cory petras, Do The Right Thing





“Do The Right Thing” was a movie that at first seemed like it had no clear direction but as the movie continues, we see that Spike Lee was trying to make a point about hate and racism in the world and those things need to change. The Washington Post Review, Desson Howe portrayed this movie to be controversial among its characters, where people live in a black New York neighborhood, “Italians serve pizza, Koreans sell vegetables, but blacks do all the buying”  (Howe). This is portraying all the stereotypes given to these three different types of people. This is what Lee was trying to portray in this movie. I feel that Lee was trying to send a message saying that even though there are different types of people we all need to work together to make a working society. The movie showed a community that everybody knew everybody, there were issues but for the most part everybody got along. But there was rising tension and we knew that something was about to happen. In the Emerson review, he mentions love daddy’s role in the movie, how he starts the movie off by saying wake up, but through the movie he is narrating the movie through his radio show from his view that is above the neighborhood.

 

 

This film was filed with different camera angles. almost every scene of Radio Raheem is shot with low camera angles to show that he is big, and tough, but one scene when Radio Raheem walks up to the counter and is trying to assert his toughness the low camera angle is trying to show that Radio Raheem is intimidating, but when Sal yells at him and doesn’t back down, the camera angle changes to eye level.