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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

gesshotsgesshots Member Posts: 15,678 ✭✭✭✭
edited February 2011 in General Discussion
On ION (Direct TV channel 305) at 3:00 Eastern time!

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It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't. ~ J.B. Books
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  • gesshotsgesshots Member Posts: 15,678 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    10:00 P.M. EST tonight. >TCM

    McMurphy: She was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen, she was very willing, I practically had to take to sewing my pants shut. Between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of you, I don't think it's crazy at all and I don't think you do either. No man alive could resist that, and that's why I got into jail to begin with. And now they're telling me I'm crazy over here because I don't sit there like a damn vegetable. Don't make a bit of sense to me. If that's what being crazy is, then I'm senseless, out of it, gone-down-the-road, wacko. But no more, no less, that's it.
    It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't. ~ J.B. Books
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Truly a classic..."JUCYFRUIT"..[;)]
    Thanks 4 the reminder...
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  • StingSting Member Posts: 629 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I even have the book. But in this case the movie is as good or better.
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  • tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,335 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ...Always liked the scene where "Chief" finally speaks up.
    Great film. I did a lot of exploring at an abandoned asylum.
    It's a creepy feeling....like I belong there. Still soap in
    dishes, beds, bathtubs and whirlpools. Tunnels led from
    building to building.
    ...I found a room full of patient reports, torn in half.
    wasn't hard to fit a few together. Thorazine and full restraints
    were the fix for anything. Weird vibes there.
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,521 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What was "CHEIFS" real name??? I forget. He was a mountain of a man.
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  • tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,335 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Oakie
    What was "CHEIFS" real name??? I forget. He was a mountain of a man.


    ...Good ?????. I don't feel like googling it on dial-up..[:I]
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  • gesshotsgesshots Member Posts: 15,678 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Oakie
    What was "CHEIFS" real name??? I forget. He was a mountain of a man.


    Will Sampson played - Chief Bromden
    It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't. ~ J.B. Books
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  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by gesshots
    Will Sampson played - Chief BromdenSampson wasn't even an actor when he was cast.

    He was a local park ranger near the filming location and happened to physically fit the bill for Chief Bromden, an almost totally non-speaking role.
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932 ✭
    edited November -1
    "Good eye work Martini"
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  • fordsixfordsix Member Posts: 8,554 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    i lived it for 30 years till i got my walking papers ..they stamped SANE! in big red letters on the top[:p]
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  • tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,335 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ..FCD, I love/hate a great story that has no closure. Well told and
    very intriguing.
    ..I find abandoned buildings fascinating.

    http://magnum.smugmug.com/Abandoned-America
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  • CS8161CS8161 Member Posts: 13,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Only Jack Nicholson could have played that role, he was born to play Randall McMurphy! Excellent movie!
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  • militaria1918militaria1918 Member Posts: 465 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I can only imagine the problems you have in a huge nut house like that. I work in a hospital with a mental ward on the 5th floor and 9 times out of ten when a code 11 is called it's from the 5th floor. It happens at least once a week that I know of as I work the swing shift. Code 11 = Combative patient.

    When you are on that floor working you watch your back.
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I was going through heart attack rehab I called the head nurse Nurse Ratchet. She didn't get it.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • gesshotsgesshots Member Posts: 15,678 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Txs
    Originally posted by gesshots
    Will Sampson played - Chief BromdenSampson wasn't even an actor when he was cast.

    He was a local park ranger near the filming location and happened to physically fit the bill for Chief Bromden, an almost totally non-speaking role.
    [/quote

    He also played Ten Bears in The Outlaw Josey Wales.
    It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't. ~ J.B. Books
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  • partisanpartisan Member Posts: 6,414
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by gesshots
    10:00 P.M. EST tonight. >TCM

    McMurphy: She was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen, she was very willing, I practically had to take to sewing my pants shut. Between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of you, I don't think it's crazy at all and I don't think you do either. No man alive could resist that, and that's why I got into jail to begin with. And now they're telling me I'm crazy over here because I don't sit there like a damn vegetable. Don't make a bit of sense to me. If that's what being crazy is, then I'm senseless, out of it, gone-down-the-road, wacko. But no more, no less, that's it.


    Great lines from one of the best movies ever made!!!!
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