1. Some announcements:
No class on May 3
Today is our last class
We’ll discuss both “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” and
“The King of Comedy”
Final Exam May 10
7:30-9:30
Room E-108
Monday, April 26, 2010
3. Novelist: Ken Kesey
Playwright: Dale Wasserman
Screenwriter 1- Lawrence Hauben b. 1931 d.1985
Director: Milos Forman
Screenwriter 2- Bo Goldman
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4. McMurphy’s journey into a world that he doesn’t
understand. (Nor do we!)
Monday, April 26, 2010
11. Themes
Conformity As a Threat to Freedom
The Contradiction Between Tyranny and Sanity
The Sacred Nature of the Individual
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12. Motifs
Obstacles to Personal Freedom
Games
The Rebel As Savior
Hearing As a Human Connection
Symbols
Keys
Cigarettes
Pornographic Playing Cards
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13. The main conflict in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest has been described in three different ways:
........the struggle of the "sane individual vs. a crazy institution"
...................."man vs. machine"
........a primevil, wild, unsocialized, anti-family form of masculinity
vs. asexual women, institutions, and society that want to tame it."
Choose the theme that you think most accurately describes the
conflict as portrayed in the film and explain why.
Monday, April 26, 2010
14. The King of Comedy (1982)
Directed by
Martin Scorsese
Produced by
Arnon Milchan
Joseph P. Grace
Written by
Paul D. Zimmerman
Starring
Robert De Niro
Jerry Lewis
Sandra Bernhard
Diahnne Abbott
Cinematography
Fred Schuler
Monday, April 26, 2010
