Sal and Jade


Why was Sal so smitten with Jade ?

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Why is anyone smitten with anyone else? He was a man and a widower, and she was a pretty young woman. You could also read darker motives into it: he thought his professional relationship with Mookie made him part of his family (recall his remark toward the end, "You're like a son to me"), but his attitude toward Mookie and all the other blacks in the neighborhood was basically paternalistic, not one of true affection.

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but his attitude toward Mookie and all the other blacks in the neighborhood was basically paternalistic, not one of true affection.


How do you know that ? Is he too white to be honest or loving ? Are you a little...racist ?

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How about the scene where he boasted to Pino about how "these people...grew up on my food"? And for that matter, what about that moment where he shouts the N-word--repeatedly--at Radio Raheem?

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I saw Sal's remark about the community "growing up in his food" as a statement of love for the community and what he'd built within it.

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Come on dude, give context for why Sal shouted the N Word. He was being accosted in his own business by two dudes getting up in his face. Are you saying in a heated moment you never said something stupid?

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Are you saying in a heated moment you never said something stupid?
Said something stupid? Sure. Shouted the N-word at a black person? No.

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I think he may have been daydreaming with his dick.🐭

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I think that Sal liked Jade because she was one of the most, if not the most reasonable and calm person in the film, which Sal regarded as a healing breath of fresh air, so to speak.

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Ok, that sounds about right.

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Jade was very easy to like. Calm, intelligent, reasonable, with a good heart. And very pretty. Did anybody else in the movie measured up to her?

Whether Sal wanted sex or romance or simply respected Jade in a more fatherly way is (probably intentionally) not made clear. Maybe he was planning to hit on her later. Or maybe not, particularly if still married to his sons' momma (was he?), in which case hitting on her in front of them might earn him a lot of grief.

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My film teacher stated his opinion that perhaps Sal always spoke to her as if she were a niece or stepdaughter, what have you

And Sal can't be called racist for using the N word. If he's Sicilian, that means his ancestors are black, same as Radio and Bug Eyes. In other words, if he's got even a tiny bit of black heritage, he can use the word just like they do.

And to be fair, Bugging Out did call Sal a Guinea bastard before Sal used the N word. Nobody seems to care about that, but yet Sal is the only one who gets the bigot finger pointed at him.

Check out True Romance, when Dennis Hopper tells Christopher Walken a history lesson.

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I would say this film pointed the bigot figure at a lot of people. It was somewhat anti-black, somewhat anti-white, and most forcefully anti-cop.

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Sal was slippin Jade the Italian salami, capiche? She sucks the ol' a meat a balls.

Say, do you hear that? It's the sound of the Reaper.....

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No, Sal wasn't.

What was left uncertain, was whether he desired to.

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I think the relationship was a little creepy but, I don't think anything unnatural was happening. The way I see it is that out of assholes like Raheem and Buggin Out coming in, you're more likely to be nicer to a nice person as Jade seemed to be.

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Shew was young and sweet and beautiful. Any other reason needed?

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