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    obey orders. When an order is disobeyed‚ insubordination is probable‚ thus causing the individual with previously lower status to fight back against the oppression. In the film Cool Hand Luke‚ the narrative is largely based on the main character Luke‚ refusing to conform to life in a rural prison. Throughout the film‚ Luke struggles to obey authority and is seen trying to escape from the prison. Dragline‚ however‚ conforms to traditional norms of the prison and abides by commands. Obedience to an

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    Esther Oh 2/5/09 Sociology 150A In the movie “Cool Hand Luke‚” it seems that Lucas Jackson continuous rebellion about conformist ideals resulted in his immortality‚ regardless of his eventual death. In the beginning of the movie‚ Jackson’s choice to cut off the heads of parking meters is not only symbolic of breaking a norm‚ but also the breaking of something that restricts individuals from freely going about their lives. Parking meters cap the amount of time a person can stay in a certain

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    movie‚ “Cool Hand Luke‚” Luke‚ the main character‚ is a special kind of person and really stands out with the situation he is in. The main parts of the movie is him trying to escape from this prison he was evicted to in Florida and forced to become part of a chain gang. Luke has a hard time fitting in with the prison and extremely defiant which is why he tries to escape three times‚ with no luck. The wardens try their hardest to break him and in the end it doesn’t turn out too good for Luke himself

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    Conformity

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    movie Cool Hand Luke directed by Stuart Rosenberg‚ Luke Jackson was the nonconformist. Guy Montag was considered a nonconformist because in his society you weren’t allowed to read books‚ and he did. In Luke’s society he was considered a nonconformist because he went against the jail and ran away repeatedly. Luke is more of a nonconformist compared to Guy Montag because Luke was a man who refused to be nailed down or conform to the rules and regulations of a society. Luke from the movie Cool Hand

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    for television series and movies‚ he got his first cinematography credit for a theatrical released film in 1965. In 1967‚ Hall was praised for his rich and complex composition as he was the director of photography for two modern classic films‚ Cool Hand Luke and In Cold Blood. In 1969 he won his first Academy Award for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. (1)Hall won two more academy awards with his last two films‚ American Beauty (1999) and Road to Perdition (2002)‚ both of which he teamed up with

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    interest of the patients in the ward. Lucas jackson repeatedly broke the law simply because he could. R.P. McMurphy is a man who likes to get into fights cause chaos and escape the ward sometimes but he never broke the law. When McMurphy bashed his big hands through the nurses quarters window it was purely an act of breaking free from the bonds that nurse Ratched had tight on him. Another stunt of McMurphy’s visit to the ward would be when he raised up the idea to move the cleaning schedule back to watch

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    Conrad Hall

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    greatest images are both timeless and sublime: a cascade of reflected raindrops that mimic tears on a killer’s dispassionate countenance (In Cold Blood); the mirror image of a chain gang‚ trapped in the sunglasses of an impassive prison guard (Cool Hand Luke); a faceless‚ horsebound posse in relentless pursuit of two mythical outlaws (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid); a solitary‚ backlit figure entering the cavernlike tavern that symbolizes his spiritual defeat (Fat City); the Bosch-like decimation

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    might dismiss The Shawshank Redemption as Son of Cool Hand Luke. So it is‚ but it’s more than that. Frank Darabont’s adaptation of a Stephen King novella seems to respond to the old Paul Newman movie‚ amend it‚ complete it. A well-bred young banker is sent to serve a life term in Shawshank prison in Maine after being unjustly convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover. Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) seems to be a pragmatic version of Cool Hand Luke. Whereas Luke’s only agenda was to run away from

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    An antagonist is defined as a person who is opposed to‚ or the "bad guy." In Cool Hand Luke and One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest the Captain and Nurse Ratchet played this role‚ respectively. They both appeared to be what I would call and "control freak." Although Nurse Ratchet and the Captain are similar characters‚ I feel that their need and reason for control‚ as well as their methods‚ differ. I believe that Nurse Ratchet’s need for control was a part of who she was. Everything had to be perfect

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