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I chose a scene from Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing, where the camera angles and dialogue in communicating the emotions in the scene. The lighting is dim in this scene so it creates a dangerous feel. In this scene, there is a lot of loud music in the background while the characters are yelling at one another. There are a group of men who enter the pizza shop aggressively, and they are shot from a slanted upward angle, causing them to look bigger than they are. This angle makes them look like the aggressors. Then the pizza shop owner is shot from a slanted high angle, making him look like the victim, even though he is yelling as well. I think that the use of this slanted angle is important in this scene because it creates suspense.
The cuts are made obvious, as they jump from character to character. This is done intentionally in order to show the tension in the scene. The shots in the scene are determined by action and reaction, the relationship between the two groups represented. From the moment the three men entered the pizza shop to the point where they started arguing to the shop owner smashing the radio with a baseball bat. The scene continuously builds from shot to shot.

Do the Right Thing Scene