This and One Flew Over The Cukoos Nest= the same movie?
Just saw this for the first time, and it was hard to ignore that the main characters and themes could be stand ins for one another, with the only difference being the setting.
shareYes, you nailed it.
In 1962, Ken Kesey wrote the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest to romanticize mental patients as just quirky free spirits who were imprisoned by an ultra-conformist American society. This stupid idea captured the public's imagination, and it wound up inspiring a slew of creatives to start applying the same logic to other institutions. In the case of Cool Hand Luke, they applied that logic to the penal system.
I disagree that it was a “stupid idea”. Cukoos was a great movie, with standout performances from every actor in it. If audiences interpreted it as literal rather than allegorical, that’s their problem.
Cool hand Luke also had great performances and Was worth the watch just for Struthers. I suppose it took more than a little inspiration and was very “of the time”.
Did you read what I said? The movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest started out as a book, which was written in 1962. Ken Kesey, who had written the book, was a huge counterculturalist who hated The Establishment and used his writing to perpetuate this idea that mental institutions were symbols of authoritarian and conformity that was crushing the human spirit and individualism.
The book inspired a slew of movies, including Cool Hand Luke, which only came out a few years later and applied the same logic to prisons.
So, it's not that Cool Hand Luke resembles the movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It's that CHL is a ripoff of the book written by Kesey, which later became the movie starring Jack Nicholson. That is why they appear to be the same movie to you.
If audiences interpreted it as literal rather than allegorical, that’s their problem.
I didn't say the audiences interpreted anything as allegorical. I said that Ken Kesey deliberated used his book as an allegory.
What are you even arguing about? Nothing. You're just being a contrarian. I just don't get people like you. You clearly have no sense of history or cultural context behind the book or both movies, but you want to argue about both without knowing anything. Did you ask your question about these movies in all seriousness, or did you just post to humble brag over having recognized that both movies were more or less the same?
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Why are you getting so emotional? I disagreed that it’s a “stupid idea”.
It’s a little odd that you’re getting hysterical over a difference of opinion.
You obviously have a BIG PROBLEM with people who buck the status quo and have creative ideas. Maybe Kirk Cameron should direct your next project?
shareI'm not sure that your conclusion that he based it on a book of another name is factual, just because you get pouty.
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To be fair, penal and mental institutions both have major problems and are mired in ton of controversy/corruption.
Making films that bring that to light is a good thing. Likewise, romanticizing all inmates/mental patients is obviously not to so great - lol