Do the Right Thing: Crash Course Film Criticism #6
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Jason
Racism is still prelevant in America. Always has been and always will be. also there is still segregation. for instance in most major cities across America you have segregated ethnic neighborhoods. For example New York City. Manhattan there's the Italian side known as little Italy south of that is Chinatown then uptown is Harlem which is predominantly black then there's East Harlem aka Spanish Harlem which is predominantly black then there's the upper East Side which is predominantly rich Jews. The Bronx. South Bronx is predominantly Black and Hispanic specifically Puerto Ricans. Queens has Jamaica Queens that's predominantly black Jackson Heights is predominantly Japanese. Long Island City is predominantly Middle Eastern Brooklyn there is Bensonhurst which is predominantly Italian Williamsburg which is predominantly Jewish East New York Bedford-Stuyvesant is predominantly black Flatbush is predominantly Irish Staten Island southside is predominantly black. Boston Massachusetts Roxbury area is predominantly black Miami little Havana is predominantly Hispanic (mostly Cuban) Little Haiti is predominantly black (mostly Haitian) Detroit (inner city) is predominantly black South Detroit is predominantly Middle Eastern and the suburbs are mostly white and Jewish. Chicago southside and westside is predominantly black while northside is predominantly Hispanic and Eastside is predominantly white. Los Angeles East Los Angeles is predominantly Hispanic with the majority of Mexicans. South Central Los Angeles is Predominantly black South Los Angeles is Predominantly Asian (Korean Japanese Chinese Vietnamese Cambodian Filipino) West Los Angeles is predominantly white and Jewish. other major cities specifically inner cities is predominantly black with the exception of Salt Lake City Utah.
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Racism is still prelevant in America. Always has been and always will be. also there is still segregation. for instance in most major cities across America you have segregated ethnic neighborhoods. For example New York City. Manhattan there's the Italian side known as little Italy south of that is Chinatown then uptown is Harlem which is predominantly black then there's East Harlem aka Spanish Harlem which is predominantly black then there's the upper East Side which is predominantly rich Jews. The Bronx. South Bronx is predominantly Black and Hispanic specifically Puerto Ricans. Queens has Jamaica Queens that's predominantly black Jackson Heights is predominantly Japanese. Long Island City is predominantly Middle Eastern Brooklyn there is Bensonhurst which is predominantly Italian Williamsburg which is predominantly Jewish East New York Bedford-Stuyvesant is predominantly black Flatbush is predominantly Irish Staten Island southside is predominantly black. Boston Massachusetts Roxbury area is predominantly black Miami little Havana is predominantly Hispanic (mostly Cuban) Little Haiti is predominantly black (mostly Haitian) Detroit (inner city) is predominantly black South Detroit is predominantly Middle Eastern and the suburbs are mostly white and Jewish. Chicago southside and westside is predominantly black while northside is predominantly Hispanic and Eastside is predominantly white. Los Angeles East Los Angeles is predominantly Hispanic with the majority of Mexicans. South Central Los Angeles is Predominantly black South Los Angeles is Predominantly Asian (Korean Japanese Chinese Vietnamese Cambodian Filipino) West Los Angeles is predominantly white and Jewish. other major cities specifically inner cities is predominantly black with the exception of Salt Lake City Utah.
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Dodge
Sal isn't more or less of a sympathetic character during any part of the movie. Sal isn't used as a sympathetic racist character. Ultimately, Sal isn't the problem. Nor Bugout, Radio Raheem, The Korean shop owners, the younger teens that instigate trouble, Da Mayor or Mother Sister just to. name a few characters. The 4th wall breaking racist rant that the characters participate in is meaningless for the most part. Except the police. The sun shines down on the residents of Bedstuy equally. All of them deal with the heat, the anger, the same problems, and the same frustrations. All looking to blame the person standing next to them. The person perceived to be different. But none of the people living there with them everyday are the problem. The police represent the true enemy. The police aren't their neighbors, aren't their protectors, and are almost like an occupying force. The sole purpose of their presence is to keep the -animals- in line. The police didn't step in to resolve the altercation between Radio and Sal. They simply killed Radio, and left with his body. With no regard for the situation they left behind. The mob plans on attacking Sal. Again, blaming the guy next to them. Mookie throwing a trashcan through the window of the pizzeria wasn't an act of rage to start a riot. It was an act of compassion. He saved Sal and Sal realizes what Mookie did.
People can discuss the themes and effects of racism in this movie. Over think things and believe that it's all rage and chaos. Because black people. But that's not what this story is about
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Sal isn't more or less of a sympathetic character during any part of the movie. Sal isn't used as a sympathetic racist character. Ultimately, Sal isn't the problem. Nor Bugout, Radio Raheem, The Korean shop owners, the younger teens that instigate trouble, Da Mayor or Mother Sister just to. name a few characters. The 4th wall breaking racist rant that the characters participate in is meaningless for the most part. Except the police. The sun shines down on the residents of Bedstuy equally. All of them deal with the heat, the anger, the same problems, and the same frustrations. All looking to blame the person standing next to them. The person perceived to be different. But none of the people living there with them everyday are the problem. The police represent the true enemy. The police aren't their neighbors, aren't their protectors, and are almost like an occupying force. The sole purpose of their presence is to keep the -animals- in line. The police didn't step in to resolve the altercation between Radio and Sal. They simply killed Radio, and left with his body. With no regard for the situation they left behind. The mob plans on attacking Sal. Again, blaming the guy next to them. Mookie throwing a trashcan through the window of the pizzeria wasn't an act of rage to start a riot. It was an act of compassion. He saved Sal and Sal realizes what Mookie did.
People can discuss the themes and effects of racism in this movie. Over think things and believe that it's all rage and chaos. Because black people. But that's not what this story is about
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lynxminx4
I disagree that Sal is a 'harmful character'. The montage you celebrate shows that all the characters have the potential for harm. He only does three 'wrong' things- he refuses to put non-Italians on his wall, which was his prerogative; he flirts with Mookie's sister, which Lee suggests is inappropriate for reasons he explores more completely in Jungle Fever; and he smashes the boombox, and as much as I love Public Enemy I also wanted to smash it at that moment. Raheem was attacking Sal with the noise. then he literally attacks Sal, and to say Sal should have reasonably predicted that his action would result in Raheem's death is applying a fairytale filter counter to Lee's intention. In the heat of the moment, all Sal was trying to do was stop the noise. If Raheem had been another Italian demanding free extra cheese, the boombox would still have been doomed.
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I disagree that Sal is a 'harmful character'. The montage you celebrate shows that all the characters have the potential for harm. He only does three 'wrong' things- he refuses to put non-Italians on his wall, which was his prerogative; he flirts with Mookie's sister, which Lee suggests is inappropriate for reasons he explores more completely in Jungle Fever; and he smashes the boombox, and as much as I love Public Enemy I also wanted to smash it at that moment. Raheem was attacking Sal with the noise. then he literally attacks Sal, and to say Sal should have reasonably predicted that his action would result in Raheem's death is applying a fairytale filter counter to Lee's intention. In the heat of the moment, all Sal was trying to do was stop the noise. If Raheem had been another Italian demanding free extra cheese, the boombox would still have been doomed.
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Wilmer
The genius of the movie and of Lee himself is not interest in present villains but people with good thing and bad no one in the movie is the saint you can understand the point of view from all of them even when are in contradiction i understand why they want pictures of african americans in the wall and i understand why Sal only want pictures of italians, is his pizzeria and his culture and i see nothing wrong with Sal point of view (i know a barbershop from italians owners with a wall cover with pictures of italians celebrity never cross my mind go there and forced them to put pictures from venezuelan celebritys) and at the same time understand Giancarlo Esposito character argument very good movei dont give you anwsers but forced you to see how complex human interaction are mostly when exist a traditional separation
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The genius of the movie and of Lee himself is not interest in present villains but people with good thing and bad no one in the movie is the saint you can understand the point of view from all of them even when are in contradiction i understand why they want pictures of african americans in the wall and i understand why Sal only want pictures of italians, is his pizzeria and his culture and i see nothing wrong with Sal point of view (i know a barbershop from italians owners with a wall cover with pictures of italians celebrity never cross my mind go there and forced them to put pictures from venezuelan celebritys) and at the same time understand Giancarlo Esposito character argument very good movei dont give you anwsers but forced you to see how complex human interaction are mostly when exist a traditional separation
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Tom
As someone who grew up upper middle class, my town is very much an insulating bubble. Through poor life choices, I wound up temporarily associating with ghetto characters, and it was eye-opening. Every time I'd go to see them in their neighborhoods, I'd be stopped and questioned by the police. Someone dressed like a banker on vacation sticks out like a sore thumb in such a place, and it's clear I do not belong.
I've never watched this film, but just the visuals are exceptionally reminiscent of the neighborhoods I found myself in during that wild early 20's phase. It felt. discomforting, looking back, like I always knew this wasn't where I felt at home. A sentiment reflected when friends from there would visit my town as well.
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As someone who grew up upper middle class, my town is very much an insulating bubble. Through poor life choices, I wound up temporarily associating with ghetto characters, and it was eye-opening. Every time I'd go to see them in their neighborhoods, I'd be stopped and questioned by the police. Someone dressed like a banker on vacation sticks out like a sore thumb in such a place, and it's clear I do not belong.
I've never watched this film, but just the visuals are exceptionally reminiscent of the neighborhoods I found myself in during that wild early 20's phase. It felt. discomforting, looking back, like I always knew this wasn't where I felt at home. A sentiment reflected when friends from there would visit my town as well.
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Coolemur
This movie is a great example of bad people (no matter of race) demanding things that don't belong to them like a picture on a wall in another man's property or disturbing the peace of others like playing music too loud in public places.
Then they wonder what happened when police makes their -mistakes-.
In this movie most of them were having no jobs only demanding food from Sal, who built his place with his own bare hands. And they destroyed it.
I don't think this is a right thing to do. The right thing to do is: get your own place, make your own money, put your own pictures on walls and see how it goes. Don't just assume that -power- owes you something. Fight the power. not.
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This movie is a great example of bad people (no matter of race) demanding things that don't belong to them like a picture on a wall in another man's property or disturbing the peace of others like playing music too loud in public places.
Then they wonder what happened when police makes their -mistakes-.
In this movie most of them were having no jobs only demanding food from Sal, who built his place with his own bare hands. And they destroyed it.
I don't think this is a right thing to do. The right thing to do is: get your own place, make your own money, put your own pictures on walls and see how it goes. Don't just assume that -power- owes you something. Fight the power. not.
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Acromat
I get the theory behind what you're saying about Sal, but I don't ultimately buy it. I just have a problem with the concept of a man being told what to do in his own private business, so when I see the final conflict unfold, it's due to Radio Raheem forcefully trying to impose himself and black culture upon Sal and drown him out. It's just a bit of a headscratcher to me as to how we're supposed to view Sal as this bad person at the end of it when the same argument can be made for half the characters.
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I get the theory behind what you're saying about Sal, but I don't ultimately buy it. I just have a problem with the concept of a man being told what to do in his own private business, so when I see the final conflict unfold, it's due to Radio Raheem forcefully trying to impose himself and black culture upon Sal and drown him out. It's just a bit of a headscratcher to me as to how we're supposed to view Sal as this bad person at the end of it when the same argument can be made for half the characters.
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axiomist
One of the finest films Ive ever seen(and Ive seen many. I think the message here is that, even though people may try to get along and often even do, there is a human tendency to dislike anyone who is different and, if pushed hard enough, like in this case by the intense discomfort of the broiling heat, which amplified all frustrations and antagonisms, it can bring people to crack up and allow their dislikes to explode into violence, as happened here.
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One of the finest films Ive ever seen(and Ive seen many. I think the message here is that, even though people may try to get along and often even do, there is a human tendency to dislike anyone who is different and, if pushed hard enough, like in this case by the intense discomfort of the broiling heat, which amplified all frustrations and antagonisms, it can bring people to crack up and allow their dislikes to explode into violence, as happened here.
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leor
Just a small side note, no one in fact breaks the fourth wall in this film, although it would appear that is does because the characters are looking directly at the camera. However they are not speaking to the audience. Instead the shot is taken from a first person POV which gives it that sense of breaking the 4th wall.
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Just a small side note, no one in fact breaks the fourth wall in this film, although it would appear that is does because the characters are looking directly at the camera. However they are not speaking to the audience. Instead the shot is taken from a first person POV which gives it that sense of breaking the 4th wall.
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will
The bit that really got me this time is how they just carried off Radios body in the cruiser, imagine your buddy dying an unjust violent death and being denied even the most basic right and dignity to say goodbye to, bury and mourn them properly, i certainly can't. That bit got me hardest for some reason.
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The bit that really got me this time is how they just carried off Radios body in the cruiser, imagine your buddy dying an unjust violent death and being denied even the most basic right and dignity to say goodbye to, bury and mourn them properly, i certainly can't. That bit got me hardest for some reason.
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