12 Angry Men - Analysis and Interpretation of Nonverbal Communication

12 ANGRY MEN - ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF NONVERBAL
COMMUNICATION
A jury holdout attempts to prevent failure of justice by forcing his colleagues to

reconsider the evidence. Reaching a unanimous vote, beyond an acceptable
doubt had been a hard task the jurors represented in movie. All excepting one
had been convinced the boy trial was bad of first level murder centred on
witness testimony and circumstantial proof, eleven of the twelve jurors had no
intention to argue the case further.
Martin Balsman - Juror 1 John Fiedler - Juror 2

Lee J. Cobb - Juror 3 E.G. Marshall - Juror 4
Jack Klugman - Juror 5 Edward Binns - Juror 6
Jack Warden - Juror 7 Henry Fonda - Juror 8
Joseph Sweeney - Juror 9 Ed Begley - Juror 10
George Voskovec - Juror 11 Robert Webber – Juror 12
There was a lot of nonverbal communication used throughout the jury group
discussion, mainly by those who were adamant the young man was guilty.
Those men who had no doubt the boy was guilty started to become hostile as
time went on, mainly as each time a vote was called for another man chose the
not guilty verdict. The nonverbal communication that stood out the most was
the gestures, like fingers pointing. At one time juror3 even tried to fight juror 8,
this is an extreme use of nonverbal communication, however there were
subtler uses of this form of communications well, like eye contact when juror 3
was stared at by all the other men after one of his many escalations.
There were a few types of non-verbal communication that have been quite
significant. After aggressively accusing Juror no. 5 of changing their vote
predicated on his bias towards people from slums, Juror 3 made a face of
amazing shock with regards to had been Juror 7 whom admitted on
modification. It was acutely rude whenever Juror number 7 got up and stepped
to the men’s room when Juror 9 was defending his reason for supporting Juror
8 uncertainty of shame.
A lot of sweating, coat reduction, and face wiping articulated the agonizing
heat causing irritability and irrational thinking. But probably the most effective
instance had been when all but two jurors left the table and switched their
backs to Juror 10 during his prejudicial rant. The most effective individual to
utilize a message had been Juror 8. He stated I am maybe not wanting to
improve your brain, it’s that we are referring to somebody’s life right here. We
can’t determine it in five minutes. He convinced the other jurors to talk
through evidence and concern the legitimacy of witness testimony. He took
responsibility for their stance by presenting his arguments in a definite and
direct way. While earnestly hearing feedback along with other remarks, he
continued to show faulty proof that became undeniable to another juror 1 by
1. It took a considerable amount of persuasion to question the witnesses, but
they couldn't dispute seeing without eyeglasses or hearing obviously over the
roar of a train moving.
 Juror 1- He listens what others say but brings everyone back when
things get chaotic. He is strong, confident voice and always keeps an
eye contact.
 Juror 2- He is shy, submissive, doesn’t talk much. He looks down
most time because of no confidence. These adaptors result from
uneasiness
 Juror 3- There was no nonverbal with this juror, his perception is very
one sided for the most part because of his trouble with his own son.
He was the last to say not guilty.
 Juror 4- calm for most of the film till he figures out the witness has
poor vision.
 Juror 5 - Was very neutral, Nervous about expressing his opinion
 Juror 7 – Went along with the majority opinion, Eager to leave to get to
the baseball game. His facial expressions does not change much.
 Juror 8- He remains very calm and crossing his hands while sitting as he
was disagreeing posing.
 Juror 9- Aggressive and Dominating personality.
Juror 11- Sat up in his seat, engaged to listen, stood up and used eye
contact while spoke. Stood by his own opinion and did not have respect for
others who follow.
Juror 12- Slouched down wasn’t really engaged in conversation. Most of

the times head down as if he didn’t care much
The body language ranged from calm and poised to aggressive. The effect of
each of these on the people around was quite apparent in the movie. The
character’s certain and confident body language made people listen to him,
the eye contact that he maintained while speaking showed the confidence
he had in what he was speaking and this made at least some of the others
listen to him.

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How did different jurors use nonverbal communication?

How did Juror 8 persuade the other jurors?

12 ANGRY MEN - ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF NONVERBAL

A jury holdout attempts to prevent failure of justice by forcing his colleagues to

Martin Balsman - Juror 1 John Fiedler - Juror 2

Juror 12- Slouched down wasn’t really engaged in conversation. Most of

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