Essays on Do the Right Thing

“Do the right thing” was a film directed by Spike Less in 1989, it is a film that full of political and racial colors, combined with the situation and contradictions of African Americans and nonblack Americans at that era. Main actors and actress that participate...

The movie Do the Right Thing, a group of people in the district of Brooklyn, have had enough and tensions are growing in this black ghetto area. The only local businesses are a Korean grocery and Sal’s Pizzeria. Mookie, Sal’s delivery boy, manages to always...

The weather is sizzling hot and tensions are slowly coming to a boil in this Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn hood. Slowly but surely we see the heat melt away the barriers that were keeping anger from rising to the surface. The pizzeria is owned by Italians, the...

This paper will discuss the film Do The Right Thing (1989), directed by Spike Lee, as a source of historical knowledge emphasising housing and class systems that have been structured and set into the American consciousness. I aim to contextualize this movie in the discourse...

With its 90’s flare of boom boxes and box tops, Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing” draws in audiences who love the era. The film depicts an urban neighborhood during an extra hot summer’s day. However, in this movie throwback clothing and summer heat influenced...