All language subtitles for Do the Right Thing 1989

(SAXOPHONE PLAYING)

(RAP MUSIC PLAYING)

(RINGING)

Wake up. Wake up,
wake up, wake up.

Up you wake,
up you wake,
up you wake.

This is Mister Señor
Love Daddy,
your voice of choice.

The world's only 1 2-hour
strongman on the air,

here on We Love Radio,
1 08 FM.

The last on your dial,
but first in your hearts,

and that's the truth, Ruth.

Here l am. Am l here?

You know it. lt you know.

This is Mister Señor
Love Daddy

doing the nasty to your ears,
your ears to the nasty.

l's only play
the platters
that matter.

The matters they platter,
and that's the truth, Ruth.

RECORDED VOICE: From the heart
of Bed-Stuy, you're Iistening
to We Love Radio.

Doing the yin and the yang,
the hip and the hop,

the stupid, fresh thing,
the flippity-flop.

(HOWLlNG)

l have today's
forecast for you. Hot!

(HlSSlNG)

The color for today
is black.
That's right, black.

So you can absorb
some of these rays

and save that
heat for winter.

So you wanna get on
out there and wear that
black and be involved !

Also, today's temperature's
gonna rise up over
1 00 degrees.

So that's
a Jheri curl alert.

That's right,
Jheri curl alert.

lf you have Jheri curl,
stay in the house,

or you'll end up with
a permanent plastic helmet
on your head forever.

All right,
we're going
to say hello

to Mr. and Mrs.,
any Mr. and Mrs.

And happy birthday
to Big Red, Little Red

and Miss Annie Mae
who's 1 00 today.

And if you're careful
to stay out of this heat

you might live to
be that old yourself.

There's also
a water shortage,

so keep those
showers down
to one minute.

Two minutes,
if you're showering
with a friend.

You better
get on out there...

Damn. lt is hot!

...and get that
pink slip, so get up,

get up, get up
and get on out there.

That's what
l'm talking about.

We don't wanna see
anybody losing their jobs

'cause ain't nobody got
no money as it is...

(GROANlNG)

All right. Now we're
going to talk about it.

We're going to
rock 'n' roll...

(STUTTERlNG)
Good morning.
My name is Smiley.

This is Malcolm X.

And this is Martin King.

Now they are dead,

but we still

have to fight

against apartheid.

1 0, 1 5, 20, 25,
30, 40, 50, 60,
70, 80, 1 00.

20, 40, 60, shit!

80. . . 300.

(LOVE DADDY CHATTERlNG
ON RADlO)

20, 40, 60, 80. . .
Wait, that's 300.

300, 350, 450. . .
Cash dollar bills.

Mookie. Why are you
always bothering me
when l'm sleeping?

Wake up, wake up.

Stop breathing
down my neck!

(COUGHlNG)
lt's going to be
hot today, Jade.

Saturday's the only day
l get to sleep late. Damn.

(COUGHlNG)

(SNlCKERS)
Stop, Mookie.
That's not funny.

Why don't you leave me
alone when l'm sleeping?

What's the matter?
You don't love your
brother Mookie anymore?

l loves you, Jade.

l'll get a lock on my door
and keep your ass
out of here, Mookie.

Why don't you
go to work, man?

Leave me alone for once.

Later, got to get paid.

Yeah, brush your teeth.

l brushed my teeth.

Your breath stinks.

lt's your upper lip.

lt's hot.

Sonny,
how's the vegetables, huh?

Hey, Pop, you talk to
that air-condition guy?

l been calling him
all week.

He won't come around here
unless he has
a police escort.

Pino, get a broom
and sweep up front.

(PlNO YAWNlNG)

Vito, get a broom
and sweep out front.
Huh?

Get a broom and
sweep out front.

What?
Get a broom and
sweep out front!

See, Pop, it's just
what l was telling you.

Every time you tell
Pino what to do,

he tells me to do
what you told him
what to do.

He's brain-dead,
Pop, he is.

Both of you, shut up.
Tell Pino!

What, am l talking
to myself here?
ls that what l'm doing?

l didn't want to
come to work, anyway.

l hate this frigging place.
l detest it like a sickness.

You detest this place
like a sickness?

That's, like, really hate,
you know? That's hate.

Oh, no, no.
l didn't say that.

Oh, you didn't say that?

Well, l just heard it.
Am l going crazy?
l could have. . .

Did l just hear that?
Did l hear that, Vito?

l mean, do you think
you can do better?

No, l didn't think so.
You see, Pino,

this is
a respectable business

and there's
nothing wrong with that.

l mean, if there's
something wrong with that,
l want you to tell me.

You can. . . No.
You can. . . No.
You can tell me right now.

ls there something
wrong with that?

There's nothing wrong.
All right? Okay?

Look, do me a favor.
Get a broom and sweep up.

Tell Vito.
What are you, deaf or what?
Pop asked you.

l'm gonna kill
somebody today.

PlNO: l can't believe it,
you know.
VlTO: What?

That you like her.

l don't like her.

Yeah?
Yeah, l don't like her.

Hell, no!

Hey.
Hi, Mookie.

Mookie.

Hey, Mook.

Morning, Mookie.

Morning,
Miss Mother Sister.

Now, Mookie,
don't work
too hard today.

The man says
it's going to be
hot as the devil.

l don't want you
falling out from the heat,
you hear me, son?

l hear you,
Mother Sister. l hear you.
Good.

All right.
l'll be watching you, son.

Mother Sister always watches!

PlNO: Mookie.

You're late again.

You live up the block.

What, your Cadillac broke?

Hello, Sal, Vito.

Yo, Mook, what up?

Just cooling.

Just cooling.
You're still late.

Why don't you relax, Pino?
Take it easy,
you'll live longer.

Here, take the broom,
the front needs sweeping.

Wait a minute,
l just got here.
You sweep.

l bet you
Sal asked you
first anyway.

That's right.
PlNO: Vito, stop that.

You know,
just fuck that shit.

l deliver pizzas,
that's what l get paid for.

You get paid
to do what we say.

"What we say"?
Did you hear Sal?

l didn't hear
Sal say nothing.

All right,
who's working for who, huh?

Come on in, Mayor.

Morning, gentlemen.
Pino, Mookie, Vito, Sal.

How are you?

(EXCLAlMS)

lt's going to be
a scorcher today.
That's for sure.

Need any work
done around here?

(SPEAKlNG lTALlAN)

Why don't you
leave him alone, huh?

He's a good man.
Leave him alone.

Choose your weapon, Mayor.

You dropped something, Mayor.

(LAUGHS)

You are going to have
the cleanest sidewalk
in Brooklyn.

Clean as the Board of Health.

All right, Mayor.

Pop, l don't
believe this shit.

You running welfare
or something?

Every day you give
this azupep a dollar.

What's azupep?
What is azupep?
Are you ltalian?

Da Mayor ain't no azupep.

Every day, you give
this azupep a dollar for
sweeping our sidewalk.

What do we pay Mookie for?
He don't even work.

l work harder than him
and l'm your own son.

Pino, let's see you carry
six large pies up
six flights of stairs,

no elevator either and shit.

Why don't you both shut up?

Yeah, tell them, Pop.

And why don't you
shut up, too, Vito?

Me and you are
gonna have a talk.

Says who?
Says who?

Says who?
Says me.

Who are you?
Hey! Hey!
Now, what did l just say?

Don't start that
"Mookie don't work" shit,
all right?

Yo, Ahmad !
PUNCHY:
l could've done that.

Man, shut up.
Yo, Ahmad !
Shit. Look, stop.

Look, Punchy,
if you wanna do
any more screaming,

be my guest
'cause l'm so through.

Yo, who's out here
yelling my name?

Well, Punchy told me to. . .

(MlMlCS ELLA)
"Punchy told me to."

Don't listen to
this knothead.

lt'll get you
in trouble, girl.

Heard that, Punchy.

Yo, Ella? Ella?

What?
You got a brain, right?
Use it.

(RAP MUSlC PLAYlNG ON BOOM BOX)

Peace, y'all.

Peace, Radio Raheem.

Peace, man.
You the man,
l'm just visiting.

AHMAD: lt's your world, G.

For real, in a big,
motherfucking way.

So that boy's
living very large.

Even walks in stereo.

Yo, PE's in
full effect, boyee!

Radio Raheem
like a motherfuck.

(ELLA LAUGHlNG)

Radio Raheem,
blasting that big box.
Cold-rocking the scene.

Where's the Miller High Life?
Where is the Miller High Life?

No more High Life.
You look what
we have and buy.

No more High Life?

What kind of a joint is this?

How come no more High Life?

Look, Doctor,
this ain't Korea or China
or wherever you come from.

You get some Miller High Life
in this fucking joint.

You buy another beer.

Da Mayor don't
drink this Lite shit.
Tastes like cold pot liquor.

All right, all right,
but you're asking a lot.

To make a man
change his beer,
you asking a lot, Doctor.

Hey! You old drunk!
What did l tell you

about drinking in
front of my stoop?

Move on.
You're blocking
my view.

You are ugly enough.
Don't stare at me.

The evil eye
doesn't work on me.

Mother Sister,
you been talking
about me for 1 8 years.

What l ever done to you?

You a drunk fool.
Besides that?

Da Mayor don't bother nobody,
and nobody don't
bother Da Mayor but you.

Da Mayor just tend
to his own business.

l love everybody.
l even love you.

Hold your tongue.
You don't have
that much love.

One day you gonna
be nice to me.

We may both be dead
and buried,
but you gonna be nice.

At least civil.

l told you, l'm not
going to baby-sit
for you and that's it!

What are you talking about?

Yesterday you said
you were gonna do it,

now today you're
changing your mind?

No, l'm not changing. . .

(BOTH ARGUlNG lN SPANlSH)

Get off of me, Mommy!

lt's like l can do
everything for you
but you can't do shit for me!

(SHOUTlNG lN SPANlSH)

Yeah, right.

You know it's not
like that, Mommy.

l can do everything for you
but you won't do shit for me!

(BANGS ON DOOR)
Stop it!

That lady makes me sick.

Your father
makes me sick, too.
Everybody makes me sick.

Shit.

Your father ain't no
real father. He's a bum.

Chump change, to-the-curb,
pulling-no-major-pub bum !

Mike.
Fuck Mike Tyson !

Mike Tyson ain't shit.

l remember when he
mugged that woman
right there on Lexington.

l remember that shit.
And you're gonna
tell him that?

l'll tell him that.
l ain't. . .
Fuck Mike Tyson !

To his face?
That's it.
You goddamn right!

Mike Tyson'll knock your. . .

l ain't scared of no
goddamn Mike Tyson.

Shit.
You're talking shit now.

l'll drop him
like a bad habit.

ML, ML.
You hear that?

Yeah.
Yeah? What?

lf Mike Tyson dream
about whupping my ass

he better wake up
and apologize.

Well, gentlemen,
the way l see it,

if this hot weather
continues,

it's going to
melt the polar caps
and the whole, wide world.

And all those parts
that ain't water already
will surely be flooded.

(LAUGHlNG)
You dumb ass,
simple motherfucker.

Now where you
read that shit, eh?

The polar caps.

Don't worry about it.

But when it happens,
and l'm in my boat

and you black asses
are drowning,

don't call for me
to throw you no rope,
no lifesaver,

or no nothing.
No nothing.

You fool,
you 30 cent away
from having a quarter.

How the fuck you
gonna get a boat?

ALL LAUGHlNG)

Yeah, boy.
Don't worry about it.

Goddamn right,
"Don't worry about it."
Look at you.

You're raggedy as a roach,
eat the holes out of donuts.

Raggedy motherfucker.
Don't worry about it!

l'm in good shape.
l'm in good shape.

l'll be back on my feet
soon enough.

Not in those
raggedy-ass shoes,
look at you !

Shoes so run over,
you gotta lay
down to put them on.

So, ML, ML, ML, tell me.

So when is all
this goddamn ice
supposed to melt?

VlTO: Hello,
Sal's Pizza. Yep.

Meatball hero,
eggplant parmesan.
You got it. Yep.

Yeah, we deliver.
Of course, we deliver.
All right.

Where is that?

You going to pay now
or pay on layaway?

How much?

You've been
coming in here at least
three times a day.

What are you, a retard?

lt's $1 .50.

Yo, Sal, put some cheese
on that motherfucker, man !

Extra cheese is $2.00.

$2.00?
Yeah, $2.00.

Hey, you can
forget that shit.

What?

Damn, Sal,
you're cheap, man.

(PEOPLE CHATTERlNG)

(PEOPLE LAUGHlNG)

Yo, Mook!

Mookie!
MOOKlE: What?

How come you got
no brothers
up on the wall?

Man, ask Sal, all right?

Hey, Sal,
how come you got no brothers
up on the wall here?

You want brothers
on the wall?

Get your own place.
You can do what you wanna do.

You can put your
brothers and uncles
and nieces and nephews,

your stepfather, stepmother,
whoever you want. See?

But this is my pizzeria.

American-ltalians
on the wall only.

Take it easy, Pop.
And you. Hey,
don't start with me today.

What?

Yeah,
that might be fine, Sal,
but you own this.

Rarely do l see
any American-ltalians
eating in here.

All l see is black folks.

So since we spend
much money here,
we do have some say.

You looking for trouble?

Are you a troublemaker,
is that what you are?
You making trouble?

Yeah, l'm a troublemaker.
l'm making trouble.

You're a ball-breaker.

You're always coming in here
looking for trouble,
aren't you?

Suppose l busted your head.
How would you. . .

Mookie. Mookie,
you want to get your
friend out of here?

What, you gonna
kick me out now?
You gonna kick me out?

l'm not kicking you.
You're kicking
yourself out.

What?
Look, we want some brothers
up on the wall. You know?

Let's go.
Malcolm X.

Nelson Mandela, you know,
Michael Jordan. Tomorrow!

Come on, Mookie,
get him out, all right?

l'm trying to
get him out.

Take your slice.
l know you paid for it.
Let's go.

Yeah. All right, all right.
He's kicking me out.

Gonna beat me in the head,
he gonna kick me out.

Come on, let's go.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, all right. Yeah.

Look, l paid for my. . .
Look, boycott Sal's!

All right?
Yo, boycott Sal's.

l got your boycott swinging.

Boycott Sal's.
Yo, what you laughing at?

(PlNO LAUGHlNG)

Mookie, l paid
for my slice, man !

Yo, man, l spend
much money in there.

What are you trying to do?
What do you mean?

What are you trying to do?
l want brothers
up on the wall.

l gotta work here, man.
You're fucking
my shit up, man !

lt's between me and Sal, man.
You're fucking me up!

l ain't trying to
fuck you up, Mook.

You know l ain't
trying to fuck you up.

l'm sorry.
You're sorry?

Look, come back in a week,
it'll be squashed, all right?

A week?
A week.

Yeah. Bet.
All right? Bet.

Mook, stay black.

l mean, this guy's
your friend, right?

l mean, if l'm wrong,
tell me l'm wrong.

ls he your friend?
He's my friend.

Okay. lf he don't behave,
l don't want him in
here anymore. He's out.

l can't do nothing
with him, Sal !

You talk some
brother talk to him.

Brother talk?

Look, people are free to do
the hell whatever
they're wanting to do.

What, free?
What the hell are you
talking about, free?

Free? There's no
free here. l'm the boss.

No freedom.
l'm the boss.

You want freedom?
There, that's free.

You take an order,
and you take it out.

He's got an order
there for you.

Come on, let's go, move.
Come on !
Let's go to work here!

What are you laughing at?
You're standing here
doing nothing.

Him, you're afraid
of the goddamn oven.
Hit the oven !

ls this the address?
That's the address.

"ls that the address?"
ls that what he just asked me?
"ls that the address?"

Mook. Come here, Doctor.

Mayor, l got to go.
l'm working.
Come here, Doctor.

l'm working !
Doctor, this is
Da Mayor talking.

All right, all right.
Doctor?

Come on, what? What?

Always do the right thing.

That's it?
That's it.

l got it. l'm gone.

Mookie. . .

How you doing, Smiley?

Pay two. . .
How much, Smiley?
The other one.

The other one.

Two. . .

The other one, Smiley.

One. . . One dollar.
That one.
Tonight, when l get paid.

When. . . When you get. . .

Bye, Mookie.

Malcolm.
Bye, Smiley!

Martin.

Shit.

(POLlCE SlREN WAlLlNG)

l seen your brother
this morning.

Yeah, on his way
to work, l hope.

This might take
a little bit of time,
Mother Sister.

l got nowhere to go.

We haven't had a good
sit-down for a long while.

Tender-headed
runs in my family.
Are you tender-headed?

Yeah, me, too.

l don't fool with it.
That's why only
you can touch it.

Ouch !
l'm sorry, Mother Sister.

The comb got caught.

Be gentle, child.
Mother Sister's
an old woman.

Yes, Mother Sister.

(EXCLAlMS)

l didn't know you had
such beautiful hair.

Fool, there's a lot
in this world
you don't know.

l'm not stopping,
l'm on my way.

(LAUGHS)

Mother Sister,
why are you so cruel
to Da Mayor? lt isn't right.

l ain't studying no Mayor.
He reminds me of my
least favorite peoples,

my tenant
and my ex-husband,
goddamn.

Bless his soul.

(EXHALES)

(REGGAE MUSlC PLAYlNG)

ALL LAUGHlNG)

ALL CHATTERlNG lN SPANlSH)

(CHlLDREN EXCLAlMlNG)

(SHOUTlNG)

(PEOPLE EXCLAlMlNG)

What are you doing?
Ahmad, put me down !

Oh, my God !

ALL LAUGHlNG)

(STUTTERlNG)

(SCREAMS)

(RAP MUSlC PLAYlNG ON BOOM BOX)

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!

lt's Radio. Radio, man.

Hey, what's up, Radio?

Radio!

Don't! Stop!

(HONKlNG)

Hey, yo!

Don't be fucking
with the water now.

Oh, man, go ahead, man.
Go ahead. You got it.

There's gonna be
a lot of fucking trouble
if you get this car wet.

Ain't nobody
fucking around, man.

Why don't you just go ahead?

This is an antique here,
hotshot.

Man, go ahead !
lt's water!

Hey, man, l'm serious, man.

All right.
Okay, you won't
get wet, man.

Yeah, well,
make sure l don't.

Go ahead !
Go ahead !
Drive the car!

Just hurry up, man ! Damn !

All right, l'm driving it.

You need to come down
and have some fun !

Come on, let's go.
Get out, motherfucker!

Fuck you back!

MAN: Turn the fucking
water off!

Go!

Those son of a bitches!
They got me fucking soaked !

Officer! Officer!
Wait a minute. Hold it.

l want an arrest made
right now. Right now.

What's the matter? Calm down.
l'm fucking soaked !

Would you please
calm down, sir,
and tell us what happened?

Two black kids,
they soaked me
with the fire hydrant.

They ruined my car!
Look. lt's an antique.
They got me fucking soaked.

Sir, where are they?
"Where are they?"

Brilliant fucking question !

Where are they?
They ran away!

Where do you think they are?

Do you wish to
file a complaint, sir?

Yeah,
l wanna file
a complaint.

l want them locked
under the fucking jail.

Hey, Marty, l'm going
to turn off the water,

okay?
Yeah, yeah.

Where you going?
Where's he going?

Did you happen to catch
the name of the suspect, sir?

Officer,
what the fuck
are you doing?

You just calm down.
Calm down, my ass!

Did you happen to catch
the name of the suspects?

Fuck you, their names!
Moe and Joe!

What do l know, their names?

Moe and Joe what, sir?

Moe and Joe what?
Moe and Joe what?

Moe and Joe Black.
How's that?

They're brothers, sir?
Yeah, they're brothers.

Yeah, they're
fucking brothers.

This hydrant better
not come back on again,

or there's going
to be hell to pay!

Come and answer
to me, God damn it.

Ask him. He knows.

He's a witness,
he saw the whole
fucking thing.

Go on, man,
tell him what happened.

Would you let us do
the questioning, sir?

Fucking bullshit.

You know anything about this?

Who were the punks?

Doctors, those
that'll tell don't know,

and those that
know won't tell.

What the fuck is that,
voodoo shit?

Wise guy.

Hey, Da Mayor
don't know nothing,
all right?

Hey! He's leaving?

Keep this hydrant off.
You wanna swim?
Go to Coney lsland.

l'm talking to you.
He's leaving?
What about me?

l suggest you get
to your car quick

before these people
start to strip it clean.

Have a nice day, sir.

He left there
about a half-hour ago?
Oh, that's nice.

No! No, no problem.
Thank you.
Yeah. Half-hour. Right.

Mookie left. . .
Where the hell
you been, Mookie?

l got a business
to run, okay?

Run it, then,
all right?

Take that to
the radio station.

To Love Daddy?

Yeah, Love Daddy.

(SlGHlNG)

Hey, Pop, l'm gonna
go with Mookie, okay?

Yeah. You make sure
Mookie don't jerk around.

Wait up, Mook!
Go where?

Where you going?
You ain't going anywhere.

How you doing?
Vito, l know Pino's
your brother and shit,

but you should kick his ass.
The next time he touches you,
you should kick his ass.

The next time
he hits you,
fuck him up.

Whoa, hey, yo, Mook.
l mean, l appreciate
this concern and all,

but l don't think it's
any of your business.

Look, l know it's
none of my business,
but you need to kick his ass.

Smiley, not now.

lf l had a brother like him,
we'd be fighting all the time.

Now look, first. . .
Smiley!

First of all, Mook,
you don't got
a brother like him.

(WHlMPERlNG)
Smiley, get out of here!

First of all, you don't
got a brother like him,

and if you did,
you wouldn't know
what to do with him

because you never
had a brother like him.

He's my brother,
and l'm not going to hit him.

l got a sister.
l got a sister.

But you never
clocked your sister.
But l got a sister.

Does she bug you
like Pino bugs me?

Yeah, but you know
you're not supposed

to hit a girl
like you hit a guy.

Just fuck your brother up
one time,
it'll be over with.

We'll be out of
this fucking conversation,
all right?

You think it might
do some good?

Yes, all right?
A lot of good.

Let's give. . .
Love Daddy!

Peoples,
my stomach's been grumbling,
but help has arrived.

My main man Mookie
has saved the day!

Straight from Sal's
Famous Pizzeria
up the block.

Step up to the mike,
Mookie.

l don't know what to say.
Come on, come on !
Don't be shy.

This smells good.

Go ahead. This is
your Love Daddy talking,
starving like Marvin.

Say something to the people.
All right, Love Daddy.

l'd like to
dedicate this record

with all my heart
and soul to Tina.

All right!
Let me put
this song on

while l go to work
on this chicken
parmesana hero

with extra cheese
and extra sauce.

(SALSA MUSlC PLAYlNG)

(SPEAKlNG SPANlSH)

Chill, man.
Shut up. l'm trying to read.

Have some
fucking respect, huh?

ALL CHATTERlNG)

(RAP MUSlC PLAYlNG ON BOOM BOX)

Not so loud !

l want to listen
to my salsa music!

Chill, chill. Chill.

You think you got
it like that, bro?

(SPEAKlNG SPANlSH)

ALL LAUGHlNG)

MAN 1 : Let's go, motherfucker!

MAN 2: Turn it up, Stevie!

MAN 3: Blow it away,
man ! Blow it!

MAN 4: Yeah, blow it away!

MAN 2: Yeah ! Yeah !

Turn up the bongos!

ALL: Oh, yeah !

(SALSA MUSlC PLAYlNG LOUDER)

(RAP MUSlC PLAYlNG LOUDER)

MAN 1 : Yo, Steve!
Put it up louder, Steve!

MAN 2: Yeah, man !

ALL SHOUTlNG)

(SALSA MUSlC PLAYlNG SOFTER)

You got it, bro.

(MAN SPEAKlNG SPANlSH)

MAN 2: Come on, Steve, man !

(MAN SPEAKlNG SPANlSH)

MAN 1 : Your turn, choco-man.

MAN 2: He's a punk
anyway, man.

MAN 1 : Yo! Hey, pendejo!

MAN 3: Hey, pendejo!

What's up?

He's a sucker,
man. A punk.

He's a sucker, man.

See that game last night?

l saw it.

Best pitcher in the game,
Dwight Gooden.

l knew you'd
bring that up, man. . .
Who's better?

You know who's better.
Roger Clemens is better.

Clemens sucks, man.
He can't carry Dwight's jock.

Oh, man, how can you. . .
Dwight's the best in the game.

Dwight's the best in the game.

What's up, Buggin Out?

Got you.
What's happening?

You the man.
No, you the man.

No, you the man.
No, you the man.

No, you the man.
No, l'm a struggling black man

trying to keep my dick hard
in a cruel and harsh world.

Yo, hey, what's up
with the white boy?

Buggin Out, don't
start no shit, all right?

Vito's down.

Vito's down,
all right?
All right?

Yeah, right.
Vito's down.

Yeah.

Yo!

(GASPS)

Damn. Yo!

CLlFTON: Yeah?

Hey, you almost
knocked me down, man.
The word is "excuse me."

Excuse me. l'm sorry.
Not only just
knocked me down,

you stepped
on my brand new,

white Air Jordans
l just bought.

That's all you can
say is "excuse me"?

Are you serious?
Yeah, l'm serious.

l'll fuck you up
quick two times!
Two times!

Who told you to
step up on my sneakers?

Who told you to walk
on my side of the block?

Who told you to be
in my neighborhood?

l own this brownstone.

Who told you to
buy a brownstone

on my block in
my neighborhood
on my side of the street?

Yo, what do you want to live
in a black neighborhood
for, anyway?

Man, motherfuck
gentrification !

As l understand,
this is a free country.

A man can live
wherever he wants.
MAN: Free country.

BUGGlN OUT:
Free country?

Man, l should fuck you up
for saying that
stupid shit alone!

Yo, man,
your Jordans
are fucked up!

Damn, man, you might as well
throw them shits out.
Them shits is broke.

They looked really good
before he messed them up.

He did this shit
on purpose, man.

He was even
talking about your mama!

ALL EXCLAlM)
Shit, they used
to be so fine!

Yo, man, how much
you pay them for?

A hundred bucks!

American dollars!
1 08 with tax.

l'd give him 1 00 headaches.

You're lucky a black man
has a loving heart.

Next time you
see me coming, man,
you cross the street quick.

l'm out of here.
ELLA: Yo, man,
break his feet!

My brand new Jordans!
Take his bike!

l should make him
buy me another pair!

Black Panther whoop his ass!

Take his bike!
ELLA: Man, kick his ass!

You're lucky
l'm a righteous
black man,

or you'd be in
serious trouble, man.
Serious!

MAN: Fuck him up.

Let's fuck him up.

Why don't you go
back to Massachusetts?

l was born in Brooklyn.

No! Man !
ALL: Get out of here!

ALL CLAMORlNG)

l should send Vito
with you all the time.

Yeah. No more
90-minute deliveries
around the corner.

Pino, l work hard
like everybody else
in here, all right?

You know that's true, Pino.

Vito, come here.

Come here.

What's going on
between you two?

You guys
boyfriend and girlfriend
or something?

What did we
just talk about?
What?

What did we
just talk about?

What are you talking about?

Smack him.
SAL: Hey! Hey!

Any smacking around here
is gonna be done by me.

Are you gonna listen
to this shagamay,

listen to him
tell you to smack me,

your older brother?

Just remember who
you are, all right?

Your name is Vito Frangioni,
not Vito Muhammad. Okay?

l would love for you
to stay out of my business.

Stop putting these thoughts
into my brother's head, okay?

Look, l don't play
that Muhammad shit,
all right?

What Muhammad shit?

Look, don't fuck
with me, all right?

Oh, man.

Fuck, man.

(WHlSPERlNG)
l hate this place.
l hate this place.

(CHATTERlNG ON POLlCE RADlO)

What a waste.

As l was saying,
before we were so rudely

interrupted by
New York City's finest. . .

What was you saying?

The motherfucker
wasn't saying shit.

Yeah. Well, look at that.

Look at what?

lt's a goddamn shame.

What's a goddamn shame?

Sweet Dick Willie.

That's my name.

Damn, man,
do l have to
spell it out?

Make it plain.

Okay, but listen up.
l'm going to break it down.

Let it be broke,
motherfucker.

Can you dig it?

lt's dug.

Look at those
Korean motherfuckers
across the street.

l bet you they haven't
been off the boat a year

before they opened
up their own place.

That's right, man.
lt's been about a year.

A motherfucking year
off the motherfucking boat

and they already
got a business

in our neighborhood,
a good business.

Occupying a building
that had been boarded up

for longer than
l care to remember.

And l've been
here a long time.

Hear that,
he been here
a long time.

(LAUGHlNG) Hear, boy.

And now,
for the life of me. . .

You know,
l can't figure this out.

Either them
Korean motherfuckers
are geniuses,

or you black asses
are just plain dumb.

Fuck you.
lt's got to be
because we are black.

Ain't no other explanation.
No, no, l know, man.
You know it's true.

Ain't they always
trying to keep

the black man
to be about shit?

You motherfuckers
hold that shit down.

l'm tired of hearing
that old excuse,

l'm tired of
hearing that shit.

You know, l swear, man,
l will be one happy fool

when we open our own
business right here
in our neighborhood.

l swear to God,
l will be the first in line

to spend what
little money l got.

Be right there
with you, man.

You motherfuckers
are always talking
that old Keith Sweat shit,

"l'm gonna.
l'm gonna do this,
l'm gonna do that."

You ain't gonna
do a goddamn thing,

but sit your monkey
ass on this corner.

Hey, ML, when you gonna
get your business, huh?

Yeah, just like l thought.
You ain't going to
do a goddamn thing.

But l'll tell you
what l'm going to do,
hear me,

l'm gonna go over there
and give them Koreans
more of my money.

Get the fuck out of my way.
lt's Miller time,
motherfuckers.

Old, moose head fuckers
telling me what to do.

And, Coconut,
you got a lot
of damn nerve,

you got off the boat, too.
Leave me alone.

Hey, Kung Fu, go on give me
one of them damn beers.
Damn it!

What? No more free beer.
Get your ass in here

and serve me some.
No more free beer.

Hey, man,
no more free beer.

Don't start
no shit with me.

Mr. Sweet Dick Willie.
That's right.
Sweet Dick Willie's my name.

That's my name. . .

lt's a motherfucking shame.

Man,
ain't that a bitch?

Hey, Doctor,
what's your name?
Eddie.

How old are you?
Ten.

Question,
what makes Sammy run?

l said my name is Eddie.

What makes Sammy run?

My name is Eddie Lovell.

Relax. Eddie,
l want you to go
to the store for me.

Question.
How much is it
gonna cost?

How am l supposed to know
how much it's gonna cost

if l don't even know
what l'm buying?

Eddie, you're too smart
for your own britches.

Now, listen to me.
How much do you want

to go to the corner
store for Da Mayor?

50 cents.
You got a deal. Here.

l want you to get me
a quart of beer,
Miller High Life.

lf anybody bothers you,
say it's for your
bed-ridden, old granddaddy.

Now, go. Go.

What is wrong with him?

CEE: He ain't got
no money to be giving
nobody no money.

ELLA: Leave the man alone.

Look at this here, man.

You need to cut
this shit out.

Come on, man, who told you
you were the mayor
of this block?

See, he's self-appointed.
Man, you leave the man alone.

Shut up!

Yeah, yeah.
Look, look, look.

Damn.
You all leave me
the hell alone.

l ain't going
out like that, man.

You walk up and
down this block
like you own it.

CEE: For real.
His Honor.

AHMAD: You're so old,
you're like a fossil.

Man, you a bum, man.
You're an old,
drunk zero, man.

(CHUCKLES)
Now, what do you got
to say for yourself?

What you know about me?

Can't even pee straight,
nary a one of you.
What you know about anything?

AHMAD: Man, peace.

Unless you. . .
Unless you done
stood in the door,

listened to your
five hungry children
crying for bread,

and you can't do
a damn thing about it.

Your woman standing there,
you can't even
look her in the eye.

Unless you done that,
you don't know me, my pain,
my hurt, my feelings.

You don't know shit!

AHMAD: No, let him finish.
Let the old man finish.

Don't call me bum.
Don't call me a drunk.

You all ain't got the sense
that God give a billy goat!

Don't call me nothing.
lt's disrespectful.

l know your
mamas and your papas
raised you better.

Yo, man, l hope you finished
your little soliloquy, man.

'Cause first of all,
l've been peeing
straight for years,

understand
what l'm saying?
And you're right,

l wouldn't stand
in the doorway

and listen to my five
children go hungry.

l'd be out getting a job,
doing something,

anything to put
food in their mouth.

And you're right.
l don't want to
know your pain.

l don't care
to know your pain.

You're the one
who put yourself
in this situation, man.

Every day, every day,
every day, l see you

walk up and down
this block, inebriated.

CEE: Chill man.
Never sober!

PUNCHY: He's an old man.
AHMAD: But that's
what DA stands for,

Da Mayor, Drunk Ass.

Come on !

This man's getting me mad !
He don't get no respect here.

You'll never get
respect here, boy.

How you gonna tell me
how my parents raised me?

l respect those who
respect themselves.

PUNCHY: Come on, man !
Come on,
that is an old man !

He's an old man.

AHMAD SHOUTlNG)

Tina, l know l haven't
seen you in four days.
l'm a working man.

TINA: Oh,
that's really nice.
But, you know,

I work, too,
and l seem
to make time.

What do you
want me to do, huh?

l want you to
spend some time
with me and Hector!

l want you to try
and make this
relationship work.

If not, I'd rather not
be bothered with your ass.

Mookie,
you are too, too tired.

All right, all right, damn.

l'll be over there
sometime today.

You always say later!

Later, say,
if l get off work.

Bring some ice cream,
l'm burning up.
Mookie, do you love me?

Do l love you?
Mookie, get off the phone!

Be off in a second,
all right, Sal?

Do l love you?
l dedicated a record
on Love Daddy's show to you.

So what?
SAL: How's anybody
gonna call in, Mookie?

All right!

(TlNA CHATTERlNG)

You know,
if that ain't love,
you're crazy.

Are you deaf or what?

Pino,
l'm talking
on the phone.

l can see that.

Tina, l got to go.
Yeah, Pino's an asshole.

See you later today. Later!
Everybody happy?

(PHONE RlNGlNG)

Sal's Famous.
Yeah. Yeah, hold it.

You got two large
anchovy and pepperoni.

Okay.
Just hold on
one second.

See, Daddy?
Mookie's fucking
talking on the phone,

people are trying
to call in orders.
He's making us lose business.

SAL: Mookie!
20 minutes.

(MOUTHlNG WORDS)
You're fucking up.

(WHlSPERlNG)
How come niggers
are so stupid?

lf you see a nigger,
kick his ass.

Fuck you and
stay off the phone.

Hey, Mookie, forget about it.

Can l talk to you
for a second?

What?
Pino,

who's your favorite
basketball player?

Magic Johnson.

Who's your
favorite movie star?
Eddie Murphy.

And who's your favorite
rock star? Prince.

You're a Prince freak.
The Boss. Bruce!

Prince.
Bruce!

Pino, all you ever talk
about is nigger this
and nigger that

and all your favorite people
are so-called niggers.

lt's different.
Magic, Eddie,
Prince are not niggers.

l mean, they're not
black, l mean. . .
Let me explain myself.

They're not really black.
l mean, they're black,
but they're not really black.

They're more than black.
lt's different.

lt's different?
Yeah. To me, it's different.

Pino, deep down inside,
l think you wish
you were black.

(LAUGHlNG)
Get the fuck out of here!

Laugh if you want to.
You know, your hair
is kinkier than mine.

What does that mean?

And you know
what they say
about dark ltalians.

You know, l been
listening and reading. . .

You been reading now?

l read.

l've been reading
about your leaders.

Reverend Al
"Mister Do" Sharpton,
Jesse "Keep Hope Alive."

That's fucked up.
"Keep Hope Alive."

Hey, that's fucked.
Don't talk about Jesse.

And even the other guy,
what's his name?
Faraman, Fairakan. . .

Minister Farrakhan.

Right. Sorry,
Minister Farrakhan.

Anyway, Minister Farrakhan
always talks about
the so-called day

when the black man will rise,
"We will one day. . ."
What does he say?

"We will one day
rule the earth

"as we did in
our glorious past?"

That's right.

What past are you
talking about?

l mean, what did l miss?

We started civilization.

Keep dreaming, man.
Then you woke up!

Pino, fuck you,
fuck your fucking pizza
and fuck Frank Sinatra.

Yeah? Well, fuck you, too,
and fuck Michael Jackson.

You dago, wop, guinea,
garlic-breath,
pizza-slinging,

spaghetti-bending,
Vic Damone,
Perry Como,

Luciano Pavarotti, solo mio,
non-singing motherfucker.

You gold-teeth,
gold-chain-wearing,

fried-chicken and
biscuit-eating monkey,

ape, baboon,
big-thigh,
fast-running,

high-jumping, spear-chucking,
360-degree basketball-dunking,

tizzun, spade, mulignan.

Take your fucking pizza
piece and go the fuck
back to Africa.

You little, slanty-eyed,
me-no-speaky-American,

own every fruit
and vegetable stand
in New York,

bullshit,
Reverend Sun Myung Moon,

Summer Olympic '88,
Korean, kick-boxing
son of a bitch.

You Goya-bean-eating,
1 5-in-a-car,

30-in-an-apartment,
pointy shoes, red-wearing,

Menudo, mira-mira,
Puerto Rican cocksucker,
yeah, you !

lt's cheap.
l got good price for you,

Mayor Koch "How l'm Doing?"
chocolate-egg-cream drinking,

bagel and lox,
B'nai B'rith,
Jew asshole.

Yo! Hold up! Time out!

Time out!

Y'all take a chill.
You need to cool
that shit out.

And that's
the double truth, Ruth.

Sal, can you do me a favor?

That depends, Mookie.

Can you pay me now?

l can't do that.

Sal, just this once.
Can't you do me a solid, man?

Not till tonight
when we close.

Sal, l want to get paid now.

Look, you know
you get paid tonight
when we close, all right?

We're still open.

And if l pay you now,
l won't see you tonight.

That's a bet?

Yeah, that's a bet.

l'm going to
remember that stuff.

Well, you got to do
what you got to do, you know.

Yeah. l'm going
to remember that.

Well, l want you
to remember that.

Please do me a favor, Mook?
Remember that.

Come on, Sal.

l can't.

(RAP MUSlC PLAYlNG ON BOOM BOX)

Radio Raheem !

Mook.

What's happening?
lt's your world.

(RAP MUSlC PLAYlNG SOFTER)
Where you headed to?

l'm going to get a slice.

You going down to Sal's?
Word.

l got to make
a few deliveries

and l'll check you
back there, all right?

On the rebound.
Bet. All right.

Oh, shit!
Let me check it out.

That's the hype!

Newest, latest.

Let me tell you the story
of right hand, left hand.

lt's a tale of good
and evil. Hate!

lt was with this hand
that Cain iced his brother.

Love!

These five fingers,
they go straight
to the soul of man.

The right hand,
the hand of love.

The story of life is this. . .

Static.

One hand is always
fighting the other hand,

and the left hand
is kicking much ass.

l mean,
it looks like the right hand,
love, is finished.

But hold on,
stop the presses.

The right hand's coming back.

Yeah. He got the left hand
on the ropes now.

That's right. Yeah.

lt's a devastating right
and hate is hurt. He's down !

Left hand, hate,
KO'd by love.

lf l love you, l love you.

But if l hate you. . .

There it is,
love and hate.

l love you, brother.
Bet.

Radio Raheem,
check you later. Peace.

(RAP MUSlC PLAYlNG LOUDER)

Two slices.
No service till you
turn that shit off!

Two slices.

Turn it off!

Mr. Radio Raheem,
l can't even
hear myself think!

You are disturbing me!

You are disturbing
my customers!

(MUSlC STOPS)

Two slices.

You come into Sal's,
there's no music.

No rap, no music, no music,
no music, capisce?

Understand?

RADlO RAHEEM: Yo, put some
extra mozzarella on that
motherfucker and shit.

Extra cheese is $2.00.

(DOORBELL RlNGlNG)

Pizza delivery!

All right. Later.

Mousie, what's up?

Watch out. Move!

Give me some of that!
Get a job.

We don't need no job.
Get a job, man.

ELLA: Shut up!

AHMAD: Red, black socks.

ELLA: Go change
your diapers, Mookie.

AHMAD: Look at you, you
breadstick with a flat top.
Get out of here.

Buggin.

Where are the females?

You don't do nothing
with them anyway.

Hey, l've got it like that.

SMlLEY: Mookie. Mookie.

All right. Here you go.
Stop bothering me.

Thank you, black man.

All right.
Leave me alone.

Jade!

What?

AlR CONDlTlONER WHlRRlNG)

Mookie, how come
you're not at Sal's?

l'm working.

What is this,
Mookie, another one

of your patented
two-hour lunch breaks?

Look, l wanted to come home
and take a quick shower.

Hey, Sal's going to be mad.
You know, later for Sal.

You know, sometimes
l think you're more
concerned about him than me,

and l'm your own brother.

(LAUGHS) Yeah ! Yeah,
Mookie, that's real smart.

You know,
Sal pays you, Mookie,
that's why you should work.

Did you ever
think about that?

Yeah, l work.
Slavery days are over.

My name ain't Kunta Kinte.

Yeah, Mookie,
l just don't want you
to lose the one job

you've be able
to keep for more

than a month.
That's all. Okay?

l'm carrying you as it is.

Don't worry about me.
l always get paid.

Yeah. You always get paid.
What about your
responsibilities?

Why don't you take
better care of those?

What responsibilities?

What responsibilities?
What, are you deaf, Mookie?

You know damn well
what l'm talking about.

Take care of your
responsibilities,
all right?

And who are you
yelling at, anyway?
Who are you yelling at?

l'm yelling at you.

l'm going to take
care of this shower.
Yeah, take a shower.

l'm your big brother.
Don't be yelling at me now.

Get out of here.
l mean, you're a bum.

Cut that shit out.
Don't call me no bum.

(WHOOPS)

Hey, Jade, if l want
to take a shower

in the middle of the day,
it's all right. Fuck Sal.

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AHMAD: Yo, man,
it's hot as a motherfucker.

Why don't you fan me
with your ears?

Stop playing !

Leave it alone.

Man, shut up.
AHMAD: Why don't
y'all chill, man?

lt's too hot for that.

MAN: That's why l asked you,
"What you want to do?"

WOMAN: We don't have
money to do anything.

(EXHALES)

l'm beat.

Daddy, you know,
l've been thinking.

Maybe we should
sell this place.

Get out while we're
still ahead and alive.

You really think you know
what's best for us, Pino?

Maybe, we could. . .

Couldn't we sell
this and open up

a new one in
our own neighborhood?

There's too many
pizzerias already there.

Then maybe we could try
something different.

What am l going to do?

That's all l know.
What am l doing?

l been here 25 years.
Where am l going?

l'm sick of niggers.

lt's like l come to work,
it's Planet of the Apes.

l don't like
being around them.

They're animals.

Why you got
so much anger in you?

Why? l'll tell you why.
My friends, they laugh at me.

They laugh right in my face.

They tell me, "Go.
Go to Bed-Stuy.
Go feed the moulies."

Do your friends put money
in your pocket, Pino?

Food on your table?
They pay your rent,
the roof over your head? Huh?

They're not your friends.

lf they were your friends,
they wouldn't laugh at you.

Pop, what can l say?
l don't want to be here.

They don't want us here.

We should stay in
our own neighborhood,
stay in Bensonhurst,

and the niggers
should stay in theirs.

l never had no trouble
with these people.

l sat in this window.

l watched these
little kids get old.

And l seen
the old people
get older.

Yeah, sure,
some of them don't like us,
but most of them do.

l mean,
for Christ's sake, Pino,
they grew up on my food.

On my food.
l'm very proud of that.

Now,
you may think it's funny,
but l'm very proud of that.

Look, what l'm trying
to say, Son, is. . .

Sal's Famous Pizzeria
is here to stay.

l'm sorry.

l'm your father
and l love you.
l'm sorry, but. . .

But that's the way it is.

(CHUCKLES)

Hey, Sal.

How you doing?

These are $2.

Get out.

Get the fuck
out of here, man !

Get the fuck out of here.

$2.

Come on. Get out of here.
Get the fuck
out of here, man !

Every day
it's the same shit.
WlLLlE: Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Hey what?

Get a fucking job, man.
Why don't you get
a fucking job, man?

Go to fucking work!
Fuck you, man.

Sal.
Get out. Get out!

See what l'm saying?

WlLLlE: Leave that boy alone.
You know he ain't right!

Get a fucking job, man.
l'm sick of this shit.

You get a job.

l got a job.
l got a job, man.

Bring your ass over here,
punk.

No, l ain't going
over there.

l got no reason
to go over there.

Fuck. . .

Fuck you.

Fuck you, man.
Get the fuck out of here.

Fuck you !

Go inside. Go inside.
Smiley, here. Smiley, here.

Here's a couple of dollars.
Come on. Come on. Here. Here.

SMlLEY: Fuck you.

SAL: Hey, Willie,
take it easy.
He didn't mean nothing.

Okay?

This is what
l'm talking about.

(WHOOPS)

Let's go, Jade!

Da Mayor,
we need your leadership.

Doctor,
what are you
talking about?

l'm organizing
a boycott of Sal's Famous.

Shit. Now,
keep walking, Doctor.

l don't wanna hear
none of your damn
black foolishness.

Damn. No juice.

No, man, no.

No.

Hell, no, God damn it.

Sal ain't never done
nothing to you before,
man, and me neither.

Hear me? What you ought
to do is boycott that
goddamn barber

that fucked up your head.

(LAUGHlNG) Yeah !
Shit.

Hell, coming round here,
fucking with
Sweet Dick Willie.

Go on, man.
Get out of here.

Get the fuck away, man.
Go on. Beat it.

Would you like to sign
a petition to boycott
Sal's Famous Pizzeria?

What?
ALL: What?

Man, l ain't boycotting jack,
you string-cheese-head
motherfucker.

l'm about to go get
a slice right now.

Shit, l was born and
raised on Sal's pizza.

What the fuck
you talking about?

Shit, you crazy, man?

ALL LAUGHlNG)
As good as them
motherfucking pizzas is?

Black Panther eat pizza,
we eat pizza.
Boyee!

l'll do it
without your help.

That's 75 cents.

Thanks.
Thanks, honey.

Sal, we're going to boycott
your fat pasta ass.

You're going to boycott me?

You haven't got
the balls to boycott me.

He's going to boycott me.
Are you kidding?

Here's your boycott!
Up your ass.
You're going to boycott.

Hey, where you going?
Where you going?
Oh ! Where you going?

l'm talking to you, Pino!
l'm right here.

All right. Go inside.
l can take care of myself,
all right?

Take it easy, all right?
No. l want you to go inside.

Here's your boycott!
Up here! Son of a bitch.

Messed up my
Jordan with muck.
Damn ! Look at this.

Get this thing
straightened out, man.

White guy, black man.
l can't believe this crap.

Ah, your Jordans are dogged.

Oh, man.
What, you, too?
What's up?

Yeah, me, too.

Oh, you hanging out
with baby sis.

Look, Buggin Out,
we're not hanging out.

She's escorting me
back to Sal's.

Stop lying.
That's not even true.
l'm just gonna get a slice.

A slice! Yo, yo, Jade,
you can't do that.
Not today.

Look, you don't know this,
but l'm organizing
a boycott of Sal's Famous.

Why? What did he do?

You know them pictures
he got hanging up
on the Wall of Fame?

So?
So?

You know, wake up.
Didn't you notice
something about it?

No, Buggin Out, l haven't.

You know,
you're wasting my time.
Just leave that shit alone.

You should.
You really should.

Hey, yo, Mook.
l'm gone.

l'll see you there.
Stay black, Mook.

So, Buggin Out,
how you been?

How l been?

Every single one
of them pictures
is somebody ltalian.

And?
And we want some
black people up.

So, did you ask Sal?

(HUFFlNG) Yeah, l asked him.

We don't want
nobody in there,

nobody's spending
good money in Sal's,

until we get some
black motherfucking
pictures on the wall.

Buggin Out,
what good is that
gonna do, huh?

You know, if you
really tried hard,
Buggin Out,

you could direct
your energies in a more
useful way, you know?

Jade, you got to be down.
What, you ain't down?

Yeah, Buggin Out,
l'm down,

but l'm down for something
positive in the community.
Are you down for that?

Jade. . .

(SlGHS)

Jade,
l still love you, anyway.

(GlGGLES) Yeah,
l still love you,
too, Buggin Out.

l'll see you later.

Later. Damn.

Man !

You're pushing it, Mookie.
You're really pushing it.

l don't pay you good money
to have you jerk me around.

Now, you keep it up,
you're gonna end up
on the street

with the rest
of your homeboys.

(SCOFFS)

About time, Pop.

(DOOR OPENlNG)

Jade.

How you doing, Jade?
JADE: Great.

Where you been?
(EXHALES) Just working hard,
keeping busy.

How's business going?
Business is great.

You know, we were wondering
when you were gonna stop by
and pay us a visit.

How's my brother doing?
Well, he's. . . Mookie is. . .

He's great.
You know,
he's a good kid.

Hey, Pop, stop lying.

SAL: He's only kidding, Jade.
JADE: l know.

What can l fix you?

Regular slice.

No, no, l'm going
to make you
something special,

something very special,
if you don't mind.

JADE: Yeah,
that'll be great.
That'll be great.

SAL: Okay.
What do you want to drink?
JADE: Cream soda.

SAL: Changed.
lt used to be root beer.

lf l'm wrong,
tell me l'm wrong.

JADE: l know. l want
a change of pace, you know?

SAL: Hey, Vito, clean off
the table for Jade. Okay?

(EXHALES)

(RAP MUSlC PLAYlNG ON BOOM BOX)

(MUSlC DlSTORTlNG)

(MUSlC STOPS)

RADlO RAHEEM: 20 D Energizers.

20 C Energizers?

D. Not C, D.

C Energizers?

D, motherfucker, D!
Learn to speak
English first, all right? D!

How many you say?

20, motherfucker. 20!

(SPEAKlNG KOREAN)

Motherfuck you !

(CHUCKLES) "Motherfuck."

"Motherfucka you."
You all right, man.
You all right.

Just give me
the motherfucking
batteries, all right?

20 D fucking batteries.

Hey, wait. Yo, wait, wait.
What's the date on them, man?
What's the date on them?

The date! The fucking date.
What?

Can you fucking
speak English? The date!

The date?
Date? Date?

They Marcha!
"Marcha"?

What the fuck you
talking about, "Marcha"?

1 991 .

Oh, March.
That's March,
motherfucker, March.

Yo, man,
you sure that's 20?
20.

No. No. No.
Take them out, man.
Count them again.

(SPEAKlNG KOREAN)

Count the shits again, man.
Motherfucker.

May l help you?

l want some flowers.

The whole thing?

The whole thing.

lt's very expensive.

l know. l'll pay.

l thought you might
like these.

l guess not.

There is nothing
like the smell
of fresh flowers.

Don't you agree,
Mother Sister?

Summertime,
all you can smell
is the garbage.

Smell overpowers everything,
especially the soft,
sweet smell of flowers.

lf you don't mind,
l'm gonna sit right here,

catch myself a breeze or two,
and then l'll be on my way.

Thank the Lord,
the sun is going down.

lt is hot as blazes.

Yes, Jesus.

Well, l guess
l'll be on my way.

(RAP MUSlC PLAYlNG ON BOOM BOX)

Oh !
Oh, goddamn, man !

Cut that shit down !

You should play
some Bobby "Blue" Bland
or something. Fucker!

What to say?

Man, l don't know
how he does it.

Oh, man ! God damn.

Goddamn shit.
Fuck.

ML.
What?

Come hold this for me, baby.

Hold what, sucker?

ALL LAUGHlNG)

You know what
l'm talking about.

That's okay.

At least my moms
didn't name me
Sweet Dick Willie.

l told you about
that mama shit.

Hey, nobody talking
about your moms.

l ain't say nobody,
motherfucker. l said you !

Come on, man, squash it,
just squash that shit.

Dick, listen, you know,
l didn't mean it like that.

You did, too. Shit.

l just wanted to know
who named you
Sweet Dick Willie.

Man, it's just a name.
God damn. Shit.

How you get the name ML?
Yeah !

ML stands for ML.

Now, that's some
stupid shit right here.

You hear me?
That's some stupid shit.

'Cause everybody know
why they call me
Sweet Dick Willie.

(CHUCKLlNG)
Everybody. Everybody.

Boy, l say,
you negroes kill me.

Shit.
Always holding on to,

always talking
about your dicks.

l don't know about you,
but it's too hot to fuck.

Man, you out
your fucking mind?

lt ain't never
too hot or never
too cold for fucking.

See, l had my best
piece of woman on
a humid day. Shit.

Over there in the projects,
close to your woman.

Go on,
get out of here, man !

Shit.
Oh, Lord, have mercy.

God damn, l better not
see her naked on payday.

lCEE MAN: Everybody out!
The lcee, lcee Man is here.

Hey, hey!
Looking good,
looking good.

Here we are. Look at these
beautiful people, huh?

The lcee Man is here.

BOY: l want coconut.
GlRL: Give me lemon.

lCEE MAN:
Tell me what you need.

There you go, my love.
There you go.

That's your color,
that's your flavor.
Thank you.

BOY:
l want more syrup on mine.

MAN: He's always
drinking beer.

(BELLS CHlMlNG)

lCEE MAN: Hey! Hey!
Where's everybody going?

lce cream !

(TlRES SCREECHlNG)

lce cream !
Doctor!

(CAR HONKlNG)

(PEOPLE SCREAMlNG)

Doctor, don't you know
no better than to run out
in that street

in front of a car?

What you trying to do,
kill yourself?

Come on, let's get up.
Come on.

You gonna be all right.

You gonna be
all right, my boy.

Eddie, you gonna
be just fine.

Eddie, what's wrong?

Mayor knocked me down.

Well, you ought to be
ashamed of yourself.

(LAUGHS) Miss, that boy's
just scared to death.

What happened, l was
walking along the street,
minding my own business,

l looked out and
l seen your son
about to get hit by the car,

so l dashed out
to save him.

And l had to knock him
down to keep us both
from getting hit.

Matter of fact,
l saved two lives today,
his and mine.

Eddie, is that the truth?

Eddie, you hear me
talking to you.
l'm talking to you, boy.

He gonna be fine,
miss, just fine.

(PEOPLE EXCLAlMlNG)

Mommy, Mommy!
l'm sorry! l'm sorry!

Get upstairs now!

And when your
father come home,

he gonna wear your
little behind out, too!

Miss, you didn't have
to hit your boy like that.

He's already scared to death.

l appreciate you
helping my Eddie,
l truly do,

but l'll have nobody
question how l raise him,
not even his daddy.

You're right, miss.
You're right.

Excuse me.

l don't want to
sound like a jerk,

but can l say
something to you, Jade?

Yeah, Sal.

You got the biggest eyes
l've ever seen in my life.

They, like, jump
right out of your head.
You know that?

l feel embarrassed
for even saying that.
l feel like a jerk.

Thanks, Sal.
Don't even mention it.

Thanks a lot.
lt was delicious.
Thanks a lot.

l got to talk to you.
Mookie.

l got to talk to you.
Come on. Come on.
All right, Mookie.

Come on. Let's go.

Hey, Jade, don't forget
to come back soon, okay?

Hey, Mookie,
take it easy, will you?

Grabbing her arm,
you're going to bust her arm.

Vito.

Jade, l do not want you
in Sal's no more, all right?

Mookie, what?
Stop tripping.
No, you're tripping.

Read my lips.
Don't come
to Sal's no more.

What are you so
worked up about?

The way Sal looks at you,
about the way
he talks at you.

He's just being nice.
Nice?

He's completely innocent.
lnnocent?

l didn't stutter.
You heard me.

Look, all Sal wants
to do is hide the salami.

You're really crude, Mookie.
You know that?

l admit it, l'm crude.
Do not come in Sal's anymore.
You are not welcome.

You got a lot of nerve.
You know that?

l'm gonna tell you something
for the last time, Mookie,

stop trying to play
big brother to me, okay?
l'm a grown woman !

You can hardly pay
your rent and you're gonna
tell me what to do?

Come off it!
That makes no sense at all.

Oh, it doesn't, huh?

You got your little
$250 a week plus tips.
l'm getting paid.

Peanuts.

You know, in a while,
l'll be making a move,
all right?

Yeah, when?

Don't worry about it.

When, Mookie?
That's what l wanna know.

When?
Don't worry about it!

Jade, don't come
here no more.

lt's got. . . We're not
talking about that now.

Take your skinny butt
around the corner
and go back home.

l'm tired of supporting
a grown woman, okay?

l'm tired of supporting
a grown man, okay?

l want to know when you're
going to pack your bags
and go, okay, Mookie?

Just don't come in
Sal's no more, all right?

l'll be back.

And no more pizza, either.

l don't care if you fire me
this exact fucking moment.

lf you're saying what
l'm thinking you're saying,

you better not say it
because l don't
wanna hear it.

You hear this?
Do me a favor,
leave Jade alone.

You know, Mookie,
not for nothing,

but if you were just
a little bit taller,

l'd kick you
right in the ass for
what you're thinking.

As a matter of fact,
l should kick your
ass on principle alone.

Here. You got a delivery.

ls this the right address?

Yeah. . .
What is this with the. . .
Yeah, it's the right address.

Mook,
that's the right address.
Yeah, l wrote it myself. Why?

l'm checking, you know,
sometimes you make a mistake

and l deliver
the fucking pizzas

to the wrong
fucking address.
All right?

l don't make mistakes.
l don't make. . .

You don't make mistakes?
No.

Hey, hurry back, okay?
Don't get lost.
We're still open.

Do me a favor,
make a pizza, huh?

Mr. Mayor.

l saw what you did.
That was a foolish act,
but it was brave.

That child owes you his life.

l wasn't trying to be a hero.

l just seen what was
happening and l reacted.
Didn't even think.

(CHUCKLlNG) Probably
wouldn't have done it

on second thought
if l had thought.

Yeah, Da Mayor's
getting to be
an old man now.

l ain't run
like that in years.

l went from first to
home on a bunt single.

Scored the winning run.
lt was two out,
in bottom of the ninth.

lt was August 1 , 1 939.
Snow Hill, Alabama.

Ol' Mud Cat bunch-of-bones
was the pitcher, now,
he hated my guts.

He reared back,
come down off that
mound and l took off

like white lightning
up a black snake's ass, l. . .

(CHUCKLES) Maybe
l ought to be a hero
more often, huh?

Maybe you shouldn't.
Don't get happy.

This changes nothing
between you and me.

You did a good thing
and Mother Sister

just wanted to
thank you for it.

l wanna thank you.

You're welcome.

Delivery from
Sal's Famous Pizzeria.

What the hell
took you so long?
ls it hot?

Lady, l've never delivered
a cold pizza in my life.

(POP MUSlC PLAYlNG)

(CHUCKLES)

Come here.

(BOTH GlGGLlNG)

You know, you think
you're slick, Tina.

l know.
How else was l
gonna get you up here?

l haven't seen you
for a week.

l'm working, you know.
Making money, getting paid.

Yeah. l see you forgot
the ice cream again.

Oh, shit, l forgot.

Yeah, you know, your memory's
getting really ridiculous.
lt's disgusting.

l just forgot.
l got a lot of things
on my mind.

Yeah, and l really wanted
some ice cream, too.

Look,
if it makes you any happier,
l'll run out and get some.

No, no. That's out.

You won't come back either.

You know l can't be
staying long anyhow.

How long?

Long enough to
do the nasty.

Oh, no, come on, Mookie.
That's out.

Wait a minute.
First of all, it is too hot.
All right?

lf you think l'm
gonna let you get some,

put your clothes
on and leave here,

and not see
your black ass

for another week,
you must be bugging.

l'll see you tomorrow.

Yeah, right.
And my name is
Boo Boo the Fool.

So, no nasty, huh?

No.

Tina, let's do
something else then.

What?

Trust me.
Trust you?

Mookie,
the last time l trusted you,
we ended up with a son.

Remember your son?
l do remember my son.
His name is Hector.

You know,
what are you trying to say?
l'm a bad father?

On the strength.

Let me talk to you
for a second.

What? What?

Over here.

Tina, take your clothes off.

Mookie, l already told you
it's too fucking
hot to make love.

"lt's too fucking hot."
Why are you always cursing?

l don't fucking
curse that much.

"l don't fucking
curse that much."

What the hell are you
talking about, Mookie?

All you do is curse.
l do not.

Anyway, no rawness is
jumping off tonight.

All right?
And that's it.

No rawness?
No. No rawness.

Anyway, why's it
always gotta be like that
when you come over here?

lt's not always like that.
lt always has to be
fucking like that.

Mook, what are you doing?
What are you doing?

l'm not cursing.
(SNlCKERS) Mookie. Come on.

l mean it.
l'm not playing.

(MlMlCS TlNA)
"l'm not playing."

(LAUGHlNG)

Damn, don't be so anxious.

That's right.
Take it off.

You're sweating.

Of course l'm sweating,
you moron.

lt's only 1 00 degrees
in here and shit.

Look, freeze. Don't move.
l'll be right back, okay?

What do you mean
you'll be back?
Just stay there.

Where you going?

l'll be right back.

What the hell you got me
standing on the bed for?
Where the hell you going?

(MAN CHATTERlNG ON TV)

How's my son Hector?

Honey, do you hear that?
He wants to know
how you are doing.

And he has the straight face
of asking about it.

(SPEAKlNG SPANlSH)

Good for nothing.

(SPEAKlNG SPANlSH)

(CONTlNUES
SPEAKlNG SPANlSH)

English ! English !

l want my son to
speak English.
All right?

WOMAN: Why don't you just
get out of my kitchen?

Bad enough
his name is Hector.

Get out of my kitchen.
l don't want to
hear anything.

Get out. Out, l said.

Yes, children,
this is the cool-out corner.

We're slowing it down
for all the lovers
in the house.

(SLOW MUSlC PLAYlNG)

l'll be giving you
all the help you need.

Musically, that is.

This shit is cold.

lt's supposed to be cold.
lt's an ice cube.

Later for your shit.

(SPEAKlNG SPANlSH)

What?

Tina,
you don't got a forehead,
you got a eight-head.

(SNlCKERS) Mookie,
you're funny as shit.

You got one of
them Sade foreheads.

Fuck you !

God damn !
lt's a big-ass forehead.
l need an iceberg,

(LAUGHlNG)

rather than this ice cube.

Thank God for lips.

Thank God for the neck.

Thank God for kneecaps.

Thank God for elbows.

Thank God for thighs.

Thank God for
the right nipple.

Thank God for
the left nipple.

Feels good.

You like,
she likes,
she likes.

Amen.

l got to be going.

You better come back.

l'll be back tonight.
You better come back

or else l'm gonna
kick your ass.

Oops. Guess l got
to be back, then.

All right.

(SNlCKERlNG)

All right.

Get out of here.

l got to go.

Bye.
Bye.

l'm not leaving yet.

(LAUGHlNG)
Get out of here!

All right. Later.

Later.

So, just out of curiosity,
how long are you
gonna stick around here?

You mean tonight?

No, l mean,
the neighborhood.

Well, l figure
about 50 years.

Yeah, because l'm going
into the real estate business,
you know.

l figured l'd build
a big high-rise
in the neighborhood.

Yeah.
A lot of people
want to move here.

Why not? You want
a condominium?

You put a couple
of straws in there,
Mr. Trump?

But of course.

Mr. Trump's.
Trump's Pizza.

l heard of that place, man.
No, it's Trump's Plaza.

Do me a favor,
get out of here.
See you, Sal.

Take care, Salvatore.

Pino, take the soft drinks
out of the back
and load up here, okay?

Okay, Pop.

Sal, if you want me
to deliver any faster,

you gotta give me
a jet rocket or something

'cause l can't be
running with pizzas.

The cheese ends
up on one side.

Mookie, l didn't say nothing.

You must have
a guilty conscience.
You got a guilty conscience?

Sal, l'm not guilty
of anything.

Come on, you gotta
be guilty of something,

otherwise you wouldn't
come in here,
saying the things you said.

Come on, Sal.

Where we going?

Oh, shit!

Vito, give me a hand,
come on.

Come on.
What?
What the fuck's the matter?

(BOTH PANTlNG)

Vito, l want you
to listen to me.
l'm your brother.

l may smack you
around every once in a while,
but l'm still your brother.

So what, Pino?
So fucking what?

l love you, man.

l'm listening.
l'm listening.

Good,
'cause l want you to listen.

Jesus Christ, Pino,
l said l'm fucking listening.

Good, Vito, black, white.
No. No, no, no. No.

No? What the hell
you talking about?

Are you listening to me?

Try to stop
busting my balls, Pino,

l said l'm fucking
listening to you
1 0 fucking times already.

Mookie's not to be trusted.

l trust him, Pino.

No. No mulignan
can be trusted.

The first time
you turn your back, boom !

(SCREAMlNG)

The spear right here,
man, in the back.

Yeah? How do you know this?
l know.

How do you know, man?

l know. l read.

Give me a break, Pino,
l never seen you read
nothing in your fucking life.

Read your history.
lt's historical.

He, them,
they're not to be trusted.

What do you want me
to do about it?

l want you to be on
fucking guard, man.
Fucking hit me?

You be on guard
'cause Mookie has
Pop conned,

so we got to
look out for him.

You don't know
what the fuck
you're talking about.

And that's exactly
what l'm talking about.

Yeah?

We'll be right there,
Pop, in one minute.

You better listen
to what l say.

l'll rip you.
l'll fuck you up.
You know l'll fuck you up.

You know something, Pino?

What?

You don't know everything
you think you know, man.

You think you know,
but you don't know it, man.

Mookie, he listens to me.
You don't, man.

He does
and you fucking don't.

You're fucking
stabbing me
in the back, man.

(RAP MUSlC PLAYlNG ON BOOM BOX)

Radio!

Buggin, what's up?

How you been, man?

Living large, bro.

Yo, that the only
tape you gots?

You don't like
Public Enemy, man?
That shit's dope.

l'm down,
but you don't be
playing nothing else.

l don't like nothing else.

Yo, check this, man.
You know Sal?

Yeah,
l know that motherfucker.

l've been trying to
organize a boycott

of Sal's Famous,
you know what l'm saying?

l almost had to bust him
in the head today, man.

He gonna tell me,
tell me, Radio Raheem,

to turn down my box
and shit, man, and
didn't even say please.

Who the fuck he think he is,
Don Corleone and shit?

He make much money
off us black people

and all he got up there
on the wall is ltalians.

You know, Sylvester Stallone,
okey-doke-looking
motherfuckers.

You know what l'm saying,
homeboy?
On the strength.

Yeah,
we shouldn't
buy one slice.

Not spending
one red penny
up in there

till he put folks of color
up on that wall.

That's what l'm talking. . .
That's what l'm
talking about, man !

Yo, you got my back?
Your back is got.

My bro.
My bro.

Yo, Smiley.
Come here, man.

What you listening to?

Malcolm. . .

(STUTTERlNG)
Malcolm, huh?

MAN: Cut off that damn music!

l'm in here trying
to get me
some motherfucking. . .

Yo! l'll fuck you up, quick!

Two times!

Three times!

Sal, start counting
my money tonight
'cause l gots to get paid.

Come on, Vito. Come on.

This is terrific.

l mean we had
a great, great day.

You know something?

There's nothing like
a family in business,
working together.

l'm going to
rename the place.

l'm gonna call it
"Sal and Sons
Famous Pizzeria."

Why not? You guys are
gonna take it over
someday anyway, right?

And Mookie. . .

Mookie, l wanna tell you
that there's always gonna
be a place for you here,

right here at Sal's,
Sal's Famous Pizzeria,

because you've always
been like a son to me.

We're closed !
No, we're closed !

Shut up!
ALL: You shut up!

Shut the fuck up, man !

All right, let them in.
Let them in.
They love my pizza.

Four slices and
l'm out of here.

Sal, we're trying to go home!

Shut up!
You ain't taking my delivery,
boy. Bitch !

This is stupid !

ALL SHOUTlNG)

MOOKlE:
Sit your black ass down !

ELLA: Shut up! Fuck you !

Yo, Sal ! Sal,
four slices, man, regular.
To go, all right?

MOOKlE: Why you gotta curse?
Don't tell. . .

Looking good.
Looking real good, man !

Come on.
Come on,
move it, man !

(RAP MUSlC PLAYlNG ON BOOM BOX)

(SHOUTlNG)
What'd l tell you
about that noise?

(SHOUTlNG)
What'd l tell you
about them pictures?

(SHOUTlNG)
What the fuck,
are you deaf?

No! Are you? Fuck you !

We want some black people
on that motherfucking
Wall of Fame now!

We're trying to
go fucking home!

We've been here
all fucking day,
Buggin Out!

Turn that jungle music off!
We ain't in Africa!

Why it got to be
about jungle music?

Why it got to be
about Africa?

lt's about them
fucking pictures!

lt's about
turning that shit off

and getting the fuck
out of my place!

Radio Raheem !
Fuck you.

And fuck you, too!

ALL SHOUTlNG)
Kick some ass, Sal !
Get in there, Pino!

This is music. My music!

(SHOUTlNG)
Fuck your music.

Turn it off, then.

Hey, man,
get the fuck out of here!
We're fucking closed !

Fuck you !

We're closing you
guinea bastards for good !

For good, motherfucker!

Until you get
some black people on that
motherfucking Wall of Fame!

You're gonna
fucking close me?

BUGGlN OUT:
You're goddamn right!

You black cocksucker!
l'll fucking tear your
fucking nigger ass. . .

ALL: Oh, we're niggers now?
We niggers now!

You fucking white trash !

l'll fuck you up!

Sal, put the fucking
bat down !

Come on, man,
you fucking guinea trash !

Jump over
the motherfucking counter!

You black cocksucker!

You nigger motherfucker!

(MUSlC STOPS)

l just killed
your fucking radio.

My music, you motherfucker!

ALL CHEERlNG)

Get off him !
Get the fuck off him !

PlNO: Get off him ! Get off!

ALL SHOUTlNG)

You fucked up my eye!

Ahmad, stop!
Please stop it!

You don't fuck
with my box, man !

You don't fuck with my box!

Stop it!

Get the fuck up!

Come on,
l'm gonna kick your ass
some more. Come on.

RADlO RAHEEM: Come on !

MAN: Fight. A fight!

Fight!

Mookie!

SAL: Goddamn kill you !

Hey! Break it up!

Hey! Hey! Break it up!

Break it up!
PlNO: Hey, what are you doing?

You're gonna kill him !

PlNO: Stop it!
DA MAYOR: Break it up!

PlNO: Stop it!

Break it up! Break it up!

(POLlCE SlREN WAlLlNG)

MAN: Right here!

Get the fuck out
of the way, man !

OFFlCER 1 : Break it up!

Get out, man !
Get out of the way!

OFFlCER 2:
Let me through !
Let me through !

OFFlCER 1 : Gary,
get the big guy.

MAN: Move.

OFFlCER 1 : Gary, the big guy.

l'll kill you,
you motherfucker!

OFFlCER 1 :
Just take him off me!

What are you doing? Sal !

Get the fuck off me, man !
Get off of me!

BUGGlN OUT: Get off me!
You're taking me down?

You're not taking
Vito or Pino or Sal out!

Get the fuck off me!

Get his other arm !

Take him down !
Take him down !

Just take him down, man !

God damn it!
You're killing him.
Let him go!

Give it up, asshole.
Give it up!

Just take him down !
OFFlCER 3: Come on !

Let him go.
Stop it, God damn it!

Stop it!

Get his arm !
Get his arm !

Gary, that's enough !

Shut up.

OFFlCER 1 : Gary,
that's enough, man !

Gary, that's enough !

OFFlCER 2:
Shut the fuck up!

Radio Raheem !
Radio Raheem !

No!

BUGGlN OUT: Radio!

Radio Raheem !
Radio Raheem !

Get the fuck up,
you ain't dead !

Get up, asshole!

Quit faking it!

OFFlCER 3: Get up, asshole!

OFFlCER 2: Get up!
Get the fuck up!

Let's get him out of here.

l'm a black man,
God damn it!

l'm a black man !

You can't kill us all !
You can't kill us all !

You can't fucking kill us all,
God damn it!

Motherfucker!

Let's get him out of here!

OFFlCER 3: Come on ! Shit.

OFFlCER 2: Get him to the car.

Get him to the car.
Let's go.

Come on, man !

(CROWD SHOUTlNG)

Back off, assholes!

You fucking pig,
fucking murderers!

You can't kill us all, man !

You can't
fucking kill us all !

Back off. Back off.
Everybody, back off!

Get back!

Fucking bastards.

OFFlCER 1 : Shut up,
you little nigger fucker!

l told you to shut up!

MAN: Radio.

Radio!

(CRYlNG) No!

No!

Mookie, they killed him.

They killed Radio Raheem !

lt's murder.
They did it again,
just like Michael Stewart.

Murder.
Eleanor Bumpers. Murder!

Damn man, it ain't safe
in our own
fucking neighborhood.

Never was. Never will be.

l ain't gonna stand
for this shit no more, Sal.
You hear me?

Ain't gonna stand for
them fucking police, punk.

lt's as plain as day.

They didn't have
to kill the boy.

(SMlLEY CRYlNG)

MAN 1 : Shit, Sal.

MAN 2: Shit.

You do what you gotta do.

MAN 1 : Fuck that, man !

Listen, listen. Listen.
Good people, please.
Let's all go home.

Somebody's gonna get hurt.

Yeah, you, boy!

lf we don't stop this
and stop it now,

we gonna do something
we're gonna regret
for the rest of our lives.

Sal and his boys
had nothing to do
with what the cops did.

One of the police was black!

Leave him alone.

We'll get you and
them three stooges, Sal.
You hear me? You hear me?

DA MAYOR: Go on, Mr. Sal.

Go on.
You see how they had him
in a choke hold, man?

l know that choke hold
kills people, man !

He had a radio!
He had a radio!

A fucking radio!

He died because
he had a radio!

All he wanted was pictures
on the wall and he died.

MAN 1 : Sal, what you got
to say to that, Sal?

ALL SHOUTlNG)

MAN 2: Vito called the cops!

Your son called
the cops, boy!

Man, get the fuck
out of here, man.

Somebody's gonna get hurt.

Fuck that, man.

Hey!

Let it go! Let it go!
Sal's just a man.

PlNO:
What are they doing?
What are they doing?

What the fuck are they doing?

Sal, come on.
Come on, quick.

Get them out of there.
That's my place.

That's my fucking place!
Stop. Sal.

Fucking niggers.

ALL: (CHANTlNG)
Radio, Radio, Radio, Radio. . .

Burn it down !
Burn it down !

Come on, let's clean house.
Shit. Come on.

l no white. l no white!
lt's your turn, sucker.

l no white! l no white!
l no white! l'm black.

What? Black?
Yes! l black!

Me black. Me black.
Where you black at?

Me black! Me!
l black! You, me, same!

(LAUGHlNG)

We same.

Same? Me black.

Open your eyes, motherfucker.

Leave the Korean alone,
man.

He's all right.

Yeah? He's all right.
He's black.

Shit.

(SlRENS WAlLlNG)

Oh, fuck you, man !

MAN: Howard Beach,
Howard Beach, Howard Beach,
Howard Beach. . .

OFFlCER: Come on ! Let's go!

FlREMAN: Spread it out.
Spread it out.

ALL: (CHANTlNG)
Howard Beach, Howard Beach. . .

OFFlCER: Get them
out of the way.

FlREMAN: Go! Go!

Good people,
please disperse.
Please disperse.

Howard Beach, Howard Beach,
Howard Beach, Howard Beach. . .

Good people, we're giving you
one more warning
to please go home.

This our home!

Okay.
You've had your warning.

(FlREMAN SHOUTlNG)

Get off of me!

FlREMAN: Get them all down.

Yo! Yo! Yo!
Well, come on ! Come on !

Get your fucking
black hands off me.

OFFlCER: Come on, asshole.
Come on, move it.

MAN 1 : Motherfucker.

MAN 2: What you doing?
Think this is Birmingham?

Fucking Alabama.
Yo, where's Bull Connor?

MAN 3: Son of a bitch !

MOTHER SlSTER:
Oh, no! No!

No!

Oh, no!

No!

Oh, no!
MAN 1 : Raheem.

No!

MAN 4: Go, go, go.

(RAP MUSlC PLAYlNG)

LOVE DADDY: My people,
my people. . . What can l say?

Say what l can.

l saw it,
but l didn't believe it.

l didn't believe it,
what l saw.

Are we going to
live together?

Together,
are we going to live?

This is your
Mister Señor Love Daddy

talking to you
from We Love Radio,
1 08 FM on your dial,

and that's
the triple truth, Ruth.

Today's weather? Hot!

Wake up!

Fuck! My money. Shit.

Where are you going?

To get my money.

Don't try that shit, okay?
You're going to
run out of here,

and l ain't gonna
see your black ass
for another fucking week.

Tina,
it's not even like that.
lt is like that.

You know you don't give
a fucking shit about me

and you definitely
don't give a shit
about your son.

Look, l care about you.
l care about my son
and l'll be right back.

Oh, my God.
Why don't you be a man?

l am a man, all right?

Then act like a man.
Why don't you be
a fucking man, Mookie?

l'm tired of your shit.

Why do we have to
go over this shit
again and again and again?

Because you don't
fucking listen, Mookie!

lf you'd listen to me,
l wouldn't have to
repeat myself

like a fucking radio,
all right?

What kind of mother you are,
using fucking language
like that?

What kind of mother am l?
You need to. . .

Your ass isn't even here. . .
You need to know. . .

. . .so don't be telling me. . .

Look, get a fucking
vocabulary, all right?

Why don't you
get a fucking life?

Yeah. Look. . .
Look what?

l'll be back.
l'll be back.

Don't leave, Mookie.
Don't leave.

'Cause l'm tired of
this shit, all right?

You walk out that door,
that's it, all right?

l have to get
my money from Sal.
l'll be back, all right?

This shit is to the curb,
Mookie, all right?

And l'm tired of it,
all right?

'Cause you need to step off
with your stupid-ass self.
Okay?

And you need to get
a fucking life, Mookie.
All right?

Because the one
you got, baby,
is not working. Okay?

And l ain't going to deal
with this shit no more.

Shit. Fucking ass,
stupid ass,
fucking pendejo.

Shit. Fuck. Fucking shit.

Good morning.

ls it a good morning?

Yes, indeed.

You almost got yourself
killed last night.

l've done that before.

Where did you sleep?

l didn't.

l hope the block
is still standing.

We're still standing.

What do you want?
l want my money.
l wanna get paid.

You don't work here no more.

Sal, l want my money.

Your money
couldn't begin to pay
for the window you broke.

Motherfuck a window.
Radio Raheem is dead.

l know he's dead.
l was here, you remember?

He's dead
because of his buddy.

That cocksucker
started all this shit.

He's responsible
for that kid's death.

And he wanted to close me
and you stood there
like a fuck

and you watched them
burn me down.

l watched it. l also watched
the cops murder Radio Raheem.

You're gonna get it
all from the fucking
insurance anyway, Sal.

You know the deal.

What the fuck is
wrong with you?
This ain't about money.

l couldn't give
a fuck about money.

You see this fucking place?
l built this fucking place!

With my bare fucking hands!

Every light socket,
every piece of tile.

Me! With these fucking hands!
You know what
the fuck that means?

Yeah, it means pay me
my motherfucking money.
That's what it means, Sal.

Okay, Mookie.

How much do l owe you?

My salary's 250, 250 a week.

One, two,

that's three, that's four,

and that's five.

You got $500. You're a rich
fucking man now, you happy?

You happy?
He's got 500
fucking dollars!

He's a big man,
he's a rich fucking man !

He's never gonna
have any more trouble.

Not Mookie,
he's fucking rich !

Who the fuck you yelling at?
You're wealthy, Mookie.

You're a real
fucking Rockefeller!

You got your fucking pay,
now leave me alone, huh?

Sal, my salary's
$250 a week, all right?

l owe you 50 bucks.

Keep it.
You keep it.

You keep it.
You keep it.

No, you keep it.
You keep it.

l don't believe this shit.

Believe it.

Are you sick?

l'm hot as a motherfucker,
l'm all right, though.

They say it's even
gonna get hotter today.

What are you gonna
do with yourself?

Make that money, get paid.

Sal, l gotta go see my son,
if it's all right with you.

LOVE DADDY: Hey, Mook!
lt's the Mook Man!

l see you walking
down the block.

Go on home to your kid.

Now, the news and weather.

Our mayor has commissioned
a blue-ribbon panel
and l quote,

"To get to the bottom
of last night's disturbance.

"The city of New York
will not let property

"be destroyed by anyone,"
end quote.

His Honor plans to
visit our block today.

Maybe he should hook up
with our own Da Mayor,
buy him a beer.

Your Love Daddy says,
"Register to vote."
The election is coming up.

There's no end in sight
from this heat wave.

So today, the cash-money
word is "chill."
That's right, C-H-l-L-L.

When you hear "chill,"
call in at 555-LOVE

and you'll win
cash money, honey.

This is Mister Señor
Love Daddy

coming at you from
what's last on your dial

but first in your hearts,
and that's the quintessential
truth, Ruth.

The next record goes
out to Radio Raheem,
we love you, brother.

(SlNGlNG)
From the heart of Bed-Stuy

W-E L-O-V-E