In the Spike Lee classic Do The Right Thing, radio jockey Mister Senor Love Daddy sets up the premise of the movie with the lines: "I have today's weather." "HOT" He laughs like a madman. The camera then cuts to an old, withering man lying on a sweaty bedsheet. The weather adds to the misery of a tableau of characters already on edge. The heat and misery build up slowly, trapped in the concrete and the sweaty brows of everyone in the neighborhood. It magnifies already existing differences of race, politics, and class. Spike Lee builds up tension to the edge of violence as the unusually warm day progresses, but violence never arrives, until at the very end.
Cool Realities
Cool Realities
Cool Realities
In the Spike Lee classic Do The Right Thing, radio jockey Mister Senor Love Daddy sets up the premise of the movie with the lines: "I have today's weather." "HOT" He laughs like a madman. The camera then cuts to an old, withering man lying on a sweaty bedsheet. The weather adds to the misery of a tableau of characters already on edge. The heat and misery build up slowly, trapped in the concrete and the sweaty brows of everyone in the neighborhood. It magnifies already existing differences of race, politics, and class. Spike Lee builds up tension to the edge of violence as the unusually warm day progresses, but violence never arrives, until at the very end.