Do The Right Thing Sociology

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.

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.

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

Overall, BOYZ N THE HOOD AND DO THE RIGHT THING showcase the dysfunction among inner-city blacks during the 1990’s. Both films have something to say about Amercian society, and have a message (or warning) to other black men. Society views young black inner-city men as a lost cause, their only hope for success is to strive for something better. To succeed these men must avoid the temptations of the ‘hood, and get an education and motivate

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.

The movie “Do the Right Thing” starts with the loudness of “Fight the Power”. When we are still immersed in the rhythm and lyrics of the song, and before we even realize, Spike Lee has already taken us into a tiny block in an ordinary Brooklyn neighborhood, into a horrifying miniature of the noisy American race conversation, into a battle between love and hate. This block might be tiny, but it is not simple because of the people who live here. There is Mr. Senor Love Daddy, the local DJ and troubadour; there is the block’s old couple, Da Mayor and Mother Sister, who can never stop arguing with each other; there is Smiley, the mentally disabled guy who sells pictures of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, who always gets shoved around by everybody;

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

One theme that can be seen in Do The Right Thing, by Spike Lee, is the struggle of racial tension and the battle between love and hate. In this film, racial tensions run high and the characters are faced with many situations where they have to choose between trying to reason with each other or resort to violence to get the justice that they feel is right. This struggle is seen in the scenes of the film, but it is also seen in the cinematography Spike Lee used when shooting it. The most obvious scene that conveys this theme is when Radio Raheem explains the story of love and hate to Mookie. Raheem tells Mookie about the eternal fight between love and hate and how in the end love will always end.

Do The Right Thing (1989) is a classic film written, produced, and directed by Spike Lee. The focus on the movie is set on racial issues, and the entire movie takes place on the hottest day of the year in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn. Lee does an incredible job demonstrating the tautness between the races on the block specifically among the African American race and American Italian race. Lee’s use of symbolism among the characters, mise-en-scene, and shot composition in his film Do The Right Thing from beginning to end illustrates the struggle between peace and conflict.

The movie Do the Right Thing by Spike Lee is not a film that has the power to transform one’s political sensibilities. The film displays the demonstration of African discrimination and racial altercations. Done by the way of the anger and serious reactions display by the way Lee demonstrates the true ethnicity of his character and the way he used insulting style of speech and strong scenes to show how harsh racism can lead to violence. 1) In the film there is love and hate between the neighbors that points out who are friends and rivals 2) We also see how in the film points out the differences that separate society 3) Finally in the in the film we see social conflict racial discrimination between Black, White, Italian and Asian race,

particular practices. Depending on the theme and intent of the director, films have a substantial contribution to the human civilization. Do the Right Thing directed by Spike Lee is a1989 American comedy-drama that highlights the racial tension in the ancient society. The film depicts a typical day for Lee in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn when strains between the whites, Indians and African Americans were on the rise. The production of the film took place when the issues regarding the African Americans were largely ignored. Therefore, the setting of the video in a black dominated community illuminates the style as well as outcomes of good and bad (Townsend). It addresses the stereotypical notions that defined Africans as dangerous and violent by portraying a picture of hospitable characters. Other than bringing the lifestyle of African American to the limelight, it has significant relevance

The movie takes place in a black neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York and mostly involves the pizzeria that a family of three Italians owns. Mookie is a young black man that works at the pizzeria and sometimes he has to deal with tension with one of the Italian brothers named Pino. One day one of Mookie’s friends, Buggin’ Out, ask the store owner Sal why does he only have white people on his wall of fame and that he should put black people up there since he has a business in a black neighborhood. Sal rudely disagrees and bans him out of his store. After, it starts racial tension with all the black residence plus Mookie and Pino. Later Buggin’ Out tries to form a boycott but no one will join him except two residents, Smiley and Radio Raheem who

The massacre eventually spirals and lead to the entire neighborhood coming together to destroy and burn down the pizzeria. The racial tendencies still escalate throughout the film leaving the viewers concerned about the racial issues. Although the battle is over nothing good has developed from it.

The original occasion that I watched this film, I was not prepared for it at all. I was not prepared for the casualties, and I was not prepared for the intensity. What I got from the first time I watched the film was that Spike Lee plays the role of Mookie as a youthful man simply existing in a black and Puerto Rican region in Brooklyn with his sister, Jade played by Joie Lee, and is employed as a pizza delivery man for a native pizzeria. Salvatore Sal Frangione played by Danny Aiello, the pizzeria 's Italian-American proprietor, has maintained the pizzeria for 25 years. His first-born son, Giuseppe, well recognized as Pino played by John Turturro, is prejudice and hates the dwelling like a disease and grasps racial disdain for all the