Do the Right Thing Film Review

I think that all three of the New Hollywood things were implemented in this movie. There were many diagonal and up-close camera angles, which wasn’t typical in a lot of movies until then. The colors are very bright, in one scene three men are sitting in lawn chairs on the sidewalk and they’re wearing blue and yellow, the wall is red, and the umbrella has a bunch of colors on it. It just really stands out because a lot of movies were either black and white in Old Hollywood kind of neutral colored a lot of the time. All of the music is very upbeat, and one guy walks around with a boom box playing rap music all the time. The main guy, Mookie, in the movie, works at a pizza shop, a lot of movies during this time had teenagers or young people working as pizza delivery people. Along with this, the whole movie is just dramatic, instead of having talking conversations there are a lot of yelling conversations.

On a different note, some serious topics are brought up but then they’re laughed off, for example, one man brings up the polar ice caps melting and the other two men think it’s a joke. When Mookie, the older brother in the pizza place, and random people start calling each other names, it goes pretty far. A lot of this would not have been able to have been said in times before this. There are many different races of people living in the same neighborhood and none of them get along with each other. There’s one point where they all get in a fight in the pizza place. But then the police show up and everyone is just against the police because they are beating people and taking them in, they also killed one of the Black men involved in the fight. After this, the pizza place is burned down. And for the victim of the movie Mookie really isn’t that great, but he’s played out as the victim. He doesn’t do his job, he doesn’t really show up for his kid or baby mama. It doesn't even talk about his kid until the end of the movie.