Do The Right Thing By Spike Lee

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. The biases reflected through Do the Right Thing model those of today which has kept society in a constant feud for so long. In Oprah Winfrey's dynamic episode, "The Color of Fear", Mr. Mun Wah projects his strong opinion when he states, " . . . that racism is still going on today, that we've got to stop to hear the anguish

The film has several ethnicities within a small area along a time line of one day. The film has many, informative methods in which it describe the various diversity issues of all the characters within the movie. For example, Sal’s pizzeria which is owned by an Italian American has pictures of famous Italian Americans on the wall and plays Italian music. One character named Buggin Out is always upset. Bugging out hates the fact that there are no black people pictures on the wall especially since the pizzeria is in a black neighborhood. His perspective represents the people in the African American community that always protest, but usually don’t work to improve the community. The

Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing focuses on scenes representing failed communication, dire stereotyping, absence of trust, and wrongful violence that reflects the existing concerns about racism in America. The intense language and strong gestures enhance the film creating a realistic view for the audience.

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.

“Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past” written by Tyron Edwards. Sometimes changing your behavior is the only way to make up for a past, because you learn what are right actions, and what are wrong actions.

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.

The movie “Do the Right Thing” takes place in the neighborhood of Bed-Stuy. Having watched this movie several times in the last twenty-five years one can see not much has changed in the interactions in real life versus the movie. People in the Black community still has a certain look, when other races uses the “N” word. The outcry of police brutality is still done within the community, but it also protested on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media. Where there was to be a boycott of Sal’s in the movie, there are other boycott of restaurants and other venues across the country. The movie also covers the typical relationship a woman has with her man, when one feels, that her man is not being up to par. The movie shows what happens in the community still covers The “What’s Happening” today.

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

The film depicts the lives of those who live on a city block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York where Sal’s Famous Pizzeria is located. Racial and ethnic hatred is shown through the characters who frequent the Italian restaurant. Sal’s son, Pino, wants to move the Pizzeria into their own neighborhood away

In spite of the fact that Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever are both associated with social and political issues, they tend to navigate through various racial viewpoints using different cinematic elements. Spike Lee uses a variety of techniques in his film to bring awareness to events occurring in today's society. For example Do the Right Thing, is a film that tackles down the social issue of prejudice as well as the controversial issues between Italian-Americans and African Americans in New York City. The whole movie unravels around the “Wall of Fame” located inside Sal’s Pizzeria, which only features Italian actors. One day a local customer name Bugging Out, demands to have black actors, since after all the pizzeria is located within a black neighborhood. Soon enough the “Wall of Fame” becomes a symbolic representation of racism and hate which leads to a riot involving an explicit scene of police brutality. On the other hand Jungle Fever, tends to emphasise on the subject of interracial couples, as well as the controversy between Italian-Americans and African Americans and of course the usage of drugs. The movie is based on Flipper, an African American architect who has an affair with his secretary Angie, who is an Italian-American. The climax of the movie occurs when Flipper’s wife Drew, finds out about the affair and from then on society begins to reject Flipper and Angie because of social norms. Forcing them into a corner where they later learn that they were driven

In the film, Do The Right Thing, directed by Spike Lee, is a story of African-Americans and Italian-Americans that live in local residents. This film takes place on the hottest and longest day in Brooklyn, New York. Lee represents himself, Mookie, an African-American delivery boy at a pizzeria. Throughout the film, Lee establishes two main characters that illustrate “the right thing”, starting Salvatore is known as Sal, an Italian who owns a pizzeria. Radio Raheem is an African-American enjoys his boom box music. In particular, Sal becomes upset when Radio Raheem attends the pizzeria. Sal comments, “It 's about turning that shit off and getting the fuck outta my pizzeria” Sal clearly is disturbed. That explains the loudness that comes from Radio Raheem’s boom box. To illustration, Mookie throws the “trashcan” tensions rise when the riot with Radio Raheem. In many ways, things are accomplished by the story of the “trash can”.

Mookie (Spike Lee) is an young African American who lives in the neighborhood with his sister Jade and works as a delivery man at a local pizza shop, “Sal 's Famous Pizzeria.” Sal is the Italian-American owner of the pizza shop where Mookie works along with Pino and Vito, Sal 's sons. Mookie and Vito are friends, but Pino is portrayed to be prejudice towards Black people. Pino and Vito often get into heated altercations because of their different racial views. Pino absolutely despises working in Bed-Stuy and wants nothing more than to move the business to their own neighborhood, but Sal disagrees. Sal 's character is unlike his son Pino 's. Sal 's is depicted to be a nice man with good morals and sees everyone as equal. He has run a respectable business in the neighborhood for 25

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.

Patton Oswalt's essay, “You Gotta Fight for Your Right to F%@k Up” (2016), argues that the freedom to make a mistake without having it affect the reputation of one’s peer group is integral to the improvement of humanity. Through excess use of repetition, Oswalt exhausts the reader through his provision of numerous present day and past examples of minorities making mistakes, having their peer group suffer from stereotyping as a result. By tiring the reader with similar examples phrased in similar fashions, Oswalt stresses the notion that it always has been and forever will be ridiculous and ignorant to make assumptions about entire groups of people, as a single individual never characterizes the masses, in order to evoke possible change. Oswalt