The film version of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was so good. Books usually are always ruined when it comes to being made into movies, but honestly I enjoyed the movie 10 times better than the book. I thought it was a better understanding of the full story [even though there were quite a few differences.] Jack N. played a great young, crazy rebellion but then again that seems to be a part he can still play well to this day. The only thing I hated about the movie was Chief and I think that would be what Ken Kesey would hate as well.
The whole novel is narrated by Chief but in the film it's like he barely has a say. In the book, it talks about how Chief is tired of remaining silent and just shows his whole outlook of the hosiptal and Mcmurphy and the Nurse. Not only does he not have a say but they completely butchered the scene in which Chief looks out the window and "breathes" for the first time. "It's fall coming, I kept thinking...Right outside here it was spring a while back, then it was summer...I realized I still had my eyes shut...like I was scared to look outside. Now I had to open them."(Kesey 141) In the book that was such a strong scene and the movie didn't express it strongly at all.
However that wasn't the only thing that Kesey wouldn't have like, they put absolutely nothing in about the "fog" as symbolism for fear. Kesey also seemed to focus and revolve most of the books on the theme of mechanism of the patients as if each one had a function and the way each way one worked like a machine. The filmmakers seemed to take the theoretically speaking part of the book, and the motifs, and just completely left them out.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Big Nurse vs. Mac
Throughout the book, the ongoing power battle to be the alpha dog is never at rest between McMurphy and Big Nurse. Nurse Ratched has all the patients scared into this routine lifestyle she has planned out and no one has ever come in her way, until McMurphy came along. Although Big Nurse gets by with her strict, nothing-can-phase-me attitude, McMurphy always seems to get under her skin. He is always putting forth any effort, and doing anything within the title rebellious, that he can to try and gain the freedom he feels he needs to survive. Even within the first few days of him being there he states "What I want to know is am I safe to try and beat her at her own game?" (Kesey 68) "Just what I said:any of you sharpies here willing to take my five bucks that says that I can get the best of that woman...without her getting the best of me?"(68)
And to think that was only said in the beginning! Even at a later date in the book, during the scene in which McMurphy is set on watching the world series and Big Nurse agrees to an open vote. When Big Nurse claimes majority rules, Mac just won't except it, and once again just does what he wants (and not only himself, but he influences the rest of the men, too.) "And we're all sitting there lines up in front of that blanked-out TV set, watching the gray screen...and she's ranting and screaming behind us." (128) He seems to reach not only for freedom for himself but for the rest of the men too. Without him, there'd be no one to put the routine lifestyle on hold and help the other patients get a chance to actually breathe. I think no matter what happens, how irrated Big Nurse can get, McMurphy will always pull out on top.
And to think that was only said in the beginning! Even at a later date in the book, during the scene in which McMurphy is set on watching the world series and Big Nurse agrees to an open vote. When Big Nurse claimes majority rules, Mac just won't except it, and once again just does what he wants (and not only himself, but he influences the rest of the men, too.) "And we're all sitting there lines up in front of that blanked-out TV set, watching the gray screen...and she's ranting and screaming behind us." (128) He seems to reach not only for freedom for himself but for the rest of the men too. Without him, there'd be no one to put the routine lifestyle on hold and help the other patients get a chance to actually breathe. I think no matter what happens, how irrated Big Nurse can get, McMurphy will always pull out on top.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
WORD UP NUMBA 3.
I'm confused on this post but alrighty!
"Open"- The "open" quadrant are things that is common knowledge known about myself by me and everyone else. Two examplesthat would go along in the "open" quadrent is that I have dirty blonde hair and hazel eyes-this is something that can be observed by anyone without even having to know me. It's basically anything under the category of obvious to the naked eye.
"Blind"- The "Blind"quadrant is something obvious to anyone else but myself. For example, when my sister talks her nose twitches and I (not in a mean way) laugh but she never even knows what I'm talking about. I guess when her nose twitches she doesn't even notice she's doing it. The fact of her not knowing makes it in the blind category.
"Hidden"- The "Hidden" quadrant are basic facts that are on a more personal level that really only I or someone extremely close to me knows. For example, my favorite color is yellow, i love pistachio ice cream, and eric clapton. This is something you would not know about me unless we knew each other better. However, if I did tell you facts like the above I would be moving into the "Open" quadrant.
"Unknown"- The "Unknown" quadrant is something that is neither noticed by myself nor anyone else. For example, when I once had a dream about a cat clawing at my eyes. I've never really acknowledged cats when I see them but later on in my life I developed a hatred for cats for no apparent reason.
"Open"- The "open" quadrant are things that is common knowledge known about myself by me and everyone else. Two examplesthat would go along in the "open" quadrent is that I have dirty blonde hair and hazel eyes-this is something that can be observed by anyone without even having to know me. It's basically anything under the category of obvious to the naked eye.
"Blind"- The "Blind"quadrant is something obvious to anyone else but myself. For example, when my sister talks her nose twitches and I (not in a mean way) laugh but she never even knows what I'm talking about. I guess when her nose twitches she doesn't even notice she's doing it. The fact of her not knowing makes it in the blind category.
"Hidden"- The "Hidden" quadrant are basic facts that are on a more personal level that really only I or someone extremely close to me knows. For example, my favorite color is yellow, i love pistachio ice cream, and eric clapton. This is something you would not know about me unless we knew each other better. However, if I did tell you facts like the above I would be moving into the "Open" quadrant.
"Unknown"- The "Unknown" quadrant is something that is neither noticed by myself nor anyone else. For example, when I once had a dream about a cat clawing at my eyes. I've never really acknowledged cats when I see them but later on in my life I developed a hatred for cats for no apparent reason.
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