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She has so much power over them that no one dares to stand up to her, until one day when Randle Patrick McMurphy swaggers into the ward, and things are never the same again as he takes everything the Big Nurse stands for and destroys it right before everyone's eyes.
Was adapted into a critically-acclaimed movie in 1975 starring [[Jack Nicholson]]. It was nominated for nine [[Academy
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* [[Hospital Hottie]]: Nurse Pilbow, at least in the film. In the book, the inmates comment that Nurse Ratched would be quite attractive if she weren't so emotionless and intimidating.
* [[Insanity Defense]]: That's what got McMurphy onto the wing in the first place. Deconstructs it a lot, since it becomes clear to McMurphy at several points that he's ended up in a worse spot.
* [[Irony]]: The ''entire plot'' is a large-scale example of situational irony. {{spoiler|
* [[The Ishmael]]: Chief Bromden, in the book.
* [[Jail Bait]]: Why McMurphy was incarcerated to begin with.
{{quote|'''McMurphy''': She was fifteen years old going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen.}}
* [[Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life]]: 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 book's publication (1962) and the time of the film's release (1975) [[Jail Bait|statutory rape of the kind involving an adult and a teenager]] [[Values Dissonance|was considered to be less of an issue than it is considered to be today.]]▼
* [[Karmic Trickster]]: McMurphy again, {{spoiler|though without the usual [[Karmic Protection]]}}
* [[Last-Name Basis]]: Compare: The patients all call each other by the last names, while the Big Nurse has them on a first-name basis.
* [[Leave the Camera Running]] on McMurphy for a full minute at the end of the party.
* [[Mad Bomber]]: Scanlon. We're never told whether or not he has ever acted on his urges, but he is the only Acute patient other than McMurphy who is committed involuntarily.
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* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: In the novel (though not the film) McMurphy claims to have lost his at the age of TEN. Though he may be lying to impress the others. As for Billy, it's implied, though never outright stated, that he was a virgin {{spoiler|until he slept with Candy.}}
* [[Messianic Archetype]]: McMurphy. Lampshaded when he and 12 other guys all go fishing. In the book, Harding compares the EST victim to Jesus on the cross. McMurphy is also friends with a prostitute called Mary. Bromden describes McMurphy as a "giant sent from the sky to save us." Billy Bibbit commits suicide after betraying him.
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* [[White Male Lead]]: While the original novel is narrated by Bromden, a Native American, the film makes McMurphy into the lead.
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