In the screenplay 12 Angry Men, it starts out in a New York courthouse on a warm, sunny day. The weather isn’t the only thing that heats up. This screenplay gets very tense. First, the text says how Juror #8 pulls out a switchblade that looks exactly the same as the one that the boy had (page 23). This is tense because it came out of nowhere and put a whole new spin on the murder case. Next, the text says how Juror #8 demonstrated how slow it would have taken the old man to get to the door (page 45). It is tense because it showed how there was no possible way that the old man would have been able to see the boy. The old man was too slow to even walk up to the witness stand, therefore, there was no way he could have seen the boy running down
