re: McMurphy( Cuckoo’s nest) vs Luke(Cool Hand Luke)

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IMO: Both were believable bc some ppl will fight a bad fight for stupid reasons.

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Did you really take from both of those movies that they were “fighting a bad fight for stupid reasons”?

Both Luke and RP are generally considered to have some Christ-like characters. It’s a lot more obvious that’s what the filmmakers were going for with Cool Hand Luke from many of the scenes, but ultimately the story of McMurphy was that he sacrificed himself to get rid of the evil Ratchet.

Both were fighting “good fights” that were unintentional, and started for other reasons.