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
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McMurphy figures out that Bromden isn't deaf when the latter refuses a sleeping pill from him without seeing what it is. |
McMurphy discovers that Bromden can hear and speak while they are waiting in the Disturbed ward. |
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Bromden narrates how he perceives the bulk of society to function as a machine called the Combine, comparing the hospital's staff and facilities to various mechanisms. |
Bromden's inner monologue is absent.
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McMurphy breaks the nurse's station window as he extends his arms to reach for his cigarettes, claiming that it was so clean he couldn't see it. |
McMurphy punches through the window to get a hysteric Cheswick's cigarettes in order to try and calm him down. |
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Dr. Spivey is shown to be as intimidated by Ratched as the patients, and empathises with them on several occasions. |
Spivey is distant from the patients, and does not seem to be influenced by Ratched.
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After the fishing trip, McMurphy drives everyone to his childhood home, where he says he lost his innocence. |
This does not happen. |