Do The Right Thing|Breaking Walls #2 Flashcards
all film form on this, gentrification etc.
What is the main piece of jewerly we see in BO, Mookie, Punchy and Radio Raheem?
Pendant with the African continent on it.
Radio Raheem encounters a Latino group who also has a radio, what happens when they interfere with each other?
They start booming their music.
-Radio Raheem’s Hip Hop ‘Fight The Power.
-Latinos’ salsa music.
Eventually Radio Raheem wins and leaves with the loudest volume.
What does Gentrification mean?
When [mostly] white people come to change everything about a place or person.
Gentrification scene:
Who does BO encounter and what is it like?
what is the other guy wearing?
why could this be potentially blaming the ‘white guy’?
A white guy with the Larry Bird shirt.- White basketball player.
He is riding his bike and ‘scratches’ BO Jordan’s. - Black basketball.
BO is shocked.
Could be blaming Clifton as the camera angle does not match what BO is complaning about.
Finding reasons to always blame the white guy.
Gentrification scene:
BO goes over to Clifton and confronts him about his shoes, who comes along?
what is key that BO says?
what does this show about black power?
Punchy’s gang.
Start telling Clifton things that makes him cower and watch in fear.
BO says: “You’re lucky a black man has a loving heart.”
Superiority of BO and the black community by saying that they are loving.
Gentrification scene:
What type of camera angles do we see?
Low angle shot- BO looking at his scuffed shoes.
Zoom out rapidly- BO’s POV of his shoes.
Mookie:
A kid draws what looks like the ‘American Dream’.
What does Mookie do and what type of camera angle is shown here?
how does he react or ignore it?
what is the camera angle when he walks into the pizzeria?
Bird’s eye view- kid’s drawing.
Mookie walks over it and as he approaches the pizzeria.
Dolly zoom- telephoto shot as he enters the pizzeria.
In the pizzeria, Mookie and Pino’s convo:
What does Mookie ask Pino about black people and what is the convo trying to show?
what does Pino say that may not have made sense?
what does Pino then realise Mookie is trying to do?
He asks him who his favorite actor is - “Eddie Murphy.”
He asks him who is favorite singer is- “Prince.”
Pino recognises that he is being tricked and tries to play it off by saying ‘ Barry Manilow’ as his fav artist but Vito cuts him off and says ‘He’s a Prince freak!’
Pino and Mookie convo in the pizzeria:
What does Pino say after Mookie tells him that all his favorite people are black?
what does this show about Pino initially?
“I mean, they’re black but not really black.”
Pino being racist and somehow confused.
Pino and Mookie convo in the pizzeria:
What does Mookie say about Pino’s hair?
What does Mookie reveal about Pino?
“Your hair is kinkier than mine, you want to be Black.”
Pino obviously has curly hair but refuses to be appreciative of it.
Racial Slur Montage:
This uses what style to show the characters as?
Brectian Stylistic Device
[Breaking the fourth wall].
Racial Slur Montage:
What is significant about this montage?
what does it tell us about Pino, Mookie etc.?
Everyone is pointing the finger at the certain race and they are directly looking at the camera.
It could mean what these races truly think of the others.
Pino uses more racist terms, Mookie jokes around.
Da Mayor’s solliloquy:
When Punchy and his gang come up to Da Mayor, what does he start telling them?
what does he explain about his life?
what is this a contextual link to?
“You don’t know me.”
Clearly stating that the youth now does not take the matters of the future seriously and the fact that he cannot even provide for his “five hungry kids” shows that the elderly struggle.
He tries hard to provide for the people he loves.
Reaganism- deindustrialisation of jobs and employment.
Da Mayor’s solliloquy:
What camera angles do we see in this scene and what can it show about the youth vs old generation?
High angle shot- Da Mayor.
Could be shown as Punchy’s gang [youth] believing that they can outsmart those who have lived longer than them.
Low angle shot- Punchy’s gang.
Da Mayor’s POV of how the youth sees old people as a ‘joke’ and ‘clueless’.
