One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
(Blu-ray Book) starring Jack
Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will
Sampson, Danny DeVito, Christopher
Lloyd
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Sweeper Of Awards
One of the key movies of the 1970s, when exciting, groundbreaking,
personal films were still being made in Hollywood, Milos Formans One
Flew over the Cuckoos Nest emphasized the humanistic story at the heart
of Ken Keseys more hallucinogenic novel. Jack Nicholson was born to
play the part of Randle Patrick McMurphy, the rebellious inmate of a
psychiatric hospital who fights back against the authorities cold attitudes of
institutional superiority, as personified by Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher).
Its the classic antiestablishment tale of one man asserting his individuality
in the face of a repressive, conformist system--and it works on every level.
Forman populates his film with memorably eccentric faces, and gets such
freshly detailed and spontaneous work from his ensemble that the picture
sometimes feels like a documentary. Unlike a lot of films pitched at the
youth culture of the 1970s, One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest really hasnt
dated a bit, because the qualities of human nature that Forman captures--
playfulness, courage, inspiration, pride, stubbornness--are universal and
timeless. The film swept the Academy Awards for 1976, winning in all the
major categories (picture, director, actor, actress, screenplay) for the first
time since Frank Capras It Happened One Night in 1931. --Jim Emerson
Features:
* A nice rest in a state mental hospital beats a stretch in the pen, right?
Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a free-spirited con with lightning in
his veins and glib on his tongue, fakes insanity and moves in with what he
calls the "nuts." Immediately, his contagious sense of disorder runs up
against numbing routine. No way should guys pickled on sedatives shuffle
around in bathrobes when the Wo
Relesed in 1975, One flew over the Cuckoos Nest won all five major
Academy Awards:best picture, best actor in lead role, best actress in lead
role, best director, and best screenplay.
An adaption of a 1962 novel by Ken Kesey, and filmed in the setting of the
novel: Oregon State Hospital, this movie is not a love story or a romantic
plot. Rather, this is a story of mans struggle in every society where
dictatorship aborts dreams and dignities.
A recidivist criminal, McMurphy, is transferred to a mental insitution instead
of prison.As his trick to spend an easier sentence, McMurphy(played by
Jack Nicholson) thought he can leave any time he wishes since hes
perfectly sane. The cast of the mental patients was perfectly picked to
show a submissive group of people that most of them chose this life and
chose being in this asylum.
I once read about a scientific experiment were researchers divided a large
fish tank in half by putting a glass wall in the middle. A barracuda was put
on one side of the tank and a mackerel on the other. The hungry
barracuda tried to get the mackerel but smacked into the glass barrier.
Again and again, the barracuda smacked the glass in its attempt to reach
its dinner. Finally, realizing how futile its attempts were, the barracuda
gave up. Researchers then removed the wall to see what would happen.
Surprisingly, the barracuda made no new attempts to reach the mackerel.
It eventually starved to death even though food was within easy reach..
The technical term for what happened is learned helplessness. The
barracuda had learned to be helpless from its many failed attempts to
reach the other fish. When the barrier was removed, the barracuda
continued to operate as if the glass wall was still there.
This Learned helplessness is the best term to describe the patients of the
asylem depicted in the movie. A group of people that couldnt change any
thing in their devestating lives and chose to be in a place were things were
pre-chosen for them any way. McMurphy , the charismatic rebel by nature,
tried to stand up to the main authority represented by a tyrant called Nurse
Ratched played outstandingly by Louise Fletcher. The confrontations
between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched started to by funny and silly but
developed to be tragically fatal as McMurphy finds out that Ratched dont
only have the authority to control the patients physically and mentally, but
also the authority to keep him in the insititution for ever and even
permanantly disable him.
The great acting will keep your heart ingaged while the story of a dream,
friendship and the sense of belonging is being born among the guys. High
prices are paid to reach a dream, but the dream will live while telling the
story of:
Wire, briar, limber-lock
Three geese in a flock
One flew east, one flew west
And one flew over the Cuckoos nest.
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