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12 Angry Men

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12 Angry Men	comment	12 Angry Men is a 1957 drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, adapted by screenwriter Reginald Rose from his own teleplay of the same name. It stars Henry Fonda and a veritable All-Star Cast of character actors as the eponymous jury.The plot concerns a seemingly straightforward murder trial. An eyewitness, forensic evidence, and the accused himself all seem to clearly point toward an adolescent boy from the slums having murdered his father with a switchblade knife. In the deliberation room, most of the jury pushes for a quick "guilty" verdict — but a single juror, known only as Juror #8, holds out and insists that they reexamine the evidence thoroughly to make damn sure the accused actually deserves his punishment: a mandatory death sentence.This work is best known for popularizing the Rogue Juror trope, and most of the other works on the Rogue Juror page will reference it, either directly or indirectly. There is even a redirect to the trope in reference to this film: One Angry Juror.Rose's original teleplay, which aired on CBS in 1954 as an episode of the live dramatic anthology series Westinghouse Studio One, starred Robert Cummings as Juror #8. The broadcast earned Emmy Awards for Rose, Cummings, and director Franklin Schaffner.Adaptations 12 Angry Men (1997): Made-for-TV movie on Showtime, directed by William Friedkin and starring Jack Lemmon as Juror #8 and George C. Scott as the main antagonist, Juror #3. This adaptation race lifted several jurors, gender flipped the judge, and added more cussing. Twelve: 2007 Russian version
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12 Angry Men / int_1257a2d1	comment	Juror #9 also suggests that this trope could explain why the old man testified that he saw the defendant fleeing the murder scene, when his ability to have done so was severely in doubt. He was so eager for the chance to be part of a murder investigation and trial that it overrode his good sense.
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12 Angry Men / int_146f4e0	type	Blind Without 'Em
12 Angry Men / int_146f4e0	comment	Blind Without 'Em: An important plot point: Juror #9 recalls that a key witness in the murder case had marks on her nose suggesting that she usually wears glasses, though opted not to in court. #8 points out that she was unlikely to be wearing them in bed late at night when she claims to have seen the murder from all the way across the street, thereby making her less than credible as a witness.
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12 Angry Men / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
12 Angry Men / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Juror #9, the oldest member of the cast and the first to support #8. He is also an excellent observer, even better than juror #8 himself, and the key to winning over some of the staunchest supporters of a guilty verdict.
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12 Angry Men / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
12 Angry Men / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: When his argument is refuted, Juror #4 simply says "I'm convinced. Not guilty."
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12 Angry Men / int_19660a62	type	Non-Specifically Foreign
12 Angry Men / int_19660a62	comment	Non-Specifically Foreign: Several characters are noted for their ethnicity or nationality, but what ethnicity or nationality they are is never stated. Most notably, the defendant is either of some sort of ethnic minority or lower social class and lives in a slum, which has several of the jurors, particularly #10, predisposed into mistrusting him. Juror #5 is noted several times to have a similar economic background to the defendant and is implied to be an ethnic minority as well, while #11 is from an unspecified European country and is proud to be taking part in an American democratic process. The vagueness allows stagings of the play to get creative, the examples from both films being: The film's interpretation has the defendant appearing to be Italian or possibly Latino; #5 is played by Jack Klugman, who is Jewish; and #11 is played by George Voskovec, who is Czech (born in what was then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire). In the 1997 version, the defendant is explicitly Latino, #5 is Black (as are #1, #2, and interestingly enough, #10, whose racism stems from being a card-carrying member of the Nation of Islam movement), and #11 is Latino instead of European — and not the only immigrant this time, as #4 is German.
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12 Angry Men / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
12 Angry Men / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Juror #3 set out to toughen his son up after seeing him run away from a fight. He succeeded; his son got into a fight with him, punched him out, left, and they haven't spoken to one another for years.
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12 Angry Men / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
12 Angry Men / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: The witnesses mentioned are never shown, only described by the jurors—specifically Juror #9, who does so to make observations and hypotheses about them.
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12 Angry Men / int_1c4e308e	type	The Spock
12 Angry Men / int_1c4e308e	comment	The Spock: Juror #4 is certainly the most rational of the group, concerning himself purely with the facts. Despite being one of the last holdouts in favor of conviction, he listens to all of his opponents' arguments with an open mind. Once all of his objections have been rebutted, he changes his vote without complaint.
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12 Angry Men / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
12 Angry Men / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Similar to the above, Juror #4 is also the most calm and collected of the jurors, never raising his voice or showing strong emotions of any kind. He's not completely stoic, though, as a few scenes evidence. He becomes visibly unnerved while being interrogated by Juror #8, and towards the end, expresses annoyance towards Juror #3 (for his obnoxiousness), Juror #9 (for badgering him with seemingly-inane questions instead of getting to the point), and Juror #10 (for being obviously prejudiced against the defendant, instead of arriving at that conclusion by the exercise of logic).
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12 Angry Men / int_1d7d1b93	type	Remake Cameo
12 Angry Men / int_1d7d1b93	comment	Remake Cameo: More like Remake Reappearance. Joseph Sweeney (Juror #9) and George Voskovec (Juror #11) reprise their roles from the 1954 TV version.
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12 Angry Men / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
12 Angry Men / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: The killing itself. The audience is never shown if the defendant did murder the victim or if he's innocent. But that's the entire point of the movie, which leads to the Aesop below.
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12 Angry Men / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
12 Angry Men / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Jurors #8 and #9, who were the first to vote "not guilty" and swayed most of the others with their arguments, exchange names at the end, implying they've formed a bond through the rigorous deliberation.
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12 Angry Men / int_24b88e85	type	Unwanted Assistance
12 Angry Men / int_24b88e85	comment	Unwanted Assistance: Near the conclusion, when Jurors #3 and #4 are the last ones still arguing for conviction, #4 is clearly annoyed at having his rational arguments undermined by #3's not-so-rational cheering from over his shoulder.
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12 Angry Men / int_24cf8a0e	type	Speech-Centric Work
12 Angry Men / int_24cf8a0e	comment	Speech-Centric Work: The film consists of the twelve jurors debating whether or not the defendant is guilty.
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12 Angry Men / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
12 Angry Men / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Juror #10 seems to have one of these, you know what I mean? sniff
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12 Angry Men / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
12 Angry Men / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: It's not established exactly at what time deliberations started, but it's implied they started no later than noon, through a rainstorm that started late in the afternoon, and finally winding down sometime after 6 pm, of the same day. The editing makes it feel like it's happening in Real Time, but the outside lighting and weather reminds us that it's actually taking a bit longer.
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12 Angry Men / int_28604695	type	Rogue Juror
12 Angry Men / int_28604695	comment	Rogue Juror: If not the Trope Maker, definitely the Trope Codifier. Juror #8 is the sole holdout on a case which appears to indicate that the accused is definitely a murderer. However, as the jury is forced to analyze the evidence in detail, they slowly discover that almost all of it is flawed in some way. Worth noting that, unlike some other examples, the rogue juror isn't convinced of the suspect's innocence either; he just wants to make sure they've done their job properly, as the accused is facing a mandatory death sentence. It leaves the question of the suspect's guilt or innocence ambiguous in the end. However, because there was reasonable doubt, a verdict of "not guilty" is appropriate.note Interestingly, while #8 is trying to get everyone else to do their job properly, he is not. Conducting your own investigation and bringing a weapon into the jury room are both serious juror misconduct. This leads to a bit of Values Dissonance between laypeople and legal professionals watching the same film/play. Towards the end of the film, Juror #3 becomes this for the other side, after all the other jurors have decided there's enough doubt that they can't justify a guilty verdict.
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12 Angry Men / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
12 Angry Men / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Juror #8. His smarts kick-start the plot.
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12 Angry Men / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
12 Angry Men / int_2a090d00	comment	Juror #3 is asked to re-enact 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 re-enactment. Lampshaded by the alarmed reactions of most of the other ten jurors as he draws back the knife.
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12 Angry Men / int_2f1ddb04	type	Perfect Health
12 Angry Men / int_2f1ddb04	comment	Perfect Health: Averted. Juror #9 has a head cold. It's not a plot point or anything. He just has a head cold. It's one of many distractions that cause some jurors to want to rush through the deliberation and go back to their lives.
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12 Angry Men / int_2f3cf3a2	type	Stoic Spectacles
12 Angry Men / int_2f3cf3a2	comment	Stoic Spectacles: Juror #4 is a "rational stockbroker, unflappable, self-assured, and analytical".
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12 Angry Men / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
12 Angry Men / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: Juror #8 states that he went walking in the defendant's neighborhood, and found a copy of the supposedly unique switchblade knife in a local store. He presents it to the jury to prove his point. In a real jury proceeding, the term for this is "juror misconduct." Jurors are not permitted to perform their own investigations, or admit their own evidence (the second knife), and they're really not supposed to consider evidence not presented in court. If it were to come out that #8 did all this, it's possible (though unlikely, given the double jeopardy prohibition) the verdict could be set aside, and #8 could be charged for his actions. There is at least an acknowledgement that #8 broke the law by buying the knife, but nobody brings up that searching for a knife is misconduct. Of course, none of the jurors are lawyers, so it's possible that they didn't recognize the acts as such. In addition to considering evidence not introduced in court, the jurors outright disregard many of the witness testimonies that were introduced in court, for reasons that the prosecutor and defense attorney never actually brought up as possible issues (like the fact that one of the witnesses may or may not have been nearsighted). In Real Life, only a judge has the final say on whether or not statements in court can be considered credible, and jurors aren't supposed to disregard witness testimonies unless a judge instructs them to disregard them. That said, this doesn't always stop it from happening, since once someone has witnessed something, it can't just be erased from their mind. This is why both prosecution and defense have to be careful not to cause situation or statements that could influence the minds of the jury to give their side a disadvantage. The jury seems to be operating under a "slightest possible doubt" basis instead of beyond a reasonable doubt.
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12 Angry Men / int_374c339d	type	I'll Kill You!
12 Angry Men / int_374c339d	comment	Referring back to the I'll Kill You! example above, Juror #8 afterwards remarks, "You don't really mean you'll kill me, do you?"
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12 Angry Men / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
12 Angry Men / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Juror #3 sarcastically refers to Juror #12 as "the boy in the grey flannel suit." Lee J. Cobb (Juror #3) appeared in the film The Man In The Grey Flannel Suit in the previous year.
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12 Angry Men / int_3e87fc1f	type	Psychological Projection
12 Angry Men / int_3e87fc1f	comment	Psychological Projection: It becomes clear by the end that the real reason Juror #3 is so insistent on a guilty conviction is because he's projecting his own problems with his son onto the case.
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12 Angry Men / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
12 Angry Men / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Juror #10 digs his own grave when he starts shooting his mouth off about how inferior the lower classes are. By the time he's finished, when everyone has clearly stopped listening, this trope — delivered by #4 — is all it takes to shut him up for the rest of the movie.
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12 Angry Men / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
12 Angry Men / int_443b78cd	comment	Juror #8 catches #10 in a bit of a contradiction early on, which earns him a cold, sarcastic reply.
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12 Angry Men / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
12 Angry Men / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...:
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12 Angry Men / int_4499cea4	type	SecondhandStorytelling
12 Angry Men / int_4499cea4	comment	Secondhand Storytelling: Since the film is about a jury deliberating a crime, we only ever seen them talking. All information about the crime is related to us by them discussing it amongst themselves.
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12 Angry Men / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
12 Angry Men / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Both Juror #8 and #4 debate their points without getting too personal, each seems to be just as factual as the other, and #4 certainly seems to view #8 this way.
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12 Angry Men / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
12 Angry Men / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Juror #4 initially comes like a bit of an aloof jerk, but by the end he proves to be one of the more reasonable jurors, calling out #10 for his bigoted rant, changing his verdict when given sensible reason to do so, and clearly regretful at the end when he realizes where he went wrong with his reasoning prior.
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12 Angry Men / int_4971b851	type	Aggressive Categorism
12 Angry Men / int_4971b851	comment	Aggressive Categorism: Juror #10 is one of the last holdouts for a guilty verdict. As time goes on it becomes clearer and clearer that he doesn't care about the evidence; the defendant is a young man from the slums, and for #10 that is enough to think he's guilty. None of the other jurors, even #3 and #4, agree with him and instead ignore his last rant about the defendant until he runs out of steam.
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12 Angry Men / int_4ce20451	type	Rhetorical Request Blunder
12 Angry Men / int_4ce20451	comment	Rhetorical Request Blunder: A plot point: The defendant was overheard yelling "I'll Kill You!!" to the victim, who later ended up stabbed to death. Rogue Juror #8 points out that this doesn't necessarily prove the defendant was the murderer, as anyone might say something like that in a fit of anger. To prove the point, Juror 3 later becomes so angry at 8 that he yells "I'll kill you!", to which 8 retorts, "You don't really mean you'll kill me, do you?"
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12 Angry Men / int_4cf9fe88	type	Clueless Mystery
12 Angry Men / int_4cf9fe88	comment	Clueless Mystery: An interesting twist on it: the details all appear on screen, but in the end, we never learn the truth about the murder that led to the trial in the first place, as the ending is ambiguous as to whether or not the defendant was truly guilty.note While he is found not guilty, the jurors themselves even note that they can't be 100% certain that the boy didn't murder his father. They have merely established reasonable doubt to believe that he didn't.
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12 Angry Men / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
12 Angry Men / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Each time a piece of evidence is found to be wanting, a Wham Line usually reveals the flaw, i.e. "No one who had used one of these knives would hold it like that." "What movie did you see that night?" etc. One especially notable one (for how thoroughly it demolishes a key piece of evidence):
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12 Angry Men / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Juror #8 pulls out a switchblade and sticks it into the table right next to the "unique" murder weapon, showing that they are identical.
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12 Angry Men / int_505ec51b	type	Immigrant Patriotism
12 Angry Men / int_505ec51b	comment	Immigrant Patriotism: Juror #11 takes a moment to gush about the jury trial system, and how it could only happen in a democracy like the United States. They never say where he came from, but the implication is that the country he was from is not a democracy. He also berates #7 for refusing to take the process seriously, and makes a point to make sure he is speaking English more properly than the bigoted natural-born #10.
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12 Angry Men / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
12 Angry Men / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: For a flexible definition of "evil", since he is more of an antagonist than a villain (although his actions would lead to the death of a kid): juror #4 is calm, polite, doesn't mock juror #8 or his doubts and only brings up logical and factual arguments for his position. He doesn't act out of malice or prejudice, but because he sincerely believes the kid to be guilty.
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12 Angry Men / int_549a92e7	type	Minimalism
12 Angry Men / int_549a92e7	comment	Minimalism: Apart from a very short prologue and epilogue, the entire play/film takes place in the jury room (and an adjacent bathroom).
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12 Angry Men / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
12 Angry Men / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: Did the boy really kill his father? If he didn't, who did? Since the play and film only see the case from the jurors' perspective (not the police's), it is never discovered. All that is known is that there is reasonable doubt as to the boy's guilt — which, under the laws of the United States, is enough to keep him from being convicted. Truth in Television, of course — jurors not working on an obvious Open-and-Shut Case rarely get "closure" as to whether or not they were right.
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12 Angry Men / int_5c385fe1	type	Profiling
12 Angry Men / int_5c385fe1	comment	Profiling: The defendant's background is the main reason Juror #10 wants a guilty verdict. It is not made clear what the background of the defendant is, however, presenting a generalised prejudicial outlook from Juror #10. It is possible that the defendant is of an ethic minority, or belongs to a lower class in the eyes of #10.
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12 Angry Men / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
12 Angry Men / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: Juror #8 remains calm when Juror #3 is pretending to stab him (the other jurors are standing up, worried that #3 is actually going to stab him).
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12 Angry Men / int_5f1999a0	type	Building of Adventure
12 Angry Men / int_5f1999a0	comment	Building of Adventure: Except for the opening and closing scenes in the courtroom itself, the story never leaves the jury room.
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12 Angry Men / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
12 Angry Men / int_60b21fa3	comment	The Lancer: Juror #9 acts as this, to some extent, to Juror #8. #9 is the first person to side with #8, and helps him out when he's arguing with the others. As does #4 to #3. #4 provides logical reasoning for all of #3's passionate arguments, and is one of the last people to change his mind.
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12 Angry Men / int_66faa669	type	Silence, You Fool!
12 Angry Men / int_66faa669	comment	Silence, You Fool!: In the 1957 film, Juror #3 impolitely orders Juror #2 to be quiet, when he interrupts him:
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12 Angry Men / int_69cce3dc	type	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
12 Angry Men / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Juror #3 is at first adamant that the old man's testimony is a vital part of the trial, but when it becomes clear that the old man may have been exaggerating what he saw, he says "Half the time he was confused. How can he be positive about anything?" and immediately realizes that he just discredited his own argument.
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12 Angry Men / int_6ad1eeb8	type	Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality
12 Angry Men / int_6ad1eeb8	comment	Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality: The only characters are the members of an all-male jury. Some modern versions try to correct this by making the judge a woman. Others simply opt to re-title the play "Twelve Angry Jurors" just so that some of the jury can be women.
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12 Angry Men / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
12 Angry Men / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: During Juror #10's racist rant, each of the other jurors turns away from him in disgust and eventually tell him to shut up. When Juror #3 starts shouting at the end, the other jurors listen in silence, as they realize that #3 is in the middle of an emotional breakdown and needs time to let it out and process it.
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12 Angry Men / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
12 Angry Men / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: None of the jurors were named in the play. In the film, two of them are given names in the epilogue.
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12 Angry Men / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
12 Angry Men / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: Though the pro-acquittal side is painted A Lighter Shade of Grey.
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12 Angry Men / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
12 Angry Men / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: Juror #9, who provides great insights on the eyewitnesses based on their appearances at court, and in turn gives fairly logical reasons for why their testimonies might not be truthful.
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12 Angry Men / int_779009b5	type	Beware the Quiet Ones
12 Angry Men / int_779009b5	comment	Beware the Quiet Ones: Juror #4 is soft-spoken, calm, polite. He is also the one who sternly answers Juror #10 when he goes on his prejudiced tirade and shuts him up for good. In some versions, it's taken further as he threatens him with physical violence.
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12 Angry Men / int_786d6cf6	type	You Wouldn't Shoot Me
12 Angry Men / int_786d6cf6	comment	You Wouldn't Shoot Me: Juror #3 is asked to re-enact 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 re-enactment. Lampshaded by the alarmed reactions of most of the other ten jurors as he draws back the knife. Referring back to the I'll Kill You! example above, Juror #8 afterwards remarks, "You don't really mean you'll kill me, do you?"
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12 Angry Men / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
12 Angry Men / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Juror #8 catches #10 in a bit of a contradiction early on, which earns him a cold, sarcastic reply. A very intense one happens after #8 baits #3 into lashing out at him.
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12 Angry Men / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
12 Angry Men / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Juror #11 to Juror #7, after the latter changes his vote just to break the deadlock:
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12 Angry Men / int_7f6c8e4f	type	Reverse Grip
12 Angry Men / int_7f6c8e4f	comment	Reverse Grip: Used as a point of contention between the jury. Allegedly the accused stabbed downwards into the victim using the reverse grip. However, Juror #5, who is from the slums, points out that nobody who has experience in knife fights would ever use this with a switchblade, as it would be suicide to pause for a second to change to it in a fight.
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12 Angry Men / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
12 Angry Men / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Juror #8 is first seen pondering at the window of the jury room before being called over to begin deliberations. Notably, he isn't shown speaking and chattering excitedly like most of the jurors, hinting that the majority sentiment won't go through as easily as previously thought. During the initial vote, some jurors raise their hands right away to vote guilty, while the rest except for #8 are more reluctant, showing who will be the hardest to win over.
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12 Angry Men / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
12 Angry Men / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Downplayed as the character doesn't seem to consider it actually funny, but after the knife display (see Dude, Not Funny! below) juror #8 doesn't even blink, and agrees that there was no harm done.
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12 Angry Men / int_80d0d980	type	The Generic Guy
12 Angry Men / int_80d0d980	comment	The Generic Guy: The jurors don't all get the same amount of focus, but most of them get at least one moment or trait to really set them apart from the others. Juror #1 doesn't really get this so much. He's one of the jurors with the fewest lines and mostly just serves as the one who will officially read out the verdict once it's reached but plays very little role in actually reaching it. Juror #6 also gets very little characterization; the only thing that's ever really revealed about him is the fact that he works as a interior painter.
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12 Angry Men / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
12 Angry Men / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: Of all people, Juror #4. In the original 1954 TV movie, when Juror #10 goes on his prejudiced rant towards the end, Juror #4 basically intimidates him into shutting up by telling him that if he open his mouth again, he (#4) will "split his skull". This makes it seem like #10 only relents because he's too terrified not to. But in the movie, when Juror #10 asks why they aren't listening to him, #4 merely says quietly "We have. Now, sit down and don't open your mouth again." This seems to make #10 realize at last just how much the others despise him, and he shuts up not because he's frightened but because he's ashamed to realise that he doesn't speak for anyone else.
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12 Angry Men / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
12 Angry Men / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: Juror #8 performs outside research and enters a second knife into the proceeding. US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor stated that this would lead to a mistrial (if the law allowed the jury's deliberations to be revealed).
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12 Angry Men / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
12 Angry Men / int_8c41d6e9	comment	Nameless Narrative: No names are used for any of the jurors, and not even for the victim or defendant. The film added an epilogue not in the play that gives last names for Juror #8 (Davis) and Juror #9 (McCardle).
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12 Angry Men / int_8e3b5b4d	type	Minimalist Cast
12 Angry Men / int_8e3b5b4d	comment	Minimalist Cast: At the beginning of the film, 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 bailiff, briefly). The play doesn't show anyone but the jurors and the bailiff, with the judge's voice only being heard from off-stage.
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12 Angry Men / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
12 Angry Men / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The murder victim was an abusive father.
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12 Angry Men / int_92163e88	type	Locked in a Room
12 Angry Men / int_92163e88	comment	Locked in a Room: A deliberation room. Lampshaded by #5 and #10.
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12 Angry Men / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
12 Angry Men / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: When Juror #10 delivers his famous rant. "Listen... listen to me...." 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.
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12 Angry Men / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
12 Angry Men / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: When, in the middle of his furious insistence that the defendant is guilty, Juror #3 sees the picture of his estranged son and rips it to pieces, you can see in his face that he has just figured out what he was really doing. Vaguely implied for Juror #10. When he rants at length about how "they" (the unspecified social/ethnic group the defendant belongs to) are by nature nothing but a bunch of hotheaded liars and killers, the way all eleven of the other jurors respond with silent open contempt for his views, followed by #4's command to sit down and not say another word causes him to go practically catatonic. He spends the remainder of the deliberation silently staring at nothing, and after #4 changes his vote to not guilty, #10 soon follows. It is left ambiguous, if this means he was actually rethinking his views, or if he just felt defeated. The original teleplay and the Showtime version aren't as ambiguous; when the final vote is taken, #10 flat out says he believes the defendant is guilty, he's just voting "not guilty" cause he's done butting heads with the others.
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12 Angry Men / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
12 Angry Men / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: Who killed the man if the defendant was not guilty? For that matter, is the defendant not guilty in the first place? We never get an answer. Even Juror #8 acknowledges the kid probably is guilty, it's just that "probably" is not "beyond a reasonable doubt." What are the names of the 12 angry men in particular? The movie adaptations add the names Davis and McCardle to Jurors #8 and #9 respectively, but the names of the remaining 10 jurors are left unrevealed.
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12 Angry Men / int_97b30203	type	Implied Trope
12 Angry Men / int_97b30203	comment	Vaguely implied for Juror #10. When he rants at length about how "they" (the unspecified social/ethnic group the defendant belongs to) are by nature nothing but a bunch of hotheaded liars and killers, the way all eleven of the other jurors respond with silent open contempt for his views, followed by #4's command to sit down and not say another word causes him to go practically catatonic. He spends the remainder of the deliberation silently staring at nothing, and after #4 changes his vote to not guilty, #10 soon follows. It is left ambiguous, if this means he was actually rethinking his views, or if he just felt defeated. The original teleplay and the Showtime version aren't as ambiguous; when the final vote is taken, #10 flat out says he believes the defendant is guilty, he's just voting "not guilty" cause he's done butting heads with the others.
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12 Angry Men / int_99ff79ee	type	Heat Wave
12 Angry Men / int_99ff79ee	comment	Heat Wave: One of the jurors remarks that it's supposed to be the hottest day of the year, and most of them are sweaty and agitated in the poorly-ventilated deliberation room. Things get a little better once they manage to get the wall fan running.
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12 Angry Men / int_9b853e85	type	Paper Destruction of Anger
12 Angry Men / int_9b853e85	comment	Paper Destruction of Anger: Juror #3 rips up a photo of his son during his breakdown and then he finally votes not guilty. He was voting "guilty" simply because of the bad relationship he has with his estranged son, not because of the facts.
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12 Angry Men / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
12 Angry Men / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: #3's breakdown is set up very early in the movie, when he first goes to the cooler and stares at the photo of his son.
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12 Angry Men / int_a0797fb3	type	Stunned Silence
12 Angry Men / int_a0797fb3	comment	Inverted again when Juror #3 breaks himself by going on a similar rant, only to find that the room has gone dead silent over the pitiable wreck he has made of himself.
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12 Angry Men / int_a1ca3743	type	Believing Their Own Lies
12 Angry Men / int_a1ca3743	comment	Believing Their Own Lies: At the start of the deliberations, Juror #3 opens by claiming to have no personal bias towards the case. It quickly becomes apparent that this is far from the truth, and #3 himself is the last one to realize it. Juror #9 also suggests that this trope could explain why the old man testified that he saw the defendant fleeing the murder scene, when his ability to have done so was severely in doubt. He was so eager for the chance to be part of a murder investigation and trial that it overrode his good sense. Also, for the bespectacled woman who claims to have witnessed the murder itself. At no point does anyone allege that any witnesses deliberately lied, only that they thought they heard or saw something near that time, or heard/saw something that was obscure, and convinced themselves it was the murder.
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12 Angry Men / int_a5f168ab	type	Let Me at Him!
12 Angry Men / int_a5f168ab	comment	Let Me at Him!: Juror #3, after being provoked by Juror #8, lunges at him out of rage, only to be held back by Jurors #5, #6 and #7.
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12 Angry Men / int_a5f39a9c	type	Thunder = Downpour
12 Angry Men / int_a5f39a9c	comment	Thunder Equals Downpour: One thunderclap, cue rainstorm.
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12 Angry Men / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
12 Angry Men / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: All the Jurors in the end give the same verdict: "not guilty". If the kid is actually guilty, he gets away with murdering his father. If he is genuinely innocent, the real killer is still at large and unsuspected. Of course, within the realm of the movie, the investigation would be considered ongoing, so it's more of a matter of them not covering the part where someone actually gets caught and convicted as guilty, since that's not the focus.
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12 Angry Men / int_a8556a04	type	Video Credits
12 Angry Men / int_a8556a04	comment	Video Credits: Although the jurors each have a number, and they sit in order, these are used to help distinguish the names of actors with their faces.
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12 Angry Men / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
12 Angry Men / int_a8559a9f	comment	In addition to considering evidence not introduced in court, the jurors outright disregard many of the witness testimonies that were introduced in court, for reasons that the prosecutor and defense attorney never actually brought up as possible issues (like the fact that one of the witnesses may or may not have been nearsighted). In Real Life, only a judge has the final say on whether or not statements in court can be considered credible, and jurors aren't supposed to disregard witness testimonies unless a judge instructs them to disregard them. That said, this doesn't always stop it from happening, since once someone has witnessed something, it can't just be erased from their mind. This is why both prosecution and defense have to be careful not to cause situation or statements that could influence the minds of the jury to give their side a disadvantage.
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12 Angry Men / int_a8593e70	type	Real Time
12 Angry Men / int_a8593e70	comment	Real Time: Fully in the play, the film takes it even further, with not only almost all of the movie taking place in real time, but almost all of that period is set in one room. Even more remarkably, it had to be shot four times, each from a different angle with one of the walls removed to accommodate the camera, with the jurors getting progressively more sweaty and dishevelled. When all four angles were cut together it worked perfectly in continuity.
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12 Angry Men / int_abc55125	type	Character Filibuster
12 Angry Men / int_abc55125	comment	Character Filibuster: Juror #10 has a particularly nasty, racism-filled rant against "the likes of him [the accused]" that causes the other jurors to turn away from him one by one, until #4 shuts him up: Juror #3 has a smaller one, but in his case he breaks down all by himself afterwards.
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12 Angry Men / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
12 Angry Men / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Juror #3's face when he realizes that he's just contradicted his own argument subtly, but wonderfully, evokes this sentiment.
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12 Angry Men / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
12 Angry Men / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Juror #4, who quips back at some of the less-than-logical theories. #7 is a less subtle version, whose hostile wisecracks contribute little to the proceedings except added tension in the room.
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12 Angry Men / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
12 Angry Men / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: It's revealed that the murder victim was an abusive dad to the accused.
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12 Angry Men / int_b39d5719	type	Sadist
12 Angry Men / int_b39d5719	comment	Sadist: Juror #8 deliberately calls Juror #3 one to rile him up to make a point, that people don't always mean what they say.
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12 Angry Men / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
12 Angry Men / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Juror #3 may be vicious and want to see the defendant executed, but even he is unwilling to listen to #10's bigoted tirades. Even Juror #4, who comes off as a Jerkass at times, and is strongly convinced of the defendant's guilt, has had enough of #10's bigotry, and tells him as such in no uncertain terms. Juror #3 is also the first to jump on Juror #7 for changing sides for no reason, and makes it clear that he respects the jury system throughout. He simply doesn't realize that his subconscious bias is the reason he's pushing for conviction. Once he figures it out, he changes his vote to Not Guilty. Juror #8 (and #10) doesn't look too impressed when the jurors (note #1, #3 and #12) are playing a game rather than listening to the evidence. Interestingly, juror #11 provides an heroic example when juror #7 switches sides to what seems to be the new winning one. Realizing that he is only interested in cutting it short, juror #11 is utterly apalled by his attitude and refuses to accept it.
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12 Angry Men / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: This exchange, which is even funnier when considering that Juror #11 is an immigrant to the US from Europe.
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12 Angry Men / int_b8e42c35	comment	Notably Quick Deliberation: If not for Juror #8, the jurors would have declared the kid guilty in five minutes, tops.
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12 Angry Men / int_bf110089	comment	Break Them by Talking: Played straight initially when Juror #8 baits #3 into lashing out in a rage (thus proving his point about Ineffectual Death Threats). Inverted when Juror #10 goes on a bigoted diatribe, is shunned by everybody in the room one by one, and spends the rest of the film in defeated silence. Inverted again when Juror #3 breaks himself by going on a similar rant, only to find that the room has gone dead silent over the pitiable wreck he has made of himself.
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12 Angry Men / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Juror #3 spends the movie continuously trying to convict a young man where there is more and more reasonable doubt for his guilt because his relationship with his son appeared to have gone very sour. It's a classic case of Psychological Projection. He realizes this at the end, though, and changes his stance.
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12 Angry Men / int_cd149b1e	comment	Silent Treatment: How everyone reacts when Juror #10 flies off the handle about the inferiority of the lower classes. Even the ones who were still in favor of conviction. It shames him enough that he stares off in space quietly in the corner for the rest of the film.
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12 Angry Men / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: The other jurors' reaction to #3 pretending to raise the knife to stab #8, considering the tensions between them. The only exceptions are Juror #4, who simply rolls his eyes at the theatrics, Juror #5 who seems like he's trying to inspect something (he moments later points out the improper handling of a switchblade, another sign the defendant might not be the assailant), and Juror #7 who simply leans forward in his chair almost as if he hoped it would happen
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12 Angry Men / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: Perhaps unsurprisingly for a film made in The '50s, the jury is all-white (although one is an immigrant with a noticeable accent). Later productions often avert it.
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12 Angry Men / int_ce9da072	comment	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: While there are plenty of impassioned speeches, the trope is less severe than most examples since the characters often stutter or pause at key points.
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12 Angry Men / int_d5139ac	comment	Reality Has No Soundtrack: The music plays four times.
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12 Angry Men / int_d56607ad	comment	Jury Duty: Well, yeah. The characters run the whole gamut of taking the duty very seriously (Juror #8's stance on this drives the whole plot, and Juror #11 later claims the responsibility to be one of the greatest things about American democracy) to being almost entirely dismissive of it (Juror #12 is more concerned with doodling and talking about his work than he is with the deliberations, and Juror #7 is mostly upset that he's missing a baseball game; both get called out for this). Notably, Jurors #3 and #10 are taking it seriously, but are too hung up on their own emotional baggage to approach it objectively.
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12 Angry Men / int_d83a7229	comment	"Number of Objects" Title: 12 Angry Men.
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12 Angry Men / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: The rainstorm. And to a lesser extent, the fan, which finally starts up when the votes start to swing in favor of acquittal.
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12 Angry Men / int_ea6f361f	comment	You Are Number 6: The jurors are only ever referred to by their numbers, though Jurors #8 and #9 introduce their names to each other at the end of the film adaptations.
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12 Angry Men / int_eb0a92ca	comment	Ineffectual Death Threats: Invoked. Juror #3 fixates on the evidence that a neighbor heard the defendant yell "I'll kill you!" during a fight, and when it's pointed out that people say that sort of thing all the time and don't mean it, Juror #3 says, "Oh no... if you say that, you mean it." Juror #8 baits him with insults until Juror #3 attacks him and must be held back by the others.
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12 Angry Men / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Juror #3 is argumentative, dismissive of others, and voraciously adamant in seeing the defendant get executed. Juror #10 doesn't have any logical reason for his guilty vote; he's just extremely prejudiced, to the point where he eventually drops all pretenses and goes on a lengthy bigoted tirade to which the other jurors refuse to listen. Juror #7. Aside from constantly insulting the other jurors with his constant pithy remarks, he doesn't care what the decision of the jury is. He's only concerned with catching a New York Yankees baseball game. At least the most vicious jurors voted guilty because they believed in it. That said, when called out on this, he does say that he doesn't believe the accused is guilty. Fortunately, the game is rained out during the deliberation, so he can relax and pay attention for once.
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12 Angry Men / int_f42f2adc	comment	Corner of Woe: Juror #10 retreats to one when, after one of his bigoted rants goes too far, Juror #4 shuts him up. From that point on, #10 rarely participates in any of the deliberations, only weakly showing an acknowledgement that his vote is "not guilty" when a poll is taken (ironically, after #4 changes his vote upon the woman's testimony about clearly seeing the killing is discredited).
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12 Angry Men / int_f62b8d00	comment	Sinister Switchblade: The murder weapon is a switchblade, but the blade's reputation even extends to its non-usage; Juror #4 is appalled when Juror #8 pulls out an identical blade to prove that there are more copies of the supposedly rare knife than previously thought.
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12 Angry Men / int_f8c08650	comment	Motive = Conclusive Evidence: This is used as one of the main thrusts behind the drive to convict the defendant. The defendant had yelled "I'LL KILL YOU!" at the victim shortly before the victim had died, and this was taken as "evidence". Juror #3, the one most adamant for a conviction, argued that no one says something like that unless they truly mean it, and during the course of the film, Juror #8 gets #3 so angry that he lunges at #8, screaming "I'll kill him! I'LL KILL HIM!" before #8, remaining calm and cool, throws this line of reasoning right back in his face: "You don't really mean you'll kill me, do you?"
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12 Angry Men / int_f95439a9	comment	Dingy Trainside Apartment: This is discussed as a plot point in the testimony of a witness: she supposedly heard and saw a murder through a passing elevated train going by between her window and the accused's.
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