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12 (2007)

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12 (2007)	comment	12 is a 2007 film from Russia, directed by Nikita Mikhalkov (Burnt by the Sun).It is a remake of the American all-time classic 12 Angry Men. Twelve angry Russian men are the jury in the trial of a Chechen youth who is facing life imprisonment for the murder of his Russian adoptive father, who took the boy home from the Chechnya war. As with the 1957 movie, the jury seems to be poised for a quick Guilty verdict, but one holdout—in this film juror #1—surprises the rest by voting Not Guilty. As with the 1957 movie, #1, after first simply insisting that they should take more time to deliberate, starts to poke holes in the prosecution case.The jurors convene not in a cramped jury room as in the original, but in the gym of the next-door high school, because the courthouse is being renovated. As with the 1957 movie, the most insistent Guilty vote is #3, though this Juror #3 is an obnoxiously racist cab driver and old-school Russian who hates Chechen Muslims and Jews. Other jurors include a businessman who was educated in America, an elderly Jew, a surgeon, an actor, a gravedigger, a TV producer—a broad cross-section of (male) Russia. #3's offensive personality starts to sway more jurors to the Not Guilty side, as does the calm logic of #1, who casts more and more doubt on what seemed an Open-and-Shut Case.Besides directing the film, Mikhalkov also stars as juror #2, the foreman.
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12 (2007) / int_1f4bb5b4	comment	Let Me Tell You a Story: A lot. Starts with #1 telling a long story about how his wife was nice to him when he was an alcoholic wreck, so he wants to slow things down and vote guilty. Then another juror tells a long story about how his uncle was let off the hook for having a breakdown and taking people hostage, so he's voting not guilty. Pretty much every juror gets in Let Me Tell You A Story mode at some point. (Hilariously, after #3 tells a long story about how he arrived Just in Time to stop his son from hanging himself, and then changes his vote to Not Guilty, one of the other two Guilty holdouts says "That was very convincing" and changes his vote too.)
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12 (2007) / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
12 (2007) / int_23473ae7	comment	The second major difference between this movie and the original, after the Adaptation Expansion, is that the jurors in this case actually figure out who the real murderers are. They eventually deduce that real estate developers had the soldier killed because he wouldn't vacate his apartment, which is in a building the developers wanted to tear down.
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12 (2007) / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
12 (2007) / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: Not Real Time or close to it like the 1957 film, but still, only a few hours over a single afternoon and evening.
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12 (2007) / int_28604695	type	Rogue Juror
12 (2007) / int_28604695	comment	Rogue Juror: Just as in the original, the skeptical juror conducts his own investigation, including undercutting the prosecution's case by producing a knife that's identical to the murder weapon. Later the real estate developer does the same, getting the bailiff to obtain documents relating to the sale and demolition of the soldier's building.
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12 (2007) / int_43a831db	type	Epic Tracking Shot
12 (2007) / int_43a831db	comment	Epic Tracking Shot: The first vote of the jury is shown in a 3 1/2 minute continuous take in which the camera does a full 360-degree circle around the jury table. Then the camera zooms in on #1 as he announces his Not Guilty vote, before finally cutting to another juror.
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12 (2007) / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
12 (2007) / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: Part of the Adaptation Expansion that makes this movie an hour longer than the first one, as the young man's backstory is filled in through a series of flashbacks.
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12 (2007) / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
12 (2007) / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: You'd think that changing the title from 12 Angry Men to 12 would have freed the filmmakers to put some women on the jury, dammit. Nope. The only female part in the film is that of the boy's mother, seen in the opening dream sequence and a couple of flashbacks.
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12 (2007) / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
12 (2007) / int_615fdb1f	comment	Dream Sequence: Opens with the young man, who has dozed off in court, having an odd dream in which his mother is mouthing the judge's instructions while none other than Mikhail Gorbachev appears giving his December 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union speech.
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12 (2007) / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
12 (2007) / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: #3 the racist cabbie juror is pretty horrible. However, he is properly incredulous at times about the woolly thinking of some of his fellow jurors, like the one who says he's going to vote Not Guilty because his uncle was Let Off by the Detective after snapping at work and taking the secretaries hostage.
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12 (2007) / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
12 (2007) / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: The second major difference between this movie and the original, after the Adaptation Expansion, is that the jurors in this case actually figure out who the real murderers are. They eventually deduce that real estate developers had the soldier killed because he wouldn't vacate his apartment, which is in a building the developers wanted to tear down. At the end, Juror 2 (the foreman), who had until then said he was an artist, reveals he is in fact an officer in the secret police. The epilogue shows him taking in the young Chechen and using his connections to track the real murders down.
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12 (2007) / int_7115b262	type	Repeat Cut
12 (2007) / int_7115b262	comment	Repeat Cut: The opening montage features three consecutive repeats of the same shot of the murderer's feet barreling down the stairs.
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12 (2007) / int_7b3ebb57	type	Buxom Beauty Standard
12 (2007) / int_7b3ebb57	comment	Buxom Beauty Standard: The jurors are impressed when they find a very capacious bra in one of the gym restrooms. Towards the end of the film the gravedigger tells the others that he wants to get this over with, so he can go to the airport and meet his hot young girlfriend. "She has tits like melons!"
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12 (2007) / int_7e226b8a	type	Orbital Shot
12 (2007) / int_7e226b8a	comment	Orbital Shot: As noted above, the first jury vote, the 11-1 vote for conviction, is shown using a camera take that does a full circle completely around the jury table. There's a smaller-scale orbital shot around Juror #1's head right after #3 tells a particularly horrifying hypothetical to get the TV producer to change his vote.
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12 (2007) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
12 (2007) / int_8c41d6e9	comment	Nameless Narrative: As was the case with the original film.
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12 (2007) / int_9ab2d4a	type	The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In
12 (2007) / int_9ab2d4a	comment	The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In: It certainly does when one of the jurors flings the syringe at the dartboard. And later when the surgeon flings the knife up in the air only for it to land dramatically on the table.
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12 (2007) / int_9b0ecf33	type	Title by Number
12 (2007) / int_9b0ecf33	comment	Title by Number: Not 13, that would be silly.
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12 (2007) / int_a8982539	type	Gray Rain of Depression
12 (2007) / int_a8982539	comment	Gray Rain of Depression: A corpse-strewn Urban Warfare ruin in Chechnya is made that much more depressing by rain.
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12 (2007) / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
12 (2007) / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: From America in the 1950s to 2007 Russia. The whole film is really a meditation on the problems facing Russia in the new century, with the cross-section of jurors from a variety of backgrounds, and the aging, decrepit gym representing Russia's decaying infrastructure.
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12 (2007) / int_d56607ad	type	Jury Duty
12 (2007) / int_d56607ad	comment	Jury Duty: Think so?
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12 (2007) / int_d56c9b8d	type	Eagleland Osmosis
12 (2007) / int_d56c9b8d	comment	Eagleland Osmosis: Actually, juries are not required to reach unanimous verdicts in the Russian legal system if they have deliberated for longer than three hours.
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12 (2007) / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
12 (2007) / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: #1 has the number of the 1957 film's Juror #1, but the overall personality and role of Juror #8. #3 is openly racist and biased against the defendant, bringing Juror #10 to mind.
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12 (2007) / int_e7968ad2	type	Stock Legal Phrases
12 (2007) / int_e7968ad2	comment	Stock Legal Phrases: One juror mentions "beyond a reasonable doubt", admits that it's an American Stock Legal Phrase, but still uses it to justify his not guilty vote.
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