Flight over the cuckoo’s nest: Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), an Irish wrestler and ranger, is currently serving a sentence for repeated assault and sexual abuse. But the labor camp doesn’t smell good to him, so he prefers to pretend to be crazy to a psychiatric hospital. But there he encounters Sister Ratched (Louise Fletcher), with whom he will have a really big problem. You can watch the drama Flying over the Cuckoo’s Nest today at 21:45 on ČT 2.
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Literary masterpiece of the film by Kena Keseyho is known in our country as Let’s throw him off the bike (in the original One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest). It serves as a perfect example struggles between freedom and conformitywhich flared up in the 1970s. He wanted the same atmosphere Milos Forman capture even on a silver screen. It was clear to him that finding the right actors to express all the necessary emotions would be a struggle.
One of the biggest nuts was the cast Ratched sisters. Most actresses at the time were not interested in playing negative characters, they were afraid it would hurt their careers. Forman gradually rejected Anne Bancroft, Jane Fonda and Angela Lansbury. The role was too antifeministic and misogynistic for them. But then Forman came across a movie Thieves like us (1974) s Louise Fletcher and he realized he had found the right one.
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Sister Ratched as a Communist Party
Fletcher accepted the offer for several reasons. She felt that an unhappy political situation could be projected on the audience through the film. That included how the Watergate affairsuch racial unrest, which she experienced as a child in her native Alabama. He even compared her to Communist Party. She also saw her as a woman who he must be right at all costsas political leaders.
On the other hand, Sister Ratched has given up virtually everything in her life to take care of others. Another key element was her hairstyle. It was designed by the famous hairdresser Carrie White and was to be displayed Ratched’s inability to change anythingas if it froze in time.
But that was not all. Miloš Forman always paid attention to details, so Fletcher asked never to tilt her head to the camera, then she would look weak. But Louise was touched by the remark. She called her husband that day to say that she would be fired from the film.
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There were enemies on the screen, but in private they became friends. Louise Fletcher she really understood the most with Jack Nicholson. But she wanted to have a locker room, she did not share with any actress. Thanks to that, she said she didn’t fall out of the role. The truth is, sometimes she got too involved in it. For example, she sent her colleagues to lunch in the dining room, just as Nurse Ratched would have done to patients.
The last day of filming Louise Fletcher she said goodbye to everyone in an unusual way. She left them a gift in the form of a photo of where she was toplessonly in a nurse cap.
Today they say Flying over the cuckoo’s nest he can’t watch. But he has one screening in Chicago in mind. As soon as she heard the audience cheer McMurphy to stand up to Sister Ratched, she knew they had done a good job. And when the fans came to see her, she felt really famous for the first time in her life…
Sources of information:
Wikipedia.org: Louise Fletcher
Factsverse.com: The Untold Truth of Louise Fletcher, Nurse Ratched
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