Maybe only 12 of them were angry?
The rest were just slightly irritated so they don’t count.
I’ve never seen 12 Angry Men, but I have a feeling that if there’d been a black actor in the main cast in 1957 it would have been a significant plot point and I would’ve heard about it.
I’d love to see what their AI generates for Watermelon Man (Link goes to Wiki).
For that matter, I can’t wait to see what happens if someone verbally asks an AI assistant to generate a poster for a film with Dick Butkus.
I’ve never seen the movie, but I’ve read the play. One of the characters is heavily implied to be a minority of some sort, and it is a relevant plot point (he knows that the police have a tendency to go hard on people like him and the defendant).
What happened to giving someone the finger when you’re mad?
Well, birds are dinosaurs and gators are kind of like dinosaurs, so maybe that’s their way of flipping the bird?
“Chili Finger Lady” is a horrifying nickname no matter the context.
Having seen the 1957 film with Henry Fonda (but not read the play), my impression was that the defendant is Puerto Rican. The juror @Chronos alludes to was played by a young Jack Klugman, who I think could be assumed to be one of the vaguely less reputable European ethnicities of the period, e.g., Polish or Italian. But not as “bad” as Puerto Rican or [gasp] black.
Good news, everyone. We don’t have to worry about Convict Donald becoming a dictator and throwing his enemies in jail any more.
Dr. Phil convinced him it’s naughty.
The twelve in the movie, from Wiki:
- Martin Balsam as Juror 1, the jury foreman; a calm and methodical assistant high school football coach.
- John Fiedler as Juror 2, a meek and unpretentious bank teller who is easily flustered, but eventually stands up for himself.
- Lee J. Cobb as Juror 3, a hot-tempered owner of an answering service who is estranged from his son; the most passionate advocate of a “guilty” verdict.
- E. G. Marshall as Juror 4, an unflappable, conscientious, and analytical stockbroker who is concerned only with facts, not opinions.
- Jack Klugman as Juror 5, a Baltimore Orioles fan who grew up in a violent slum, and is sensitive to bigotry towards “slum kids”.
- Edward Binns as Juror 6, a tough but principled and courteous house painter who stands up to others, especially over the elderly being verbally abused.
- Jack Warden as Juror 7, a wisecracking salesman who is more concerned about the Yankees game he is missing than the case.
- Henry Fonda as Juror 8 (Davis), a humane, justice-seeking architect and father of three; initially, the only one to question the evidence and vote “not guilty”.
- Joseph Sweeney as Juror 9 (McCardle), a thoughtful and intelligent elderly man who is highly observant of the witnesses’ behaviors and their possible motivations.
- Ed Begley as Juror 10, a pushy, loud-mouthed garage owner who is bigoted toward slum-life people.
- George Voskovec as Juror 11, a polite European watchmaker and naturalized American citizen who demonstrates strong respect for democratic values such as due process.
- Robert Webber as Juror 12, an indecisive and easily distracted advertising executive.
The only two with names give them to each other on the courthouse steps as they are leaving. The defendant is John Savoka. It’s his sole credit in IMDb and is uncredited, as is everyone but the twelve jurors.
Throwing alligators at each other is a traditional greeting in the land of Florida.
So we can add ‘politics’ to the infinite list of things that Dr. Phil knows jack shit about.
It was first brought up in the UK Politics thread but I think it belongs here too. I mean, it’s just easy political points and face time with world leaders. You’d have to be an idiot to mess this up.
D’oh! It didn’t occur to me that Klugman’s character might be Jewish.
But why? There’s no shortage of promo pics and screen grabs from those movies. What’s the reasoning behind using AI to generate new ones?
Also, is the Psycho one AI? It looks to me like one of the original posters.
Norman’s hands look quite odd to me in the AI poster.
You fired the people in Art Direction who normally would look for a good stock pic to frame and crop, so you can instead have one script kiddie running your Amazon Choice image generator?
Except it’s about the same amount of work to write prompts for the image generators as it is to run searches on the databases of existing images. And these are classic movies, meaning they’ve been on the service forever-- Most of them already had pictures attached to the listings.
I think it’s probably that Amazon wanted to make a public show of using AI because AI is new and trendy, and the problem is just that it’s not actually useful for anything, so they had to find something, anything, that they could use it for, even if it wasn’t very good at that, either.