Buggin Out Analysis

As the movie continue you are able to see various scene that showed confrontation between the different racial groups one of the scene that stood out to me is when Buggin’ Out (Mookie’s friend) a character who is renown for speaking out his mind. Notices all the pictures at Sal’s pizzeria are of famous Italian. This angers him and he chooses to confront the owner (Sal). Since Sal is Italian is, he lets Buggin’out know that it is pizzeria and he can hang up whatever picture he chooses, but Buggin’ out demands that Sal puts up some black people on the wall due to the fact that the pizzeria is in a black neighbourhood but Sal refuses. This causes an altercation between the two of which end with Buggin’out threating to boycott Sal’s Pizzeria and …show more content…
The camera then moves in closer for a series or shot reverse shot to determine who is winning the argument, throughout the scene Buggin’out and his gang of friends are placed in a low angle shot portraying them to the audience in a position of power meanwhile Clifton is shot in a low angle shot portraying to the audience that he maybe be in a position of danger or seen be as weak. As the scene continue it becomes apparent that the camera begins to be tilted in an uncanny angle this is an reparation of the character emotion, with Buggin’out being shot in a sharp angle to represents their extreme anger and edginess. While Clifton camera is brought closer to eye level to enforces his common demeanour, as the scene continue so does the argument now transforming from a little scuff of the shoe to now Buggin’out is accusing Clifton of being a product of the gentrification that is going on at area at the time, as Clifton goes tried of the arguing with Buggin’out he begin to start to climb the stairs with this the so does the camera putting him in a positon of power no instead of Buggin’out at this point Buggin’out is still trying to state and justify his argument so his shots stays at the same angle, all of still continues until Buggin’out