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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Relatively speaking, the Nurse Ratched presented in the film is a lot less sociopathic than the one in the book. While she retains the domineering and tyrannical behavior, she seems a lot less violent than her book self. Book!Nurse Ratched is introduced as already having lobotomized and submitted to brutal shock therapy several patients before the story even begins, and has cowed every one of her co-workers into submission. In the film no such facts are alluded to.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Relatively speaking, the Nurse Ratched presented in the film is a lot less sociopathic than the one in the book. While she retains the domineering and tyrannical behavior, she seems a lot less violent than her book self. Book!Nurse Ratched is introduced as already having lobotomized and submitted to brutal shock therapy several patients before the story even begins, and has cowed every one of her co-workers into submission. In the film film, no such facts are alluded to.
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* DemotedToExtra: Doctor Spivey has a lot fewer scenes in the adaptation, and his whole character arc is removed wholesale. [[spoiler:In the novel he spearheads the reformation of the hospital after Ratched is gone]].
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* DemotedToExtra: Doctor Spivey has a lot fewer scenes in the adaptation, and his whole character arc is removed wholesale. [[spoiler:In the novel novel, he spearheads the reformation of the hospital after Ratched is gone]].gone.]]
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* GoAmongMadPeople: [=McMurphy=] feigned insanity and got himself sent to the asylum thinking it would be an easy way out from his prison sentence. He was dead wrong.
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* GoAmongMadPeople: [=McMurphy=] feigned insanity and got himself sent to the asylum asylum, thinking it would be an easy way out from his prison sentence. He was dead wrong.
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* InsanityDefense: [=McMurphy=] ''claims'' he's insane to get transferred to the institution to serve out the rest of his sentence in cushy surroundings, and is more than a little alarmed when he realizes that 'the rest of his sentence' is no longer the few months he thought it was, but when the doctors decide that he's no longer a threat to himself or others -- which, considering he's pissed off the evil Nurse Ratched, could mean an indefinite stay.
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* InsanityDefense: [=McMurphy=] ''claims'' he's insane to get transferred to the institution to serve out the rest of his sentence in cushy surroundings, and is more than a little alarmed when he realizes that 'the rest of his sentence' is no longer the few months he thought it was, but when the doctors decide that he's no longer a threat to himself or others -- — which, considering he's pissed off the evil Nurse Ratched, could mean an indefinite stay.
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* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: [=McMurphy=] got into this whole jail to mental hospital [[spoiler:to lobotomy and ultimately to death]] situation because he committed statutory rape on a fifteen-year-old girl. At the time of the film's release (1975) [[JailBait statutory rape of the kind involving an adult and a teenager]] [[ValuesDissonance was considered to be less of an issue than it is considered to be today.]]
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* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: [=McMurphy=] got into this whole jail to mental hospital [[spoiler:to lobotomy and ultimately to death]] situation because he committed statutory rape on a fifteen-year-old girl. At the time of the film's release (1975) (1975), [[JailBait statutory rape of the kind involving an adult and a teenager]] [[ValuesDissonance was considered to be less of an issue than it is considered to be today.]]
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* {{Lobotomy}}: After [=McMurphy=] attacks Ratched, [[spoiler:he is lobotomized and left in a vegetative state. Bromden {{mercy kill}}s him.]]
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* {{Lobotomy}}: After [=McMurphy=] attacks Ratched, [[spoiler:he is lobotomized and left in a vegetative state. Bromden {{mercy kill}}s him.]]him]].
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* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler:Chief Bromden IS insane, but he's not a deaf mute.]]
* ObfuscatingInsanity: Adopted by [=McMurphy=] to get transferred to the hospital from the work farm he was originally sentenced to. It soon enough becomes clear that he's actually put himself in a worse spot.
* ObfuscatingInsanity: Adopted by [=McMurphy=] to get transferred to the hospital from the work farm he was originally sentenced to. It soon enough becomes clear that he's actually put himself in a worse spot.
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* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler:Chief Bromden IS ''is'' insane, but he's not a deaf mute.]]
* ObfuscatingInsanity: Adopted by [=McMurphy=] to get transferred to the hospital from the work farm he was originally sentenced to. It soon enough becomes clear that [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he's actually put himself in a worsespot.spot]].
* ObfuscatingInsanity: Adopted by [=McMurphy=] to get transferred to the hospital from the work farm he was originally sentenced to. It soon enough becomes clear that [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he's actually put himself in a worse
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* TheQuietOne: Bromden. [[spoiler:Until later]].
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* {{Sadist}}: Nurse Ratched is a coldly vindictive ControlFreak who uses her position to bully, intimidate, torture and lobotomize the patients in her care. She accepts no challenge to her authority. [[spoiler:She is perfectly capable of intentionally driving her patients to suicide out of petty revenge.]]
* SexAsRiteOfPassage: Although he has to be persuaded by others into doing it, [[spoiler:having sex is what gives Billy Bibbit the confidence to stand up to Nurse Ratched, and gets rid of his stutter into the bargain.]]
* SexAsRiteOfPassage: Although he has to be persuaded by others into doing it, [[spoiler:having sex is what gives Billy Bibbit the confidence to stand up to Nurse Ratched, and gets rid of his stutter into the bargain.]]
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* {{Sadist}}: Nurse Ratched is a coldly vindictive ControlFreak who uses her position to bully, intimidate, torture torture, and lobotomize the patients in her care. She accepts no challenge to her authority. [[spoiler:She is perfectly capable of intentionally driving her patients to suicide out of petty revenge.]]
* SexAsRiteOfPassage: Although he has to be persuaded by others into doing it, [[spoiler:having sex is what gives Billy Bibbit the confidence to stand up to Nurse Ratched, and gets rid of his stutter into thebargain.]]bargain]].
* SexAsRiteOfPassage: Although he has to be persuaded by others into doing it, [[spoiler:having sex is what gives Billy Bibbit the confidence to stand up to Nurse Ratched, and gets rid of his stutter into the
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It is one of only three films to sweep the "Big Five" major [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Academy Awards]]--Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay. (The others are ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'' and ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs'').
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It is one of only three films to sweep the "Big Five" major [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Academy Awards]]--Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay. (The others are ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'' and ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs'').
''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs''). Like the latter of these, it now has a TV series prequel: ''{{Series/Ratched}}''.
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* AbusiveParents: Strongly implied after Billy's SexIsLiberation scene: he actually loses his [[SpeechImpediment stutter]] until Nurse Ratched mentions his [[FreudianExcuse mother]], then it comes back with a vengeance.
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* BuryYourDisabled: Near the end of the film, a victim of a lobotomy is {{Mercy Kill}}ed by his friend.
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* BuryYourDisabled: Near At the end of the film, a victim of a lobotomy lobotomized [[spoiler:[=McMurphy=]]] is {{Mercy Kill}}ed by his friend.
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** In the book, Nurse Ratched is frequently mentioned to be overweight (the cause of her large ladybags). Louise Fletcher... isn't. She is also described, in the book, as a handsome woman who was probably quite beautiful when she was in her prime.
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** In the book, Nurse Ratched is frequently mentioned to be overweight (the cause of her large ladybags). Louise Fletcher... Fletcher… isn't. She is also described, in the book, as a handsome woman who was probably quite beautiful when she was in her prime. A quick Google search will provide attractive photos of Fletcher (as Ratched) smiling.
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* MissingTheGoodStuff: [=McMurphy=] is very unhappy about being prevented by Nurse Ratched from watching the World Series on television. Subverted when he entertains himself and the other inmates by "announcing" an imaginary game while staring at the darkened TV screen.
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''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' is a 1975 movie co-produced by Creator/MichaelDouglas, directed by Creator/MilosForman, and starring Creator/JackNicholson and Louise Fletcher. It is loosely based on [[Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest the 1962 novel]] by Creator/KenKesey.
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''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' is a 1975 movie co-produced by Creator/MichaelDouglas, directed by Creator/MilosForman, and starring Creator/JackNicholson and Louise Fletcher.Creator/LouiseFletcher. It is loosely based on [[Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest the 1962 novel]] by Creator/KenKesey.
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* NamedByTheAdaptation: In the novel, Nurse Ratched's first name is never revealed. In the film, when the hospital committee meets to discuss [=McMurphy=]'s behavior, Dr. Spivey calls her "Mildred". Also, when [=McMurphy=] returns from electroconvulsive therapy and sits down at the group therapy session, he calls her "Mildred".
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* OneBookAuthor: Nurse Pilbow is played by Mimi Sarkisian. This is her only movie, but she was also in the play.
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Inaccurate. Harding has a lot of lines.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: In the novel, Harding was as heavily implied to be gay as was possible in 1960s literature, depicted as effeminate and forced into the asylum for unnamed sexual acts, and getting a long speech about the ridiculousness of the society that condemned him. In the movie, he's reduced to a background character who gets at most three lines, which might not count as this trope if not for the fact that his appearance is totally different -- and far more masculine -- as well. Book readers usually don't even recognise him until the nurse uses his name.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: In the novel, Harding was as heavily implied to be gay as was possible in 1960s literature, depicted as effeminate and forced into the asylum for unnamed sexual acts, and getting a long speech about the ridiculousness of the society that condemned him. In the movie, the other inmates tease him by implying that he is homosexual, but he's reduced far from effeminate and is said to have a background character who gets at most three lines, which might not count as this trope if not for wife. If he is meant to be gay in the fact that his appearance is totally different -- and far more masculine -- as well. Book readers usually don't even recognise him until film, he's likely deep in the nurse uses his name.closet.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Nurse Ratched is a calm, polite talking girl, who has a lot of love and respect from her henchmen, authority, and co-workers. But the hero Randle [=McMurphy=] and other patients know and see her as truly a cold, really evil, and sadistic bitch, who likes to manipulate and loves to control her patients and gives them lobotomies and electric shock torture if anyone opposes her.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Nurse Ratched is a calm, polite talking girl, who has a lot of love and respect from her henchmen, authority, and co-workers. But the hero Randle [=McMurphy=] and other patients know and see her as truly a cold, really evil, and sadistic bitch, who likes to manipulate and loves to control her patients and gives them lobotomies and electric shock torture if anyone opposes her. According to the DVD extras, at one point it got so bad that Louise Fletcher ''herself'' stripped to her underwear on set to "prove she wasn't a monster".
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* HateSink: Nurse Ratched. According to the DVD extras, at one point it got so bad that Louise Fletcher ''herself'' stripped to her underwear on set to "prove she wasn't a monster".
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* HospitalHottie: Nurse Pilbow.
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* HospitalHottie: Nurse Pilbow.Pilbow and Nurse Ratched.
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* {{Sadist}}: Nurse Ratched is a coldly vindictive and utterly hateful ControlFreak who uses her position to bully, intimidate, torture and lobotomize the patients in her care. She accepts no challenge to her authority. [[spoiler:She is perfectly capable of intentionally driving her patients to suicide out of petty revenge.]]
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* {{Sadist}}: Nurse Ratched is a coldly vindictive and utterly hateful ControlFreak who uses her position to bully, intimidate, torture and lobotomize the patients in her care. She accepts no challenge to her authority. [[spoiler:She is perfectly capable of intentionally driving her patients to suicide out of petty revenge.]]
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It is one of a small number of films to sweep the "Big Five" major [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Academy Awards]]--Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay.
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It is one of a small number of only three films to sweep the "Big Five" major [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Academy Awards]]--Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay.
Screenplay. (The others are ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'' and ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs'').
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* {{Sadist}}: Nurse Ratched is a coldly vindictive and utterly hateful ControlFreak who uses her position to bully, intimidate, torture and lobotomise lobotomize the patients in her care. She accepts no challenge to her authority. [[spoiler:She is perfectly capable of intentionally driving her patients to suicide out of petty revenge.]]
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''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' is a 1975 movie co-produced by Creator/MichaelDouglas, directed by Creator/MilosForman, and starring Creator/JackNicholson as [=McMurphy=] and Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched. It is loosely based on [[Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest the 1962 novel]] by Creator/KenKesey.
It takes place in an insane asylum run by Nurse Ratched, who rules over the patients with an iron fist. She has so much power over them that no one dares to stand up to her, until one day when Randle Patrick [=McMurphy=] swaggers into the ward, and things are never the same again.
It takes place in an insane asylum run by Nurse Ratched, who rules over the patients with an iron fist. She has so much power over them that no one dares to stand up to her, until one day when Randle Patrick [=McMurphy=] swaggers into the ward, and things are never the same again.
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''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' is a 1975 movie co-produced by Creator/MichaelDouglas, directed by Creator/MilosForman, and starring Creator/JackNicholson as [=McMurphy=] and Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched.Fletcher. It is loosely based on [[Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest the 1962 novel]] by Creator/KenKesey.
It takes place in an insane asylum run by NurseRatched, Ratched (Fletcher), who rules over the patients with an iron fist. She has so much power over them that no one dares to stand up to her, until one day when Randle Patrick [=McMurphy=] (Nicholson) swaggers into the ward, and things are never the same again.
It takes place in an insane asylum run by Nurse
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->''"Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn\\
Apple seed and apple thorn\\
Wire, briar, limber lock\\
Three geese in a flock\\
One flew East\\
One flew West\\
And one flew over the cuckoo's nest."''
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Apple seed and apple thorn\\
Wire, briar, limber lock\\
Three geese in a flock\\
One flew East\\
One flew West\\
And one flew over the cuckoo's nest."''
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One flew West\\
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Nurse Ratched is a calm, polite talking girl, who has a lot of love and respect from her henchmen, authority, and co-workers. But the hero Randle Mc Murphy and other patients know and see her as truly a cold, really evil, and sadistic bitch, who likes to manipulate and loves to control her patients and gives them lobotomies and electric shock torture if anyone opposes her.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Nurse Ratched is a calm, polite talking girl, who has a lot of love and respect from her henchmen, authority, and co-workers. But the hero Randle Mc Murphy [=McMurphy=] and other patients know and see her as truly a cold, really evil, and sadistic bitch, who likes to manipulate and loves to control her patients and gives them lobotomies and electric shock torture if anyone opposes her.
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* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched.
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* Big Bad: Nurse Ratched.
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* Big Bad: BigBad: Nurse Ratched.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Nurse Ratched is a calm, polite talking girl, who has a lot of love and respect from her henchmen, authority, and co-workers. But the hero Randle McMurphy Mc Murphy and other patients know and see her as truly a cold, really evil, and sadistic bitch, who likes to manipulate and loves to control her patients and gives them lobotomies and electric shock torture if anyone opposes her.
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* MeanCharacter,NiceActor: Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched.
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the sentence is more future-proof if you don't mention the total number: then nobody has to remember to come back and fix it if the number increases
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To date, it is the second of only three films to sweep the "Big Five" major [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Academy Awards]]--Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay. (The first was ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight''; the third was ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs''.)
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It became only the second movie (after ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'') to sweep the major [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Academy Awards]]--Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay.
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* ElectricTorture: Nurse Ratched uses electroshock therapy this way, giving it to patients who don't actually need it, and without anesthesia.
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** Despite an impressive amount of screentime, Nurse Pilbow utters maybe just a couple of syllables throughout the entire movie and her entire purpose is to perform Nurse Ratched's orders. Also, the camera tends to zoom onto her face whenever the patients start displaying extraordinary behavior.
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** Despite an impressive amount of screentime, Nurse Pilbow utters maybe just a couple of syllables throughout the entire movie and her entire purpose is to perform Nurse Ratched's orders. Also, the camera tends to zoom onto her face for a ReactionShot whenever the patients start displaying extraordinary behavior.
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* BigBraToFill: In the novel, Nurse Ratched has large breasts. The filmmakers prioritized accuracy of personality over accuracy of physical appearance.
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* BigBraToFill: In the novel, The novel makes several references to Nurse Ratched has large breasts.Ratched's "oversized badges of femininity", and [=McMurphy=] kids her about them multiple times. The filmmakers prioritized accuracy of personality over accuracy of physical appearance.
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* BigBraToFill: In the novel, Nurse Ratched has large breasts. The filmmakers prioritized accuracy of personality over accuracy of physical appearance.
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* SexAsRiteOfPassage: Although he has to be persuaded by others into doing it, [[spoiler:having sex is what gives Billy Bibbit the confidence to stand up to Nurse Ratched, and gets rid of his stutter into the bargain.]]
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* AdaptationalSexuality: In the novel, Harding was as heavily implied to be gay as was possible in 1960s literature, depicted as effeminate and forced into the asylum for unnamed sexual acts, and getting a long speech about the ridiculousness of the society that condemned him. In the movie, he's reduced to a background character who gets at most three lines, which might not count as this trope if not for the fact that his appearance is totally different -- and far more masculine -- as well. Book readers usually don't even recognise him until the nurse uses his name.
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* InsanityDefense: [=McMurphy=] ''claims'' he's insane to get transferred to the institution to serve out the rest of his sentence in cushy surroundings, and is more than a little alarmed when he realizes that 'the rest of his sentence' is no longer the few months he thought it was, but when the doctors decide that he's no longer a threat to himself or others -- which, considering he's pissed off the evil Nurse Ratched, could mean an indefinite stay.
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* SexIsLiberation: Billy.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: It is not explicitly stated what mental conditions any of the inmates have.
* AntiHero: [=McMurphy=] is a sleazy, violent, and sometimes downright insane convict. He's still not as bad as Nurse Ratched.
* AntiHero: [=McMurphy=] is a sleazy, violent, and sometimes downright insane convict. He's still not as bad as Nurse Ratched.
* BedlamHouse
* BlitheSpirit: [=McMurphy=] challenges Nurse Ratched's unfair rule over the hospital and its sheepish patients, teaching them how to take back their individuality and bend or break the often arbitrary rules they live under. [[spoiler:Other than the Chief, it's debatable how much good this does them in the end, though.]]
* BlitheSpirit: [=McMurphy=] challenges Nurse Ratched's unfair rule over the hospital and its sheepish patients, teaching them how to take back their individuality and bend or break the often arbitrary rules they live under. [[spoiler:Other than the Chief, it's debatable how much good this does them in the end, though.]]
* BuryYourDisabled: Near the end of the film, a victim of a lobotomy is {{Mercy Kill}}ed by his friend.
* DoomedMoralVictor: [[spoiler:The death of Billy inspires [=McMurphy=] to attack Nurse Ratched, and the lobotomy of [=McMurphy=] inspires the Chief to escape, and one assumes the others escaped through the hole in the window as well, though that isn't shown.]]
* EmotionalRegression: Billy, one of the patients, is chronically shy and soft-spoken, an emasculated young man with an intense fear of his mother and an unrelenting stutter. With the help of [=McMurphy=], he manages to have sex for the first time, losing his virginity and gaining the confidence of a man. However, they were supposed to escape from the mental hospital and ended up falling asleep. When Nurse Ratched returns, she calls him out and attempts to shame him. He says in perfect and unhesitant English that he's proud of himself and isn't having any of it. Then she says she's going to tell his mother...
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* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: This excerpt from the fishing trip:
-->'''[=McMurphy=]:''' This is Dr. Cheswick, Dr. Taber, Dr. Frederickson, Dr. Scanlon, the famous Dr. Scanlon, [[ButtMonkey Mr. Harding]], Dr. Bibbit, Dr. Martini, and Dr. Sefelt...Oh, I'm Dr. [=McMurphy=], R. P. [=McMurphy=].
-->'''[=McMurphy=]:''' This is Dr. Cheswick, Dr. Taber, Dr. Frederickson, Dr. Scanlon, the famous Dr. Scanlon, [[ButtMonkey Mr. Harding]], Dr. Bibbit, Dr. Martini, and Dr. Sefelt...Oh, I'm Dr. [=McMurphy=], R. P. [=McMurphy=].
* OrderliesAreCreeps: The orderlies are little more than sadistic thugs, gleefully man-handling the patients who go against Nurse Ratched.
* SnubByOmission: This excerpt from the fishing trip:
-->'''[=McMurphy=]:''' This is Dr. Cheswick, Dr. Taber, Dr. Frederickson, Dr. Scanlon, the famous Dr. Scanlon, [[ButtMonkey Mr. Harding]], Dr. Bibbit, Dr. Martini, and Dr. Sefelt...Oh, I'm Dr. [=McMurphy=], R. P. [=McMurphy=].
-->'''[=McMurphy=]:''' This is Dr. Cheswick, Dr. Taber, Dr. Frederickson, Dr. Scanlon, the famous Dr. Scanlon, [[ButtMonkey Mr. Harding]], Dr. Bibbit, Dr. Martini, and Dr. Sefelt...Oh, I'm Dr. [=McMurphy=], R. P. [=McMurphy=].
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* StupidityInducingAttack: A medical lobotomy is used for this purpose, to get rid of a particularly troublesome patient.
* StutterStop: Billy loses his stutter after [=McMurphy=] arranges a rite of manhood for him. It doesn't take Nurse Ratched long to break him back down into a stuttering mess, though.
* TotallyEighteen: This is part of the reason why [=McMurphy=] is locked up; he had sex with an underage girl he says he thought was eighteen.
* StupidityInducingAttack: A medical lobotomy is used for this purpose, to get rid of a particularly troublesome patient.
* StutterStop: Billy loses his stutter after [=McMurphy=] arranges a rite of manhood for him. It doesn't take Nurse Ratched long to break him back down into a stuttering mess, though.
* TotallyEighteen: This is part of the reason why [=McMurphy=] is locked up; he had sex with an underage girl he says he thought was eighteen.
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** The deaf-mute Chief Bromden [[spoiler:who eventually reveals to [=McMurphy=] that he's faking it]].
** Despite an impressive amount of screentime, Nurse Pilbow utters maybe just a couple of syllables throughout the entire movie and her entire purpose is to perform Nurse Ratched's orders. Also, the camera tends to zoom onto her face whenever the patients start displaying extraordinary behavior.
** The deaf-mute Chief Bromden [[spoiler:who eventually reveals to [=McMurphy=] that he's faking it]].
** Despite an impressive amount of screentime, Nurse Pilbow utters maybe just a couple of syllables throughout the entire movie and her entire purpose is to perform Nurse Ratched's orders. Also, the camera tends to zoom onto her face whenever the patients start displaying extraordinary behavior.
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->''"Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn\\
Apple seed and apple thorn\\
Wire, briar, limber lock\\
Three geese in a flock\\
One flew East\\
One flew West\\
And one flew over the cuckoo's nest."''
-->-- '''IronicNurseryTune'''
''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' is a 1975 movie co-produced by Creator/MichaelDouglas, directed by Creator/MilosForman, and starring Creator/JackNicholson as [=McMurphy=] and Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched. It is loosely based on [[Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest the 1962 novel]] by Creator/KenKesey.
It takes place in an insane asylum run by Nurse Ratched, who rules over the patients with an iron fist. She has so much power over them that no one dares to stand up to her, until one day when Randle Patrick [=McMurphy=] swaggers into the ward, and things are never the same again.
It became only the second movie (after ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'') to sweep the major [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Academy Awards]]--Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay.
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!!The film contains examples of:
* AdaptationalAttractiveness:
** In the book, Nurse Ratched is frequently mentioned to be overweight (the cause of her large ladybags). Louise Fletcher... isn't. She is also described, in the book, as a handsome woman who was probably quite beautiful when she was in her prime.
** Inverted with Harding, who is described in the novel as looking like a film star. In the film, he looks like an average (or perhaps even slightly unattractive) middle-aged man. This may have to do with his homosexuality being toned down a lot in the movie, as he was a stereotypical pretty boy in the book.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Relatively speaking, the Nurse Ratched presented in the film is a lot less sociopathic than the one in the book. While she retains the domineering and tyrannical behavior, she seems a lot less violent than her book self. Book!Nurse Ratched is introduced as already having lobotomized and submitted to brutal shock therapy several patients before the story even begins, and has cowed every one of her co-workers into submission. In the film no such facts are alluded to.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the book Harding, while pompous and perhaps overly verbose, was still quite clever and insightful, coming up with excellent ideas and giving some very cutting lectures about the situation of the hospital and [=McMurphy=]. In the film he's more of a straightforward ButtMonkey.
* AesopAmnesia: [=McMurphy=] challenges Nurse Ratched's authority and unfair rules at every turn and becomes something of a hero to the sheepish patients, leading them to explore and regain their own lost individuality... at least until [[spoiler:[=McMurphy=] attacks Ratched in order to avenge her driving Billy to suicide and is moved to another part of the hospital and lobotomized. The Chief clearly doesn't forget what [=McMurphy=] taught him, but all the other patients seem to, and when the film ends, they're all back to behaving as they did before [=McMurphy=] arrived]].
* AlliterativeName: Billy Bibbit, Charles Cheswick
* AscendedExtra: In the book, Taber was a past patient mentioned a few times by Chief. In the film adaptation, he is a main character on the ward while [=McMurphy=] is there.
* BattleaxeNurse: Nurse Ratched.
* BoisterousBruiser: [=McMurphy=].
* ButtMonkey: Harding.
* ChekhovsGun: The Hydrotherapy Console.
* ChekhovsSkill: SubvertedTrope. [[spoiler:[=McMurphy=] is shown to fake being a vegetable earlier after the shock treatment, but [[BittersweetEnding regrettably]] wasn't faking it later on.]]
* CreatorCameo: Producer Saul Zaentz appears as a man at the inmates' bus outing.
* DemotedToExtra: Doctor Spivey has a lot fewer scenes in the adaptation, and his whole character arc is removed wholesale. [[spoiler:In the novel he spearheads the reformation of the hospital after Ratched is gone]].
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Billy Bibbit.]]
* TheFilmOfTheBook: Made in 1975. Kesey didn't like it (mainly due to the massive changes), but it was critically acclaimed and became one of only three films to win all of the "Big Five" Oscars (best picture, screenplay, director, actor, and actress). Kesey's reaction was no doubt also fueled by the fact that he received no money for it.
* FunWithAcronyms: Randle Patrick [=McMurphy=], R.P.M., is in constant, often circular (metaphorical) motion.
* GoAmongMadPeople: [=McMurphy=] feigned insanity and got himself sent to the asylum thinking it would be an easy way out from his prison sentence. He was dead wrong.
* HateSink: Nurse Ratched. According to the DVD extras, at one point it got so bad that Louise Fletcher ''herself'' stripped to her underwear on set to "prove she wasn't a monster".
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:[=McMurphy=] himself at the end.]]
* HospitalHottie: Nurse Pilbow.
* JailBait: Why [=McMurphy=] was incarcerated to begin with. As he explains to Spivey:
-->'''[=McMurphy=]:''' She was fifteen years old goin' on thirty-five, Doc, and she [[TotallyEighteen told me she was eighteen]]. She was very willing, you know what I mean? I practically had to take to sewin' my pants shut.
* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: [=McMurphy=] got into this whole jail to mental hospital [[spoiler:to lobotomy and ultimately to death]] situation because he committed statutory rape on a fifteen-year-old girl. At the time of the film's release (1975) [[JailBait statutory rape of the kind involving an adult and a teenager]] [[ValuesDissonance was considered to be less of an issue than it is considered to be today.]]
* KarmicTrickster: Deconstructed with [=McMurphy=], since he [[spoiler:lacks the usual KarmicProtection]].
* LargeHam: Creator/JackNicholson as [=McMurphy=] and Creator/ChristopherLloyd as Taber.
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: Done on [=McMurphy=] for a full minute at the end of the party.
* {{Lobotomy}}: After [=McMurphy=] attacks Ratched, [[spoiler:he is lobotomized and left in a vegetative state. Bromden {{mercy kill}}s him.]]
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:After [=McMurphy=] gets a lobotomy, Bromden decides to put him out of his misery by [[VorpalPillow suffocating him with a pillow]].]]
* MeaningfulName: Bromden, related to ''bromide'', a tranquilizer.
* {{Mondegreen}}: After [=McMurphy=] attempts (and fails) to lift the hydrotherapy console in the tub room, he tells the others, "I tried, didn't I? Goddammit." Some audience members heard this as, "I tried and I died. Dammit.", as some metaphorical way of expressing himself.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: This excerpt from the fishing trip:
-->'''[=McMurphy=]:''' This is Dr. Cheswick, Dr. Taber, Dr. Frederickson, Dr. Scanlon, the famous Dr. Scanlon, [[ButtMonkey Mr. Harding]], Dr. Bibbit, Dr. Martini, and Dr. Sefelt...Oh, I'm Dr. [=McMurphy=], R. P. [=McMurphy=].
* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler:Chief Bromden IS insane, but he's not a deaf mute.]]
* ObfuscatingInsanity: Adopted by [=McMurphy=] to get transferred to the hospital from the work farm he was originally sentenced to. It soon enough becomes clear that he's actually put himself in a worse spot.
* OrderVersusChaos: With chaos portrayed as good.
* PorkyPigPronunciation: Billy.
* TheQuietOne: Bromden. [[spoiler:Until later]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Dr. Spivey. Unfortunately, he has [[AuthorityInNameOnly no real power]].
* {{Sadist}}: Nurse Ratched is a coldly vindictive and utterly hateful ControlFreak who uses her position to bully, intimidate, torture and lobotomise the patients in her care. She accepts no challenge to her authority. [[spoiler:She is perfectly capable of intentionally driving her patients to suicide out of petty revenge.]]
* TheSociopath: What [=McMurphy=] [[ObfuscatingInsanity pretends to be]] to get committed. Unfortunately for him, Nurse Ratched actually ''is'' one.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Charles Cheswick drowns in a swimming pool]] in the novel, but survives the movie. According to WordOfGod, [[spoiler:Cheswick]] was spared to make [[spoiler:Billy Bibbit's]] death all the more shocking.
* SpeechImpediment: Billy.
* {{Troll}}: [=McMurphy=]'s main strategy in his war with the [[ControlFreak tyrannical]] Nurse Ratched is being one.
* TheVoiceless: Despite an impressive amount of screentime, Nurse Pilbow utters maybe just a couple of syllables throughout the entire movie and her entire purpose is to perform Nurse Ratched's orders. Also, the camera tends to zoom onto her face whenever the patients start displaying extraordinary behavior.
* VorpalPillow: Chief Bromden sets [=McMurphy=] free from the asylum by suffocating him with a pillow.
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:Mac passes supposedly deaf/mute Bromden a stick of chewing gum and Bromden says, "Thank you."]]
* WhiteMaleLead: While the original novel is narrated by Bromden, a Native American, the film makes [=McMurphy=] into the lead. Justified because [[PragmaticAdaptation the main conflict involves McMurphy and Nurse Ratched, and Chief Bromden's first-person narration in the book is completely lost in a visual medium like film]].
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