One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Directed by Miloš Forman · Cinematography by Haskell Wexler
R133 min258 frames
Drama
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What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest about?
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American psychological comedy-drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey. The film stars Jack Nicholson as a new patient at a mental institution and Louise Fletcher as the abusive head nurse. Will Sampson, Danny DeVito, Sydney Lassick, William Redfield, Christopher Lloyd, and Brad Dourif play supporting roles, with the latter two making their feature-film debuts and Sampson having never acted before.
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What does the cinematography of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest look like?
Sampled across 200 frames, the coverage of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest leans on medium shots (61% of the sample) and close-ups (18%). Cinematographer Haskell Wexler keeps 42% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 65% of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 67% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1970s.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) are #33302d, #d5d3cc, #53514b, #f6f6f4, #b0b1ac, #cfc7b5 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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