Having been in one from age 15 to 18 for drug abuse and having no home (1971 - 1974), I can tell you this film is incredibly accurate down to the smallest detail.
My mom took my best friend and I to see this movie back in high school after all the well deserved hype. It was awesome on the big screen. What a movie and McMurphy's final scene was devastating, especially at 14. Excellent reaction.
Fun fact, much of the movie was filmed at the Oregon State Mental Hospital, and a number of the background patients were actual patients there, in Salem, Oregon, where I live. The hospital is still open (although many of the buildings have been torn down and rebuilt since). I have driven past it 100's of times and even been in the administrative side a few times for job interviews.
I worked at this hospital for 22 years. The ward where the indoor stuff was filmed was shut off but a few of us snuck in. Another trippy thing is one of my supervisors when he was young was planting trees and hitchhiking and got a ride from Ken Kesey, the author, and got to hang out at his farm for a few hours.
It is almost universal consent in Hollywood that Jack Nicholson's best performance is in Chinatown, which not incidentally Hollywood insiders also vote is the best screenplay ever filmed. You should check It out Emma!!😮🎉
EVERYONE hated Nurse Ratched. According to the American Film Institute (AFI), Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the fifth greatest villain in film history and the second greatest villainess.
Lol thanks for the official stats. I was going to come here and say Nurse Rached was one of the most hated villains of the ‘70’s, but I was guessing. And would’ve been understating.
100%, and if anything she is worse in the book. Louis Fletcher's performance is fantastic, she totally deserved the Oscar for it. She was really, really good at playing villainous characters, which probably means she was an absolute sweetheart in real life.
This was a Huge movie at the time, with an amazing cast and performances.. Electro Shock therapy. I like your new backround .. you are Luminous . Another great reaction.
When watching this film on the big screen in a theater, it is easier to see the incision scar on Nicholson’s forehead, where the lobotomy took place. Sometimes that is obscured when watching in a smaller venue on a tv or computer or the lowered quality of streaming services. Lobotomies often left the patient unable to speak, removed memories and many were unable to feed or dress themselves. Chief knew that McMurphy’s life was effectively over and could never improve.
Jack has always been one of my favorite actors. I remember even as a teen when I saw this at the theater, I thought he was great. I had just seen him a few years earlier in Easy Rider and knew he would go far. Nurse Ratchet was just evil! I can't think of a better female villain. I loved your heartfelt reaction.
Such a fun movie, a riot,until the end, of course. McMurphy did a lot to give the guys confidence. The fishing trip, the basketball, the fake baseball game. Such fun!
Ken Kesey wrote this book while working as an orderly for the VA psychiatric hospital in CA. While there he was also part of MKUltra (CIA) research where he was given mescaline and LSD in mind control experiments. Book and film rights proceeds allowed him to host "happenings" in the 60s with some prominent beatnik figures and others. This was documented in Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test where you would donate something like 25 cents to have the then legal LSD spiked Kool-Aid. These Acid Tests were held in the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Grateful Dead were the house band pre-fame. Kesey and his Merry Pranksters also had adventures in a psychedelic bus. It's an understatement to say Kesey lead a very interesting life.
See Jack Nicholson's first film, and also starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper (his directorial debut): EASY RIDER, of 1969. It helped to change Hollywood movie making, post the Hayes-code.
This is one of my fav movies. I saw it in a theater when it came out in the mid 70s. I was emotionally floored by it, dazed as I walked out. This movie made me a Nicholson fan, so I searched for his older movies (pre 75) and caught up on his career. Some of my favorite older movies are Last Detail and Easy Rider. Jack is brilliant in both.
1. Gold nuggets in the cast. 2. This movie snagged all of the top 5 Oscars. 3. Harding physically resembles my old barber/friend WWII vet.😇 4. This was written by Ken Kesey, a university student whom was a part of human LSD trials. He snuck LSD into work where he was a warden at a psychiatric ward which is where he got the inspiration. 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. They gave Mac a lobotomy and the Chief put him out of his misery. He knew Mac wouldn't want to live like that. 8. Nicholsen and Scatman worked together in, "The Shining". 9. The book is written from Chief Bronden's POV. 10. RIP Louise Fletcher😇
Ken Kesey fueled the Acid Tests in 1966 with the Grateful Dead as the house band. Not to mention the 8/27/72 Veneta, OR concert - better than Woodstock
The guy who wrote this book was an employee at an insane asylum, and he would take the patient medication for kicks. He is the person who discovered and promoted the recreational use of LSD in the 1960s. Ken Kesey was more instrumental than any other person, in the psychedelic movement.
In the earliest part of my 50 years in healthcare, there were a few occasions where I participated with the team during electroshock therapy as depicted in this phenomenon film. If for nothing else, Jack Nicholson deserved the Oscar for his extremely accurate portrayal of the barbaric physical reactions while undergoing the shock treatments. A Ken Kesey biography/anthology makes for compelling research.
Probably Jack's best movie, and in my top ten all time movies. I love how the antagonist and protagonist switch as the story plays out. Such a gut-wrenching ending.
Best reaction ever. Definitely for the next Jack film see AS GOOD AS IT GETS (1997) if you've not seen it. Absolutely wonderful Jack won Best Actor Oscar for that too. 🤚🥰
4:37 - The actor playing the principal psychiatrist and head of the mental institution is actually the REAL principal psychiatrist and head of the mental institution in which they shot this film. He let them shoot their film in his institution on the condition that they gave him a role in the film.
Most people dont realize that even though the film was made in the 70s the story is supposed to be taking place in the early 1960s Some of the abusive treatment was already no longer allowed by the time this film was made but it did bring to light and help shut down the few remaining hospitals like this. Now we let these people sleep on the streets and call them the "Homeless" but in the 1950s there were no homeless people. They were all in government "hospitals"
Love, hugs, kisses and stuff, Emma. Hadn't seen this movie in years. Thanks for making it a worthwhile experience. Didn't know Danny De Vito and Christopher Lloyd were in this. Several other recognizable faces as well. I liked the actress Louise Fletcher. Just learned she passed away in 2022.
The film’s director lost his parents in the Holocaust and spent some of his youth in places under Eastern European Communism, and ran into trouble with some of his films. He eventually left and moved to the US. But he was familiar with a system that manipulated its citizens, whether by forceful methods or psychological techniques to keep them submissive, fearful or paranoid.
Several young actors in this movie went on to become very famous. You'll likely run into them in future reactions. This is probably my favorite Nicholson movie really great acting by everyone.
I just read it. It's such a different experience because of Chiefs narration. I really love the parts where you take a decent into his nightmarish visions. They're very trippy and you feel just as lost as he is. You're right there with him.
This is such a brilliant movie, one of the great treatments of the classic debate between order and chaos, conformity and independence. It is made more explicit in the book, at the cost of his independence and personality, McMurphy breaks Nurse Ratched's hold on the ward and the patience forever and leaves them all in a better place. Brad Dourif (Billy) is a fantastic and under-appreciated actor who is great in pretty much everything he is in (his best known role is the character of Grima Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Return of the King. Loved your review and reaction and how you connected with the emotions of the story.
He is still doing the voice of Chucky, in the TV series “Chucky” and his daughter Fiona is one of the stars of the show. By the way, she is a dead ringer for her dad.
I love how they're playing Monopoly. They don't fit into the real system, so they play a pretend version of it instead. Naturally it ends in chaos, just as it does in the real world.
Having just finished an internship / work study masters program at UNC-Chapel Hill, I found ONE FLEW OVER THE COOKOO'S NEST rather disturbing. BTW, the Chief also played 10 Bears in THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES.😊
In the end this Film stands as a powerful heartrending tragedy, Jack Nicholson gives one of his best performances and is matched all the way by Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched and a mention must also go to Will Sampson for a understated performance as Chief Bromden; The Film shines a light on the often brutal treatment of the patients in these type of hospitals in days past, with McMurphy given both electric shock therapy and tragically a lobotomy towards the end of the Film; The decision by the Chief too smother McMurphy and then follow what McMurphy had attempted earlier in Film is both poignant/ striking and painful; In McMurphy's brief stay he had given his fellow inmates more joy and a zest for life than they had, had before, juxtaposed with Nurse Ratched an overly officious supervisor who wanted everything by the book with no spontaneity, truly a case of the banality of evil; Here I must mention that Emma gives a remarkable/compassionate/emotional reaction, and you certainly felt her raw emotional pain at the point were Billy killed himself and it was revealed what had been done to McMurphy; The aside on the breathing exercises was nicely made, lucky students; And Emma is as always strikingly beautiful; In the little preamble to the Film Emma mentioned that it had won 5 Academy Awards, well deserved I would say. 🦅🦅🎶🎵🎶🎧🎙🍁💐💐.
Based on an incredible book written by one of The Merry Pranksters ( Google for an eye opener ) . In the book Jacks character was not the lead . The large native character , played by Will Sampson , told the story from his quiet observations .
Hey, Emma. Your reaction to this movie was heartfelt and very emotional. It can be seen that you are very empathic to people. Try this movie from Jack Nicholson. He made his debut as a director on the movie GOIN' SOUTH. He discovered the lead female, Mary Steenburgen, and she has gone onto an amazing career. Plus, Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd who played Martini and Rabor in this movie, also had roles in this unconventional western as they are longtime personal friends of Jack. Nicholson also does his turn as the Devil in WITCHES OF EASTWICK. It's always a pleasure to spend time with you. Keep going and enjoy the movies.
If you like Jack Nicholson you should maybe one day check out Terms of Endearment. With Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger too. It's really good I'm sure others agree
You seem to like movies about "humanity:" the celebration of it and triumphant stories about overcoming the lack of it in our society. I must therefore recommend 2 films that fit these criteria, both of which are not getting a lot of attention from RUclips reactors: (1`) "The Elephant Man." I'm a man who doesn't cry at many movies, but this one gets me every time. And, (2) "The Bar Fly." No cry, but FASCINATING. Both based on real people.
Observing the acting. Yes and the directing. At this point United Artists had broken the death grip that the major studios had over the movie industry and a lot of independent films were being made (and sold to the studios for distribution.) The acting is more life-like, the scenarios are less formulaic, the subject matter begins to stray into societal taboos. It only lasted maybe 30 years but it was some of American film's best work.
A true classic with which I have one huge issue: ECT - electroconvulsive therapy would NOT be administered on a patient that is awake like it is shown in the 60's. Use of anesthetics and muscle relaxants became widespread by late 1950s already, so unless this institution is severely behind in keeping up to date with progress in the procedure it would not happen as shown The patient would be put to sleep with anesthesia and then the electric shocks would be administered. I've seen this highly inaccurate depiction of the procedure in many newer movies and shows too, but that is not how it is administered now, nor was it so in the 60's. Before the 1950's however, yes the "unmodified" ECT was used, i.e. on patients that were awake and conscious. I understand why it's portrayed like this from a dramatic movie moment perspective, especially with an antagonist as vile as nurse Ratchet, but I want people to understand that the reality is very different. I have undergone ECT treatments for severe depression and from my point of view as a patient it was extremely undramatic. I was wheeled down to the treatment room in my bed, I was administered anesthesia via an injection, I fell asleep within 30 seconds, and then I woke up in my bed in my room after 30 minutes with a slight burning sensation on my temples. That's it. No horrible torture was involved, and no you don't behave like a zombie afterwards. :) It is overall a fantastic movie though. :)
@Emma_Reactions forgive me for asking again, but I wanna understand: where can I find the full reactions? If you are still in the process of creating your patreon then, obviously I will wait, but if there is another way then can you, please, put it in the channel's description?
Hey!!! Thank you for asking! Unfortunatly for now i still working on my Patreon restore, this one was deleted as well...😳 i hope in the future I can do something or create another one!😘
@@Emma_Reactions got it. OK. I thought that there was another way, but I just couldn't find it. Who would delete everything you have? Why? How did they manage to find your passwords for both RUclips and Patreon? I guess you can create a new one, and if the Patreon people can restore your original patreon then you can announce that you are switching to the old one and keep the new one as a backup. I don't know. But I know that you will find a solution
Electro-convulsive Therapy (ECT) is actually helpful for certain mental health conditions, HOWEVER at this time and for most of the history of the use of ECT in mental health it was used too often, for too many conditions, and at far too high a voltage, to the major detriment to many, many people.
Billy was a product of emotional child abuse. The story is being told from Chief Bromden's point of view. The chief actually escaped but later returned, unlike the movie, The character of Mildred Ratched, the cruel and tyrannical nurse who oversees the fictional ward, was inspired by the real head nurse on the ward where Kesey, the author, worked. Back in those days, they had some really strange ideas about how to deal with people like that. Much of what they did has been banned.
Having been in one from age 15 to 18 for drug abuse and having no home (1971 - 1974), I can tell you this film is incredibly accurate down to the smallest detail.
There was a rhyme when I was a kid;
One flew East
And one flew West
And one flew over the cuckoo's nest. ☮️
My mom took my best friend and I to see this movie back in high school after all the well deserved hype. It was awesome on the big screen. What a movie and McMurphy's final scene was devastating, especially at 14. Excellent reaction.
Fun fact, much of the movie was filmed at the Oregon State Mental Hospital, and a number of the background patients were actual patients there, in Salem, Oregon, where I live. The hospital is still open (although many of the buildings have been torn down and rebuilt since). I have driven past it 100's of times and even been in the administrative side a few times for job interviews.
Billy lost his stutter after a night with Candy. But when Nurse Ratchet brought up Billy’s mom, his stutter returned.
Billy is Grima Wormtongue in the Lord of the rings movies.
momma's boy issues.
@@sapphonymph8204 Wow! I'm old and have seen both movies at least 50 times and never caught a clue.
@@zedwpd did you catch Johnny the shoeshine man from police squad?
@@zedwpd Uh, he's also Chucky
I worked at this hospital for 22 years. The ward where the indoor stuff was filmed was shut off but a few of us snuck in. Another trippy thing is one of my supervisors when he was young was planting trees and hitchhiking and got a ride from Ken Kesey, the author, and got to hang out at his farm for a few hours.
It is almost universal consent in Hollywood that Jack Nicholson's best performance is in Chinatown, which not incidentally Hollywood insiders also vote is the best screenplay ever filmed. You should check It out Emma!!😮🎉
One of only three films to win all Oscars in the main categories of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Actress.
EVERYONE hated Nurse Ratched. According to the American Film Institute (AFI), Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the fifth greatest villain in film history and the second greatest villainess.
That's fact's
She gives jason vorhees and freddy kruger nightmares😂😂😂
@@Brandi6666 Exactly 💯
Lol thanks for the official stats. I was going to come here and say Nurse Rached was one of the most hated villains of the ‘70’s, but I was guessing. And would’ve been understating.
100%, and if anything she is worse in the book. Louis Fletcher's performance is fantastic, she totally deserved the Oscar for it. She was really, really good at playing villainous characters, which probably means she was an absolute sweetheart in real life.
This was a Huge movie at the time, with an amazing cast and performances.. Electro Shock therapy. I like your new backround .. you are Luminous . Another great reaction.
Another medically-related movie that is quite emotional is The Elephant Man. Anthony Hopkins is the Doctor. & John Hurt stars as the elephant man.
John Hurt mate
@@andrewcrook8170 - you’re right, a bit brain dead on my part
@@conureron3792 no worries, call it a typo
Mask staring Cher.
Doc from Back to the Future. Long list of careers this movie kicked off.
Loved your reaction. Always love this movie. One of Jack Nicholson's greatest performances... out of many...
Oh yeah!!!
The crazy music is a saw being played with a bow.
😀 Oh yeah! Agree with you!
When watching this film on the big screen in a theater, it is easier to see the incision scar on Nicholson’s forehead, where the lobotomy took place. Sometimes that is obscured when watching in a smaller venue on a tv or computer or the lowered quality of streaming services. Lobotomies often left the patient unable to speak, removed memories and many were unable to feed or dress themselves. Chief knew that McMurphy’s life was effectively over and could never improve.
Incredible movie! Great performances. To see Christopher Lloyd at the beginning of his career!!
Jack has always been one of my favorite actors. I remember even as a teen when I saw this at the theater, I thought he was great. I had just seen him a few years earlier in Easy Rider and knew he would go far. Nurse Ratchet was just evil! I can't think of a better female villain. I loved your heartfelt reaction.
One of the best movies ever made. Showed the state of treatment for mental illness at the time. Great reaction as usual. Your compassion is touching.
Treatment is worse today.
Emma, this is such a çrazy journey for you.This is why I'm so happy to watch all of your reactions knowing your safe ❤
Such a fun movie, a riot,until the end, of course. McMurphy did a lot to give the guys confidence. The fishing trip, the basketball, the fake baseball game. Such fun!
After this movie came out people would call mean lady's a nurse Rachet. The actress that played Ratchet recently passed away.
Ken Kesey wrote this book while working as an orderly for the VA psychiatric hospital in CA. While there he was also part of MKUltra (CIA) research where he was given mescaline and LSD in mind control experiments.
Book and film rights proceeds allowed him to host "happenings" in the 60s with some prominent beatnik figures and others. This was documented in Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test where you would donate something like 25 cents to have the then legal LSD spiked Kool-Aid.
These Acid Tests were held in the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Grateful Dead were the house band pre-fame. Kesey and his Merry Pranksters also had adventures in a psychedelic bus. It's an understatement to say Kesey lead a very interesting life.
You have just watched one of the greatest films in recent history.
Oh yeah, agree with you!!! 🙏 it was so good!!!! 😊
I Concur.
Nice reaction, Emma. Very well written and acted movie. I don't think Jack won the Oscar for this but he deserved it.
I can’t get over how pretty Emma is. When she walks by I’ll bet men and boys start crying from a broken heart.
See Jack Nicholson's first film, and also starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper (his directorial debut): EASY RIDER, of 1969. It helped to change Hollywood movie making, post the Hayes-code.
This is one of my fav movies. I saw it in a theater when it came out in the mid 70s. I was emotionally floored by it, dazed as I walked out. This movie made me a Nicholson fan, so I searched for his older movies (pre 75) and caught up on his career. Some of my favorite older movies are Last Detail and Easy Rider. Jack is brilliant in both.
50 years ago the movies were a lot like the music and comedy were. Bold and true.
Poignant to reference Jack. It won't be long now.
1. Gold nuggets in the cast.
2. This movie snagged all of the top 5 Oscars.
3. Harding physically resembles my old barber/friend WWII vet.😇
4. This was written by Ken Kesey, a university student whom was a part of human LSD trials. He snuck LSD into work where he was a warden at a psychiatric ward which is where he got the inspiration.
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. They gave Mac a lobotomy and the Chief put him out of his misery. He knew Mac wouldn't want to live like that.
8. Nicholsen and Scatman worked together in, "The Shining".
9. The book is written from Chief Bronden's POV.
10. RIP Louise Fletcher😇
Ken Kesey fueled the Acid Tests in 1966 with the Grateful Dead as the house band. Not to mention the 8/27/72 Veneta, OR concert - better than Woodstock
The guy who wrote this book was an employee at an insane asylum, and he would take the patient medication for kicks. He is the person who discovered and promoted the recreational use of LSD in the 1960s. Ken Kesey was more instrumental than any other person, in the psychedelic movement.
In the earliest part of my 50 years in healthcare, there were a few occasions where I participated with the team during electroshock therapy as depicted in this phenomenon film. If for nothing else, Jack Nicholson deserved the Oscar for his extremely accurate portrayal of the barbaric physical reactions while undergoing the shock treatments. A Ken Kesey biography/anthology makes for compelling research.
Watch Louise Fletcher's Oscar speech here, she was great
Probably Jack's best movie, and in my top ten all time movies. I love how the antagonist and protagonist switch as the story plays out. Such a gut-wrenching ending.
The strange music sound at the end was done with a saw that cuts wood! Very touching movie and this was enjoyable!!
A touching reaction. Very good.
Emma Awesome Video Today!!🔥🐐🐐💎
They had a lot of the real patients as extras and helpers on the movie. And the Doctor was a real Doctor in a real hospital.
Best reaction ever. Definitely for the next Jack film see AS GOOD AS IT GETS (1997) if you've not seen it. Absolutely wonderful Jack won Best Actor Oscar for that too. 🤚🥰
Best reaction I've seen to this great movie!
The first procedure was electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Still done, but looks a lot different.
4:37 - The actor playing the principal psychiatrist and head of the mental institution is actually the REAL principal psychiatrist and head of the mental institution in which they shot this film. He let them shoot their film in his institution on the condition that they gave him a role in the film.
Great Performances By Everyone In This Movie,Nice Reaction Sweetheart ❤
The scene where he beats the nurse with a blank tv is one of my fav movie moments
Most people dont realize that even though the film was made in the 70s the story is supposed to be taking place in the early 1960s
Some of the abusive treatment was already no longer allowed by the time this film was made but it did bring to light and help shut down the few remaining hospitals like this.
Now we let these people sleep on the streets and call them the "Homeless" but in the 1950s there were no homeless people. They were all in government "hospitals"
When jack fooled us got us was so good.But it hurt when they did hurt him
Love, hugs, kisses and stuff, Emma. Hadn't seen this movie in years. Thanks for making it a worthwhile experience. Didn't know Danny De Vito and Christopher Lloyd were in this. Several other recognizable faces as well. I liked the actress Louise Fletcher. Just learned she passed away in 2022.
Thanks for all your re-upload, I was so sad when they disapear, you're so cute and have lovely react
PS : sorry if i don't write well, I'm french
Lobotomy. The procedure they performed on McMurphy at the end is called a Lobotomy.
Classic!
2nd time watching is good as first time emma lovve your reaction to this award winning film
If you like to read, there is a novel. Your public library probably has it.
The film’s director lost his parents in the Holocaust and spent some of his youth in places under Eastern European Communism, and ran into trouble with some of his films. He eventually left and moved to the US. But he was familiar with a system that manipulated its citizens, whether by forceful methods or psychological techniques to keep them submissive, fearful or paranoid.
Several young actors in this movie went on to become very famous. You'll likely run into them in future reactions. This is probably my favorite Nicholson movie really great acting by everyone.
She'll run into one of them in Back to the Future reactions.
a VERY POWERFUL reaction 😟👍
Wow!!! Thank you! 🤗
Wow!
Beautiful backround!!
Congratulations, i love it.
Are they bay leaves?
Electro shock therapy is still used today, altho not as frequently as in previous decades.
The book is told from Chief's point of view ☮️
I just read it. It's such a different experience because of Chiefs narration. I really love the parts where you take a decent into his nightmarish visions. They're very trippy and you feel just as lost as he is. You're right there with him.
This is such a brilliant movie, one of the great treatments of the classic debate between order and chaos, conformity and independence. It is made more explicit in the book, at the cost of his independence and personality, McMurphy breaks Nurse Ratched's hold on the ward and the patience forever and leaves them all in a better place. Brad Dourif (Billy) is a fantastic and under-appreciated actor who is great in pretty much everything he is in (his best known role is the character of Grima Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Return of the King. Loved your review and reaction and how you connected with the emotions of the story.
B-B-Billy went on to provide the voice for Chucky, the killer doll. Probably made some good $$$ for that.
He is still doing the voice of Chucky, in the TV series “Chucky” and his daughter Fiona is one of the stars of the show. By the way, she is a dead ringer for her dad.
He looked so familiar and I guessed right when I thought he played Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings
I love how they're playing Monopoly. They don't fit into the real system, so they play a pretend version of it instead. Naturally it ends in chaos, just as it does in the real world.
Having just finished an internship / work study masters program at UNC-Chapel Hill, I found ONE FLEW OVER THE COOKOO'S NEST rather disturbing. BTW, the Chief also played 10 Bears in THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES.😊
Candy was also in woodie Allen's "sleeper."
Beautiful movie
"Here's...Johnny".....=))
Great choice to react to this Emma! Outstanding movie!
In the end this Film stands as a powerful heartrending tragedy, Jack Nicholson gives one of his best performances
and is matched all the way by Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched and a mention must also go to Will Sampson for a
understated performance as Chief Bromden; The Film shines a light on the often brutal treatment of the patients in these
type of hospitals in days past, with McMurphy given both electric shock therapy and tragically a lobotomy towards the end of the Film;
The decision by the Chief too smother McMurphy and then follow what McMurphy had attempted earlier in Film is both poignant/
striking and painful; In McMurphy's brief stay he had given his fellow inmates more joy and a zest for life than they had, had before,
juxtaposed with Nurse Ratched an overly officious supervisor who wanted everything by the book with no spontaneity, truly a
case of the banality of evil; Here I must mention that Emma gives a remarkable/compassionate/emotional reaction, and you certainly
felt her raw emotional pain at the point were Billy killed himself and it was revealed what had been done to McMurphy; The aside on
the breathing exercises was nicely made, lucky students; And Emma is as always strikingly beautiful; In the little preamble to the
Film Emma mentioned that it had won 5 Academy Awards, well deserved I would say.
🦅🦅🎶🎵🎶🎧🎙🍁💐💐.
That music would drive me crazy if I wasn't already.
Masterpiece
Absolutely one of my top ten favorite movies.
The book is even richer, and a very different style, so strongly recommend.
Ken Kesey classic. Awesome movie.
Based on an incredible book written by one of The Merry Pranksters ( Google for an eye opener ) . In the book Jacks character was not the lead . The large native character , played by Will Sampson , told the story from his quiet observations .
This movie is a masterpiece 😊
Hey, Emma.
Your reaction to this movie was heartfelt and very emotional. It can be seen that you are very empathic to people.
Try this movie from Jack Nicholson. He made his debut as a director on the movie GOIN' SOUTH. He discovered the lead female, Mary Steenburgen, and she has gone onto an amazing career. Plus, Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd who played Martini and Rabor in this movie, also had roles in this unconventional western as they are longtime personal friends of Jack.
Nicholson also does his turn as the Devil in WITCHES OF EASTWICK.
It's always a pleasure to spend time with you. Keep going and enjoy the movies.
Big thumbs up; I really enjoy watching your reactions.
This is one of the most terrifying movies ever made.
Why do you play such scary movies?
Thank you for watching)))
I was spending the whole time trying to decide who is more beautiful? Emma or Nurse Pilbow. 😍
I think they're tied for first place.
Thanks for voting 😂😂😂😉
Wow I saw this movie in the theaters back in 1976. It still has quite an IMPACT on me.... and most everyone else who sees it!
You were worried for Mac? How sweet!
If you like Jack Nicholson you should maybe one day check out Terms of Endearment.
With Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger too. It's really good
I'm sure others agree
Great Movie!
Besides the Godfather movies 1 and 2. This is the 3rd greatest movie full of exceptional actors
Commenting for the algorithm!
Thank you 🙏
It’s impossible to have juicy fruit gum and not think of this movie 🙂↔️
If you watch Star Trek: Deep Space 9, you’ll get to hate nurse Rached all over again. 😅
truth
You seem to like movies about "humanity:" the celebration of it and triumphant stories about overcoming the lack of it in our society. I must therefore recommend 2 films that fit these criteria, both of which are not getting a lot of attention from RUclips reactors: (1`) "The Elephant Man." I'm a man who doesn't cry at many movies, but this one gets me every time. And, (2) "The Bar Fly." No cry, but FASCINATING. Both based on real people.
I don't know if it was natural light on this video, looked like it, but it looked very, very nice, Specially the first half.
Observing the acting. Yes and the directing. At this point United Artists had broken the death grip that the major studios had over the movie industry and a lot of independent films were being made (and sold to the studios for distribution.) The acting is more life-like, the scenarios are less formulaic, the subject matter begins to stray into societal taboos. It only lasted maybe 30 years but it was some of American film's best work.
A true classic with which I have one huge issue: ECT - electroconvulsive therapy would NOT be administered on a patient that is awake like it is shown in the 60's. Use of anesthetics and muscle relaxants became widespread by late 1950s already, so unless this institution is severely behind in keeping up to date with progress in the procedure it would not happen as shown The patient would be put to sleep with anesthesia and then the electric shocks would be administered. I've seen this highly inaccurate depiction of the procedure in many newer movies and shows too, but that is not how it is administered now, nor was it so in the 60's. Before the 1950's however, yes the "unmodified" ECT was used, i.e. on patients that were awake and conscious.
I understand why it's portrayed like this from a dramatic movie moment perspective, especially with an antagonist as vile as nurse Ratchet, but I want people to understand that the reality is very different. I have undergone ECT treatments for severe depression and from my point of view as a patient it was extremely undramatic. I was wheeled down to the treatment room in my bed, I was administered anesthesia via an injection, I fell asleep within 30 seconds, and then I woke up in my bed in my room after 30 minutes with a slight burning sensation on my temples. That's it. No horrible torture was involved, and no you don't behave like a zombie afterwards. :)
It is overall a fantastic movie though. :)
This movie helped change the American mental health care system.
BS, it's just as bad as ever, if you can get in.
Nurse Ratchet has been coined and attributed to a certain people to describe them :)
Very pretty today 🎉
Thank you! Cheers!
Shock treatment. Lobotomy at the end.
Chek out Goin' South 1978 with starring Jack Nicolson Mary Steenburgen ..You dont want to miss it
@Emma_Reactions forgive me for asking again, but I wanna understand: where can I find the full reactions? If you are still in the process of creating your patreon then, obviously I will wait, but if there is another way then can you, please, put it in the channel's description?
Hey!!! Thank you for asking! Unfortunatly for now i still working on my Patreon restore, this one was deleted as well...😳 i hope in the future I can do something or create another one!😘
@@Emma_Reactions got it. OK. I thought that there was another way, but I just couldn't find it. Who would delete everything you have? Why? How did they manage to find your passwords for both RUclips and Patreon? I guess you can create a new one, and if the Patreon people can restore your original patreon then you can announce that you are switching to the old one and keep the new one as a backup. I don't know. But I know that you will find a solution
Emma looks like a young nurse Ratched.
You should watch The Last Detail, Hal Ashby was incredible. He got a lot out of Nicholson.
Electro-convulsive Therapy (ECT) is actually helpful for certain mental health conditions, HOWEVER at this time and for most of the history of the use of ECT in mental health it was used too often, for too many conditions, and at far too high a voltage, to the major detriment to many, many people.
This movie had such an impact that being called "Nurse Ratchet" in America is synonymous with being referred to as controlling and/or bitchy. 😆
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Billy was a product of emotional child abuse.
The story is being told from Chief Bromden's point of view. The chief actually escaped but later returned, unlike the movie, The character of Mildred Ratched, the cruel and tyrannical nurse who oversees the fictional ward, was inspired by the real head nurse on the ward where Kesey, the author, worked.
Back in those days, they had some really strange ideas about how to deal with people like that. Much of what they did has been banned.
He returned ? I thought the book ended right when he escapes
@@ianscarlett6884 I ment in reality. The chief was a real person.