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** At an early point in the movie, McMurphy boasts that he is going to break out of the mental hospital by lifting a water fountain and chucking it through a window. The inmates don't believe him, so he bets them money he can do it. He fails, but he shames the inmates by saying eh at least tried unlike everyone else. The water fountain's a symbol for McMurphy's undying sense of freedom. He never believes that anything is impossible. He will never stop trying to live life his way, and that's exactly why the folks at the hospital eventually give him a lobotomy. Then later on in a deeply symbolic moment, Chief Bromden kills McMurphy and then lifts the same water fountain that McMurphy failed to lift earlier in the movie. Lifting the fountain is supposed to be impossible, but Chief reminds us that anything is possible for those who refuse to give in to authority.
** McMurphy always holds onto his pack of playing cards with pictures of nude women on them while in the mental hospital. This tells us a lot about McMurphy as a character. For one thing, he views women as sexual objects, which we see when he shows the doctor one of the nude cards and casually asks, "Where do you suppose she lives?" Keep in mind that he's been convicted of statutory rape. The cards also show that McMurphy likes to gamble in every sense of the word, and often take risks. Finally, McMurphy's very devoted to playing games he knows he can win. That's why he gets so upset with the way Nurse Ratched always manipulates situations in her favor. As McMurphy tells one doctor, "She likes a rigged game." He symbolizes his dislike for her by loudly flicking through his playing cards while she's trying to speak. That's not to say he doesn't like a rigged game, he's just annoyed that someone is better at rigging the game than he is.
** Nurse Ratched is a dictator when it comes to deciding how things are going to work in her hospital ward. But she also has this clever way of ''never'' seeming like a dictator as she uses false logic to make it seem as though all her judgments are objective. For example, she lets the patients vote on McMurphy's idea to watch a baseball game only because she knows they'll vote against it. When the patients reverse their votes on the second occasion, Ratched still gets her way by saying there were only 9 votes from the 18 patients, not caring that only nine of the patients are lucid enough to know what they're voting on. So whether things go one way or another, Ratched will find a way to get her way, and if the patients get upset about this, she'll just send them off for electroshock therapy. Basically, voting in this movie symbolizes a fake sense of freedom – the belief that your vote and your opinion count when they actually don't.
** When Chief Bromden sees McMurphy's lobotomy scars at the end of this movie, he realizes that the hospital has made McMurphy into an obedient zombie for life. His scars mark the final victory of rules and conformity over freedom and the individual, which Chief is aware of. Chief kills McMurphy feeling it was the only way to give Randle back his freedom. McMurphy became a hero to the other patients in the ward due to his ability to stand up to Nurse Ratched, and didn't want to see him wandering around with dead eyes and a scarred forehead, so Chief decides to take matter into his own hands and to give Mac back his freedom his own way and then he gave freedom to himself by breaking out of the hospital and running off into the forest.
** McMurphy always holds onto his pack of playing cards with pictures of nude women on them while in the mental hospital. This tells us a lot about McMurphy as a character. For one thing, he views women as sexual objects, which we see when he shows the doctor one of the nude cards and casually asks, "Where do you suppose she lives?" Keep in mind that he's been convicted of statutory rape. The cards also show that McMurphy likes to gamble in every sense of the word, and often take risks. Finally, McMurphy's very devoted to playing games he knows he can win. That's why he gets so upset with the way Nurse Ratched always manipulates situations in her favor. As McMurphy tells one doctor, "She likes a rigged game." He symbolizes his dislike for her by loudly flicking through his playing cards while she's trying to speak. That's not to say he doesn't like a rigged game, he's just annoyed that someone is better at rigging the game than he is.
** Nurse Ratched is a dictator when it comes to deciding how things are going to work in her hospital ward. But she also has this clever way of ''never'' seeming like a dictator as she uses false logic to make it seem as though all her judgments are objective. For example, she lets the patients vote on McMurphy's idea to watch a baseball game only because she knows they'll vote against it. When the patients reverse their votes on the second occasion, Ratched still gets her way by saying there were only 9 votes from the 18 patients, not caring that only nine of the patients are lucid enough to know what they're voting on. So whether things go one way or another, Ratched will find a way to get her way, and if the patients get upset about this, she'll just send them off for electroshock therapy. Basically, voting in this movie symbolizes a fake sense of freedom – the belief that your vote and your opinion count when they actually don't.
** When Chief Bromden sees McMurphy's lobotomy scars at the end of this movie, he realizes that the hospital has made McMurphy into an obedient zombie for life. His scars mark the final victory of rules and conformity over freedom and the individual, which Chief is aware of. Chief kills McMurphy feeling it was the only way to give Randle back his freedom. McMurphy became a hero to the other patients in the ward due to his ability to stand up to Nurse Ratched, and didn't want to see him wandering around with dead eyes and a scarred forehead, so Chief decides to take matter into his own hands and to give Mac back his freedom his own way and then he gave freedom to himself by breaking out of the hospital and running off into the forest.
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** At an early point in the movie, McMurphy [=McMurphy=] boasts that he is going to break out of the mental hospital by lifting a water fountain and chucking it through a window. The inmates don't believe him, so he bets them money he can do it. He fails, but he shames the inmates by saying eh at least tried unlike everyone else. The water fountain's a symbol for McMurphy's [=McMurphy=]'s undying sense of freedom. He never believes that anything is impossible. He will never stop trying to live life his way, and that's exactly why the folks at the hospital eventually give him a lobotomy. Then later on in a deeply symbolic moment, Chief Bromden kills McMurphy [=McMurphy=] and then lifts the same water fountain that McMurphy [=McMurphy=] failed to lift earlier in the movie. Lifting the fountain is supposed to be impossible, but Chief reminds us that anything is possible for those who refuse to give in to authority.
**McMurphy [=McMurphy=] always holds onto his pack of playing cards with pictures of nude women on them while in the mental hospital. This tells us a lot about McMurphy [=McMurphy=] as a character. For one thing, he views women as sexual objects, which we see when he shows the doctor one of the nude cards and casually asks, "Where do you suppose she lives?" Keep in mind that he's been convicted of statutory rape. The cards also show that McMurphy [=McMurphy=] likes to gamble in every sense of the word, and often take risks. Finally, McMurphy's [=McMurphy=]'s very devoted to playing games he knows he can win. That's why he gets so upset with the way Nurse Ratched always manipulates situations in her favor. As McMurphy [=McMurphy=] tells one doctor, "She likes a rigged game." He symbolizes his dislike for her by loudly flicking through his playing cards while she's trying to speak. That's not to say he doesn't like a rigged game, he's just annoyed that someone is better at rigging the game than he is.
** Nurse Ratched is a dictator when it comes to deciding how things are going to work in her hospital ward. But she also has this clever way of ''never'' seeming like a dictator as she uses false logic to make it seem as though all her judgments are objective. For example, she lets the patients vote onMcMurphy's [=McMurphy=]'s idea to watch a baseball the World Series game only because she knows they'll vote against it. When the patients reverse their votes on the second occasion, Ratched still gets her way by saying there were only 9 votes from the 18 patients, not caring that only nine of the patients are lucid enough to know what they're voting on. So whether things go one way or another, Ratched will find a way to get her way, and if the patients get upset about this, she'll just send them off for electroshock therapy. Basically, voting in this movie symbolizes a fake sense of freedom – the belief that your vote and your opinion count when they actually don't.
** When Chief Bromden seesMcMurphy's [=McMurphy=]'s lobotomy scars at the end of this movie, he realizes that the hospital has made McMurphy [=McMurphy=] into an obedient zombie for life. His scars mark the final victory of rules and conformity over freedom and the individual, which Chief is aware of. Chief kills McMurphy [=McMurphy=], feeling it was this is the only way to give Randle back his freedom. McMurphy [=McMurphy=] became a hero to the other patients in the ward due to his ability to stand up to Nurse Ratched, and didn't want to see him wandering around with dead eyes and a scarred forehead, so Chief decides to take matter into his own hands and to give Mac back his freedom his own way and then he gave freedom to himself by breaking out of the hospital and running off into the forest.
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** Nurse Ratched is a dictator when it comes to deciding how things are going to work in her hospital ward. But she also has this clever way of ''never'' seeming like a dictator as she uses false logic to make it seem as though all her judgments are objective. For example, she lets the patients vote on
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''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' is a 1975 comedy-drama film co-produced by Creator/MichaelDouglas, directed by Creator/MilosForman, and starring Creator/JackNicholson and Creator/LouiseFletcher. Based [[Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest the 1962 novel]] by Creator/KenKesey, it mostly follows the original plot, albeit with a number of deviations to allow it to work better on the big screen.
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''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' is a 1975 comedy-drama film co-produced by Creator/MichaelDouglas, directed by Creator/MilosForman, and starring Creator/JackNicholson and Creator/LouiseFletcher. Based [[Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest the 1962 novel]] by Creator/KenKesey, it mostly follows the original plot, albeit with a number of deviations to that allow it to work better on the big screen.
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** At an early point in the movie, McMurphy boasts that he is going to break out of the mental hospital by lifting a water fountain and chucking it through a window. The inmates don't believe him, so he bets them money he can do it. He fails, but he shames the inmates by saying eh at least tried unlike everyone else. The water fountain's a symbol for McMurphy's undying sense of freedom. He never believes that anything is impossible. He will never stop trying to live life his way, and that's exactly why the folks at the hospital eventually give him a lobotomy. Then later on in a deeply symbolic moment, Chief Bromden kills McMurphy and then lifts the same water fountain that McMurphy failed to lift earlier in the movie. Lifting the fountain is supposed to be impossible, but Chief reminds us that anything is possible for those who refuse to give in to authority.
** McMurphy always holds onto his pack of playing cards with pictures of nude women on them while in the mental hospital. This tells us a lot about McMurphy as a character. For one thing, he views women as sexual objects, which we see when he shows the doctor one of the nude cards and casually asks, "Where do you suppose she lives?" Keep in mind that he's been convicted of statutory rape. The cards also show that McMurphy likes to gamble in every sense of the word, and often take risks. Finally, McMurphy's very devoted to playing games he knows he can win. That's why he gets so upset with the way Nurse Ratched always manipulates situations in her favor. As McMurphy tells one doctor, "She likes a rigged game." He symbolizes his dislike for her by loudly flicking through his playing cards while she's trying to speak. That's not to say he doesn't like a rigged game, he's just annoyed that someone is better at rigging the game than he is.
** Nurse Ratched is a dictator when it comes to deciding how things are going to work in her hospital ward. But she also has this clever way of ''never'' seeming like a dictator as she uses false logic to make it seem as though all her judgments are objective. For example, she lets the patients vote on McMurphy's idea to watch a baseball game only because she knows they'll vote against it. When the patients reverse their votes on the second occasion, Ratched still gets her way by saying there were only 9 votes from the 18 patients, not caring that only nine of the patients are lucid enough to know what they're voting on. So whether things go one way or another, Ratched will find a way to get her way, and if the patients get upset about this, she'll just send them off for electroshock therapy. Basically, voting in this movie symbolizes a fake sense of freedom – the belief that your vote and your opinion count when they actually don't.
** When Chief Bromden sees McMurphy's lobotomy scars at the end of this movie, he realizes that the hospital has made McMurphy into an obedient zombie for life. His scars mark the final victory of rules and conformity over freedom and the individual, which Chief is aware of. Chief kills McMurphy feeling it was the only way to give Randle back his freedom. McMurphy became a hero to the other patients in the ward due to his ability to stand up to Nurse Ratched, and didn't want to see him wandering around with dead eyes and a scarred forehead, so Chief decides to take matter into his own hands and to give Mac back his freedom his own way and then he gave freedom to himself by breaking out of the hospital and running off into the forest.
** At an early point in the movie, McMurphy boasts that he is going to break out of the mental hospital by lifting a water fountain and chucking it through a window. The inmates don't believe him, so he bets them money he can do it. He fails, but he shames the inmates by saying eh at least tried unlike everyone else. The water fountain's a symbol for McMurphy's undying sense of freedom. He never believes that anything is impossible. He will never stop trying to live life his way, and that's exactly why the folks at the hospital eventually give him a lobotomy. Then later on in a deeply symbolic moment, Chief Bromden kills McMurphy and then lifts the same water fountain that McMurphy failed to lift earlier in the movie. Lifting the fountain is supposed to be impossible, but Chief reminds us that anything is possible for those who refuse to give in to authority.
** McMurphy always holds onto his pack of playing cards with pictures of nude women on them while in the mental hospital. This tells us a lot about McMurphy as a character. For one thing, he views women as sexual objects, which we see when he shows the doctor one of the nude cards and casually asks, "Where do you suppose she lives?" Keep in mind that he's been convicted of statutory rape. The cards also show that McMurphy likes to gamble in every sense of the word, and often take risks. Finally, McMurphy's very devoted to playing games he knows he can win. That's why he gets so upset with the way Nurse Ratched always manipulates situations in her favor. As McMurphy tells one doctor, "She likes a rigged game." He symbolizes his dislike for her by loudly flicking through his playing cards while she's trying to speak. That's not to say he doesn't like a rigged game, he's just annoyed that someone is better at rigging the game than he is.
** Nurse Ratched is a dictator when it comes to deciding how things are going to work in her hospital ward. But she also has this clever way of ''never'' seeming like a dictator as she uses false logic to make it seem as though all her judgments are objective. For example, she lets the patients vote on McMurphy's idea to watch a baseball game only because she knows they'll vote against it. When the patients reverse their votes on the second occasion, Ratched still gets her way by saying there were only 9 votes from the 18 patients, not caring that only nine of the patients are lucid enough to know what they're voting on. So whether things go one way or another, Ratched will find a way to get her way, and if the patients get upset about this, she'll just send them off for electroshock therapy. Basically, voting in this movie symbolizes a fake sense of freedom – the belief that your vote and your opinion count when they actually don't.
** When Chief Bromden sees McMurphy's lobotomy scars at the end of this movie, he realizes that the hospital has made McMurphy into an obedient zombie for life. His scars mark the final victory of rules and conformity over freedom and the individual, which Chief is aware of. Chief kills McMurphy feeling it was the only way to give Randle back his freedom. McMurphy became a hero to the other patients in the ward due to his ability to stand up to Nurse Ratched, and didn't want to see him wandering around with dead eyes and a scarred forehead, so Chief decides to take matter into his own hands and to give Mac back his freedom his own way and then he gave freedom to himself by breaking out of the hospital and running off into the forest.
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* BigBraToFill: The novel makes several references to Nurse 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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It takes place in 1963 at an Oregon mental hospital run by Nurse Ratched (Fletcher), who rules over the patients with an iron fist. She holds so much power over them that no one dares to stand up to her... until Randle Patrick [=McMurphy=] (Nicholson) swaggers into the ward and things are never the same again.
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It takes place in 1963 at an Oregon mental hospital run by [[BattleaxeNurse Nurse Ratched Ratched]] (Fletcher), who rules over the patients with an iron fist. She holds so much power over them that no one dares to stand up to her... until Randle Patrick [=McMurphy=] (Nicholson) swaggers into the ward and things are never the same again.
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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; Fletcher, who was in her early 40s while filming, was undoubtedly still quite lovely.
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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, described as a handsome woman who ''was'' probably quite beautiful when she was in her prime; Fletcher, who was in her early 40s while filming, was undoubtedly still quite lovely.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Relatively speaking, the Nurse Ratched presented in the film is much less sociopathic than the one in the book. While she retains the domineering and tyrannical behavior, she is less overtly violent than her book self, who 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, something that is suggested but not outright stated in the film.
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* {{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.
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* JailBait: Why [=McMurphy=] was incarcerated to begin with. As he explains to Spivey:
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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), [[JailBait statutory rape of the kind involving an adult and a teenager]] teenager [[ValuesDissonance was considered to be less of an issue than it is considered to be today.]]
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** This is especially evident with his interactions with Chief. Sure, [=McMurphy=] tastelessly ridicules Chief's ethnicity, but he's the only one on the ward who even bothered trying to befriend him, and it's clear from scenes like the basketball game that [=McMurphy=] genuinely wants to bring some joy into Chief's life.
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** This is especially evident with his interactions with Chief. Sure, [=McMurphy=] tastelessly ridicules Chief's ethnicity, but he's Mac was still the only one on the ward who even bothered trying to befriend him, and it's Chief. It's quite clear from scenes like the basketball game that [=McMurphy=] genuinely wants wanted to bring some joy into Chief's life.
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** This is especially evident with his interactions with Chief. Sure, [=McMurphy=] tastelessly ridicules Chief's ethnicity, but he's the only one on the ward who even bothered trying to befriend him, and it's clear from scenes like the basketball game that [=McMurphy=] genuinely wants to bring some joy into Chief's life.
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** Harding also plays a much more important role in the novel, where he explains the goings-on at the hospital to McMurphy when he arrives and through Mac's example gains the courage to eventually tell off Nurse Ratched and leave the ward for good. In the movie, he's a relatively unimportant background character with a one-note fussy personality.
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** Harding also plays a much more important role in the novel, where he explains the goings-on at the hospital to McMurphy [=McMurphy=] when he arrives and through Mac's example example, he eventually gains the courage to eventually tell off Nurse Ratched and leave the ward for good. In the movie, he's a relatively unimportant background character with a one-note fussy personality.
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** Harding also plays a much more important role in the novel, where he explains the goings-on at the hospital to McMurphy when he arrives and through Mac's example gains the courage to eventually tell off Nurse Ratched and leave the ward for good. In the movie, he's a relatively unimportant background character with a one-note fussy personality.
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* WrongfullyCommitted: [=McMurphy=] is a rapist who pretends to be mentally ill in order to serve his sentence in what he believes will be a peaceful mental institution. However, [=McMurphy=] soon learns that the timed sentence proposed by the judge doesn't apply in this situation, meaning he will never be able to leave his confinement without the doctors' express consent.
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* WrongfullyCommitted: [=McMurphy=] is a statutory rapist who pretends to be mentally ill in order to serve his sentence in what he believes will be a peaceful mental institution. However, [=McMurphy=] soon learns that the timed sentence proposed by the judge doesn't apply in this situation, meaning he will never be able to leave his confinement without the doctors' express consent.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite mocking and berating the gang so much [=McMurphy=] genuinely seems to develop a bond with them [[spoiler:and is ultimately driven to his RageBreakingPoint when Nurse Ratched drives Billy to Suicide.]]
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* OrderliesAreCreeps: The orderlies are little more than sadistic thugs, gleefully man-handling the patients who go against Nurse Ratched.
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* OrderliesAreCreeps: The Partially subverted; the orderlies generally get along fine with the patients, talking with them and even playing basketball in the yard. However, they are little more than sadistic thugs, gleefully man-handling the patients who also ultimately willing to go against Nurse Ratched.along with Ratched's orders without protest.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: By all accounts, the movie follows the base plot of the book quite closely. However, it makes considerable liberties for the sake of working better on film, namely shifting the focus from Bromden (who narrated the book in first-person) to [=McMurphy=], altering certain events like [[spoiler:the circumstances of Bromden revealing that he was ObfuscatingDisability]], and cutting expository moments that were in the original book to streamline the film's narrative. Other aspects like [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Bromden's schizophrenia-induced hallucinations and nightmares]] and UnreliableNarrator qualities are cut simply because they wouldn't have been feasibly executable at the time.
* TheQuietOne: Bromden. [[spoiler:Until later.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Dr. Spivey. Unfortunately, he has [[AuthorityInNameOnly no real power]].
* {{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]].
* TheQuietOne: Bromden. [[spoiler:Until later.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Dr. Spivey. Unfortunately, he has [[AuthorityInNameOnly no real power]].
* {{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]].
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* PragmaticAdaptation: By all accounts, the The movie follows the base plot of the book quite fairly closely. However, it makes considerable takes several liberties for the sake of working better on film, namely shifting the focus from Bromden (who narrated the book in first-person) to [=McMurphy=], altering certain events like [[spoiler:the circumstances of Bromden revealing that he was ObfuscatingDisability]], and cutting expository moments that were in the original book to streamline the film's narrative. Other aspects like [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Bromden's schizophrenia-induced hallucinations and nightmares]] and UnreliableNarrator qualities are cut simply because they wouldn't have been feasibly executable at the time.
* TheQuietOne: Bromden.[[spoiler:Until later.]]
[[spoiler:At first.]] Several of the other patients that don't participate in the therapy group are likewise mostly nonverbal.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Dr. Spivey. Unfortunately, hehas exercises [[AuthorityInNameOnly no real power]].
power]], as he follows Ratched's reports and advice on what goes on in the ward.
* {{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 herauthority. [[spoiler:She authority [[spoiler:and is perfectly capable of intentionally driving tormenting her patients to the point of suicide out of petty revenge.should they disobey.]]
* 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 NurseRatched, Ratched and gets rid of his stutter into in the bargain]].
* TheQuietOne: Bromden.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Dr. Spivey. Unfortunately, he
* {{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
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* 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.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Charles Cheswick drowns in a swimming pool]] in the novel, novel but survives the movie. According to WordOfGod, [[spoiler:Cheswick]] was spared to make [[spoiler:Billy Bibbit's]] death all the more shocking.
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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.
* 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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* StupidityInducingAttack: A medical lobotomy is used for this purpose, to get rid of pacify 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 stutteringmess, though.
mess by playing into his psychological trauma.
* TotallyEighteen: This is part of the reason why [=McMurphy=] is locked up; he had sex with an underage girlhe says he thought that (he says) claimed she was eighteen.
* 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
* TotallyEighteen: This is part of the reason why [=McMurphy=] is locked up; he had sex with an underage girl
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Nurse Ratched is a calm, polite woman, who is respected by the rest of the hospital staff. The patients (and audience) see her as a cold and sadistic ControlFreak who administered electric shocks and even lobotomies to keep the patients in line.
* 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.
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* 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.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Nurse Ratched is a calm, polite woman, woman who is respected by the rest of the hospital staff. The patients (and audience) see her as a cold and sadistic ControlFreak who administered electric shocks and even lobotomies to keep the patients in line.
* TheFilmOfTheBook:Made in 1975. Kesey Of [[Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest the 1962 novel]]. Author Creator/KenKesey 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 Kesey responded negatively to the alterations, most notably making [=McMurphy=] more of the film's central focus, though his reaction was no doubt also partially fueled by the fact that he received no money for it.
* FunWithAcronyms: Randle Patrick [=McMurphy=], R.P.M., is in constant, often (metaphorically) circular(metaphorical) motion.
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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, surroundings and is more than a little alarmed when he realizes that 'the rest of his sentence' is no longer the original length of a few months he thought it was, but when whenever 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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It takes place in 1963 at an Oregon mental hospital run by Nurse Ratched (Fletcher), who rules over the patients with an iron fist. She holds 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.
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It takes place in 1963 at an Oregon mental hospital run by Nurse Ratched (Fletcher), who rules over the patients with an iron fist. She holds so much power over them that no one dares to stand up to her, her... until one day when Randle Patrick [=McMurphy=] (Nicholson) swaggers into the ward, ward and things are never the same again.
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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. A quick Google search will provide attractive photos of Fletcher (as Ratched) smiling.
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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 ''was'' probably quite beautiful when she was in her prime. A quick Google search will provide attractive photos of Fletcher (as Ratched) smiling.prime; Fletcher, who was in her early 40s while filming, was undoubtedly still quite lovely.
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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.
* 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 far from effeminate and is said to have a wife. If he is meant to be gay in the film, he's likely deep in the closet.
* 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]].
* 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 far from effeminate and is said to have a wife. If he is meant to be gay in the film, he's likely deep in the closet.
* 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]].
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Relatively speaking, the Nurse Ratched presented in the film is a lot much less sociopathic than the one in the book. While she retains the domineering and tyrannical behavior, she seems a lot is less overtly violent than her book self. Book!Nurse Ratched self, who is introduced as already having lobotomized and submitted to brutal shock therapy several patients before the story even begins, begins and has cowed every one of her co-workers into submission. In submission, something that is suggested but not outright stated in the film, no such facts are alluded to.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: In the novel, Harding was as heavily implied to be gay as was possible in 1960s literature, depicted aseffeminate and effeminate, 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 far from effeminate and is said to have a wife. If he is meant to be gay in the film, he's likely deep in the closet.
* AdaptationalWimp: In thebook 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 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 andlobotomized. The Chief clearly doesn't forget what [=McMurphy=] taught him, but all the other patients seem to, and when the film ends, lobotomized as a result. Before Bromden's escape, they're all back to behaving exactly as they did before [=McMurphy=] arrived]].
* AdaptationalSexuality: In the novel, Harding was as heavily implied to be gay as was possible in 1960s literature, depicted as
* AdaptationalWimp: In the
* 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
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* AntiHero: [=McMurphy=] is a sleazy, violent, and sometimes downright insane convict. He's still not as bad as Nurse Ratched.
* 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.
* 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.
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* AntiHero: [=McMurphy=] is a sleazy, violent, erratic, and sometimes downright insane violent convict. He's still not as bad as Nurse Ratched.
* AscendedExtra: In the book, Taber was a past patient mentioned a few times byChief.Bromden. In the film adaptation, he is a main character on the ward while [=McMurphy=] is there.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Bromden finally manages to escape the ward and Nurse Ratched finally loses the excessive power she held over the patients, but at the cost of Billy, who commits suicide, and [=McMurphy=], who gets lobotomized by the hospital, forcing Bromden to MercyKill him.]]
* 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.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Bromden finally manages to escape the ward and Nurse [[spoiler:Nurse Ratched finally loses the excessive power she held over the patients, patients and Bromden finally manages to escape the ward , but at the cost of Billy, who commits suicide, and [=McMurphy=], who gets lobotomized by the hospital, forcing Bromden to MercyKill him.]]
* 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 thanthe Chief, Bromden, it's debatable how much good this does them in the end, though.end.]]
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* 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.]]
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* ChekhovsSkill: SubvertedTrope. [[spoiler:[=McMurphy=] is shown to fake being a vegetable earlier after the shock treatment, treatment but [[BittersweetEnding regrettably]] wasn't faking it later on.]]
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* 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.]]
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* DoomedMoralVictor: [[spoiler:The death of Billy inspires causes [=McMurphy=] to attack Nurse Ratched, Ratched leading to him being locked up, lobotomized, 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.eventually killed by his friend.]]
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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.
* 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...
* 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".
* 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...
* 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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* ElectricTorture: Nurse The hospital permits Ratched uses to administer electroshock therapy this way, giving it without anesthesia to patients who don't actually need it, and without anesthesia.
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* EmotionalRegression:Billy, one of the patients, Billy is a chronically shy and soft-spoken, an emasculated soft-spoken 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 when Nurse Ratched returns, she calls him out and attempts to shame him. He says in perfect and unhesitant English responds without a stutter that he's proud of himself and isn't having any of it. Then she says she's going to tell his mother...
* FauxAffablyEvil: Nurse Ratched is a calm, politetalking girl, woman, who has a lot of love and respect from her henchmen, authority, and co-workers. But is respected by the hero Randle [=McMurphy=] and other rest of the hospital staff. The patients know and (and audience) see her as truly a cold, really evil, cold and sadistic bitch, ControlFreak who likes to manipulate administered electric shocks and loves to control her patients and gives them even lobotomies and electric shock torture if anyone opposes her. According to keep 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".patients in line.
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* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler:Chief Bromden ''is'' insane, but he's not a deaf mute.]]
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* VorpalPillow: Chief Bromden sets [=McMurphy=] free from the asylum by suffocating him with a pillow.
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* 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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* 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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* AdaptationDistillation: In the original book, Bromden (who narrates the story and is stated to have schizophrenia) experiences a number of SurrealHorror hallucinations and nightmares, as well as describing certain events that [[UnreliableNarrator may or may not have been fabricated (or at least heavily embellished)]] by his disorder. This ThroughTheEyesOfMadness approach would've been impossible to effectively achieve at the time, and as a result they were all cut out from the film adaptation.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: By all accounts, the movie follows the base plot of the book quite closely. However, it makes considerable liberties for the sake of working better on film, namely shifting the focus from Bromden (who narrated the book in first-person) to [=McMurphy=], altering certain events like [[spoiler:the circumstances of Bromden revealing that he was ObfuscatingDisability]], and cutting expository moments that were in the original book to streamline the film's narrative. Other aspects like [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Bromden's schizophrenia-induced hallucinations and nightmares]] are cut simply because they wouldn't have been feasibly executable at the time.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: By all accounts, the movie follows the base plot of the book quite closely. However, it makes considerable liberties for the sake of working better on film, namely shifting the focus from Bromden (who narrated the book in first-person) to [=McMurphy=], altering certain events like [[spoiler:the circumstances of Bromden revealing that he was ObfuscatingDisability]], and cutting expository moments that were in the original book to streamline the film's narrative. Other aspects like [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Bromden's schizophrenia-induced hallucinations and nightmares]] and UnreliableNarrator qualities are cut simply because they wouldn't have been feasibly executable at the time.
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* AdaptationDistillation: In the original book, Bromden (who narrates the story and is stated to have schizophrenia) experiences a number of SurrealHorror hallucinations and nightmares, as well as describing certain events that [[UnreliableNarrator may or may not have been fabricated (or at least heavily embellished)]] by his disorder. This ThroughTheEyesOfMadness approach would've been impossible to effectively achieve at the time, and as a result they were all cut out from the film adaptation.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: By all accounts, the movie follows the base plot of the book quite closely. However, it makes considerable liberties for the sake of working better on film, namely shifting the focus from Bromden (who narrated the book in first-person) to [=McMurphy=] and [=McMurphy=], altering certain events like [[spoiler:the circumstances of Bromden revealing that he was ObfuscatingDisability]] ObfuscatingDisability]], and cutting expository moments that were in the original book to streamline the film's narrative.narrative. Other aspects like [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Bromden's schizophrenia-induced hallucinations and nightmares]] are cut simply because they wouldn't have been feasibly executable at the time.
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''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' is a 1975 comedy-drama film co-produced by Creator/MichaelDouglas, directed by Creator/MilosForman, and starring Creator/JackNicholson and Creator/LouiseFletcher. It is loosely based on a mostly faithful adaptation of [[Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest the 1962 novel]] by Creator/KenKesey.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Bromden finally manages to escape the ward and Nurse Ratched finally loses the excessive power she held over the patients, but at the cost of Billy, who commits suicide, and [=McMurphy=], who gets lobotomized by the hospital, forcing Bromden to MercyKill him.]]
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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 — others-- which, considering he's pissed off the evil Nurse Ratched, could mean an indefinite stay.
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* WrongfullyCommitted: [=McMurphy=] is a rapist who pretends to be mentally ill in order to serve his sentence in what he believes will be a peaceful mental institution. However, [=McMurphy=] soon learns that the timed sentence proposed by the judge doesn't apply in this situation, meaning he will never be able to leave his confinement without the doctors' express consent.
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It takes place in 1963 at an Oregon mental hospital run by Nurse 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.
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It takes place in 1963 at an Oregon mental hospital run by Nurse Ratched (Fletcher), who rules over the patients with an iron fist. She has holds 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.
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It takes place in 1963 at an Oregon insane asylum run by Nurse 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 1963 at an Oregon insane asylum run by Nurse 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.
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''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' is a 1975 movie film co-produced by Creator/MichaelDouglas, directed by Creator/MilosForman, and starring Creator/JackNicholson and Creator/LouiseFletcher. It is loosely based on [[Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest the 1962 novel]] by Creator/KenKesey.
It takes place in 1963 at an Oregoninsane asylum mental hospital run by Nurse 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 1963 at an Oregon
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It takes place in an insane asylum run by Nurse 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.
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It takes place in 1963 at an Oregon insane asylum run by Nurse 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.
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** In the first scenes of the film, Dr. Spivey and [=McMurphy=] have an extended conversation about a framed photo on Dr. Spivey's desk. This photo frame is likely the source of the broken glass that [[Spoiler: Billy Bibbit uses to slash his wrists and jugular later on in committing suicide.]]
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** In the first scenes of the film, Dr. Spivey and [=McMurphy=] have an extended conversation about a framed photo on Dr. Spivey's desk. This photo frame is likely the source of the broken glass that [[Spoiler: Billy [[spoiler:Billy Bibbit uses to slash his wrists and jugular later on in committing suicide.]]
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** In the first scenes of the film, Dr. Spivey and [=McMurphy=] have an extended conversation about a framed photo on Dr. Spivey's desk. This photo frame is likely the source of the broken glass that [[Spoiler: Billy Bibbit uses to slash his wrists and jugular later on in committing suicide.]]
** The Hydrotherapy
** In the first scenes of the film, Dr. Spivey and [=McMurphy=] have an extended conversation about a framed photo on Dr. Spivey's desk. This photo frame is likely the source of the broken glass that [[Spoiler: Billy Bibbit uses to slash his wrists and jugular later on in committing suicide.]]
