12 Angry Men, written by Reginald Rose, is a play that has the basic plot line of jurors deciding the fate of a defendant. But, simple as it may sound, the book actually highlights many issues within our society. One of the underlying motifs of 12 Angry Men is prejudice obscuring the truth. Each of the jurors has a distinct personality and unique traits that they bring to the jury room. Rose uses each of the jurors individual personalities and backstories to illustrate that prejudice obscures
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COMM 132 October 2, 2014 Movie Paper (12 Angry Men) In the Movie, 12 Angry Men, 12 jurors were tasked with finding a young man guilty or not-guilty of murdering his own father. In order for the men to fulfill their duty as jurors, they had to come to a consensus of whether the young man was guilty or not by working together, as a group, in order to analyze the trials evidence and testimonies, to then come to an agreement on the defendant’s guilt or innocence. As a group that was formed solely
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Barriers in Communication: 12 Angry men Juror 1: He tries to organize the entire discussion and give it a structured approach. He facilitated the entire proceedings of the discussion be it casting a secret ballot or allowing everyone to voice their opinion. However he did not provide with any specific inputs to the entire discussion. Juror 2: He just went with the flow with a lack of ability to reason out of his own. Because it was his first time and was nervous to be on a murder trial jury.
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Ans 6. “Prejudice always complicated the truth.” The movie 12 Angry Men, by means of several situational examples, reaffirms the fact. The first case in point is of the boy on trial who is born and brought up in slums. Many of the jury members, especially jurors 10, 7, 4 and 3 are heavily influenced by the prejudices they hold against children from the slums. In one of the scenes, juror 10, goes into a rage and explains why people from the slums cannot be trusted and calls them little better than
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12 Angry Men (1957) Favourite Role: My favourite casts in 12 Angry Men was Juror 8, who was played by Henry Fonda. He is one brave juror who voted 'not guilty' at the start of the deliberations because of his reasonable doubt. His role was firm and persuasive, he forces the other men to slowly reconsider and review the shaky murder case and eyewitness testimony against the endangered defendant. Favourite Scene: My favourite scene was when Juror 4 do not believe the boy’s alibi that he
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12 Angry Men: Critical Thinking Assignment Inference: The boy is guilty. Evidence #2: The old man saw him from his window. It took him fifteen minutes. Assumption required to be able to use that evidence: Its assumed that the old man is, first telling the truth. It must be assumed that the old man was in well enough condition to walk the distance in fifteen seconds. Alternative assumption that may also be true: The old man wasn’t telling the truth because he wanted to be noticed
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feedback a person sub-consciously projects when communicating. The power of non-verbal communication drives a conversation further than the more obvious verbal communication we consciously use every day. I will analyze a specific scene in the movie, 12 Angry Men, where the jurors are in the middle of determining a verdict on a murder case, and in the scene I am focusing on, I will discuss how the jurors use the subtle—and in this case, the not-so-subtle-- tactic of nonverbal communication
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12 Angry Men PROC 5840, Negotiations, Midterm Case Analysis Table of Contents Table of Contents……………………………………………………….……………………………….…2 Character Listing…………………………………………………………………………………………...3 Major Case Issues…………………………………………………………………………………………..5 Analysis of Juror Number Eight……………………………………………………………………………7 Analysis of Juror Number Four…………………………………………………………………………...13 Analysis of Juror Number Nine…………………………………………………………………………...17 Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………………………….19
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In the movie, 12 Angry Men, the concepts we learned throughout the duration of this course were apparent. Group dynamics is portrayed through jury deliberation in this film where twelve men are brought together to decide whether a boy is guilty of killing his father. From the personality conflicts to the decision making process, this film is filled with characteristics of group dynamics. Each juror brought something to the room, affecting the group’s decision. Right from the beginning of the movie
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Juror # 1: He is the foreman on this jury. He takes his role very seriously but is seen at times to lose control of the proceedings of the group of jury members that he is supposed to oversee. Juror # 2: He seems to be the most timid and nervous member of the jury. He is easily swayed by the opinion of others. Juror # 3: He is the most vociferous member of the jury. He has some very strong opinions which at times appear to not be backed by any logic. His character shows some signs of sadism ingrained
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