I didn't manage to catch the last third of the film as I had to be off. On Wikipedia, it says Frank Hererra has a rant in which he displays his contempt for the law and disregard for the case's facts. What did he rant about exactly?
If impersonating a Police Officer is an offence, shouldn't actors be imprisoned?
Actually, Frank's rant was more contempt for the case itself than the law or the facts. He was pissed that they were even considering paying Celeste millions just because her husband was shot, and rightly so. Bad things happen to people all over the world every day, and they don't receive any sort of compensation, certainly not over a hundred million dollars. He just wanted to be done with what he saw as a ridiculous case, so he could go back to his life and family. Were I him, I'd have smacked Cussack's character.
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Can someone explain why that would cause him to lose support from the other jurors?
shareCan someone explain why that would cause him to lose support from the other jurors?
Its not what he said but how and at which time he did. He was not fighting Nick on whether to pay, but he wasnt gonna even study the facts of the case. If he had kept his mouth shut, they would have voted with him Im sure.
shareIn addition he went further by making it about himself. He was pissed that as a veteran and what he had been through that he felt that if there was any compensation he should be ahead of the plaintiff. The minute he went there he lost me although i was kinda with him for some of it.
But somehow he switched as the verdict was unanimous?
At the end in the bar, Fitch asks Easter how he got them to vote his way, he says "I heard you got 10 votes." In other words, if there were 12 jurors, it wasn't unanimous. Easter would have been the eleventh vote. If someone voted against it, I figure it was Herrara, since he seemed dead set against the suit. I doubt whatever Easter would have said wouldn't have been enough to convince him to change his mind.
"They killed a guy in here, let him rot for three days. Oh, and they cancelled the prison dance."
That sentence made him sound like he didn't care about the dead guy. He went from rational and not impulsive to heartless to their eyes.
shareCan someone explain why that would cause him to lose support from the other jurors?In his rant he also revealed himself to be virtually the opposite of Nick, which is how Fitch had pegged him at the start. As others have mentioned here, he made it plain to all and sundry that he didn't even want to consider the plaintiff's claims. His mind had been made up all along.