Thursday, October 24, 2013
Do The Right Thing
When you think of New York City, you think of taxis and bunches of people walking everywhere on the streets. But in the film, this isn't the vision that we see. We see different parts to the city of New York, which give a whole new vision of New York City.
Lee shows the city in a way that is portrayed as worn down and a broken city. You can tell the city is worn down because of the buildings that don't have paint and the sidewalks with cracks and bumps. The alleyways are covered in graffiti and the stores are chained closed.
I think Lee decided to portray the city in this way because he wanted to represent it in a way that fit the characters and story line. The characters in this film have no way to run from their problems, they are forced to deal with them. He decided that the issues the characters are facing in the film are rugged and hard just like the city of New York.
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I agree wit you on the fact that the way the film is shot and setting that is captured is directly correlated with its characters. The film shows a setting filled with racial tension and violence, showing how violence works as a virus, spreading from host to host, replicating and creating more of itself.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree, but I also feel that he wanted to give the audience a chance to see another side of New York, different than that of the stereotypical, glorified view that we so commonly see. I believe that the characters and storyline fit his depiction of the city because he created a realistic representation of New York.
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