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Jurors 'Core Values In The MGM Film Twelve Angry Men'

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When was the last time you had to convince someone to see things your way? I myself can remember in high school trying to convince my mom to let me spend the night out at my friend’s house to go to work the next morning. My job was in the same area that my friend lived in at the time. With the help of my sister to back me up, I was able to convince my mom letting me spend the night out for work. In the 1957 MGM film Twelve Angry Men, Mr. Davis relies on his core values of priorities, words, and personality to a quit the young man charged with murdering his father. However, I would argue that Mr. Davis self-confident core values can be over convincing and take away the clarity of the jurors’ vote. First convincing way Mr. Davis, juror #8 stood …show more content…

Davis used is sense of words in which he say, “There were eleven votes for guilty. It’s not so easy for me to send a boy off to die without talking about it first. He goes on to analyze the case, pointing out the choppy evidence that was presented to them. After discussing the case, Mr. Davis decides to call for a secret ballot vote, stating “Without casting my vote and if all votes come back guilty, I’ll cast my vote for guilty as well.” Which turned out that what was once a unanimous vote of 11-1 favoring guilty, is now at 10-2 still favoring guilty. The change of vote come from the old man juror #9. That gave Mr. Davis, juror #8 the fuel to continue to express his opinion toward the case showing us his …show more content…

Davis personality towards defending the kid grow stronger, he went above and beyond to produce evidence to help with his claim. Mr. Davis stated, “I got this last night in a little junk shop around the corner from the boy’s house. It cost two dollars” which was a replica of the murder weapon used. That action along got the other jurors upset, saying it was illegal for Mr. Davis to have done that. If that was not enough Mr. Davis calls out juror #3 “You want to see this boy die because you personally want it-not because of the facts.” That made the angry juror #3 upset, he tried attacking Mr. Davis, yelling to him he was going to kill him. Mr. Davis said to him, looking directly in his eyes “you really don’t want to kill me, do you?” Asking that question then showed the other jurors in the room, how people can say things out of stress. Such as how the witness claim to see the incident happening in the middle of the night, with a train passing by, and without her glasses

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