Do the Right Thing

doesn’t have a race problem” equalised to Malcom X’s powerful legend, “You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it.” Yet,…

Throughout the years, the power of culture was used to shape and form alternative worlds of critique, restoration and resistance (Sanchez 19). The directors of the films “Do the Right Thing” and “Krush Groove” wanted to portray the evolution of African American stereotypes in reflection to the zeitgeist of the African American communities during the time, with music as its catalyst. Using music as a narration of the films, they integrated political, social, and economic issues through the…

reappearing convicts, and unattainable romance, but through the chaos of it all, Pip just wants to better himself and his surroundings. Although he has good intentions, Pip’s choices do not always benefit everyone as much as he hopes they do. In this novel, Dickens expresses the idea that people want to do the right thing, although it may seem as if they are doing otherwise, through Pip’s feelings and actions. Ever since Pip went…

Close Reading Paper 1: A Movie Trailer A matter of interest of the film “Do the Right Thing” would be racial issues. Racism is hardly talked about, but is very pertinent in society. This film exposed racial tension within a particular community; however, this type of activity happens frequently throughout the world. A close look at the movie’s original trailer shows that it reflects this theme by the behavior portrayed by the actors shown in the advertisement for this film. The trailer theme…

How has Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” changed your perspective on visual storytelling? What were your favorite scenes? Were there any visual motifs or elements that stood out to you? Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” is probably one of the most interesting instances there is when it comes to visual storytelling. Originally, I have always thought that much of the storyline belongs to the dialogue. But “Do the Right Thing” has achieved storytelling in a lot of different…

explore the ramifications that result from the prejudicial mentalities that continue to plague modern day societies, it is without a doubt obvious that there is a continuous and active issue. Through the lenses of analyzing Spikes Lee’s 1989 film Do The Right Thing, the fundamental question that is presented that corroborates this perception is how does the racial politics alongside racial tensions of the 1980’s era still resonate within the many trials and tribulations that minorities endure in…

Rev. Martin Luther King. While in Radio Raheem scene where he died, shows and represents the killings of African-American male in our society. The abuse of power, the discrimination, and the battle of love and hate things that we should solve and ended. Lastly, the movie Do the Right Thing became the frontier and instrument to start the talk of equality in U.S. It opened an opportunity…

this class I had no interest in the environment. I had the mindset of just getting it over with for the sake of a requirement. These thoughts were reversed very quickly from the first assignment, which was to read chapter one in “What’s the Right Thing to do?” by Micheal Sandel. This book does a great job of explaining the different social justice issues that are going on in today’s society that may be swept under the rug. Before reading this book I was aware of the little social justice…

After he let me inside, we sat on the couch for a little while and watched Spike Lee’s, Do the Right Thing. As Levi and I sat so close to one another, I felt his body heat. With the lights off and thoughts of Aunt Joyce’s nasty tape playing over and over inside of my head, all I wanted to do was the wrong thing. I really wanted to make a move, but I wasn’t sure of what to do. After thinking about it for a while, I decided to give it a shot. “Hey, you never gave me a tour of your house.” “I’ll…

angles and how they framed the subjects), as well as the mise en scène of the shots all worked to give this film a very animated/comic book-esque feeling. What was interesting to me about this was, although it felt animated in a similar way as Do the Right Thing or Singin’ in the Rain felt, the way in which the animation forms in both movies is very different. While watching The Matrix, I didn’t find the characters being overly animated themselves, but rather it was more the entire composition…