The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
Senor Love Daddy's roll call; Pino and Mookie's favorite-stars exchange
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- A detail noticed only on a recent rewatch: the Black Panther comic book and the 'we eat pizza' moment, called Lee ahead of the curve.
- Lee is credited with helping invent sneakerhead culture and the rock-star NBA image, not just Nike.
- Radio Raheem's love and hate speech is played.
- Sweet Dick Willie telling people to boycott the barber who messed up their head might be the funniest line in the movie.
- The mayor telling Mookie 'always do the right thing' and Mookie's 'That's it? I got it. I'm gone.' came to mind when Lee won an Oscar; 'Stay black' is also cited.
- Senor Love Daddy's roll call is called the best: a diverse mini history of black music from Branford Marsalis to Bessie Smith, which later rap acts copied.
- We Love Radio never reaches the street; Love Daddy stays behind the glass.
- Sal's 'I built this place with my bare hands' speech shows the film still working through his feelings; Lee did not have to let Sal speak, and the final conversation is balanced between antagonism and a moment of their old relationship.
- 'Why don't you go back to Massachusetts? I was born in Brooklyn' is cited.
- The Pino and Mookie exchange about Magic Johnson, Eddie Murphy and Prince is called the best conversation in the movie because it is a real conversation black people have with non-black people who say 'you're different'.
- Senor Love Daddy's 'y'all take a chill... that's the double truth, Ruth', which opened the podcast, is also cited.