Do the Right Thing The first word that comes to mind when you think of Do the Right Thing is HOT. Everything about this movie was hot, from the weather to the themes and issues raised. It's also interesting to watch this movie while living in a heat wave in New York. There is a lot of room to debate whether or not anyone did the right thing in this script, in my opinion most of the characters did the wrong thing. What's interesting to me is thinking about what Spike Lee considered the right and wrong thing to do in this script. It's not just his words as an actor playing a role, but he also wrote, directed and produced the vehicle for those words and actions to come to life. So it's hard to separate Spike from Mookie, and I don't think Spike would even want us to do that. I'm also wondering if there are some changes from the script and the film, and what effect they will have on the overall message of the film. The only thing you know with absolute certainty about this script, with little room for interpretation, is that it's hot in Brooklyn. when this story takes place. It was clearly a heat wave, and that heat wave spoke volumes about the current racial climate in the city. A scorching city added to the tension the characters felt, but Spike did a good job of letting the tension build throughout this piece. Even at the end of the film, when the madness at Sal's house erupts into a riot scene, you have to be surprised to see it happen. It's as if the characters live in the oppressive heat of summer, and you just know that heat is a part of life that you have to live with. For most of the film, none of the characters hold back even on the topic of race. It almost made the audience accept that these characters... middle of paper... lead to his involvement in the events at the end. It was tragic to see him killed, but I didn't see the loving character that the community saw. I feel like the topic of Love and Hate hasn't gotten enough coverage. I think this was supposed to be a story about Love losing to Hate, but I don't think Love was represented equally here. It was interesting to see the community at first adamantly deny Sal's boycott by talking about how they grew up with Sal's food, and to see how over the course of the evening they chanted about burning it. This was a truly compelling film and to some extent it's hard to distance yourself from it. I'm a white guy watching it, so it's harder for me to see it from Spike's point of view, but after thinking about the movie for about a week, he makes a lot of excellent points. I just hope violence isn't the right conclusion.