12 Angry Men Analysis

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12 Angry Men When the film began there were symptoms of groupthink evident. However, the viewer got the opportunity to see who was doing the emotional shoving and who was just blowing steam. The bigoted man with the cold was the first on the scene with remarks about people that he saw as "lower" than him. As he was talking, you could see that the man that indeed, did grow up in the lower class part of town was getting very angry at the bigoted man's remarks. Next is the man who really wanted to see the ball game that night and had probably had good tickets. As an avid baseball fan, one does not create a stink over missing a game that had nosebleed seats. One who has front row tickets would. After a couple of minutes of getting to know one another he immediately went after the man who was a Baltimore fan. Even in the man’s rhetoric he chastised the Baltimore fan for simply being a Baltimore fan. Going back to the bigoted man, the second that he said "there’s always one" the viewer right away knew that this man was indeed going to be rude to not only Henry Fonda but to the rest of the jury as well. It was in the way he said to Fonda "there’s always one" was the beginning of the end of his talking influence over the rest of the jury. If one looks closely when he said "there’s always one", the rest of the jury was not exactly in agreement with his remarks but agreeing with the fact that there was a man that simply did not agree with their verdict and that the deciding was going to take a little longer than 5-10 minutes. The interesting aspect about the man who yells a lot and has issues with his son is he has the stress factor that Janis talks about in her article. He had a falling out with his son and described it to us early in the film. At the very end, it becomes very clear that he was not looking at the facts but simply had a grudge on the defendant because of his
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