Sarah Jett Rayburn, Ph.D. Candidate "Everyone wants to know the whole truth but no one possesses it."

1b) In the films Do The Right Thing and Gone Baby Gone both writer and director use the main characters Patrick and Mookie in the a similar way. Both men in the films can be looked at as representatives or as leaders in their community. They both grew up there and they know so many people within in their small communities. And even though Mookie's decision starts a riot and the destruction of Sal's pizzeria, and Patrick's decision exposes the police and returns a little girl to her mother they both had to make a decision that would impact the rest of the characters in the movie and subsequently determine the ending.

2a) In the film Gone Bay Gone the film's images are what really helps to support the argument that is trying to be made. It is the look on the characters faces the heartfelt tears that impact the audience. For the most part, the characters speak in a monotone voice and it is their actions that shape how the audience perceives them. The film has a lot of body language that can really define the characters without them saying much. From Helene's body language you can see that she is not to enthusiastic about finding her daughter and that she isn't really a credible person. You can see from the attitude or the actions of the detectives that there is something underhanded about them. The film also has some images that need not be accompanied with music the position of the camera and the flash of the image leave an effect enough. The images and the eyes of the characters play enough role that there needs to not be music because the images provide the intensity of the moment and the eyes of the characters provide that passion that would be give through words.

3a). The main claim in Do The Right Thing is exactly in the title itself. The film gives different scenarios where the characters have the choice to do the right thing, and that is what supports the claim throughout the movie. There are really only two appeals that are heavily present in this film and they are ethos and pathos. The characters in the film are broken down into races and the police and the people in the neighborhood. the ethos comes where the different character try to establish their credibility as most time refer to being wither accepting or against the other races that fill this community. There is pathos when we see how the community goes into an uproar over the wrongful death f Radio Rahim at hands of the police. The bias in the film I think is for the African Americans in the film. The argument in Sal's is over the fact that there were no African Americans on his wall of fame. I suspect these biases because the film is focused on the black presence in the neighborhood. The intended audience would the America that doesn't live in that kind of community and the America that has seen the hardships faced in a black community.

4b) The defining moment in the movie Do The Right Thing starts when Sal destroys the radio which had been the back ground noise throughout the whole film, that scene is followed by the death of Radio Rahim. But the moment itself would have to be when Mookie threw the trash can through the window which started the riot. Him throwing the trash can was a symbolism of him choosing a side or showing where his loyalty remained, and it also acted as the beginning of an answer for the death of Radio Rahim.
In the movie Gone Baby Gone the defining moment would come when Patrick kills the man that killed the little boy. In that moment he took the law into his own hands and decided that he would do what needed to be done. This set off a chain of events that would show that Patrick would was able to make choices and stand by them even if it could cause him his life or even if he didn’t think they were one hundred percent right. In other words Patrick owned up to every decision he made and that would be a key factor for him when he decided that he would then go against the police.