Do The Right Thing Analysis

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Do the Right Thing

I chose this film because I’ve always heard Spike Lee is a good director/writer and gives accurate character portrayals in his films. This story starts off on a super-hot day in the summer the setting being the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of a Brooklyn neighborhood in New York. Racial tensions are high during this time between an Italian pizzeria owner and the surrounding African community. The location of film took place with noticeable attributes and flavor. The graffiti on the wall, Public Enemy on repeat, the turn of the 19th century stone stoops, big windows, brick row houses, roman coliseums, the warm yellows and oranges present, the hazy film, and the dense population. The most poignant scene I found was the one in the beginning when Sal and his sons pulled up to the pizzeria. Behind Sal and his sons in this scene was a mural with both the Jamaican flag and Pan-African flag behind the fence with wheels plastered along around it. I found this mural to be a very important place characteristic in understanding the communities’ culture.
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I say divisions because they seem to be divided. The majority were black people, who composed the area with their own style of language including with hints of a Brooklyn accent mixed with an urban dialect. For example, the lady who was always sitting on her stoop. She had an almost southern accent possibly from Georgia or Louisiana. The black people were dressed usually in bright colors, wearing white Nike or Jordan basketball shoes. Many characters can be seen carrying big boom boxes and music plays an important part of day-to-day life it seems in the