Context|Do The Right Thing Flashcards
context of what was going on a this time and what this impacts in the film.
What year was this film made and what was happening during this time?
1989, Hip-Hop music rise, Post-Vietnam war.
What did Spike Lee ask from the Public Enemy?
They are a music group that Lee asked to make a soundtrack for him for his film. The song was called ‘Fight The Power!’
What Presidential production was formed and what did it do?
Ronald Reagan Era, Reaganomics, Deindustrialisation.
-Many lost jobs [mainly black people who worked in blue collar jobs].
What social events were happening at this time?
Break out of drugs, cocaine [crack].
Black feminism.
AIDS epidemic.
Increase in construction of prisons, bad infrastructure.
Deindustrialisation.
What characters is relevant to the idea of Reaganomics?
Da Mayor.
-“What do you know ‘bout me?”, “You don’t know me!”
This could simplify that Da Mayor is clearly experienced in life and knows what it’s like to go broke and let yourself go in vain.
