“The Uncle Tom of the Jews” by his wife because he cannot bear to bring Van Doreen in on the investigation. Dick is being altruist in his decision to keep Charles out of the spotlight but it not just to help save the Van Doreen reputation it is to save the relationship with his new friend. Goodwin cognitive dissonance is the strongest of the three characters in the movie. He does not believe in the group think process and is trying to pull the producer and president to their knees. To help resolve some of the guilty feelings he has Goodwin ask Charles man to man did he accept the answer to the questions. He was allowing Charles a chance to self disclose his feelings, Charles became out raged he wanted Lewis, Chernettepage #6and questioned Dick if he would have done the same given the situation, but because he stated he would not, so Charles could not bring himself to admit his wrong doing until he was subpoena to testify. Goodwin still gave Charles the opportunity to deny the accusation and was stunned when he did the right thing and confessed. The movie reminded me of the Asch’s Studies of Group Pressure. Although the characters knew what they were doing was wrong they continued to do what was asked of them to cheat. Herbert and Charles relied on groupthink to influence them on what was the acceptable thing to do at that time. I find it hard to believe that most of use would not do the same in if we though there were no chance of getting caught. Deindividuation also led these men to do what is considered morally wrong. During the testimony of Albert Freedmon he stated, It's not like we're hardened criminals here. We're in show business. Which is to say what we do is give people what they want entertainment.It does not mean we have to do the moral thing to get our point across....
