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due Jun 20 This is a graded discussion: 10 points possible 12 12 Unit 2 Discussion 1: Design Pick a shot or scene from Do the Right Thing and analyze the elements of design as described in your reading and video lectures. Create an original post by making a typed response of 250-300 words. Also reply to two or more other students in the course. Remember to keep your posts professional and supportive so that this discussion can be meaningful to everyone. Original discussion post due 6/17, reply posts due 6/20 Search entries or author Unread Subscribe 11:12

Answer 1

In all of the earnest, solemn, humourless discussions about the social and political implications of Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing," an essential fact tends to be overlooked: it is one terrific movie.

From the sinuous and joshing solo dance sequence, which begins the fable on the dawn of the hottest day of the summer in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant section, until the mournful fadeout 24 hours later, "Do the Right Thing" is living, breathing, riveting proof of the arrival of an abundantly gifted new talent.

Lee has been edging up on us. First, there was the slyly subversive comedy "She's Gotta Have It," about a young woman who can be satisfied only by three men. Then there was "School Daze," which examines intra-racial prejudice in the terms of the old-fashioned college movie-musical, which, until Lee came along, had always been Wonder Bread-white and utterly brainless.