Do the Right Thing “Wake up! Wake up! Up you wake!” 108FM Senor LoveDaddy starts it all off with a good morning and the weather “Today’s temperature’s gonna rise up over 100 degrees.” Brooklyn‚ New York‚ a town with Koreans‚ Jews‚ Italians‚ whites‚ and a lot of blacks seem to be living to together just fine. Yet in such a small town who would have ever guessed that problems this big could ever occur about such a simple thing‚ race. In this multi-ethnic community the thought of others being racist
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The movie Do the Right Thing‚ written and directed by Spike Lee‚ has a man vs. society and man vs man theme. As a drama this movie shows the racial tensions in Bedford-Stuyvesant‚ Brooklyn in 1989. The setting is of the neighborhood street is important to this movie because the story is about the community dealing with being suppressed and racism. In Do the Right Thing‚ the film is shot on location with the addition of Sal’s Restaurant. The street corner is Malcom X Boulevard and Quincy Street
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"Always do the right thing. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest" -Mark Twain. Twain’s quote represents an idealism that should be backwards‚ were doing right wont astonish people because it’s universal. Sadly‚ our world lives in the idealism of Twain’s quote. Yet‚ life is infused with change‚ consequently‚ enabling use to change Twains quote by trying to make right choices part of our lives. Doing the right thing means sacrifice. In my case‚ I sacrificed time‚ using it for Juniors
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What’s the right thing to do? I believe the next thing was a do now‚ he was telling us a story. He told the story so that we can imagine it as if it was us in that position. The story was about you driving your car‚ and your brakes stop working‚ then you notice straight ahead that there are five workers in the way. Then you realize there is a construction work sign and you can’t enter. So you’d end up killing those five people. However‚ your steering wheel still work and you can turn to the right and not
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Hussein Abdallah First Paper 26838 Flm101 Technical Critique of do the Right Thing Do The Right Thing‚ a movie directed by Spike Lee‚ filmed on a sunny summer day in a black neighbourhood in Brooklyn is what many consider a great movie. The movie portrays stories of many actors consisting from different palettes‚ where each has their own conflicts and struggles. It is a very entertaining movie yet it will leave you emotionally connected to the events that took place. It would not have reached
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After watching the film‚ Do The Right Thing‚ it should be included in the syllabus for this class Nationality‚ Race and Ethnicity because of the fact diversity is shown in cultural differences‚ assimilation‚ and is applied to all the qualities that make everyoney in the neighborhood different. In Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing he presents a powerful message about our culture. Throughout the film there are examples of how people in real communities deal with violence and racism and their circumstances
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gain first whether it involves money‚ property or something else. Therefore‚ these dilemmas were not easy to solve‚ somebody has to sacrifice something. If we were to ask any number of people the question: “What is the right thing for me to do?” they would have different answer according to their own beliefs. The beliefs that people value are the structures in which they live by. “Morals are personal beliefs‚ and ethics are those beliefs and rules‚ which are set by a larger group
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A Spike Lee highly inflammable film‚ “Do The Right Thing”‚ is an example of a relatively cheap work of art which‚ however‚ is capable of conveying million-dollars-worth ideas. This movie is not just about the life in an African American neighborhood of New York‚ it is rather a complex analysis of false assumptions and wrong perception of the African Americans as a social group and as a source of problems only. The first important fact which the film is focused on is‚ logically‚ difficulty of life
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Do The Right Thing is a fictional narrative that surrounds an Italian restaurant in the middle of a black neighborhood. Do The Right Thing does something that no other film was able to do‚ which is‚ “… present the aspects of the culture - language‚ dress‚ attitude‚ music - in a realistic context…” (Donalson 23). Donalson was correct - this film didn’t just serve to depict the random lives of a community‚ but rather the political and racial tension their community (and‚ I imagine‚ the rest of the
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“We are home!” On Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing With his Do the Right Thing producer‚ director‚ and actor Spike Lee has succeeded in creating a truely controversial film that leaves its audience with questions and a source for a lively discussion. And indeed many have taken the opportunity to comment on Lee’s work‚ mostly ignoring its general aspects and rather focussing on its message or deeper meaning. The film deals with both social and racial relationships and shows a community in which
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