Spike Lee, also known as Shelton Jackson, is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. He is most famous for controversial movie productions such as ‘BlacKkKlansmans’, ‘Malcolm X’, ‘Chi-Raq’, and ‘Rodnei King’. These movies display impactful meaning in depth to every conflict present in society, which is why Spike Lee is one of the most hated and admired people in film making. One particular movie that displays the concepts that are held up to Spike Lee’s reputation is the movie ‘Do the Right Thing’. This movie was released in 1989 and was supposed to display one of the hottest days of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, where everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence, now although this unjustly summary depicts drama and romance, its lengthy attributes are supposed to be interpreted into comedy. Unfortunately, the movie lacked admiring qualities, such as poor graphics, music, transition scenes, story lines, dialogue, character development, and comedy, which defeats the whole purpose of the movie’s genre.
Now as ironic as it may seem, the story was about doing the right thing, but in my opinion, nothing was done right. In all good movies there’s a protagonist and an antagonist, and even when there isn’t one, there’s usually a main character, because without one, there’s no story. Well Spike Lee, being the unpredictable director, he is, he decides not to include a main character, protagonist or antagonist because everyone was going to be equally hated and loved. But without a main character, no one had a significant role. Essentially making the story line hard to keep track of. Which disrupted the goal, to deliver the underlying message about violence.
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Each character basically had the exact same screen time as all the other characters, even the ones who displayed challenges, with physical and mental disabilities. To me the character development was poor, and details pertaining to the character weren’t useful. This was evident when it was mentioned that Mookie was a bad father but nothing else was really addressed or solved on that matter, and again when the audience was introduced to Mookie’s sister who didn’t play a significant role what’s so ever, other than the fact that he lived with her.
Another problem that was seen in the movie was the music and transition scenes. These two played a key factor when it came to scenes in the movie. The music started off as an enjoyable jazz selection to mollify the hotness of the summer day, but as time progressed the music that was heard became repetitive and undesirable. This became evident when Radio Raheem was caring around his stereo, playing the same song throughout the whole movie on blast. Now as for the transitions in the movie, they were irregularly set in place, and didn’t have methodized order. This was prominent in various scenes such as the water fight scene, the fight in the closet, and the scene on the corner with the three older black males. This also made the story line hard to follow, which only furthered questions about, what was the purpose of the movie and how the people and the conflicts involved affect the message that Lee wanted to get across.
The relationships between the characters, and the key qualities in the movie wasn’t good at all. Nothing was really done correctly to me. The music was disruptive, the transition scenes was confusing, and the character development, along with the story line was unnecessary.
Though the movie can’t be compared to the movies of this day and age, due to the advancements of technology, there’s not many excuses that can increase the gratitude and admiration for the movie. In all honesty the bar was high and didn’t meet the expectations I had set in place, when it came to executing the story line and the character development. Not only that but the message that was supposed to get across wasn’t delivered until the very end of the movie, which still left the viewers wondering, “What was I supposed to interpret from the message about violence?”.
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