This document is the complete study package for those studying Milos Forman’s ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, as their New Hollywood film on the WJEC A Level Film Studies course. In concise note form, this document includes all the key scene analysis, divided into micro-elements, to supp...
mise-en-scene: echoes--madness. * MacMurphy is vocal and active -
others are passive and made.
* bland beige walls in entrance corridor plush, natural green grass is leftoutside. * Audible emphasis on the locking/unlocking doors
of -
Aclanging metal-trapped.
clinical
* white uniforms differentfrom Police Officers
-
(this is a new place for Mac
* Ma's dark heavy jacket and hat -- he is different, dark, 'the other'
editing:a long edits typical
-
of
documentary style - slow observatory pace.
-
Mac is presented as uncaring, self-absorbed, arrogant, confident, unstable.
nematography & Por shots from above - Mac being observed. dolley shot moving
through corridor a pan up to face from cuffs--(U of laughter.
Mac's escape plan
sound: silence -fear
xambients ound ofmonopoly pieces moving tension o
t he
of
*key lighto n MacMurphy's face -p his expression is almost
hopeful. I everything is
beige-Mai's scrubs are a little different- greentop +
cards in his sleeve. * Harding 3 editing:a cuts between monopoly board and MartiniB Harding faster -
argument
cheswick in robes -this is their home. Nicholsar's performance, red face, screaming
desperation. * mais defensive body languagei n first
f rame. nematography mac framed
centrally leadership stance * pan across others being
sprayed by hose-emac's power. * OTs wide shot as he sprays them-y catalystfor chaos.
->
Billy detached from others Mac's
in the background s hots-p
of
amnority.
Nurse Ratched's entrance
sounch: * pleonastic, neightened, diegetic, metallic sound d oor
of crashing shut she
mise-en-scene: has the control and power.
* black cloan coat -> colour associated w/ darkness and evil-loons line badomen.
* black pillbox
h at-always has a hat on -> superiority authority.
+ * g reet her
staff editing:a slow paced editing, long cuts to help emphasise Nurse Ratched's
"Good morning"- she is respected shes
- taker than pilbow-y dominant. authoritative presence.
* her main prop is the seto fkeys.
nematography & static long wide shot, allows the spectator to observe, Ratched walks
directly towards the camera.
morning after the party
sotinc: x al mostly from patched speaks in commands notfull sentences
dialogue, a
mise-en-scene: * harsh commands and relocking of windows.
* Ratched holds the keys behind her back, tries to defend her power. she stays
static and still despite the chaos around her her crumpled dirtied Cap, inematography camera packs away in fear as patched advances up the corridor.
symbol of the deterioration of society. * She speaks over Billy * same static vs shakey camera from group therapy. Billy - Ratched.
Opening scene
sound: * sound of snackles being unlocked -- they are dangerous need restraining
mise-en-scene: * gentle classical music as a pacifier to patients need calming."medication time"echoes
* dark lighting the
at beginning, ominous dangerous. * beige
+
and sterile is the
Nurse's
only colour is the technicolour tablets.* natural lightf rom windows in
editing:I slow paced cuts, documentary real-style is immediately established
station, is artificial lighti nside emphasises being trapped and imprisoned.
inematography shot record
of spinning, monotony repetitive. Amcu snows the
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Candy: . . foil for patched blank expression of the patients, shot lingers on chief -
foreshadows his importance
* giggly and smiling -
more expressive than Ratched. * camera outside doorframe ofBancini's cell - subject/observer -- distance for safety.
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