Possibly the greatest psychological villain ever in a movie. Her character was an absolute control freak and played brilliantly by Louise Fletcher... R.I.P.
@@Fadem12forReal she drove him to suicide knowing his mental situation. It’s almost the same as murder. Like holding a gun to someone’s head and saying do you want me to pull the trigger or you? In the mental part of the film is the same as murder.
So agree - she should have at least called for a moment of silence in memory of Billy and had them talk out their feelings. Of course you have to have a soul to be able to do that which she didn't. This was the straw that broke the camel's back for Mc Murphy which is why he started strangling her. The other patients were either in shock or fed up with her so they didn't intervene. I think the orderlies might not have cared for her either since it took a few moments before they intervened, allowing him to almost kill her.
Have been to a psych hosp. not in the 70's. In the 20's. Well, I wasn't there when it happened but what has become a good friend of mine since our time in the hospital told me, when he was first hospitalzed, there was that girl, really underwheighted, she nedded a machine so she could breathe : her room was the one next to the nursing office : if something went wrong, if the girl rang the alarm, the nurses could be there quickly. Well, one afternoon something went wrong, my friend told me about it, however I don't believe everything he said since he was not in the room. All I can say is that when everybody realized she was not there at the 4 p.m meeting, a nurse went to see if she had maybe felt asleep (was not extraordinary 'cause of meds and the forced time we had to spend in bed, without doung anything, not even reading, after lunch). So... the nurse entered the room. The girl was cold. Mask off. Best explanation is that she struggled, tried to take off her mask for whatever reason... tried to ring the alarm but couldn't for whatever reasons (weakness, panic, difficult to access, apparently she was found tangled in machine's cables ). My friend told me she shouted but the nurses did not hear sincr there was this HUGE reunion with every nurse, docs and so on... He told me he had heard her muffled scream. Idk if I believe that, probably fakd memory due to trauma ? Is that a thing ? All this to say that my friend told me "man... every nurse, one by one, went to the room. They whispered between them. Their pupils were trembling. All the patients knew something went wrong. After couple of minutes one of the nurse came back. She said (girl name] was found in a state of death (or some medical term like that). She told everybody to stay calm, eat the snack and go on with the routine and that they would brinf them news asap" Once again I was not there. Idk if everything he told me was the truth. All I know is that I believe what I've just shared, and that the next patient to be in that room, next to nurse office was me. It is not the 70's, nurses are cool (most of them) but it is cold. Fucking cold. Fucking violent despite the apparent lack of action... Excuse my english, not native speaker.
A VERY brave and ethical psychiatrist risked his entire career to put an end to the barbaric practice of shock therapy and lobotomies. Many of the so-called doctors and nurses in this field of medicine were evil greedy b@stards. He deserves a medal. His name is Dr. Peter Breggin. He has written several books. He also has a website.
Brad Dourif played Billy and was nominated for the 1976 Academy Award for best supporting actor. Know who won? George Burns for "The Sunshine Boys!!!! Now I'm not saying Mr. Burns performance wasn't good, but Brad's performance was MAGNIFICENT! UTTERLY convincing.
@@paulherlihy9290 Absolutely right, Paul. For a start, Will Smith should have received the award for the "most recent gobshite to fall from favour in Hollywood".
I love how the look in his face that the last person you should have pissed off is Jack Nicholson. Having Christopher Lloyd wanting her dead as well made this scene epic!! Abuse of power.
@@dandavis8300 He was going to until the nurse screamed. He put the keys on the window ledge, made a fist, the guard looked at his fist and then the nurse screamed.
Nurse Ratched: "My patients sir, didn't care for the ward at first. One of them, Mr McMurphy, actually stole a hospital bus, and took all the patients on a fishing trip on a stolen boat. But I... corrrrected him, sir. And when Billy Bibbit attempted to lose his virginity, I... corrrrected him too..."
I saw this movie in a theater back in 1976, and I vividly remember how everyone in the theater was standing up and cheering when Mac was strangling that bitch. Louis Fletcher gave a brilliant performance though.
Who was cheering on McMurphy when he was strangling Nurse Ratched on the floor? I know that's disturbing to say or think, but it's a movie. She was such a control freak and I've worked with the types. Even when I worked at a state mental hospital.
@@jayyavid5363 In school 🏫 my sister said kids were screaming to have her killed. Can you imagine if David Greene did that to Mr Cleary in School Ties 👔
I remember watching this movie in a classroom - we hated Ratched so much a few of the kids in the back were cheering. A combination of a great performance and all around great villain!
This is one of the greatest “almost” death scenes in the history of cinema. I remember as a kid I almost, if not completely got an adrenaline rush rooting for Nicholson to choke her purple lol
I thought they would've had police come get Mac and take him to jail and charge him with battery. Didn't have any idea he would be lobotomized like that
The worse part is Billy was not a violent person nor was he forced to be there. He was a voluntary patient & they abused him. All the patients knew if the staff could treat Billy that way there was no hope for anyone. He needed to be avenged.
Honestly, Jack Nicholson and Brad Dourif really knocked it out of the park in this scene - McMurphy's shocked reaction after seeing Billy slam his fist into the ground, Billy's pleas to Nurse Ratched, and finally the look of pure rage you see in McMurphy while he was strangling Ratched for being indifferent to Billy's death. Louise Fletcher deserves a lot of praise too, but I can't help but admire when an actor or actress really displays strong emotions that almost feel real, you know?
A VERY brave and ethical psychiatrist risked his entire career to put an end to the barbaric practice of shock therapy and lobotomies. Many of the so-called doctors and nurses in this field of medicine were evil greedy b@stards. He deserves a medal. His name is Dr. Peter Breggin. He has written several books. He also has a website.
This scene and the film’s ending are bittersweet. On one hand, mcmurphy sacrificed himself to free the other patients from Ratched’s grasp. She no longer has the commanding presence she once had. But Because Mac physically attacked her, he got lobotomized. They say that lobotomy is like castration for the frontal lobe. But in a way, mcmurphy also stripped away Ratched’s voice and authority on his way out.
A VERY brave and ethical psychiatrist risked his entire career to put an end to the barbaric practice of shock therapy and lobotomies. Many of the so-called doctors and nurses in this field of medicine were evil greedy b@stards. He deserves a medal. His name is Dr. Peter Breggin. He has written several books. He also has a website. Patty Behan
He slipped and he actually was choking her for real That's why her neck was bright cherry red It was a stunt failure she had to go over to the hospital to get looked at.
excellent re-scoring! love your varied use of strings to highlight the tension of an iconic scene, all the way up to its breaking point! gives me a vibe like an old film's score, and i mean that as a compliment-- top notch!
I watched One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest at a drive-in movie theatre in South Africa in 1976. I found the movie so disturbing - and this scene is a brilliant example of why - that I've never been able to watch the movie since. Nurse Ratched: evil incarnate. Brilliantly portrayed by Louise Fletcher
As much hatred as Ratched gets, the security guard who stop Macs just before he can do some real damage will always be at the top of my movie character shitlist 🤬
I remember seeing this movie when I was 12-13.. play remember most is being so angered at the corruption. At the time places like Creedmore and Willowbrook were under investigation and 50 years later I feel the same way... Nothing has changed in fact it is worse then ever. And this scene confirms... All characters portrayed so well
A young Brad Dourif, getting tortured in-character by a monster who is supposed to help. This goes on even in today's standards but it winds up being a mother with their own children in some households across the world.
This film messed up heads 50-odd years ago and still does it now. Louise Fletcher played it to the limit and beyond and her character really was the limit!
Anyone in psychiatric medicine would understand that Billy had a huge issue associated with his mother and threatening him with telling her about his behavior could be a tremendous triggering event. If there were a psychiatric nurse to do something like this I would hope she would get into deep trouble. Even in the 1960’s these concepts of psychiatry would have been well understood.
Maybe wake up and be in reality for a second and see just how many people are getting tremendously hurt at the hands of psychiatry. It's made to control people not help them.
@@AntonelloTosto I swear to God I remember the final scene being when Chief kills McMurphy and smashes the window and runs out? Am I crazy? I remember the drum music... Gradually fading as he runs away, then everything goes dark and the movie ends.
I've met a nurse Rachet in pych day car . Started writing false reports to the psychiatrist . Charecter assasination which could result in dangerous drugs . I just quitely left never to return . Confrontation is the worst action they just stick labels over you .
What's so disturbing about this scene, is that R.P. McMurphy had the opportunity to flee the mental institution, but he allowed his compassion for Billy to interfere with his departure, and he was brought back into the facility and lobotomized.
Yes, but Chief took matters into his own hands, saved his friend from a vegetable existence, and gave the ultimate fk you to Nurse R and the entire h-hole institution.
One of the best films based on one of the best books. By the way, I'll add a movie from the book, Mac won not only because Сhief became strong and ran away, but also the rest of the patients (all the sane were voluntarily in the hospital) believed in themselves and left the clinic, toring off the power of this ss nurse.
Fun fact, in Louise Fletcher's last years (I believe starting in 2015) she stated she couldn't bear to watch this movie anymore because while she killed the part, she was so disgusted by her character.
I'm late to the party, but I just watched this movie last night and it bugged me so much that Nurse Ratchet felt the need to (for lack of a better word) tell on Billy to his mother because they're "old friends". I understand that the movie is set in the 60s, but it doesn’t seem ethical that Billy's mother would be told anything he didn’t want her to. Despite his baby face, Billy is an adult (I think?). So shouldn't that sort of thing be between him and the medical staff? Idk. It bothers me more than it should that this nurse thinks she can get away with anything, even after her patient dies.
The terrible thing is, it's because of Mc Murphy that Billy dies: He got fake self-confidence throuh him, to stand up to Ms Ratchet, and Mc Murphy's escape attempt is the reason for Billy being left alone instead of supervised, Billy woudn'y have dared to oppose or be with the woman if it weren't for Randall. It's hard to get how some really don't get her psychological play but think Nurse Ratched to be normal and only doing her job.
I'll have to watch 'Cuckoo's Nest' again. The novel was still too fresh in my mind when I first saw it; I thought Chief Broom was the only character that fit the book's description. But on its own, I'm sure I'd find it to be a great picture. Louise Fletcher underplayed her role to perfection.
I keep hoping he'll leave right after he realizes Billy is dead and there's no bringing him back. Same feeling I have when DeNiro goes back for revenge at the end of Heat. I hope I've at least learned that lesson that will serve me one day, even if it's from a 1975 and a 1995 movie.
Possibly the greatest psychological villain ever in a movie. Her character was an absolute control freak and played brilliantly by Louise Fletcher... R.I.P.
Never loved an actress as much and at the same time wanted her character to die on film. R.I.P. Louise Fletcher!!❤
And she was a real charming, nice woman in real life. Totally opposite of this role.
Agree.
Truly sublime by Louise Fletcher & Control freak nailed.
A very talanted and beautiful actress
He was so close to escape but let the opportunity pass to get revenge for Billy.
Even if he escaped now the police would have caught him.
The perfect opportunity was during the night before anyone knew.
Billy killed himself, there's no revenge
@@Fadem12forReal he killed himself because the nurse was going to tell his mother about him sleeping with that woman. It was her fault.
@@Fadem12forReal she drove him to suicide knowing his mental situation. It’s almost the same as murder. Like holding a gun to someone’s head and saying do you want me to pull the trigger or you? In the mental part of the film is the same as murder.
Ratched, I hate you.
"the best thing we can do is go on with our daily routine" gotta be the most infuriating line in movie history
So agree - she should have at least called for a moment of silence in memory of Billy and had them talk out their feelings. Of course you have to have a soul to be able to do that which she didn't. This was the straw that broke the camel's back for Mc Murphy which is why he started strangling her. The other patients were either in shock or fed up with her so they didn't intervene. I think the orderlies might not have cared for her either since it took a few moments before they intervened, allowing him to almost kill her.
Yes! It's a general disrespect, like "WE Always did it like that"
Have been to a psych hosp. not in the 70's. In the 20's. Well, I wasn't there when it happened but what has become a good friend of mine since our time in the hospital told me, when he was first hospitalzed, there was that girl, really underwheighted, she nedded a machine so she could breathe : her room was the one next to the nursing office : if something went wrong, if the girl rang the alarm, the nurses could be there quickly. Well, one afternoon something went wrong, my friend told me about it, however I don't believe everything he said since he was not in the room. All I can say is that when everybody realized she was not there at the 4 p.m meeting, a nurse went to see if she had maybe felt asleep (was not extraordinary 'cause of meds and the forced time we had to spend in bed, without doung anything, not even reading, after lunch). So... the nurse entered the room. The girl was cold. Mask off. Best explanation is that she struggled, tried to take off her mask for whatever reason... tried to ring the alarm but couldn't for whatever reasons (weakness, panic, difficult to access, apparently she was found tangled in machine's cables ). My friend told me she shouted but the nurses did not hear sincr there was this HUGE reunion with every nurse, docs and so on... He told me he had heard her muffled scream. Idk if I believe that, probably fakd memory due to trauma ? Is that a thing ?
All this to say that my friend told me "man... every nurse, one by one, went to the room. They whispered between them. Their pupils were trembling. All the patients knew something went wrong. After couple of minutes one of the nurse came back. She said (girl name] was found in a state of death (or some medical term like that). She told everybody to stay calm, eat the snack and go on with the routine and that they would brinf them news asap"
Once again I was not there. Idk if everything he told me was the truth. All I know is that I believe what I've just shared, and that the next patient to be in that room, next to nurse office was me.
It is not the 70's, nurses are cool (most of them) but it is cold. Fucking cold. Fucking violent despite the apparent lack of action...
Excuse my english, not native speaker.
Exactly!! How the hell we supposed to go on with our day and someone killed themselves?? One of my favorite movies 🎥 ❤❤❤
It's a bit like police saying "nothing to see here" when something really has happened.
That was Nurse Ratched's moment to show McMurphy that she had at least a SHRED of humanity deep down. She didn't have any.
A VERY brave and ethical psychiatrist risked his entire career to put an end to the barbaric practice of shock therapy and lobotomies. Many of the so-called doctors and nurses in this field of medicine were evil greedy b@stards. He deserves a medal. His name is Dr. Peter Breggin. He has written several books. He also has a website.
I know all about that.
*But ALL that was BULL SHIT LIES!!!! YOU KNOW that, RIGHT??????*
Not a trace
@@sharonjensen3016
Yeah, me too 😔
The last 50 years I haven’t seen better movie than “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest “!
One of the greatest film ever made !
Do you mean no film in the last 50 is better?
@@Mr.Goodkat actually, nobody sees the film just the light that passes through it
@@rodneymacomber6337 Tell that to the projectionist!
@@Mr.Goodkat define the word projection and I’m correct
@@rodneymacomber6337 How so? does he not see the film when putting it in the spool?
It's not the final scene, but it is the final straw.
*But ALL that was BULL SHIT LIES!!!! YOU KNOW that, RIGHT??????*
@@Robert.Martyr.deSaLem It all happened at the
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, it's true.
@@edwardprice140 *THIS WAS Oregon State HospitaL, you MorRON !!!*
@@edwardprice140 He's spamming the same comment in other threads, he thinks it's a funny thing he's doing.
Brad Dourif played Billy and was nominated for the 1976 Academy Award for best supporting actor. Know who won? George Burns for "The Sunshine Boys!!!! Now I'm not saying Mr. Burns performance wasn't good, but Brad's performance was MAGNIFICENT! UTTERLY convincing.
Brad was 100% robbed, what a phenomenal performance
Common buddy, you know the way Hollywood/Academy works. It's not all about best performance now is it?
@@paulherlihy9290 Absolutely right, Paul. For a start, Will Smith should have received the award for the "most recent gobshite to fall from favour in Hollywood".
Burns was part of the smallhats club.
I totally agree. Brad has always been a superb character actor.
2:50 the hatred in Jacks eyes
That’s not hatred, that’s fury.
@@KenMasters. Exactly. He had enough of Ratched's bullshit.
He knew the consequences of his actions, which is why he wanted justice for Billy.
It rage
3:13 - and fear and dread in Ratched's eyes.
One of the greatest villain of the film history
She's actually ranked #5 of the AFI's 100 Heroes and Villains!
*But ALL that was BULL SHIT LIES!!!! YOU KNOW that, RIGHT??????*
I love how the look in his face that the last person you should have pissed off is Jack Nicholson. Having Christopher Lloyd wanting her dead as well made this scene epic!! Abuse of power.
He should have fought the guard.
@@dandavis8300 He was going to until the nurse screamed. He put the keys on the window ledge, made a fist, the guard looked at his fist and then the nurse screamed.
*But ALL that was BULL SHIT LIES!!!! YOU KNOW that, RIGHT ????*
happens a LOT in MH facilities especially state run places!
She was crazier than any of them.
She wasn't crazy, she was evil.
*But ALL that was BULL SHIT LIES!!!! YOU KNOW that, RIGHT??????*
Every bureaucracy has Nurse Ratcheds.
@@Robert.Martyr.deSaLemmight I ask what is with you posting these comments?
@@Robert.Martyr.deSaLemyou’re a complete brainwashed fool
Nurse Ratched: "My patients sir, didn't care for the ward at first. One of them, Mr McMurphy, actually stole a hospital bus, and took all the patients on a fishing trip on a stolen boat. But I... corrrrected him, sir. And when Billy Bibbit attempted to lose his virginity, I... corrrrected him too..."
Nice cross over !
he didnt just attempt it my friends
"A nurse..."
"A nurse?!?"
@@williampoole1742 She is attempting to use her group therapy against your will, Mr McMurphy
Hard to believe that Brad Dourif who played Billy, was the voice of Chucky
So true!
And hard to believe he played Grima Wormtongue in Lord of the rings
It was his first film role
Are u kidding it sounds exactly like chucky
I can't believe it too but it's all true.
I saw this movie in a theater back in 1976, and I vividly remember how everyone in the theater was standing up and cheering when Mac was strangling that bitch. Louis Fletcher gave a brilliant performance though.
This is why I prefer non-quiet theaters.
Damn you're old.
Who was cheering on McMurphy when he was strangling Nurse Ratched on the floor? I know that's disturbing to say or think, but it's a movie. She was such a control freak and I've worked with the types. Even when I worked at a state mental hospital.
My mom always cheered that scene no joke
Me. I was cheering him on. Still cheering him on all these decades later.
@@jayyavid5363 In school 🏫 my sister said kids were screaming to have her killed. Can you imagine if David Greene did that to Mr Cleary in School Ties 👔
She reminds me of my EX
Me..and Christopher Lloyd.
I remember watching this movie in a classroom - we hated Ratched so much a few of the kids in the back were cheering. A combination of a great performance and all around great villain!
What grade were you in?
*The greatest film ever made!!*
Most definitely
One of, but certainly a banger.
Please! Are ya nuts or sompin?
This is one of the greatest “almost” death scenes in the history of cinema. I remember as a kid I almost, if not completely got an adrenaline rush rooting for Nicholson to choke her purple lol
Lol
Yes, 3:04 was my exact feeling supporting the strangling
I was very disappointed that he didn't succeed.
@@yavoralexandroff2321 me too
She won the Oscar for that scene!
the WOMAN?
@@danilozivkovic7727 yes
@@danilozivkovic7727for best actress
@@captainobvious2315she earned it, very convincing performance.
Rubbish. You don't win an Oscar for "a scene". Besides, that was only a mediocre example of many great scenes she did.
Brad Douriff doesnt get enough respect as an actor
didn't know he got an oscar nomination for this film
I thought they would've had police come get Mac and take him to jail and charge him with battery. Didn't have any idea he would be lobotomized like that
Orderly 'put down those keys and no on gets hurt...."
Yeah, right
The worse part is Billy was not a violent person nor was he forced to be there. He was a voluntary patient & they abused him. All the patients knew if the staff could treat Billy that way there was no hope for anyone. He needed to be avenged.
Honestly, Jack Nicholson and Brad Dourif really knocked it out of the park in this scene - McMurphy's shocked reaction after seeing Billy slam his fist into the ground, Billy's pleas to Nurse Ratched, and finally the look of pure rage you see in McMurphy while he was strangling Ratched for being indifferent to Billy's death.
Louise Fletcher deserves a lot of praise too, but I can't help but admire when an actor or actress really displays strong emotions that almost feel real, you know?
A VERY brave and ethical psychiatrist risked his entire career to put an end to the barbaric practice of shock therapy and lobotomies. Many of the so-called doctors and nurses in this field of medicine were evil greedy b@stards. He deserves a medal. His name is Dr. Peter Breggin. He has written several books. He also has a website.
@@TheRealW.S.Foster yes, she was really good in that movie
When I rented this on VHS, the last two seconds were literally the first frame I saw. Left me intrigued
This scene and the film’s ending are bittersweet. On one hand, mcmurphy sacrificed himself to free the other patients from Ratched’s grasp. She no longer has the commanding presence she once had. But Because Mac physically attacked her, he got lobotomized. They say that lobotomy is like castration for the frontal lobe. But in a way, mcmurphy also stripped away Ratched’s voice and authority on his way out.
A VERY brave and ethical psychiatrist risked his entire career to put an end to the barbaric practice of shock therapy and lobotomies. Many of the so-called doctors and nurses in this field of medicine were evil greedy b@stards. He deserves a medal. His name is Dr. Peter Breggin. He has written several books. He also has a website. Patty Behan
In real life they would've called the police and have him sent to jail and charge him with battery
She didn't want to play that role she wanted to be with the boys n asylum having fun 😂😂
I would have just taken a dive through that open window , but then again , you get attached to people.
"The best thing we can do is go on with our daily routines."
And for trying to strangle her to death, he got lobotomised. Poor martyr.
0:33 That devil really looks at Randall as if it was his(!) fault ... Incredible monster ...
I read it more like, "You rebel? Just see my power..."
Sociopaths always blame the ones they hate instead of finding their own errors.
Another 20 seconds Nurse Ratched would have been dead
He slipped and he actually was choking her for real That's why her neck was bright cherry red It was a stunt failure she had to go over to the hospital to get looked at.
Billy babitt is so well played amazing acting performance, that pure hopeless rage is absolute top acting skill
excellent re-scoring! love your varied use of strings to highlight the tension of an iconic scene, all the way up to its breaking point! gives me a vibe like an old film's score, and i mean that as a compliment-- top notch!
The best scene in cinema history.
One of my all time favourite movie . Jack great actor
Christopher Lloyd
Danny DeVito
AND
Chucky
In one movie? Whats this, thee best movie ever made?!
I watched One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest at a drive-in movie theatre in South Africa in 1976. I found the movie so disturbing - and this scene is a brilliant example of why - that I've never been able to watch the movie since.
Nurse Ratched: evil incarnate.
Brilliantly portrayed by Louise Fletcher
The movie is very disturbing . Nurse Ratchet one of the most disturbing Nascisistic Sociopaths in any movie . I have seen them in my family
Damn you're old.
Nurse Ratchet reminds me of Killery Clinton !
Brad Dourif deserved the Oscar in this movie
This movie is GREAT. Plays with your mind like "No... No f****n way O.o" unpredictable....
A MASTERPIECE
I remember watching this great movie years ago!! Wish I could see it again!!💖
RIP Louise Fletcher.
This is another level of cinema
As much hatred as Ratched gets, the security guard who stop Macs just before he can do some real damage will always be at the top of my movie character shitlist 🤬
I'm sure in his mind he was just doing his job. Or put another way, "just following orders"
Nurse Rachet still scares me.
I wonder what I would do If I saw her…Probably Strangle her to Death.
RIP Louise Fletcher aka Nurse Rachett
I love her icy stare at McMurphy at :35 showing him who runs the ward. Incredible acting by Louise Fletcher!
The greatest movie ever made! Every one of the actors deserved an oscar.
I remember seeing this movie when I was 12-13.. play remember most is being so angered at the corruption. At the time places like Creedmore and Willowbrook were under investigation and 50 years later I feel the same way... Nothing has changed in fact it is worse then ever. And this scene confirms... All characters portrayed so well
As brutal as he is, he has more humanity than her.
Best movie ever !!! Najbolji film ikad !!! 👍👍👍
Great movie. I am a psychiatric nurse and there are too many mean nurses like her.
When Brad Dourif was pleading and screaming it is almost the identical expression he made in one of the Myst Exile endings.
A young Brad Dourif, getting tortured in-character by a monster who is supposed to help. This goes on even in today's standards but it winds up being a mother with their own children in some households across the world.
She was lucky Jack didn’t have an Axe or that Charles Lee Ray didn’t give his sole to a doll.
Alles Fans hier,cool,das ist auch gebührend,100 x gesehen und immer zum heulen,Jack Nicholson forever !❤
He gets brain shock " therapy " and the chief escapes. Great movie.
Wasnt it lobotomy ?
@majas4922 yes, it was.
This film messed up heads 50-odd years ago and still does it now. Louise Fletcher played it to the limit and beyond and her character really was the limit!
Anyone in psychiatric medicine would understand that Billy had a huge issue associated with his mother and threatening him with telling her about his behavior could be a tremendous triggering event. If there were a psychiatric nurse to do something like this I would hope she would get into deep trouble. Even in the 1960’s these concepts of psychiatry would have been well understood.
@@nakedfreak1 shall I crawl into your psyche and pull out your deepest secrets you’d rather stay hidden? Come closer Clarice…🤡
Maybe wake up and be in reality for a second and see just how many people are getting tremendously hurt at the hands of psychiatry. It's made to control people not help them.
One of the greatest feel BAD movie of all time. And I like it.
This isn't the final scene? Chief running away is
This is the finale, before the epilogue.
@@AntonelloTosto I swear to God I remember the final scene being when Chief kills McMurphy and smashes the window and runs out? Am I crazy? I remember the drum music... Gradually fading as he runs away, then everything goes dark and the movie ends.
@@brilliant13675 that is the epilogue
@@AntonelloTosto but an epilogue comes at the end lol? I need to rewatch and see this for myself I'm so fucking confused right now lmao
@@brilliant13675 no your not crazy. That was.the true ending scene chief fleeing
Great job. :) Many thanks for the new film soundtrack. :)
Mcmurphy should have waited another day or two before escaping
For a brief moment she looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall ... shame Jack could not hold on his grasp for just a few more seconds ...
that may well be the most heartbreakingly intense scene - and for that matter, movie - I've ever seen.
I've met a nurse Rachet in pych day car . Started writing false reports to the psychiatrist . Charecter assasination which could result in dangerous drugs . I just quitely left never to return . Confrontation is the worst action they just stick labels over you .
Nurse Ratchet is pure evil
Wasn't the last scene, but still one of the top movies ever made
What's so disturbing about this scene, is that R.P. McMurphy had the opportunity to flee the mental institution, but he allowed his compassion for Billy to interfere with his departure, and he was brought back into the facility and lobotomized.
Yes, but Chief took matters into his own hands, saved his friend from a vegetable existence, and gave the ultimate fk you to Nurse R and the entire h-hole institution.
Fuck me , my Mother 35 years ago . ! This film haunts me , yet , the greatest ever . 😢❤
One of the best films based on one of the best books. By the way, I'll add a movie from the book, Mac won not only because Сhief became strong and ran away, but also the rest of the patients (all the sane were voluntarily in the hospital) believed in themselves and left the clinic, toring off the power of this ss nurse.
No other movie has The Joker, The Penguin, Doc Brown, Chucky, and the ghost train rider all in the same scene.
2:52 "HERE'S JOHNNY!"
That was from "The Shining."
@@jamesroales2684 I know, I was making a reference! LOL
I honestly was cheering when the nurse was getting choked.
She was lobotomizing people. Mcmurphy was attempting a defensive and legal killing.
That was some fine method acting strangling right there.
The most satisfying scene ever.
3:13 Looks like Schwarzenegger in Total Recall suffocating on Mars!
Fun fact, in Louise Fletcher's last years (I believe starting in 2015) she stated she couldn't bear to watch this movie anymore because while she killed the part, she was so disgusted by her character.
The young nurse looked like she never liked it there.
The face on doc is brilliant he was chocking her wit him 😊
2:39 "Its a lot of bologna now" bad timing Manchini lol.
Chucky doll is so young here.
I'm late to the party, but I just watched this movie last night and it bugged me so much that Nurse Ratchet felt the need to (for lack of a better word) tell on Billy to his mother because they're "old friends". I understand that the movie is set in the 60s, but it doesn’t seem ethical that Billy's mother would be told anything he didn’t want her to. Despite his baby face, Billy is an adult (I think?). So shouldn't that sort of thing be between him and the medical staff? Idk. It bothers me more than it should that this nurse thinks she can get away with anything, even after her patient dies.
My grandpa taught me this poem.
Brier brier limbertoc
Three geese in a flock
One few east, one flew west.
And one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
It may have ruined some of the tension but the music was excellent! What's it from?
I composed the music!
Wow that makes it even more impressive. Bravo!@@AntonelloTosto
That was amazing the onlookers almost went "back to the future" J K great scene
If she wasn't such a great actress we wouldn't have been able to hate her character so much.
That wasn't the final scene. The final scene is when "chief" smashes the window and escapes.
ESCAPES TO FREEDOM
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We don't need background music to tell us what to feel. Play the orignal scene as it is.
Great Great film. Such acting!
The terrible thing is, it's because of Mc Murphy that Billy dies: He got fake self-confidence throuh him, to stand up to Ms Ratchet, and Mc Murphy's escape attempt is the reason for Billy being left alone instead of supervised, Billy woudn'y have dared to oppose or be with the woman if it weren't for Randall. It's hard to get how some really don't get her psychological play but think Nurse Ratched to be normal and only doing her job.
I'll have to watch 'Cuckoo's Nest' again. The novel was still too fresh in my mind when I first saw it; I thought Chief Broom was the only character that fit the book's description. But on its own, I'm sure I'd find it to be a great picture. Louise Fletcher underplayed her role to perfection.
One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the coo coo nest.
The decent into madness I have seen nurse s like that
I watched this as a young boy, as we studied the book for English. Never dreamt I would become a nurse.
I had no idea that Brad Dourif played a Bigot in Mississippi Burning. Then he was in a horror film caled The Eyes Of Laura Mars.
I've wondered if Misery was based on this film.
When I first rented this on VHS, it was not rewound. It was at roughly 3:31. I was intrigued right away.
3:13 Total Recall vibes
One of the best movies ever
I keep hoping he'll leave right after he realizes Billy is dead and there's no bringing him back. Same feeling I have when DeNiro goes back for revenge at the end of Heat. I hope I've at least learned that lesson that will serve me one day, even if it's from a 1975 and a 1995 movie.
same thing as Magwich in Great Expectations
Brad Dourif's performance as Billy was so powerful and heartbreaking.
There are lots of people in this world who don't know they're villains.
It is so good to see that (w)itch unable to breathe...