Questions: 1. Explain if the communication process depicted in the film was effective. Did it help the group achieve its objectives? The communication process showed in this movie was quite interesting; in the beginning of the movie the process faced multiple barriers in which the information was been manipulated, selectively interpret and even emotionally altered due to personal situations, perceptions & lack of interest. This initially denied the information from efficiently going through
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The Art of Persuasion By Eric Pratt English 1010 Eric Pratt English 1010 Tues, Thurs 09/28/2010 The Art of Persuasion The film “Twelve Angry Men” is a good resource when analyzing methods of persuasion. In this film a jury meets together to give the verdict of a murder trial. With the evidence presented in court there was no reasonable doubt among the jurors, except one, that the young man on trial killed his father. It was juror number 8, also known as Davis, who was hesitant at putting
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INTRO: Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Rose’s remarkable 1954 play, portrays the trial of the accused, a 16 year old boy from the slums of New York, who will face death as a result of a guilty verdict. Consequently, twelve jurors attempt coming to a unanimous decision. Although justice is ultimately secured, prejudice is an evident theme in the play. Twelve Angry Men explores personal prejudice in the justice system by revealing how preconception overwhelms the juror’s ability to see reason, by the jurors
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I recently watched a dramatic “case study” on group behavior and communication: the 1957 movie 12 Angry Men. The movie shows how one individual shaped and ultimately changed the direction of a group decision. The story goes that 12 jurors must reach a verdict that could require the death penalty for an 18-year-old defendant charged with stabbing his father to death. The jurors must reach consensus—the verdict must be unanimous. When they begin their deliberations, 11 vote guilty. Only one sees
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12 Angry Men is a gripping drama that depicts twelve American jurors confined to a jury room on a hot and humid summer day to decide the guilt or innocence of a defendant in a murder trial.1 Before sending out the twelve jurors to deliberate, the judge reminds them that their verdict must be unanimous and that if they hold “reasonable doubt” as to the guilt of the accused then their verdict must be “not guilty.” If, however, they find the defendant guilty then he will be sentenced to death
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The movie 12 angry men is based in a juror room ready to convict a boy of murder. The film displays conflict and ways to negotiate to turn people or see the other side of the picture. Goes along with real life situations where there are people that hold certain biases and this movie displays them well. One of the biases is confirmation bias, which restricts new information. This Bias is seem early in the beginning of the film. For example when Mr. Fonda introduced the notion of the murder knife not
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the group in the film as they pertain to the problem the group is working on. In this film, the numerous functional and dysfunctional properties of the 12-jury men play a big role in analysing and evaluating the main purpose at hand, namely identifying the young man guilty or innocent for the murder of his father. The different roles the 12-jury men play in the deliberation of the capital murder case is prominent. Firstly, a role can be defined as a set of expected behaviour patterns attributed to
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A View of 12 Angry Men The movie 12 Angry Men is a snapshot of many of the changes going on in 1950’s- 60’s America. The movie begins by introducing the viewer to a, seemingly, open and shut case about a teenager from the slums murdering his father. It is revealed to us that it is the job of the twelve jurors who have heard the case to deliberate over all the evidence and return a, unanimous verdict to present to the judge. We quickly find out that all of the “evidence,” heard in
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The Final Verdict of 12 Angry Men On the average, about five parents are killed by their biological children in the United States every week. Matricide and patricide are both very rare events when considered in terms of the thousands of individuals arrested every year for murder. Killings of mothers and fathers each constitute about 1 percent of all homicides in the United States in which the victim-offender relationship is known. Did he do it? If he didn't, who did? Why would a young man kill
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In Reginald Rose’s play ’12 Angry Men’ the jurors not only let their prejudices affect their opinions they have towards the accused, but also their opinions of each other. Jurors three, ten and four show strong prejudice against the accused purely as he is from the slums and claim that he is guilty on this point alone, whereas juror five is more reluctant to think badly of the boy as he also grew up in the slums. Many of the juror’s prejudices against people from the slums make juror five too nervous
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