Any plans to change the site soon ?

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Yeah, I'm a cold, heartless tyrant and N1LAF is a hero with a tremendous sense of humor. You nailed it, big guy.

You got it backwards. You've never read the book, I take it. That's OK. It's common for people who watched the movie as kids years ago to mistake McMurphy for a hero and Nurse for a "heartless tyrant".


McMurphy is an immature idiot trouble maker. McMurphy ends up lobotomized then dead. That's not a good thing.

Nurse Rached tries to keep the loonies under control. Nurse Rached wins in the end.

Chief is the hero.

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You got it backwards. You've never read the book, I take it. That's OK. It's common for people who watched the movie as kids to mistake McMurphy for a hero and Nurse for a "heartless tyrant".


McMurphy is an immature idiot trouble maker. McMurphy ends up lobotomized then dead. That's not a good thing.

Nurse Rached tries to keep the loonies under control. Nurse Rached wins in the end.

Chief is the hero.

I give you credit for calling that one! I never had the pleasure of reading the book. Huge mistake on my part. And, it has been many years since I watched the movie, which came out just about the time I graduated (1974), that I do recall. A quick check on IMDB reveals the film debuted in 1975.

I will set aside the cold, winter nights this year for reading that book, and get back to you on my impressions of the characters. Yours is an interesting perspective.

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McMurphy is an immature idiot trouble maker. McMurphy ends up lobotomized then dead. That's not a good thing.

Nurse Rached tries to keep the loonies under control. Nurse Rached wins in the end.

Chief is the hero.

Chief kills McMurphy after the lobotomy. I also recall the kid with the stutter killing himself after the nurse browbeat him following the incident with the hooker. It's a disturbing movie, I guess the book is similarly disturbing?

[WN9HJW]

It's a disturbing movie, I guess the book is similarly disturbing?

Even more so.

[WN9HJW]

From my point of view, there are a lot of "acutes" and "chronics" in the forum. I think I'm one of the "chronics". There's a "combine" as well. There is for sure a lot of pressure to conform in the political forum.

As a mostly neutral observer I don't see that N1LAF is doing anything any different or any thing more trollish than a lot of others are doing constantly. The only difference is that he's on the "wrong side" - he doesn't conform.

Trolling using "biased sources"? That's funny. The political forum is FULL of trolling based on links and quotes from blatantly biased sources and are never challenged. Bias is relative. Everything is biased from someone's point of view.

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Chief kills McMurphy after the lobotomy. I also recall the kid with the stutter killing himself after the nurse browbeat him following the incident with the hooker. It's a disturbing movie, I guess the book is similarly disturbing?

It is.

Suffice to say, like any novel translated to a movie, a lot is lost in the translation (simply due to lack of time), and a lot of the interpretation by the actors (based on their own methods, or the script, or other factors) may differ from your own interpretation(s) from reading the original novel.