...What is the right thing to do? Some people believe in doing what is right all the time, some don’t. In this situation my partner and the two boys didn’t do what was right, they both broke the law. I would challenge my partner about what happened in the interview room, because what he did was wrong, unprofessional and unethical. The boys are fourteen, which means when being interviewed by the police their parents should be called and the interview should be recorded. My partner didn’t do either one of these. He should have called the parents and recorded the interview in order to get the admission on tape. I think regardless if the parents were there or not the boys would have still admitted that they were guilty. My partner did it to scare them into admitting that they did it, I think with the parents being there they would have still admitted to their guilt because the parents also have a way of intimidating their children. If my partner would have did what he was supposed to there would be no reason to question him. Being professional is one of the main characteristics in a job, especially the one of a Detective. My partner was not professional in the particular situation. Not only didn’t he call the parents, he didn’t record the interview. That is the worst part because if he would have then we could have shown the parents and had evidence for the admission. It will be hard in court to say that they admitted being guilty. The boys can easily say they...
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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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...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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...After watching Spike Lee’s 1989 film Do The Right Thing, it is very clear to me why this film is considered an independent film. By using Michael Z. Newman’s article Indie Cinema Viewing Strategies it was easy to break up the film into three slogans: characters as emblems, form as game, and read as anti-Hollywood. Do The Right Thing uses a mixture of these three slogans through character, narrative structure, and theme to open our eyes to racism and violence and let us decide what really is doing the right thing. Although this film was distributed by a major Hollywood studio, it still keeps within the styles and techniques of independent cinema. Beginning with the characters in Do The Right Thing, each character is interesting and contributes to the narrative structure of the film. When discussing characters as...
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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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...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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...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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...1. Explain, as clearly and completely as possible, Kant’s answer to “What is the right thing to do?” Are there any problems with this answer? According to Immanuel Kant, doing right and moral things are the right thing to do, which means we have the choices to choose what to do or what to respect the moral law which is expressing our goals. Also, we have to do something for the cause of the principle by doing the right things. By doing the right things and following the moral principle is what Kent called good will. Although one cannot achieve what he or she wants, he or she is still doing the right thing because he or she is intended of doing the right things. As you can see, doing something morally good, notwithstanding of its results are the right thing to do because it is his or her jobs. However, doing right and moral things may cause the problem of inclination. It is because people might think doing the good will is our jobs, we must do it. They will never think that they are more proposed to do the good-will because it rewards that it has involved in the thing. If it is like this, it cannot account for the good-will because there are not many people think that they must do it because it is their job instead of thinking how much intention that they want to do for goodwill. Thus, the problem may result of inclination....
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...In Do The Right Thing, Lee utilizes close-up shots and low angle to emphasize his actor’s facial expressions and emotions. Do The Right Thing is a movie based on what a day in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn consists of. A pizzeria that is owned by an Italian man, whose name is Salvatore known as Sal, is located in this black neighborhood. Pino, who is one of Sal’s two sons, does not want the pizzeria to be located in this black community. Instead he would prefer for the pizzeria to be located in a community that consist of people of their own kind. However, Sal feels like that pizzeria is part of the black community. Sal has plenty of respect for the people in that neighborhood, however when one of the actors known as Buggin Out, is purchasing...
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...scenarios would be that a person would be conflicted about taking a life to save five others. People always think about their own personal gain first whether it involves money, property or something else. Therefore, these dilemmas were not easy to solve, somebody has to sacrifice something. If we were to ask any number of people the question: “What is the right thing for me to do?” they would have different answer according to their own beliefs. The beliefs that people value are the structures in which they live by. “Morals are personal beliefs, and ethics are those beliefs and rules, which are set by a larger group of people for the greater good” (Butts & Karen, 2013). Ethics are in place to prevent endangerment of others wellbeing. Although one person can hold their own personal morals and values above others, society will always expect someone to conduct themselves in an ethical manner according to their rules and standards. Despite the fact that people have a set of beliefs, they may violate them in different situations. A person who is deemed innocent and honorable based on what their society believes are the right standards, are thought to be the ones that...
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...Do The Right Thing by Spike Lee carries such a prodigiously factual, present-day social aspects that continue to affect our society. It’s brilliant and boundlessly re-watchable -- it’s not at all a straightforward ethics play like so many films on race. People act as badly to one another in the film as in real life, and the film shows that racial conflict head on, in all its ugliness. The film’s proceedings and sweltering temperature reflect the race-and-class-inflected anger that saturated late-1980s New York City, manifesting in episodes such as the Howard Beach and Central Park Jogger incidents and the Tawana Brawley case. Do the Right Thing invokes Brawley via a graffito that proclaims, “Tawana told the truth!” rioters chant the words “Howard Beach” during the climax. The understanding that the film captured the city’s polarized atmosphere was immediate. One stimulating point I noticed is when we see Mookie (Spike Lee) counting his money, this is actually one of the happiest times of him that we see. This comes up time and time again, when he is working, he insists that Sal pays him his money early, because...
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...Spike Lee, the director of Do The Right Thing is an American film director most well known for his examination on race relations, colorism in the black community, the role of media and other political issues. In the movie Do The Right Thing you will see all these things present in the movie. In Spike Lee's 1989 classic Do The Right Thing, Lee shows that everyone has a valid viewpoint, but not many are willing to compromise and or listen to their viewpoints, he used different camera angles and sounds/music to help show this throughout the movie. You can see throughout the movie that every race or cultural group had a different viewpoint. As an example of this is in Sal’s pizza shop where he is Italian trying to make a living and selling pizza...
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...Throughout the book, Tom does many bad things to hurt or scare people. But, when Tom is done with all his mischief, he always does the right thing. When Tom came back from pirating, he apologized to Aunt Polly saying “Auntie, I know it was mean, but I didn't mean to be mean; I didn't honest. And besides, I didn't come over here to laugh at you that night (145).” Confessing the truth to Aunt Polly was really hard, because she is an adult, and will most likely be punished for lying in the first place. But apologizing shows that Tom can do the right thing when he wants to. When Tom and Huck witnessed a murder, they swore to never tell anybody, but when the trial came around Tom had gone to Muff’s lawyer and told him that he was a witness to the...
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...Let’s Debate? One of the greatest value this country holds is freedom of speech. It’s the first Amendment of the United States, making it one of the most sacred law. As citizens, being able to exercise this freedom is important because it let’s the government know if it’s been doing it’s job. But, should citizens be able to argue with one another like politicians do? In his book Justice: What’s The Right Thing To Do, Michael J. Sandel argues that citizens should openly address moral disagreements on matter of public policy. I agree with his statement because historically, change has been accomplished by citizens addressing issues. Back in the early 1900’s, the status quo in the south was segregation. Both blacks and whites accepted this system....
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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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