Rating of
4/4
Cuckoo.
louis118 - wrote on 02/26/08
The first thing that you notice about one flew over the cuckoo's nest is the interesting, different soundtrack that you hear slowly fade into the scene. It carries throughout with the same pattern throughout the film with minimal change, helping to echo the themes of the film itself. And boy oh boy, there's a lot to talk about the film itself. It is an extremely lucky thing that Ken Kesey didnt get his way during post-production, Kesey wanted Gene Hackman as McMurphy. A scary prospect, no one else could have portrayed the character better. Nicholson as McMurphy, his best performance, a near-perfect best performance. The rest of the casting follows along the same tracks the further you dig. Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Brad Dourif, William Redfield, Sydney Lassick and Will Sampson all give brilliant performances. The film is shot in a style that seems to linger upon the characters long after any dialogue hleping to show their real emotions and develop characters without them having to say anything. An amazing script which is mostly ripped straight from the pages of Ken Kesey's classic. The whole film soars. A simply amazing acheivement, simply put this is a masterpiece, a giant landmark in the history of film.
