One of the many things that are different between the movie and the book is that In the book Chief Bromden is the narrator who unveils the story of the battle of wills between Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy. Arguably in the book, Chief Bromden is a hero who undergoes the most notable changes while detailing the events in the book. Chief reveals his background information of his life before the mental asylum. We learn that chief is a paranoid schizophrenic, an ex-soldier, and a half breed Indian whose, white mother worked with us government to emasculate his proud father, a Native American. The filmed version discards Chief as the story's narrator discards the background story of Chief and makes him into secondary character to Mcmurphy. Mcmurphy is the hero in the movie.
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Nurse Ratched tells other nurses that McMurphy is just like previous patient Maxwell Taber. Chief explains how he once asked the nurse what kind of medication he was being given, and was subjected to electroshock therapy, and brain work that left him docile and unable to think. The Institution of insanity is foregrounded is a simple man asks a simple question and is subjected to inhuman treatment and torture.
It is only logical that a sane man will question such an system, but the act of questioning means his sanity will inevitably be compromised.
I feel like with the movie leaving out the Chief’s village does leave a hole in the story even though we read the book it would have been nice to see what Chief was in his past.
I think leave the Chief narrations out of the book really took away from the movie. In the book we get explanations of things that we don’t
Nurse Ratched tells other nurses that McMurphy is just like previous patient Maxwell Taber. Chief explains how he once asked the nurse what kind of medication he was being given, and was subjected to electroshock therapy, and brain work that left him docile and unable to think. The Institution of insanity is foregrounded is a simple man asks a simple question and is subjected to inhuman treatment and torture.
It is only logical that a sane man will question such an system, but the act of questioning means his sanity will inevitably be compromised.
I feel like with the movie leaving out the Chief’s village does leave a hole in the story even though we read the book it would have been nice to see what Chief was in his past.
I think leave the Chief narrations out of the book really took away from the movie. In the book we get explanations of things that we don’t