What's the Difference between One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest the Book and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest the Movie?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Book vs Movie
In the Book |
In the Movie |
McMurphy and Bromden are sent to the Disturbed ward after getting into a fight with the wardens when McMurphy tried to dissuade one of them from forcing medication onto the germophobe George in the showers. |
McMurphy gets into a fight with the wardens after breaking the nurse's station window to get Cheswick's cigarettes. After Bromden helps him, all three are sent to the Disturbed ward. |
By the time McMurphy is admitted into the hospital, Taber has already been "fixed" and released. |
Taber is present throughout most of the story.
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After Ratched's scuffle with McMurphy, she is shown to be highly bruised and incapable of speaking, using a notepad to communicate with the patients. |
Ratched wears a cervical collar, but otherwise seems superficially unharmed. |
When the world series is scheduled to come on TV, McMurphy sits in front of the set, which has been turned off by Ratched, and simply remains there as the other patients join him and Ratched screams for them to go back to work. |
McMurphy starts to narrate an imaginary match, which prompts the other patients to stop working and sit around him. Ratched simply uses the loudspeaker to try and get them back to work.
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Bromden, the narrator, reminisces in great detail about his life prior to the hospital, as the child of an indian tribe that was forced to give up their home by the Combine, and later a soldier. |
This is not shown. |