You girls have won my heart with this reaction. This is my all-time favorite film, and your reaction is the most thoughtful, perceptive, respectful i have seen yet. I'm so impressed with you both for genuinely "getting it". I think you read all the characters exactly the way the author had intended for them to be seen. You are really fine souls.
Nurse Ratched is usually voted amongst the greatest film villains of all time. This is based on a book of the same name by Ken Kesey who worked as an orderly in a mental hospital. I believe a lot of the characters/events are based on people and things he witnessed
Ya she is a name people call control freak B's. Made it into the vernacular. Ever seen sometimes a great notion? A Kesey adaptation that Kesey actually approved of. A brilliant character study and very powerful film
45:38 "No I'm not [ashamed]" -- He didn't even stammer or look away. It kills me that he has this one moment of wellness, and then completely regresses.
Poor Billy, he's found passion once again in his life. He loves the girl. But he is not good at expressing himself. Nurse Ratched made him feel guilty.
It's rather shocking to think that such hospital institutions persisted in reality (and in many places, not just the US) all the way well into the 1970s; but Nicholson's journey through the film brings it all, brilliantly, disturbingly and so movingly, to life.
No whats shocking is we now provide them with all the fentanyl they want and allow them to live face down in a gutter with feces in their pants. Mental institutions should have been fixed and not abolished.
I was 14 in 1975 when I sneaked into the theater with a friend to see this, the first R-rated film I ever saw. It had a big impact on me, being so compelling, gritty, funny, disturbing, and its tragic ending. "Cuckoo's Nest" won Academy Awards for Best PIcture, Actor, Actress, Director, and Screenplay. Only two other films did the same: It Happened One Night (1934), and Silence of The Lambs (1991).
This was my grandads favourite film and I watched it a month after he passed away to feel closer to him. It was the first time watching it and I couldn’t stop crying afterwards. My grandad suffered with his mental health all throughout his life and it made me understand him a little better ❤️💔
One of the most infamous film villains of all time: Nurse Mildred Ratched, a cold-hearted, cruel tyrant who cared more about maintaining ORDER than about helping anyone. She was a master of passive-aggressive bullying. When given the opportunity to get McMurphy out of her ward, she chose to keep him there, just because he was a threat to her power and control. She would never admit to being unable to control anyone. Even the actress who played her, Louise Fletcher, couldn't bear to watch the film, as her character was so horrible. Winner of 5 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Jack Nicholson), Best Actress (Louise Fletcher)
So good that you chose this movie it's perfect, poor Billy has a domineering puritanical mother which is why he's such a mess and doesn't want to leave the hospital. Ratchet knows this and uses it as a threat to keep him on edge. Had to laugh when Ellie made Lia promise to get her out if she ever ended up in one of these places 😄
Lea was spot on when she said nurse Ratched has the problem with control. Ratched probably saw McMurphy as a challenge which she needed to overcome to keep exerting her dominance.
She was a gifted actor ❤ One of the most deserving Oscar wins for her performance as Nurse Ratched, her lovely heartfelt acceptance speech proved even more how much she deserved her Oscar for playing someone as sadistic and icy as Ratched.
You’ve entered the big leagues now, ladies! One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is simply one of the all time greatest movies, period. I’ve only ever seen it once and that left a lasting impression on me. Simply powerful story and acting from the entire cast & boy what a cast: Jack Nicholson (McMurphy) & Louise Fletcher (Miss Ratched) both won Oscars for their performances here but even the supporting cast were brilliant too. Some familiar faces started here too: Danny De Vito (Martini), Christopher Lloyd (Taber), Brad Dourif (Billy) all got their major breaks from this movie & have become superstars in their own right. Definitely need to get Michelle and Viki to watch this; they’ll definitely love it & cry about it (at least Viki will lol).
@Boroman9 Every once in awhile, I go back and watch her (solo) reaction to Green Mile just to enjoy that. She also used to yell about smashing the bad guys heads. She did do that in this one about Nurse Ratchet. 🤣
is one of the best movies of the 70's, winning 5 Oscars (Movie, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay). Girls should see more movies from that time: Network, Dog Afternoon, All the President's Men, among others.
This film put Michael Douglas on the film map (first here as a producer). Then another young Michael Douglas had to change his name to Michael *Keaton*
Electroshock therapy used to be a very common treatment for severe mental illnesses including very severe depression and bipolar. They also used to use some pretty heavy drugs. Scary stuff, but the shocks actually did help people. How they possibly could have discovered this? "Nothing else has worked so we're gonna put 25,000 volts through ya. Don't worry though. It's not the volts that get ya. It's the amps."
This movie not only launched the careers of MANY of the supporting cast members but put Czeck director Milos Forman on the map and won Michael Douglas his first Oscar as producer....
The older man who plays the head Doctor was a real life physician and noticed William Redfield (the actor who played Harding) was exhibiting troubling symptoms during filming. He ended up diagnosing Redfield with Leukemia and gave him 18 months to live (this was before bone marrow transplants were possible). Redfield died in August of '76... 18 months after his diagnosis - almost to the day.
Did you guys notice how many famous people as young actors were in this movie “Shock Therapy”and Brain surgery is called a “Lobotomy” very controversial you could say the big Indian Chief escaping the Mental Hospital was One Flew Over The Coocoo’s Nest lobotomy is a type of brain surgery that became popular in the 1930s as a treatment for mental health conditions such as schizophrenia. It involves severing the connection between the frontal lobe and other parts of the brain.
THANKS for reacting to this great movie, this and the shining was jack nicklesons greatest movies. this movie won many awards and brought attention to the horrible conditions in americas mental institutions which led to some new laws over them. mr macmurphy was first given the barberic "shock therapy" that was given to some depressed people in psycharichy in the 30's to 2000 or so, it damaged peoples brains, he was given a "labotomy" in the end where a part of the brain is removed, another barbaric practice in psychaiatry from years past.. . please react to "psycho" from 1960 and a more recent film "american psycho"....( NOT rel;ated movies but both are great!). Love you all!!!.
Oh, electroshock therapy ( ECT ) is still used a lot. "People who can't take medications for mental health conditions for any reason can often still receive ECT. This can make a big difference for people with organ function problems or people who are pregnant (ECT is safe during all three trimesters of pregnancy). It's especially effective in combination with medication" It's not used as a punishment any more though, and Lobotomy isn't used anymore either
@@Fred-vy1hm one movie with Jack Nicholson that was big when it came out but is completely forgotten now is “As Good as it Gets.” He won best actor for it and Helen Hunt won best actress… but it’s aged terribly. I’m sure you probably know it
@@Fred-vy1hm. He didn’t win for Chinatown but he did win for Cuckoo’s Nest the following year, Terms of Endearment in the 80s and As Good as It Gets in the 90s; he’s also still the most nominated male actor in Oscar history (most nominations overall is of course Meryl Streep). Fun fact: according to the late Robin Williams, when he and Jack won their Oscars in 1998 (Robin for Good Will Hunting), before they went to the press room with the other winners, Jack said to him, “You know Rob-O? Now I got one for every decade!” 😂
Fantastic reaction to a great movie. R.I.P. Louise Fletcher.....we're STILL watching you. This reaction video is the indisputable proof. The two actors no one ever mentions: Sydney Lassick's incredible performance as Cheswick and William Redfield's equally-as-great performance as Harding. Of course there isn't a bad performance in the bunch. Keep hitting the classics of the late 60s-70s. You have to see NETWORK, and BONNIE AND CLYDE and THE GRADUATE and MIDNIGHT COWBOY and CARNAL KNOWLEDGE and AMERICAN GRAFFITI and ALL THAT JAZZ and PAPER MOON and CARRIE, etc etc...There are so many! You guys would KILL on Bonnie And Clyde!
@@jannathompson2262 It doesn't matter, they're not going to watch ANY of those movies, not on this channel, other than "Carrie", which reaction channels do. (Ironically enough, "American Graffiti" is the only other title I listed that reaction channels actually do, lol).
Such a huge cast in this movie. Danny Devito, Christipher lloyd (Doc in back to the future, Brad Doriuf who played the role of Billy had a special guest role in Star Trek Voyager as Lon Sudder & more recentlty played Grima Wormtounge in Lord of the rings. I'm sure you recognize other characters from this movie in roles in many other movies since the Cukoo's nest 😊
Read the book written by Ken Kesey who worked as a psychiatric nurse/orderly on night shift, the book is narrated by Chief ,Ratched is called the big nurse ,Harding is called Hard on ,you get alot more back story of the patients and staff in the novel ,well worth reading.
1. Gold nuggets in the cast. 2. This movie snagged all of the top 5 Oscars.😎 3. Harding resembles my old barber/friend(RIP) WWII vet. 4. The author of the book was Ken Kesey, well known for LSD usage, was loaded when he wrote this. 5. Mac did more for those guys than Nurse Ratched and her crew. 6. Ratched uses Billy's mother as her weapon. They all have their weaknesses, and she uses whatever they are against them for control. 7. Scatman and Nicholson worked together in "The Shining". 8. They gave Mac a lobotomy and the Chief put him out of his misery. He knew Mac wouldn't want to live like that. 9. The book is written from Chief Bronden's POV. 10. RIP Louise Fletcher😇
Do you recognize Scat Man Cruthers? He played the night orderly. He also was in The Shining. 37:44 Lia gave Ellie the side eye because alcohol and psych meds don’t mix. 40:04 there is an alien from Men in Black. 44:20 There is a ghost. 49:06 Don’t cross Ellie. 51:52 The word you are looking for is lobotomy.
31:30 Electroconvulsive therapy causes a relatively controlled seizure in the brain. In the terrible past of medicine it has been used without proper indication and without anesthesia, as is famously shown in the film. In the modern era it is used under anesthesia and in very specific cases where the therapy has actually been shown to produce positive results against problems with neural function.
52:01 "They cutted something from his brain so he is a vegetable, probably" Yes, that is what they did. In English that is called a Lobotomy, exactly what you said.
The movie was directed by Czech-origined Miloš Forman. He basically metaphorized communist totality in this movie, and he personfied it by Nurse Ratched. The last scene is a metaphor for breaking through the Iron curtain and setting yourself free. He experienced the real cuckoo's nest in communist Czechoslovakia, so he knew what the story was about.
So beautiful. So very beautiful...your reactions, at the ending. This Oscar award winning performance from Jack Nicholson was magnificent. The all star cast featured many future stars debuting on the silver screen and for Tv in time to come. This was a spectacular films and tv in the years to come. This motion picture and the acting and screenplay were momentous and I cannot praise you guys enough for your reactions to it all the way throughout. The look on your faces....priceless. It is so wicked cool to see your generation waking up to and discovering my generations films and music. I think you Homies would all do well in reacting to our 1970's, 1980's, and 90's music / songs. Idk if you are stuck only on RAP, ( like so many young people are), today. That is soo lame and one sided. I hope you have opened your minds to the world of real music with real voices, not autotune. And real musical instruments with the raw talent required by individuals to provide it. The songwriting also. Our generation did not depend on digitalized computer generated music and lyrics, or other professionals to provide songs ready made for them.. We relied upon real talent in our singers and entertainers back then. Not just anyone can produce killer music and/or really good films. Today Hollyweird cranks out mostly garbage. The stuff we read and saw in our comic books for back then sold 10 and 15 cents. That is about all the movies containing material for 8 and 10 year olds pass for movie material and screenplays today. They, also, are worth about the same price, as far as I'm concerned. No matter how much CGI they throw at it. . Anyway I think it is beautiful to see you guys, with your soft and tender hearts reacting to this kind of stuff, here, with this classic picture from 1975. Much peace and lots of love, girls. Shoutout from this old, longhaired, Southern boy, from across the pond, in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. U.S.A. . Cannot wait to see another from you lovely Homies. We love you lots. Later.
this was a huge hit when it came out and won tons of awards. it also had a big influence on how american society views mental illness. this is a very important film. glad you guys watched it. keep on rockin
Thank you so much for reacting to this film. Yes, the ending is so emotional that it can be hard to watch. This would have to be one of my favourite films. I am so glad that both of you got to experience it.
Great reaction, girls. This is one of the best films of all time. Please encourage Viki and Michelle to react to it also! ps~Just FYI, the subtitles you watched said, "Miss Ratched", but that was a mistake. Everyone called her, "Nurse Ratched". (By the way, the actress who played her won the Oscar for Best Actress. Jack Nicholson won for Best Actor, and the film also won Best Director and Best Picture.)
I absolutely hated the ending of that film. It hurt so bad to see what they did to Jack Nicholson's character. That was the intention of it, sure. For they had to do a lobotomy for him to need be there. It's crazy how mental "institutions" used to work. I imagine, they're not too far off from this now, except using heavier medications. So sad.
They've gotten a lot better in some ways, and some are about the same. ECT is actually a pretty safe and effective practice nowadays and done on consenting patients under anesthesia usually, but restraints and sedation are still an issue and just about everything is banned. A friend with zero history of violent behavior got in trouble for having a sharp pencil to draw with because it could be used as a weapon. I managed to sneak in some chocolates for her and it was depressing how happy it made her even though she hadn't been there a week
My uncle Paul went to a place like this once when I was a kid, I visited him there. I didn’t like him being there, he was released but became a ward of the state, and lived in halfway homes until he passed away in July 2019. RIP
Another great Jack Nicholson movie is “As Good as it Gets” from 1997. I’m sure you know it. It was big when it came out, but is completely forgotten today
@NSA Supporter It also was nominated and was good enough to win the Oscar for Best Picture that year, but everyone was giving it up for Titanic, where Kate Winslut was "rowing the boat" with Leo DiCaprio in a car.....on a boat. Poor Jack and that dog had no chance. 😅😪
@@hv3926 “As Good as it Gets” aged terribly. Which was why I said it’s completely forgotten today. But yeah, I see what you’re saying, but at least it beat out Titanic for best actor and actress
There's a hilarious little detail, when McMurphy borrows the fishing boat, he introduces all the patients as "Doctor" except for Harding, who only gets a "Mister" :D
"I think that the series will give them too much adrenaline" Probably the wisest sentence of the whole reaction, even with the soulful expression of its author.😁
The one inmate is Doc in "Back to the Future". He co-stars in a different film set about mental patients as well, but much more a comedy called "The Dream Team" Rules for institutions are a lot tighter on how long they can hold people in the U.S. Which leads to a different problem. Many people with mental problems going untreated and ending up homeless.
Ronald Reagan put an end to federal funding of mental institutions back in the day, resulting in too many mental cases being on the streets for lack of treatment facilities.
31:40 this used to be called electroshock therapy. It's called electroconvulsive therapy today and it can be effective on violent cases. It's supposed to calm the brain down, but isn't used nearly as often as it used to be.
Louise Fletcher did the part as Nurse Ratched. She did it amazingly & got the oscar for it. (most people hate her character and it's the feeling you are supposed to get). Electro Shock Therapy was used alot and not used in the right ways in the old days sadly. (if you wanna see something scarier read about the creep jerk who started doing ice pick lobotomies in a day, you drop off patient and get lunch and then come back and boom they are out of it etc, horrible...) These mental hospitals would do lobotomies but when necessary and or when they felt necessary. Billy's character's mom had him committed and Ratched and her were friends; Ratched would hold over him about how his mother would feel and it would scare billy and made him do what he did sadly. (the guy who plays billy is famous , he was grimma worm tongue in LOTR , he was in alien 4, he was in xfiles etc) They did a front lobal lobotomy (i think that's what its called) makes him basically a vegetable.
What was done to McMurphy at first was electrical shock treatment, then before the end of the film when Chief found out what they did to him by looking at his condition in bed Chief notices they did lobotomy which is a procedure of surgically removing some pieces of the brain to basically turn McMurphy into a zombie so to speak, taking away his true personality. These type of treatments are no longer practiced, but I did see a documentary some years ago that the patients with mental issues can make requests to have lobotomy done to them if they feel a need to be it done. Also State Mental Hospitals were shut down during the 80's when Ronald Reagan was President under the pressure of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union). That is one of the reasons we have so many homeless individuals that have serious mental issues here in America that live out on the streets and cause many problems to the communities in the cities. And for them to receive any kind of help is very difficult. By the way ladies, good reaction on the 1975 film 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Electroshock therapy or ECT was used in the past as a way to treat mental illness, not so much anymore, usually under anesthesia and much rarer. As for that scene, that was a real nurse and Jack Nicholson actually got shocked, on purpose.
Yay yay yay!! One of my all time favorites!! Nicholson reminds me of my Papaw. He’s a hooligan. Another good old one with Nicholson vibes is dirty Mary crazy Larry… or dirty Larry Crazy Mary lol… one of those 😂
Film is set in the 1960s...In case you didn't know, mental health treatment has changed drastically in the past 60 years...Most mental institutions like this were closed years ago and, not coincidentally, the homeless problem in the US became epidemic.
Years later, on *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* ,when Louise Fletcher played the recurring character of Winn Adami ... a conniving witch who basically ends up betraying everybody while hiding behind the mask of a righteous spiritual leader ... I couldn't help but think of Nurse Ratched.
i just noticed chief had straps holding him in bed, that he could undo.. i wonder if he had killed someone, like his father, and told them that he did it in his sleep?
"Kill that bitch": Ellie voiced what everyone who watched that scene was thinking. If you liked the movie, you should read the book. It's even better than the film.
If you are going to rematch, I would suggest you read the book first. The book is a quick read and the book's Narrator is the chief and gives a different prospective. Excellent choice ladies well done 👏
I used to live in the town where the boat came in and out. Massive shark bit a guy in half not too far from that bridge about 15 yrs ago. Also, great movie👍
The first time I saw this in 1975, I bought into the disturbing institution theory. The second time I saw it, it dawned on me that McMurphy is actually nuts and the movie is from his delusions of being normal. When I read the book, i discovered the story is from the Chief’s point of view.
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You girls have won my heart with this reaction. This is my all-time favorite film, and your reaction is the most thoughtful, perceptive, respectful i have seen yet.
I'm so impressed with you both for genuinely "getting it". I think you read all the characters exactly the way the author had intended for them to be seen. You are really fine souls.
Yes yes yes!! Well said!! They are so validating lol they show so much empathy 😊
Ditto. My favourite all time film.
Nurse Ratched is usually voted amongst the greatest film villains of all time. This is based on a book of the same name by Ken Kesey who worked as an orderly in a mental hospital. I believe a lot of the characters/events are based on people and things he witnessed
She, and Amon Goeth, from Schindlers List. Both characters are super scary antagonists.
She is horrible, she is the worst type of person
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Ya she is a name people call control freak B's. Made it into the vernacular. Ever seen sometimes a great notion? A Kesey adaptation that Kesey actually approved of. A brilliant character study and very powerful film
@@airgunfun4248 Sometimes A Great Notion is a great movie as is this.
8:07 I like how the Chief is silently observing Murphy's attempt. Figuring that he could probably lift it when the time is right, but saying nothing.
I love Chief so much. 🥰
45:38 "No I'm not [ashamed]" -- He didn't even stammer or look away. It kills me that he has this one moment of wellness, and then completely regresses.
Poor Billy, he's found passion once again in his life. He loves the girl. But he is not good at expressing himself. Nurse Ratched made him feel guilty.
This poor beautiful creature always cries during the same moments the films affect me. What a sensitive and kind soul 💝
Could be a little less creepy
@@PanfluteExpedition_ lol
It's rather shocking to think that such hospital institutions persisted in reality (and in many places, not just the US) all the way well into the 1970s; but Nicholson's journey through the film brings it all, brilliantly, disturbingly and so movingly, to life.
No whats shocking is we now provide them with all the fentanyl they want and allow them to live face down in a gutter with feces in their pants. Mental institutions should have been fixed and not abolished.
I work at an inpatient psych ward in the US, and in some ways it’s even worse.
It's still pretty wild in some psych wards.
And in some cases we need them back.
US phased them out before other countries
I was 14 in 1975 when I sneaked into the theater with a friend to see this, the first R-rated film I ever saw. It had a big impact on me, being so compelling, gritty, funny, disturbing, and its tragic ending.
"Cuckoo's Nest" won Academy Awards for Best PIcture, Actor, Actress, Director, and Screenplay. Only two other films did the same: It Happened One Night (1934), and Silence of The Lambs (1991).
Another Jack Nicholson movie that was big when it came but now is completely forgotten is “As Good as it Gets” from 1997.
I’m sure you know it
Poor Ellie at the end! That’s why I love her in these reactions!
T-Birdus Thoracis She'd better not do a collab with Dasha Reacts in person for a sad movie, because together they run the risk of drowning😨
This was my grandads favourite film and I watched it a month after he passed away to feel closer to him. It was the first time watching it and I couldn’t stop crying afterwards. My grandad suffered with his mental health all throughout his life and it made me understand him a little better ❤️💔
One of the movies which is perfect. Amazing Cast, Script, music, Just everything.
Filmed right here in Oregon. The fishing scene is at Depot Bay, where my grandfather fished for salmon, throughout the 60s-70s. ❤ 🎣
This is my all-time favorite movie. I can't count how many times I've seen it. Love this movie. The biggest battle of wills ever.
It is the very first movie I ever bought, VHS tape :D
If you both didn’t notice, the young patient is played by Brad Dourif who played Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings
He also played Chucky in "Child's Play"
One of the most infamous film villains of all time: Nurse Mildred Ratched, a cold-hearted, cruel tyrant who cared more about maintaining ORDER than about helping anyone. She was a master of passive-aggressive bullying.
When given the opportunity to get McMurphy out of her ward, she chose to keep him there, just because he was a threat to her power and control. She would never admit to being unable to control anyone. Even the actress who played her, Louise Fletcher, couldn't bear to watch the film, as her character was so horrible.
Winner of 5 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Jack Nicholson), Best Actress (Louise Fletcher)
So good that you chose this movie it's perfect, poor Billy has a domineering puritanical mother which is why he's such a mess and doesn't want to leave the hospital. Ratchet knows this and uses it as a threat to keep him on edge. Had to laugh when Ellie made Lia promise to get her out if she ever ended up in one of these places 😄
Lea was spot on when she said nurse Ratched has the problem with control. Ratched probably saw McMurphy as a challenge which she needed to overcome to keep exerting her dominance.
Louise Fletcher, who played Nurse Ratched, recently passed away in September 2022. 🥀
She passed before Jack Nicholson… just goes to show that “women living longer than men” is just a myth
She was a gifted actor ❤ One of the most deserving Oscar wins for her performance as Nurse Ratched, her lovely heartfelt acceptance speech proved even more how much she deserved her Oscar for playing someone as sadistic and icy as Ratched.
@nsasupporter7557 In general women do live longer than men.
Ofc there are exceptions. So this exception doesn't show anything.
You’ve entered the big leagues now, ladies! One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is simply one of the all time greatest movies, period.
I’ve only ever seen it once and that left a lasting impression on me. Simply powerful story and acting from the entire cast & boy what a cast: Jack Nicholson (McMurphy) & Louise Fletcher (Miss Ratched) both won Oscars for their performances here but even the supporting cast were brilliant too. Some familiar faces started here too: Danny De Vito (Martini), Christopher Lloyd (Taber), Brad Dourif (Billy) all got their major breaks from this movie & have become superstars in their own right.
Definitely need to get Michelle and Viki to watch this; they’ll definitely love it & cry about it (at least Viki will lol).
@@Dave-hb7lx Of course! Completely forgot Vincent Schiavelli was in this too. Once again, what a cast!
Absolutely top-notch cast ❤
Nurse Ratchet almost brought out the "Old Elli" as in "F--- (this) F--- (that)......"F---! F---! F---!"
@@hv3926 I miss the old Ellie lol. F bombs left, right and centre!
@Boroman9 Every once in awhile, I go back and watch her (solo) reaction to Green Mile just to enjoy that. She also used to yell about smashing the bad guys heads. She did do that in this one about Nurse Ratchet. 🤣
is one of the best movies of the 70's, winning 5 Oscars (Movie, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay). Girls should see more movies from that time: Network, Dog Afternoon, All the President's Men, among others.
This film put Michael Douglas on the film map (first here as a producer). Then another young Michael Douglas had to change his name to Michael *Keaton*
You would have LOVED the stage play
I played Chief Bromden. . . he has MUCH more dialogue in the play than he does in the movie.
R.I.P. Louise Fletcher (Nurse Ratched), she passed away just last September 😢
Electroshock therapy used to be a very common treatment for severe mental illnesses including very severe depression and bipolar. They also used to use some pretty heavy drugs. Scary stuff, but the shocks actually did help people. How they possibly could have discovered this? "Nothing else has worked so we're gonna put 25,000 volts through ya. Don't worry though. It's not the volts that get ya. It's the amps."
One of the greatest movies ever made, the academy thought so also! It was also great to see "Hong Kong Phoeey" playing a mild-mannered janitor! 😄😄😄
I'm not sure I'd call Turkel mild-mannered. He says "motherfucker" quite a lot! 😅
This movie not only launched the careers of MANY of the supporting cast members but put Czeck director Milos Forman on the map and won Michael Douglas his first Oscar as producer....
Both Danny Devito AND Christopher Lloyd, among them - later to star in "TAXI" together.
Actually Forman was already famous for the movies he made while still in Czechoslovakia in 60's
@@muddeer5383 true!
Chief final moments with McMurphy - Ellie: tears up. Lia: Is critical of his form.
The older man who plays the head Doctor was a real life physician and noticed William Redfield (the actor who played Harding) was exhibiting troubling symptoms during filming. He ended up diagnosing Redfield with Leukemia and gave him 18 months to live (this was before bone marrow transplants were possible). Redfield died in August of '76... 18 months after his diagnosis - almost to the day.
Did you guys notice how many famous people as young actors were in this movie
“Shock Therapy”and Brain surgery is called a “Lobotomy” very controversial you could say the big Indian Chief escaping the Mental Hospital was One Flew Over The Coocoo’s Nest
lobotomy is a type of brain surgery that became popular in the 1930s as a treatment for mental health conditions such as schizophrenia. It involves severing the connection between the frontal lobe and other parts of the brain.
A lobotomy is a specific surgical procedure, not a catch-all term for brain surgery or electro-convulsive procedures.
THANKS for reacting to this great movie, this and the shining was jack nicklesons greatest movies. this movie won many awards and brought attention to the horrible conditions in americas mental institutions which led to some new laws over them. mr macmurphy was first given the barberic "shock therapy" that was given to some depressed people in psycharichy in the 30's to 2000 or so, it damaged peoples brains, he was given a "labotomy" in the end where a part of the brain is removed, another barbaric practice in psychaiatry from years past.. . please react to "psycho" from 1960 and a more recent film "american psycho"....( NOT rel;ated movies but both are great!). Love you all!!!.
Oh, electroshock therapy ( ECT ) is still used a lot. "People who can't take medications for mental health conditions for any reason can often still receive ECT. This can make a big difference for people with organ function problems or people who are pregnant (ECT is safe during all three trimesters of pregnancy). It's especially effective in combination with medication"
It's not used as a punishment any more though, and Lobotomy isn't used anymore either
I agree with everything you said but I believe Nicholsons Oscar winning performance in Chinatown is more iconic than what he did in The Shining.
@@Fred-vy1hm one movie with Jack Nicholson that was big when it came out but is completely forgotten now is “As Good as it Gets.” He won best actor for it and Helen Hunt won best actress… but it’s aged terribly. I’m sure you probably know it
@@Fred-vy1hm. He didn’t win for Chinatown but he did win for Cuckoo’s Nest the following year, Terms of Endearment in the 80s and As Good as It Gets in the 90s; he’s also still the most nominated male actor in Oscar history (most nominations overall is of course Meryl Streep). Fun fact: according to the late Robin Williams, when he and Jack won their Oscars in 1998 (Robin for Good Will Hunting), before they went to the press room with the other winners, Jack said to him, “You know Rob-O? Now I got one for every decade!” 😂
Fantastic reaction to a great movie. R.I.P. Louise Fletcher.....we're STILL watching you. This reaction video is the indisputable proof. The two actors no one ever mentions: Sydney Lassick's incredible performance as Cheswick and William Redfield's equally-as-great performance as Harding. Of course there isn't a bad performance in the bunch. Keep hitting the classics of the late 60s-70s. You have to see NETWORK, and BONNIE AND CLYDE and THE GRADUATE and MIDNIGHT COWBOY and CARNAL KNOWLEDGE and AMERICAN GRAFFITI and ALL THAT JAZZ and PAPER MOON and CARRIE, etc etc...There are so many! You guys would KILL on Bonnie And Clyde!
All of the above but American Graffiti;)
@@jannathompson2262 It doesn't matter, they're not going to watch ANY of those movies, not on this channel, other than "Carrie", which reaction channels do. (Ironically enough, "American Graffiti" is the only other title I listed that reaction channels actually do, lol).
@@TTM9691 How do you know they won't? If you thought that then why mention any of those movies? I do wish someone would react to The Graduate though;)
Such a huge cast in this movie. Danny Devito, Christipher lloyd (Doc in back to the future, Brad Doriuf who played the role of Billy had a special guest role in Star Trek Voyager as Lon Sudder & more recentlty played Grima Wormtounge in Lord of the rings. I'm sure you recognize other characters from this movie in roles in many other movies since the Cukoo's nest 😊
Read the book written by Ken Kesey who worked as a psychiatric nurse/orderly on night shift, the book is narrated by Chief ,Ratched is called the big nurse ,Harding is called Hard on ,you get alot more back story of the patients and staff in the novel ,well worth reading.
1. Gold nuggets in the cast.
2. This movie snagged all of the top 5 Oscars.😎
3. Harding resembles my old barber/friend(RIP) WWII vet.
4. The author of the book was Ken Kesey, well known for LSD usage, was loaded when he wrote this.
5. Mac did more for those guys than Nurse Ratched and her crew.
6. Ratched uses Billy's mother as her weapon. They all have their weaknesses, and she uses whatever they are against them for control.
7. Scatman and Nicholson worked together in "The Shining".
8. They gave Mac a lobotomy and the Chief put him out of his misery. He knew Mac wouldn't want to live like that.
9. The book is written from Chief Bronden's POV.
10. RIP Louise Fletcher😇
Do you recognize Scat Man Cruthers? He played the night orderly. He also was in The Shining. 37:44 Lia gave Ellie the side eye because alcohol and psych meds don’t mix. 40:04 there is an alien from Men in Black. 44:20 There is a ghost. 49:06 Don’t cross Ellie. 51:52 The word you are looking for is lobotomy.
31:30 Electroconvulsive therapy causes a relatively controlled seizure in the brain. In the terrible past of medicine it has been used without proper indication and without anesthesia, as is famously shown in the film. In the modern era it is used under anesthesia and in very specific cases where the therapy has actually been shown to produce positive results against problems with neural function.
It's also been shown to cause memory loss
@@TheNeonRabbit And to cause choking of Nurse Ratched.
Shock treatment probably saved my mother's life. It's also seeing a resurgence in the mental health field. It's not always bad.
52:01 "They cutted something from his brain so he is a vegetable, probably" Yes, that is what they did. In English that is called a Lobotomy, exactly what you said.
The movie was directed by Czech-origined Miloš Forman. He basically metaphorized communist totality in this movie, and he personfied it by Nurse Ratched. The last scene is a metaphor for breaking through the Iron curtain and setting yourself free. He experienced the real cuckoo's nest in communist Czechoslovakia, so he knew what the story was about.
One of the greatest movies of all time and one of the greatest ever performances by Jack Nicholson.
Nurse Ratched knows just enough psychology to study everyone's weaknesses and use it against them.
The Young Danny DeVito (Martini) is so unrecognizable.
Christopher Lloyd (Taxi, Back To The Future)
Will Sampson (Ten Bears in The Outlaw Josey Wales)
@@Dave-hb7lx ....and the SCATMAN as Turkle! He would meet up with Nicholson again in The Shining.
So beautiful. So very beautiful...your reactions, at the ending. This Oscar award winning performance from Jack Nicholson was magnificent. The all star cast featured many future stars debuting on the silver screen and for Tv in time to come. This was a spectacular films and tv in the years to come. This motion picture and the acting and screenplay were momentous and I cannot praise you guys enough for your reactions to it all the way throughout. The look on your faces....priceless. It is so wicked cool to see your generation waking up to and discovering my generations films and music. I think you Homies would all do well in reacting to our 1970's, 1980's, and 90's music / songs. Idk if you are stuck only on RAP, ( like so many young people are), today. That is soo lame and one sided. I hope you have opened your minds to the world of real music with real voices, not autotune. And real musical instruments with the raw talent required by individuals to provide it. The songwriting also. Our generation did not depend on digitalized computer generated music and lyrics, or other professionals to provide songs ready made for them.. We relied upon real talent in our singers and entertainers back then. Not just anyone can produce killer music and/or really good films. Today Hollyweird cranks out mostly garbage. The stuff we read and saw in our comic books for back then sold 10 and 15 cents. That is about all the movies containing material for 8 and 10 year olds pass for movie material and screenplays today. They, also, are worth about the same price, as far as I'm concerned. No matter how much CGI they throw at it. . Anyway I think it is beautiful to see you guys, with your soft and tender hearts reacting to this kind of stuff, here, with this classic picture from 1975. Much peace and lots of love, girls. Shoutout from this old, longhaired, Southern boy, from across the pond, in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. U.S.A. . Cannot wait to see another from you lovely Homies. We love you lots. Later.
All Actors were spot on.
this was a huge hit when it came out and won tons of awards. it also had a big influence on how american society views mental illness. this is a very important film. glad you guys watched it. keep on rockin
you may remember Nicholson and Scatman Cruthers in The Shining
Thank you so much for reacting to this film. Yes, the ending is so emotional that it can be hard to watch. This would have to be one of my favourite films. I am so glad that both of you got to experience it.
Thank you ladies for reminding me how great this movie was/is. ❤️
I hope chief made it to Canada.
Great reaction, girls. This is one of the best films of all time. Please encourage Viki and Michelle to react to it also!
ps~Just FYI, the subtitles you watched said, "Miss Ratched", but that was a mistake. Everyone called her, "Nurse Ratched".
(By the way, the actress who played her won the Oscar for Best Actress. Jack Nicholson won for Best Actor, and the film also won Best Director and Best Picture.)
Great reaction. Glad you enjoyed it. Easily, EASILY in my top 5 favorite films.
I absolutely hated the ending of that film. It hurt so bad to see what they did to Jack Nicholson's character. That was the intention of it, sure. For they had to do a lobotomy for him to need be there. It's crazy how mental "institutions" used to work. I imagine, they're not too far off from this now, except using heavier medications. So sad.
They've gotten a lot better in some ways, and some are about the same. ECT is actually a pretty safe and effective practice nowadays and done on consenting patients under anesthesia usually, but restraints and sedation are still an issue and just about everything is banned. A friend with zero history of violent behavior got in trouble for having a sharp pencil to draw with because it could be used as a weapon. I managed to sneak in some chocolates for her and it was depressing how happy it made her even though she hadn't been there a week
My uncle Paul went to a place like this once when I was a kid, I visited him there. I didn’t like him being there, he was released but became a ward of the state, and lived in halfway homes until he passed away in July 2019. RIP
I was an eleven yr old girl when this came out. I can still hear the theater audience cheering at the end ☮️
You kidding? This a VERY famous movie....swept the Academy Awards for the 1975 season.1😉
Another great Jack Nicholson movie is “As Good as it Gets” from 1997.
I’m sure you know it. It was big when it came out, but is completely forgotten today
@NSA Supporter It also was nominated and was good enough to win the Oscar for Best Picture that year, but everyone was giving it up for Titanic, where Kate Winslut was "rowing the boat" with Leo DiCaprio in a car.....on a boat. Poor Jack and that dog had no chance. 😅😪
@@hv3926 “As Good as it Gets” aged terribly. Which was why I said it’s completely forgotten today. But yeah, I see what you’re saying, but at least it beat out Titanic for best actor and actress
RIP Milos Forman
There's a hilarious little detail, when McMurphy borrows the fishing boat, he introduces all the patients as "Doctor" except for Harding, who only gets a "Mister" :D
Nice to see Danny Devito and Christopher Lloyd in this classic.
RIP Louise Fletcher (Nurse Ratched)
Thank you guys for doing this wonderful movie. This is what makes you guys the best out there. Also thank you for being thoughtful and warm hearted.
Excellent movie. I worked at Oregon State Hospital where sections of this movie were filmed.
Such a great movie, and wonderfully acted! So glad you ladies enjoyed it and appreciated it.
Those are 45 rpm records one song on each side.
"I think that the series will give them too much adrenaline" Probably the wisest sentence of the whole reaction, even with the soulful expression of its author.😁
Is it considered famous if it won an Oscar as best picture?
@@justindenney-hall5875 It is a question formulated for ironic humorous effect.
Not necessarily! Some Best Pictures have gone almost completely unnoticed! 😆
I love watching Ellie cry at the sad parts she's the only girl who looks beautiful crying... Awesome video girls.
I love how elle said it didn't look so bad there they had puzzles and calming pills in the United States we call them valium Xanax Clonazepam 😂😆
The one inmate is Doc in "Back to the Future". He co-stars in a different film set about mental patients as well, but much more a comedy called "The Dream Team"
Rules for institutions are a lot tighter on how long they can hold people in the U.S. Which leads to a different problem. Many people with mental problems going untreated and ending up homeless.
Ronald Reagan put an end to federal funding of mental institutions back in the day, resulting in too many mental cases being on the streets for lack of treatment facilities.
It was great to share the experience with you guys xx
31:40 this used to be called electroshock therapy. It's called electroconvulsive therapy today and it can be effective on violent cases. It's supposed to calm the brain down, but isn't used nearly as often as it used to be.
Yes, it’s a very famous movie. It’s a classic!
Louise Fletcher did the part as Nurse Ratched. She did it amazingly & got the oscar for it. (most people hate her character and it's the feeling you are supposed to get). Electro Shock Therapy was used alot and not used in the right ways in the old days sadly. (if you wanna see something scarier read about the creep jerk who started doing ice pick lobotomies in a day, you drop off patient and get lunch and then come back and boom they are out of it etc, horrible...) These mental hospitals would do lobotomies but when necessary and or when they felt necessary. Billy's character's mom had him committed and Ratched and her were friends; Ratched would hold over him about how his mother would feel and it would scare billy and made him do what he did sadly. (the guy who plays billy is famous , he was grimma worm tongue in LOTR , he was in alien 4, he was in xfiles etc) They did a front lobal lobotomy (i think that's what its called) makes him basically a vegetable.
I LOVE ELLIE'S PINK HAIR!
ELLIE ROCKIN THE PINK HAIR!
What was done to McMurphy at first was electrical shock treatment, then before the end of the film when Chief found out what they did to him by looking at his condition in bed Chief notices they did lobotomy which is a procedure of surgically removing some pieces of the brain to basically turn McMurphy into a zombie so to speak, taking away his true personality. These type of treatments are no longer practiced, but I did see a documentary some years ago that the patients with mental issues can make requests to have lobotomy done to them if they feel a need to be it done. Also State Mental Hospitals were shut down during the 80's when Ronald Reagan was President under the pressure of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union). That is one of the reasons we have so many homeless individuals that have serious mental issues here in America that live out on the streets and cause many problems to the communities in the cities. And for them to receive any kind of help is very difficult. By the way ladies, good reaction on the 1975 film 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
I don't know what it is about when you see someone cry at the same moments in a film as you
Electroshock therapy or ECT was used in the past as a way to treat mental illness, not so much anymore, usually under anesthesia and much rarer. As for that scene, that was a real nurse and Jack Nicholson actually got shocked, on purpose.
There are a lot of historical connotations in this movie. Chief being a Native American escaping his captors and running free in his homeland.
Yay yay yay!! One of my all time favorites!! Nicholson reminds me of my Papaw. He’s a hooligan. Another good old one with Nicholson vibes is dirty Mary crazy Larry… or dirty Larry Crazy Mary lol… one of those 😂
Film is set in the 1960s...In case you didn't know, mental health treatment has changed drastically in the past 60 years...Most mental institutions like this were closed years ago and, not coincidentally, the homeless problem in the US became epidemic.
Years later, on *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* ,when Louise Fletcher played the recurring character of Winn Adami ... a conniving witch who basically ends up betraying everybody while hiding behind the mask of a righteous spiritual leader ... I couldn't help but think of Nurse Ratched.
Jack Nicholson it's my best friend's favorite actor, and because of him I watched this movie and I loved it.
I watched Five Easy Pieces last week. I loved it❤
Minority report. The revenant. Gone girl.
More Larry and ellie
Batman 1989 Jack Nicholson awesome Joker
Especially the personality contrast at the beginning as Jack Napier.
acting debuts of danny devito, chrisopher lloyd and brad dourif.
ELLIE LOOKS GOOD WITH THE PINK HAIR!
i just noticed chief had straps holding him in bed, that he could undo.. i wonder if he had killed someone, like his father, and told them that he did it in his sleep?
"Kill that bitch": Ellie voiced what everyone who watched that scene was thinking.
If you liked the movie, you should read the book. It's even better than the film.
Ellie is Ellie. Hilarious 😂. "I could make it a year in there. (I could pass for a nutcase.) 🤣 This is good stuff.😉
If you are going to rematch, I would suggest you read the book first. The book is a quick read and the book's Narrator is the chief and gives a different prospective. Excellent choice ladies well done 👏
Absolutely one of the all time most powerful films.
They don't make movies like this no more.
I used to live in the town where the boat came in and out. Massive shark bit a guy in half not too far from that bridge about 15 yrs ago. Also, great movie👍
The first time I saw this in 1975, I bought into the disturbing institution theory. The second time I saw it, it dawned on me that McMurphy is actually nuts and the movie is from his delusions of being normal. When I read the book, i discovered the story is from the Chief’s point of view.
Billy, Mac and the Chief... now they are ALL free.
They did a Labodomy, A Surgical procedure that is done on the Brain on McMurphy, I Believe that's what they did. Great Reaction! Thank you!
hola girls! glad to be back... I've not had suggestions for your content in a hot min! Glad I came across this one!
Nurse Ratched - Wretched I'm pretty sure her name was an intentional play on words.
It was a record player. I still have my 45rpm records and 8 track tapes.
NICE PINK HAIR ELLIE!
Thanks so much for doing this film. It means a lot to me