Possibly the greatest psychological villain ever in a movie. Her character was an absolute control freak and played brilliantly by Louise Fletcher... R.I.P.

@RandySWilson

Жыл бұрын

Never loved an actress as much and at the same time wanted her character to die on film. R.I.P. Louise Fletcher!!❤

@thomasschneider2874

Жыл бұрын

And she was a real charming, nice woman in real life. Totally opposite of this role.

@Dreamskater100

Жыл бұрын

Agree.

@Dreamskater100

Жыл бұрын

Truly sublime by Louise Fletcher & Control freak nailed.

@bryanpartington3260

Жыл бұрын

A very talanted and beautiful actress

He was so close to escape but let the opportunity pass to get revenge for Billy.

@Thomas_Anders0n

Жыл бұрын

Even if he escaped now the police would have caught him. The perfect opportunity was during the night before anyone knew.

@Fadem12forReal

Жыл бұрын

Billy killed himself, there's no revenge

@lisabever2115

Жыл бұрын

@@Fadem12forReal he killed himself because the nurse was going to tell his mother about him sleeping with that woman. It was her fault.

@RandySWilson

Жыл бұрын

@@Fadem12forReal she drove him to suicide knowing his mental situation. It’s almost the same as murder. Like holding a gun to someone’s head and saying do you want me to pull the trigger or you? In the mental part of the film is the same as murder.

@robvanhouten

Жыл бұрын

Ratched, I hate you.

"the best thing we can do is go on with our daily routine" gotta be the most infuriating line in movie history

@alexisdiva9

11 ай бұрын

So agree - she should have at least called for a moment of silence in memory of Billy and had them talk out their feelings. Of course you have to have a soul to be able to do that which she didn't. This was the straw that broke the camel's back for Mc Murphy which is why he started strangling her. The other patients were either in shock or fed up with her so they didn't intervene. I think the orderlies might not have cared for her either since it took a few moments before they intervened, allowing him to almost kill her.

@inlakesh555

10 ай бұрын

Yes! It's a general disrespect, like "WE Always did it like that"

@bastianjeanneret

9 ай бұрын

Have been to a psych hosp. not in the 70's. In the 20's. Well, I wasn't there when it happened but what has become a good friend of mine since our time in the hospital told me, when he was first hospitalzed, there was that girl, really underwheighted, she nedded a machine so she could breathe : her room was the one next to the nursing office : if something went wrong, if the girl rang the alarm, the nurses could be there quickly. Well, one afternoon something went wrong, my friend told me about it, however I don't believe everything he said since he was not in the room. All I can say is that when everybody realized she was not there at the 4 p.m meeting, a nurse went to see if she had maybe felt asleep (was not extraordinary 'cause of meds and the forced time we had to spend in bed, without doung anything, not even reading, after lunch). So... the nurse entered the room. The girl was cold. Mask off. Best explanation is that she struggled, tried to take off her mask for whatever reason... tried to ring the alarm but couldn't for whatever reasons (weakness, panic, difficult to access, apparently she was found tangled in machine's cables ). My friend told me she shouted but the nurses did not hear sincr there was this HUGE reunion with every nurse, docs and so on... He told me he had heard her muffled scream. Idk if I believe that, probably fakd memory due to trauma ? Is that a thing ? All this to say that my friend told me "man... every nurse, one by one, went to the room. They whispered between them. Their pupils were trembling. All the patients knew something went wrong. After couple of minutes one of the nurse came back. She said (girl name] was found in a state of death (or some medical term like that). She told everybody to stay calm, eat the snack and go on with the routine and that they would brinf them news asap" Once again I was not there. Idk if everything he told me was the truth. All I know is that I believe what I've just shared, and that the next patient to be in that room, next to nurse office was me. It is not the 70's, nurses are cool (most of them) but it is cold. Fucking cold. Fucking violent despite the apparent lack of action... Excuse my english, not native speaker.

@kimberlysmith3202

9 ай бұрын

Exactly!! How the hell we supposed to go on with our day and someone killed themselves?? One of my favorite movies 🎥 ❤❤❤

@kimberlysmith3202

9 ай бұрын

Exactly!! How the hell we supposed to go on with our day and someone killed themselves?? One of my favorite movies 🎥 ❤❤❤

It's not the final scene, but it is the final straw.

That was Nurse Ratched's moment to show McMurphy that she had at least a SHRED of humanity deep down. She didn't have any.

@rosepower4265

Ай бұрын

A VERY brave and ethical psychiatrist risked his entire career to put an end to the barbaric practice of shock therapy and lobotomies. Many of the so-called doctors and nurses in this field of medicine were evil greedy b@stards. He deserves a medal. His name is Dr. Peter Breggin. He has written several books. He also has a website.

The last 50 years I haven’t seen better movie than “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest “! One of the greatest films ever made !

@Mr.Goodkat

5 ай бұрын

Do you mean no film in the last 50 is better?

@ajordan2323

5 ай бұрын

@@Mr.GoodkatI thought that was pretty obvious

@rodneymacomber6337

3 ай бұрын

@@Mr.Goodkat actually, nobody sees the film just the light that passes through it

@Mr.Goodkat

3 ай бұрын

@@rodneymacomber6337 Tell that to the projectionist!

@rodneymacomber6337

3 ай бұрын

@@Mr.Goodkat define the word projection and I’m correct

2:50 the hatred in Jacks eyes

@KenMasters.

9 ай бұрын

That’s not hatred, that’s fury.

@robbyosborne9708

6 ай бұрын

​@@KenMasters. Exactly. He had enough of Ratched's bullshit.

@BluDevil93

4 ай бұрын

He knew the consequences of his actions, which is why he wanted justice for Billy.

@shyboy-kr1fb

2 ай бұрын

It rage

@user-zx3wm6re9q

2 ай бұрын

3:13 - and fear and dread in Ratched's eyes.

I love how the look in his face that the last person you should have pissed off is Jack Nicholson. Having Christopher Lloyd wanting her dead as well made this scene epic!! Abuse of power.

@dandavis8300

9 ай бұрын

He should have fought the guard.

@JohnSmith-gq9gn

8 ай бұрын

@@dandavis8300 He was going to until the nurse screamed. He put the keys on the window ledge, made a fist, the guard looked at his fist and then the nurse screamed.

She was crazier than any of them.

@BackwoodsFilms

5 ай бұрын

She wasn't crazy, she was evil.

One of the greatest villain of the film history

@lordkinesis4432

25 күн бұрын

She's actually ranked #5 of the AFI's 100 Heroes and Villains!

Brad Dourif played Billy and was nominated for the 1976 Academy Award for best supporting actor. Know who won? George Burns for "The Sunshine Boys!!!! Now I'm not saying Mr. Burns performance wasn't good, but Brad's performance was MAGNIFICENT! UTTERLY convincing.

@apictureoffunction

Жыл бұрын

Brad was 100% robbed, what a phenomenal performance

@paulherlihy9290

11 ай бұрын

Common buddy, you know the way Hollywood/Academy works. It's not all about best performance now is it?

@teecee1567

9 ай бұрын

@@paulherlihy9290 Absolutely right, Paul. For a start, Will Smith should have received the award for the "most recent gobshite to fall from favour in Hollywood".

@JohnSmith-gq9gn

8 ай бұрын

Burns was part of the smallhats club.

@kingy002

8 ай бұрын

I totally agree. Brad has always been a superb character actor.

Hard to believe that Brad Dourif who played Billy, was the voice of Chucky

@margaretbauer4126

2 жыл бұрын

So true!

@Rockstarfrom1989

Жыл бұрын

And hard to believe he played Grima Wormtongue in Lord of the rings

@paulbrown6464

Жыл бұрын

It was his first film role

@SquatCobbler-Cry

Жыл бұрын

Are u kidding it sounds exactly like chucky

@TheImaginator972

Жыл бұрын

I can't believe it too but it's all true.

This is one of the greatest “almost” death scenes in the history of cinema. I remember as a kid I almost, if not completely got an adrenaline rush rooting for Nicholson to choke her purple lol

Who was cheering on McMurphy when he was strangling Nurse Ratched on the floor? I know that's disturbing to say or think, but it's a movie. She was such a control freak and I've worked with the types. Even when I worked at a state mental hospital.

@jayyavid5363

2 жыл бұрын

My mom always cheered that scene no joke

@lisabever2115

2 жыл бұрын

Me. I was cheering him on. Still cheering him on all these decades later.

@laminage

2 жыл бұрын

@@jayyavid5363 In school 🏫 my sister said kids were screaming to have her killed. Can you imagine if David Greene did that to Mr Cleary in School Ties 👔

@ThePatriotPoet23

Жыл бұрын

She reminds me of my EX

@SquatCobbler-Cry

Жыл бұрын

Me..and Christopher Lloyd.

Nurse Ratched: "My patients sir, didn't care for the ward at first. One of them, Mr McMurphy, actually stole a hospital bus, and took all the patients on a fishing trip on a stolen boat. But I... corrrrected him, sir. And when Billy Bibbit attempted to lose his virginity, I... corrrrected him too..."

@MrD0911

Жыл бұрын

Nice cross over !

@S.D.323

5 ай бұрын

he didnt just attempt it my friends

Brad Douriff doesnt get enough respect as an actor

@sidtom2741

6 ай бұрын

didn't know he got an oscar nomination for this film

I remember watching this movie in a classroom - we hated Ratched so much a few of the kids in the back were cheering. A combination of a great performance and all around great villain!

She won the Oscar for that scene!

@danilozivkovic7727

Жыл бұрын

the WOMAN?

@Jai_Malhar27

Жыл бұрын

@@danilozivkovic7727 yes

@captainobvious2315

Жыл бұрын

@@danilozivkovic7727for best actress

@thereversedavenger5415

10 ай бұрын

​@@captainobvious2315she earned it, very convincing performance.

*The greatest film ever made!!*

@jennifermckaige146

Жыл бұрын

Most definitely

@kingy002

8 ай бұрын

One of, but certainly a banger.

This scene and the film’s ending are bittersweet. On one hand, mcmurphy sacrificed himself to free the other patients from Ratched’s grasp. She no longer has the commanding presence she once had. But Because Mac physically attacked her, he got lobotomized. They say that lobotomy is like castration for the frontal lobe. But in a way, mcmurphy also stripped away Ratched’s voice and authority on his way out.

@rosepower4265

Ай бұрын

A VERY brave and ethical psychiatrist risked his entire career to put an end to the barbaric practice of shock therapy and lobotomies. Many of the so-called doctors and nurses in this field of medicine were evil greedy b@stards. He deserves a medal. His name is Dr. Peter Breggin. He has written several books. He also has a website. Patty Behan

When I rented this on VHS, the last two seconds were literally the first frame I saw. Left me intrigued

I would have just taken a dive through that open window , but then again , you get attached to people.

I saw this movie in a theater back in 1976, and I vividly remember how everyone in the theater was standing up and cheering when Mac was strangling that bitch. Louis Fletcher gave a brilliant performance though.

@KenMasters.

9 ай бұрын

This is why I prefer non-quiet theaters.

@FrankWhiteSamCarter

4 ай бұрын

Damn you're old.

Orderly 'put down those keys and no on gets hurt...." Yeah, right

Another 20 seconds Nurse Ratched would have been dead

Honestly, Jack Nicholson and Brad Dourif really knocked it out of the park in this scene - McMurphy's shocked reaction after seeing Billy slam his fist into the ground, Billy's pleas to Nurse Ratched, and finally the look of pure rage you see in McMurphy while he was strangling Ratched for being indifferent to Billy's death. Louise Fletcher deserves a lot of praise too, but I can't help but admire when an actor or actress really displays strong emotions that almost feel real, you know?

@rosepower4265

Ай бұрын

A VERY brave and ethical psychiatrist risked his entire career to put an end to the barbaric practice of shock therapy and lobotomies. Many of the so-called doctors and nurses in this field of medicine were evil greedy b@stards. He deserves a medal. His name is Dr. Peter Breggin. He has written several books. He also has a website.

"The best thing we can do is go on with our daily routines."

As much hatred as Ratched gets, the security guard who stop Macs just before he can do some real damage will always be at the top of my movie character shitlist 🤬

And for trying to strangle her to death, he got lobotomised. Poor martyr.

I remember watching this great movie years ago!! Wish I could see it again!!💖

I watched One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest at a drive-in movie theatre in South Africa in 1976. I found the movie so disturbing - and this scene is a brilliant example of why - that I've never been able to watch the movie since. Nurse Ratched: evil incarnate. Brilliantly portrayed by Louise Fletcher

@ianshaw8428

5 ай бұрын

The movie is very disturbing . Nurse Ratchet one of the most disturbing Nascisistic Sociopaths in any movie . I have seen them in my family

@FrankWhiteSamCarter

4 ай бұрын

Damn you're old.

0:33 That devil really looks at Randall as if it was his(!) fault ... Incredible monster ...

@stevekaczynski3793

9 ай бұрын

I read it more like, "You rebel? Just see my power..."

@KenMasters.

9 ай бұрын

Sociopaths always blame the ones they hate instead of finding their own errors.

The best scene in cinema history.

Nurse Rachet still scares me.

@Imthesoulofthes

11 ай бұрын

I wonder what I would do If I saw her…Probably Strangle her to Death.

This is another level of cinema

Anyone in psychiatric medicine would understand that Billy had a huge issue associated with his mother and threatening him with telling her about his behavior could be a tremendous triggering event. If there were a psychiatric nurse to do something like this I would hope she would get into deep trouble. Even in the 1960’s these concepts of psychiatry would have been well understood.

@vf12497439

4 ай бұрын

@@nakedfreak1 shall I crawl into your psyche and pull out your deepest secrets you’d rather stay hidden? Come closer Clarice…🤡

@user-dl8rt4rt6u

26 күн бұрын

Maybe wake up and be in reality for a second and see just how many people are getting tremendously hurt at the hands of psychiatry. It's made to control people not help them.

Brad Dourif deserved the Oscar in this movie This movie is GREAT. Plays with your mind like "No... No f****n way O.o" unpredictable.... A MASTERPIECE

RIP Louise Fletcher aka Nurse Rachett

RIP Louise Fletcher.

Billy babitt is so well played amazing acting performance, that pure hopeless rage is absolute top acting skill

One of the greatest feel BAD movie of all time. And I like it.

Great job. :) Many thanks for the new film soundtrack. :)

He gets brain shock " therapy " and the chief escapes. Great movie.

@majas4922

7 ай бұрын

Wasnt it lobotomy ?

@Johnny53kgb-nsa

6 ай бұрын

​@majas4922 yes, it was.

When Brad Dourif was pleading and screaming it is almost the identical expression he made in one of the Myst Exile endings.

A young Brad Dourif, getting tortured in-character by a monster who is supposed to help. This goes on even in today's standards but it winds up being a mother with their own children in some households across the world.

One of my all time favourite movie . Jack great actor

The most satisfying scene ever.

that may well be the most heartbreakingly intense scene - and for that matter, movie - I've ever seen.

Nurse Ratchet is pure evil

Great Great film. Such acting!

I honestly was cheering when the nurse was getting choked.

@777jones

7 ай бұрын

She was lobotomizing people. Mcmurphy was attempting a defensive and legal killing.

That was some fine method acting strangling right there.

The young nurse looked like she never liked it there.

Best movie ever !!! Najbolji film ikad !!! 👍👍👍

While being strangled, her face strongly reminds me of people dying from being exposed to the Martian atmosphere in Total Recall.

The terrible thing is, it's because of Mc Murphy that Billy dies: He got fake self-confidence throuh him, to stand up to Ms Ratchet, and Mc Murphy's escape attempt is the reason for Billy being left alone instead of supervised, Billy woudn'y have dared to oppose or be with the woman if it weren't for Randall. It's hard to get how some really don't get her psychological play but think Nurse Ratched to be normal and only doing her job.

Incredible

She was lucky Jack didn’t have an Axe or that Charles Lee Ray didn’t give his sole to a doll.

This isn't the final scene? Chief running away is

@AntonelloTosto

2 жыл бұрын

This is the finale, before the epilogue.

@brilliant13675

2 жыл бұрын

@@AntonelloTosto I swear to God I remember the final scene being when Chief kills McMurphy and smashes the window and runs out? Am I crazy? I remember the drum music... Gradually fading as he runs away, then everything goes dark and the movie ends.

@AntonelloTosto

2 жыл бұрын

@@brilliant13675 that is the epilogue

@brilliant13675

2 жыл бұрын

@@AntonelloTosto but an epilogue comes at the end lol? I need to rewatch and see this for myself I'm so fucking confused right now lmao

@denisepleines1513

2 жыл бұрын

@@brilliant13675 no your not crazy. That was.the true ending scene chief fleeing

I keep hoping he'll leave right after he realizes Billy is dead and there's no bringing him back. Same feeling I have when DeNiro goes back for revenge at the end of Heat. I hope I've at least learned that lesson that will serve me one day, even if it's from a 1975 and a 1995 movie.

For a brief moment she looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall ... shame Jack could not hold on his grasp for just a few more seconds ...

It is so good to see that (w)itch unable to breathe...

I'll have to watch 'Cuckoo's Nest' again. The novel was still too fresh in my mind when I first saw it; I thought Chief Broom was the only character that fit the book's description. But on its own, I'm sure I'd find it to be a great picture. Louise Fletcher underplayed her role to perfection.

@timorthelame1

8 ай бұрын

One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the coo coo nest.

Idk watching this I think she was in shock and just didn't want to have a break down infront of the patients, because she didn't want to appear less powerful.

@stevekaczynski3793

9 ай бұрын

Keeping everything running like clockwork - or so she thinks - is probably her obsession, and she doesn't like anything that interferes with that,

Brad Dourif's performance as Billy was so powerful and heartbreaking.

R.I.P. nurse Rachet. Evil character. Good actress.

Mcmurphy should have waited another day or two before escaping

Es sumamente frustrante ver lo cerca que estuvo de escapar, pero era alguien con corazón en el pecho. No podría haberse ido así,ante lo sucedido. Caray,pero qué frustrante aún así.

Did anybody else notice that his hat disappeared and reappeared when he was choking her? Lol

I watched this as a young boy, as we studied the book for English. Never dreamt I would become a nurse.

Chucky doll is so young here.

Fun fact, in Louise Fletcher's last years (I believe starting in 2015) she stated she couldn't bear to watch this movie anymore because while she killed the part, she was so disgusted by her character.

2:39 "Its a lot of bologna now" bad timing Manchini lol.

Oh man, so funny. Love this movie.

The decent into madness I have seen nurse s like that

2:52 "HERE'S JOHNNY!"

@jamesroales2684

6 ай бұрын

That was from "The Shining."

@zachtonight75

6 ай бұрын

@@jamesroales2684 I know, I was making a reference! LOL

I was 6 when this was made. Now 53. Hmm.

Rip nurse ratched

Geez between this and the book

McMurphy really cares about the people around him but he's a fighter

Great flick,...saw it right after its theatrical run on its tv premiere (Sunday night movies/1975?)....all those character actors went on to great careers,......"Nurse Rachett" was a great name to call somebody,....I believe the movie swept the Oscars in every category, 2nd movie to do it up to that time,.....Everybody wanted to be Chief in school and pick up a sink.....😅...!!

You can hear chuck's voice in those screams Brad Dourif does

He choked the Shit out of Nurse Ratched

The look on the nurses face to Jack Nicholson is that of Cerci Lannister. 😮

Back when Oscars were deserved.

Louise Fletcher earned the Oscar for this role!

Mc Murphy's fatal flaws are: indecision to escape when he can, presumptions, naivety/lack of fact-checking and information before action, , recklessness/ hubris/ inflated ego, dominance/bullying , Acting without checking and controllng his thinking and feling first, Abusing sex and women. All the actors in this film are assimilated with theis roles and play so well, one doesnät think anything but it all being real, portraying different symptoms, bents, being totally different irl.

Sisteme başkaldırının harika anlatımı

Humanity has always been mad and none more so than those trying to cure us. ❤️✌️

What the whole crew on DS9 wanted to really do.

I feel his pain

There are lots of people in this world who don't know they're villains.

BBBBBILLLY

One of the best Films of Jack Nicholsen 👌

Now I know where they Mario Kassar got the idea for the Mars scene in Total Recall. 😳

Oh my God

They all should have joined in and helped him

It would be funny is her last words was: best thing we can do is come back to our routine 😂

Even today If u do this in a mental hospital U will spend weeks in restraints and on those days .....

The Devil wears a Nurse's uniform and her name is Mildred Ratched!