Movie analysis

Do the Right Thing review
Do the right thing, which is directed by Shelton Jackson ”Spike” Lee who was born at the year of 1957/March/20th is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Film works, has produced over 35 films since 1983.
Lee’s movies have examined race relations, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues. Lee has won an Emmy Award and was nominated for two Academy Awards.
Many of Lee’s film are set in Brooklyn. Lee often appears in his films, from small cameos (Clocker) to leading roles (Do the right thing).His films are referred to in their credits as “A Spike Lee Joint”, except When the Levees Broke, which is referred to as “A Spike Lee Film”.
Lee films commonly feature a sequence depicting a “floating” effect when a character seems to glide in the air like a ghost instead for walking, which is achieved by filming the actor on a camera dolly, framed so that his or her feet are not seen. Denzel Washington has been the focus of his shot in Mo’ Better Blues, Malcolm X, and Inside Man. Mekhi Phifer is given the same treatment in Clocker, as well as Laurence Fishburne in School Daze, and Zelda Harris in Crook Lyn. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Anna Paquin have similar shots in 25th Hour.
Lee incorporates baseball-related motifs in his movies. Examples include the New York Metes in Mo’ Better Blues and Ju8ngle Fever, Dwight Gooden and Roger Clemens in Do the right thing, While Mays and Roberto Clemente in Clocker, Reggie Jackson and the New York Yankees in Summer if Sam, and Jackie Robinson in Malcolm X, amongst other recurring themes in his movies such as She Hate Me.
Do the right thing, which is the film I would like to review is a 1989 American ensemble film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee. Director Lee stars in the film, alongside Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Richard Edison, Gain Carlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, and John Tuerturron. The film is also notable in that it marks the feature film debuts for Matin Lawrence, Christa Rivers, and Rosie Perez.
The film was a box office success, and received numerous accolades and awards. The film has grown in stature over time ; in 1999,it was deemed “culturally significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry, one of five films to do so in its first year of eligibility. In 2007,the American Film Institute listed the film as the ninety-sixth greatest American Movie in Film History.( Wikipedia )
For me, when I first saw this film, it gave me the feeling of shock, I think this film is very different from others I have ever seen before.
It does not have perfect frame, trick drawing, appearance or some other things that some advantages films should have, what Do the Right Thing has is lots F-words, conflictions, quarrels, then I thought what this film wants to show? To tell you how to speak F-words or to show how violent the black man is? Then I find I was wrong when the actor and the director as well, Spike lee, throw the bin to the pizza store, and everybody run into that store and damage everything, the very beginning of the film is just the lead –in, to show the feelings of Blackman.
In my pinion, at that time the background of the American is the race discrimination between white people and black people, normally, at that time the powers, for example, the police, the government, the fire company and so on ,only the white people can run it you can not see even one black people in it ,why? Why the music is always played named Fight the Power?
I think this is want the black people feeling in their hearts, they also want to ask this questions as I said, they have to fight the power, even though Spike Lee did not show them on the screen, I think some white people must did something to damage the right balance between black people and white people, then what Spike Lee did is for the white people, the police man kill that black guy, for black people, they damaged the pizza store. This is two big things happened between black and white people.
Also, some small friction happened, for example, the friction between Danny Aiello who is the owner of the pizza store and Giancarlo Esposite who wants some brothers on Sal’s wall of frame but Danny Aiello did not want to do that. Secondly, also Danny Aiello, this time he wants Bill Nunn who is a towering young black man who always carries around a huge boom box blasting only Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” to turn off the music in his store, but Bill Nunn did not want to do that and so on
In my opinion, The second thing which happened between Danny Aiello and Bill Nunn is just what was happening between black people and white people: The white people always take the advantages of the society and run the power things and always look down upon the black people, then what black people replied, they want fight the power as the lyric said got to give us what we want ,gotta give us what we need, our freedom of speech of freedom of death, we got to fight the powers that be, lemma hear you say, fight the power.
Yes, the right of speech means Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. who is the prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he has become a human rights icon. I think he is the represent of black people, to sow how strong they want their human right.
In this film no wander the high tide is the part about the white people killed the black people, every black people who was there are enlarged about Radio Raheem’s Death .A tense moment ensures when the crowd contemplates violence against the three white people who worked in the pizza store. Eventually, Mookie grads a trash can and throws it through the window of Sal’s pizza store, directing the collective anger towards the property and away from the owners. The angry crowd becomes an angry riotous mob and rushed into the restaurant and destroys everything within and one of them starts a fire.
Then what a funny thing happen is, from there the mob begin to head for the Korean’s market. ”It is your turn now “the owner, tries to fight them off with a broom and yelling “I am not white! Black! You……me…..same! We same “
I think this is also a film about a story of love and hate, just like what Radio Raheem showed wih his rings on his fingers: Emotions are the strongest feelings that come to every one’s life. The two most extreme emotions of human are hate and love. Most of us would like to believe the power of love is much stronger than the power of hate. However, if that would be true, why do we always see hate exists in this world? Very few of us would think hate might be the forever theme of this world since we have seen a lot of revenges or envies carrying on by people regardless race or culture. Again, if one of them could be really stronger than the other why do they all exist in our life? Why one of them has not been eliminated by the other? In another word, which one is the forever theme of humanity? Love or Hate?