The commons themes between the movie, Do The Right Thing by Spike Lee, and the book, The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, are a mix between the differences in races, their similarities, and the hope of them becoming equal. These two, throughout their entirety, keep referencing race and the differences in relations to each other. The difference in the color of a person’s skin does not make them inferior or superior to one another. This division is a product of society’s views and judgments placed upon those with a different skin pigmentation when compared to white.
Through his movie Lee is attempting to explore the polarities of the inner city. He does this by setting up a system of opposites -- black and white, love and hate, conciliation and violence, man and woman -- then sets them against each other. In a surrealistically close-to-the-bone sequence in which the characters spew their ugliest ethnic slurs, he shows how the same barely suppressed rage festers inside everyone. Lee's point in including this orgy of racist spleen-venting is to show how easy it would be to spark a full conflagration, and it's out of this observation that the rest of the movie springs (washingtonpost.com).
In The Fire Next Time Baldwin informs his grandson …show more content…
In the film, Buggin’ Out verbally attacks a property owning white man for running over his new Air Jordans and then asks him “What are you doing in my neighborhood?” In this brief scene Lee is able to show how a character in a poor neighborhood feels the psychological need to compete with others economically (commons.marymount.edu). This is an example of the Culture Industry and Buggin’ Out displays this because he buys the latest shoes and does not want to feel that he was literally and symbolically being run over by a man who was much wealthier than he
Through his movie Lee is attempting to explore the polarities of the inner city. He does this by setting up a system of opposites -- black and white, love and hate, conciliation and violence, man and woman -- then sets them against each other. In a surrealistically close-to-the-bone sequence in which the characters spew their ugliest ethnic slurs, he shows how the same barely suppressed rage festers inside everyone. Lee's point in including this orgy of racist spleen-venting is to show how easy it would be to spark a full conflagration, and it's out of this observation that the rest of the movie springs (washingtonpost.com).
In The Fire Next Time Baldwin informs his grandson …show more content…
In the film, Buggin’ Out verbally attacks a property owning white man for running over his new Air Jordans and then asks him “What are you doing in my neighborhood?” In this brief scene Lee is able to show how a character in a poor neighborhood feels the psychological need to compete with others economically (commons.marymount.edu). This is an example of the Culture Industry and Buggin’ Out displays this because he buys the latest shoes and does not want to feel that he was literally and symbolically being run over by a man who was much wealthier than he