Daniel Robert Epstein: The fuck you scene that Ed Norton has into the mirror in The 25th Hour is reminiscent of a scene in Do the Right Thing.
Spike Lee: It is but interestingly enough that scene is in the novel The 25th Hour. When I read it I thought it would give me a chance to expand on what we did in Do the Right Thing. In Do the Right Thing we never cut away from people talking to the camera, in The 25th Hour we do cutaway to the people Monty Brogan is talking about.
DRE: What attracted...
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Ayin
Chicago, IL
January 2003
SEP 07, 2003 12:27 AM
I guess I'm just really film studentish...I am more fascinated by Lee's directing techniques than his views. Good eye pointing out the similarties between Do the Right Thing and The 25th Hour...having also read the book, I never even made the connection...
Wow, this is an old review. I'd wish to read a newer review of Lee's.
I won't touch his politics, but one thing I will touch will be race and green lights. It needs to be said.
I never was a fan of Spike Lee, with a few exceptions. I thought Miracle at St Anna was brilliant and I seriously wonder why this wasn't a bigger film. Damn that's a good movie, one that I'll buy on DVD (I probably buy 1 movie a year on DVD, or maybe even two, so it better be good). I'm not sure what movie won the Best Picture movie that year but wonder why that wasn't in there. Not that I care anyways because I think the Academy are a bunch of idiots.
Sean
STAFF
Los Angeles, CA
JAN 20, 2003 11:00 AM