Introduction In the movie 12 Angry Men‚ (1957)‚ twelve white men from different socioeconomic backgrounds with diverse personal prejudices‚ beliefs and personalities are brought together in a small jury room on a hot summer day. The jurors are forced to debate evidence presented in a case and carry out the task of deliberating on the guilt or innocence of a teenager accused of killing his father with a switchblade. This film dramatically illustrates how a group dynamic can influence what should
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“12 Angry Men” In the Film “12 Angry Men” Aristotelian rhetoric was used by the jury members to make a case for the accused. The eighth juror was the one to shed light on this case. He did so by using two of the three rhetoric styles. Juror eight used Pathos to convince one other jury member by stating that just because he grew up in the slums doesn’t mean the accused did it. He gained the sympathy of the jury member who had come from the same background and made something of himself. The same
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"12 Angry Men" occur in New York City in 1957 and focuses on a jury’s deliberations in a capital murder case. The jury has 12 men and is sent to begin deliberations in the firstdegree murder trial of a young man who is 18year old accused of stabbing his father who died because of it. If someone is found guilty it means death sentence. The case appears to be “openandshut”. The defendant has a weak alibi; the knife he claimed to have “lost” is found at the scene where the stabbing occur. Several
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The 1957 film Twelve Angry Men is a dramatic portrayal of what happens in a jury room after a murder trial in which the defendant is a young minority man who has allegedly killed his father with a switchblade knife. Eleven of the jurors are ready to declare a guilty verdict in the first five minutes‚ but one juror performs the Central Negative role in the group in order to save them from groupthink and also save the defendant from execution. Through this movie we would try to understand how individual
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12 Angry Men is a film that plays on the psychological mind‚ and highlights many features of Organizational Behavior. As the jury of 12 men convene in a locked room to decide the future‚ or lack thereof‚ of a young boy accused of murdering his father‚ they illustrate movement through the four stages of Bruce Tuckman’s Group Development Model of Forming‚ Storming‚ Norming and Performing. Along with this model‚ the movie portrays the difficulties and cohesiveness that 12 different men experience
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12 ANGRY MEN 1. Choose two characters from the Jury. In separate numbers‚ examine and analyze the two juror’s reasoning. a. Check if his reasoning fulfils the standards of thinking. b. Identify some errors in his thinking. c. What do you think led the juror to commit these errors in his thinking with respect to the case he is judging? Jury # 9 Jury number 9 was the old man seated next to Henry Fonda at the table. These 12 different jurors were seated at a long table to decide
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Gus Jackson October 28‚ 2010 12 Angry Men 5. There just seems to be a general lack of relevant background information in this case. There are only the two witnesses‚ and even their stories have some doubt surrounding them. Furthermore‚ none of the jurors (as far as we know) have any significant background in dealing with these matters. It is revealed that Ed Begley has a prejudice that seems to be affecting his judgment in the case. During an exchange with one of the other jurors‚ Begley says
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Grace Chavez Response to Twelve Angry Men 11-4-2013 Twelve Angry Men Twelve angry men is a movie which takes place in a New York jury chamber on one of the hottest days in the year during the deliberation faze. Juror #8 (Henry Fonda) is the only juror out of the twelve who believes that the case they are deciding on should not be open and shut he wants to talk and point out facts of the case. The twelve men in the case must decide on this young boy’s fate‚ who is on trial for the murder of
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To place multiple men in a room to decide the fate over a criminal can lead to many biases being expressed in means to back up one ’s opinion on the case. The personal predilections & biases made by some individuals who happen to be part of a jury can ultimately either place an innocent man in jail or let a guilty man run free. The Reginald Rose play Twelve Angry Men shows just how dangerous it is for jurors to bring their personal agendas to the table through the bigoted biases of Juror 10 and the
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The first thing I noticed in the movie 12 angry men was how hot the room was they were in. I wonder if that is intentionally done to raise agitation from the start. The Juror nicknamed “The messenger service guy” was very loud and obnoxious from the get go. He mentioned in the movie how he was estranged with his own son‚ which led me to believe the trial hit him on a personal level that blinded his judgment. He is stubborn and set in his ways‚ he is the hardest to convince that the subject might
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