Fire Hydrant Scene | Do The Right Thing | Screen Bites

[@jasonquinlan1733]

This is one of my favorite scenes in movie history, the scene feels as if someone put a camera in an actual Brooklyn neighborhood during the 80s. The scene feels so real and authentic that it makes me wonder if Spike Lee just told the actors to do their own thing for half of it.

[@AckzaTV]

"do your own thing"

[@cringeworthy4755]

​@@AckzaTV Genius!

[@avp0713]

This is the ONLY movie that I have ever seen that documented the whole inner-city ultimate Summer fun... that being, opening up the fire hydrant AND most importantly, how to get the "ends" off the can if you didn't have a can opener... something every inner city kid learns in the streets.

[@shanthegamer21]

And some nostalgic cultures.

[@niteowl2397]

I always just stab through the lid of the cans with a knife.

[@mojojoji5493]

That’s some old school stuff breh

[@tonymoretti2347]

Who doesn't own a can opener

[@avp0713]

Scenario 1: When you are walking with your friends down a couple blocks... lets say maybe 4 5 blocks away from your home... and you come upon a fire hydrant that is open.. and all the kids are having fun spraying water... but YOU can't because you don't have an open can... what are you going to do? run home 5 blocks to go get a can opener? No. Ask every kid if you can use THEIR can? No... You find a can (which back in the 60, 70's, 80's you could actually do) and you scrape the ends off it. Scenario 2: When it is August, and both your parents are still at work and you are out in the streets for an hour or two before they get home... and you need a can opened, what do you do? Go and ask neighbors for a can opener? No... you scrape a found can open. Scenario 3: Do you Tony Moretti walk around with a can opener in your pocket? You need to live in the city to know these things... somehow I get the feeling you didn't grow up in the city. .

[@gloriempaka9474]

This is one of those things that makes me a proud Newyorker💯

[@B1SCOOP]

Never wet a man's shinebox...

[@patriotsnation11]

@1:06 the girl in the white shirt walking in the back tripped up lol.

[@Kingkassa21]

Nice wan

[@RalphieMaysGhost]

1:04

[@dblok4863]

Radio walked up like break this shit up fight the power lmao💯

[@ivantashakov1178]

Back in the 80s summers in New York hit different I would sit on the steps of my brownstone in the east village and blast Ozzy Osbourne on my boombox. Good ol’ days

[@mkphotofilm]

Frank Vincent! The ultimate Brooklyn wiseguy/goodfella.

[@jbvader721]

Considering what Joe Pesci has done to him in other movies, he had it easy here.

[@mkphotofilm]

@@jbvader721 what? In Casino, he killed Pesci's character. The only film I can think of where he was killed by Pesci is Goodfellas.

[@redpilledhispanic1239]

@@mkphotofilmIn Raging Bull, Pesci’s character beats up Frank’s character at a nightclub

[@astenbryant7922]

@@redpilledhispanic1239it was good fellas

[@stevenlinton2405]

Love this part of this movie. This has to be the funniest part,especially when smiling out wet and made that noise.!!!!

[@robertmasina4610]

In real life, a policeman would ask that man in the car "why do you drive through this neighborhood"?

[@isabelbeckerman9226]

And the policeman would also say, "why didn't you enclose your antique car using the canvas rooftop before you pass the power hydrant, idiota?"

[@khalilreid8343]

These are real cops

[@deagle2yadome696]

he tells him to leave before they pick it clean

[@kelpickett120]

Just some neighborhood fun is the best type of fun lol

[@Psergiorivera]

I ran in front of one of them and really cooled off! Oh, New Yorkers got it right!

[@drewdy445]

I love the respect for Radio Raheem. Hell I love Radio Raheem

[@sweets8973]

Me too! He’s my favorite character in the movie 💯

[@amaric3028]

I’m 19 years old barely watched do the right thing for the first time I’m a big Martin fan been watching Since I was 12 years old ive always wondered why Martin was mad at Gina for throwing the do the right thing poster away and always mentioned it till I noticed he was actually in it and probably one of his first appearances 😩

[@jedibattlemasterkos]

Reminds me of Summer in my town lol every hood got a fire hydrant goin off.

[@o.r.3489]

Same here man

[@250hcca]

LMAO! I luv this movie! this was the best part! lol................

[@250hcca]

LOL!

[@lateshiachilds3640]

I’m watching it now

[@jfontanez1838]

I remember them good old days with the fire hydrant

[@erickitler]

Okay That Seems Like So Much Fun Too I Wish They Did That In Here In Jacksonville Florida

[@teanmace]

Still a NY thang.

[@o.r.3489]

Same here man

[@taih588]

I remember when my daddy use to drive through it, and dried his car off afterwards. He saw it as a free car wash.

[@shizzy35]

Why is Phil Leotardo driving around in this hood?

[@pm512]

shizzy35 The same reason anybody that does not live there drives through the hood. TO SCORE, OR SOME BOOTY !!!!

[@Suchapill]

He's gotta do a thing!

[@imablazeuonfiya]

to score some fucking shineboxes

[@hillyhall6824]

His fat ass wanted some pizza😂

[@thomassodomizer764]

Probably to score some drugs.

[@fargasluisfelipe]

2:17 a young martin lawrence

[@roleemack1535]

Talking like a broken record I liked his character in this movie but he was apart of the team of instigators mainly the 1 in purple

[@DeadlyVenomKing]

Imagine what raheem would have done if they wet his radio on purpose

[@wcc092585]

Like he couldn't go on the outer side of the street

[@zackcross7190]

Up until the incident at Sal’s people were annoyed with Raheem so nobody would’ve cared.

[@Kickin_It_Lyve_Since_85]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@jbot91]

Drinking alcohol on a hot day makes it way worse

[@mescnick]

Yea it dehydrate u

[@mossgeorge2001]

True, but most people don't think about that same with soda.

[@Ballowax]

Wait really

[@bear5945]

@@Ballowax really

[@adamquiles2468]

It helps to avoid brain fry

[@Aakino]

Look, it's the 2 black guys in every mafia movie! 😂😹🤣

[@julienalexander6113]

Classic and so nostalgic

[@antoniorosales2021]

Man miss those good old days.

[@o.r.3489]

This is exactly what happened in my childhood

[@kyrerichardson4342]

2:59 a man I’m serious man lol he wanted to laugh at Martin lol

[@soultrainafterdarktv5433]

>>> The Message Of This Legendary Film ,,, *always* ,,, Do The Right Thing ,,, Rest In Eternal Paradise BILL NUNN

[@2flymoney715]

I love this movie so much. Is like tike paused and caught nyc at its prime. My childhood summers

[@florinivan6907]

You can tell this is a movie made by someone who understood inner city culture and not just some poser who only got his info from the news

[@ETS45]

Ye he grew up in Brooklyn

[@bobdonovan34]

Phil was just trying to get home and have some manicott'.

[@deagle2yadome696]

they get that slow boy wet then he lights the pizza place up at the end

[@Boggywompuhs]

Radio Raheem= 🤴🏿

[@tralisehuggins25]

Look at them like " really"

[@BlackJaxxx]

LOL @ 2:10 Why they had to do Smiley like that?

[@shanthegamer21]

They want to let him have fun.

[@danv4253]

As a kid in the '80s, I used to get dragged into the hydrant spray like that by my buddies! Shirt, long pants, socks and shoes!! Totally soaked through!

[@isaiahwinbrone]

It was hot in the summer of 1989

[@nicolehunter5927]

Yes it was

[@isaiahwinbrone]

​@@nicolehunter5927in my neighborhood we use to turn 🔛 the fire hydrant so can get wet💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦

[@AllPureSkill]

Lmfao Martin and Vince

[@punksofnewengland]

"Mo and Jo what? Mo and Jo what?? MO AND JO SHINEBOX!"

[@nicolehunter5927]

Loved this movie. I lived in N Y at that time

[@lateshiachilds3640]

Classic movie I love Spike movies

[@METALMAN4Wii]

The Boondocks Parodied This!

[@matthewbulger5876]

Would you rate " Do The Right Thing" Is to Spike Lee what Orson Welles was to "Citizen Kane" ,and what "The Great Dictator" was to Charlie Chaplin? I await your reply.

[@francoochoa3176]

Nah but it’s a great movie

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

I enjoyed this more the the Great Dictator. But Citizen Kane is the best.

[@Riles3152]

Yes. "Do The Right Thing" to this day remains Spike Lee's finest work IMO. And he's basically had a stellar film career.

[@michaelnixjr.familymembers9188]

It's hot in the summer 😃

[@steelerfan757]

RIP Danny Aiello and Rick Aiello

[@a.puente7831]

I know it's two different films and Goodfellas came out a year later but how cool would it have been if he told Martin "now run home and get your shinebox."

[@WizardOfHumor1989]

Poor Smiley @2:10

[@patriotsnation11]

If you watch the beginning of this clip with the newspapers showing and google “ yes it’s hotter and muggier and yes your going crazy” you will see that was an actual real article and not movie made lol.

[@agradina]

phil before being in the can and fry chess on the radiator

[@PaulCodio8]

20 years and not a fvckin peep.

[@dannyceron508]

He worked 20 fucking years for that car! 😂

[@hartm-the-man4387]

Phil Leotardo been talking shit for years.

[@adamm5031]

Says I look like the fuckin Shah of Iran.

[@thediabolicalempath7246]

Memories

[@Kingofthepeople]

Look likes his having car wash? 3:15 😂😂😂

[@DeadlyVenomKing]

Only was 12 first watched in theaters

[@spookedhorse]

hey dont be fuckin with the water, now! LMFAO

[@ivangass7770]

It won't be the same around my neighborhood like that

[@richladytv3014]

RIP ❤ Bill Nunn AKA Radio Raheem ❤

[@najimdjelilate2744]

Its fabulous film intéressant love it

[@djwestbrook36]

My window was broken and fell down while I was driving through near the fire hydrant in Washington heights two months ago.

[@Kickin_It_Lyve_Since_85]

Wait so WA Heights isn’t 100% gentrified?!?

[@djwestbrook36]

@@Kickin_It_Lyve_Since_85 Not at all. If you drive their right now, fire hydrants are all open, the music is blasting, and the party is in the streets.

[@haroldplum923]

Yo, don't be fuckin with the shinebox now!

[@Angedoescoversongs]

Omg this is so classic

[@tonyharding959]

Feels like this week

[@Linkzelda21]

See if the guy would have been polite his car wouldn’t have been soaked

[@deagle2yadome696]

yes he would have you don’t understand the climate back then also listen when they say “you ain’t got no business in this neighborhood anyway” he was always going to get wet

[@JohnSmith-fh5du]

i want them locked unda the jail

[@knightstickiv93]

There was nothing that could be done.. the fire hydrant was a made guy and he wasn’t.

[@wcc092585]

Should've just kept driving he had to be loud 🤣🤣🤣

[@josephl.raymondangoanghwan1065]

RADIO RAHEEM Was So RESPECTED...

[@A1TheBest]

Watch the suit watch the suit. Now its watch the car watch the car .

[@horsey5283]

What are they doing with the cans?

[@moniquejohnson2042]

1:32 that is actually what I do too

[@eutue]

Sam Jack has has water-gun shades.

[@thevampirecielphantomhive2342]

Italians used to do this too

[@patriotsnation11]

Why didn’t the guy just put the top up in his car and got a free wash lol?

[@thegreatrenaldo7718]

Moe and Joe Black are still wanted

[@AckzaTV]

why didnt they have the fire hydrant shoot up in summer legally by design ?

[@deagle2yadome696]

it wastes water

[@Megamon0001]

Phil Leotardo before he did 20 years in the can

[@sha11235]

What are they doing with the cans on the sidewalk?

[@weluvb5]

If you didn't have can openers you'd run them against the ground to pop the lids off.

[@midwestgrammar2941]

This was before the internat

[@MasterPef]

I count two assaults, three acts of destruction of public property, and one damaging of private property. Sounds about right for a Black neighborhood moment.

[@jakep1979]

Why does the Shah of Iran sounds almost exactly like Tony Soprano?!

[@RohanDasgupta-f7x]

Just that NYC Italian accent ig

[@saironressurreicao9617]

How come a guy who does a scene like that when he is 33 yrs old can do something like that 'Oldboy' garbage?

[@guy5529]

I think you’re thinking of the wrong guy

[@SuperScarface83]

@@guy5529 He's not. Spike Lee did direct the American remake of Oldboy, which I'm told wasn't very good.

[@sha11235]

They must've gotten the beers from the Koreans.

[@sha11235]

Too bad they didn't have a pool nearby, or they could've all gone swimming.

[@bretthanna8765]

2:13

[@tucko11]

Was Martin Lawrence supposed to be gay or something 😂

[@garnunce786]

Phil Leotardo would have em whacked

[@Suchapill]

They whacked him first.

[@normreye7430]

He was in prison at this time

[@andrechaparro2009]

Now go home and get your fucking shinebox

[@jamesl.anderson1384]

2:09