The One That Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest A Scene Analysis

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In The One That Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey the nurses’ assistants have a unique initiation for the newcomers. The newcomers of the mental institute did not know what was coming when they walked through that door. The nurses’ assistants led them into the showers and inserted thermometers into their rectum and before they did that they turned on all the showers to muffle their screams. We chose this scene since not only it shows the cruelty that can go on in these types of institutions and its ability to describe effortlessly of the resident’s pain when they first come in. The set design in the shower scene is very simple and doesn’t need many elaborate props. The lighting in the scene is very dark, to show how chilling the scene is in the book. The cinematography shows how the scene looks with a high definition look to it.
To show how the scene must be interpreted we started with the set design.
Since the set design did not need little too any props, we wanted the location to do all the talking. The scene we chose is the scene where the nurses’ assistants “welcome” the new residents. In the scene in the book there is no props, just the characters. With no elaborate props to be used in this scene we decided that the lighting be the set design.
The lighting played a big role in how the scene was going to make the viewer feel. We chose to do a dark lighting, highlighted by the light shining threw the doorway. We choose to do that lighting because we wanted to show how it would feel to the incoming residents as they walked through that doorway. They would see the showers but as they would look at the showers a cold chill would run through them as the nurses’
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assistances walked in with thermometers in there hand. While the resident was frozen with fear, the nurses’ assistances would one by one turn on all the showers, to muffle their screams as the nurses’ assistants inserted the thermometers into their rectum.
Usually cinematography involves video, with this specific scene we used a picture. We layered this picture with many copies of itself, to give it a realistic effect. The cinematography played a big role in showing how the viewer should interpret the scene. The cinematography shows what it would feel like to walk into a room, where a sudden chilliness came over you. The cinematography took a basic picture and turned it into something real. The cinematography in the picture makes you feel as if you were really there.
The picture of the scene shows how the nurses’ assistance treats the new residents. The scene depicts how the rest of the mood in the novel is going to be. To the set design in the scene being very simple and no need for elaborate props. To the lighting in the scene, very dark, to show how chilling the scene is portrayed in the book. To finally the cinematography, to show how the scene looks with a high definition look to it, to make it feel real. All these things contribute to how the rest of the novel is going to be.