First Time Watching ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975) Reaction & Commentary (Re-up)
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American psychological drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey.
Top cast ; Jack Nicholson · R.P. McMurphy ; Louise Fletcher · Nurse Ratched ; Michael Berryman · Ellis ; Peter Brocco · Col. Matterson ; Dean R. Brooks · Dr. Spivey.
Mental Health, Hospital, Nurse Ratched
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Nurse Ratched, as portrayed by Louise Fletcher, has long been considered among the top villains of cinema.
And that's well deserved. Great performance.
@@mrtveye6682 Oscar winning.
@@HuntingViolets Did you see her speech? I was very surprised and impressed by that.
@@user-bj2lu9qt3o I don't think so; I'll have to look it up.
The book was required reading when I was in school. Great book. It is told through the Chief's point of view
The Last Detail, Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, and Easy Rider are all great if you’re looking to break your oldest Nicholson movie record.
For my money, Nicholson's greatest performance is definitely in The Last Detail.
He was in the Trip too , 1967 or something
This movie will always be a classic. It is so well-written and acted. Numerous well-known actors had early roles in this film: Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Vincent Schiavelli, Brad Dourif (who played Billy Bibbit and went on to roles as "Doc Cochran" in Deadwood and "Grima Wormtongue" in Lord of the Rings, the voice of "Chucky"), etc.
Louise Fletcher's performance as Nurse Ratched was so incredible (she won an Oscar for Best Actress) that it apparently had a large effect on the types of roles she was offered thereafter.
Excellent reaction, my man! Much thanks for sharing it with us. Cheers!
Love Brad Dourif. Such a good actor!
@michaelhoward
100% agree.
Definitely catch Brad Dourif as Doc Cocrain (sp) in DEADWOOD, HBO's TV series. What a talent that guy is. And what an incredible series.
Did y’all notice when Billy’s stutter disappears, and then re-appears?
One of only three films to win the “Oscar Grand Slam”… Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay (adapted). The other two are “It Happened One Night” (1934) and “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991).
There's a good movie from 1989 called The Dream Team which is similar to this but in the light comedy/drama genre, also featuring Christopher Lloyd as an inmate, Michael Keaton as the McMurphy-type character, and they go for a day trip to the ball game
A work farm is a minimum security prison. It’s not slavery because it’s considered a privilege to be there outside in the sun with fresh air rather than doing time at a hardcore maximum security penitentiary where you are locked up in a cell most of the day.
Wow, at the moment you said this movie was a roller coaster ride I thought the exact same thing! One of the best films ever made, the book even better! The book was required reading at my preparatory school. When I was in the USAF, I was deemed unfit for duty, sent to a psych ward, and was shocked to learn this film was required watching for Air Force psychiatry training and education. Fact, some of the lower ranked airmen were acting like the African American guys in this film, I was a sergeant and asked to use the ping pong room, they told me, not yet sir, when we're ready to open it. When they opened it, they were playing in the room themselves but didn't allow us in there. No one cared about us patients. Something happened to me, the USAF didn't like it and muscled me out with standing ovation from the service. Good film, good reaction!
Great reaction!
Vincent also great small roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Better off Dead
Winner of 5 Oscars including Best Picture.
Jack Nicholson gives a great turn in Easy Rider (1969) as well. But this one is a true classic.
The orderlies would light the cigarettes because they obviously wouldn't allow patients matches or lighters.
The movie is set as the same time frame the novel came out, 1963.
Oh, it makes complete sense. I just found it amusing as an ex-smoker. I'd have loved this luxury back in the day 😂
This is in Salem, Oregon State Hospital. There is still a correctional facility in Pendleton, OR where they make jeans and stuff called Prison Blues. Also, even though this movie was made in 1975, I believe the story takes place in the 1960s.
I really wish you had read the book first. It is outstanding. The movie is too, but as usual, so much more makes sense with the book.
Mc Murphy is faking it, because he thinks he will have it easier than jail. He doesn't realize he can't leave on his own. Nurse Ratchet does want the meetings to be chaotic, it is another way she can exercise control over the ward. This is one of my favourites.
I read the book as well. Jack is phenomenal.
This was a very upsetting book that we got in school. It took me quite awhile to go ahead and finally watch the movie.
The hospital where this was filmed is in my hometown and looks the same, aside from the paint. And Depoe Bay, where they go fishing, is less than two miles north of where my grandparents lived. Can't count how many times I've been across that bridge.
Oregon?
Yeah, it was filmed at the Oregon State Hospital. I would drive by it often when I volunteered in the Juvenile and Family Courts nearby.
@@BouillaBased cool,hello from British Columbia 😎
fun fact: "Chief's" son in real life played Chief in the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia parody (season 4, episode 10)
The Last Detail, is a criminally overlooked film from Nicholson’s earlier days.
In the 1980s, I was studying to be a psychologist in South Africa. I saw a guy getting electroshock. Barbaric, indeed.
Damn 😔
its very violent...causes instant seizures but like MEGA seizures..so bad that even when they hold u down u can still break bones
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is still a thing to this day.
“This is turning into a real feel good movie” famous last words
😫
Here's the thing. The Chief was the first person narrator of the book. The whole story is from his observations. Now your noodle's boiled. 😉
I cared for my parents when they got older and downloaded the song "medication Valse" and would occasionally play it when it was time for them to take their pills . Would always get a huge laugh out of it from them and the would call me Nurse Ratched . any time I hear that song now I can hear Medication time and it brings back really good memories of my parents.
This one makes my top 10 movies of all time.
Billy Babbit is played by Brad Dourif. Aka "Chucky" ib Child's Play. Also Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings. Also the Gemini killer in the underrated Exorcist III.
Classic
Ken Kesey, the author of the book, was the leader of the Merry Pranksters. Kesey and the Merry Pranksters lived communally at Kesey's homes in California and Oregon, and are noted for the sociological significance of a lengthy road trip they took in the summer of 1964, traveling across the United States in a psychedelic painted school bus called Furthur, organizing parties, and giving out LSD. He was quite the character, to say the least. It's been told that he actually worked the night shift at an asylum and would go into work high on acid.
So much respect for Ken. Read the OFOTCN in college and wrote a term paper on it, followed by doing “Sometimes A Great Notion” for myself. Got to see him up close in 84’ when living near Arizona State U. There were flyers posted about his free “talk” on campus. He was still moving the ball forward, giving a pep talk for English majors to become future teachers, and I recall some readings of Shakespeare thrown in, followed by an invite to share beers at the local watering hole. After seeing some vids about beatniks recently, I realized he was probably the link between them and the hippies, given his link with Neal Cassidy and the way his lifestyle was so similar to “On The Road”.
@@tcanfield Sometimes A Great Notion is also a wonderful book. I liked the movie too.
Brad Dourif plays Billy. Chucky from Childs play franchise, plus he’s in Harry Potter and the series Deadwood as well as a number of other things.
Before Star Wars came out this was the highest grossing film in the world.
This takes place in 1963 when the book was written. The author was Ken Kesey and he was mostly high on acid when he wrote it. So I read.
If you want to see the other great Jack Nicholson role from around this same time period you should react to The Last Detail
Uplifting, feel good movie of the 1970s. I love it
My dad is Jack's doppelganger. Every time I see him, I see my dad.
This was filmed in the Oregon State hospital. The guy who played the doctor who ran it was the actual doctor who ran that hospital, he never had an official complaint filed against him in his whole career. He ended up actually diagnosing the actor who played Harding with leukemia and predicted when he would die to the month. A lot of the extras were actual mental patients.
This is another unbelievable Milos Forman film , you should also check out his other masterpiece Amadeus. So many quotable lines.
Jack did some horror and other small parts but achieved fame with his supporting role in Easy Rider. The movie fit the times. After that Five Easy Pieces.
Hearing about Easy Rider a lot now. Will hopefully check it out soon.
I believe they still do shock therapy. There was an actress (a few years back) who admitted to having it done repeatedly and voluntarily.
Yes, they do. I knew a few people who did it but it's being marketed under a different therapy.
This film is in my top 10 favorite movies of all time, yet it is very hard for me to watch. Masterclass in acting from Nicholson and Fletcher.
One flew East
One flew West
One flew over
the cuckoo's nest
Fun fact. That is a real psychologist at the beginning. They didn't give him any lines. Just had him react to Jack.
US Oregon here for the movie..
"He aint getting released anytime soon." 🤣🤣🤣
You are right, it is the guy from GHOST, Vincent Chiavelli
Billy was played by the same actor who later played Grima Wormtongue in LOTR
There are three movie characters I hate with a vengeance: Nurse Ratched, the mayor in Jaws, and that freakin’ nazi monkey in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I saw this movie in 1975. It pointed out how flawed that GOVERNMENT-FUNDED mental healthcare was then. Unfortunately, instead of improving it, Regan eliminated it altogether. Then he replaced it with nothing. It's PART of the reason America is suffering from a severely massive mental illness epidemic, today (e.g., escalating suicides, violence, drug addiction, etc.).
Exactly he released them and put them out on the road. Reagan sucked big time. All the presidents have ever since. Yep they are done away with the New Deal presidents philosophy right after Johnson. America's been on downhill slide ever since.
@@glennthompson1173 Thank you for your reply.
At the age of 18, I was nearly drafted to fight in LBJ's Vietnam War. I remember well when MLK met with Vietnamese Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Just hours later, MLK came out loudly against the Vietnam War.
Then LBJ ended MLK's FBI protection. If my recollection is correct, only a year after coming out against the war, MLK was killed. I still believe LBJ had MLK killed for coming out against the Vietnam War.
LBJ's domestic policies were terrific (creating Medicare, etc.). However, I think he gave the MIC too much power over government military funding, which Reagan put on steroids.
I think, all of the above, combined with the Citizens United Decision, is a big part of why funding wars & corporate profits take a severely radical priority over things like the government-funded mental healthcare America desperately needs today.
I'll end this by, once again, saying, thank you for your reply that motivated me to write this reply for you. Good day.
so many sane people went insane in those places.... psychiatry has so much blood on their hands... so many deaths and neglect and dark documentaries done on this horror of reality...like the scene when all the shrinks are like "he isn't mentally ill" and nurse ratched goes "I'd like to keep him on the ward" .... of course she would.... she is a sociopath lol makes me think of my first lesson on the art of being 2 faced my brothers 2nd grade elementary school teacher won TEACHER OF THE YEAR award despite doing vicious things to kids...like my brother brought a stuffed animal to class and she tossed it to the class who passed it around laughing making him cry, then dumped a bottle of water on a students head... i had a similar teacher that made me walk when i had casts on both legs and in a wheelchair...he forced me to walk in front of the class to humiliate me..then everyone said faker! and it was due to my MS. Not fake at all
This movie launched so many careers. Nicholson's career was already strong, but Louise Fletcher got a big boost. Yes that is Danny Devito, Brad Dourif, Will Sampson, Christopher Lloyd and so many other people getting big boosts to their careers. This is another amazing film from Milos Forman.
If this happened today, the hospital would be facing fines and lawsuits and Nurse Rached would definitely be fired, her medical license revoked and she would possibly be facing prison.
The movie was made in the mid 70s but I think, the time period is the late 1950s. That is why they were doing things like electro, shock and lobotomies.
The location was supposed to be just a few miles from the Canadian border. So that’s why they were talking about going to Canada. At that time, you did not need a passport to go over the US/Canadian border. That didn’t change Until the 1980s or later when Islamic terrorists started doing their business and the government decided they needed to tighten up the borders a little bit.
Dont know if anyone mentioned it, but Nicholson actually underwent electro-shock therapy in order to better understand his role. Method acting produces sublime results, but in his case may have taken a permanent toll on his mind.
A simular great movie you need to see is "Cool Hand Luke".
Yes it's Danny De Vito !
Great reaction.
You might want to try Cool Hand Luke (1967) with Paul Newman in the lead role. Prison rather than mental ward but it touches similar themes.
Others have commented that Chief is the narrator in the book. It is worth adding that his narrative includes some wild and distorted stuff at night when he is drugged. The book is a must read.
Other Classic Jack Nicholson films are ~ Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, Carnal Knowledge & The Shining.
It's not easy to tell because the 70s was always a big mess stylistically but the story is set in the 1950s, so not everything depicted in the movie is what was going on in the 70s but not too far off.
Shock therapy is basically an artificially induced grand mal seizure which leaves a person in a highly relaxed state for several days and was a popular tool in sanitariums back in the day. A low voltage version is still available as a medical treatment but under full anesthesia and only with a patient's consent. The old way could cause memory loss, pulled muscles and even fractured bones.
Those patients weren't there voluntarily.
ECTis still used today to combat severe depression. Nowadays you get anasthic first, though.
Yeah, weirdly, not long after watching this, i was speaking with someone who was telling me about someone they knew having it done.
That was a terrific reaction ! Love your voice. Very sincere and intelligent. Louise Fletcher also FANTASTIC as a virtual reality scientist, in the1983 thriller, Brainstorm (with Christopher Walken).
Appreciate the compliments 😌
Watch the movie Easy Rider it is the first movie that really put Jack Nicholson on the map.
ECT is probably still used in extreme cases.
They still do electric shock therapy now, although I believe it is on a lower power level and not for as long.
Yeah, weirdly, after I watched this, I was speaking to someone who was telling me about someone they knew having it done. I had no idea it was still a thing.
Five Easy Pieces is a great film with Jack.
wait a minute..did they edit out the exchange where the doctor reveals why Mac was incarcerated?...I was aware the book burners wanted it removed, did they succeed?
Easy Rider (1969) is a must see movie
That is Danny devito !
Newly suscribed because of this reaction. 👍 To feel better about poor Billy. In real life Brad Dourif was nominated for an oscar for that role. Is the voice of CHUCKY in the Child's Play Movie Franchise. And was Gríma Wormtongue in The Lord of the Rings film series. Billy did good.
'Favorite movie in the entire universe.
Yeah, sad. But so hopeful.
Fight the good fight. Though you're so outnumbered. And it's a world full of Hitlers and their henchmen. And, yes, they are in power. But the light emanating from even one lone spirit can tear down their fortresses, 'can set others free.
Batman with Jack Nicholson was from *1989
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. "She's a something of a cunt ain't she Doc."
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😇
I love your quick let's-say armchair diagnosis - because it probably is not far off! All these neurodivergencies have always existed, always expressed themselves, I remember someone comparing Harald Hardrada to a an adult with ADHD, in the time, culture and political position he was in
Don't feel bad about the ending though, the Chief told Jack he wouldn't leave him there, and he didn't! That was Jack's way out of the building, they left together! Christopher Lloyd's character seems to understand this, without even knowing - as you're there all heartbroken, his celebration makes you smile, cus you know what he knows!
Did this video get reloaded up again. I seen the first upload. Great reaction and such an amazing film too. Jack Nicholson is so amazing in this film and he is so funny. This is one of my favorite Jack Nicholson movies and The Departed is another favorite of mine
Yeah, it got blocked 😩
Absolutely love The Departed! Wish I hadn't seen it so I could've done it on the channel 😂
@@RyanCarrington The Departed would have been a good reaction video lol my favorite is the ending is with the rat lmao
Electric shock therapy is still used but less often .
I was speaking with a tattooer and they were talking about it. Thought it was gone!
@@RyanCarrington sadly no my friend had it done not that long ago .I hate electric shock therapy horrid stuff .
@amberjavadi4643 yeah, he was talking about someone he knew having it done. Gosh.
Nurse Ratched is one of movies all-time best/worst villains
The actress who plays Candy looks exactly like Taylor Swift to me.
This certainly plucks all the heart's cords... strange in it's context... I was my 60's before I saw it and it's not far off even in today's mental wards...should you voluntarily commit yourself..they will either find reasons to keep you until your insurance runs out or you have to beg your way out...just another failure on the part of the 'medical Practice' all these years...
Something a little more updated by about 20 years but with a different twist
💥...Twelve Monkeys...Brad Pitt
Great to see ya..enjoy the rest of your weekend...
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It is DeVito
1975 the year your parents were born. 😏 In any case why is nurse Rachet in black and white in the thumbnail?
Check out Cool Hand Luke. Similar themes. Both movies might make my top ten.
Unfortunately this movie had big reason for mental institutions to close down and now 50 years later, society leaves them to the streets, drugs and homelessness for a worse predicament. Mentally have been in institutions for centuries to protect them as well as society.
I have only watched you from this video. I think you're a pretty chill and cool dude despite that
Cheers mate!
@@RyanCarringtonTo you as well
I thought you hadn't watched a Jack Nicholson movie before Batman? 00:20. Yet you know Scatman Crothers from The Shining (1980). 28:43
Great Detective work haha
I said, 'I think' as it was right off the top of the dome. I wasn't running through his IMDB page. I think I go into it more in the full-length reaction but my fiancée made me watch it when we first got together.
Symbolism. Women control the asylum.
Men are locked up do to mental.
This man was beyond genius
I personally don't see Ratched as the absolute villain that she may seem. Yes she's inflexible and power-mad but I believe she really wants to help and that she believes her rigid system is the way. Everyone in this story is a victim including her. Not just talking about her getting choked out, but that of a professional woman in her time struggling to rise in the ranks of a "man's world" not to imagine the upbringing she may have had. She was taught order and discipline. Meanwhile Mack is the opposite side to the same coin. I'd argue that both Mack and Ratched were as equally helpful to the rest of the ward as they were harmful.
I think a more sympathetic portrait of Ratched would have taken that into account, but I think that Ken Kesey meant for her to be a villain-one who specifically hates men.
Ratched was obsessive-compulsive; you can see it in the perfection of how she does everything, done to every hair in place and the starched pure-white uniform. It's all about an intensely-held control, diamond hard. And she believes her way, under rules and inflexibility, is what the world needs. She suffered her own mental illness. The inmates running the institution.
Yeah, when I read this I absolutely did not see McMurphy as the hero. He had to learn empathy after being abused.
@@chris...9497That's not what obsessive compulsive means.
Did you read the book? She was the villian. She wanted control and used the vulnerabilities of the patients to keep them weak. In the novel, she was good friends with Billy's mother and used that continually to disturb Billy. She wanted to keep them there. It was her fault that Billy slit his wrists. She enjoyed causing chaos in meetings to justify keeping the men there. The novel is written from the Chief's poverty, and discusses the idea of mental health and freedom and courage to live. That is why the ending is so amazing, watching the Chief make the choice to engage life.
Good movie, very depressing. I'll give this one a miss today. I'm already in a sht mood lol
I thought it was a feel-good movie at first 😂
@@RyanCarrington oh it seems really funny, right? That's EVIL. It's a film that knocks you out the first time :)
@papalaz4444244 no, it seemed like it could've been an uplifting story at first. You'll what I mean from my comments when you watch 🙂
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Reference - Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia
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You haven't seen Kubrick's "The Shining"? C'mon...
My fiancée showed me The Shining when we first stated dating.
In my head, these 2 movies were miles apart. I'm surprised to see it's only 5 years.
Funny how, the older I get, the hotter she looks!
Unfortunately the more you work with the mentally ill the more you sympathize with nurse Ratchet.
It sounds like you have no business working with people with mental illness.
Maybe you should consider a new line of work.
This is a great place to start getting to know Jack in his earlier days. Suggest you try CHINATOWN and THE SHINING.