Essay About Angry Men And Taut Film

12 Angry MenSocial Psychology and “12 Angry Men” Final PaperGloria StacyWestern International UniversityBEH/311-1472 Social PsychologyAssistant Dean Corey Pruitt, MS, CMS, CPCSocial Psychology and “12 Angry Men”The objective of this paper is to present 12 Angry Men as my source that represents various topics from Baron/Bryne/Branscombe/Bhardwaj’s Social Psychology.

“Twelve Angry Men,” is a play originally by Reginald Rose (1957) that was later adapted into film by Sidney Lumet, this taut film that runs 96 minutes. The set and its entirety takes place in a sweltering jury room of a courthouse in the big city of Manhattan. The film is about jurors deliberating on a case to decide the outcome of a trial for a Puerto Rican 18-year old youth. The youth is from the slums and is charged with stabbing his father with a knife resulting in his death. However the film is not just about a deliberating jury, but is also about ones human nature, stereotyping, and how our attitudes and beliefs lead to an unanimous not guilty verdict. The story is thrilling; but most importantly “12 Angry Men” is a masterpiece in the study of Socratic leadership. The leadership can be depicted as provocative with probing questions that compel a person to rethink their opinion and beliefs.

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12 Angry Men is a play, directed by Reginald Rose, featuring the protagonist of The Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Rose.

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The film opens with the protagonist, Daniel, talking about The Twelve Angry Men. The film takes place within a gated community on a small island around the bay. The local press has reported on several suicides and the media portrays it as a ‘ghetto’. The local story begins when Daniel finds out that a group of three-quarters the people don’t really want his three-year-old son to suffer in any significant way. The three-year-old is then stabbed by his mother and killed. He is ultimately shot and buried by the local government. The local press later reports his mother’s suicide as an attempt to ‘protect the young man’. Daniel goes to a few of these homes in New York State to obtain an abortion but in the first place the police refuse to shoot him, claiming he’s too young to die. Daniel eventually starts attending college there after having gone abroad to study and has to attend community prep with the school’s assistant principal, an English professor. At the beginning of the film, one of the students uses a phone to come to Daniel’s home and tell him he can’t come anymore. The teacher tells Daniel that he can come just for the love of the three-year-old, but the teacher refuses to take responsibility for his actions, thus the teacher decides that all the boys have to die. Daniel’s mother dies, and soon when Daniel is fourteen is left behind. Daniel goes to his father’s house alone in an attempt to find his mother who is trying to end his life before he can. Despite his protests, Father Daniel finally recognizes him and goes to his room. He discovers that the house is filled with bodies of innocent men and women. Father Daniel thinks that it could be one of the three-year-old’s father’s. Daniel learns from his father that he is a priest and tells him he must die to put a stop to Father Daniel’s madness.

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The film opens with the protagonist, Daniel, talking about The Twelve Angry Men. The film takes place within a gated community on a small island around the bay. The local press has reported on several suicides and the media portrays it as a ‘ghetto’. The local story begins when Daniel finds out that a group of three-quarters the people don’t really want his three-year-old son to suffer in any significant way. The three-year-old is then stabbed by his mother and killed. He is ultimately shot and buried by the local government. The local press later reports his mother’s suicide as an attempt to ‘protect the young man’. Daniel goes to a few of these homes in New York State to obtain an abortion but in the first place the police refuse to shoot him, claiming he’s too young to die. Daniel eventually starts attending college there after having gone abroad to study and has to attend community prep with the school’s assistant principal, an English professor. At the beginning of the film, one of the students uses a phone to come to Daniel’s home and tell him he can’t come anymore. The teacher tells Daniel that he can come just for the love of the three-year-old, but the teacher refuses to take responsibility for his actions, thus the teacher decides that all the boys have to die. Daniel’s mother dies, and soon when Daniel is fourteen is left behind. Daniel goes to his father’s house alone in an attempt to find his mother who is trying to end his life before he can. Despite his protests, Father Daniel finally recognizes him and goes to his room. He discovers that the house is filled with bodies of innocent men and women. Father Daniel thinks that it could be one of the three-year-old’s father’s. Daniel learns from his father that he is a priest and tells him he must die to put a stop to Father Daniel’s madness.

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In the film; act one there are no scenes where you see or hear the attorneys argue their case. The scene begins with the judge explaining the jurors are charged to come back with an unanimous decision of guilty or not guilty. The jurors are locked into a deliberation room and all evidence is against the boy and a guilty verdict would send this young man to his death by the electric chair. The judge tells the jurors that they were faced with a momentous decision and the court would not divert any acts of mercy if the boy was found guilty. The judge remarks; you are faced with a grave responsibility. The film begins with what some would consider an open-and-shut case of murder, but becomes a drama of each of the individual jurors’ prejudices, stereotyping and preconceptions of the accused on trial and one another. This powerful film explains how the American court system protects individual rights through objective law. The film is complex and overshadowed by prejudice and stereotyping that influenced their decision. As the film goes on, and stereotyping is set aside is when the jurors are able to come to a logical decision on the case.

The twelve jurors, all men, file into the nonair-conditioning jury room and sit around a long conference table. Obviously most of the men are irritable and just want to get the verdict delivered so they can go on with their lives. At the initial start, all jurors except