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Sarah Paulson portrays Nurse Ratched in Ryan Murphy's Netflix television series Ratched, a prequel to the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest film, the first season of which debuted September 18, 2020. Isabelle JoLynn Murphy portrays a young Ratched.
- Randle P. McMurphy. Played by Jack Nicholson. The cocky convict and rebel-hero of the film. With his wild hair, boundless energy, loud mouth, foul language, pornographic playing cards, ready laugh, and physical courage, McMurphy challenges authority in the mental institution.
- Nurse Ratched. Played by Louise Fletcher. The stiff, starched head nurse and antagonist of the film. Nurse Ratched’s every physical movement and facial expression is measured and contained: her cap is perfectly white, her voice is polite and controlled, her face is stony, and her expression is unsmiling and cold.
- Chief Bromden. Played by Will Sampson. The huge Native American mental patient who pushes a broom silently while observing everything that happens in the ward.
- Billy Bibbit. Played by Brad Dourif. A stammering, suicidal young man with a fixation on his mother. Billy is tentative, inhibited, virginal, gentle, and sweet.
Nurse Ratched. A former army nurse, Nurse Ratched represents the oppressive mechanization, dehumanization, and emasculation of modern society—in Bromden’s words, the Combine. Her nickname is “Big Nurse,” which sounds like Big Brother, the name used in George Orwell’s novel 1984 to refer to an oppressive and all-knowing authority.
It pays tribute to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The music video shows scenes recreated from the film with Anselmo playing McMurphy and the rest of the band playing other characters from the film, and Nurse Ratched played by actor Michael St. Michaels.
Nurse Ratched fights more furiously after McMurphy’s party when she finds her starched white cap—the symbol of her authority—dirty and trampled on the floor. In desperation over the ward’s defiance and in an attempt to vanquish McMurphy, she shames Billy Bibbit into committing suicide.
Jul 10, 2018 · In 1975, Louise Fletcher stunned as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. With Ryan Murphy’s forthcoming series set to carve out her character’s backstory, Fletcher reveals...
Sep 18, 2020 · In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, published in 1962, Ken Kesey introduced Nurse Mildred Ratched, the domineering administrative head of the psychiatric ward at Salem State Hospital.
