One Flew Over The Cuckoo S Nest Mcmurphy Lobotomy
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One flew over the cuckoo s nest mcmurphy lobotomy. Randle mcmurphy s shock therapy. This 1975 movie was based on the 1962 ken kesey novel. 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. The lobotomization of mcmurphy center played by jack nicholson in the 1975 film and others in one flew over the cuckoo s nest has long influenced how the procedure was perceived in mainstream culture.
It was adapted into the broadway and later off broadway play one flew over the cuckoo s nest by dale wasserman in 1963. Realizing that mcmurphy can no longer escape with him chief bromden sets him free from the asylum by suffocating him with a pillow. This passage underscores the inhumanity of the lobotomy procedure which steals a person s identity but leaves the recognizable body behind. Devoid of his essence and lacking his lively irreverent personality bromden and his friends can hardly recognize mcmurphy.
In the decades since one flew over the cuckoo s nest debuted in 1975 it s become widely accepted as one of the greatest movies of all time also one of the most well regarded book to film. Because the scars mark the final victory of rules and conformity over freedom and the individual which chief expresses when he says oh no. One of the best films ever made ranked 9 on imdb list of 250 top movies of all time 20 on america. After receiving a frontal lobotomy mcmurphy is in a catatonic state.
The novelist ken kesey based the character of nurse ratched the villain of his 1962 novel one flew over the cuckoo s nest on a real person a nurse whom he once met while working the. It s the biggest bummer of the whole movie. See more mental disorder pictures.