39,327
edits
12 Angry Men: Difference between revisions
m
Mass update links
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) m (Fix title in text) |
m (Mass update links) |
||
Line 6:
This work is best known as the film that [[Trope Codifier|popularized]] the [[Rogue Juror]] trope. Though it was not the first work to use it, it was the first to receive widespread critical acclaim. It's a classic of American cinema and recommended watching- if only because most of the other works on the Rogue Juror page reference it either directly or indirectly.
According to the American Film Institute, it's the second best courtroom drama movie in history, after ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'''s film adaptation. In 1997 it was adapted yet again, this time as a [[Made for TV]] movie on [[Showtime]] starring Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott (the main difference in this version being the [[Cluster F
----
Line 39:
'''Juror #11:''' ''Doesn't'' even speak good English. }}
** To make it even funnier, Juror #11 is an immigrant to America from Europe.
* [[I'll Kill You!|I'LL KILL YOU!]]
** [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|"You don't really mean you'll kill me, do you?"]]
* [[Implacable Man]]: Juror #4 is a purely intellectual version, a highly intelligent man who looks at the case with pure logic to defend his guilty vote rather than the more passionate and personal views of the others. He's also the only one who doesn't take his jacket off or loosen his tie in the hot room, claiming to never sweat. Subverted when he starts sweating when questioned about a movie he saw four days earlier.
Line 55:
** The 1997 update features one Latino juror and three African-Americans. In a twist, one of the latter is a [[Malcolm Xerox]] version of the bigoted Juror #10.
* [[Nice Hat]]: Juror #7 dons a straw fedora throughout the film.
* [[No Name Given]]/[[The Trope Without a Title]]/[[You Are Number Six]]/[[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The jurors are known only by their numbers. The epilogue (in the film only, not in the play) [[Subverted Trope|gives last names for two of them]] (Davis for #8, and McCardle for #9).
* [[Minimalist Cast]]: At the beginning, other people (such as the defendant and the judge) are briefly shown, but for the rest of the film, we only see the twelve jurors.
** And the guard, briefly.
Line 75:
** And Juror #3 shortly afterward. Made somewhat more poignant by the reactions of the other jurors; where they reacted to #10's breakdown with silent anger, they watch #3's meltdown with something closer to pity, as most of them realise why he is really pushing for a guilty verdict even as he denies the true reason, not just to the other jurors but to himself.
* [[Wham Line]]: #8 has a wham ''action'' when he pulls out a switchblade identical to the murder weapon, but the best has to go to #9 when he points out the female witness had glasses marks on her nose, which renders her testimony useless (meaning she wasn't wearing her glasses at the time she saw the stabbing, meaning she wouldn't have been able to see the murderer correctly).
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: It's never clear if the kid really did it, but that isn't the point. And many modern lawyers say that the jury made the correct decision as far as reasonable doubt goes.
** It should be noted that even though acquittal was the right decision, the way they got to it was partly wrong; for a juror to conduct his own investigations the way #8 did should have resulted in an immediate mistrial. However, since the knife was only one aspect of the reasonable doubt, and the other points were arrived at properly, the verdict was still correct.
* [[You Wouldn't Shoot Me]]: Juror #3 is asked to reenact the stabbing process on Juror #8. Given the tension between the two men, and #3's almost maniacal bloodthirstiness, there's a definite tension as to how "real" #3 will make the reenactment. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by the alarmed reactions of most of the other ten jurors as he draws back the knife.
| |||