One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Difference between revisions

* [[Go Among Mad People]]

* {{spoiler|[[The Hero Dies]]}}

* [[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.

** When Chief Bromden speaks just after McMurphy offers him a piece of gum, this is a reference to a real indicent when a catatonic schizophrenic who had been silent for 19 years finally spoke after he was reinforced with chewing gum.

** When Harding describes the origins of electroconvulsive therapy, the bit about two psychiatrists visiting a slaughterhouse is not made up: those were Cerletti and Bini, who visited an abattoir in 1938 and got the idea that an epileptic fit could be induced by electricity. The idea that inducing seizures could have therapeutic effects, however, was proposed a few years earlier. Harding's [[Brief Accent Imitation]] of them, however, as Germans, is false. As is evident by their names, they were Italian.

* [[The Sociopath]]: What McMurphy pretends to be to get committed.

* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: Bromden.