12 Angry Men compare/contrast

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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

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

guidelines. For the most part, each character I saw in the movie

we are free to come up with our own unbiased conclusions as to the

movie and the differences between that and those garnered at the end

the movie. Invisible and distant in the play, we see in the movie the

depending how it was viewed. Detached from the ending, Juror 3 being

him and can gain some insight into why, later, Juror 8 does so as

Approximate Word count = 1039
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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