Cheswick Book Vs Movie Analysis

I believe that the reason the film version is so different from the novel version is because the producer did not envision it adapting well to screen play very well. Also if every detail in the book was put into the movie, it would be over 4 hours long to really capture it all. The producers knew they needed to keep their viewers attention somehow and playing a 4 hour movie with many lulls in it would have been a disaster. Instead they decided to take the biggest points in the book and place them back to back in order to keep the audience 's attention. There were many differences in the film from the book but three of the biggest ones are Cheswick’s death, the nurse with an imperfection and the point of view the movie was shot in compared to the book. One of the biggest things that did not happen in the movie version was the death of the acute patients, Cheswick. After and argument with Nurse Ratched over the distribution of cigarettes with no help from McMurphy, Cheswick has a controversial death in the novel. Some believe it was an accident,

We can see in the movie that we followed McMurphy seeing his crazy antics and anticipating what would happen next. In the novel however, we are taken through this journey with the help of a schizophrenic Native American named Chief Bromden. Through Bromden we are taken on a journey where we question what is real and what is apart of his illness. We also are taken behind the scenes with him because of his trickerying into making people think he is deaf and dumb we learn things that other patients on the ward do not. For the entire film to be shot through the eyes of someone else made a monumental different in how the story was told and the background of others left out. This affected my opinion a great deal because so much was forgotten about the people and society that the film did not have the same affect it could have