One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

The difference between the book and the movie: McMurphy: when he was lying to get rid of the manual labor, his characterization is still appealing to the audience. Sacrificial god: crucified; the victim of the system; The arbitrariness and viciously of the bigger institution If she is the true devil? Is she a complex character? She has the intention of the revenging towards him; she is driven towards of becoming a more monstrous character But at the end, the film gradually over-simplified the nurse, in order to make us completely sympathize with the patients. It won all of the Academy awards “But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.” Visually and audio The development of the character Taking them out to a trip: ambiguity of the character — humanizing the others; freeing them; his love enlarges the rest ——democracy in the way he interacts with them — he treats them the same way he treats anyone else The treatment of the women: either the nurses or the prostitutes (but with some complexity; partly more redeeming) His innocence, without realizing what can possibly happen to him, without realizing the anger of the big nurse. He thought he is the most worldly and knowledgeable, but oblivious about the danger. His neglect of the craziness of the patients, that he never truly understands what is craziness. The rewarding men with prostitution: what does it suggest about the sexuality of the society, and masculinity. (pervasive in all forms of media) The big nurse tried to invoke Billy’s trauma. His confidence and innocence becomes his persona

The legacy of the studio era, is a new kind of American acting, in the notion that the actors can generate a persona that follows his/her career.

The bathroom fountain scene: this occurs twice, one for McMurphy and the ending of Chief. the evil side of the big nurse — is more ambivalent — the attitude towards the authority