Analysis Of Do The Right Thing

In the film, Do the Right Thing, director Spike Lee presents the audience with the theme of racism. The title represents the everyday choices that we as Americans of various ethnicities, cultures, and race. Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing allows the viewers to decide for themselves the right thing to do about racism. Everyone has the choice to be accepting of cultures, or people different from them. The film portrays how an Italian American named Sal has a neighborhood pizzeria in Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York. The neighborhood is primarily African American, but there is a diverse amount of other cultures made up of, Hispanics, European Americans, also there is a store owned by Koreans. This film displays the discrimination between the races and how this can lead to violence.

Director and actor Spike Lee presents his "truth" about race relations in his movie Do the Right Thing. The film exhibits the spectacle of black discrimination and racial altercations. Through serious, angry, and loud sounds, Lee stays true to the ethnicity of his characters, all of which reflect their own individualism. Lee uses insulting diction and intense scenes to show how severe racism can lead to violence.

Spike Lee’s camera technique in “Do The Right Thing” enhances racial tensions between characters. uses a lot of canted frames, tracking shots, close-ups, high and low angles, parallelism, and music to achieve this. The heat wave going through Brooklyn is exemplified in many ways: on the radio, through discussion between characters, people’s dress, and actions, etc. Lee also uses cinematography to get across how hot this day really is. For example, the film begins with a montage of people in the neighborhood trying to cool off, struggling to get through their morning routines: a shot of someone taking a cold shower, cuts to a shot of someone sticking their face in ice, to someone sticking their head in the freezer, men drinking beer, someone

It is unfortunate that intolerance continues to exist in our nation (or anywhere else for that matter). Racism, one of the largest and most prevalent forms of intolerance, commonly destroys relationships and can eventually lead to violence. The existence of such hateful ideologies is so prevalent in our society that popular culture is constantly trying to challenge the ignorant basis of racial conflict. Spike Lee’s film, Do the Right Thing, connects with this concept of racial conflict that is so foreign to my past. Through the application of my social and political views, I will demonstrate how Spike Lee’s film is difficult for me to relate to and, in my opinion, conveys a misleading message.

In an attempt to enlighten audiences with a powerful message about the cancer that hate and violence can bring to a society; writer, director, Spike Lee brings Do the Right Thing to the screen. Fusing a powerful story with creative film making, Lee gives us an insider’s look at life on a blistering summer day in Brooklyn.

The film Do the Right Thing is a very relevant on issues of race. The film shows how there is tension between all races. The film shows racial tension between the communities in the hottest day of the year. The heat is a theme in the film. Heat in general gets people on edge and raises tension. The film relates to W.E.B. Dubois work “The Soul of Black Folk.” Dubois (1903) work includes the concepts of the veil and double consciousness. The African Americans in the film deal with the idea of a veil. Mookie the protagonist deals with the idea of double consciousness.

In Spike Lee’s film Do the Right Thing, we dive head first into a world of racial and social ills. The movie is set in the African American and Puerto Rican neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on the hottest day of the year. We follow a young man named Mookie, who lives with his sister Jade, and works as a pizza delivery guy for a local pizzeria owed by Sal. Sal’s “Wall of Fame” is soon questioned by a man named Buggin’ Out, who believes that Sal should place some pictures of African American celebrities on his wall to represent the African American society he serves. Sal refuses and Buggn’ Out attempts to

Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989) portrayed an important social problem of the time period – interracial rivalry. The movie was one of many ghetto action films made during the era. In the article “Producing Ghetto Pictures” by Craig Watkins, he says that the movies of the ghetto film cycle committed much of their storyline to that of the relationship between young, poor black males and the ghetto (170).

In Spike Lee 's Do the Right Thing, the story takes places in 1989, another year in the long struggle for equality for African-Americans. The film portrays the racial tensions between locals of the neighborhood and an Italian-American family in the majority Black and Hispanic neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bed-Stuy) in Brooklyn, New York. Spike Lee shows us what a day in the life of the Brooklyn neighborhood consists of and throughout the movie he portrays several different aspects of a modern urban neighborhood, using the many unique personalities of the characters in the movie.

Rebecca Saxe’s Do the Right Thing: Cognitive Science’s Search for a Common Morality analyzes multiple research studies performed on the ethical ideas of morality. Saxe uses three current studies to validate her argument, including a Harvard internet study, research on the cognitive activity in the brains of an infant, and analysis of brain imaging using an fMRI. She uses logos and ethos in this essay to support her argument that scientific research will never fully explain the process that a human takes to make a sound, moral judgement, despite all of the innovative studies being performed. Saxe begins her argument by presenting a scenario that helps the reader to further understand the topic being discussed: moral dilemmas. The scenario includes

The movie Do the Right Thing, composed, coordinated and created by Spike Lee, concentrates on a solitary day of the lives of racially differing individuals who live and work in a lower-class neighborhood in Brooklyn New York. Notwithstanding, this common day happens on one of the most sizzling days of summer. The movie fixates on how social class, race and the ethical choices that the characters make directly affect the way individuals communicate with each other. Furthermore, in this essay I will analyses Spike Lee’s use of mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, and sound in the film.

In Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing he focuses on the racial tension within his environment. Throughout the film each race shows ignorance towards one another. A character by the name of Buggin' Out was at Sal's Pizzeria and noticed there was no pictures of African Americans on the famous wall. He felt that since the Pizzeria was in a black community it should be a piece of their culture on the wall. This is what initially sparks the sense of racism is the community. Sal's son, Pino dislikes how Vito (his brother) is close to Mookie and the bond they have built. Pino's actions show that he dislikes the black race. Even when the black customers some in he becomes ignorant. Da Mayor is the town drunk. He walks the streets drinking a beer and

Actor and director Spike Lee portrays his “truth” about racial relations in his well-known movie Do the Right Thing. The film takes place in 1989 exhibiting the issues of black discrimination and racial altercations. Serious and frustrated, Lee stays true to the ethnicity of his characters, reflecting their own individualism. The main character in the film, Mookie, sets the temperature extremely high towards the end portion of the movie when he does an unexpected action. One of the many questions at the end of the film is whether Mookie “does the right thing” when he chucks the garbage can through the window, yelling the word “hate”, thus provoking the riot that destroys Sal 's pizzeria. I see Mookie 's action as an appropriate wise decision because he directs a less personal attack towards Sal by targeting Sals building, to channel the anger that was spreading throughout the community over Raheem 's murder, and lastly Mookie was standing up for his community. Mookie was a courageous young man for his unexpected act.

After watching the three videos, what I saw was definitely racism, prejudice, stereotypical, discrimination and institutional discrimination. In the first video I watched, which was the movie clip from Do the Right Thing, I immediately identified racism. When Pino is referencing Magic Johnson, Eddie Murphy, and Prince, he states them as different even though they are black. He tries to explain that they are more than black and it is different but he has a hard time explaining himself because he can’t. When he is called out on wanting to be black deep down inside, Pino laughs like there is no chance, yet he is called out on his hair. The last two minutes of the clip are just all of the characters stating the stereotypes of Italians, African

The crash of a Brinks truck on a Miami overpass still raises disturbing questions. January 8, 1997 was just another crowded, rude and crazy day in Miami traffic until an armored Brinks truck flipped and broke open, sending nearly a million dollars in cash swirling over the highway. Hundreds of motorists screeched to a stop, grabbing whatever money they could. People in nearby houses raced outside shouting and scooping up bills. When it was over, a handful of people returned some of the money. Firefighter Manny Rodriguez turned in a huge bale of bills worth $330,000, and one teenager returned some change. However, nearly half a million dollars was missing – stolen by everyday people like you and me. In the following days, some rationalized the mass theft as a kind of Robin Hood action, because the truck had crashed in a poor area of town. Most people claimed to be shocked. Now we are all left with hard questions: Why did only a few people “do the right thing”? Why did the majority do the “wrong thing”? What causes people to act honestly, even if no one is watching? What would you or I have done?