Analysis of "Do The Right Thing" Intro

Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing" opens with a loud, attention-deserving, and action-filled scene with Rosie Perez, one of the actresses in the movie, dancing. She's not dancing a formal or choreographed dance. Instead, she's dancing in a loose and almost angry manner. As she dances, the camera zooms in and out and all around her body, providing the viewer with varying views of her body and face. As the camera zooms in and focuses on her face, you see her angry and intense expression become more and more severe as her dancing becomes more erratic and powerful. As the camera zooms out, you can see her arms and legs moving with the music as she dances, and it's clear that as the music intensifies, her movements become more and more expressive. The camera also moves above and below her to provide the viewer with unusual views of her body and face as she dances.
In addition to having varying camera movements throughout the opening scene, Rosie's outfits change three times with three obvious color schemes. In the beginning, she's wearing a short but simple red dress with a black belt. The next minute, she's wearing a blue leotard, and then she's seen wearing a boxing outfit complete with a black sports bra and silver boxing shorts. Her outfits continuously change among the three color schemes as she dances to the opening songs. Her outfit changes become more rapid as her dancing becomes more intense, and perhaps the obvious color changes indicate clear divides among the characters in the movie or a theme of division and seperation.
As her outfits and colors of the outfits change during the opening scene, so do the background colors of the three different places where she's dancing. When she wears red, the background has a red tint. When she wears blue, the background has a blue tint, and when she wears the silver boxing shorts, the background is a white-ish silver color. The lighting is continuously changing, and it seems like she's almost dancing in an oven or in some sort of hot and firey place. Perhaps this is an indication of a theme of heat or fire that will be prevelent in the movie.