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Do the Right Thing (1989) (Patreon)

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2015-01-20 14:17:38

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New this week: Dancer Rosie Perez is pure dynamite in the opening sequence of Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing,

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Do the Right Thing

"Eight hours of doing the same dance. I developed tennis elbow from throwing those punches," recalled Rosie Perez in a 2013 video interview. But those punches that exhausted Perez, who made her feature film debut in Do The Right Thing, are one of several reasons that Balsmeyer & Everett's opening title sequence is both a classic sequence and an important moment in the history of film.