ECT Scene, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” 1975

I wonder, how accurate this scene was, and also, how things are different now, 40 years later?

1975, un film determinato e determinante.

Il nido del Cuculo viene a corroborare l’idea della critica già mossa in Italia da Basaglia, della chiusura dei “campi di concentramento”.

Una sfida che in Italia porto’ i suoi frutti, poiché, almeno a detta del grande Basaglia, tutti si è matti.

La questione della malattia psichica è stata affrontata da ottimi filosofi, di fatto il male c’è in tutti.

Questo è quello che cerca di far comprendere agli altri ospiti, Jack Nicholson.

Il film scorre,

Come una diarrea.

Dal greco, dia, questo prefisso, indica l’opposizione, il contro.

Infatti,

Pur scorrendo velocemente, il film va contro l’opinione comune, che ritiene che esistano per davvero i matti, come specie da intossicare di pillole o elettro show.

Esattamente, elettro show.

Il racconto si snoda denunciando l’ottuso e la stupida qualità dell’uomo,

Di voler definire il proprio simile,

E mai sé stesso,

Se non per scopi a lui consoni.

Da qui un sistema societario formato da chi “crede di sapere” e

chi dovrebbe

“bersele le cure”.

La società non accetta assolutamente il sovversivo, ma non facendo ciò, non accetta sé stessa.

Il sovversivo è il bambino,

È quello che chiamavano matto.

La Grecia antica, la tragedia, ci hanno educato alla visione effettiva, che l’uomo è un folle, solamente irregimentato da una società.

Questa benedetta follia è la visione più ampia e meno ingombrante dell’ esistente.

Conta su un sistema linguistico nuovo, che crea sofferenza proprio come per gli artisti.

Jack Nicholson è pieno di grazia, e gli attori tutti che lo accompagnano, nella definitiva critica di una società che voleva rinchiudere gli esseri umani.

Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson | ARTE Cinema

D'”Easy Rider” à “Vol au-dessus d’un nid de coucou”, en passant par “Shining” et “Batman”, les rôles les plus fameux de Jack Nicholson font partie de la mémoire collective. Un éclairage aussi foisonnant qu’émouvant du mystère qui se cache derrière le sourire carnassier le plus célèbre d’Hollywood.

Ses rôles les plus fameux font partie de la mémoire collective – même pour ceux qui n’ont pas vu les films – et flirtent presque tous avec la folie : le jeune borderline alcoolo d'”Easy Rider”, le faux malade mental de “Vol au-dessus d’un nid de coucou”, le dément meurtrier de “Shining”, l’hystérique Joker de “Batman”… Dans l’une des rares interviews au long cours qu’il a accordées (une radio, une vidéo, toutes deux nourrissant ce portrait), Jack Nicholson préfère parler de “losers”, tous différents, mais racontant chacun un pan de son identité. Car ses films, a-t-il dit aussi, composent pour lui “une œuvre secrète, une autobiographie”. Le plus spectaculaire de ces télescopages entre le cinéma et la vraie vie fut peut-être le tournage de “Chinatown”, en 1974, quand l’enfant sans père du New Jersey, brillante “self-made star” du Nouvel Hollywood, découvrit dans la presse que sa sœur aînée June était en réalité sa mère, en un troublant écho du scénario.

L’outsider
En cinquante ans de carrière, plus de soixante films et trois Oscars, l’acteur, aujourd’hui octogénaire, est devenu depuis longtemps, à l’égal d’un De Niro, une icône du cinéma mondial. Mais si tout le monde a en tête son sourire tour à tour ensorceleur et inquiétant, le mystère d’une personnalité qui s’est soigneusement cachée derrière d’innombrables alter ego est resté presque intact au fil des décennies. L’énigme “Jack”, jamais tout à fait lui-même, ni tout à fait un autre, est au centre de ce documentaire en forme de jeu de piste. Avec le renfort, notamment, de son biographe Patrick McGilligan, de son vieil ami cinéaste Henry Jaglom, mais aussi de Roger Corman, qui a permis à son talent d’éclore, Emmanuelle Nobécourt propose une analyse convaincante et émouvante d’un éternel outsider, qui se révèle aussi un insatisfait chronique. De son premier rôle au cinéma, en 1958, à son dernier en date, en 2010, elle utilise ses films comme autant d’indices pour faire apparaître la figure tourmentée d’un homme en colère et hanté par l’échec, mais assumant crânement ses fêlures comme son refus obstiné de se trouver là où on l’attend.

Documentaire d’Emmanuelle Nobécourt (France, 2018, 54mn)
Disponible jusqu’au 28/07/2023

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No one can resist his killer smile. With his immediately recognizable physique, Jack Nicholson is a far cry from the Californian playboy, at once undeniably sexy, yet singularly scary… How did this common young man become the icon of counterculture overnight?

His sharp eye and arched brow give his disarming magnetism a hint of menace, as if he might go for your throat at any moment with a howl of Machiavellian laughter. In a Hollywood career spanning more than 50 years, Nicholson has conquered everyone, becoming the archetypal star who lives according to his own rules.

With more than 60 movie credits to his name, and having worked with many of the best directors, from Roman Polanski to Stanley Kubrick, Elia Kazan, Michelangelo Antonioni and Martin Scorsese, Jack Nicholson has helped to redefine the notion of actor and remodel the American cinema landscape. Unmoved by critical approval, polemic, or convention, Nicholson remains the most elusive of American actors. For more than five decades, he has hauled his frame through Hollywood like a predator stalking the jungle, always on the alert, never satisfied, and fiercely free.

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The Shining (1980) – Here’s Johnny! Scene (7/7) | Movieclips

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Jack (Jack Nicholson) forces Wendy (Shelley Duvall) into the bathroom, but she finds that she can’t squeeze through the window.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” — or, rather, a homicidal boy in Stanley Kubrick’s eerie 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s horror novel. With wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and psychic son Danny (Danny Lloyd) in tow, frustrated writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as the winter caretaker at the opulently ominous, mountain-locked Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. Before the Overlook is vacated for the Torrances, the manager (Barry Nelson) informs Jack that a previous caretaker went crazy and slaughtered his family; Jack thinks it’s no problem, but Danny’s “shining” hints otherwise. Settling into their routine, Danny cruises through the empty corridors on his Big Wheel and plays in the topiary maze with Wendy, while Jack sets up shop in a cavernous lounge with strict orders not to be disturbed. Danny’s alter ego, “Tony,” however, starts warning of “redrum” as Danny is plagued by more blood-soaked visions of the past, and a blocked Jack starts visiting the hotel bar for a few visions of his own. Frightened by her husband’s behavior and Danny’s visit to the forbidding Room 237, Wendy soon discovers what Jack has really been doing in his study all day, and what the hotel has done to Jack.

CREDITS:
TM & © Warner Bros. (1980)
Cast: Danny Lloyd, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Producers: Robert Fryer, Jan Harlan, Mary Lea Johnson, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Richards
Screenwriters: Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson

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Why The Shining is Terrifying

Sources:
Making of The Shining (Dvd Extra Feature)
View from the Overlook- Crating the Shining (Bluray special feature)
The visions of Stanely Kubric (Bluray Specail Feature)
The Stanely Kubric Biography
The Stepehen King Compaion
Danse Macarbe- Stephen King
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L’ultima tentazione di Cristo – davanti a Pilato

dal bellissimo film di Martin Scorsese del 1988. Raro cameo di David Bowie che interpreta Ponzio Pilato.

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) – Pontius Pilate Scene (5/10) | Movieclips

The Last Temptation of Christ – Pontius Pilate: Pontius Pilate (David Bowie) reveals to Jesus (Willem Dafoe) that he must die because he wants to change the minds of the people.
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FILM DESCRIPTION:
Jesus (Willem Dafoe), a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas (Harvey Keitel) — despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt. As he is put to death on the cross, Jesus is tempted by visions of an ordinary life married to Mary Magdalene (Barbara Hershey).

Satana tenta Gesù

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) – Tempted by Satan Scene (1/10) | Movieclips

The Last Temptation of Christ – Tempted by Satan: While searching for God in the desert, Jesus (Willem Dafoe) is tempted by Satan with all the power in the world.
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