Editing Summer of Sam (section)

==Production==
Spike Lee spent months trying to convince [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] to take the role of Ritchie. DiCaprio declined the role and Adrien Brody was cast as Ritchie.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jamshowbiz.com/Cannes99/may21_spike.html|title=Summer of Spike a hot one|date=May 21, 1999|publisher=[[Toronto Sun]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000903084039/http://jamshowbiz.com/Cannes99/may21_spike.html |archive-date=September 3, 2000 }}</ref> Lee later stated the role of Dionna was originally written with [[Jennifer Esposito]] in mind. A cast reshuffle ended with [[Mira Sorvino]] as Dionna and Esposito as Ruby.<ref name=EW>{{cite magazine  | title = Movie Preview: Summer of Sam  |magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | date = April 19, 1999  | url = http://www.ew.com/article/1999/04/19/summer-sam  | access-date = September 21, 2011 | url-status = live  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623115835/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,87160,00.html |archive-date=2011-06-23}}</ref> Journalist [[Jimmy Breslin]], to whom the real Son of Sam sent letters during the time of the murders, appears as himself introducing and closing the film. [[Phil Rizzuto]] appears in the film as the Yankees' broadcaster and boxer [[Evander Holyfield]] makes a brief appearance as a man in a riot.

The film was largely shot during the summer of 1998 and set in the Italian-American neighborhoods of [[Country Club, Bronx|Country Club]], Morris Park and Throggs Neck sections of the Bronx, with some scenes filmed in [[Brownsville, Brooklyn]]. Although most of the Son of Sam murders actually took place in [[Queens]], the double shooting that Vinny narrowly escapes has been called an accurate depiction of the April 1977 [[David Berkowitz#Crimes continue (April to July 1977)|killing of Alexander Esau and Valentina Suriani]] in the Bronx.<ref name="tunzelmann" /> Marie's Beauty Lounge, the salon where Vinny works, was a real salon on Morris Park Avenue, between Williamsbridge Road and Bronxdale Avenue. The real [[CBGB]] club was also used; the band L.E.S. Stitches shown playing there was a contemporary punk band from New York's [[Lower East Side]].

Adrien Brody's nose was broken during the climactic fight scene in which his character Ritchie is brutally beaten by his friends.<ref>{{cite magazine  | last = Hempe  | first = Mary Anne  | title = A Never-Mess-With-Adrien Brody Double Feature  | magazine = POP Magazine  | date = April 22, 2011  | url = http://issuu.com/normantranscript/docs/nor-2011-04-22-p  | access-date = September 21, 2011  | archive-date = October 8, 2012  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121008003523/http://issuu.com/normantranscript/docs/nor-2011-04-22-p  | url-status = live  }}</ref> The sex orgy scene at Plato's Retreat included more explicit shots in the original cut but was edited after the [[MPAA]] threatened the film with an [[Motion Picture Association of America film rating system#X replaced by NC-17|"NC-17"]] rating.<ref>{{cite web  | last = Berardinelli  | first = James  | title = Summer of Sam: A Film Review  | year = 1999  | url = http://preview.reelviews.net/movies/s/summer_sam.html  | access-date = September 21, 2011  | archive-date = January 2, 2020  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200102195114/http://preview.reelviews.net/movies/s/summer_sam.html  | url-status = live  }}</ref><ref name=EW/>

Summer of Sam: Original Soundtrack was released on June 29, 1999 and features [[disco]] and [[Rock music|rock]] songs from the 1970s.

1. "[[Got to Give It Up]]" - [[Marvin Gaye]] (6:02)

2. "[[Dancing Queen]]" - [[ABBA]] (3:49)

3. "[[Baba O'Riley]]" - [[The Who]] (5:09)

4. "Running Away" - [[Roy Ayers]] (3:12)

5. "[[Everybody Dance (Chic song)|Everybody Dance]]" - [[Chic (band)|Chic]] (3:31)

6. "[[La Vie en rose|La Vie en Rose]]" - [[Grace Jones]] (7:27)

7. "Let No Man Put Asunder" - [[First Choice (group)|First Choice]] (7:59)

8. "[[Fooled Around and Fell in Love]]" - [[Elvin Bishop]] (2:58)

9. "There But for the Grace of God Go I" - [[Machine (band)|Machine]] (4:58)

10. "[[Best of My Love (The Emotions song)|Best of My Love]]" - [[The Emotions]] (3:46)

11.  "[[Dance with Me (Peter Brown song)|Dance with Me]]" - [[Peter Brown (singer)|Peter Brown]] (3:50)

12. "[[Don't Leave Me This Way|Don’t Leave Me This Way]]" - [[Thelma Houston]] (3:40)