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

Quiz 4: Do The Right Thing and Gone Baby Gone

1B) Mookie and Patrick are both relied on to “do the right thing” in both of the movies.
Both directors use pathos to grasp the readers’ attention from this aspect to make the viewers wonder if they really chose to do the right thing. Both
main characters are put into a dilemma of doing what they always told
themselves is right or doing what everyone else thinks is right.

2A) Spike Lee uses many sounds and images in his movie Do The Right Thing since it helps the viewer better connect with the movie. Without sound the viewer would not be able to understand the impact of how loud the radio Radio Raheem was carrying. This would make the viewer less understandable of why Sal begins to abruptly smash Radio Raheems radio so assertively as he did. Also if the movie did not have images the viewers would not be able to see the toll the heat is taking on the characters or the happiness on everyone’s faces when the people of the town are playing in the water.

3) In Do The Right Thing, the big controversy would be what is the right thing
to do? Lee is showing that race really does have affect on how people make
their choices and whose side they are going to choose. Lee shows this by
putting Mookie in a predicament of having to choose the thoughts of his black
friend Buggin Out or his white boss Sal. The movie shows that people will always think race will segregate them from other people even if it really doesn’t.

4B) Each film has a rising conflict until it reaches it climax. In Do the Right Thing, the defining moment is when Radio Raheem and Buggin Out intrude into Sals pizza place and begin to yell at him for not doing what they think is the right thing to do. This is what caused Sal to act out so bad. In Gone Baby Gone, Patrick had a choice of choosing what everyone else thought was right or what he told himself was right all along. He had the choice to call the cops or not. He knew he needed to return the little girl home to her mother. When he called the cops he knew there would be outcomes that would change his life but he did what he thought was right.