The producers of the film, Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz created the 1975 film and made some additions which changed the role of certain characters throughout the film. Addition is defined as the action or process of adding something to something else. Adding something to a film that is not in the original novel is tricky to do because there is always fear of ruining it for the people who have waiting years for the movie. It is also very difficult to add new scenes into the films that were previously books because it may affect the plot causing the producers to have to make drastic changes. In the novel, Taber is a former patient who stayed in Nurse Ratched’s ward before McMurphy had arrived. He is punished with electroshock therapy and after