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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

“Everybody Has a Point”: A Fascinating Interview With Spike Lee

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Tai Jackson
https://www.filmcomment.com/article/interview-spike-lee Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing is a powerful film that explores the depths of humanity’s moral ambiguity, and this interview only further il... Read More

Why is there so much ambiguity in Do the Right Thing?

Posted on November 20, 2024November 20, 2024 by Ben Salit
Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing is one of the most thought-provoking films I have ever seen. By the end of the film, I was even more confused than after watching (I know it sounds crazy) Holy Mot... Read More

Why is it so Hot in Do the Right Thing?

Posted on November 20, 2024November 20, 2024 by Gordon Taylor
It looked unbearably hot throughout Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing. From the outset of the film, people wake up covered in sweat, and the heat’s proliferation is felt by the Bedford-Stuyvesant nei... Read More

“We’re Still Standing”: Survival in Do the Right Thing

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Jodi Onyonyor
One thing that really caught my attention while watching this film was the stark contrast in how the elders and the younger generation navigate conflict. The elders, Da Mayor and Mother Sister, embody... Read More

Who are the outsiders in Do the Right Thing?

Posted on November 20, 2024November 20, 2024 by Jasper Braunschweiger
Who are the outsiders in Do the Right Thing? One of the key themes of Do the Right Thing is community, how it unites, and how it is broken apart. However, many characters in the film are shown to be o... Read More
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