Shortly after grieving for the loss of his daughter’s innocence, Carl Lee seeks counsel with the lawyer Jake Brigance. They discuss a similar case where four white men raped a black girl and were set free. Knowing that that these two men could more than likely walk free, Carl Lee takes justice into his own hands and shoots both men down including his childhood friend deputy Dwayne Looney. Carl Lee is immediately arrested and put on trial for the murder of the two white men. As the story continues, Carl Lee hires on Jake Brigance who valiantly accepts the case knowing the dangers and challenges involved in obtaining it.
Throughout its entire hour and 53 minutes, Memento does its best to leave the audience completely confused as to what is happening, and in what order. And it certainly works. The first thing you will probably notice about the movie, is that it is directed by Christopher Nolan, best known for his Batman trilogy, and the wonderful Inception. And indeed, Memento is very similar to Inception in the way it makes you feel as a viewer. The main character, Leonard, is a man who cannot make new memories since the rape and murder of his wife, and who has devoted his life to attempting to get revenge for his wife’s death.
In the flashback, Willy gives his sons a punching bag. He also condones Biff’s stealing of a football and doesn’t encourage them to study as much as they should. He emphasizes being well liked. After the flashback, Happy talks with Willy and asks him why he didn’t go to New England for his business trip. Willy explains that he almost hit a kid in Yonkers.
Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor (Sandra Pertocelli) called me on the stand MONSTER”. The outcome of this stereotypical murder case came down to the presence of Steve Harmon’s testimony and faith held within himself.
It looks to find guilt rather than prove innocence. Although the movie starts with the characters and scenes displaying due process ideals, eventually the crime control model becomes more apparent. This is especially prominent in the main character, Paul Kersey. Within the first ten minutes of this movie, the dialogue of the characters already takes on an obvious due process appearance. After vacationing with his wife, Paul goes to work and jumps right in to a two-sided discussion with his co-worker Sam where they discuss what Sam considers a decent person to be.
But the kidnap goes wrong in an uncontrolled manner: three men are killed and a police officer Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) starts an investigation. The base of a story is a simple although surprising deal which allows a variation on human life in particular circumstances. Indeed, Coen brothers pull off one improbable scene after another but use very few camera movements as if to say that their apparently simple characters are the most important part of the movie. Coen brothers try to depict the lives of ordinary people with an air of decided realism. At the beginning of the movie, just before credits, we can read “This is a true story.
12 Angry Men persuaded by rhetoric In the movie 12 angry men rhetoric is found throughout the movies as the jurors argue amongst one another as to whether or not a teenage boy is guilty of stabbing his father. As they dig deeper into the case and examine evidence closer the jurors use all three forms of rhetoric, ethos, pathos, and logo’s in order to decide the boys fait. When the jurors first take a preliminary vote it is found that juror number 8 is the only one who votes not guilty. When questioned by the other 11, he reveals to them that he couldn’t possibly vote guilty without first discussing the case, because the guilty verdict would mean the death of teenage boy. This is a great example of the use of the rhetoric, ethos’s because he is basing his decision of not guilty, off of principles and morals rather than evidence shown, and wants to first discuss and way all the evidence of the case, rather than just making a quick decision because it seems that the logical answer would be guilty.
Davis the name of number 8 juror tried to convince the members of the jury and he succeed to change their minds. Davis was smart and logically man, he started doubt the evidence by the switch knife. The jurors believed the knife belongs to the eighteen years old guy and he stabbed it in his father chest, Davis made his argument by said might the murder used another knife looked like the guy’s knife and he showed the jurors a knife looked like the knife was used to kill the man. After this argument the one of jurors #9 changed his vote to not guilty. After that #5 juror who had a problem to express his opinion, he changed his mind and vote for not guilty.
Sidney Lumet’s first film, 12 Angry Men, is a single-room film about jury-disputing. If 12 jurors fail to find reasonable doubt, an eighteen-year-old boy will sentence to death due to the charge of being the murderer of his father. In the first vote, 11 think the boy is guilty; the one left simply thinks it is too soon to make this decision. The other men get choleric and present the evidence to persuade him. The speech not only shows their thoughts but their attitudes and prejudices.
A college professor by the name of David Gale is convicted of the rape and murder of a close friend and fellow member of his anti-capital punishment activist group, known as Deathwatch. Using Gale as an easily recognizable target in society most definitely came into play when trying to persuade the jury of his innocence or guilt. David had graduated at the top of his class, was an active member of Deathwatch, a well-known and respected professor at the University of Austin, a published author, and a loving and devoted father. The film leads you to believe that Gale must be innocent because he’s a good man, but every good man has flaws. As great of a man as he sounds, Gale drank scotch religiously.