the audience insights into a characters personality. The film 12 Angry Men

relies more heavily on the use of characterization than any other movie I can

think of. Due to the lack of special effects and because the film takes place

almost entirely in a small jury room the development of characters was key.

This star studded cast of actors included such names as: Henry Fonda, Lee J.

Cobb, and Ed Begley, even the guy from The Odd Couple was in the movie.

An important part of characterization deals with how characters are

revealed. There are four major methods of revealing characterization:

actions, appearance, dialogue, and thoughts. The film 12 Angry Men makes

strong use of all of these methods, but the use of appearance seems to be the

primary method used in revealing characterization. As we are introduced to

the characters we can make fairly accurate assumptions of their personality

based on the court room scene at the beginning of the film. For instance,

juror number two looks like the prototypical nerd; wearing glasses, looking

very awkward and small in stature. Also, juror number six looks very rough

our society is missing from the movie, women. Also, there are no minorities

be more along the lines of just versus unjust. There is no real good versus

strong personalities and not so strong personalities, or leaders and

Another extremely important aspect of film is conflict, without an

society. However, there really isn't a sample of society in the film as half of

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