Many people, if asked what they would prefer, would prefer to read the book instead of watching the movie. It could be because the movie will always leave some parts from the story out. It seems like directors of the movie always leave out parts from the book, only incorporating the important parts from the story. Some also say that they prefer to leave the descriptions of things in the book up to their imagination. Also, when you are reading the book, you get to read the main characters point of view on things.
This is how groupthink is displayed because as said in the text, it was impossible to not join in. The way people were supposed to act was already somehow planned into their brains. They weren’t
Daja McLaurin Benton TA: Yiwen Dai Communications: 250 1 April, 2016 12 Angry Men Assessment After viewing the movie 12 Angry Men the group was able to implement the ideas of group think immediately during the start of the movie. Since the men briefly established a relationship from the time of witnessing the trial to start of deliberation n the empty room and reaching a unanimous decision, they found that all of the men initially achieved a verdict of guilty accept for juror 8. After this surprising decision the men began to show their true colors and distinguish how one may believe something and another juror may believe another. The group takes time in pleading individual opinions while deciding on the guilt or innocence of a young boy
In Twelve Angry Men by Sherman Sergel and Reginald Rose, Juror Ten believes the boy is innocent throughout most of the play because of his perspective and opinion of people from the boys same ethnicity. In Act 1 the Jurors start to sit down and talk about how harsh the crime was when Juror Ten says, ‘“A kid kills his father. Bing! Just like that.
Diversity in Our Own lives Think about where you live. On your street are the people around you all similar, or are there some people who have different race, political views, gender, religious practices, education, and age? We tend to want to group ourselves with people like us. You might not even notice that you’re doing it either. Most of the time it just comes naturally.
The only real way to combat the negative effects of groupthink is to cast aside your surrounding society’s norms of what is ‘good’ and ‘bad’, and to take a personal stance against that society no matter what the cost may be. The Salem Witch Trials as represented in The Crucible by Arthur Miller are a perfect, if slightly extreme, example of what herd mentality can lead to if left long enough to fester and grow. John Proctor is the character who takes a stand against his surrounding society, losing his life in the process but also breaking the thrall of groupthink for the town of Salem, effectively setting them free from the Witch Trials. There are two main types of people affected by groupthink: those who unconsciously go with the crowd and are unaware, and those who are simply too scared to speak up.
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose is a play about twelve men on a jury who are trying to decide the guilt or innocence of a boy who is charged with the murder of his father. Throughout the deliberation process, the men struggle to have a unanimous vote because of all their assumptions on the trial. Two of the jurors have biases which cause them to think one way or another, one more beneficial than the other. Hence proving a man's life experiences has an enormous effect on how he behaves and judges in situations like jury duty. The jurors have very strong feelings on the verdict the boy should get based on their own life experiences, causing very personal arguments during the play, but ultimately all the jurors concluded the boy is innocent.
Why Doubt is More Important than Certainty in 12 Angry Men It is very clear that certainty and doubt both play important roles in the play, 12 Angry Men, by Reginald Rose. Certainty is when you are absolutely positive about something. Doubt is to be uncertain about or to not be fully convinced. In the play, 12 men are put to the task of deciding whether or not a 19-year boy is guilty of killing his father.
It is a natural human instinct to want to be acknowledge by your peers, yet it is also important to be a critical thinker. Irving Janis in 1972 created the term groupthink. He believed groupthink occurs inside a group of similar people that want to keep from being different, resulting in incoherent decision-making. The 1957 film "12 Angry Men," uses groupthink, which influenced the verdict vote in the case of a teenager accused of murdering his father. The purpose of this essay is to examine groupthink and to represent Dr. Irving Janis’ symptoms of groupthink in the film.
Developing differing ideas from the group one is associated with can hinder one’s ability to expand their own thoughts. It is challenging to “stand out against one’s group” especially when it is a “group of one’s peers” because they all have the same ideals and expect the same of the entire group. Having a contrasting opinion with someone is challenging and it may be difficult to speak up about an altered opinion. Mainly because of the thought of rising conflict or peers arguing. It’s evident that humans know what they believe but can’t find a way to express their opinions.
Group think According to Janis, who coined the term; groupthink “occurs when a group makes faulty decisions because group pressures lead to a deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment” (1972, p. 9) further group think often leads to a decrease in the mental efficacy perception of reality and moral judgement, as personages find themselves in a group system that seeks high cohesion and unanimity which delimits the motivation of the individual to realistically appraise alternate courses of action (Janis, 1972). A common trait of a collective experiencing this phenomenon, is an inclination to take irrational decision making in addition to members of the group being similar in background and further being insulated from external insight. Comparably the singularity of groupthink is present in the film 12 Angry Men, and appears anecdotally, early on the film, present in the expected unanimous vote of ‘guilty,’ that will send the defendant to the electric chair. Invulnerability Literature surrounding the concept of group think is greatly rooted in the writings of Janis.
Psychologist Irving Janis explained some alarmingly bad decisions made by governments and businesses coined the term "groupthink”, which he called "fiascoes.” He was particularly drawn to situations where group pressure seemed to result in a fundamental failure to think. Therefore, Janis further analyzed that it is a quick and easy way to refer to a mode of thinking people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members ' striving for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action. According to Janis, groupthink is referred as the psychological drive for consensus at any cost that suppresses disagreement and prevents the appraisal of alternatives in cohesive decision-making groups.
12 angry men was an interesting story. The way that it started and ended was stupendous, I liked how the situation was really that serious a kid was accused of murdering his father, later in the hot sweaty room it was blazing hot for them which was a very good detail in the movie. They longer they stayed in that room the more tense it was. So, they tried settling it by taking votes at the table, but it became 6 out of 12 then they started to be more detailed in their evidence. one of the men brought the same knife as the original one that the kid may or may not have use to murder his father.
In the 1980s graphic novelists Alan Moore and David Lloyd created a comic strip, "V for Vendetta", in which the main protagonist is a cloaked anarchist who wears a grinning, mustachioed Guy Fawkes mask while battling against a fascist authoritarian state. The authors wanted to celebrate Fawkes by turning him into an anti-hero for the modern age. The comic was made into a film in 2006, and although it deviated from the original in a number of ways the mask of "V" was a faithful rendition of the stylized image from the book. Plastic masks to commemorate the release of the film were distributed to fans and could be bought online. Two years later, in January 2008, Anonymous launched "Project Chanology"—a coordinated attack on the Church of Scientology’s
The movie “Twelve Angry Men” illustrates how twelve men are the jury reflecting a young man’s life who may or may not be the murder of his father. The main objective at aim is to reach a reasonable agreement by negotiation. The boy’s fate of being not guilty or guilty and being sentenced to death is in the hands of these men. Over the course of the jury’s deliberation, a number of differences take place. In the end, these assorted differences are negotiated and agreed upon.
