Скачать или смотреть Do the Right Thing (1989): Opening titles [Rosie Perez dances to Fight the Power by Public Enemy]

Choreography: Rosie Perez, Otis Sallid
Music and lyrics by Carlton Ridenhour, Eric Sadler, Hank and Keith Shocklee
© Def American Songs (BMI)
D: Spike Lee
© Universal
Messages in the film:
“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 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.”
Martin Luther King (1929-68), American Baptist minister and civil rights leader. He opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing non-violent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations and was a notable orator. Nobel Peace Prize (1964). Assassinated in Memphis.
“I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people, 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 (1925-65), American political activist; born Malcolm Little. He joined the Nation of Islam in 1946 and became a vigorous campaigner for black rights, initially advocating the use of violence. In 1964 he converted to orthodox Islam and moderated his views on black separatism; he was assassinated the following year.