One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

-Good morning, Miss Ratched. -Good morning.

-Good morning, Miss Ratched. -Mr. Washington.

-Morning. -Morning.

-Good morning, Miss Ratched. -Good morning.

WASHlNGTON: Morning, Bancini. -Good morning.

How you feel?

Rested.

Medication time. Medication time.

Okay, move it up.

Mr. Fredrickson, just be careful now.

Juice.

WASHlNGTON: Chief.

Okay, my friend, let's go.

OFFlCER: Here's his papers, and l'm gonna need a signature.

Whoo!

Hi.

-Mr. McMurphy's here. AIl right.

Thank you.

-All right, I'm ready. -Okay. One pair of socks.

T-shirt.

Hi.

Goddamn, boy, you're about as big as a mountain.

Look like you might have played some footbaIl.

What's your name?

He-- He can't hear you. He's de-- Deaf and dumb Indian.

Is that so?

Come on, Bibbit.

McMURPHY: Can't even make a sound, huh?

How.

HARDlNG: Come on, Billy.

Club lead. Jack of clubs.

Ha, ha. Uh-oh.

McMURPHY: What's your name, son? -Bill-- Billy Bibbit.

Glad to know you, Bill. McMurphy's mine.

Ha-ha-ha. That's old CharIie Cheswick's cards.

-Ha-ha. -That's his ace of spades.

Your turn, BiIl.

Big 1 0.

-Put one of them on it, will you? -Wait a minute.

Oh, I can win that one.

-I win. -Oh, you overtrumped?

-Sure. -Pinochle, huh, Bill?

-You're avoiding spades? -Mm-hm.

-Oh, okay. You sure you're avoiding spades? -What's the bid?

-I know how to play the game. -Five-- Five-fifty.

Oh, uh, you like to Iook at other people's cards, do you?

-Yes. -Ever seen this one?

-Come on, Martini. -Martini.

Martini, wiIl you--? WiIl you play a club?

Whose turn is it now?

Well, let's see, he trumped. Where you going?

-Aren't you gonna play? -What's the matter with him?

-Aren't you gonna play, Martini? HARDlNG: What's--?

-Martini? I wanna play. -You took a trump. You got-- It's your Iead.

BiIly? Billy, I wanna win some.... l....

Get a grip on yourself, wiIl you?

Yes?

-Mr. McMurphy's here, doc. -Good, have him come in.

Thank you.

McMurphy, l'm Dr. Spivey.

Dr. Spivey, what a pleasure it is to meet you.

-Sure. Pull up a chair, sit down, let's taIk. -Sure.

R.P. McMurphy.

That's a hell of a fish there, doc.

-Isn't that a dandy? -Yeah. It's about 40 pounds, ain't it?

-No, 32. -Thirty-two.

I'll tell you, it took every bit of strength I had...

...to hoId it while the guy took the picture.

Every damn bit.

Probably that chain didn't help it any either.

You didn't weigh the chain, did you, doc?

No, I didn't weigh the chain, but damn, I'm awfuI proud of that picture.

That's the first Chinooker I ever caught.

-It's a nice one. -Hmm.

Randall Patrick McMurphy.

Thirty-eight years old.

Mm.

What can you tell me about, uh...

...why you've been sent over here?

Well, ahem, I don't know.

What's it say there?

-Mind if I smoke? -No, go right ahead.

Well, it, um...

...says several things here.

Said you've been belligerent...

...talked when unauthorized...

...you've been resentful in attitude toward work in general, that you're lazy.

Chewing gum in cIass.

The real reason you've been sent over here...

...is because they wanted you to be evaluated.

-Yeah. -To determine whether or not...

...you're mentally ill.

-Uh-huh. -This is the reaI reason.

Why do you think they might think that?

Well, as near as I can figure out, it's because I, uh....

Uh, fight and fuck too much.

In the penitentiary?

No, no, no, you mean why-- Wait--

Why did you get sent over here from the work farm?

Oh. Oh, yeah. Oh. Uh....

Well, I really don't know, doc.

It says here that you went around--

-Let me just take a Iook. -It ain't up to me, you know.

One, two, three, four....

-You've got at least five arrests for assault. -Yeah.

-What can you tell me about that? -Five fights, huh?

Rocky Marciano's got 40, and he's a millionaire.

-That's true. -That is true.

Of course, it's true that you went in for statutory rape.

That's true, is it not, this time?

Absolutely true. But, doc...

...she was 1 5 years old going on 35, doc...

...and, uh, she told me she was 1 8, and she was...

...uh, very wilIing. You know what l mean?

-Mm. Mm. -I practicalIy had to take...

...to sewing my pants shut.

But, uh, between you and me, uh...

...she might have been 1 5. When you get that Iittle red beaver...

...right up there in front of you, I don't think it's crazy at aIl.

-And I don't think you do either. -I hear what you're saying.

No man alive could resist that. That's why I got into jail to begin with.

Now they're teIling me I'm crazy over here...

...because I don't sit there like a goddamn vegetable.

It 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.

Well, to be honest with you, McMurphy, what it says here...

...is that...

...they think....

They think...

...you've been faking it in order to get out of your work detail.

-What do you think about that? -Do I look like that kind of guy to you, doc?

Well....

Let's just be frank for a minute, Randall, if you would.

Tell me...

...do you think there's anything wrong with your mind, really?

Not a thing, doc.

I'm a goddamn marveI of modern science.

Well, you're gonna be here for a period for us to evaluate you.

-We're gonna study you. -Mm-hm.

We'll make our determinations as to what, uh, we're going to do...

...and give you the necessary treatment, uh...

-...as indicated-- -Doc, Iet me just tell you this.

I'm here to cooperate with you 1 00 percent.

A hundred percent.

I'll be just right down the line with you. You watch.

Because I think we ought to get to the bottom of, uh, R.P. McMurphy.

Whoo!

The scythe.

Oh. -I'm awfully tired.

WASHlNGTON: Sit down. -I'm tired.

Well, sit down.

Oh.

That better?

WASHlNGTON: Mr. Ellsworth...

...you'lI wear yourself out. Come here.

Okay.

AIl right, gentIemen, let's begin.

At the close of Friday's meeting...

...we were discussing Mr. Harding's problem concerning his wife.

Mr. Harding stated that his wife made him uneasy...

...because she drew stares from men on the street.

-Is that correct, Mr. Harding? -Yes. Uh, yes. That's correct.

He also thinks he may have given her reason...

...to seek sexual attention elsewhere, but he wasn't abIe to say how.

Mr. Harding has been heard to say to his wife:

"I hate you. I don't ever want to see you again.

You've betrayed me."

So does anyone care to touch on this further?

Mr. Scanlon, would you begin today?

Are you sure?

BiIly, how about you?

No-- No-- No, ma'am.

I'd like to write in my book that you began the meeting.

Just once.

Mr. Martini?

Are you with us?

Yes.

Would you Iike to begin?

Mr. Cheswick?

-Me? Yes.

You mean there's not a man here who has an opinion on this matter?

AlI right.

Mr. Harding...

...you've stated on more than one occasion...

...that you suspected your wife of seeing other men.

Oh, yes. Yes, very much-- I suspect her.

I suspect her.

Well, maybe you can tell us why you suspect her.

Well, I can only...

...speculate as to the reasons why.

Have you ever speculated, Mr. Harding...

...that perhaps you are...

...impatient with your wife...

...because she doesn't meet your mental requirements?