2012年2月29日

Bill Nunn as Radio Raheem in “Do the Right Thing”, 1989



 

The story of love and hate in Spike Lee’s version of Robert Mitchum’s anecdote in Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter is an effective urban re-imagining in the manner of hip-hop sampling the classics.

 

Let me tell you the story of Right Hand, Left Hand. It’s a tale of good and evil. Hate: it was with this hand that Cane iced his brother. Love: these five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand: the hand of love. The story of life is this: static. One hand is always fighting the other hand, and the left hand is kicking much ass. I mean, it looks like the right hand, Love, is finished. But hold on, stop the presses, the right hand is coming back. Yeah, he got the left hand on the ropes, now, that’s right. Yea, boom, it’s a devastating right and Hate is hurt, he’s down. Ooh! Ooh! Left-Hand Hate KOed by Love. If I love you, I love you. But if I hate you …

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