“12 ANGRY MEN”: AN ANALYSIS ON ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR CONCEPTS INTRODUCTION The movie “12 Angry Men (1957)”, a powerful courtroom drama which presents a diverse group of twelve jurors who intensely deliberate the guilt or acquittal of an eighteen year old boy accused of murdering his father on the basis of reasonable doubt. Under the United States’ constitution, whether or not, the accused is found guilty or acquitted, the jury must be unanimous in their decision. The movie exhibits the need for
The 1957 film, “12 Angry Men, is centered around an ethnically diverse group of male jurors brought together to decide the fate of a Hispanic teenaged defendant who is accused of murdering his father. This film is an excellent depiction of not only the inter-workings of a group, but also how leadership styles, group developmental stages, social influence tactics and outcomes and the basis of social power are intertwined. The definition of a group work, according to the ASGW (1991, 2004), is
In the movie 12 Angry Men the viewer is able to witness twelve different personalities of the members of the jury. The goal of this jury/group is to come to a consensus as to whether or not the eighteen year old defendant is guilty of murder. According to Bruce Tuckman, healthy work groups need to go through four stages of development: forming, norming, storming and performing. This paper will examine the specific examples of these stages in the movie. Who were the 12 Angry Men? • Juror 1: Foreman
Harsh Krishana 04/22/2015 Social Psychology Asiyat Magomaeva 12 Angry Men The use of the drama 12 Angry Men produced byidney Lumet in 1957 demonstrates a handful of social psychological aspects. This jittery, gripping movie, features a company of 12 jurors who decide the verdict of an accused murderer. Originally, eleven out of the twelve jurors supported guilty. Progressively, through passionate, heated discussions, the jurors are persuaded to a not-guilty conclusion. As the movie progressed, the
Just walking past a stranger, a stream of thoughts flow through your mind. Whether they are good or bad these are assumptions. In 12 Angry Men juror 3, before any evidence has been discussed makes the assumption of the boy being a dangerous killer. "Somebody's in left field....The man's a dangerous killer." Prejudice impacts everyone. To the point where we walk outside knowing people
The film, 12 Angry Men (1957), is a dramatization around a jury that was to choose the destiny of a young man who will receive the death sentence if found guilty. The boy is being accused of killing this father with a knife and is on trial during the movie. Twelve men confined in a little, claustrophobic jury room on a horrendously hot summer day, are being forced to stay until they come up with a final discussion of guilty or not guilty. Through the span of the film the votes went from eleven guilty
Twelve Angry Men is in many ways of a love letter to the American legal justice system. It is all about twelve men, swayed to conclusions by prejudices, past experience, and short sightedness. Nonetheless, one man, holds himself higher and challenge his peers to a greater standard of justice, demanding that this unfairness of society to cease. We see the jurors struggle between the two, seemingly conflicting, purposes of a jury, to punish the guilty and to protect the defendant. Emotions and standard
Twelve Angry men is a play and movie about a nineteen year old boy who is accused of stabbing his father to death. There are twelve Jurors for this trial and there are three jurors who stood out some bad, good and so so. A good juror that stood out is Juror nine, the juror that stood out as bad was juror ten, and my so so juror is juror four. These jurors had positive and negative impacts. My Bad Juror is Juror #10 An example of Juror number 10 trying to intimidate the other Jurors is when
Raymond Jose Rizzo Mrs. Lambert English 1/2 A day October 5, 2015 12 Angry Men In the book 12 Angry Men The author by the name of Reginald Rose intended to give readers a realistic view of democracy and the US Justice system. Based on on my understanding of the play, theres numerous amount of things that could of happened and at the end of the story. all 12 men agreed and voted not guilty due to the fact that there was not enough evidence or proof that the son
12 Angry Jurors is a play that took place in the early 1970’s. The entire play consists of 12 jurors discussing a murder case and the individual who is ‘guilty’ is an African American man in a time where African Americans were still discriminating against. Overall, this production was one worth watching. The play started with a character exposition and then had rising conflicts. One of the best conflicts was the conflict with time and getting to see juror three retrace the steps of the man in questioning