Film Studies 270 - Clayton State University
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989; 120 minutes)
Screenwriter/producer: Spike Lee
Cinematography: Ernest Dickerson
Editor: Barry Alexander Brown
Production Design: Wynn Thomas
Costumes: Ruthe Carter
Original Music: Bill Lee
Sound Design: Skip Lievsay
Cast
Mookie (Spike Lee)
Sal (Danny Aiello)
Pino (John Turturro)
Vito (Richard Edson)
Smiley (Roger Guenveur Smith)
Señor Love Daddy (Samuel L. Jackson)
Tina (Rosie Perez)
Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito)
Da Mayor (Ossie Davis)
Mother Sister (Ruby Dee)
Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn)
Jade (Joie Lee)
Sweet Dick Willie (Robin Harris)
ML (Paul Benjamin)
Coconut Sid (Frankie Faison)
Abstract (adapted from )
It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn, and racial tensions are growing in this black ghetto area. The only local businesses are a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria, and the neighborhood’s eccentric and diverse inhabitants frequent both. Mookie, Sal's delivery boy, manages to always be at the center of the action.
Questions for Discussion:
1. What parallelisms and contrasts do you find suggested among the different main characters and their situations? What judgments are we encouraged to make of their values and their conduct?
2. What do you interpret as the film's explicit, implicit, and symptomatic meanings?
3. How does Lee use the characters' figure expression & movement (acting and gesture, direct address, actor blocking) to convey meaning? Discuss two examples from the film that you find significant, one for blocking and one for direct address.
4. DTRT uses a limited number of settings, costumes, and colors. Consider how they contribute to your understanding of the characters' motivations. Then compare & contrast 3 or more distinct uses of color in the costumes of the characters, explaining how these costume colors help define their characters. Be sure to use as many film terms as possible as you describe your examples.
Terms
Mise-en-scène
Profilmic event
Style
Méliès
German Expressionism
4 aspects of mise-en-scène:
1) Setting & props
2) Costume & makeup
3) Acting & actor blocking
Direct address
4) Lighting
Quality
High-key lighting
Low-key lighting
Chiaroscuro
Direction
Source
Three-point lighting
Color of lighting
Filters
Color in mise-en-scene
Saturated
Film Production and Early History
Shot
Frames per second (FPS)
Classical Hollywood Cinema (CHC)
Film gauges
Pre-production, Production, Post-production
Hollywood (Studio) vs. Independent Production
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