12 angry men comparison

12 angry men

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12 Angry Men comparison


12 Angry Men is a movie about 12 jurors that have to decide the future of a
kid that killed his father, and they have to find out if he is guilty or not. 11 men
believe that he is guilty, but one thinks that he is not guilty, and then they start
arguing about it, but that man has good points and evidence, and at the end,
all of them start realizing that the kid is not guilty for the murderer. Each juror
represents a normal person from the society. There are two movies, one
filmed in 1957 and one in 1997. They both have many similarities, but they
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There are obvious differences in the use of camerawork in the 1957 version
and 1997. In the first scene in the court, in the ’57 version we can see an over-
the-shoulder shot, where we can see the judge and the jurors in the court, and
the kid the kid in the middle. Then, a panning shot is used to show us all the
jurors and what they are doing while the judge tells them what they have to
do; some of them are bored and some of them are looking at the kid.






’57 vs ‘97


When the jurors leave the room, we can see another over-the-shoulder shot
behind the kid, and then we can see a high angle shot with the kid’s face,
showing us that he is vulnerable and the jurors will decide his future, if he is
going to die or he will live. The ’97 version
starts with a low angle shot of the judge,
which shows that she has the power, and
then we can see a low angle shot with the
kid again. During the movie, in the ’57
version the camera work is constantly
changing. The camera work gradually gets
lower, lower as the movie progresses,
showing that some of the jurors are getting

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very angry and that the room becomes smaller, and smaller. In the ’97 movie,
there is a variation of the camerawork. Another similarity would be that at the
middle of the new version they are using a tracking shot around the table to
show the jurors talking and arguing with each other, the old version does not
have that.
There are obvious similarities in the use of camerawork in both movies. Both
of them are using many close-up shots so the
audience can see if they are thinking and their
feelings about the case are. The old one has
more close up shots than the new one,
because it is more difficult to see their faces in
the old movie because it is black and white,
and it is harder to see their face expression if
the camera is too far from them. Another
similarity is that in both movies they use
tracking shots when a juror is going around the
room and arguing with the other jurors about
their opinion. When the juror no 10 wants to
prove everyone that it was impossible that the
old man arrived at the door in 30 seconds from
his bed. In both versions they use many over
the shoulder shots to show that the characters
are talking and discussing with each other about the case.
There are obvious differences in the use of
mise-en-scene between the 1957 version and
the 1997 version, because the society changed
in those years, and the people are very
different in 1997 than they were in 1957, so
the characters and their clothing is different as
well. A big difference between the two movies
are the characters. In the ’57 version you
cannot see any black characters because the
society was different back then and black
people were not seen as good as they were
seen in ’97, that is why half of the characters
are black in the new movie. The biggest
character difference is the juror number 10. In

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the old movie, he is a white person which is angry, but when someone told him
just to sit down, he did that. In the 97 movie, juror no 10 was a black person
which was kind of extreme Muslim, and he was very angry, he was swearing a
lot, going around the room and making people scared of him. Juror no 4 is
different in the second version than in the first one. In the first version he is
like a robot, he doesn’t have any feelings, but in the second version he is more
human, more implicated in the discussions. Another character difference is
the judge. In the first version, the judge is a man, and in the second version,
the judge is a woman. The clothing was different in the first movie than in the
second one. In the first movie everyone was wearing suits to look more upper-
class because back then it did not matter what you were working as, you still
had to wear a suit. In the 97 movie, there were some people dressed in suits as
well, but there were some that were dressed more casual, with t-shirts and
jumpers. Another difference would be that in the first movie, everyone was
smoking in front of each other, because back then doctors were
recommending smoking because they thought that it was good for you and for
your voice, but after they found out that smoking causes cancer. In the second
version they are not smoking and they are not asking for cigarettes, but
instead they are chewing gum. In the new movie, just one person, juror no 3 is
smoking because he was very angry, and he is smoking in the toilet. In the old
movie, you can find many ashtrays on the table, but in the new movie there
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There are also similarities in the use of mise-en-scene between 1997 and
1957 movie. In both versions is the hottest day of the year and the fan in the
’57 version and AC in the ’97 version are not working, and later it starts raining
as well. In both versions the characters are sweating and they are angry
because it is too hot in the room and they are trying to finish it as quick as
possible because they want to get out of the room. The location is the same as
well, and the room that the jurors are in is very similar. The bathroom door is
in both movies in the same spot. Some of the characters have the same
background and jobs in both movies. For example, juror no 11 is Eastern
European in both versions, and juror no 4 is stockbroker in both versions and
juror
no 5
lived
in
slums

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when he was young. Another similarity is that in both versions the props are
the same; the knife is the same, the evidences are the same etc. The lightning
is the same in both movies because it is a sunny day, and we need high key
lightning to see their faces, if they are angry, they are thinking about the case
or they are just waiting for this to end and leave. In the both versions the
“guilty” boy is 18 and he is Latino.
The style and tone of language used in the two versions include various
differences in dialogue. For example, in the first movie no one swearing
because back then it was seen as impolitely to swear, but in the new movie
juror no 10, which is the most different character from the old version, is
swearing a lot. In the first version they speak more politely and they are acting
like gentlemen, showing that they are or act as if they are high class. In the
second version, they speak more casual, and their tone is different, they sound
angrier.
There are similarities in the diegetic sound in both versions as well. An example
would be that you could hear the rain in the background in both movies and
how it is hitting the windows of the building, which is quite stressful to hear,
because you want to hear what the characters are talking but you cannot.
Another similarity is that the accent of juror no 10 is the same in both movies,
an Eastern European accent. Almost all the characters have the same accent in
both movies, except juror no 10, which is angrier, and his accent is very
different.

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