12 Angry Men

             This essay will compare & contrast the protagonist/antagonist's relationship with
             each other and the other jurors in the play and in the movie versions of Reginald
             Rose's 12 Angry Men. There aren't any changes made to the key part of the story
             but yet the minor changes made in making the movie adaptation produce a
             different picture than what one imagines when reading the drama in the form of a
             First off, the settings in the movie are a great deal more fleshed out. In the play, the
             scene begins with the jurors regarding the judge's final statements concerning the
             case in the courtroom and then walking out into the jury room. In the movie, the
             audience is placed in the role of the invisible casual observer, who for perhaps the
             first 5 minutes of the movie, walks throughout the court building passing other court
             rooms, lawyers, defendants, security officers, elevators, etc. Not able to remember
             much about this particular part of the movie, I believe this introductory scene's
             purpose was to either enhanced the realism of the setting by emphasizing the court
             building's efficient, business like manner or to provide a timeslot in which to roll the
             credits for producer, director, stars, etc. The settings aren't only built upon through
             use of scenery and extras in the movie. Invisible and distant in the play, we see in
             the movie the judge, bailiff, those witnessing the trial and most importantly of all-
             the defendant. This is an important change because in the play, we are free to
             come up with our own unbiased conclu...

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