The movie strayed from the novel on the strength of Nicholson's role as McMurphy and the Directors desire to make a movie more about the dangers of conformity. In fact, straying so far that 'Chief Broom's' victory over his struggle seems lost as he runs away.
McMurphy and Ratched are just two trains destined to wreck in order to provide the arc of The Chief's journey.
If INTPc is a Looney Bin in your mind's eye, then fair enough, let's run with this idea.
A Funny Farm is a place of Isolation from the greater society so that the patients are not driven Ape-shit by the vast majority of people who are different and demand the conformity of bland normalcy.
McMurphy is a social fuck-up that is trying to get over on the system and avoid jail by pretending he belongs on the farm. He constantly locks horns with Nurse Ratched over the rules while thinking his shit don't stink.
Twice McMurphy could have escaped his fate but he made the calls that lead to his own end.
The one who flew over the cuckoo's nest is a movie about the dangers of conformity.
INTPc imo is being forced into conformity.
• Hospital Ward/Online forum
• Psychiatrists/Administrators
• Miss Ratched/OMW
• Female/Female
• Head Nurse/Head Mod
• Assistant nurse/Attila the Hunny
• In charge of ward/In charge of forum
• patients incapable of dealing with their emotions/members incapable of dealing with their emotions
Miss Ratched/OMW is completely trusted by the Psychiatrists/Administrators and given unsupervised reign over the whole ward/forum.
Patients/Members avoid upsetting her because they know she has the authority to send patients/members upstairs/purgatory where patients/members can end up dead/banned.
When MacMurphy/Unliked Member challenged Miss Ratcheds/OMWs authority and posed as a threat to her control over the ward/forum she made sure the rest of his stay there was miserable.
MacMuphy/Unliked Member finally snaps and gets sent upstairs/purgatory where he is tortured even worse. He is finally put out of his misery and is killed/banned.
The ward/forum is a place of isolation from the greater society where some patients/members are driven Ape-shit by all the dysfunctional patients/members and a controlling nurse/mod that demands the conformity of her bland normalcy.
McMurphy is a social fuck-up that is trying to get over on the system and avoid jail by pretending he belongs on the farm. He constantly locks horns with Nurse Ratched over the rules while thinking his shit don't stink.
^ This represents the trolls and dupes who constantly flame the forum.
* The trolls are attracted to the forum because some of the rules there allow their antics.
* Then you consistently see dupes there because unliked members will get mistreated, degraded and banned by OMW and other members (sometimes over personal reasons that have nothing to do with forum rules) and they will come back as dupes out of spite.
Twice McMurphy could have escaped his fate but he made the calls that lead to his own end.
Once: Stayed so his buddy b-b-b-billy can get laid.
Twice: Then stayed again when he saw that something happened to his friend.
^ This has nothing to do with my comparison but sound like acceptable reasons to stay and shows how he cares about the people there, which is more then you can say for Ratched, who like OMW, seems to care more about the rules of a ward/forum then its patients/members.
Is that enough comparisons for you? I hope so.