Do The Right Thing

Do The Right Thing was quite an interesting movie in that it used weird camera angles. Especially noticeable throughout the movie with the awkward angles and oblique shifts. Such as during the several scenes in Sal's pizza shop. Many of the scenes in the pizza shop when Buggin Out came in to make some trouble. Several camera angles were shown to be as though the camera was set at a tilt or was turned onto its side a bit. This gave the scene quite an odd feeling. Showing several parts of the little pizza shop as well as a few characters at this angle gives the scene a different purpose as though the shot that was shown was meant to have given those specific people or parts a certain meaning. This camera angling wasn't in the pizza shop. It was also quite significant each time Radio Raheem was in a scene. When the camera had shown him, it was also at an angle which gave him the look as though he was very important and quite powerful with his radio and persona. The movie overall was quite a different experience compared to films of today and films of the 1900s. Seeing this new use of camera angles gave me the idea of how just simply turning the camera could give a whole new aspect as to the meaning of the objects and people that are shown in the scene.