People wonder why she is considered evil.... She is a *perversion* of her craft. A nurse should be a healer, a caregiver. She observes, encourages tensions, finds weaknesses, and uses it against them.... for control, and a personal feeling of superiority. It's uncalled for, and against everything she should be there to do. She played the part very well!
Just kinda sucks that people use their power for selfish reasons all the time, even deviating from what their job should be. Look at American Congress, and better yet all US political positions. A system based on bribery is entrenched in our political system that no longer cares about the people, but about money because now "money is free speech". Bit of a tangent there but I just can't stand people who do their job terribly just for personal gain.
I saw this movie when I was very little and now again as a teen and what hit me the most is that as a child I remember my dad saying something about her being abusive but I couldn't understand why he would say such things, since she just seemed to me like a (serious) professional, that just couldn't do what every patience wanted for the reasons she would very respectfully answer. And now I see _that's_ what is the most evil about her! She isn't an over the top evil character, a very obvious fictional villan.. Her cruelty is subtle, in a way an innocent can't really tell (but it messes with your mind if you're in the situation). She played _perfectly_!
I know. And Billy had his whole life ahead of him he was only what like 20 years old ? He was trying to have the time of his life and all nurse ratchet could think is he raped that woman. Wow.
@Aldo Flores Bonilla an amazing portrayal of a truly evil person. She has no reason to belittle someone so hard when they’re actually struggling, other than her perverse love of making people feel small. One of the greatest villains of all time. 100% deserved her Oscar.
Right! Billy had his whole life ahead of him he was only what like 20 years old ? He was trying to have the time of his life and all nurse ratchet could think is he raped that woman. Wow.
0:39 That moment when she slightly grins at the idea of what she's about to do to break Billy all over again. She knew exactly what she was doing and she did it without even flinching or showing any remorse at all. Unbelievable performances from the late Louise Fletcher and also Brad Dourif.
What a legendary character and performance. Colder than an iceberg and harder than stone. In many ways Nurse Ratched is one of the most terrifying film villains because she's not an unstoppable psycho killer with an axe or some kind of malevolent demon but rather a person that could very plausibly (and almost certainly does) exist in real life. A richly deserved Oscar win for Louise Fletcher who played her with such menace and believability. May she rest in peace.
Louise Fletcher deserved that Oscar every little bit. Her portrayal of Nurse Ratched breaks a grown man down into pieces without even flinching. She doesn’t even blink!
@@jurgenbrueggmann6259 Did any of you have any sympathy for her after watching ratched on Netflix. She is to this movie what Olivia Winfield aka The Grandmother was to Flowers In The Attic but when you see what her life was like between 1918-1957 you understand why she went all cray cary.
When I watch poignant scenes in movies from this era, what always strikes me most is how the experience is improved by silence which tends to draw the viewer in to focus more on the actual acting and dialogue. These days, movies don't have that background silence and you can bet your life if this was done today this scene would have all kinds of dramatic and exaggerated musical scores and tension drones etc behind it. It's something I've loved about 70's movies, they were the last before this was lost. Someone put in charge of the music/sound FX department wouldn't be able to sit back and leave it alone for this long in major movies anymore.
I agree with you Steve, much is lost with the superfluous addition of stupid "dramatic" music. This film was directed by the Czech genius Milos Forman so it's not typical Hollywood.
MisterHeroman Let's just agree to disagree on modern films. My horizons are expansive but what I am seeing is not satisfying to me. Just my opinion, nothing subversive going on.
Nurse Ratched has two sisters, both of them currently deceased. One was killed when a house fell out of the sky and landed on her. The other was splashed with a bucket of water and she suffered a strange but fatal allergic reaction.
Phenomenal acting by everyone in this scene and particularly by Louise Fletcher. Very subtle facial expressions conveyed her sadism, her power lust and her need to crush the human spirit. This all conveyed by a simple yet menacing glance she gives McMurphy before she walks away... as if to say "don't ever fuck with me, this is but a sample of what I can do".
When he said "No I'm not" clear and with out a stutter, I fist pumped like mad. When he reverted back to stuttering and was filled with fear, I wanted to cry.
@@joshuagerthoffer2321 there is one example at the end of the movie where she handles their vandalism/sex/alcohol party by intimidating the young man about his mother's approval. Do you have any other specific examples from the movie up to that point? I can see dozens of examples where they gaslighted and manipulated her up to that point.
Rest In Peace, Louise Fletcher. You scarred me over 40 years with this performance. Multiple inpatient admissions at mental health treatment facilities over the past decade reignited the nightmare you created in my mind. And with your passing, those deep cuts and bone chilling feelings return, albeit with significantly less detrimental impact. Kudos on your hard hitting Oscar winning performance
Please don't tell my mother..........being raised strict Catholic.......I understand this completely. Extremely well acted by everyone in this scene. RIP Louise Fletcher.
Let´s not forget Brad Dourif by the way. HIs acting as the insecure and scared Billy is top-notch too. Ironically we would see him as some crazy sort of villain from then on.
There are some future Batman villain actors in this movie that Tim Burton hired: · Brad Dourif as The Scarecrow (cancelled) · Danny DeVito as The Penguin · Jack Nicholson as The Joker · Vincent Schiavelli as The Organ Grinder
I don't care what people think. Louise Fletcher was an excellent actress in this excellent movie. I was too young to understand so i didn't watch the movie when it first came out. But i did watch it later.
The Rolls Royce Trent I don't know if you know this, but NO ONE bashed Louise Fletcher for this role. EVERYONE agreed with you, from the critics to the general public to the award members who voted for her. You're not alone in your thinking here!!
What are you talking about? Louise Fletcher NAILED this role to the point where I genuinely thought she was cruel and sadistic. In many ways, she was THE star in this movie.
Remembering as a teenager watching this scene, the whole movie of how truly MEAN she was!! And then months later, this actress winning an Oscar for her role. Louise FLETCHER was most DESERVING for her win. May she RIPower.🙏🏾☝🏾💜
It's just like Fascist Japan, anyone who refused to bow and pray to the emperor's palace everyday and blow themselves up for their living god (the emperor) was lynched as a family of traitors and Hikokumin (Non-Japanese), to get the civilians to backstab and report on each other to get on the good side of the fascist government. Just like the patients in this story where everyone wants to tattle on each other for Ratched. Japanese ppl used to hang up (heavily doctored) photos of their emperor as all the old traditional gods in the shinto shrines were destroyed, the clergy all chased out into the mountains, and replaced with National Shintoism that worships nobody but the emperor. They were the first allahu akbars, complete with promise that the god/emperor will honor them after death in heaven. But the actual boys who went in those kamikazes wrote diaries about how they don't want to blow themselves up and the propaganda was a lie, and they have to have their cockpits screwn shut and fed meth to be dazed into sitting in the cockpit. But they couldn't refuse because the folks back home will be ratted out as parents of a traitor who refused to blow himself up in 1 of 1000s of Japanese suicide planes/boats/manned torpedos/diving suits. All the while they enslaved millions of people in forced labor and kidnapped or tricked underage girls into sexual slavery with 80 men quotas per day and sliced their belly up for the grave sin of getting too pregnant with some soldier's baby. Even forcibly impregnated them and experimented on them and their fetuses while being alive. Also bombed Asia for 31 years with WMDs like germs bombs and poison gas. Hiroshima was Japan's center for poison gas production, and ever since the Germans used mustard gas in WW1 and got justifiably retaliated with chemical weapons themselves, use of WMDs allows enemies to use WMDs on that nation. Germany has been sending their kids to Auschwitz to learn the terrible things their grandparents did that must never be repeated. Japan to this day keeps sending children to Hiroshima to museums that explicitly say America caused Pearl Harbor and wrongfully nuked an innocent peace-loving Japan that never did any wrong, when in reality Japan already killed 30 million people, and only attacked America because of their dependency on American oil imports to fuel their dozen invasions all over Asia, (which according to Japanese tradition, not once was declaration of war ever issued). Not to mention Japan also had 2 projects on developing nuclear bombs to nuke all of Asia and America. Look up F-Go atomic bomb *There's a good reason 1 billion Asians thanked America for liberating them with nukes, while Japan keeps preventing foreign slaves who survived forced labor in Japanese war factories in Hiroshima from coming to Japan to be asked for recognition.* Even trying to hide how they, after getting nuked, assessed the bomb site with their own nuclear research team and decided that the Americans beat them to the nuke and therefore they must send as many foreign slaves and keep all Japanese workers away from there just to clean the irradiated rubble without any warning or protection and throw their dying bodies into the sea with the irradiated rubble, so that Japan can play victim and cry about it to this day.
So true. What's even more scary is that there are people like that in real life. I was recently reading a book by a psychologist named Martha Stout called "The Sociopath Next Door" and if I recall correctly the stats are this - 1 in 25 people are sociopaths. In fact one of the people that was discussed in the book was a woman who impersonated a doctor in a mental institution. Anyway, this woman was jealous of another doctor who was admired by the patients and the rest of the staff. The doctor who was admired by everyone else was making headway with this one patient and the jealous doctor lied to him and told him that she in fact said that he was backsliding. This sent the patient into a psychological tailspin and the good doctor had to regain his trust. Eventually the woman was fired but it's still horrifying that this happened in the first place. Absolutely chilling.
Totally - I love Sarah Paulson and think she’ll be great in the new Netflix series, but the cold, dead eyed glare in this is just something she won’t be able to do
@@dicarpio2177 Nope, especially not with Ryan Murphy in charge. He isn't incompetent, but the man wouldn't know subtlety if you slapped him in the face with it 😂.
So sad she died, I only got into this movie like a month ago. But I reckon her character here, Nurse Ratched, will live on for generations. She's an archetype.
I just read in an obit today that Louise learned half way through filming the movie that many famous actresses had turned this role down. Thanks goodness she accepted it. We also knew her as the spooky evil priestess on Deep Space Nine. She courageously lead the way for female movie villains.
💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 His stutter went away when he said “no I’m not” but it came back again, he so distressed. I’m pretty sure his mother treated him like shit which makes everything worse when nurse ratchet says her and Billy’s mother are old friends. The fact he’s an adult yet gets treated like a child and gets shamed for having sex is just wrong. The way he acts his exactly like someone who has been emotionally abused, always looking down a lot, quite nervous. Etc the only reason I recognise those behaviours is because I was emotionally and physically abused myself. My heart aches for billy especially when he killed himself. Ik he’s a character and all but I can’t help but to feel destroyed in these scenes
What is unnerving is everyone says they saw how evil Nurse Ratched here was. That this shows she was one of the best finctional villains. But she didnt do anything out of the ordinary. She asked a lot of questions, some veiled threats, thats it. And yet, we saw its effects that send chills down our spine. People like this are everywhere, far too common. Thats what scary.
My statement to make to Nurse Ratchet as a mental patient in that ward. I would tell her straight out lady it's not my problem nor anybody else's problem that you don't get paid enough to be nice to us patients that's no excuse why you should be evil towards us. If that's the case you better find yourself another job because being a nurse isn't for you if you have evilness in you.
Never heard of the netflix thing. When I think of the movie the first thing I think about is Billy, actually. Really stuck with me. Everybody roots for an underdog. She fed the underdog glass.
According to IMDB: “Louise Fletcher was so upset with the fact that the other cast members could laugh and be happy, while she had to be cold and heartless, that near the end of the production she removed her dress and stood in only her panties to prove to the cast members that she was not a cold-hearted monster.”
idk what imdb is but is definitely a lier cause standing only in paintings doesnt prove that you are not cold hearted and considering her age she would probably look like a monster with old (.)(.) falling
@@elliepowell1317It must have been very hard to live down this character. In The World of Soaps, Villians are in the same boat. In The UK, they get it just as hard, folks scream, threaten and do all kinds of bad things.
I had a violent physcho for a mother ...she was also a mental nurse like ratchet ....i feel for billy . My mother tainted my childhood and i still bear the mental scars of being in fear of the one person who was meant to care for us
R.I.P. Louise Fletcher, please spread some love and heartfelt condolences to her family. Her Oscar-winning performance as the sadistic Nurse Ratched in 1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest gave Hollywood one of its greatest all-time villains.
The unfortunate thing about this is that there are nurses out there that are way worse than nurse ratchet I personally experienced it when I was young and in a facility. Now that building was exposed for it's corruption, falsification of records, abuse of patients, and interrogations. It was closed down and demolished just this year and Gods justice prevailed. 20 years later I still remember the hell I went through. Since then I got actual mental health care and am a kick ass therapist.
what did they do to you? there was a nurse that trapped her own daughter to a wheel chair and forced her to fake it and take a bunch of medications and surgery stuff. dd and idk remember the name..its real the girl kiled her mother and was arrested wtf
God's justice? No. We changed the world. God just stands by and watches us suffer. Your God is who put you in that place. Science got you out. Evil people are everywhere, thanks to Yahweh.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we sadly lost Louise Fletcher. 💔 Godspeed Louise Fletcher, you did such a wonderful job playing one of the most evil characters in Cinema.
Gary Cameron Same here. She wanted total control. The boy was trying to be a man. He didn't stutter until she made him afraid. She scared this guy so badly, he kills himself. She should've been charged with manslaughter.
its because he stood up to her for not being ashamed, so she tried to make him feel shame by telling him his mother will be ashamed once she tells her. She is so ugly inside and unprofessional and no humanity or empathy. His fear of his mom finding out sent him over the edge. And he is a young man who had never been with a woman before there wasn't anything to be ashamed about. She made him beg and pathetically lie saying he was forced to do it and still after all he does she still wouldn't tell him she wouldn't tell his mother. Sadistic person. These days you have confidentialty if you are over 18 and even under 18.
Billy should have called her on her bluff and looked her right in the face and said, "go ahead and tell her, in fact get me the phone, ill call and tell her myself."
That's why McMurphy choked her after Billy was found dead. Because Nurse Ratched's manipulation led to a shame so great he committed suicide. She was evil and got less than she deserved
PariSitic Pictures Yep I read the book in high school, if I remember right she was more apathetic and allowed the orderlies to act on their evil instead of being the head of it like in the movie. Correct me if im wrong.
I think the best villains are the ones who don’t see themselves as the villain but the ones with the supposed “moral” high ground, and that what makes Nurse Ratchet so memorable!
I was a naive 13-yo when I first saw this film. My father was an actor who played the security guard who removed McMurphy's handcuffs - so I was allowed to see the film with my parents. I really believed that the man who played Billy had a stutter. I did not think that part was just acting.
Until this day, Nurse Ratched still is one of the most classic villain that ever existed. Even i saw Sarah Paulson portraying the character in the series, it was Louise Fletcher who portrayed her with a sense of malice and sadism. She may be gone, but she we always lived in our memories.
Her hairstyle was actually a huge reason why she was not a good therapist It was an old fashioned hairstyle She has no personality . Life stopped for her
I tried to hate Ratched in the film, just like I hated her in the book, but I just couldn't. Louise Fletcher is so amazing in this role, I love her. =)
PeyserConley X I hate her so much. But that's probably why she's such a good actress. The role demanded she make her character as unlikeable as possible.
***** She just doesn't have a likeable personality. She had to play a character who is cold and strict. Doesn't show any compassion or kindness or any emotion for that matter. As a result, a person watching the movie is more likely not to trust her.
+Hooknosed Jack ...I like Nurse Ratched... I think it depends on the person who is watching her. Maybe it's because I'm an ISTJ, I doubt someone with the opposite personality would like her though.
I had a woman like that at the EDCC was in the learning disability department. She discriminated against my disabilities, She took away my services, and she used my disabilities to make me look bad in front of everybody too.
The key is when Jack Nicholson tells her boss that she's bad, and he replies that she's been one of their best employees for decades. A 'crazy' criminal vs an upstanding employee, who wins? *_It's the popular and 'charitable' people who can be the most vile, because they can get away with it._* They can do anything and the response is "s/he wouldn't do that, they're nice to me, look at the lovely things they do for others, you must be lying". In the end, he gets a lobotomy, while she's still in her job. She won.
It’s called a covert narcissist, I know one, also a nurse. They present an impeccable image to the everyone but those closest to them, and their victims, they dress stylishly and wear their hair “done”, lipstick always on in public, a mask of charm and the smell of hairspray. No one suspects what torture they inflict on people they need to push down, they slowly whittle away the image of the victim in the eyes of those who matter to the victim and the victim themselves loose who they are eventually believing themselves quite insane, due to a technique called gaslighting. It’s all about a sense of power that the narcissist derives from the acts of betrayal, humiliation, torture, belittling, violence, emotion aggression, dominance and seeing the pain inflicted on their victims faces brings them pleasure in almost a manic, yet cold way, it’s like their version of a sense of humour, they struggle with other forms of humour the good natured kinds. You’ll rarely see them actually laughing except from something sadistic. Usually they will have at least one family member who is the classic scape goat, this person is usually completely estranged from the family and the black sheep who is still in the process of realising they can escape from the vicious cycle they’re trapped in.
The wickedness of that one line about telling his mother has always stuck with me. Another is the look at McMurphy a bit later, showing him that she is still in control. For me, this is the most significant an powerful scene in the entire film, including Billy's suicide.
***** Hahaha!!! You wouldn't believe the people that send me pictures of her (from all over the world!!!) insisting I must be this chick!!! I even have one friend in Europe who asked me if I would wear my nurses' cap and uniform next time we're on video chat!!! OMG!!! It really is TOO FUNNY!! :D ~RED ☮♥♫
Flechter´s almost blank cold staring und facial expression throughout the movie and especially here at the end of the scene leaves the unnerving feeling of someone thinking "you haven´t experienced what I´m capable of yet". That´s class! In contrast to the sane "madman" McMurphy she doesn´t shout, offend or act out - she expresses her power just by staring at you. In a perverted way she stays cool - always straight-faced and never raising her voice. Fletcher aims at McMurphy but punishes Billy instead to make him feel guilty and responsible for what she´s doing to the poor boy - cruel instinct.
In 2003, AFI listed Nurse Ratched as the 5th greatest villain of all time, behind The Wicked Witch, Darth Vader, Norman Bates, and Hannibal Lecter at #1. To leave such an imprint in film as the greatest female HUMAN villain of all time speaks volumes. It's a shame she didn't have a relatively successful acting career after this. She should have been a star.
I didn't know that Louise Fletcher was in The Exorcist. But I have never been able to watch much of it. She was awesome as the Grandmother in the 1987 version of Flowers In The Attic. She played the part of Olivia Foxworth to perfection
@@LeonardoRed15 , no I am not talking about the Lifetime movie version. The version I am talking about was before the Lifetime movie version. The one I am referring to has Victoria Tennent as the mother, Louise Fletcher as the Grandmother, Kristy Swanson as Cathy.
Estelle Louise Fletcher was a CODA (child of deaf adults). Her father was an Episcopal priest who lost his hearing as a child when he was struck by lightning. Her mother lost her hearing to a childhood illness. An aunt who could hear taught Louise and her siblings how to speak.
I played Nurse Ratched in my high school production of One Flew play, and I specifically avoided watching this movie until the show’s run was through because of how iconic I knew Louise’ performance was. I knew I would just end up trying to imitate it. Such an incredible role.
Brad Dourif has been typecast as a psycho in nearly every movie after this. He really wanted to do classier parts, but it's the price of being too good at one role.
Kind of like Louise Fletcher in this...Happened to Judy Norton Taylor and Max Baer as Jethro ....Mary ELLEN in the Waltons Thy are great but it sucks when it hurts you moving forward.
@@simonatheod6867 there was a nurse that trapped her own daughter in a wheel chair for years, forced her in surgeries and medications.... there is a bunch of teachers and pp like that also. nurses have more power over pp cause patients are nore vulnerable and women got green card for everything nowadays also...
@@flowrepins6663 Whats your point? Because you can name a case where a nurse was a criminal that means most nurses are bad? I could link hundreds of cases where doctors have deliberately hurt patients does that mean we should judge doctors as a whole? Also not all nurses are women so I don't even know what you're talking about.
@@simonatheod6867 i can see by your comment you a brave feminist 😂 yep some doctors do the nasty also. still the problem is things like feminism saying women are opressed and men are "evil" opressors and stuff. which is the other way around, if a guy like johnny deep had his career ruined by a false acusation and has to prove inocence in a public trial to the entire world. that shows how fk up it all is. i work in a school with children and the director told me never to touch a kid or go near their bathroom, meanwhile the other female.workers and teachers hug and touch them, they help both boys and girls in the bathroom to change and wash if needed... do they think women cant molest children? they do so why make different rules base on gender? i did i flight attendand course and i learned that if a kid is flying alone you cant let her sit next to a man. not to mention the ocean of laws that benefits only females...if im not discriminated everyday for being a man, what is this? the difference is that idgaf as long as i get paid but if genders were reversed here i would go to the tv and newspaper whine and cry to the world and there would be a whole lot of crying and whining. believe what you will.
I just saw an episode of wagontrain. They're black and white from the 50's. Nurse Ratchett, Louise fletcher was a guest on the show and she played a young woman who was incapable of love. How ironic that she played such a perfect role in the nurse. There is no such thing as coincidence. That was God. I have never seen Louise fletcher in any program when she was maybe a teen. First one and here she pops up on my phone. God did that because I was talking about that wagontrain at work. He heard every word I said. No. I doubt very much it was big brother because one was on TV the other my phone. Timing is everything with God.
Watching this movie was a roller coaster of emotion. Who didn't want to cave in her skull every time she appeared? With every scene we thought someone, everyone, might escape the walls of the institution or the confines of the mind. We had hope! Then, she walked in. Chief fooled them all.
I saw the film on its release. Myself and eight mates went along because it was said to be a comedy with some nudes in it! We all filed keenly to watch the flick, chatting away. During the film our whispered exchanges grew less as the film progressed. We all left the cinema in silence, stunned and speechless. We went to the pub and didn't speak of the film, it had phased us all.
People wonder why she is considered evil.... She is a *perversion* of her craft. A nurse should be a healer, a caregiver. She observes, encourages tensions, finds weaknesses, and uses it against them.... for control, and a personal feeling of superiority. It's uncalled for, and against everything she should be there to do. She played the part very well!
Just kinda sucks that people use their power for selfish reasons all the time, even deviating from what their job should be. Look at American Congress, and better yet all US political positions. A system based on bribery is entrenched in our political system that no longer cares about the people, but about money because now "money is free speech". Bit of a tangent there but I just can't stand people who do their job terribly just for personal gain.
Megan Spark She has all the characteristics of a psychopath.
I saw this movie when I was very little and now again as a teen and what hit me the most is that as a child I remember my dad saying something about her being abusive but I couldn't understand why he would say such things, since she just seemed to me like a (serious) professional, that just couldn't do what every patience wanted for the reasons she would very respectfully answer. And now I see _that's_ what is the most evil about her! She isn't an over the top evil character, a very obvious fictional villan.. Her cruelty is subtle, in a way an innocent can't really tell (but it messes with your mind if you're in the situation). She played _perfectly_!
That's why the world needs rebels, they don't let people like this get the control they crave
With those skills, she would be promoted to administration!
Billy saying "no I'm not" without stuttering is the biggest moment for him. Nurse Ratched just has to ruin it.
I know. And Billy had his whole life ahead of him he was only what like 20 years old ? He was trying to have the time of his life and all nurse ratchet could think is he raped that woman. Wow.
yah macmurphy was curing the patients...unlike her who never helped
Its interesting how he doesn't stutter when he stands up to her, he had confidence and she crushed him. She loves putting people down
In my opinion, he was the greatest actor of that scene
@Aldo Flores Bonilla an amazing portrayal of a truly evil person. She has no reason to belittle someone so hard when they’re actually struggling, other than her perverse love of making people feel small. One of the greatest villains of all time. 100% deserved her Oscar.
Right! Billy had his whole life ahead of him he was only what like 20 years old ? He was trying to have the time of his life and all nurse ratchet could think is he raped that woman. Wow.
RIP Louise Fletcher (July 22, 1934 - September 23, 2022), aged 88
You will always be remembered as a legend.
Didn't know she passed away. May she be remembered as intended
A diva for sure
Absolutely.
@@sheisnotmyname She's not a diva, I think you've misunderstood the meaning really here. Louise Fletcher was very humble.
0:39 That moment when she slightly grins at the idea of what she's about to do to break Billy all over again. She knew exactly what she was doing and she did it without even flinching or showing any remorse at all. Unbelievable performances from the late Louise Fletcher and also Brad Dourif.
What a legendary character and performance. Colder than an iceberg and harder than stone. In many ways Nurse Ratched is one of the most terrifying film villains because she's not an unstoppable psycho killer with an axe or some kind of malevolent demon but rather a person that could very plausibly (and almost certainly does) exist in real life. A richly deserved Oscar win for Louise Fletcher who played her with such menace and believability. May she rest in peace.
So true, esp '...but rather a person that could very plausibly (and almost certainly does) exist in real life'.
she was just like my kindergarten teacher...
She is exactly like my mother. The same cold tone, the same manipulative ways. It's uncanny.
Louise Fletcher deserved that Oscar every little bit. Her portrayal of Nurse Ratched breaks a grown man down into pieces without even flinching. She doesn’t even blink!
She passed away. R.I.P Louise Fletcher
(Nurse Ratched)
What a marvelous job of acting 👏 may she rest in peace ! 🙏
Every actor here deserved oscar
She very deservedly won an Oscar for this, and he very unjustly lost one.
You mean Cheswick??? I loved him in this. Jack himself did win the Oscar for this movie along with Louise Fletcher. And the movie won.
Billy, was awesome in this. His acting WAS incredible.
Billy(Brad) did deserve it.
Brooke Hanley you know Billy/Brad does the voice of Chucky.
I do not think she deserved the Oscar at all. She was very good, but not Oscar Deserving in my,opinion
I'm sure this scene is studied in acting schools. There's so much being expressed by the smallest facial movements and word delivery.
exactly...she is still consider3ed to be the most despised movie villain in history...definitely earned that and for good reason... phenomenal acting
When We Were Young and Mom was in that mood we would walk by each other and say ratchet
@@jurgenbrueggmann6259 Did any of you have any sympathy for her after watching ratched on Netflix. She is to this movie what Olivia Winfield aka The Grandmother was to Flowers In The Attic but when you see what her life was like between 1918-1957 you understand why she went all cray cary.
Unreal...all of them
When I watch poignant scenes in movies from this era, what always strikes me most is how the experience is improved by silence which tends to draw the viewer in to focus more on the actual acting and dialogue. These days, movies don't have that background silence and you can bet your life if this was done today this scene would have all kinds of dramatic and exaggerated musical scores and tension drones etc behind it. It's something I've loved about 70's movies, they were the last before this was lost. Someone put in charge of the music/sound FX department wouldn't be able to sit back and leave it alone for this long in major movies anymore.
I agree with you Steve, much is lost with the superfluous addition of stupid "dramatic" music. This film was directed by the Czech genius Milos Forman so it's not typical Hollywood.
Disagree on the modern movies part. Just expand your horizons.
MisterHeroman Let's just agree to disagree on modern films. My horizons are expansive but what I am seeing is not satisfying to me. Just my opinion, nothing subversive going on.
viciousspew
I'd say Only God Forgives has even more.
viciousspew I have to agree with you on this.
Nurse Ratched has two sisters, both of them currently deceased. One was killed when a house fell out of the sky and landed on her. The other was splashed with a bucket of water and she suffered a strange but fatal allergic reaction.
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Robert Dubs HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!
WhisperAudios ASMR I should've done this a year ago, but I nominate Nurse Ratched to do the ALS ice bucket challenge. You have 24 hours...
Hahahaha! The untold story of the third Wicked Witch!
LOL
Phenomenal acting by everyone in this scene and particularly by Louise Fletcher. Very subtle facial expressions conveyed her sadism, her power lust and her need to crush the human spirit. This all conveyed by a simple yet menacing glance she gives McMurphy before she walks away... as if to say "don't ever fuck with me, this is but a sample of what I can do".
then he assaulted her anyway
This is the best sum up
i agree, except she appears that way even without acting.
This is a flawless film
When he said "No I'm not" clear and with out a stutter, I fist pumped like mad.
When he reverted back to stuttering and was filled with fear, I wanted to cry.
RIP. 💗 She passed away tonight. She was phenomenal in this movie.
I just saw her movie for the first time yesterday while she was taking her last breath in real life. I can't believe it.
@@Milan9Zlatangoogle I only saw it in the last month, what a woman! Still she did very well to live to 88
Pure evil. Brilliant acting
brilliant acting, one of the best films I've ever seen without a doubt.
She received death threats - some morons didn't understand it was excellent acting in a fictitious movie.
can you provide just one example of where she did anything evil in this movie? One example.
@@AF-dn2bz Gaslighting, Manipulation, etc.
@@joshuagerthoffer2321 there is one example at the end of the movie where she handles their vandalism/sex/alcohol party by intimidating the young man about his mother's approval. Do you have any other specific examples from the movie up to that point? I can see dozens of examples where they gaslighted and manipulated her up to that point.
Rest In Peace, Louise Fletcher. You scarred me over 40 years with this performance. Multiple inpatient admissions at mental health treatment facilities over the past decade reignited the nightmare you created in my mind. And with your passing, those deep cuts and bone chilling feelings return, albeit with significantly less detrimental impact. Kudos on your hard hitting Oscar winning performance
This scene breaks my heart. Very tearful. A cruel, controlling, nasty, cold, tension maker & callous character she was. They exist.
Please don't tell my mother..........being raised strict Catholic.......I understand this completely. Extremely well acted by everyone in this scene. RIP Louise Fletcher.
Let´s not forget Brad Dourif by the way. HIs acting as the insecure and scared Billy is top-notch too. Ironically we would see him as some crazy sort of villain from then on.
There are some future Batman villain actors in this movie that Tim Burton hired:
· Brad Dourif as The Scarecrow (cancelled)
· Danny DeVito as The Penguin
· Jack Nicholson as The Joker
· Vincent Schiavelli as The Organ Grinder
He was great.
After watching Hereditary, I can't help but imagine Toni Collette being the perfect recast for Nurse Ratched.
Absolutely!
Good call!
No reason to cast anybody for it. Don't fuck with perfection.
@smilebackifyourugly And like everything else she does, she didn't do the character any justice
@@LumpyAdams Sarah did a good job knowing that it's a backstory. You act as if you know Nurse Ratched's story from when she was young ew
I don't care what people think. Louise Fletcher was an excellent actress in this excellent movie. I was too young to understand so i didn't watch the movie when it first came out. But i did watch it later.
Won the Academy Award and she was also a beauty.
The Rolls Royce Trent she was incredible sweet person in real life...
Exactly. She is honestly so amazing in this movie!
The Rolls Royce Trent
I don't know if you know this, but NO ONE bashed Louise Fletcher for this role. EVERYONE agreed with you, from the critics to the general public to the award members who voted for her. You're not alone in your thinking here!!
What are you talking about? Louise Fletcher NAILED this role to the point where I genuinely thought she was cruel and sadistic. In many ways, she was THE star in this movie.
The most coldly monstrous villain in movie history
Believe it or not, Sarah Paulson will portray the character in an upcoming series on Netflix
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@@franklesher4459 yes, and she did so bad
Was actually a lesbian
@@lennonsgirl well I don't agree. People say this because they have seen Fletcher before in this role. Sarah did an amazing job.
Remembering as a teenager watching this scene, the whole movie of how truly MEAN she was!! And then months later, this actress winning an Oscar for her role. Louise FLETCHER was most DESERVING for her win. May she RIPower.🙏🏾☝🏾💜
Nurse Ratchet is exactly the type of person who would have excelled in Nazi Germany or the cruel headmistress at Hogwarts.
Or Carrie White's mother
I am national socialist, Sidolian.
@@youtubeaccount2736 cool.... 👍🏼
@@handsomesquidward5160 or Kai Wynn
It's just like Fascist Japan, anyone who refused to bow and pray to the emperor's palace everyday and blow themselves up for their living god (the emperor) was lynched as a family of traitors and Hikokumin (Non-Japanese), to get the civilians to backstab and report on each other to get on the good side of the fascist government. Just like the patients in this story where everyone wants to tattle on each other for Ratched. Japanese ppl used to hang up (heavily doctored) photos of their emperor as all the old traditional gods in the shinto shrines were destroyed, the clergy all chased out into the mountains, and replaced with National Shintoism that worships nobody but the emperor.
They were the first allahu akbars, complete with promise that the god/emperor will honor them after death in heaven.
But the actual boys who went in those kamikazes wrote diaries about how they don't want to blow themselves up and the propaganda was a lie, and they have to have their cockpits screwn shut and fed meth to be dazed into sitting in the cockpit. But they couldn't refuse because the folks back home will be ratted out as parents of a traitor who refused to blow himself up in 1 of 1000s of Japanese suicide planes/boats/manned torpedos/diving suits.
All the while they enslaved millions of people in forced labor and kidnapped or tricked underage girls into sexual slavery with 80 men quotas per day and sliced their belly up for the grave sin of getting too pregnant with some soldier's baby. Even forcibly impregnated them and experimented on them and their fetuses while being alive. Also bombed Asia for 31 years with WMDs like germs bombs and poison gas. Hiroshima was Japan's center for poison gas production, and ever since the Germans used mustard gas in WW1 and got justifiably retaliated with chemical weapons themselves, use of WMDs allows enemies to use WMDs on that nation.
Germany has been sending their kids to Auschwitz to learn the terrible things their grandparents did that must never be repeated. Japan to this day keeps sending children to Hiroshima to museums that explicitly say America caused Pearl Harbor and wrongfully nuked an innocent peace-loving Japan that never did any wrong, when in reality Japan already killed 30 million people, and only attacked America because of their dependency on American oil imports to fuel their dozen invasions all over Asia, (which according to Japanese tradition, not once was declaration of war ever issued).
Not to mention Japan also had 2 projects on developing nuclear bombs to nuke all of Asia and America. Look up F-Go atomic bomb
*There's a good reason 1 billion Asians thanked America for liberating them with nukes, while Japan keeps preventing foreign slaves who survived forced labor in Japanese war factories in Hiroshima from coming to Japan to be asked for recognition.* Even trying to hide how they, after getting nuked, assessed the bomb site with their own nuclear research team and decided that the Americans beat them to the nuke and therefore they must send as many foreign slaves and keep all Japanese workers away from there just to clean the irradiated rubble without any warning or protection and throw their dying bodies into the sea with the irradiated rubble, so that Japan can play victim and cry about it to this day.
Those cold blooded eyes she makes at Mcmurphy as she walks away at 3:23 are heartless. She is a true sociopath.
So true. What's even more scary is that there are people like that in real life. I was recently reading a book by a psychologist named Martha Stout called "The Sociopath Next Door" and if I recall correctly the stats are this - 1 in 25 people are sociopaths. In fact one of the people that was discussed in the book was a woman who impersonated a doctor in a mental institution. Anyway, this woman was jealous of another doctor who was admired by the patients and the rest of the staff. The doctor who was admired by everyone else was making headway with this one patient and the jealous doctor lied to him and told him that she in fact said that he was backsliding. This sent the patient into a psychological tailspin and the good doctor had to regain his trust. Eventually the woman was fired but it's still horrifying that this happened in the first place. Absolutely chilling.
@@colin6768 I have an in law like this
She ratchet... Lol
Totally - I love Sarah Paulson and think she’ll be great in the new Netflix series, but the cold, dead eyed glare in this is just something she won’t be able to do
@@dicarpio2177 Nope, especially not with Ryan Murphy in charge. He isn't incompetent, but the man wouldn't know subtlety if you slapped him in the face with it 😂.
Rest In Peace Louise Fletcher. Thank you for your talent.
Awesome actress! Loved her in DS9
So sad she died, I only got into this movie like a month ago. But I reckon her character here, Nurse Ratched, will live on for generations. She's an archetype.
She was absolutely brilliant. She played such an evil character so well.
Rest in peace Ms. Louise Fletcher. You were simply brilliant. Well done.
I’m so looking forward to the Netflix series Ratched with Sarah Paulson omg
HOWD YOU PREDICT THIS-
Hope you’ve watched the trailer
@@uriel8510 it was announced a while ago. Wow.
I'd rather not see non AHS-labeled AHS in all honesty.
It’s by Ryan Murphy the creator of AHS
I just read in an obit today that Louise learned half way through filming the movie that many famous actresses had turned this role down. Thanks goodness she accepted it. We also knew her as the spooky evil priestess on Deep Space Nine. She courageously lead the way for female movie villains.
💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
His stutter went away when he said “no I’m not” but it came back again, he so distressed. I’m pretty sure his mother treated him like shit which makes everything worse when nurse ratchet says her and Billy’s mother are old friends. The fact he’s an adult yet gets treated like a child and gets shamed for having sex is just wrong. The way he acts his exactly like someone who has been emotionally abused, always looking down a lot, quite nervous. Etc the only reason I recognise those behaviours is because I was emotionally and physically abused myself. My heart aches for billy especially when he killed himself. Ik he’s a character and all but I can’t help but to feel destroyed in these scenes
I'm sorry you had to go through that. 😩
What is unnerving is everyone says they saw how evil Nurse Ratched here was. That this shows she was one of the best finctional villains. But she didnt do anything out of the ordinary. She asked a lot of questions, some veiled threats, thats it. And yet, we saw its effects that send chills down our spine. People like this are everywhere, far too common. Thats what scary.
My statement to make to Nurse Ratchet as a mental patient in that ward. I would tell her straight out lady it's not my problem nor anybody else's problem that you don't get paid enough to be nice to us patients that's no excuse why you should be evil towards us. If that's the case you better find yourself another job because being a nurse isn't for you if you have evilness in you.
The character Billy doesn't get enough sympathy from viewers. My heart breaks for him.
Weirdos are too busy jerking off to nurse Ratched thanks to the netflix series glorifying her
@@tunasandwich8049 yes I really dislike the new origin story thing it glorifies pure evil.
Never heard of the netflix thing. When I think of the movie the first thing I think about is Billy, actually. Really stuck with me. Everybody roots for an underdog. She fed the underdog glass.
It's precisely that when he's being dragged out.. he has the defeat and anger of a scared dog that gets me. Jesus.
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As a kid i never realized what a monster she was.
An absolute master class in acting by Louise Fletcher. RIP.
According to IMDB: “Louise Fletcher was so upset with the fact that the other cast members could laugh and be happy, while she had to be cold and heartless, that near the end of the production she removed her dress and stood in only her panties to prove to the cast members that she was not a cold-hearted monster.”
After which Chucky was her best friend
Awesome and she wasnt a CGI monster either!
idk what imdb is but is definitely a lier cause standing only in paintings doesnt prove that you are not cold hearted and considering her age she would probably look like a monster with old (.)(.) falling
She what? 😂
@@elliepowell1317It must have been very hard to live down this character. In The World of Soaps, Villians are in the same boat. In The UK, they get it just as hard, folks scream, threaten and do all kinds of bad things.
This motionless gaze at Murphy at the end - says it all, "I got you!" - but no words needed.
A master class in acting, writing, direction, filmmaking. Perfection!!
Another example of how stammers happen purely for psychological reasons, not mechanical.
Came back after the news. RIP Louise. Your talent will forever be captured on this fine 35mm print of a masterpiece.
RIP Louise Fletcher. nurse ratched september 2022
I had a violent physcho for a mother ...she was also a mental nurse like ratchet ....i feel for billy . My mother tainted my childhood and i still bear the mental scars of being in fear of the one person who was meant to care for us
R.I.P. Louise Fletcher, please spread some love and heartfelt condolences to her family. Her Oscar-winning performance as the sadistic Nurse Ratched in 1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest gave Hollywood one of its greatest all-time villains.
The unfortunate thing about this is that there are nurses out there that are way worse than nurse ratchet I personally experienced it when I was young and in a facility. Now that building was exposed for it's corruption, falsification of records, abuse of patients, and interrogations. It was closed down and demolished just this year and Gods justice prevailed. 20 years later I still remember the hell I went through. Since then I got actual mental health care and am a kick ass therapist.
what did they do to you? there was a nurse that trapped her own daughter to a wheel chair and forced her to fake it and take a bunch of medications and surgery stuff. dd and idk remember the name..its real the girl kiled her mother and was arrested wtf
Have you ever seen the "Willy Wonka Please Tell Me More" Meme photo?
God's justice? No. We changed the world. God just stands by and watches us suffer. Your God is who put you in that place. Science got you out. Evil people are everywhere, thanks to Yahweh.
@@flowrepins6663 Gypsy Rose?
As an avid fan of the book, I am also an avid fan of this portrayal of Nurse Ratched. Just as cold and calculating as she is in the book!
Brad Dourif is also an amazing actor, his role in The Exorcist 3 is one of the best.
The Gemini is dead.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we sadly lost Louise Fletcher. 💔 Godspeed Louise Fletcher, you did such a wonderful job playing one of the most evil characters in Cinema.
Two words: Guilt trip. When she threatened to tell his mother I so badly wanted to slap her.
Gary Cameron Same here. She wanted total control. The boy was trying to be a man. He didn't stutter until she made him afraid. She scared this guy so badly, he kills himself. She should've been charged with manslaughter.
its because he stood up to her for not being ashamed, so she tried to make him feel shame by telling him his mother will be ashamed once she tells her. She is so ugly inside and unprofessional and no humanity or empathy. His fear of his mom finding out sent him over the edge. And he is a young man who had never been with a woman before there wasn't anything to be ashamed about. She made him beg and pathetically lie saying he was forced to do it and still after all he does she still wouldn't tell him she wouldn't tell his mother. Sadistic person. These days you have confidentialty if you are over 18 and even under 18.
Billy should have called her on her bluff and looked her right in the face and said, "go ahead and tell her, in fact get me the phone, ill call and tell her myself."
That's why McMurphy choked her after Billy was found dead. Because Nurse Ratched's manipulation led to a shame so great he committed suicide. She was evil and got less than she deserved
For everyone who is as sad as I am about her death, remember her quote "Now calm down. The best thing we can do is go on with our daily routine."
One of my favorite villains. Pure evil.
Parisitic Pictures the book is quite different from the movie. The orderlies play a more prominent role in the book.
PariSitic Pictures Yep I read the book in high school, if I remember right she was more apathetic and allowed the orderlies to act on their evil instead of being the head of it like in the movie. Correct me if im wrong.
I think the best villains are the ones who don’t see themselves as the villain but the ones with the supposed “moral” high ground, and that what makes Nurse Ratchet so memorable!
RIP Louise Fletcher. I hated you in that movie. That means your acting was astounding.
I love the way she acts using her eyes.
Ya can’t teach that!
I was a naive 13-yo when I first saw this film. My father was an actor who played the security guard who removed McMurphy's handcuffs - so I was allowed to see the film with my parents. I really believed that the man who played Billy had a stutter. I did not think that part was just acting.
RIP Louise Fletcher
Absolutely legendary role in one of my favorite films of all time
Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) is the epitome of passive aggressive villainy.
RIP Nurse Ratched. Praise the Lord. RIP the wonderful actress Louise Fletcher.
Until this day, Nurse Ratched still is one of the most classic villain that ever existed. Even i saw Sarah Paulson portraying the character in the series, it was Louise Fletcher who portrayed her with a sense of malice and sadism.
She may be gone, but she we always lived in our memories.
No one else can do those facial expressions, the perfect combination of coldness and conviction that she is right in her methods
Nice hair dew. She looks like she's got horns on top of her head.
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Hair do. Sorry, I'm a woman and can't let that go!
Andolini73 😂
Priscilla Weisher 🤣
Her hairstyle was actually a huge reason why she was not a good therapist
It was an old fashioned hairstyle
She has no personality . Life stopped for her
*hairdo
Even Mr Washington appears to be smiling as he is dragging a screaming Billy away.
Now She goes down as one of the most infamous Movie Bullies ever.
This film is such an intense emotional rollercoaster with no explosions or special effects. Just something to think about Hollywood!
I tried to hate Ratched in the film, just like I hated her in the book, but I just couldn't. Louise Fletcher is so amazing in this role, I love her. =)
PeyserConley X I hate her so much. But that's probably why she's such a good actress. The role demanded she make her character as unlikeable as possible.
*****
She just doesn't have a likeable personality. She had to play a character who is cold and strict. Doesn't show any compassion or kindness or any emotion for that matter. As a result, a person watching the movie is more likely not to trust her.
+Hooknosed Jack ...I like Nurse Ratched... I think it depends on the person who is watching her. Maybe it's because I'm an ISTJ, I doubt someone with the opposite personality would like her though.
+Gramma People hated "the man" around the time the book was written, and the "Big Nurse" embodies that idea.
+PeyserConley X I expected her to be worse when I heard about this movie. I actually kind of like her
What a beach !!!😂😂😂 Good job,Mrs Fletcher
Rip Louise Fletcher she deserved the Oscar for this role
I had a woman like that at the EDCC was in the learning disability department. She discriminated against my disabilities, She took away my services, and she used my disabilities to make me look bad in front of everybody too.
RIP Louise Fletcher
At the end, Ms. Ratched has this "I win again" look on her face.
Nurse Ratched is my grade six teacher who had me in tears once. I know what Billy went through.
i bet she was a femnist
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@@MsSmitty9 ?
@@richalderson6069 I’m guessing you had a 6th grade teacher that abused you ? If so that’s brutal. You have my sympathy.
@@MsSmitty9 Her name was Mrs Mildred. Pious, disciplinary old cow, all the kids hated her.
The key is when Jack Nicholson tells her boss that she's bad, and he replies that she's been one of their best employees for decades. A 'crazy' criminal vs an upstanding employee, who wins?
*_It's the popular and 'charitable' people who can be the most vile, because they can get away with it._* They can do anything and the response is "s/he wouldn't do that, they're nice to me, look at the lovely things they do for others, you must be lying".
In the end, he gets a lobotomy, while she's still in her job. She won.
Yup. THIS is how it is. Real sh it.
It’s called a covert narcissist, I know one, also a nurse. They present an impeccable image to the everyone but those closest to them, and their victims, they dress stylishly and wear their hair “done”, lipstick always on in public, a mask of charm and the smell of hairspray. No one suspects what torture they inflict on people they need to push down, they slowly whittle away the image of the victim in the eyes of those who matter to the victim and the victim themselves loose who they are eventually believing themselves quite insane, due to a technique called gaslighting. It’s all about a sense of power that the narcissist derives from the acts of betrayal, humiliation, torture, belittling, violence, emotion aggression, dominance and seeing the pain inflicted on their victims faces brings them pleasure in almost a manic, yet cold way, it’s like their version of a sense of humour, they struggle with other forms of humour the good natured kinds. You’ll rarely see them actually laughing except from something sadistic. Usually they will have at least one family member who is the classic scape goat, this person is usually completely estranged from the family and the black sheep who is still in the process of realising they can escape from the vicious cycle they’re trapped in.
The wickedness of that one line about telling his mother has always stuck with me. Another is the look at McMurphy a bit later, showing him that she is still in control. For me, this is the most significant an powerful scene in the entire film, including Billy's suicide.
Devastating scene.
RIP Louise Fletcher who played nurse Ratchet she passed away such an amazing actress
Awesome performance. Louise Fletcher is a total sweetheart by nature
I'm a nurse.....and I'm told I look a lot like her. Unfortunately: it's true. Sometimes it's funny........but mostly it's been a PROBLEM!! LOL
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Hahaha!!! You wouldn't believe the people that send me pictures of her (from all over the world!!!) insisting I must be this chick!!! I even have one friend in Europe who asked me if I would wear my nurses' cap and uniform next time we're on video chat!!! OMG!!! It really is TOO FUNNY!! :D
~RED ☮♥♫
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Just as soon as I figure out how she does that hairdo!!! ;-)
*****
No...I haven't seen that....or it may have been a while ago. I'm sure she does look different...a smile does wonders for a person's face!!! :-)
blondwiththewind Wanna video chat with me?
Damn, you're hot!
it's been so long since i've watched this movie.
i see why Sarah Paulson was such a good fit for this role
I love how Billy's stutter lowered after he nailed Candy
Brad Dourif, in this scene.... is just outstanding.
I mean, u FEEL his anguish and anxiety.... He makes it visceral, raw.
No way u can forget it.
Flechter´s almost blank cold staring und facial expression throughout the movie and especially here at the end of the scene leaves the unnerving feeling of someone thinking "you haven´t experienced what I´m capable of yet". That´s class! In contrast to the sane "madman" McMurphy she doesn´t shout, offend or act out - she expresses her power just by staring at you. In a perverted way she stays cool - always straight-faced and never raising her voice.
Fletcher aims at McMurphy but punishes Billy instead to make him feel guilty and responsible for what she´s doing to the poor boy - cruel instinct.
In 2003, AFI listed Nurse Ratched as the 5th greatest villain of all time, behind The Wicked Witch, Darth Vader, Norman Bates, and Hannibal Lecter at #1. To leave such an imprint in film as the greatest female HUMAN villain of all time speaks volumes. It's a shame she didn't have a relatively successful acting career after this. She should have been a star.
It’s those eyes. I have never seen such a hard stare. I don’t really know how she can look so terrifying and yet so placid at the same time.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Exorcist! Two of the most amazing films ever made and she absolutely was amazing in both!
I didn't know that Louise Fletcher was in The Exorcist. But I have never been able to watch much of it. She was awesome as the Grandmother in the 1987 version of Flowers In The Attic. She played the part of Olivia Foxworth to perfection
You’ve confused her with Ellen Burstyn.
@@LeonardoRed15 , no I am not talking about the Lifetime movie version. The version I am talking about was before the Lifetime movie version. The one I am referring to has Victoria Tennent as the mother, Louise Fletcher as the Grandmother, Kristy Swanson as Cathy.
Rest in peace, Louise Fletcher.
Rest In Peace Louise Fletcher ❤ 🙏
Estelle Louise Fletcher was a CODA (child of deaf adults). Her father was an Episcopal priest who lost his hearing as a child when he was struck by lightning. Her mother lost her hearing to a childhood illness. An aunt who could hear taught Louise and her siblings how to speak.
I played Nurse Ratched in my high school production of One Flew play, and I specifically avoided watching this movie until the show’s run was through because of how iconic I knew Louise’ performance was. I knew I would just end up trying to imitate it. Such an incredible role.
I've only just found out that Billy is played by the same guy as Grima Wormtongue in Lord Of The Rings. Blew my mind.
+GracefulDanny Pfft... big shock, he's uncle Chucky for christ sake!!!
Brad Dourif has been typecast as a psycho in nearly every movie after this. He really wanted to do classier parts, but it's the price of being too good at one role.
Kind of like Louise Fletcher in this...Happened to Judy Norton Taylor and Max Baer as Jethro ....Mary ELLEN in the Waltons Thy are great but it sucks when it hurts you moving forward.
He's also the voice of Chucky. The killer doll in the film Child's Play.
Oh my god, now you say it I can see it plain
I worked with nurses like her. There's more of her in the field than the kind ones
I believe you.
Not true.
@@simonatheod6867 there was a nurse that trapped her own daughter in a wheel chair for years, forced her in surgeries and medications.... there is a bunch of teachers and pp like that also. nurses have more power over pp cause patients are nore vulnerable and women got green card for everything nowadays also...
@@flowrepins6663 Whats your point? Because you can name a case where a nurse was a criminal that means most nurses are bad? I could link hundreds of cases where doctors have deliberately hurt patients does that mean we should judge doctors as a whole? Also not all nurses are women so I don't even know what you're talking about.
@@simonatheod6867 i can see by your comment you a brave feminist 😂 yep some doctors do the nasty also. still the problem is things like feminism saying women are opressed and men are "evil" opressors and stuff. which is the other way around, if a guy like johnny deep had his career ruined by a false acusation and has to prove inocence in a public trial to the entire world. that shows how fk up it all is. i work in a school with children and the director told me never to touch a kid or go near their bathroom, meanwhile the other female.workers and teachers hug and touch them, they help both boys and girls in the bathroom to change and wash if needed... do they think women cant molest children? they do so why make different rules base on gender? i did i flight attendand course and i learned that if a kid is flying alone you cant let her sit next to a man. not to mention the ocean of laws that benefits only females...if im not discriminated everyday for being a man, what is this? the difference is that idgaf as long as i get paid but if genders were reversed here i would go to the tv and newspaper whine and cry to the world and there would be a whole lot of crying and whining. believe what you will.
I just saw an episode of wagontrain. They're black and white from the 50's. Nurse Ratchett, Louise fletcher was a guest on the show and she played a young woman who was incapable of love. How ironic that she played such a perfect role in the nurse. There is no such thing as coincidence. That was God. I have never seen Louise fletcher in any program when she was maybe a teen. First one and here she pops up on my phone. God did that because I was talking about that wagontrain at work. He heard every word I said. No. I doubt very much it was big brother because one was on TV the other my phone. Timing is everything with God.
People bash on Rachet but she did some dam good acting
Even after all this time people still hate her guts.
So many great actors here.
The acting in this film was absolutely incredible!!!
RIP Louise Fletcher 1934-2022😔🙏💔🌹⭐!!
Brilliant acting in this scene. Powerful.
a lot of incredibly good actors in this movie.
You will be sorely missed Ms. Fletcher
Watching this movie was a roller coaster of emotion. Who didn't want to cave in her skull every time she appeared? With every scene we thought someone, everyone, might escape the walls of the institution or the confines of the mind. We had hope! Then, she walked in. Chief fooled them all.
Dang this looks SICKKKK
The facial expressions Omg even I got hooked and shook😳😳😰😰
RIP. One of the greatest performances in film history.
When i first saw Louise Fletcher in this film i was struck by how beautiful she was, rest in peace.
I saw the film on its release. Myself and eight mates went along because it was said to be a comedy with some nudes in it! We all filed keenly to watch the flick, chatting away. During the film our whispered exchanges grew less as the film progressed. We all left the cinema in silence, stunned and speechless. We went to the pub and didn't speak of the film, it had phased us all.