One Flew Over The Cuckoo S Nest Lobotomy
Christopher lloyd as max taber.
One flew over the cuckoo s nest lobotomy. Jack nicholson as randle patrick r p mcmurphy. It s the biggest bummer of the whole movie. This scene from the novel one flew over the cuckoo s nest and the subsequent film was the first time that many people ever heard of a lobotomy. When he is returned to the ward after the operation he is a vegetable.
An injured ratched ships mcmurphy off for a lobotomy but the damage is done as she is unable to control a ward where the patients are no longer afraid of her. This passage underscores the inhumanity of the lobotomy procedure which steals a person s identity but leaves the recognizable body behind. An operation on the brain that makes a violent noncompliant patient calm or even completely unresponsive. Will sampson as chief bromden.
A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. One of the best films ever made ranked 9 on imdb list of 250 top movies of all time 20 on america. Devoid of his essence and lacking his lively irreverent personality bromden and his friends can hardly recognize mcmurphy. With jack nicholson louise fletcher michael berryman peter brocco.
Directed by milos forman. Louise fletcher as nurse mildred ratched. Danny devito as martini. Randle mcmurphy s shock therapy.
Brad dourif as billy bibbit. 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. One flew over the cuckoo s nest 1962 is a novel written by ken kesey set in an oregon psychiatric hospital the narrative serves as a study of institutional processes and the human mind as well as a critique of psychiatry and a tribute to individualistic principles. For some it s still the first thing that comes to mind.
That same night bromden suffocates mcmurphy with a pillow. It was adapted into the broadway and later off broadway play one flew over the cuckoo s nest by dale wasserman in 1963. William redfield as dale harding. Mcmurphy is given a lobotomy for his attack on nurse ratched.