Friday, March 23, 2012
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest in book form shows the theme of an individual vs. society the best. The book gives us chefs perspective, this is important because it shows us how mcmurphy changes chef. The film does not show us how he changed the men. In the book the last living acutes sign out, while he is getting a lobotomy. The movie portraits them as CRAZY and in the book they are much more functional. The movie shows the battle between big nurse and mcmurphy and this is important because that is the largest theme, individual vs. society, but he wins more impact fully in the book than in the movie.
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Pretty good you could get more deep into into it though and cheif* not chef
ReplyDeleteJack,
ReplyDeleteHobie is right: depth is what counts here. You seem to want to make the argument that the film fails to adequately communicate the 'big ideas' contained in the novel. Good. But you need to first explicitly state what you feel these central themes are, and then discuss the way specific scenes in the movie (like the ending, and the lack of acutes signing themselves out), undermines the ability of the film's audience to take away the same message that the novel's readers do.