Good casting

Aurelia 2021-12-30 17:21:43

The status of the audience in this film corresponds to the jury in the play, and the director corresponds to the defendant's lawyer. A way for the audience and the jury to sympathize with the defendant is achieved through recognition of role-playing. John steward’s upright and vulnerable face plus his old loyal servant who almost paid his life in search of evidence in the play, plus a handsome defendant and the defendant’s psychologist, will soon allow the audience to establish a right The defendant’s sympathy. Correspondingly, the prosecution lawyer in the play seemed a bit stupid and slow to react, and the other appeared to be cunning and scheming from the big city. In addition, the witnesses, whether they are bar waiters or elderly psychologists, have committed multiple crimes. Prisoners, whether it is the jury in the play or the audience in front of the screen, will inevitably resist the prosecution. The reversal of the plot and the ambiguity of interpretation therefore smoothly use the psychological mechanism of the audience to unfold.

Record the ending

Biegler: "Well partner, what do you say we go and see our first client"
Parnell: "Who might that be?"
Biegler: "Mary Pilant, we're going to administre Barney Quill's estate'
Parnell: "Now that's what I call poetic justice for everybody..."

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Extended Reading
  • Eugenia 2022-04-20 09:01:48

    American courtroom scenes rarely have a bad-looking Duke Ellington, which makes this film especially bright

  • Kamryn 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    Wonderful court scene, the jazz throughout the film is very colorful. The screenwriter slyly skipped the main point of the courtroom scene-the closing statement, which made the final ending a little discouraged. Four and a half stars

Anatomy of a Murder quotes

  • Lt. Frederick Manion: How can a jury disregard what it's already heard?

    Paul Biegler: [shaking head] They can't, lieutenant. They can't.

  • Judge Weaver: For the benefit of the jury, but more especially for the spectators, The garment mentioned in the testimony was, to be exact, Mrs. Manion's panties.

    [spectators roar with laughter]

    Judge Weaver: I wanted to get your snickering over and done with. This pair of panties will be mentioned again over the course of this trial, & when it is, there will not be one laughter, one snicker, one giggle or even one smirk in my courtroom. There is nothing comic about a pair of panties that resulted in the violent death of one man, & the possible incarceration of another.