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 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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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.
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When McMurphy refuses to admit he shouldn't have attacked the wardens, he is subject to electroshock therapy multiple times. |
McMurphy is only shown to be shocked once. |
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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.
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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. |