Summary:
The movie version of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is funnier and easier to understand than the novel, according to the author.
Both Ken Kesey's book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest and the movie and entertaining and are both considered classics. Both the book and the movie have their ups and down. The story takes place in an insane asylum. One man, McMurphy who comes to the asylum is not crazy but is there to avoid work camp and he believes it is better than jail. The asylum is under the strict control of Nurse Ratchet who is referred to "big nurse" by Chief Bromden. Chief is huge however feels small. He is believed to be deaf and dumb but is not. McMurphy becomes the leader of the inmates and is looked up to for his defiance towards the big nurse. He helps the inmates loosen up and live a little. I feel that by the end most all of them where no longer crazy. The movie follows almost the same plot as the books however it is much shorter and is missing pretty big things in the book. It also even changes the plot in some spots such as when McMurphy steals the bus in the movie.
One element that I think helped make the movie really good that the book was missing was the comedy. There were some funny things in the book but the movie was way funnier. I think part of this is that it is hard to imagine all the things in book and the movie makers did a really good job of portraying everything and making it funny.
Another thing that helped the movie was understanding plot. Because in the book the story was told from Chiefs point of few, you were not sure if what he was saying was true or not. The movie was just a lot clearer and I was not sitting there scratching my head. Even though the book was more confusing with Chief as narrator I liked it that way. I think the movie should have done it that way and it still would have been very clear. In the book it was Chiefs story but the movie focused the story on McMurphy I think.
Overall I would say the movie was better. Both are good and well but together. The movie just gives images which really helped me I think. Maybe if I had a stronger imagination then things in the book would have been funnier and easy to see but I was using my brains power to try to figure out what's going on so much that I wouldn't imagine the things that where happening all that well.
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