...In the film Do the Right Thing (1989) directed by Spike Lee, the theme is loyalty. The setting of this film is in Brooklyn, New York during a hot summer day. The story is about a neighborhood running into a major conflict over Sal’s Pizzerias Wall of Fame. The film reveals great life lessons to the viewers, including but not limited to loyalty, conflict, family, and betrayal. In my opinion, the conspicuous theme throughout the film is loyalty. Three examples of loyalty are Mookie and Sal’s friendship, the neighborhood, and Sal’s devotion to his sons and his pizzeria. The first example of loyalty is Mookie and Sal’s friendship. Mookie works for Sal at the pizzeria and because he is always delivering he never has time to spend time with his girlfriend Tina and their son. In order for Tina to get a few minutes with Mookie, she orders a pizza that will get delivered by him. Sal likes to think Mookie is like a son to him. Also, Mookie is protective over Sal. In the film, he tells Sal to “put the bat down” as the tension started building up between Radio Raheem and Sal. Clearly, when Mookie made that comment, it did not help the situation. Consequently, a trashcan...
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...Nyquanesha Stacey Professor Mostel. ENC 1101 6 November 2015 When Will It Stop? In the Movie” Do The Right Thing” The main character Mookie, Threw a garbage can through the window of the pizzeria that he work at, Because one of his close friends Radio Raheem was killed by the police. The whole Act of violence took place when radio Raheem and Smiley, Buggin Out walked into Sal’s pizzeria to order him to put some famous African Americans on the wall of his pizzeria and to tell him that they will have him boycotted. Even though the owner Sal and his sons are racist their business is in a mostly black community. One night at Sal’s pizzeria radio Raheem and Sal got into I huge argument which lead Sal to smash radio Rakeem radio, they both get in...
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...Aundre Thompson Andrea Corneil Media 103 December 10, 2013 Do the Right Thing Reaction Paper "Do the Right Thing" is the 1989 film, directed, written, produced by and starring none other than the very talented, Spike Lee. It also stars an assorted cast of very talented actors that includes the likes of Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, and John Turturro. New York City, New York is where the film is set, in the Brooklyn area in a neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. The film tells the story of a wild Brooklyn day on one of the hottest days of the summer. In the movie we are introduced to our protagonist, a young black man who goes by the name of “Mookie.” Mookie is an interesting character, not possessing many qualities that you would come to expect of the protagonist in a film. One of his strongest qualities is his love and protectiveness as a brother to his older sister whom he lives with. Mookie also wants to provide for his girlfriend and his son, but ultimately lacks the ambition to better his situation. He works as a delivery man at the neighborhood Italian owned pizzeria, “Sal’s Famous Pizzeria,” which is a very out of place establishment amidst the predominantly black Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. But Sal, the pizza parlor’s owner doesn’t plan on changing his location any time soon. Sal’s sons also work with him at the pizzeria. Sal's oldest son, Pino, is a very racist and bigoted. He’s disgusted by having to work...
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...Do the Right Thing Summary Emily Bings Sociology November 16, 2015 In the eye-opening 1989 film Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee was able to create a captivating story of racial tension and discrimination. Starring as Mookie in his award-winning movie, Lee portrays a pizza delivery man trying to support his girlfriend and son. The pizzeria has been run for twenty-five years by an Italian-American named Sal, who has an older son named Pino who is incredibly racist towards African Americans. Pino and his brother Vito are suffering a rocky relationship due to Vito’s friendly demeanor towards Mookie, which Pino practically views as a crime. These separate racial groups set the discriminatory tone for Lee’s disturbing yet inspiring hit film. This intense drama captured racism in urban America using simple characters that were able to portray a huge amount of meaning and values. Tensions begin to rise on a hot summer day between Buggin’ out, Mookie’s close friend, and Sal at his pizzeria. Buggin’ Out takes it upon himself to directly ask Sal about the lack of black celebrities on his “Wall of Fame,” to which Sal states that he does not need to feature anyone who is not Italian in his restaurant. After Buggin’ Out’s unsuccessful protest against the wall with Radio Raheem and Smiley, tension is left thick and raw between the two racial groups. Radio Raheem and Smiley, although not the stars of the film, seem to hold pretty large significance just by their character identities alone...
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...Breonna C. Close Reading Jared Gardner English 2263: Intro to Film 11 October 2013 What They Really Think About Race In Spike Lee’s film, Do the Right Thing racist stereotypes are a recurring theme throughout the entire film. The slurs are used explicitly in one of the most interesting scenes of the entire film. The three minute and thirty-four second scene shows six different characters breaking the fourth-wall between the audience and each character. The camera angles in the scene also show that the characters know that they are addressing an audience for the purpose of expressing their views on the race they are criticizing. Looking directly into the camera is usually a sin for actors to do. However, each character looks directly into the camera, acknowledging that they know it is there, and citing their rant without looking away. The affect this has makes it seem as though that character is speaking to a person directly. While this scene stands out the most for its obvious use of racist stereotypes, it is only a platform for the entire films views on racism. The scene starts with an intense conversation between Mookie and Pino. The topic of their discussion is race. Mookie questions Pino on why he constantly refers to African American people as ‘niggas’. Pino acts like he despises black people, however Mookie brings up a great point about all of his favorite celebrities, are niggas. Magic Johnson, Eddie Murphy, and Prince are all BLACK celebrities, that Pino is a...
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...DO THE RIGHT THING by Spike Lee Second Draft March 1, 1988; Brooklyn, N.Y. Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Inc. YA-DIG SHO-NUFF BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY WGA #45816 INT: WE LOVE RADIO STATION STOREFRONT--DAY EXTREME CLOSE UP MISTER SEÑOR LOVE DADDY Waaaake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Up ya wake! Up ya wake! Up ya wake! CAMERA MOVES BACK SLOWLY TO REVEAL MISTER SEÑOR LOVE DADDY, a DJ, a radio personality, behind a microphone. MISTER SEÑOR LOVE DADDY This is Mister Señor Love Daddy. Your voice of choice. The world's only twelve-hour strongman, here on WE LOVE radio, 108 FM. The last on your dial, but the first in ya hearts, and that's the truth, Ruth! The CAMERA, which is STILL PULLING BACK, shows that Mister Señor Love Daddy is actually sitting in a storefront window. The control booth looks directly out onto the street. This is WE LOVE RADIO, a modest station with a loyal following, right in the heart of the neighborhood. The OPENING SHOT will be a TRICK SHOT--the CAMERA PULLING BACK through the storefront window. MISTER SEÑOR LOVE DADDY Here I am. Am I here? Y'know it. It ya know. This is Mister Señor Love Daddy, doing the nasty to ya ears, ya ears to the nasty. I'se play only da platters dat matter, da matters dat platter and that's the truth, Ruth. He hits the cart machine and we hear a station...
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...Demetria Brown COM 2010: Intro to Film Term Paper Assignment Spike Lee’s: “Do the Right Thing” Film Analysis: Do the Right Thing Spike Lee's 1989 film, Do the Right Thing is able to effectively explore the problem of racial conflict in America by skillfully manipulating cinematic devices such as staging, narrative, cinematography, editing and sound. The concentration and emphasis on characters' certain physical attributes with the use of photography and camera framing, the fast-pace editing style and manipulation of sound all contribute to film's overall meaning. In analyzing the short sequence beginning with a small girl drawing a chalk painting on the road and ending with Sal, the local pizzeria owner, making Radio Raheem, "a hulking misunderstood home-boy" , two slices of pizza, these devices are seen to illustrate the hostility between Black and Italian working class Americans. The narrative style in this double scene sequence encapsulates the major oppositions at work in the film, which is racial acceptance and alienation. This can be seen in the juxtaposition of two scenes that show Radio Raheem's acceptance of his Black friend Mookie and his rejection and disdain of the White Italian pizzeria owners. The story is told within the course of one day and scenes follow each other sequentially. This particular sequence begins with Mookie treading over the young girl's drawing of a harmonious scene with the sun shining and people smiling, implying to the viewer...
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...Do the Right Thing Spike Lee’s featured film Do the Right Thing which he directed, produced, and started as a main character was a game changer for it’s time. Released in 1989, the film shows the culture of New York’s racially diverse, lower class community in Brooklyn. It brings to the surface how these comminutes were profiled and how they experienced radical injustice. This movie take place like every other day but it happens to be the hottest day of the summer. Lee does a perfect job explaining through a motion picture what times were like for the monitories in the big city and all over America. This movie doesn’t only make sense back then, but it still shows its true colors in modern times as well. The setting of this movie starts out...
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...CONTENTS PERFECT PIZZERIA 2 1. INTRODUCTION 2 2. THE BACKGROUND AND THE SITUATION OF THE CASE 2 3. CASE 6A-PERFECT PIZZERIA 3 4. HOW TO LINK THE CASE WITH PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS IN ORGANIZATIONS 8 5. CONCLUSION 9 6. REFERENCES 10 PERFECT PIZZERIA 1. INTRODUCTION Perfect Pizzeria of South Ville, Illinois, is a franchise of a large chain which is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Although the business is successful, it is experiencing employee and managerial problems. 2. THE BACKGROUND AND THE SITUATION OF THE CASE The case describes a situation of a manager of the Perfect Pizzeria in South Ville, Illinois. The chain pizzeria restaurant manager is forced to make certain decisions in order to receive his bonus. The manager is paid this bonus only if the damaged or unsold food percentage is low at the end of the month and must devise methods to ensure that the employees don’t abuse their six hour benefits and give away extra food at no cost to their friends. If the manager does not achieve this bonus he is paid his normal wages. In the case scenario, the manager found that the more restrictions he put on the employees food allowance or punitive action he took, the higher the damaged or unsold goods margin at the end of the month will be. This would indicate that the less they were allowed to eat, the more they ate and gave away to their friends when the manager was not present. 3. CASE 6A-PERFECT PIZZERIA 1) Consider the situation where...
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...to describe a process by which the stakeholders can identify in a manner that is sensitive to their perspectives companies. The authors will then do a comparison and contrast of those decision to formulate any particular styles that these businesses may share and if indeed any similar problems or patterns in his or her workplace organizations that may have occurred because of the decisions that have been made. Let s take at look at Valerie’s company which is Acts Retirement Life, Inc. within Acts Retirement Life Inc. the decision making process that is prevalent is Customer Service, set by the CEO of the corporation then filtered down to the different managers and department heads of Acts, Inc. The decision that is created by Acts Inc is that all residents be treated with honor, dignity, and respect, and that no resident should be discriminated for any reason, at any time all, or in any fashion. These decisions that have been made do not only affect the internal customers. For example, this type of decision making process also impacts the residents and the employees as well. Acts Inc. has enforced this style of decision making process Acts is proud in holding their employees to a code of ethical standards, if the code of ethics was not upheld this is a weakness with Acts. While Acts promotes putting the rights of their residents...
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...The first time we saw each other after seeing Spike Lee's movie Do the Right Thing, my sister and I had a fight over lunch. It was one of those things you do with a lover, or sometimes with a close friend about politics, where the terms you disagree on are too buried to perceive or even to guess, at the time, that they're there. You can be agreeing about all the superficial details and about the largest of generalizations all along--my sister and I both found the film powerfully moving--and still wind up fighting about ... something--one of those disagreements that leave you dissatisfied and unexplainably angry. Her arguments weren't unfamiliar. I had run into very similar concerns, interpretations, and vocabulary in some of the mainstream criticism on the film. But it was only after stewing about our lunch for a couple of days that I began to figure out how completely at odds with the movie I saw was the one she--and those critics--had seen. The more I thought about it, the more I could see that these were no idiosyncratic subjective responses. Rather, our differences were bound up with Spike Lee's mix of styles of representation, which my sister and I responded to selectively and from very different perspectives. While Lee's representation of the Italians was moving and meaningful to her, she could find nothing in his portrayal of the black community that would provide for the same feelings. For, I came to see, while Lee uses to elaborate his white characters methods and narrative...
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...Lindsay Smith ENCV – 0027-01C Topic 1 22, April 2015 881 Words Challenges Encountered on My First Semester Back at College When I first decided to return to college for spring semester, I didn’t realize how difficult it would be. The last time I stepped foot on this campus was eight years ago and I didn’t have any responsibilities. I wasn’t a mom or a wife back then. I was 18 years old and full of ambition and the desire to make something of myself. But things changed once I met with my now ex-boyfriend Michael; he had money and owned an online marketing company. It was exciting to learn new things and Michael helped me create my own online marketing company. That seemed like an amazing feat at the age of 19. I didn’t have a care in the world or any desire to go back to college after seeing the amount of money I was making. Unfortunately, being young and not smart with my money, I blew it all on stupid stuff and lived in the moment I didn’t save any money or even think about my future. After three years of having my own online marketing company and working with Michael, we decided to merge our companies into a larger company, but that was a mistake. Michael had plenty of money but he turned to drugs and started to become violent towards me. Before I knew it, I had been with him for five years, through the good and the bad. Unfortunately, it became apparent that he wasn’t going to change when he became so physically and mentally abusive I had to leave...
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...Is the Pizza from NYC/LI better than the rest of New York State and the rest of the country? According to most people from this region, the answer would be a resounding, Yes! There are many factors in which LI pizza excels: crust, sauce, cheese, toppings. There are a couple of theories that account for the deliciousness and recognition that LI pizza gets. This pizza has recognition the world over and the picture that people generate when pizza is mentioned, is the New York style pizza. An acclaimed family owned restaurant, “Mama Sbarro’s Pizzeria”, has been hailed by many Long Islanders as having a superior taste that they consider the best. Almost everything about the pizza from this restaurant is said to set it apart. Mama Sbarro’s has been...
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..."I can't breathe," Garner gasped, and those words became a rallying cry as protests ignited across the country after a grand jury declined to indict the officer involved (Izadi). The film demonstrates how racism is still present in America. However, Bridges story is different because she was considered to be a passive person who attended school without causing any trouble. Whereas, in the film, the African American citizens chose a violent path to achieve equality. They decided to destroy Sal's pizzeria in response to the unfairness of Raheem's murder. Ruby Bridges did not resort to violent acts for her success and would not agree with the events that led to violence in the film. She was the reason for change and did not have to use any violence to achieve her goal of integrating...
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...Jessica Ibarra Professor Michael A. Behrens CINE 102 2 December 2013 Fight the Power Do the Right Thing directed by Spike Lee is a film centered on a series of subplots rather than one main plot. The characters each have their own narrative and helps give the movie substance. Although the conflict did not reveal itself until the movie nears the end, the personalities of the characters became evident through their use of language and body language. The attitudes of the characters became clear, as well as their actions which became almost predictable; what was not predictable was the sudden change of energy during the inciting incidence. When the riot occurs, we wonder how it built up to that particular scene. The characters and their background stories give rise to this ultimate turn of events. Though the characters’ random scenes were jumbled together throughout the whole movie, they were unified in the end when all the characters were involved during the inciting incidence—when the police officer killed Radio Raheem. With the death of Radio Raheem and an increasing rise to racial injustice, Spike Lee demonstrates a symbolic truth between polar opposites and its limitations to tolerance. In an article titled “Do the Right Thing” written by Hal Hinson, he argues, “Lee is attempting to explore the polarities of the inner city…by setting up a system of opposites -- black and white, love and hate, conciliation and violence, man and woman -- then sets them against each other...
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