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    Do The Right Thing?

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    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

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    England. The family moved to East London, where his sister was born three years later. Then his parents got divorced in 1957. So his mother moved them to his Maternal Grandparents animal shelter in Brentwood, Essex. He wanted to break into TV and radio as a writer after leaving the university. So he moved back to London. To get started on his now carry. Footlights Revue appeared on BBC2 in 1974. And then a version of it was performed live in London’s West End led to Adams being discovered by Monty

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    Synopsis: The movie Chicago takes place in the era of jazz music and flappers. Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger) is an aspiring singer. She is desperate to get a job in showbiz. Roxie goes to a club to see her idol’s performance. She does not know she is watching Velma Kelly’s (Catherine Zeta-Jones) last performance. Just before the performance, Velma murdered her sister and husband. Roxie meets Fred Casely (Dominic West) and the two hit it off right away. Fred promises to make Roxie a star. He and Roxie

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    In the movie Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee dramatizes the racial tensions in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of New York City on a hot summer day back in 1989. The question Lee poses is: “What is the right thing to do?” Each character plays an essential role in the escalation, leading up to the confrontation at Sal’s Famous Pizzeria that ends in violence, death and destruction. A fire breaks out at Sal's, which necessitates police intervention. The police grab Radio Raheem and kill him using the chokehold

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    (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 were an example of this and were prominent throughout the movie. They were clever ways that Lee got across his ideas, they brought the audience into the movie. They helped immerse you in the movie and made you feel as if you were feeling the

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    James Robert "Radio" Kennedy

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    then someone comes along who shows us that miracles really are possible. That was what a mentally handicapped African American boy from Anderson, South Carolina was put on this Earth to do. The word “miraculous” pretty much describes James Robert “Radio” Kennedy’s whole life. In 1947, he was born into a small family in South Carolina, and he suffered from a severe hereditary mental handicap. Both James Robert Kennedy’s deceased father, and younger brother, George Allan “Cool Rock” Kennedy, suffered

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    Do The Right Thing Sociology

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    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). The film depicts the lives of those who live on a city block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood

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    Untouchables Historically Accurate? By: Britney Tang “The Untouchables” is taken place in the 1930’s, based on prohibition. In this movie, we encounter many topics such as inventions, entertainment and fashion which show “The Untouchables” as a partially accurate historical film. In the 1920s and 1930s men and women were dressed extremely formal. A lot of the men in this movie were dressed in suits or wore a long trench coat. On the streets, even the lower class would dress formal. As for women, they

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    Media Exposure Film, radio and television, as three major types of media through which music is circulated and consumed by the mass audience, have played important roles in the mass communication of “Moon River” and its numerous cover versions. Film production companies are supposed to be the major promotion medium of their theme song, but it is not the case in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The film itself could be promoted through posters, trailers at the cinema, lobby cards, advertisements in magazines

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    Dear White People Movie

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    must be over"? We have heard a lot of stories in just the last couple of years about white People throwing black-themed parties full of insulting racism? The most interesting part in Dear White People movie is racism, gay right and social media. Their subject in film is dear white people is about radio show by Sam White it call “Dear

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