Do the Right Thing Page #4

KOREAN CLERK:

You buy 'nother beer.

11.

DA MAYOR:

Alright. Alright. Y'know you're

asking a lot to make a man change

his beer, that's asking a lot,

Doctor.

EXT:
MOTHER SISTER'S STOOP--DAY

Da Mayor has his can of beer (not Budweiser) and the brown

paper bag is twisted into a knot at the bottom. He stops

and takes a long swig.

MOTHER SISTER:

You ole drunk. What did I tell ya

about drinking in front of my stoop?

Move on, you're blocking my view.

Da Mayor lowers the can from his mouth and looks up at his

heckler. It's obvious from the look on his face he's heard

this before. Da Mayor contorts his face and stares at her.

MOTHER SISTER:

You ugly enough. Don't stare at me.

Da Mayor changes his face into a more grotesque look.

MOTHER SISTER:

The evil eye doesn't work on me.

DA MAYOR:

Mother Sister, you've been talkin'

'bout me the last eighteen years.

What have I ever done to you?

MOTHER SISTER:

You're a drunk fool.

DA MAYOR:

Besides that. Da Mayor don't

bother nobody. Nobody don't bother

Da Mayor but you. Da Mayor just

mind his business. I love everybody.

I even love you.

MOTHER SISTER:

Hold your tongue. You don't have

that much love.

DA MAYOR:

One day you'll be nice to me. We

might both be dead and buried, but

you'll be nice. At least civil.

12.

Da Mayor tips his beat-up hat to Mother Sister and takes a

final swig of beer just for her.

INT:
TINA'S APARTMENT--DAY

An elderly Puerto Rican woman, CARMEN, is telling off her

daughter TINA in Spanish. Tina, having heard enough, closes

the door on her mother's ranting and raving.

ANGLE--TINA

Tina bends down and scoops her baby son HECTOR up from the

bed and holds him for dear life to her breasts. She talks

to her son while walking around the room.

TINA:

Hector, I shouldn't be telling you

this but you would find out sooner

or later. Ya father ain't no real

father. He's a bum, a two-bit bum

in a hundred-dollar world. Your

father is to the curb. You're

smart. I see that look on ya face.

You're saying if he's such a bum

why am I with him? Good question.

Like I said before, you're no dummy.

He talked his way into my panties,

I thought being a mother would make

me happy, make me whole. He's a

mistake, but you are not.

Tina kisses her son. Tina is seventeen years old, another

teenage parent.

EXT:
STREET CORNER--DAY

Every day on this corner, summer or winter, spring or fall,

a small group of men meet. They have no steady employment,

nothing they can speak of; they do, however, have the gift

of gab. These man can talk, talk, and mo' talk, and when a

bottle is going round and they're feeling "nice," they get

philosophical. These men become the great thinkers of the

world, with solutions to all its ills; like drugs, the

homeless, and AIDS. They're called the Corner Men: SWEET

DICK WILLIE, COCONUT SID, and ML. All three are sitting in

folding chairs up against a wall in the shade.

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