Canonical Classics of Literature 2

In comparison to the text and the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, there is a primary difference that makes to two different from each other. Certain occurrences that happen in the film do not happen in the text part of the novel. In the movie the character that plays the Indian, picks a sink up to throw it at the window and does so to escape from the mental facility. Now with the novel, there was a different occurrence where we start to foresee part of the Chiefs travel, and how he escapes and what is going to happen. From my own studies and research, the text and the film have certain similarities, just a different format to how it is presented to the audience. I write stories myself, and now I see why, if there is a story that is written with real duplications, and the rest of the characters act out upon a script. This is what makes the script change in the film, or the story will show untrue. There are plenty of novels that depict real life happenings, but in the movie, adding characters and more scenes helps to reveal what really happened in more depth which is exceptional to the text of the novel. This gives the author a space to tighten up and explain in greater depth, and also contrast and compare meanings that the audience will understand.

Another difference that I noticed in the film compared to the novel, was how Cheswick supports McMurphy all the way until the end of the film. Now in the novel, for the first time standing up to Nurse Ratched, McMurphy, and Cheswick talk shortly about something, and later on in the swimming pool Cheswick dies from drowning. Now when it comes to the film, you have many changes that can occur. I have a story that I am writing called Agatha’s Prayer, and if it ever hits the film, the text in the book will not match in some areas of the film. In another comparison of change in text and the film in the ending is shown in several different ways from the reader’s perspective and the viewer’s perspective. In the book it states that McMurphy loses his life from being choked by the Chief. Also, that his body laid there for a while with something covering his face, thinking that he was just being quiet, and then he heard Scalons voice hissing to notify him that he wasn’t. Scalon then alerts the chief that Nurse Ratched was going to find out about it and tells him of it. He asks, “Was it you Chief, I breeze my behind out of here.”

Now in the film, the Chief doesn’t do anything like that. What the Chief does is, takes the pillow that is on his face away from it, then gently touches his chin, then gets out of the bed and starts to walk away from it to the bathroom to get the pipe fixture to bust out the window, so he can break out of the ward. In the film shutting the person’s eyes usually means they are putting their soul to rest and that they do not really care much about that person. Last in the film that part that is different in the end than in the novel is where there is a prostitute named candy in the room with Billy, and Nurse Ratched catches him red handed with the prostitute. Now in the novel, Nurse Ratched opens the door and Candy and Billy look at the nurse and hold each other’s hands, then they start to smile. There are very different scenes that go on from here, but the contrasting of the two reveals what happens with Nurse Ratched catching Billy with the prostitute. The text always doesn’t explain everything action speaks louder than words.

References

Compare the ending of the film to the books final chapter. how does the narration give you more insight on what has happened? | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Questions | Q & A. (n.d.). Retrieved January 13, 2016, from http://www.gradesaver.com/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest/q-and-a/compare-the-ending-of-the-film-to-the-books-final-chapter-how-does-the-narration-give-you-more-insight-on-what-has-happened-63055

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Created on January 13, 2016 by Lionel Sharpe (student) || Professor Bonnie Ronson at 10:23 PM