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.
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’