Monthly Archives: February 2012

At times it seems like it’s almost impossible to keep all of the characters in Do The Right Thing straight—new ones are popping up around every corner of the neighborhood.  Mookie, Tina, Sal, Pino, Vito, Radio Raheem, Buggin’ Out, Da … Continue reading →

Do the Right Thing takes Spike Lee’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood and transforms it into an onscreen spectacle. On this screen, Lee presents racial issues to which the neighborhood must solve. This neighborhood features a well-rounded community in the sense that all … Continue reading →

Hard to believe that all the chaos takes place in a single day. In the film Do the Right Thing, directed by Spike Lee. Spike’s neighborhood consists of plethora of different people. We have the Italian store owner and his … Continue reading →

Though the viewer can pick out several obvious exceptions – the Korean grocery storeowners and Sal and his two sons among these – Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bed-Stuy: Do or Die!), as depicted in Spike Lee’s film Do The Right Thing, is clearly a … Continue reading →

     Hello, everyone! Today’s topic of discussion is the film Do the Right Thing, which was directed by Spike Lee. First, I would like to state that this film portrayed the racial tensions between the African Americans and Whites quite … Continue reading →

I liked that Spike Lee’s movie Do The Right Thing didn’t depict stereotypes such as the “unemployed, murderous, and drug-dealing black youth,” as Pouzoulet describes. Spike’s neighborhood seems to be divided into three groups: the non-blacks (Sal and his sons, … Continue reading →

How Spike Lee can turn a block in Brooklyn and create such a powerful story is beyond me. Lee’s Bedford-Stuyvesant may be primarily a black neighborhood however, there is so much more to it. You have the Korean couple that … Continue reading →

Spike’s neighborhood is mostly a black neighborhood, with the exception of the Korean storeowners and Sal and his two sons, who have their pizzeria in the area but do not live there. The neighborhood is full of people of different … Continue reading →

Spike Lee’s neighborhood in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn drowns not only in a heat wave (represented by the red and orange color scheme of the film) but in a complexity of racial tensions as well. The predominantly black neighborhood manages to let … Continue reading →

If ethnicity were paint, Spike Lee has crafted an aesthetic masterpiece on the canvas of Bedford-Stuyvesant, representing a myriad of ethnic inhabitants coexisting on one block of the inner city Brooklyn neighborhood. The characters that animate the scorching street that … Continue reading →