1. One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest
1975

2. One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Biographical information of movie: Title, Year, Director
Author and Director Biography: previous work, influences.
Throughout the movie, note the setting. This includes the specific location, the time period/era of the film, and weather.
Characters
Identify the main and supporting characters of the film.
Determine if they are “flat” or “round”
Note if a character changes from flat to round.
Evaluate Personalities- Focus on BIG 5/CANOE from Unit 10.
Note the antagonist/protagonists

3. One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Track the plot throughout the movie. These are the main and notable events throughout the story.
Note any psychological connections
Discussion questions- When answering these questions, please provide specific evidence from the movie.
7. What are the conflicts that occur between the characters or in the story?
8. What are the themes that are present in the movie?
9. What psychology connections can you make with this movie?
10. Place yourself in the psychiatrics meeting. Do you agree with the doctors that McMurphy needs to be returned to prison, or with Nurse Ratched, that he can be helped by staying at the hospital?

4. Basic Facts Produced in 1975 by Michael Douglas.
Directed by Milos Forman
Based off the Book of the same name, written by Ken Kesey, 1965
Nominated for 9 Academy awards, won 5, including the big 5
Picture, Director, actor, actress and screen play.
It happened one night, Silence of the Lambs.
Starring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, William Redfield, Will Sampson, and Brad Dourif

5. Director Milos Forman Originally from Czechoslovakia, 1932.
Parents served as members of the anti-Nazi underground
Both died in concentration camps
Later discovers his biological father is a Jewish architect.
during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968, he moves to the united states.

6. Director Milos Forman Other movies of note
Amadeus, People VS. Larry Flynt, and Man on the Moon
Amadeus nominated for 11 academy awards, won 8
Also won awards from golden globes, the Cannes film festival, and others for a number of movies.

7. Milos Forman Forman had a personal connection to the film.
He stated in 2012: "To me [the story] was not just literature but real life, the life I lived in Czechoslovakia from my birth in 1932 until The Communist Party was my Nurse Ratched, telling me what I could and could not do; what I was or was not allowed to say; where I was and was not allowed to go; even who I was and was not.
Forman died April 2018

8. Author Ken Kesey Born in Colorado, 1935
Raised in Oregon by dairy farmer parents
Graduated from Uni. Of Oregon, Wrestling, football and theater
Attend Stanford Uni.
Won a scholarship, graduate program in writing

9. Author Ken Kesey
Participated as a paid experimental subject in a hospital
Also worked as an aide in a psychiatric ward
Helped Kesey form the basis for cuckoo’s nest
Kesey wrote Cuckoo’s nest in 1962
The movie is produced in 1975

10. Author Ken Kesey Kesey hates the script
Reportedly, has never seen the movie despite its success.
Kesey begins his next book, sometimes a great nation
Focused on individuality and conformity
believed the key to individual liberation was psychedelic drugs
he often wrote under the influence of LSD
Kesey and “the merry Pranksters” would be credited with starting the hippie counterculture movement of the 1960’s
Died in 2001.

12. Cast Jack Nicholson as R P McMurphy Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched
William Sampson as Chief Bromden
William Redfield as Dale Harding
Brad Dourif as Billy Bibbit
Christopher Lloyd as Max Taber
Danny DeVito as Martini

13. Themes to think about. Personality unit 10 Social Cognitive theories
Humanistic
Rogers’ Person Centered Perspective
Trait theory
Big 5/ 5 factor
Social Cognitive theories
Self Esteem/Self Efficacy

14. Themes to think about Social Psychology unit 14
Conformity and obedience
Authority
Roles
Abnormal Psychology and treatment, units 12 and 13
Should McMurphy be in the hospital?
Diagnosis
Treatment
Medical
Surgical

15. Themes and connections- post movie discussions
Look at the later units we covered to make psychological connections
Social psych, abnormal and treatment and Personality all fit.
Conformity and authority are major themes, but not the only ones.
Note specific moments where themes are presented and make the connections to our course content.

16. Flat and round – post movie Discussion
Which characters remain relatively flat throughout the movie?
Which characters become round during the movie? Do they stay that way?
How do our connections to course content explain their changing personalities or characteristics.