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...