Term Papers on Rhetorical Situation AnalysisTwelve Angry Men

Term Paper Title	Rhetorical Situation AnalysisTwelve Angry Men
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Rhetorical Situation AnalysisTwelve Angry Men
English 1302

The purpose of this paper is to use the rhetorical situation process to analyze the movie Twelve Angry Men. Twelve Angry Men is a movie that was filmed in 1957. This film was based on a jury deliberating on a case where an 18-year-old boy allegedly stabbed and killed his father. The movie begins in the jury room and does not show any of the trial. From what the jury says, the boy seems to be guilty with all the evidence and witnesses that say they saw him kill his father. It was up to the jury to find out if he was guilty or innocent. The jury begins with an 11 to 1 guilty vote and by the end all the jurors vote not guilty. The film shows the dynamics of jury deliberations: the anger, the false starts, and personality conflicts.

Through analyzing the movie using rhetorical situation you can understand the important parts of the film and the purpose of the movie. A rhetorical situation has five parts included in the process, which are text, reader, author, constraints and exigence. Using the five parts, I will explain the rhetorical situation of the film Twelve Angry Men as a whole and an important moment in the film.

The first part of the rhetorical situation is the text, which is movie. The intended audience is the 1957 working class family. The authors are the director Sidney Lumet and the writer of the script Reginald Rose. The constraints of this film were that it was filmed in a small, hot room for twelve men to share while they were deliberating on the case. There were no props or special effects it was only a strong intense dialogue to keep peoples attention. Although the camera manages to keep attention on those speaking while gauging the mood of the room. Instead of roaming around a lot, or going for a dozen reaction shots after every line, his angles stay varied and give the men more or less equal time. The movie lasted 95 minutes, which seems like a very short time.

The exigence of the movie is that it is not about the evidence or the trial but the portrayal of the twelve jurors. The key facts are the presumption of innocence and the principle of reasonable doubt. It sho...

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