Do the Right Thing- Bologna, M.

            “It’s clear that everyone in the movie could use a cold moral shower by the end of the day” (Howe).  This movie was created knowing that there would be mixed feelings.  There is an immense amount of racism for African Americans, Asians, and Caucasians.  They each struggle to live in their neighborhood together.  Their compromises are unspoken but assumed until one side is unhappy, which is most of the time.  They deal with problems concerning money and fairness.  In this movie money is a large part of how these characters get by in life.  Money seems like an odd concern for people that are not financially struggling but Sal uses money as a solution to the trouble makers who stop by his store by paying them to leave him alone.  But Mookie on the other hand uses money to solve financial issues with his family and for personal use.  The last scene is even based around money.  Sal pays Mookie to leave him alone and take his trouble with him and Mookie takes it knowing that it is his and he needs it to help his family.  The clashing cultures also struggle with compromising.  They find every decision to be unfair when its really society that is unfair.  The characters are one minded letting you understand how they each feel but we have a far enough distance to stay mutual while we can relate with our own instances in certain situations.  Lee uses colors to emphasize our mood in certain moments.  From the second the film begins, we are given the image of heat.  There is a red tint to just about every picture.  Then we are given the news that it will be a hot summer, which combines with the color red to emphasize the sweat running down each character’s neck.

  

          In this clip Radio Raheem is in the shot by himself.  The camera is just a bit lower to give him a larger more powerful angle than his already larger body.  Because the camera is placed at a high angle, Radio Raheem looks as large as the buildings behind him.  Even his hands look larger than the car with the close up shot that only captures half of his body.  Lee even uses the bright colors on Radio Raheem’s shirt to capture the audiences eye’s attention to the center of the scene along with the glare of light coming off of his rings.