One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest

The book concentrated on Chief Bromden, the narrator and how he was mentally envisioning the fog. Kesey describes him as a psychopath who rarely ever thinks like a normal human being. Throughout the book he is portrayed as unable to handle society. Although in the movie he acted like a normal patient and the viewers who have never read the book may think he was normal.

Another difference between the two versions is the description of the fishing trip. The book and movie described the trip in two totally different ways. In the book the trip was planned and chaperoned by the doctor, but the movie shows McMurphy and the patients breaking out of the hospital, stealing a bus, and heading for the ocean, and leaving the Chief behind.

The absence of George in the movie was another major difference between the two versions. In the book, the harassment George was the reason McMurphy fought the black boys. Howe

The end of the book showed a happy ending with Harding leaving with his wife and some other self-committed patients being discharged. The movie had the opposite effect because the only living patient to leave was Bromden, who ran away. I think the reason the producers decided not to have any patients leave at the end was to stress the fact that the patients were controlled by the nurse and they could not leave because they can't handle society on their own. The ending of the movie was much sadder because the nurse still had the same power and she was still controlling every aspect of the patients' lives. The book showed some patients getting out of the fog and away from the nurse forever. It was a shocking ending, but much better because lives were saved, and they were given a chance of making it in the real world.

George's character being left out of the movie was a major change. George was the reason McMurphy got in the fight with the black boys in the shower room. McMurphy's courage to stand up for George is what led to his lobotomy. The movie used a scene that included Cheswick having a fit because the nurse wouldn't give him his cigarettes. The black boys stepped in to settle Cheswick down, and that's when McMurphy walked up and punched the nurse's glass window. This resulted in the fight between him and the boys. Another change was how the book included the Chronics in almost every scene. Kesey talked about how they sat in the corner with their catheters running down the sides of their legs. In the movie, the nurse rarely mentions the Chronics, except when she needs to use them against McMurphy in the vote to watch the World Series. My theory is that the producers were trying to avoid confusing the viewers by using more characters.

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