Black. It's different.

With each word Pino is hanging himself even further.

MOOKIE:

Pino, I think secretly that you

wish you were Black. That's what I

think. Vito, what do you say?

PINO:

Y'know, I've been listening and

reading 'bout Farrakhan, ya didn't

know that, did you?

MOOKIE:

I didn't know you could read.

PINO:

F*** you. Anyway, Minister

Farrakhan always talks about the

so-called "day" when the Black man

will rise. "We will one day rule

the earth as we did in our glorious

past." You really believe that sh*t?

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