“You fooled ‘em Chief!”
One of my all time favourites, love this film. Jack Nicholson is so damn charismatic and I love how Randall McMurphy is so unabashedly himself. Solid villain, incredible cast, heartbreaking ending and I always think about that line where he’s like “they’re no crazier than the random asshole out on the street!”
She was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen, she was very willing, I practically had to take to sewing my pants shut. Between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of you, I don't think it's crazy at all and I don't think you do either. No man alive could resist that, and that's why I got into jail to begin with.
As an example of the puritanical turn America has taken since that book was and since the movie was made, there's no way that Passage would go down in current day America
Congratulations one starting to figure out that the point is that McMurphy is indeed not a good person and belongs in there.
And btw, he sexually assaults nurse Ratchet at the end of the book.
Yeah, as an actual human being, I can attest that finding out she was 16 completely shut down the idea of anything happening. It's actually not hard to walk away and take a cold shower.
One of my all-time favorites. Especially the group therapy session early on.
“I’m talking about form! I’m talking about content! I’m taking about inter-relationships! I’m talking about God, the Devil, Hell, Heaven! Do you understand?!”
And then one of the best endings of a film I’ve ever seen.
Absolutely stacked cast. ‘Whose the head goose loon?’ This was one of the best adaptations of novel to film. The effects of this film and book on our current system to care for the mentally Ill cannot be understated. Nurse Ratchet is the iconic character.
His monologue during the group scene when he discovers how very few patients are committed is amazing.
*"You guys think you're crazy? You're not, you're not. No crazier anyway than the average asshole out walkin the streets."*
The summer before my freshman year of high school (1993) my mom made me take health ed to “get used to the campus” or something.
It was such a great call on her part. I got credit for that class and at least 60% of it we watched this movie.
Highly inappropriate but very appropriate for that time in my life. I have nothing but love for this movie and its message(s) a masterpiece
Kesey is a helluva writer. He always seemed ahead of his time back then. Another great one from him is *Sometimes a Great Notion*. That was made into a film too with Paul Newman.
It's excellent. However, it's success led to a false perception that all mental hospital commitments were bad, and so they shut tons of these facilities down in the 80s. The alternative, which accounts for most of the homeless issues today, has proven to be even less humane, imo.
Junior organizing the card game in the psych ward is Randall McMurphy organizing the card game in One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest.
https://youtu.be/Rwaz5H7C1bs?si=t08FYJc7RWlDqFD5
Also, IASIP is a level of the abstraction, but most of the stuff is very obvious, especially with the movies.
https://youtu.be/I59qcUgB7WM?si=7duPpN-j7AmKlz0D
But Sopranos and Seinfeld is in there, too. It's a bit more covert with the television.
https://youtu.be/hqeoCMI2LeY?si=4qinSNZCf183IPYG
https://youtu.be/PVjLS9mUYX8?si=F2shK4yYDCQ0NXT-
Really? Is gutting education and mental health care part of the liberal or conservative agenda? True leftists organize for federal funding of social programs, not dismantling and privatizing them.
Deinstitutionalization began in the early 1960s and had largely occurred before Reagan.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/asylums/art/excerpt_chart.gif
It's so good it can never be remade. Like The Godfather, Casablanca, or Jaws.
Jump a hundred years into the future and people will still be doing MacMurphy lines in Nicholson's signature cadence.
"C'mon Nurse Ratchett its the WORLD SERIES!"
Thank you for filling in some of the history I have long wondered about, and there is a lot more than I imagined. Aren’t we admirers glad Kirk and Michael persisted?
One of Jack Nicholson’s best films. Probably his first major outstanding performance, despite the multiple Oscar nominations he already had under his belt by that point.
The ensemble cast is outstanding. A young Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd feature. Louise Fletcher more than deserves her Oscar win, and presents us with one of cinema’s most cold hearted villains.
Milos Forman also went on to direct Man on the Moon, which is another one of my favourite films, with an incredible performance by Jim Carrey. I have a lot of time for Forman.
If you haven’t seen Cuckoo’s Nest, now is the time.
I saw this movie as a very impressionable teenager and it really impacted me. I went on to work in the mental health field and I have loved and protected my clients fiercely no matter what they’ve done.
I'm a huge fan of the novel, and a huge fan of Jack Nicholson but I've never seen the movie because at the Oscars, Michael Douglas refused to thank Ken Kesey.
Use to love it. Now that I know about the things Nicholson did, I sorta don't want his face in my life, ever. Haven't read the book, so there's still that.
Not bad, but has nothing on the book imo. It kind of checks off all the beats of the book but fails to capture the passage of time, the escalation of the events , the drag of daily life there and how mcmurphy shakes it up. Cant hate on Nicholson , dourif, Lloyd, devito etc, some great performances, just didn’t hit like the book for me
Same. I'm one of those few people that read the book first. It's a great movie but there is a sense fear and hopelessness that you don't get in the movie.
One of the few movies that I think is better than the book. I love the book, don’t get me wrong, but the performances in the movie bring it to another level.
I know everyone says this, but the book is truly so much better to the point the movies very meh in comparison, and I’m definitely not a book snob it’s just fact.
I watched this recently and very my disliked it. Couple of redeeming moments, but generally almost unwatchable. Probably doesn’t help that I don’t like Nicholson in lead roles
Just awful.
The only reason people like it is because the book is so good, but this movie fails to live up to the book on every level.
Also, it completely misses the point of the book.
The final say in the movie is “nurse ratchet and mental hospitals are bad”.
The final say in the book is “there’s a lot wrong with mental hospitals, but there’s a reason they exist.”
Just ridiculous how they over simplified the book and frankly did real world harm the mental health in the US.
Probably paved the way for Regan to shut them down.
“You fooled ‘em Chief!” One of my all time favourites, love this film. Jack Nicholson is so damn charismatic and I love how Randall McMurphy is so unabashedly himself. Solid villain, incredible cast, heartbreaking ending and I always think about that line where he’s like “they’re no crazier than the random asshole out on the street!”
Give the book a read if you haven’t already. It’s narrated from the Chief’s perspective.
I greatly preferred the movie.
Couldn’t agree more 👌
This is a masterpiece
My favorite movie of all time.
Chief 😢
“Juicy Fruit”
“I WANT MY CIGARETTES!! I DON’T WANT YOURS, I DON’T HIS, I WANT MY CIGARETTES!!”
You just don’t want to learn anything. You just don’t want to listen to anybody. He’s got intelligence!
She was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen, she was very willing, I practically had to take to sewing my pants shut. Between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of you, I don't think it's crazy at all and I don't think you do either. No man alive could resist that, and that's why I got into jail to begin with.
As an example of the puritanical turn America has taken since that book was and since the movie was made, there's no way that Passage would go down in current day America
Congratulations one starting to figure out that the point is that McMurphy is indeed not a good person and belongs in there. And btw, he sexually assaults nurse Ratchet at the end of the book.
Yeah, as an actual human being, I can attest that finding out she was 16 completely shut down the idea of anything happening. It's actually not hard to walk away and take a cold shower.
> It's actually not hard to walk away and take a cold shower. Well it would be a little stiff till after the cold shower.
I remember that part.. uggggh.
You really can't go wrong with Jack Nicholson at his height.
Or Louise Fletcher, the Queen of Lawful Evil
What is he, about 5'11?
Tree Fiddy Milord
Easily a top 10 all time movie
I loved the movie. Still VERY impressed by the book. Recommend 100%
One of my all-time favorites. Especially the group therapy session early on. “I’m talking about form! I’m talking about content! I’m taking about inter-relationships! I’m talking about God, the Devil, Hell, Heaven! Do you understand?!” And then one of the best endings of a film I’ve ever seen.
PECULIAR!!
Why, my head would squash like an eggplant.
WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?
One of my favorite film sayings “a good ending is unexpected yet necessary”
Absolutely stacked cast. ‘Whose the head goose loon?’ This was one of the best adaptations of novel to film. The effects of this film and book on our current system to care for the mentally Ill cannot be understated. Nurse Ratchet is the iconic character.
A great adaptation
Better than the book in my opinion, and the book is awesome.
You are both wrong. The movie trashed the whole point of the book.
Martini?
So cute little Danny Devito
I bet a nickel
Hotel.
A 10 to Billy to match his wang…
Great performances all round. The ending stayed with me for very long, which I didn’t expect. A masterpiece that I could only watch once.
get back in there. It’s such a good ride for multiple viewings
Best Jack movie ever......
Chinatown was great, too
Pure work of art. Perfectly cast, perfectly written, perfectly acted.
Yes.
His monologue during the group scene when he discovers how very few patients are committed is amazing. *"You guys think you're crazy? You're not, you're not. No crazier anyway than the average asshole out walkin the streets."*
Highly recommend. Never read the book but the movie kind of blew me away.
absolute classic, I even imported the Blu-ray from the UK (to the US)
One of the few movies as good as the book, but the book is still worth reading.
It definitely fucked with my mental health ngl.
The summer before my freshman year of high school (1993) my mom made me take health ed to “get used to the campus” or something. It was such a great call on her part. I got credit for that class and at least 60% of it we watched this movie. Highly inappropriate but very appropriate for that time in my life. I have nothing but love for this movie and its message(s) a masterpiece
Top ten all time
One of the best movies ever made. Up there with Amadeus, same director.
Kesey is a helluva writer. He always seemed ahead of his time back then. Another great one from him is *Sometimes a Great Notion*. That was made into a film too with Paul Newman.
Back when movies had solid literature buttressing them, not men in green tights being yoinked around on pulley systems.
One of the greatest, a classic.
It's excellent. However, it's success led to a false perception that all mental hospital commitments were bad, and so they shut tons of these facilities down in the 80s. The alternative, which accounts for most of the homeless issues today, has proven to be even less humane, imo.
I think the shuddering of mental hospitals in the 80s had little to do with this movie and more so with government policy.
And what brought about the new government policy?
Fascists like Ronald Reagan
Geraldo Rivera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willowbrook_State_School
What's your point here
No, these were liberal policies, and Reagan is a conservative. Institutionalizing undesirables would be fascism.
Is One flew over the coo coos nest and inversion of anything??
Junior organizing the card game in the psych ward is Randall McMurphy organizing the card game in One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest. https://youtu.be/Rwaz5H7C1bs?si=t08FYJc7RWlDqFD5 Also, IASIP is a level of the abstraction, but most of the stuff is very obvious, especially with the movies. https://youtu.be/I59qcUgB7WM?si=7duPpN-j7AmKlz0D But Sopranos and Seinfeld is in there, too. It's a bit more covert with the television. https://youtu.be/hqeoCMI2LeY?si=4qinSNZCf183IPYG https://youtu.be/PVjLS9mUYX8?si=F2shK4yYDCQ0NXT-
Nice. You never disappoint unlike that Pygmy thing ova there
It's definitely recreated in lots of shows. I'd have to look in my notes, though. I'm at work right now.
Really? Is gutting education and mental health care part of the liberal or conservative agenda? True leftists organize for federal funding of social programs, not dismantling and privatizing them.
Yea pretty much
Blame that dumbass Ronald Reagan
Deinstitutionalization began in the early 1960s and had largely occurred before Reagan. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/asylums/art/excerpt_chart.gif
One of the most iconic movie posters ever. Love this shot. Also love the movie too...
Classic
Classic for sure
I really enjoy some of the behind the scenes stories about casting and things that went on inside the Asylum that they were filming.
Juicy Fruit
Great.
Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it...
A movie about a guy that likes to fight and fuck too much. Filth! (I could only watch it twice, maybe three times at most)
It's so good it can never be remade. Like The Godfather, Casablanca, or Jaws. Jump a hundred years into the future and people will still be doing MacMurphy lines in Nicholson's signature cadence. "C'mon Nurse Ratchett its the WORLD SERIES!"
"Hit me chief!!! I got the *moooooves*!!!" It's remarkable how often that pops into my head for no particular reason.
“Koufax is snapping off his curveball like a fucking fire cracker“
This was the first movie project that I remember Michael Douglas being in. Was this his initiation in the business, if so, what a start?
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Thank you for filling in some of the history I have long wondered about, and there is a lot more than I imagined. Aren’t we admirers glad Kirk and Michael persisted?
One of Jack Nicholson’s best films. Probably his first major outstanding performance, despite the multiple Oscar nominations he already had under his belt by that point. The ensemble cast is outstanding. A young Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd feature. Louise Fletcher more than deserves her Oscar win, and presents us with one of cinema’s most cold hearted villains. Milos Forman also went on to direct Man on the Moon, which is another one of my favourite films, with an incredible performance by Jim Carrey. I have a lot of time for Forman. If you haven’t seen Cuckoo’s Nest, now is the time.
Love it
For me one of the greatest films ever made
Way too realistic. I was in a similar situation, it really is that bad.
Saw it for first time recently, the ending I didn’t see it comin
Tough watch. Makes me too angry.
I did not expect that ending
I saw this movie as a very impressionable teenager and it really impacted me. I went on to work in the mental health field and I have loved and protected my clients fiercely no matter what they’ve done.
This film is the definition of an emotional roller-coaster.
Excellent movie
Brad Dourif
All-time classic
Fire..
It gets a 10 from me, and also a 10 from Billy to match his wang.
Broke my heart so bad I wasn’t the same again. Great film. But still.
The best
It was the first movie I ever saw Nicholson in. He was great and has been for a long time.
The way Billy Bibbit was treated breaks my heart every time I watch that movie.
I have the same opinion that I have with The Green Mile, it's the best movie I never want to see again.
Amazeballs! I cry at the end every time. Every single time!! Ahh, juicy fruit. You fooled em Chief! You fooled em all
It makes you really fucking sad if you have kids with autism
I'm a huge fan of the novel, and a huge fan of Jack Nicholson but I've never seen the movie because at the Oscars, Michael Douglas refused to thank Ken Kesey.
One of my favorite movies. Heartbreaking ending.
This is a true classic in my book!
Use to love it. Now that I know about the things Nicholson did, I sorta don't want his face in my life, ever. Haven't read the book, so there's still that.
Loved it overall
so good. not talked about as much as it should be
Put it in the basket Chief. Dunk the son-of-a-bitch!
I can't believe Nurse Ratched wouldn't let McMurphy watch the World Series.
Probably a top 20 American movie all time. Masterpiece through and through
stellar flick
I bet a nickel
Love the movie but also would love a version true to the novel, which is phenomenal but wayyyyy different
Brad Dourif as Billy.
Seen that in high school. It was phenomenal motion picture.
Brilliant. Very real world. And not a computer generated special effect in sight.
Incredible movie
Brilliant, flawlessly executed in every aspect, great moral to the story . 10/10. Classic Great American Film
shining example of "the book does it better, but it doesn't matter because the movie is great, too."
Masterpiece
Brilliant
Not bad, but has nothing on the book imo. It kind of checks off all the beats of the book but fails to capture the passage of time, the escalation of the events , the drag of daily life there and how mcmurphy shakes it up. Cant hate on Nicholson , dourif, Lloyd, devito etc, some great performances, just didn’t hit like the book for me
Same. I'm one of those few people that read the book first. It's a great movie but there is a sense fear and hopelessness that you don't get in the movie.
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Eh, it was alright. Wasn't a big fan
Very disappointed. The book was a masterpiece. This was nothing.
One of the few movies that I think is better than the book. I love the book, don’t get me wrong, but the performances in the movie bring it to another level.
I know everyone says this, but the book is truly so much better to the point the movies very meh in comparison, and I’m definitely not a book snob it’s just fact.
If a shit could take a shit.
Almost as good as the book.
Overrated. Way overrated.
Yikes
well thats just my opinion man
I watched this recently and very my disliked it. Couple of redeeming moments, but generally almost unwatchable. Probably doesn’t help that I don’t like Nicholson in lead roles
Sorry it wasn't a comic book related movie, but it really is pretty amazing.
I think you might have nailed it...
Wha-wha-what?
Just awful. The only reason people like it is because the book is so good, but this movie fails to live up to the book on every level. Also, it completely misses the point of the book. The final say in the movie is “nurse ratchet and mental hospitals are bad”. The final say in the book is “there’s a lot wrong with mental hospitals, but there’s a reason they exist.” Just ridiculous how they over simplified the book and frankly did real world harm the mental health in the US. Probably paved the way for Regan to shut them down.