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Month: November 2024

Intersectional Relationships in Do The Right Thing

Posted on November 21, 2024November 21, 2024 by niaatcherson
Finally watching Do The Right Thing was a truly rewarding experience because I’d often heard it described as one of those films like Coming to America or The Wiz that every Black person needs to... Read More

Korean Americans in <Do The Right Thinng>

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Tony Lee
Do The Right Thing is a film in 1989 written, directed by, and surprisingly enough, starring, Spike Lee. It is an influential film that explores themes such as race, social class, and social justice t... Read More

Role of Ideological Films Today

Posted on November 20, 2024 by William Shaulis
Something that stuck out to me about Do the Right Thing, was its connection and distortion of real life events. Based on the Howard Beach incident, Spike Lee’s film follows a community’s t... Read More

What Mookie right, wrong, or neither? Looking at opposing views

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Avery McAdams
What does it mean to “do the right thing?” Being “right” can have a different meaning person to person. While watching the film Do the Tight Thing by Spike Lee so many differen... Read More

Achieving Justice and Infighting

Posted on November 20, 2024November 20, 2024 by Trey Peterson III
Throughout all of our educations, Martin Luther King Jr. has remained at the center of the Civil Rights Movement, rightfully so, as he was the main leader. However, another leader of the movement who ... Read More

The Current Implications of “Do The Right Thing” by Spike Lee

Posted on November 20, 2024November 20, 2024 by Dila Batum
Article: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/the-enduring-urgency-of-spike-lees-do-the-right-thing-at-thirty This New Yorker article focuses on the cultural and social significance of Spik... Read More

How the themes of “Do The Right Thing” are present today

Posted on November 20, 2024November 20, 2024 by Maxwel Gurkovic
The film Do The Right Thing isn’t just a snapshot of a scorching summer day in Brooklyn but rather a film with deep focus on race and more specifically inequality towards African Americans. The ... Read More

Contemporary Relevance of “Do the Right Thing”

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Jack Messick
Spike Lee’s infamous 1989 film Do the Right Thing explores pertinent socioeconomic realities in America that are quite familiar to viewers today more than 30 years later. This article written by Jus... Read More

Did Mookie ‘Do the Right Thing’?

Posted on November 20, 2024November 20, 2024 by Nick Carrano
I really enjoyed this movie. It reminded me of ‘Rear Window’ in the sense that the entirety of the film takes place in a small area with recurring characters. I liked this film because it ... Read More

Anatomy of a Scene – Do the Right Thing (Searcher)

Posted on November 20, 2024November 20, 2024 by Joe Chong
Anatomy of a scene is a column created by the New York Times where directors voice over/discuss a scene of theirs breaking it down piece by piece. This is especially interesting here because Spike Lee... Read More
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