This one's actually from Kaelie

The movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was an intriguing film with good acting, but if failed to portray the main points of the book written by Ken Kesey. When they produced the movie, they didn't do a good job emphasizing the importance in the break from the Combine and Big Nurse's rule. The book really showed us how big of a deal it was when the men in the hospital began to rebel against Big nurse. In the movie, there wasn't much emphasis on the importance of the control panel being lifted. We weren't even told that it was called the control panel. While in the book, it was a big symbol of breaking free from the rule of the power driven leaders. The book focused more on the individual vs. society and how the individual usually can't win. In the movie it was just the story of the book rather than an inspiration with a big theme. The movie didn't include the morals and ideas that the book did. The biggest downfall of the film was the lack of Chief’s narration. Without his perspective and point of view telling us the story, it loses its personal touch with the other characters. Another thing that was different in the movie was the level of craziness of the patients. They’re didn’t depend on their guts as it did in the book but more on if they could even survive in the real world. It was a mistake for them to have the other patients leave the ward because with Chief being the only who actually leaves, it doesn’t show the freedom from the rule as well. In the book, when they had the majority of the patients leave, it showed how McMurphy had impacted them and made them want to change their lives because they were unhappy in the ward. It showed how they actually could go against Big Nurse and leave instead of just having one person be able to do that like in the movie.