R.P. McMurphy was similar to Cool Hand Luke. For example they were both very strong, determined people. R.P. McMurphy didn’t belong in the insane asylum with the other men just like Cool Hand Luke didn’t belong in prison. They are just both troubled men whose life turned to the worst. Both men try escaping where they were kept. Both men also got caught. But at first the men don’t like McMurphy but the soon grew to love him. Same with Cool Hand Luke, he fought with men but then became best friends with one of them. What was ironic is that both characters smiled a lot. Most scenes McMurphy was laughing or smiling and Cool Hand Luke always smiled and died with a smile on his face. Both movies had the same basic set-up so it’s not surprise the men are alike. But before watching each movie I would have not put two and two together. Where they similar other ways that I might have missed?
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In both Cool Hand Luke and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Luke and R.P. McMurphy were the main characters. They were the heroes of the stories. Compared with Jesus, both of the characters had to die in order to keep their legacies as heroes. If they had not died, then they wouldn't have been remembered for their heroic efforts, but for the failures that they had become. By being turned into a "vegetable", R.P. McMurphy was no longer the man that the men on the ward had known him as. He was no longer the leader that he had been before, and instead was weak, just like other men had been. If Luke had not died, he would have just gone back to the prison and wouldn’t have been the hero that he had previously been. Both men were the ideal man: strong, funny, and adventurous. If they hadn’t died, then they viewers wouldn’t have seen them like this.
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