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Compare how gender is represented in one sequence from each of your chosen film. Refer to one character from each film. [20] This essay will scrutinise the difference ways gender is represented by analysing the main characters RP McMurphy and Scottie in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Vertigo. The scenes that will be explored in this essay are the voting of the baseball game in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and in Vertigo the scene is where Madeleine jumps in to the bay. In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest RP McMurphy comes into the film as very bright and cheerful character which makes him more vulnerable as Nurse Ratched oppresses him eventually breaking his spirit however he achieves certain goals which are as follows, he gives the men back their masculinity and helps them realise they are being treated unfairly. The representations of RP McMurphy in the voting scene is an angry and annoyed which could be an a normal male trait. Whereas he is metaphorically c...