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Do the Right Thing Film Analysis “Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.”(Martin Luther King Jr.). Violence and racism are both important motifs in, Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989). They are prominent in almost every scene of the film and lead to the climax when Radio Raheem is killed by the police. Spike Lee used many different directorial techniques in his movie. Heat and music

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. Granted, I come from a place much different than that which is portrayed in Do the Right Thing, my beliefs and experiences have developed an interesting

The weather is sizzling hot and tensions are slowly coming to a boil in this Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn neighborhood. Slowly but surely we see the heat melt away the barriers that were keeping anger from rising to the surface. The Blacks and the Hispanics own the streets the Koreans own the corner store and of course the Italians own the pizzeria, the Cops who happen to be all Caucasian, prowl the streets inside out, looking for anyone to harass. Toes are then stepped on and apologies are not made

Chris Shea Professor Christine Doyle CINE 201 02/04/16 Screening Report for Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing In the fighting and rioting scenes toward the end of his 1989 film Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee uses the misc-en-scene and camera angles to demonstrate that racial tensions are still strong between the white police officers of Brooklyn and its black citizens. He accomplishes this through the various actions the police officers take depicting their poor handling of the situation and the effects

In the finals scenes of Do the Right Thing, there is a bountiful amount of escalating conflict that leads to Mookie’s ultimate decision to throw a metal garbage can through the shop window of Sal’s pizzeria, which in turn leads to the entire neighborhood in uproar over the racial tension that is established throughout the rest of the movie. Before Mookie makes any kind of movement, the neighborhood is yelling over the lack of respect from him and his sons toward the other members of the neighborhood

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

The conflicts in the movie Do the Right Thing In real life, most conflicts will not have an obvious solution. The more complex the situation is, the stronger effect it will have in the society, such as the shooting of michael brown. Spike Lee’s 1989 film Do the Right Thing is a great example about society and Individual racism. The movie takes place on a hot summer day in Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, and began with a sexy dance with Rosie Parize and a song in Public Enemy’s title: “ You got

Spike Lee’s film, Do the Right Thing takes place in a neighborhood in Brooklyn on a hot summer Saturday. It opens on the local radio disc jockey starting his morning show and announcing that the day’s weather will be extremely hot. The scene then goes to a disabled man named Smiley trying to tell anyone walking by about why Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are still important and why racism still needs to be fought, which becomes important later in the movie. The scene cuts to the main character

James Callahan COM 2010 4-22-11 Midterm Analysis Revise Cinematography helps Spike Lee to Do the Right Thing 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

In Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing and Michael Shultz’s Krush Grove, the various sights and sounds that are present from the beginnings of the movies are used as tools to portray the different African American experiences that are present in both films. In the opening credits of Do The Right Thing, Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” can be heard while a women dances. In this case, the imagery and music are used as tools to help establish a setting that the movie takes place in. The sights and sounds