12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men - Movie and Play

This essay will compare & contrast the protagonist /
antagonist's relationship with each other and the other jurors in the
play and in the movie versions of Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men. There
aren't any changes made to the key part of the story but yet the
minor changes made in making the movie adaptation produce a different
picture than what one imagines when reading the drama in the form of
a play.
First off, the settings in the movie are a great deal more
fleshed out. In the play, the scene begins with the jurors regarding
the judge's final statements concerning the case in the courtroom and
then walking out into the jury room. In the movie, the audience is
placed in the role of the invisible casual observer, who for perhaps
the first 5 minutes of the movie, walks throughout the court building
passing other court rooms, lawyers, defendants, security officers,
elevators, etc. Not able to remember much about t...