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    12 Angry Men Decide One Man’s Fate Henry Fonda produces and stars in this no fuss Courtroom Drama where a young man’s life hangs in the balance in 1950s America; masterfully exploring the complexities of the justice system and human behaviour. Description The film’s origin is as a stage play by Reginald Rose, who also adapted it for television, before teaming up with Fonda to bringing this powerful story to the big screen (eds Higgins & Ross 2008, p. 173). They bought in Sidney Lumet to direct

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    The film “12 Angry Men” gives the audience insight as to how jury deliberations work. The film follows 12 jurors throughout the process of finding the defendant’s sentencing. The jury is overseeing a case surrounding a young boy who is charged with the murder of his father. It was interesting to see the process of this paired with the way each character’s vote had an effect on each of the other juror’s decisions. The film “12 Angry Men” portrays a realistic fluctuation of stances in a room of jurors

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    In the 1956 play, 12 Angry Men, by Reginald Rose is against the jury system. This is shown with many Jurors throughout the play. Among all is a Juror who brings his own personal emotional baggage to jury table. While the other Juror is prejudiced against the defendant and people like him. One example where Reginald Rose is shown to be against the jury system is when Juror three reveals his relationship with his own son. Juror three ask Juror eight if he has any kids, Juror eight response is no.

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    12 Angry Men depicts twelve jurors deliberating on the life of a young man accused of murdering his father. In the beginning, Juror 8 (Henry Fonda) stands alone against eleven other jurors with the sole plea of not guilty. Throughout the film, Juror 8 brings other jurors to his opinion with the use of multiple argumentative tactics. More and more jurors join the side of Juror 8 until just one juror remains with a plea of guilty. Eventually, Juror 3 (Lee J. Cobb) succumbs to an emotional breakdown

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    The script: 12 Angry Men, written by Reginold Rose, is a play about how twelve strangers must come together and decide the future of a nineteen year old boy who was accused of murdering his father. Through their discussion of the flaws about all the presented evidence and eyewitness testimonies, the idea that although there are reasons we use stereotypes, they can ultimately be harmful,is revealed. Juror 10 and Juror 3 are the strongest examples of characters who use their prejudice about certain

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    cases such as Reginald Rose’s book Twelve Angry Men. The play has been shown that one voice can change the thoughts of many by getting past the first layer and breaking it down to their inner person. Twelve Angry Men has showed the theme of “Stereotyping in the World” through the characters’ proper reasoning, communicating, and believing in good faith. For instance, the characters had to use the proper reasoning of understand to begin to understand one

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    subjects in a unique light. In this movie the audience is faced with 12 jurors who hold the fate of a young man on trial for murder in their hands. It is supposed to be that one is innocent until proven guilty; however that is not the case in this movie. The Jurors are very prejudiced and closed minded throughout most of the movie for the most part. However, the one juror who is not that way is number 8. In the 1957 MGM film 12 Angry Men Juror number 8 relies primarily on his core values of honesty, reason

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    knowledge so that we may fulfill the position of being and active member of the society that we live in. The film “Twelve Angry Men” directed by Sidney Lumet (1957) shows us the story of what we are familiar with as our American form of a judicial system. Twelve men (all white,

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    The 12 Angry Men Case Dennis Ojwang Organizational Management 701 February 26, 2015 When this movie was made, no one could have depicted that it would greatly speak of the ever changing dynamics of our world today. Immigration and diversity seem to have plagued the world now more than ever and it is no surprise that the business world has been changed tremendously. When this movie came out in 1957, there wasn’t much diversity as we see it today. Upon watching this movie, various topics covered

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    other sources like playing team sports and also by watching movies. One such movie is 12 angry men. The movie states that 12 men from different background and different ideologies are brought together as jurors to a murder case where an 18 year old boy is accused. The movie follows where all 12 men come together to get a common decision together and fulfil the task. Issue: The movie “12 angry men” focuses on a 12 men jury who are appointed to discuss on a murder trial of an 18 year old teenager. The

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