Do the Right Thing Page #8

SAL:

We don't know nuthin' else.

PINO:

I'm sick of n*ggers, it's a bad

neighborhood. I don't like being

around them, they're animals.

50.

VITO:

Some are OK.

PINO:

My friends laugh at me all the

time, laugh right in my face, tell

me go feed the Moulies.

SAL:

Do your friends put money in your

pocket? Pay your rent? Food on ya

plate?

Pino is quiet.

SAL:

I didn't think so.

PINO:

Pop, what else can I say? I don't

wanna be here, they don't want us

here. We should stay in our own

neighborhood, stay in Bensonhurst.

SAL:

So what if this is a Black

neighborhood, so what if we're a

minority. I've never had no

trouble with dese people, don't

want none either, so don't start

none. This is America. Sal's

Famous Pizzeria is here for good.

You think you know it all? Well,

you don't. I'm your father, you

better remember that.

INT:
BATHROOM--DAY

Mookie pulls the shower curtain back and steps out.

INT:
MOOKIE'S ROOM--DAY

Mookie sits on his bed, still wet.

ANGLE--JADE

JADE:

Hurry up and get dressed.

MOOKIE:

I'm coming.

JADE:

I'm going with you.

51.

BUGGIN' OUT BOYCOTT MONTAGE

EXT:
STREET--DAY

BUGGIN' OUT

Da Mayor, we need your leadership.

DA MAYOR:

Doctor, what are you talkin' bout?

BUGGIN' OUT

I'm organizing a boycott of Sal's

Famous Pizzeria.

DA MAYOR:

Keep walkin', Doctor. I don't want

to hear none of your foolishness.

CUT TO:

CLOSE--CORNER MEN

ML:

No!

COCONUT SID:

No!

SWEET DICK WILLIE

Hell no! Goddamnit. Sal ain't

never done me no harm. You either.

CUT TO:

CLOSE--BUGGIN' OUT

BUGGIN' OUT

Would you like to sign a petition

to boycott Sal's Famous Pizzeria.

CUT TO:

CLOSE--AHMAD, CEE, PUNCHY, and ELLA

They DOG him out (ADLIB)

CUT TO:

CLOSE--BUGGIN' OUT

BUGGIN' OUT

I'll do it without your help.

52.

EXT:
WE LOVE RADIO--DAY

Buggin' Out waves at Mister Señor Love Daddy as he walks by

the storefront.

INT:
SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY

Buggin' Out sticks his head in and yells:

BUGGIN' OUT

Sal, we're gonna boycott ya fat ass.

Before Sal and his two sons can answer, Buggin' Out is gone.

EXT:
STREET--DAY

Buggin' Out has one foot up on a fire hydrant and tries to

clean his soiled Air Jordan.

ANGLE--JADE AND MOOKIE

Jade and Mookie walk up to Buggin' Out.

BUGGIN' OUT

It's so nice to see a family

hanging out together.

MOOKIE:

We're not hanging out. I'm being

escorted back to work.

JADE:

That's not even true. I just want

a slice.

BUGGIN' OUT

Jade, you don't know this, but I'm

organizing a boycott of Sal's

Famous Pizzeria.

JADE:

What did he do this time?

BUGGIN' OUT

Y'know all those pictures he has

hanging on the Wall of Fame?

JADE:

So?

BUGGIN' OUT

Have you noticed something about

them?

53.

JADE:

No.

MOOKIE:

(interjects)

Yo, I'm gone.

JADE:

I'll see ya there.

BUGGIN' OUT

Peace.

Mookie leaves.

BUGGIN' OUT

Every single one of those pictures

is somebody Italian.

JADE:

And?

BUGGIN' OUT

And I--we--want some Black people up.

JADE:

Did you ask Sal?

BUGGIN' OUT

Yeah, I asked him. I don't want

nobody in there, nobody spending

good money in Sal's. He should get

no mo' money from the community

till he puts some Black faces up on

that motherfucking wall.

Jade looks at Buggin' Out like "Are you serious?"

JADE:

Buggin' Out, I don't mean to be

disrespectful, but you can really

direct your energies in a more

useful way.

BUGGIN' OUT

So, in other words, you are not down.

JADE:

I'm down, but for a worthwhile cause.

BUGGIN' OUT

Jade, I still love you.

54.

JADE:

I still love you too.

INT:
SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY

SAL:

Mookie, you are pushing it. You're

really pushing it. I'm not paying

you good money to f***ing jerk me

around.

Mookie has nothing to say.

SAL:

You're gonna be in the street with

the rest of your homeboys.

PINO:

'Bout time, Pop.

ANGLE--DOOR

Jade enters, and Sal looks up. He stops blasting Mookie and

a very noticeable change comes over him.

SAL:

Jade, we've been wondering when ya

would pay us a visit.

JADE:

Hi, Sal, Pino, Vito.

JADE:

What's happening, Jade?

JADE:

Nuthin' really. How are you

treating my brother?

SAL:

The Mook? Great. Mookie's a good

kid.

PINO:

Pop, stop lying.

SAL:

Shaddup! Jade, what can I fix you?

JADE:

What's good?

55.

SAL:

Everything, but for you I'm gonna

make up something special. Take a

seat. There, that's a clean table.

Sal moves behind the counter and goes to work. Pino and

Mookie look at each other in agreement, neither likes what

he has seen. This happens to Sal every time Jade is in

Sal's Famous Pizzeria.

ANGLE--TABLE

Vito sits down with Jade.

JADE:

You still letting Pino push you

around?

VITO:

Who told you that? He doesn't push

me, who told you, Mookie tell you

that? I hold my own.

JADE:

Forget about it, Vito. Forget I

even brought it up.

VITO:

Pino picks on me, but I don't let

him push me around. Mookie tell

you that?

JADE:

Alright already.

EXT:
ROOFTOP--DUSK

The once white-hot sun is now turning into a golden orange

glaze as it begins to set. Ahmad, Cee, Punchy, and Ella

dance on the roof around a box that is turned into WE LOVE.

Each one is trying to come up with some new moves, a new

dance, and a name for it.

EXT:
STREET--DUSK

Radio Raheem is walking down the block and there is something

wrong, something is not quite right. AHA! His music is not

loud; the rap song begins to drag and finally stops

altogether.

CLOSE--RADIO RAHEEM

He looks at his box and presses the battery level indicator.

56.

CLOSE--BATTERY LEVEL INDICATOR

The needle doesn't move. His batteries have had it.

INT:
FRUIT-N-VEG DELIGHT--DUSK

CLOSE--RADIO RAHEEM

RADIO RAHEEM:

Twenty "D" Duracells.

CLOSE--KOREAN CLERK

KOREAN CLERK:

Twenty "C" Duracells.

CLOSE--RADIO RAHEEM

RADIO RAHEEM:

D, not C.

CLOSE--KOREAN CLERK

KOREAN CLERK:

C Duracell.

CLOSE--RADIO RAHEEM

RADIO RAHEEM:

D! D! D! You dumb motherf***er.

Learn how to speak English first. D.

Radio Raheem points to the D batteries behind the counter.

CLOSE--KOREAN CLERK

KOREAN CLERK:

How many you say?

CLOSE--RADIO RAHEEM

RADIO RAHEEM:

Twenty! Motherf***er! Twenty!

CLOSE--KOREAN CLERK

KOREAN CLERK:

Motherf***er you.

Radio Raheem has to laugh at that one.

57.

RADIO RAHEEM:

Motherf***er you. You're alright.

You're alright. Just gimme my

twenty Duracells, please.

EXT:
FRUIT-N-VEG DELIGHT--DUSK

Da Mayor is looking at a bunch of cut flowers when Radio

Raheem comes out with batteries in hand--finally.

EXT:
MOTHER SISTER'S STOOP--DUSK

ANGLE--WINDOW

Mother Sister is sitting in her window as usual.

ANGLE--STOOP

Da Mayor walks up the stoop with a bunch of fresh-cut

flowers in a discarded wine bottle for a vase.

ANGLE--DA MAYOR

Da Mayor holds them out for Mother Sister, who does not

acknowledge him at all.

DA MAYOR:

I'd thought you might like these...

I guess not.

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