The fact that Do The Right Thing's validity as a comedy gets questioned says something about how underestimated comedy gets as a genre. It doesn't have to be an easy sit-down-and-laugh experience where you don't think deeper about any of the themes involved. There are quite a lot of comedies with social commentary and dark themes that are still very funny, they just also have a serious message underneath. Do The Right Thing is such a film. The humor is primarily character-driven, where the dialogue and interactions between them are what make me laugh. There is a hint of tension very early on, but the movie doesn't lose the comedy entirely until it gets dark and serious in the last 15 minutes. I get that cross-genre films can be tricky to define, but there's no doubt in my mind this movie is a drama and a comedy. If the funny moments were more understated I might've understood the skepticism, but quite a few of them are laugh-out-loud funny and intentionally so.
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