Buggin Out Bugs Out (Do the Right Thing)

INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY Customers are in Sal's; it's lunchtime and it's fairly busy. Sal puts a hot slice down on the counter in front of BUGGIN' OUT, a b-boy. SAL You paying now or on layaway? Buggin' Out looks at the slice. BUGGIN' OUT How much? SAL You come in here at least three times a day. You a retard? A buck fifty. BUGGIN' OUT Damn, Sal, put some more cheese on that motherfucker. SAL Extra cheese is two dollars. y'know dat. BUGGIN' OUT Two dollars! Forget it! Buggin' Out slams his money down on the counter, takes his slice and sits down. ANGLE--TABLE All around Buggin' Out, peering down from the WALL OF FAME, are signed, framed, eight by ten glossies of famous Italian Americans. WE SEE Joe DiMaggio, Rocky Marciano, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Luciano Pavarotti, Liza Minnelli, Governor Mario Cuomo, Al Pacino and, of course, how can we forget Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa: THE ITALIAN STALLION, also RAMBO. CLOSE UP--BUGGIN' OUT He looks at the pictures hovering above him. BUGGIN' OUT Mookie. CLOSE UP--MOOKIE MOOKIE What? CLOSE UP--BUGGIN' OUT BUGGIN' OUT How come you ain't got no brothers up? CLOSE UP--MOOKIE MOOKIE Ask Sal. ANGLE--PIZZERIA BUGGIN' OUT Sal, how come you ain't got no brothers up on the wall here? SAL You want brothers up on the Wall of fame, you open up your own business, then you can do what you wanna do. my pizzeria, Italian Americans up on the wall. VITO Take it easy, Pop. SAL Don't start on me today. BUGGIN' OUT Sal, that might be fine, you own this, but rarely do I see any Italian Americans eating in here. all I've ever seen is Black folks. so since we spend much money here, we do have some say. SAL You a troublemaker? Pino walks over to Buggin' Out. PINO You making trouble. BUGGIN' OUT Put some brothers up on this Wall of Fame. We want Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Michael Jordan tomorrow. Sal comes from behind the counter with his Louisville Slugger Mickey Mantle model baseball bat. Vito is by his Side, but Mookie intercepts them, and takes Buggin' Out outside. SAL Don't come back, either. BUGGIN' OUT Boycott Sal's. Boycott Sal's. EXT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY MOOKIE Buggin' Out, I gotta work here. BUGGIN' OUT I'm cool. I'm cool. MOOKIE Come back in a week, it will be squashed. They give each other five. INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY Mookie enters. SAL Mookie, if your friends can't behave, they're not welcome. MOOKIE I got no say over people. PINO You talk to 'em. MOOKIE People are free to do what they wanna do. SAL I know, this is America, but I don't want no trouble. EXT: STREET--DAY Mookie walks down the block with pizza box in hand when he sees Da Mayor sitting on his stoop. DA MAYOR Mookie. MOOKIE Gotta go. DA MAYOR C'mere, Doctor. Mookie turns around and goes back. DA MAYOR Doctor, this is Da Mayor talkin'. MOOKIE OK. OK. DA MAYOR Doctor, always try to do the right thing. MOOKIE That's it? DA MAYOR That's it.