Argumentative Essay Do The Right Thing Text

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length: 1842 words 5.3 double spaced pages the first scene begins with a close up shot of senor love daddy's mouth, the top of a microphone, and an alarm clock. The alarm clock, being used as a prop, is making a very loud, annoying, ringing sound. We start reframing in, and zooming out slowly, seeing more of senor love daddy and the microphone. A slow zoom and the reddish color are used to show the viewer how hot the setting of the movie is. The color also reflects tension, conflict, anger, and frustration, things that are not being expressed in the film yet. As we are zooming out, senor love daddy says wake up, wake up, wake up… this part of the scene is also is intended to get the viewers attention to the problem of racism.

This is a get in your face type of shot, letting the viewer know that this movie will be in your face for the next two hours and that the viewer better pay attention to the problem at hand: racism. At that point, we start tracking out and the camera starts moving slowly up, via a crane. We now see the reflection of the street outside senor love daddy's workplace, on the glass window senor love daddy is facing. This shows that he respects many different cultures and shows he is a very open person. He talks to all the characters in the movie like mookie, radio raheem, and the people playing outside with the fire hydrant. This shows he is willing to communicate with the neighborhood and also show once again that he is a very open person.

The camera continues moving up on a crane until it is at an high angle, and we start panning to the left. While the camera is at an high angle, there is a deep focus, extreme long shot of the street, to show the neighborhood to the viewer and to give the viewer some sense of spatial orientation. The reddish color is still being used to show the intense heat and reflect the things mentioned the next scene begins with a high angle, long shot of da mayor sleeping in a small bed in a bedroom. Coming from a broken blind covering the window, are a combination of amber, orange, and red colors.

This is done to show the intense heat of the setting and to show the frustration and tension still not yet present on the film. Lee wants us to think how ineffective da mayor is going to be in this movie, and how this character is not good for a whole lot. We see a really old radio turned on, on the left side, and a really old fan that is turned on, on the right side, that doesn't seem to be doing anything to reduce the heat. The radio, along with the tracking out of the first scene and the zooming in at the beginning of this scene, help ties these two scenes together. As the camera zooms in, we see the enormous amount of sweat on da mayor's body and lots of beer bottles on a table by the side of the bed.

Next da mayor gets up, moves the blind, looks out the window, and lies back down. This once again is done to emphasize the intense heat and to tie this scene with the previous two. Interestingly enough, smiley is the only character in the entire movie with a beard. Smiley is wearing a red/pink faded long sleeve shirt, khakis, and has a black belt on a very old fashioned ensemble. He has a yellow tape player around his neck and is holding a picture in his hands, but we can't tell of what the picture is. We meet smiley while he is preaching an important message and we see that nobody is there to listen to it.

Smiley is preaching a very important message but no one in the movie realizes it till its to late. Prophets in this movie are looked upon as outcasts and smiley is an outcast with an important message. Lee is the next shot of this scene is a close up shot of the picture smiley is holding. This is warning sign by lee, to get people to think about finding solutions to the racism the third shot of this scene has the same setup as the opening shot of this scene. The important aspect of this scene is smiley talking about the fight against apartheid.

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