Do the Right Thing (1989) Review
Do the Right Thing (1989) rates 10 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. One block in Bedford-Stuyvesant on the hottest day of the year, a pizzeria, a wall of photographs, and a film that refuses to tell the audience…
Actor: Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L Jackson is by cumulative box office the highest-grossing actor in history, having appeared in an extraordinary number of films, and he began late, taking his breakthrough in Jungle Fever at forty-two after getting sober.
Pulp Fiction is the performance that fixed him, and the Ezekiel speech is delivered three times in the film with a different meaning each time, which is what makes the ending work.
He has been Nick Fury across more than a dozen Marvel entries, which is the connective tissue of the entire series.
He was nominated once, for Pulp Fiction, and has been open that he takes a great deal of work because he likes working. Jackie Brown and Unbreakable are the ones to argue for.
