Do the Right Thing: Difference between revisions

m
Mass update links
m (remove unneccessary quote box template)
m (Mass update links)
Line 22:
* [[Casting Gag]]: Buggin' Out, who says Sal is racist for not putting any black people on his Italian-American exclusive "Wall of Fame" is played by Giancarlo Esposito, who is himself half-black, half-Italian American.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Smiley's photos.
* [[Cluster F -Bomb]]: Particularly the argument scenes.
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|Radio Raheem's killed by a cop, a riot breaks out and Sal's Pizzeria is burned down. Life's a bitch!}}
** There is, however, a pinch of [[Bittersweet Ending|bittersweetness]] as {{spoiler|Sal contemplates possibly rebuilding his pizzeria and likely to do so in a manner that would better reflect the community, too}}.
Line 52:
* [[Spicy Latina]]: Tina.
* [[Torches and Pitchforks]]: At least the former is used.
* [[Yank the DogsDog's Chain]]: Right as Sal, the kindly old man who's one of the few genuinely kind people, is about to let in some customers even though he's closed, because he just loves his community, a riot breaks out ending up with Sal being strangled on the street, a man dead, the pizzeria that he built and ran all his life looted and burnt to the ground, all by the people who he just moments ago happily mentioned grew up on his pizza.
----
''Always [[Title Drop|do the right thing]].''