Unit与 5-6 12 Angry Men.pptVIP

12 ANGRY MEN;About the author;Rose won an Emmy Award in 1954 for writing the television version of “12 Angry Men. He received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay of the 1957 film version, which starred Henry Fonda, who co-produced the movie with Rose. The film was nominated for best picture that year. Rose, a native New Yorker whose work was distinguished by his focus on social and political issues, won three Emmy Awards and was nominated for six. ;Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay written by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 September 1954, the drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title and again for a feature film, 12 Angry Men (1957). The episode garnered three Emmy Awards for writer Rose, director Franklin Schaffner and Robert Cummings as Best Actor. ;Background;Background;Background;and the absolute finality of the decision I and my fellow jurors would have to make at the end of the trial. I doubt whether I have ever been so impressed in my life with a role I had to play, and I suddenly became so earnest that, in thinking about it later, I probably was unbearable to the eleven other jurors. ;It occurred to me during the trial that no one anywhere ever knows what goes on inside a jury room but the jurors, and I thought then that a play taking place entirely within a jury room might be an;Actually, the outline of this play, which I began shortly after the trial ended, took longer to write than the script itself. The movements in the play were so intricate that I wanted to have them down on paper to the last detail before I began the construction of the dialogue. ;I worked on the idea and outline for a week and was stunned by the time I was finished to discover that the outline is twenty-seven pages long. This detailed setting down of the moves of the play paid off however. The script was written in five days.;abstain;alleged;assume;ballot;breedi