Movie Reaction

In the movie Do the Right Thing, it was basically all that I expected. This also wasn’t the first time I had watched it because while we were reading it, I would watch movie clips to help me understand it better. Overall, I think that the movie really explains just how bad racism and violence was and how it still is now. There is also a lot of disrespect that goes on in the movie between everyone, but it mostly comes from Buggin’ Out. There were many instances where he was disrespectful like when he confronts the guy who stepped on his shoe. He pursued him with anger and he voiced it and it was disrespectful. Another instance was when he was in Sal’s Pizzeria and was sitting and eating and confronts Sal about not having any African Americans up on the wall of fame. Causing a scene in the pizzeria and ending up getting himself kicked out. Later on, he decides to protest against Sals pizzeria and gets a whole group of people that include Radio Raheem and other people from the community and that leads to the death or Radio Raheem and the pizzeria to be burned down. I was shocked to see this because there wasn’t really much problems until Buggin’ Out shows up and causes all of the problems. I am enjoying this movie because it is interesting to see how everyone copes with other races being in their community and how they act towards them. An example is when Da Mayor goes into the Koreans store and pretty much curses and yells at them for not having the beer he enjoys to drink.

Do The Right Thing

In Do The Right Thing racism and violence is something key that is shown a lot of throughout the play, especially racism. Throughout the play, a lot of racist comments are made that causes tension in the town. There was a scene in the play where Buggin' Out had bought a slice of pizza and hat sat down and was looking at the wall of fame and saw that their were no African Americans up on the wall and he started to get upset at the fact that their were only Italian Americans up on the wall even thought the African Americans of the town were the ones that were giving them money because the town mostly consists of African Americans. Another example of racism was when Da Mayor wanted to buy a beer and had gone to the Korean vegetable place and he saw that they didn't have the beer that he wanted so he started to insult them about there religion and from where they were from. This was a just a few of many examples of racism in the play. I believe that the script does not provide a point in doing the "right" thing. If the script believes that violence is the "right" thing to do then I do not agree to that becasue violence is never the answer to any problem. For example, in the scene where Buggin' Out shows up with Radio Raheem blasting his boom box and getting Sal upset. Sal pulls his bat out and starts beating the boom box which escalates into a more serious problem in that someone ends up dead, pizzeria is burnt down, and people getting hurt from the firehose. This is a perfect example of what "Not" to do.