10 80s Films That Deserve The TV Reboot Treatment
7. Do The Right Thing
In 1989, Spike Lee released a classic of black cinema, Do The Right Thing. Set during the hottest day of the year, the film saw the various members of the neighbourhood of Bed-Stuy interact as racial tensions begin to boil over.
The film stands as a timeless study of what it's like to be black in America. Focus was paid to the iconography, sounds and style of black communities in the 1980s but the overall struggle presented, the frustrations of the community members and their interactions with, and treatment by, the police are issues we still see today.
A single word could also hint at what a TV show could focus on: gentrification. Gentrification has transformed many boroughs of New York. How this has changed these areas, and how it has affected the lives of the people who have lived there for decades, makes for interesting pondering. Important, too of course, is how race relations have changed over time, if at all. With movies like Dear White People and She's Gotta Have It getting the TV reboot treatment the time is now for Do The Right Thing.
How It Should Work
A new set of diverse inhabitants fill the borough of Bed-Stuy whilst some old faces hold onto what it once was. Modern-day race relations are put under the microscope in a no-holds-barred look at Drumpf's America.