Essays on Do The Right Thing

The film, “Do The Right Thing” directed by Spike Lee has the power to transform one’s political sensibilities through Lee’s depiction of the racial tensions that exist in the multiracial community in Brooklyn, New York. By using a black perspective to tell the story, this…

In Spike Lee’s 1989 classic “Do the Right Thing,” there are several portrayals of racial interactions throughout the movie, given the basis of the existing circumstances like the rising tensions between residents, demographics of the community, today’s heat wave, and other contributing factors like fatherhood…

Nothing brings out the worst in a person than a hot summer’s day in the middle of a drought. Each character in Do The Right Thing is at a different degree of racism, and chooses to act upon their racism with varying degrees of violence….

Do the Right Thing is a film directed by Spike Lee in 1989 about the problems of racism in America. It is inspired by a girl named Tawana Brawley who said “she had been abducted and raped by a group of men- some carrying police…

The extract I have chosen is taken from Spike Lee’s film Do the Right Thing and I am going to analyze it in terms of its film elements to convey meaning according to the filmmaker’s intentions, vision and his influences. Do the Right Thing, is…

On April 15th of 2000, I was definitely not expected. To my parents, it was a surprise since I wasn’t supposed to be born until July. My mom always told me, “You just couldn’t wait. You were bossy and stubborn that day just like you…

Spike Lee’s, Do the Right Thing, is a soul-touching movie that provides insight on the ongoing civil rights struggle against racial profiling, police brutality, systematic racism, and discrimination. Do the Right Thing is a Grammy and Golden Globes nominated film, to which is known for…