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    The movie "Twelve Angry Men" is about a young man who is accused of stabbing his father to death. The twelve jurors have to decide whether the defendant is guilty or innocent. If the young man is found guilty, there is a mandatory death sentence (the jury needs to be unanimous in their decision). At the preliminary vote, eleven of the twelve jurors vote the young man guilty. Henry Fonda is the only one who voted the accused as not guilty because he doesn't want to send the defendant to the death

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    Twelve Angry Men (1957) is a play set in New York, which takes place in a jury room. It follows a jury’s decision-making process in a murder trial. We are able to observe the gradual change of eleven of the twelve jurors’ minds about their verdict, illuminating the central concerns in the play. These central concerns are prejudice and justice and are shown through settings, stage directions and dialogue. The quest for justice that is at the core of the American legal system is shown to be a very

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    Statement of Facts “Twelve Angry Men” is a fictional story which tells of story of jurors deliberating over if the teenage son who was accused of murdering his father. The evening of the murder the defendant and his father had an argument. The father hit the son like he did many times in the past. After this encounter the defendant left the apartment. At approximately at midnight witnesses state they saw the stabbing and hearing the defendant yell, “I'll kill you.” and running down stairs. The defendant

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    An Analytical Death Just like a detective who analyzes evidence on a crime scene, the twelve jurors in Twelve Angry men by Reginald Rose, are put to the task of analyzing the case of murder, with a young sixteen year-old boy who was accused of killing his father. Some Jurors do not accept this task and stick to their personal prejudice applying it to their decision about the case. While other jurors accept the challenge and analyze the evidence given to them, for example, Juror Eight. Juror Eight

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    Twelve Angry Men In the text Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose, the jury began as uncooperative and evolved into a more agreeable jury by the end. The jury started in a state of contradiction and an inability to cooperate. Most jurors only cared to listen to themselves and just wanted to bully other jurors into agreeing with them. They were in a hurry to get out of the deliberation room and just wanted to be done with this case as we can see when Seven said to Ten that “this better be fast” (Rose

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    Twelve Angry Men is set during a scorching summer day in New York City, where twelve men (Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns, Jack Warden, Henry Fonda, Joseph Sweeney, Ed Begley, George Voskovec, and Robert Webber) sit on the jury and deliberate the outcome of a murder trial. The defendant is an eighteen-year-old boy who is accused of murdering his abusive father and tried for first-degree murder. Eager to escape the heat and to attend to other matters

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    A 1950’s play, ‘Twelve Angry Men’ written by Reginald Rose is set on a very hot afternoon, entirely in one room and is based on a story of a jury who have to come together to determine the fate of a 16-year-old boy, accused to have murdered his own father. As the men argue endlessly over the evidence, the fundamental ideas of achieving a just verdict becomes clear. Rose creates drama and tension in the jury room, clearly discovering the quality in which integrity is essential to be a member of a

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    In the film Twelve Angry Men, a young boy is charged for killing his father meanwhile he is on the line of life or death. His faith is dependant on the selected twelve men in jury, who have been placed all together in a room, to decide whether the boy will be proclaimed as guilty or not guilty. During this process, we encounter one out of twelve jurors, which comes to be juror number eight, opposes in favor of the defendant's guilt. Soon, complications between the men begin to arise as the boy’s

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    12 ANGRY MEN Twelve Angry men is a 1957 American drama film by Reginald Rose. This film narrates the story about 12 Jury. In this film twelve Angry men, twelve jurors are deciding the fate of a young man consider in charge of killing his father. All through every one of the members of the jury, Juror number 8 gave an incredible case of authority. He had a stunning nature of leadership and he utilizes his qualities to influence the whole Juries to vote of not guilty. In the beginning of the film

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    Those in climacteric situations often make decisions not with kind and compassionate motives but more often with self-serving and egotistical intentions. Both “Twelve Angry Men” written by Reginald Rose and “On The Waterfront” directed by Elia Kazan portray characters faced with morally crippling choices to make and they feature persons who are similarly driven such as Johnny Friendly and Juror 3. The novel and film also display homogenous themes throughout, such as justice and correct moral choice

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