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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
USA
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Year
1989
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Genres
Comedy Drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“A powerful and persuasive look at an ethnic community and what makes it tick – funky, entertaining, packed with insight, and political in the best, most responsible sense.”
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader, 1989
Spike Lee used to be dubbed “the black Woody Allen” until this incendiary state-of-the-nation snapshot revealed the scale of his ambition, its philosophical complexity underscored by the concluding use of two apparently contradictory quotations from Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
Although restricted to the immediate environs of a multicultural community living and working in and around a brownstone block in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (where Lee himself grew up), the film anatomises a whole cross-section of US society, and clinically demonstrates the mechanism by which a seemingly trivial dispute (in this case, over the choice of sportsmen displayed by the local pizzeria) can escalate into a full-blown race riot given the presence of aggravating factors such as the searing heat of both the weather and assorted tempers. But this is no one-sided polemic: Lee’s characters (not least his own character Mookie) are all too recognisably human in their foibles and frailties.
Spike Lee’s own Jungle Fever (1991), John Sayles’ City of Hope (1991), David Simon’s HBO series The Wire (2002-08) and Steve James’ documentary The Interrupters (2011) cover similar ground.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Sal
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Da Mayor
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Mother Sister
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Vito
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Buggin' Out
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Mookie
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Radio Raheem
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Pino
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ML
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Coconut Sid
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Sweet Dick Willie
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Jade
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Officer Ponte
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Officer Long
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Clifton
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Mister Señor Love Daddy
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Tina
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Smiley
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Ahmad
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Cee
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Punchy
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Ella
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Charlie
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Stevie
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Eddie
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Louise
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Sonny
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Kim
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Korean child
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Puerto Rican ice man
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Carmen
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Stevie's friend
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Stevie's friend
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Stevie's friend
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Stevie's friend
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Hector
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sergeant
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plainclothes detective
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Double Dutch girl
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Double Dutch girl
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Double Dutch girl
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Double Dutch girl
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Credits
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Direction:
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Director
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Assistant Director (1st)
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Assistant Director (2nd)
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Assistant Director (2nd 2nd)
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Script Supervisor
Production:
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©
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Production Company
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Producer
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Co-producer
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Line producer
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Unit Manager
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Production Supervisor
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Production Co-ordinator (40 Acres)
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Production Office Co-ordinator
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Assistant Production Office Coordinator
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Production Comptroller
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Auditor
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Auditor (Assistant)
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Location Manager
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Production Assistant (40 Acres)
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Production Assistant (Set)
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Production Assistant (Set)
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Production Assistant (Set)
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Production Assistant (Set)
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Production Assistant (Set)
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Production Assistant (Set)
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Production Assistant (Set)
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Production Assistant (Set)
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Production Assistant (Set)
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Production Assistant (Set)
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Production Assistant (Set)
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Production Assistant (Office)
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Production Assistant (Office)
Casting:
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Casting
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Extras Casting
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Production Assistant (Casting)
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Casting (Assistant)
Writing:
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Screenplay
Photography:
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Director of Photography
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Camera Operator
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Camera Operator (Additional)
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Camera Operator (Additional)
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Louma Crane Technician
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Assistant Camera (1st)
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Assistant Camera (2nd)
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Camera Assistant (Additional)
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Camera Assistant (Additional)
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Gaffer
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Best Boy [Electrics]
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3rd Electrics
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3rd Electrics
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Generator Operator
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Electrics
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Electrics
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Electric Trainee
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Electric Trainee
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Production Assistant (Electric)
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Key Grip
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Best Boy [Grip]
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Grip (Dolly)
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Grip (3rd)
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Grip (Additional)
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Grip (Additional)
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Grip (Additional)
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Grip (Additional)
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Grip (Trainee)
Stills:
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Still Photography
Special Effects:
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Special Effects
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Assistant Effects
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Assistant Effects
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Assistant Effects
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Assistant Effects
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Assistant Effects
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Assistant Effects
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Assistant Effects
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Assistant Effects
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Do The Right Thing Logo by
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Do The Right Thing Logo by
Editing:
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Editor
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Editor (Assistant)
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Editor (Apprentice)
Design:
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Production Designer
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Assistant Art Director
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Assistant Art Director
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Set Decorator
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Set Decorator (Assistant)
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Set Dresser
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Set Dresser
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Set Dresser
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Set Dresser
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Art Department Co-ordinator
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Leadman
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Key Set Dresser
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Chargeman
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Scenic Artist
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Scenic Artist
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Scenic Artist
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2nd Scenic Artist
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Storyboard Artist
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Property Master
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Assistant Props (1st)
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Assistant Props (2nd)
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Assistant Props (3rd)
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Assistant Props (Additional)
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Shop Person
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Production Assistant (Shop)
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Construction Coordinator
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Construction Grip
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Construction Grip
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Construction Grip
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Construction Grip
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Construction Grip
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Construction Grip
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Construction Grip
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Construction Grip
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Construction Grip
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Production Assistant (Construction)
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Key Set Builder
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Carpenter
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Carpenter
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Carpenter
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Carpenter
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Carpenter
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Carpenter
Costumes:
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Costumes
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Costume Designer (Assistant)
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Wardrobe Supervisor
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Production Assistant (Wardrobe)
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Production Assistant (Wardrobe)
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Wardrobe Seamstress
Make-up:
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Make-up
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Additional Make-up
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Hair
Titles:
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Main/End Titles Designed and Produced by
Film processing:
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Opticals
Music:
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Music
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Music Performed by
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Orchestra Conductor
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Musician (tenor/soprano saxophone)
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Musician (trumpet)
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Musician (trumpet)
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Musician (alto saxophone)
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Musician (drums)
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Musician (bass)
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Musician (piano)
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Musician (piano)
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Musician (Violins Contractor)
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Musician (Concert Master Violins)
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Musician (Violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violins)
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Musician (violas)
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Musician (violas)
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Musician (violas)
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Musician (violas)
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Musician (violas)
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Musician (violas)
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Musician (violas)
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Musician (violas)
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Musician (cellos)
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Musician (cellos)
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Musician (cellos)
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Musician (cellos)
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Musician (cellos)
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Musician (cellos)
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Musician (cellos)
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Musician (cellos)
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Musician (bass)
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Musician (bass)
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Music Editor
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Music Copyist
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Piano Tuner
Sound:
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Music Score Recorded at
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Sound Design
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Negative Matching
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Re-recording Mixer
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Mixed at
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Supervising Dialogue Editor
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Dialogue Editor
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Sound Editor
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Sound Editor
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Sound Editor
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Sound Editor
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Sound Editor
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Sound Editor (Assistant)
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Sound Editor (Assistant)
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Sound Editor (Assistant)
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Sound Editor (Apprentice)
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Sound Editor (Apprentice)
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ADR Editor
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Foley Artist
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Foley Editor
Choreography:
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Choreography ("Fight the Power")
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Choreography ("Fight the Power")
Stunts:
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Stunt Co-ordinator
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Stunt Coordinator (Assistant)
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Stunt Coordinator (Assistant)
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Stunts
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Stunts
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Stunts
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Stunts
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Stunts
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Stunts
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Stunts
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Stunts
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Stunts
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Stunts
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Stunt Driver
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Stunt Double for Danny Aiello
Consultant:
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Dolby Stereo Consultant
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Photo Research
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Photo Research
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Dailies Projection
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Projectionist (Dailies)
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Teamster Captain
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Driver
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Driver
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Driver
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Driver
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Driver
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Driver
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Intern
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Emergency Medical Services
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Legal Services
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Completion Guarantor
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Caterers
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Caterers
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Product Placement
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Product Placement
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Product Placement Coordinator
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Craft Services
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Camera Equipment
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Sound Equipment
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Malcolm X/Martin Luther King Jr Photos
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Malcolm X/Martin Luther King Jr Photos
Publicity:
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Publicity
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Unit Publicist
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