Do the Right Thing is a comedy-drama film directed by Spike Lee. The film was released in 1989. Lee held three positions for the film: screenwriter, director and producer of the film, Ernest Dickenson was the cinematographer, and Barry Alexander Brown was the film's editor. For this film, Lee brought together notable actors and actresses, including Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Rosie Perez, Samuel L. Jackson, John Tuturro and Martin Lawrence. The film's setting is in Bedford-Stuyvesant; which is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. This particular neighborhood is made up of several ethnic groups, including African-Americans, Italians, Koreans, and Puerto Ricans. The film takes place on a particularly hot summer day. The extreme heat causes tensions between the different races in the neighborhood. In this article, I will attempt to show how direction, camerawork, editing, and sound are used to convey "explicit" and "implicit" meaning in a scene from Do the Right Thing. The analysis takes place towards the end of the film in which all the racial tensions that had been simmering erupted like a volcano and poured out. This particular scene lasts about five minutes and is made up of about 25 shots. It takes place at the end of the day, after Sal's famous pizzeria has closed. We see that the pizzeria is closed and Sal has a conversation with his sons Vito and Pino about his wish to change the name of his store to Sal and Son's Pizzeria. He also tells Mookie, "You're like a son to me." Suddenly, we knock on the door, it's the neighborhood kids who want to eat a slice of pizza. Although the pizzeria is closed, Sal tells a reluctant Mookie...... middle of paper ......xt shot we observe them outside, for this Brown uses a straight cut rather than a jump cut to promote continuity in the next scene. All scenes in the film, including this one, unfold chronologically in a linear fashion. The editor also uses reverse angle trimming. Ultimately, this particular scene from Do Right Thing has both implicit and explicit meanings. Real. Spike Lee. Perf. Danny Aiello, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Martin Lawrence, Bill Nunn, Richard Edson, Roger Guenveur Smith and Spike Lee. Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks.1989. Streaming (Netflix) “Do the right thing. » IMBD.com. Internet Movie Database, and Web. April 23, 2011. < http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/>Stanley, Robert H. The Movie Idiom: Cinema as a Popular Art Form. Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc. 2011. Print