2. Director
 Errol Morris
 Date of Birth:February 5, 1948 in Hewlett Long Island, New York.
 an American film director. In 2003, The Guardian put him seventh
in its list of the world's 40 best active directors.
 His documentaries helped spur a rebirth of non-fiction film in the
80s & garnered wide critical success. But until 2003's "The Fog of
War," Morris was shunned by the Academy Awards.
Morris' first two films won much acclaim (Gates of Heaven (1978)
and Vernon, Florida (1981). Errol Morris cites his detective
experience as providing new skills for his investigative
filmmaking, most notably in "The Thin Blue Line", which resulted in
a wrongfully convicted Texas man being freed from Death Row
after serving 13 years for a policeman's murder. In 2003, Morris
won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his
film The Fog of War
 He was a private detective who heard about the Adams/Harris case
he applied those skills to research
 INTRO

3. Film Director’s purpose and
Tone
 Morris’s purpose is to show how
the justice system is corrupt and
opinionated and how this
investigation was not thoroughly
processed and investigated.
 The tone is very
suspenseful, jaw dropping, and
mysterious

4. Plot
November 29, 1976 murder of Dallas police officer Robert W.
Wood during a traffic stop. The Dallas Police Department
was unable to make an arrest until they learned of
information given 16 year old David Ray Harris, He
subsequently identified 28 year old Randall Dale Adams
as the murderer. The film presents a series of interviews
about the investigation and reenactments of the shooting,
based on the testimony and recollections of Adams,
Harris, and various witnesses and detectives. Two
attorneys who represented Adams at the trial where he
was convicted of capital murder also appear: they suggest
that Adams was charged with the crime despite the better
evidence against Harris because, as Harris was a
juvenile, Adams alone of the two could be sentenced to
death under Texas law.

5. Argument
 In the movie the argument is that
Randall Adams was wrongfully
convicted of murder of a dallas
policeman in 1977. Morris’s argument
shows how the corruption of the justice
system to the extent of showing different
interviews and different viewpoints of the
crime and investigation proving
opposing statements.

6. Randall Adams
 Moved from Ohio to Texas in search
of a new beginning in his life.
 Supported him and his brother.
 Since he had not much to fight for he
put up few arguments for his
freedom.

7. David Harris
 The young Texan was a example of
teenage disobedience at a boiling point.
 Although Harris was the first lead of the
murder he became the leading witness
of the case.
 It all came down to just a scared 16 year
old boy being involved in a sticky
situation.
 His traumatic experiences as a young
boy played a role in behavior.

8. Structure
 The structure of the film helped achieve the
purpose of the film because it showed
opposing view points going back and forth
and rebuttals. The reanactment of the
killing kept the movie suspenseful. Kept the
viewers glued to their seats and trying to
pass their own judgement on who the real
killer was based on evidence,before the
actual killer was technically revealed due to
the evidence.

9. Cinematic Techniques
 Cinematic techniques Morris uses is the
interrotron.
 Morris believes that the helps to explore
the relationship between "monologue and
language, and how people present
themselves to camera, and express
themselves to camera.
 Final Interview