Good casting

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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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Anatomy of a Murder quotes

  • Paul Biegler: Mr. Paquette, what would you call a man with an insatiable penchant for women?

    Alphonse Paquette: A what?

    Paul Biegler: A penchant... a desire... taste... passion?

    Alphonse Paquette: Well, uh, ladies' man, I guess. Or maybe just a damn fool!

    [laughter in the courtroom]

    Judge Weaver: Just answer the questions, Mr. Paquette. The attorneys will provide the wisecracks.

  • Parnell Emmett McCarthy: [eyeing an empty liquor bottle] You fought this soldier by yourself. You've been drinking alone, Paulie. I don't like that.

    Paul Biegler: Drop the stone, Counsellor. You live in a glass house.

    Parnell Emmett McCarthy: My windows have been busted a long time ago, so I can say what I please.