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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Juror #10 maintains his racist worldview, because being shamed by eleven strangers to whom one has no connection is unlikely to make a lasting impact on most people.

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Juror #10 unapologetically maintains his racist worldview, bigoted worldview to the end, because being shamed by eleven strangers to with whom one has no connection is unlikely to make a lasting impact on most people.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Juror #10 maintains his racist worldview because being shamed by 11 strangers who he has no connection to is unlikely to make a lasting impact on most people.

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Juror #10 maintains his racist worldview worldview, because being shamed by 11 eleven strangers who he to whom one has no connection to is unlikely to make a lasting impact on most people.people.
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* JerkAss: Juror #7 was already unpleasant enough in the 1957 film, but his racism gets an extra shot of emphasis. When he gets corrected by Juror #11, his response is to angrily threaten to "knock [#11's] Middle-East-European head off". The fact he conflates #11's nationality to a vague "Non-West" is pretty damning.
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* StopBeingStereotypical: #10 expects #1 and #2, as fellow black men, to share his loathing of Latinos. It doesn't go his way; #1 is too ashamed to speak, and #2 is so offended that he raises his voice for the first time.
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* RaceLift: The original featured 12 white men. This movie diversifies the racial makeup of the jury with one Latino juror (#11) and four African Americans (#1, #2, #5, and #10). Furthermore, Juror #4, while still the same race, was American in the original but German here. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]: In 1954, an all-white, all-male jury would be the norm, but in 1997 such a jury would be very unusual, given that having all the jurors be of the same race could be used as grounds for an appeal later.

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* RaceLift: The original featured 12 white men. This movie diversifies the racial makeup of the jury with one Latino juror (#11) and four African Americans (#1, #2, #5, and #10). Furthermore, Juror #4, while still the same race, was American in the original but German here. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]: In 1954, an all-white, all-male jury would be the norm, but in 1997 such a jury would be very unusual, given that having all the jurors be of the same race could be used as grounds for an appeal later.

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