Saturday, May 14, 2016
Changing Elements 12 Angry Men
As I was reading "12 Angry Men", I was thinking about how the story would change if various elements were different. The first obvious element would be having women instead of men. I think the women would add more drama to the case. If there were no stage directions, I think it would be better. To me stage directions are pointless. I'd rather vision what I think would happen. I like to create my own mental picture for myself. It helps give reading and me an imagination. If this story took place in a more modern time period, it would definitely be all over the news and the evidence would be proven more clearly due to the new technology we have today. Another element that could have changed the whole story is Juror number 8. If juror number 8 wasn't so insisting that the boy was not guilty the boy would not have walked away free in the end. Juror 8 also caused disagreements which made juror 3 and some others mad so that made the story more interesting. If juror 8 voted yes he is guilty then it would have made the story very bland because every juror voted guilty. With all these changes I have listed and said, I think this would impact the play a lot because every little part is crucial to what makes this play so famous. To me I believe the play is best left untouched. It is fine the way it is. It was a pleasure to read. Would you change anything to this play? How do you think the play would have ended if juror number 8 voted guilty in the beginning...would the boy walk away free?
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I also believe that the play is better left untouched and I wouldn't change anything about it. I think that the play would have ended differently if juror 8 would have voted guilty in the beginning because juror 8 is the one who made all of the other jurors question whether or not the boy was guilty. If juror 8 voted guilty from the beginning, the rest of the jurors including juror 8 wouldn't have analyzed the situation any further and would have went with the eye witness testimonies that they later realized were inaccurate and impossible. They all could have sent a potentially innocent man to jail.
ReplyDeleteI think the way the story was told was perfect the way it was too. The stage directions were pointless to me as well. Juror eight did have a huge impact and without him, the story would be boring. Also juror three helped make the story interesting by constantly disagreeing. if juror eight thought he was guilty from the very beginning, that would have been the end of the story too.
ReplyDeleteI agree that if 12 jurors were women instead of men there would be a lot more drama. There would be a lot more attitude and cattiness and sensitivity. But I also think there would be less temper and physical fights breaking out.
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