12 Angry Men Essay

12 Angry Men is a verdict and challenging film, which caught me by surprise, not only for its quality but as the discussions of a 1957 film is so current. It 96 minutes, spent in the same room where 12 jurors discuss the case and the future of a teenager accused of killing his father, is a marvelous exposition of how society is today driven by its prejudices about certain situations. Twelve jurors have uncomfortably gathered to deliberate on the facts heard in a murder trial. They retreat from a room to do their civic duty to serve and deliver a fair verdict on the defendant, whose conviction at the time meant the death penalty. Therefore, the film becomes a powerful denunciation of the supposed infallibility, justice, and neutrality of the…

As the author Brandon Sanderson once said,“Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself”.Here both 12 Angry Men and Macbeth characters are trying to reach a goal or achieve something.A theme shared by 12 angry men and Macbeth’s monologue from act 1 is that sometimes you have to make sacrifices or give up power to do what is right. Generally, the play 12 angry men can connect to the theme of sacrifice because at the end…

Movie Summary: The movie 12 Angry Men is a 1957 American courtroom drama; the synopsis of the film surrounds 12 jury men that must reach a verdict in a murder case. The 12 men presented in the movie play the crucial roles of the jury, as they are sent to begin deliberations in the first-degree murder trial of an inner city 18-year-old Latino teen accused of stabbing his father to death. The premises of the movie takes place in the jury chambers where the 12 all-white jury men must decide…

on the ethnicity of the defendant. The final example of how a juror’s personality and self-concept affected their communication and decision regarding the case is juror #7 (Jack Warden). He is extroverted and had no problem with small talk during the forming stage of Tuckman’s Group Development Stages. However, when it came to the storming and norming stages, he did not have much to say. The problem with Warden in the group is that he was a man with his own hidden agenda and…

The 1957 movie version of 12 angry men, brings twelve people together with different personalities and experiences to discuss the fate of a young boy that allegedly killed his father. At the very beginning many agree that the boy is guilty except for one man. Juror #8 votes not guilty and pushes to have the evidence talked through. Slowly after reviewing all the evidence carefully the eleven to one vote switched from eleven thinking guilty to eleven thinking not guilty. Each juror brought…

The movie that I watched in class for the past two Fridays were 12 Angry Men. The movie is based on a play with the same name. The overview of the movie is that there is a young inner-city boy on trial for the murder of his father. Twelve jurors were chosen and then assigned to determine the guilt or innocence of the young man. I picked juror number eight because, it’s something that I would have done. He was the only initial vote of not guilty. He was an architect and only wanted more…

The movie “12 Angry Men” was a movie that was mainly in a jury room. The movie was about twelve men who were in a jury, trying to decide if the kid was guilty or not guilty for killing his father. There were multiple plot twists and interesting things about this movie. Henry Fonda played a character that stood against all of the people at the beginning and started arguing that the person was not guilty. Lee Cobb plays a character that is emotionally involved. Cobb is angry and screams at…

In the film, 12 Angry Men, there was a lot of information that was given out that affected the jurors’. The story takes place in a courtroom where a murder case was in session. The rest of the movie shows the jurors, deciding whether the defendant of the case was guilty or not guilty. The jurors initially wanted to sentence the boy as guilty after hearing testimony of the boy that killed his own father, but there were three other jurors who thought otherwise. Since the boy was from the slums,…

Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose should definitely be read in schools. The play portrays a jury of twelve men discussing a murder case of a sixteen-year-old boy who is accused of stabbing his father. Prior to the play, the boy’s trial occurred. The play opens with the jury going in to discuss the verdict. At first, eleven men choose “guilty” while one man stands alone. Rose writes an insightful story of communication and argument between twelve different men, all with their own opinions and…

The film 12 Angry Men is a dramatization of twelve men that serve as a jury in a trial for a teenage boy accused of murdering his father. The film explores the complications that may cloud the judgment of everyday men as they deliberate the guilt or exoneration of the defendant on the basis of reasonable doubt. The decision must be unanimous for a guilty verdict will result in a mandatory death sentence. The jury of twelve is tasked with the ethical responsibility of patiently reviewing the…