Review Of Do The Right Thing By Spike Lee

Thus, starting a riot that leads to a terrible ending. The tension at the end of the film then highlights the irony of the title Do The Right Thing. People are expected

From back in time to now, there have been a lot of movies made regarding police brutality that we are unaware of. A movie that was recently brought to my attention regarding this issue is Fruitvale Station. This movie is about 22 year old Oscar Grant, who was killed in a subway station in Oakland, California, in the early hours of January 1, 2009. Michael B. Jordan plays Oscar Grant who is trying extremely hard to live a clean life and support his young daughter and his girlfriend. In the film, it shows him trying to get his job back at the grocery store he previously worked at.

Throughout the Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm is given different names from his friends and family. Each name represents a different stage of his life. In fact, for all the important moments in his life, Malcolm is given a new name. Malcolm used these names to express his mind, whether he thought about religion or reefers. In Haley’s

Our guide is Mookie (Spike Lee), a pizza delivery boy who lives with his sister Jade (Joie Lee). He also has a son with his girlfriend Tina (Rosie Perez), who chides him for not coming around often enough. Mookie cares for his girlfriend and his son, but most of his time is taken up at Sal’s Famous Pizzeria, run by Sal (Danny Aiello), who proudly displays famous Italian Americans on his wall, and his two sons, the racist Pino (John Turturro) and the open-minded Vito (Richard

Angel Reyes Music 351 Red ID-816493113 Racial Tensions Expressed Through Music The film, “Do the Right Thing”, released on 1989 was written and directed by Spike Lee, an influential movie entertainer. This movie takes place in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, a saturated city of minority social groups. During this time, African Americans, Caucasians, and other racial groups were inclined to play a major roles in segregation and violence. This movie is a perfect example of how a typical person living in the suburbs would live, capturing both social and psychological conflicts of the time.

"The Shawshank Redemption" premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 1994, and opened a few weeks later. It got good reviews but it did not do good business as it does not have an interesting title and it was a "prison drama" which did not attract women. It contained almost no action, it starred actors who were respected but not big stars, and it was a long 142 minutes. This was a movie that needed word-of-mouth to find an audience, and indeed business was slowly but steadily growing when it was yanked from theatres.

Do the Right Thing brings about many questions, while also leaving it up to the diverse audience to decide what they feel the right thing is. The movie also brings about the animosity that is forced between different ethnicities and races because of the way the culture in America has been

It has been said that some people are just as important after their death as they are in their life. However, other time people are more important after their death. Malcolm X was important both during his life as well as after his death. Spike Lee depicts Malcolm X being murdered in cold blood in the middle of a speech. This scene is significant because it showed that Malcolm X was willing to risk his life for change.

“Some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright” (The Shawshank Redemption). In 1994, The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King was adapted in to a movie by Frank Darabont. Since its release, it has been nominated to win thirty-six awards and has even won nineteen awards. Fourteen years after its release, The Shawshank Redemption is still a memorable movie starring Morgan Freeman as ‘Red’ and Tim Robbins as ‘Andy Dufresne’ that centers on a prison focused on redeeming and rehabilitating criminals wanted for crimes ranging from car theft, to homicide.

Everyone has a burning desire in the pit of their stomach, as life goes on, the desire to be in a place where they feel they’ve reached their maximum potential. Most individuals are stuck in a place that they wish they could change at some point in their life, and they set goals for themselves in order to achieve what their heart desires. Whether they see themselves in a mansion or just living out their days in a vacation home off the beach, it doesn’t really matter as long as the work they put in satisfies them. In The Shawshank Redemption, the Pacific Ocean is where our main character Andy’s heart lies, and he shows us that with enough time and persistence against opposition, a person can regain control and pursue their dreams.

Malcolm X and his ideals are arguably a representation of the transition from the early 1950 's non-violent movement for integration to a more aggressive black power movement. Evidence of this is shown through powerful strands of his novel “The Ballot or the Bullet” including when he writes, “I don 't mean go out and get violent, but at the same time you should never be non-violent unless you run into some non-violence.” (Malcolm 439). In writing that members of the civil rights movement should never be non-violent he does so facetiously. This excerpt indicates a call for violence as a more powerful method for achieving the equality he feels they deserve.

Introduction: Malcom X urges the Negro community to fight to gain the equal rights they deserve by taking action against their white oppressors. He emphasizes that blacks will gain their rights either thorough voting, with the ballot, or else through the inevitable violence with the bullet. Thesis [part a] Like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., also fighting for the civil rights of black Americans in the 1960s, but in a more peaceful manner, Malcom X takes a different approach.

In the movie High Noon, Marshall Will Kane is faced with a moral dilemma just has he is about to leave town with his new wife. With his desires to leave town and move on with his wife, he is faced with a dilemma in which he feels that he has an obligation to stay and resolve this issue to make sure that the town is safe once and for all from the former killer, Frank Miller. As Marshal Will Kane has a decision to make, this essay will identify and explicate what his duties and obligations are as the Marshall of the town and whether he should leave town or have a show down with Frank Miller. As throughout the movie we saw that Kane was constantly struggling with finding former deputies to help him in his assist with taking down Frank Miller, but as a result no one wanted to stand up to this guy because they were all afraid of him and what he could do.

Over the course of Malcolm X’s life, his perspective of identity changed, particularly before and after he went to Mecca. In the speech By Any Means Necessary Malcolm stated, “The time for you and me to allow ourselves to be brutalized non-violently is passe….Be non-violent only with those who are non-violent to you”(Malcolm X). Essentially, Malcolm X is implying that we should have the rights to defend ourselves from those who cause harm to us. Before Malcolm x went to Mecca, he believed that white supremacy could not be conquered through love, but only through vigorous self-defence (“By Any Means Necessary”) .

The film Do the Right Thing, composed, coordinated and delivered by Spike Lee, concentrates on a solitary day of the lives of racially different individuals who live and work in a lower class neighborhood in Brooklyn New York. Be that as it may, this conventional day happens on one of the most sweltering days of the mid year. The film focuses on how social class, race and the ethical choices that the characters make directly affect the way individuals interface with each other. It begins with the film's characters awakening to begin their day and peaks with an area revolt after cops too much limit and kill a youthful dark man named Radio Raheem for battling a more seasoned Italian American eatery proprietor named Sal in his pizzeria, and afterward