Scene Analysis Of Do The Right Thing By Spike Lee

Throughout the years racism has been a problem in this world and is why I choose to watch Glory Road. The movie also teaches that in this life things can be accomplished no matter what the obstacles are for example your race. So let's take a look at the three cultural conflicts In Glory Road, the first being colored people versus white people, second is a poor school versus rich school, and lastly players versus coach.

Fences is a drama film directed and starred by Denzel Washington, along with Academy Award Winner, Viola Davis as well as adapted from the play Fences by August Wilson. The movie Fences focuses with elements of distrust and change among a working-class African-American father Troy Maxson, works as a garbage collector during the 1950s in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Maxson’s dream was to become a professional baseball player, but he was considered too old when the league began recruiting black athletes. Sullen by the truth, Troy creates more problems in his family when he dismisses his son’s chance to play professional football. The director’s perception of African American experience during the time period is very fluent. The characters

The film The Green Mile was originally written by Stephen King and later directed by Frank Darabont. It is based on the guards and inmates of a penitentiary’s Death Row during the great depression. There is a certain monotony that comes with working on Death Row and Paul Edgecomb, played by Tom Hanks, has become numb to the fact that he is paid to take lives; that is until John Coffey gets sentenced to death and is sent to Paul’s “green mile”. John Coffey is a very large black man that was accused of rape and murder of two little girls, and in the 1930’s having charges like that brought upon you was grounds for the death penalty, especially for a black man in the south.

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

“ Some of these early productions have racial themes which reorganize the world in such a way that black heritage is rewarded over white paternity; they are schematic renunciations of the prevailing order of things in white American society where, historically, the discovery of black blood meant sudden reversal of fortune, social exclusion, or banishment.” (Gaines, P.3) Within the movie the amount of mistruths about African Americans was sad. Within the movie you notice that the blacks were always or seem to be yelling, acting uncivilized and doing

One of the most striking scenes begins in the first forty minutes of the film. The scene starts off with the music becoming slow and haunting, a difference from the high beat music that was playing before, while a police car slowly drives down the street in the neighborhood of mostly people of color. The camera then cuts to the three black men who sit on the corner, Sweet Dick Willie, Coconut Sid, and ML. The camera pans across the three faces, all showing critical glares at the police car. The policeman in the passenger seat is then shown, displaying a similar glare to the black men. The tension can be felt in

This, and Radio Raheem’s ghetto blaster, lead to the brawl that occurs soon after in the movie. The police are called, which ends in the death of Radio Raheem and, in turn, leads to the restaurant being set ablaze by Mookie, who has watched everything occur since the very beginning. Reid explains that “the scene … lacks any constructive critique of the socioeconomic processes that promote misunderstanding between ethnic and racial working-class groups” (102).

The degree of connection between all of the characters in the movie is so coincidental and interrelated to emphasize the point that we do not always know what is going on with everyone else we may encounter. It also accentuates the fact that racism is not one particular race against another. It also shows that we never know someone’s situation and what is happening in their life to make them act the way that they do if

Throughout the film he is portrayed as expressing various emotions of anger toward individuals of different race and peace to those he respects. Also, we see walking with his radio playing “Fight the Power” by the rap group Public Enemy. The lyrics matter because it describes his emotional state of mind that results in the events that occur towards the end of the film. The film depicts the the discrimination of race between cultures and each one wanting respect. After a heated confrontation Sal breaks his radio and Radio Raheem loses it and this is where everything goes wrong. We see Radio Raheem murdered by the police in full view of the community. Neither Sal nor Radio Raheem were right in the behavior that escalated the situation. However, the life of man was lost by aggressive police force. The song Radio Raheem loved also indicated, “what we need is awareness, we can’t get careless” which can be somewhat confusing. In part because the song reflects fighting back in its lyrics, “To revolutionize make a change nothing's strange, People, people we are the same, No we're not the same, Cause we don't know the game” but then indicates bringing awareness. Maybe this was Radio Raheem struggled in both his feeling of love and hate. However, his death played a role in bringing awareness of the struggles of oppressed black

What is also significant about the visual staging of this sequence is how the characters are shown in relation to each other. During Mookie and Radio Raheem's discourse in the street, a single frame presents both characters together, implying a state of unity. However, the exchange between Radio Raheem and Sal highlights the division between the characters as they are presented in individual, separate shots with a counter as a barrier between them.

The main issue throughout the movie is racism and the perspectives on different cultures. The movie is set in Los Angeles, a city with a cultural mix of every nationality. The movie starts out at

The use of various camera techniques such as canted frames, low-angled, high-angled and close up shots, as well as camera distance, enhances the struggle between the characters. The use of such techniques not only allows the audience to get an extensive insight into the many different characters, but also helps us understand the relationships between them and how all of these factors contribute to the overarching theme of racism in the film. The use of these camera rapid movements

When we try to understand why the characters act as they act and what drives each of them, the viewers are inevitably drawn to the conclusion that they are just like them. They realize they are human; they have both good qualities and bad qualities. Spike Lee also makes them understand that at times they may make terrible mistakes, and that at other times they may display admirable heroism, and that sometimes they simply act without knowing why. Spike Lee does more than try to show his viewers that despite tensions, this Black neighborhood is a community. What Lee does is he makes the viewers think. He simply presents events as they are leaving the viewer to figure out the motives of the characters and the ‘why’ behind the course of events. Lee doesn’t really put a positive light on any particular race while shadowing the other ones. He doesn’t try to make conflicts have an obvious solution. Lee simply re-creates a piece of life, with a little twist of extreme (yet realistic) drama for deeper effect, and by doing this he tries to simply make his audience think and question.

Good Will Hunting is an interesting story of a young genius orphan growing in a slums of South Boston with a group of best friends, written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and directed by Gus Van Sant. In this film, Will Hunting is the main character played by its father Matt Damon who is trying to himself identify his value in the world. He is not a normal teenager, he has a special ability that called the “photographic memory” so that he could remember and solve academic problems in a really quickly way. This film also tells us the journey of Willy as he is required to experience psychotherapy by Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard) unless he wants

In the movie The Help, there are many characters portrayed and all of them follow their own set of motives to reach their goals. The movie, to me, appears to be the cliche white shaming movie, and the creators are obviously left wing and want to preach the left wing status and show the struggles we no longer face. Before I get into my character and categories I would like to discuss Left and Right Wing. Left Wing typically believes that the government should have the utmost power and they are usually liberals, however, the Right Wing thinks the government should have little to no power and that personal goals and power should be the top priority, these are what we usually call conservatives. The character who I will be analyzing is Hilly Holbrook. Very quickly into the introduction of Hilly, she is portrayed as the “bad guy” or villian of the film because again, this is a left wing film and Hilly is very clearly right wing. Like most characters in The Help, you can generally see their intended values based on the color of clothing they are wearing, usually red, white, or blue. Hilly constantly wears red a color commonly associated with the right wing, which continually paints her such throughout the film. The bipolar categories of her ideology are International vs. Nationalistic, Democratic vs. Hierarchical, and Insiders vs. Outsiders.