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vb. (context idiomatic English) To do what is ethical or just.
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Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American comedy-drama film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee, who also played the part of Mookie in the film. Other members of the cast include Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, and Samuel L. Jackson. It is also notably the feature film debut of both Martin Lawrence and Rosie Perez. The movie tells the story of a Brooklyn neighborhood's simmering racial tension, which comes to a head and culminates in tragedy on the hottest day of summer.
The film was a critical and commercial success and received numerous accolades and awards, including an Academy Award nomination for Lee for Best Original Screenplay and one for Best Supporting Actor for Aiello's portrayal of Sal the pizzeria owner. It is often listed among the greatest films of all time. The film also ranks #403 on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. In 1999, it was deemed to be "culturally significant" by the U.S. Library of Congress, and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry, one of just six films to have this honor in their first year of eligibility.
"Do the Right Thing" is a single by the hip hop/ new jack swing group Redhead Kingpin and the F.B.I.
It was their debut single and became their highest-charting song, peaking at #13 on the UK Singles Chart in 1989. It was written for but not used in the Spike Lee film of the same name, but two years later the song was featured on the soundtrack of Wes Craven's horror film The People Under the Stairs., playing over the end credits.
Do the Right Thing is a comedy panel show podcast featuring host Danielle Ward, and team captains Michael Legge (comedian) and Margaret Cabourn-Smith. The show is produced by Ben Walker.
The show will typically consist of the same four rounds:
- Do the right thing
- Agony
- Ask the expert
- Do the wrong thing
Usage examples of "do the right thing".
Being unaffected and genuine, having integrity, and facing problems squarely help as you try to reach out, make a difference, touch a life, be an example, do the right thing.
You don't expect a child to do the right thing, not when he's scared out of his wits.
Fain suspected that the private had known he would be grabbed, trusted his boss to do the right thing, just as Fain trusted him, and now Erkum waited for the thing to surface.
Those which are ticked have been traced on the London market, but the others, presumably, were still in the possession of Carey, and young Neligan, according to his own account, was anxious to recover them in order to do the right thing by his father's creditors.
You're thoughtful and loving, and you do the right thing at the right time.
I want so much to be right, to do the right thing, that I don’.
I thought I could look to someone I admired to do the right thing, not out of self-aggrandizement, not out of self-enrichment, but simply because it was right.