12 Angry Men and It's Use in Persuasion

Twelve Angry Men The movie “Twelve Angry Men” is a film about twelve men, all white, all within the same middle-aged group, and all basically part of the “middle-class”, who are jurors for a seemingly open-and-shut murder case. The judge opens up by saying to the jurors, If there's a reasonable doubt in your minds as to the guilt of the accused, a reasonable doubt, then you must bring me a verdict of not guilty. …showed first 75 words of 1472 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1472 total…the accused. A picture of him and his son falls from his wallet and he is immediately affected by the site, and starts to sob. He clinches his fists and says to them, “Not guilty, not guilty!” Juror number eight knew all along that the boy should not be found guilty, and using simple methods of persuasion, he was able to convince the other 11 members of the jury to see the case the same way.