Tran Anh Hung

The movie 12 Angry Men the 1957 version directed by Sydney Lumet is a black and white film about twelve men from different backgrounds who are on the same jury, they must decide if a young man is guilty of an act of murder committed upon his father. If found guilty the boy will be put in the electric chair until death, if found innocent, he is set free The juror, I will be looking at is juror number four and how he had a large impact on how new evidence was brought to light and how the evidence…

In the film, 12 Angry Men, many of the jurors had task roles within the group. Juror 8 played the role of energizer. According to Zastrow (2015), the energizer, “Stimulates a higher quality of work from the group” (p. 84). Instead of letting all the men vote guilty, he made them question their decision. He brought up key points that made them dig deep into the case, and look at the situation from different perspectives. Juror 1 had the role of direction giver. He was in charge on making sure…

What questions about knowledge does the movie “12 Angry Men” raise? Sidney Lumet’s American drama “12 Angry Men”, reveals the story of twelve members of a jury discussing the guilt or innocence of an eighteen year old boy who is accused of murder. Twelve jurors have to decided if the evidences that was presented in the courtroom is enough to convict the teen of murder of his own father and if so, the mandatory sentence for the young man will be a death penalty. Agreement on guilt or innocence…

“We constantly modify our behavior, beliefs, and attitudes according to what we perceive about the people around us.” The latter concept of psychology coined by psychologist Marc Breedlove can be largely attributed to all people in their daily lives. The depiction of this is seen in a variety of different manners, one of these being in film. One such of these is the critically acclaimed film, 12 Angry Men, directed by Sidney Lumet based on the screenplay of the same title by Reginald Rose. Just…

In the movie “12 Angry Men”, the story revolves around a murder trial of a 16 year old boy in which the 12 jurors are expected to arrive at a judgement. Each juror is of a different background and had a different view about the boy’s role in murder. All 11 of the jurors believe that the boy committed the murder either by conviction or by looking at others. The 8th Juror, Henry Fonda, with a reasonable doubt about the boy committing the murder sets the focus for the discussion in the Jury room.…

This movie depict a court case involving an 18 year alleged murder who was found guilty by all except one juror after the information of the case was told. Furthermore, the remaining juror argued his point until he was able to convince everyone to the young man’s innocence. Through this endeavour I learned that the jury has to has almost no doubt in the case of a murder trial to make a verdict, thus all members have to agree. A second lesson I learned is that the jury is chosen at random in the…

Claim: The most important/significant message in 12 angry men is that momentum creates the majority. Establish Evidence: The story of 12 Angry Men starts out with the 8th juror being alone and having no one to back him up. Evidence: This is explained on page 12 from the 8th juror, “There were eleven votes for ‘guilty’.” Analysis: This scene symbolizes the theme of the story because it shows how there is absolutely no momentum or evidence to back up the not guilty side at first. This was a very…

The play "12 Angry Men" by Reginald Rose is an all-time American classic. The play is about a jury set to decide the fate of a teenager who allegedly stabbed his father to death. These 12 men have this young man's life in their hands and things get heated quickly when not everyone agrees that the boy is guilty. The predominant theme of the play is prejudice, defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as "an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge.'"…

In his play Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Rose brings us back in time to 1957, to a jury room of a New York Court of Law where one man, Juror #8, confronts the rest of the jury to look at a homicide case without prejudice, and ultimately convinces Juror #2, a very soft-spoken man who at first had little say in the deliberation. Throughout the play, several jurors give convincing arguments that make one think about whether the boy is “guilty” or “not guilty.” Ultimately, one is convinced by ethos,…

Twelve Angry Man · “Life is in their hands，Death is on their minds。”These worlds from Twelve Angry Man. This text talked about there have twelve members of the jury are discussed in a rest room to decide whether a murder case was established. The murder defendant is a 18 year old child, his father is dead. Twelve members of a jury must discuss a consensus: the children's murder of a crime. If established, the child will be sent to the chair the execution of the death penalty. If not…