Twelve Angry Men
The feature film twelve angry men is a wonderful example of how twelve individuals work through their differences in the movie and finally emerge as a cohesive unit. The two main characters in the movie are Juror number eight who is Henry Fonda and Juror number three who is Lee .J. Cobb. In the first scene in the movie the group process is in its embryonic stages with none of the jurors knowing each other. They first argue about how much time they should spend on the case as eleven out of the twelve jurors vote the boy as guilty in the preliminary vote with only Henry Fonda voting the boy as not guilty as he had a reasonable amount of doubt in his mind about the case and wanted to be sure before giving his judgment as the boy would have faced death through the electric chair if pronounced guilty. The jury needed to be unanimous in their decision therefore Fonda proposed to have a secret vote to see if anyone else changed their mind. Fonda did not vote here as he agreed he would vote the boy guilty if all the rest of the eleven jurors did so also. As it was one of the jurors voted not guilty and the direction of the case turned once again. This was a very important vote
Finally after a lot of discussion and arguing juror number three breaks down crying and changes his vote to not guilty. We see a lot of different personalities in this movie with each juror having his own distinct personality. This was not the case at all as it was juror number nine (Joseph Sweeney) who had changed his vote. This is where we see changes emerging within the jury. He has a very discriminatory type of an attitude towards juror number nine which angers juror number six who then reprimands him ( Cobb) for his actions. However juror's three and four are still not convinced due to the testimony of the woman across the street. Cobb who is juror number three is extremely angered with the proceedings and the influence juror number eight is having on the decisions of the other jurors that he has a violent outbreak and threatens to kill juror number eight and has to be restrained. Juror number eight then presents a series of other questions about the case and then a serious question about the victim's height arises. We see leadership skills from juror number one here as he is the most businesslike amongst all the jurors and he is the first one to break up a fight when it occurs. He then remember that the woman from across the street had these same impressions on her nose which meant that she had a weak eyesight and thus used spectacles. The vote now changes to nine to three in favor of guilty with juror numbers one, seven and twelve changing their mind. The vote now changes to nine to three in favor of guilty with juror number five changing his mind. The other main character of the movie - Lee .
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