ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST!! (1975) *Reaction!* FIRST TIME WATCHING!! *I was shocked!!!*
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- I watched the 1975 film, One Flew Over The CUCKOO'S Nest, starring Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Sydney Lassick, Will Sampson, Brad Dourif, Louise Flethcer, Vincent Schiavelli, and many others. I had seen this film in high school but not paid enough attention to it because I didn't remember it to be this good! I hated that nurse though!
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I had an aunt who went through electro-shock treatments. Everyone in our family agreed it was the worst thing that could be imagined. She was not herself, anymore. She regressed to the state of an adolescent, and stayed there the rest of her life...but the really creepy part was, she was like an adolescent that she had never been. Like she's been turned into somebody else entirely, and frozen there.
I am so sorry! :O That's terrible!
Nurse Ratched is one of the most famous villains in all of cinematography.
The book is from the chief's perspective. It's a great read.
technically, the second half of the book is from chief's perspective.
McMurphy was the catalyst for patients standing up to Nurse Rachett.
Danny Devito was an unknown at the time of this movie. He was a friend of Nicholson's, so was Scatman Crothers.
Baseball is played in Central America, Mexico and Japan. But you are right, it is funny it is called the World Series.
The movie takes place in 1962, the same as the novel.
Devito was also friends and former roommate of Michael Douglas who produced this film.
I first watched this film when I was 14, and it's been a favourite ever since. It also made me a lifelong Brad Dourif fan!
The fellow who played Billy is also a very fine and prolific actor, Brad Dourif. He's played a lot of great roles, though he's most famous pehaps for one that is my least favorite -- Chucky in the "Child's Play" series of horror films.
He was great as Grima Wormtongue in The Lord of the Rings.
He was the conscience-driven doctor in the incredible HBO series, DEADWOOD. He has actually been a tour de force in anything hes been in, excepting that deplorably cheesy Chucky series.
DEADWOOD was so good. I've requested of a number of reactors that they would take it on, but it's gotten to where, without a patreon bribe, nothing is a consideration.
Yeah, he's fantastic. And I guess I can't really begrudge the "Child's Play'" franchise, because it does seem to have opened up a lot of opportunity for him...even if I don't care to wach them.
A person's reference points say a lot about a person. You chose to mention Brad's voiceover in a silly cheesy lowbrow horror film like "Child's Play", as opposed to mentioning him in a Classic Drama like "Mississippi Burning". This just tells me you are a typical shallow sheep in society that possesses nothing of substance in your film tastes.
I really would have liked him in the role of Egon Schiele, when he was young. It would have been a great optical match.
It's called the World Series because in the early 1900s, the championship game was sponsored by a now defunct newspaper called New York World. Everyone hated nurse Ratched. She was so sadistic and cruel w/her petty tyranny over the men. It should be noted that while the film was made in the 70's, it's set in the early 1960's.
14:45 Actually, baseball is also very popular in Latin America and East Asia. But you're right, the name for the baseball championships, "World Series", is a bit odd considering it only consists of teams from North America.
I’ve actually been committed to mental hospitals all over North America. Our system is screwed. Medication is a chemical lobotomy. I had the great fortune to spend quality time with Ken Kesey, the author of this book. The lack of Mental health care, due to Reagan, is the greatest tragedy of our current crisis in the U.S. love your reactions!
The system was already fucked up before Reagan
@@kcirtapelyk6060 , absolutely. Reagan however, was responsible for letting every mentally ill person out of the hospitals and he’s responsible for Reaganomics, which after 40 years has proven a disaster.
@@jesterforhire Fair enough! While the asylums were far from perfect, they at least kept the dangerous crazies away from the general public.
I seem to remember you really liking Walter Matthau. You should react to "A New Leaf". It's one of the funniest performances he ever did. I think you'd love it.
Agreed, and a really good script by Elaine May. May and Mike Nichols formed a team and performed some dry, wicked routines: ruclips.net/video/cLkuNnnp89g/видео.html.
@@melenatorr She directed it also. Kinda fell in love with her back then. She's brilliant. 👍👍
@@scottperry8354 Agreed!
"I don't understand why everyone's so casual with him! He was brought in, in handcuffs!"
I figure it's a method of de-escalation. They try not to treat him like a criminal or paraiah, in hopes he will take the social cues, and act like a non-paraiah.
Standard proceedure for transporting prisoners.
@@Blue-qr7qe Yeah, it's amazing how often, when you treat people in a respectful and civilized way, they tend to respond in kind.
it's because they know he's not really crazy... and they know he's not really dangerous. 5 assault charges. sounds bad, right? McMurphy replies, "5 fights." If every fight was an arrestable assault, then the jails would be even more crowded. from the get-go, McMurphy shows the audience that the system is just as insane as those in it. and may actually be creating the insanity.
“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975) is one of only three films ever to win the “Oscar Grand Slam”… Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. The other two are “It Happened One Night” (1934) and “The Silence Of The Lambs” (1991). (See clips below)
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Yep the only time your going to see Chucky the Joker and The penguin in one movie!🤣
...And Judge Doom.
@@msannethropp7497 yes
There's a prequel show called Ratchet but I never seen it
This hits home.
I'm sorry to hear that
"Crazy" or not you need to treat people respectfully.
Totally agree! That's why I hated that nurse, and the staff. They treated those poor men horribly, all they wanted was to have someone help them.
Great reaction! I'm so happy you were able to re-evaluate it......and not only like it better than you did, but see it as a near-masterpiece! I agree!
I saw this for the first time in high school (around 2000-2001), too. I was really impressed with it and I'd seen Jack in one of my favourite films, As Good As It Gets, and so I was ready for this. The book this is based on was written by Ken Kesey, a noted LSD advocate. Drugs can definitely be abused and if you have an addictive personality, they're not a great idea. But some drugs have definitely aided in the creation of some truly great things. We as humans just need to learn to manage them correctly. George Carlin said it best. They're not on this planet for this long for no reason. It's all about managing pain vs pleasure. When the pain part outweighs the pleasure, at some point hopefully your own intellect or someone around you will say, "Oh, this doesn't work anymore. I'm going to die if I keep this up." It's like with anything. Too much of anything is a problem, but most things that aren't totally poisonous in moderation are usually okay, unless you have an allergic reaction. Some people react badly to small amounts of cannabis. So don't take it. But we can't deny that some drugs in context have resulted in some amazing things.
Need to react to as good as it gets with Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt
Definitely one of my favorite movies of all time.
agreed. this movie is one of those that from a cultural perspective -- like the Godfather or citizen kane -- that everyone must see at least once.
I was thrown into a mental institution for a forced psychiatric evaluation, due to false accusations against me. Exes new wife, & stepmother to my kids(daughters 11& 12), had tried unsuccessfully to get my kids taken away 3 times before. This time she succeeded. So I went into a mental institution, alone, locked down, with a bunch of mentally ill strangers, no money, no clothes, & no one to visit me, or really to call. My Adoptive family had always rejected me, & were extremely abusive. My husband at the time, would not accept my calls, or come visit. It was a very terrifying & traumatic experience. After the evaluation period, I was sent to live in a group home. From there things got better. But my kids were alienated from me for some time, & I had no legal recourse at the time.
Wow. You've really written the whole crew off as useless eaters from the very start.
5:58 "what was the point?"
Look at the sadistically satisfied look on Ratshed's face. That was the point, control.
9:40 Now you're starting to get it...
Turkel is Scatman Cruthers. From THE SHINING. Billy is actor Brad Dourif, who has had an illustrious career. Great actor!
35:20 You nailed it. "I'm not gonna leave you here like this (a trophy for Nurse Rached), I'm taking you with me." As you said, in spirit.
In 1962, mental institutions were hidden away, out of the general population's view. Abuses were rampant. Beatings, rape were not uncommon. Patients were kept docile by means of pharmaceuticals, chemically tied to their beds for the ease of the staff. If any acted out, they were given EST, electro shock therapy. This proceedure made them docile, but there were side effects: disorientation, confusion, sometimes the loss of memory of large portions of their lives. Some were unable to recognize members of their own families.
For those who proved more difficult, still, there was lobotomy. Surgically severing the frontal lobe of the brain, turning them into vegetables.
In 1962, Ken Kesey's novel was published, shining a light into these dark places and bringing public awareness to these matters.
This resulted in changes in legislature and in protections being instituted for this population which had no champions.
Just Ken Kesey. And Randall P. McMurphy.
Nellie Bly & David Rosenhan
were fellow challengers
of the "mental health" system.
Psychiatry failed to meet the xhallenge.
And all of that wouldn't have happened without the courage of a 23 year old woman named Nellie Bly (pen name) back in 1887. A fascinating true story and important part of history.
It's tempting to say that the way this hospital is run is a distinctly American way of doing things. Of course all across cultures there's a recurring theme of medical power being abused. This film was released in 1975 as a story taking place in the early 60s ... to pick apart the history behind the story's details would take a more expert hand than mine.
What I will say is that the war between McMurphy and Ratched is more of a spiritual war than it might appear on the surface. The two of them are forces of nature: Ratched's life mission is to bind the world in a sense of order, while McMurphy is an agent of truth sent to elevate souls into recognizing their true selves, however messy that may be. Neither side is good or evil, but the side of order/routine has tipped the scales too far in one direction. Truth/mess/chaos is the only way that balance can be restored. How ironic.
I have yet to see filmmakers and actors from Hollywood top what they did here, and it won't be long before this film is 50 years old.
Mac is a con man who roped mentally ill patients into his silly schemes.
Even if no one is committed, you can't just walked of the premises, because you have to check out, as you checked in. Once checked in that institution is responsible for you, for liability reasons.
It's called the World Series because the event was originally sponsored by the New York World newspaper
Baseball is also played in Canada, Central America, and some of the Caribbean (ironically big in Cuba). But yeah, it's pretty much just a one-continent sport.
And Japan.
And Korea, and Australia. We are up to 4 continents now.
a ton of good players come out of venezuela.
@@joeybee1914 Korea, yes. But literally never heard of Australian baseball. Being played at all is one thing, being significant is another.
@@dudermcdudeface3674 it's getting pretty good tracking in Australia and New Zealand. Paul Goldschmidt grew up there.
I love how you like to pause the movie when talking a lot. So many people miss a ton of the movie.
"Crazies"...oh boy.
Such a beautiful movie and in turn, a beautiful reaction, thank you for doing it.... I cried
wow, me and my father used to watch this a lot! thanks for letting me remember him!
You're most welcome!
Glad you react on that masterpiece and yeah at 25:16 that guy was in the shining movie fact: it’s holds the record for winning all 5 major oscar only 3 movies made that happened till date…… you should react on other gems out there
I dislike the movie intensely and always have because I read the far-superior book first, and the wildness and Chief Bromden's tale is so integral and so wonderful. The movie castrates all of those bizarre and funny times and offers up the venomous, hate-filling Nurse Ratched instead. groan.
Dead Poets Society be like...
i read the book in college -- and enjoyed the movie. I think the movie captures the book better than most ... I've going to need to re-read the book now that you've brought this up. I do recall the part of the book where chief talks about his father being much more poignant than the movie.
it IS Danny Davito
You asked a lot of good questions. I can't possibly start to explain how evil Nurse Ratchet is. I think the fact that the hospital warden wanted to send Mac back to prison, but Nurse Ratchet wasn't satisfied because she hadn't "broken" him yet speaks volumes. I suggest maybe giving this a watch.
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What a great movie 🔥
"Define 'Crazy'" THERE you have it! I'll give you two crazy people: Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. I love the way your attitude about these people changed throughout the movie. Jack doesn't really play crazy in this movie. He acts crazy to stay out of jail, but he is not crazy one bit. He comes to love these people, and does a better job at rehabilitating them than that institution. Plus he has so much heart that he skips on escaping TWO TIMES because what is happening to them is more important.
I'll take your crazy President Biden and give you five failed former president trump's.
I get the feeling that JK Rowling was partially inspired by Nurse Ratched to create Dolores Umbridge.
I can see how this could be "boring" to a kid, but it is a masterpiece! Shocking, terrifying, and hilariously funny all at the same time. Love, there are all sorts of mental problems and all sorts of people. Some might be having serious brain injuries, and yes some might have serious mental problems. Then there are those who refuse to face something that happened to them, or those who just want to face life, or those who hear spirits and are psychic but cannot control their gifts, or those that who are stuck between places in time and space. There are also those whose spirit has left their bodies, and all that is left is the body intelligence. What I mean to say is that there is all kinds of reasons why people end up in mental institutions. Drugs are not always the answer.
hi Kat, if you want Jack Nicholson at his absolute crazy/best you should definitely react to Batman (1989).
You've got to be kidding me. THAT'S the Nicholson movie you recommend, above all others? I'm embarrassed for you.
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Me, too.
@@TTM9691 well I wasn't asking you now did I?
@@laustcawz2089 please stay out of this, I didn't ask for your two cents.
One of my all time favorite movies, Kat
& your first amazing choice in a while!
Unfortunately, situations like this
continue to be all too common
in mental institutions. Lobotomies
still happen, but they're much less obvious.
Today, instead of surgery or ice picks,
which have been used in the past,
various drugs & "medications" are
employed to induce mental/emotional
paralysis/degradation & choice/options are
rarely involved. I suggest reading about
Nellie Bly & also The Rosenhan Experiment.
Danny DeVito & Christopher Lloyd
were not A-listers in 1975. They were
unknowns. So were Vincent Schiavelli & others.
Kirk Douglas had played McMurphy
on stage originally, but it was decided,
when the film was being done, that Douglas
was too old for the part, but this film
was produced by his son, Michael, who's
gone on to have quite a stellar film career.
Don't assume too much
about who's crazy & who isn't, either.
Consider Edwin Drake, a pioneer
in the oil drilling industry. He would
tell people about what he was
trying to achieve & they would respond:
"You mean drill into the ground
to try & find oil?? You're crazy."
Routinely, throughout history,
people have had incredible, imaginative,
seemingly insane ideas, but many of them
moved humanity to a shocking,
startling level of technological progress,
to the point where we take
so much of it for granted.
Who's actually "crazy"
& who's just ahead of their time?
You also might want to
read about synaesthesia.
OK, you rightfully praised the performances of Jack Nicholson and Christopher Lloyd, but Louise Fletcher’s incredible Oscar winning portrayal of Nurse Ratched? Nothing, no praise at all. Unforgivable. You couldn’t even spell her name correctly in the description paragraph.
id rather have a bottle in front of me , than a frontal lobotomy.
As much as she is portrayed in the movie, the older I get the more I agree with Nurse Ratched. Now she doesn't do anything to de-escalate the situation and that's totally her fault, but mental institutions will tell you that routine is key to keeping order. We really need to bring back these mental institutions and start throwing some people in.
Fun Fact: Second of only three movies, the other two being It Happened One Night (1934) and The Silence Of The Lambs (1991), to win every major Academy Award. This would be Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, and Screenplay (Adapted or Original).
Juicy Fruit Fact: Will Sampson (Chief) was a Park Ranger in Oregon near where the movie was filmed. He was selected for the part because he was the only person that the casting department could find who matched the character's incredible size and description from the book.
Maybe you'd like to be thrown in
a psych ward yourself, so you can gain
some solid first hand experience.
I suggest you read about
"The Rosenhan Experiment"
& see if you still feel the same way
about mental institutions.
Anybody who can watch this film and walk away thinking that Nurse Ratshed is a benevolent character, just doesn't get it or the film.
She is a malevolent, tyrannical control freak who shouldn't be put in charge of a bowl of goldfish.
However, as this film attempts to point out, authority over other human beings is often given to those who are soulless and the most undeserving to wield it.
But don't those same mental institutions also tell you that you don't gossip about the patient's personal business to their family?...You know, confidentiality, hippocratic oath etc?
That's what Ratched threatened to do with Billy and felt justified to do so, because she's his mother's "close friend" and she even knew that he has had suicide attempts.
That has nothing to do with routines or being a nurse, that was unprofessionalism and evil. Ratched deserved far more than what she got in the film.
so funny how your initial takes can be so wrong... McMurphy says it himself -- that the patients with him are no crazier than the folks on the streets. there is an expression that says "to a hammer everything looks like a nail." Well, that's Nurse Ratchet. Every person is in need of her help. Remember that all these folks committed themselves. therein lies a self awareness that indicates they are not crazy. i need of help? yes. But institutionalized to feed Nurse Ratchet's insatiable hunger for power? no.
turns out that the most psycho person on the ward is Nurse Ratchet.
Hi Kat you think this is scary go to The Movie the shining That movie is more scary.
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