Stereotypes In 12 Angry Men

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After reading the play 12 Angry Men and watching the movie, it is easy to tell that some of the changes made in the movie makes it worse than the play. Reginald Rose wrote the characters to be less personal and more stereotypical in terms of their characteristics. In the movie, we get to know the jurors on a more personal level. For example at the end of the movie juror Eight and Nine are on the courthouse steps when they introduce themselves. This does not happen in the play because the playwright decides to show that the jurors were more like stereotypes of themselves (the bigot, the old man, the immigrant, ext.) and they were just hiding behind anonymity. It doesn't make sense for Eight and Nine to introduce themselves because the point

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