“Guilty”, echoed throughout every juror, except for one, juror eight, played by Henry Fonda, the true hero of the film “12 Angry Men”. A jury was faced with a murder trial in which an eighteen year old boy killed his father. As the jurors entered the room, they were already beginning to anticipate leaving. In the room, there was no air conditioning to go along the sudden heat wave in the area. Eleven of the twelve jurors had already made up their mind about the trial, eleven of the twelve had decided that the boy was guilty. Juror 8, played by Henry Fonda, was the exception of the twelve. He believed with the boy’s life in their hands, they needed to be certain of their verdict.

Juror 8 began his discussion by bringing the weapon into question. The one of a kind attributes the switchblade knife possessed posed as a definitive evidence until …show more content…
Juror 8 brought into account a train passing by at the time, and how people say things they don’t mean. By discussing the volume of the train, the jury came to the agreement it was almost impossible to hear when one was passing. Juror 8 reasoned the loud train would hinder the man’s ability to hear. Jurors 5 and 11 both changed their vote to not guilty, making the count now 8-4, guilty. The old man also claimed to have gotten up out of bed and have walked to the staircase in exactly 15 seconds to see the boy running after he allegedly stabbed his father. The jury set-up chairs to simulate the twelve feet between the man’s bed and the hallway and the forty-three feet of the hallway leading to the stairs. The old man had fallen victim to a stroke limiting his walk to a slow limp. Juror 2 kept time while Juror 8 walked the course with a limp. He completed in forty-one seconds, twenty-six seconds longer that the fifteen the old man claimed. Jurors 2 and 6 then changed their vote, setting the score at