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Phee is absolutely right.
That was a def nod to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.Ken Keasey wrote the novel and was friends with Jack Kerouac.
Jack Kerouac used the Real Neal Cassady as inspiration for his character Dean Moriarty in his novel ‘On the Road’.
Keasey used Neal as inspiration for the character Mac in ‘One Flew Over the Cuskoo’s Nest’.
Love how they connect everything 🙂
[adrotate group="5"]@Phee wrote:
@SwanHook wrote:
But one question, how do we know she is Nurse Ratched. I’d never heared of her before so I did a search on her, and from what I read she’s a mean lady. But I don’t know what points to the nurse being her?
She looks exactly like her (the hair style is a dead giveaway) and K&H confirm it in this interview (about 20 seconds in): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3coE2hSXTU
Anyone who has seen the movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, would have automatically recognized the Severe Nurse as Louise Fletcher’s Nurse Ratched. That hair was a dead giveaway! 😆
Her appearance, in Skin Deep, was immediately followed by the appearance of Chief Bromden (the custodian pushing a mop in the hospital basement) from the movie Cuckoo’s Nest. Brad Dourif, who got his first big role playing Billy in the movie, also played the beggar/Zoso in Desperate Souls. The author of the book, Ken Kesey, based the main character McMurphy on the real Neal Cassady and of course OUAT’s Neal Cassidy is based on the real Neal Cassady as well.
I love how K&H throw out these nods to the literary greats such as Kesey and Kerouac. I just hope we get to see a scene, at some point, where someone actually offers the custodian (Chief Bromden) a piece of Juicy Fruit Gum. 😆
Keeper of Pandora's Box & The Yellow Brick Road.
@Gypsy wrote:
Phee is absolutely right.
That was a def nod to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.Ken Keasey wrote the novel and was friends with Jack Kerouac.
Jack Kerouac used the Real Neal Cassady as inspiration for his character Dean Moriarty in his novel ‘On the Road’.
Keasey used Neal as inspiration for the character Mac in ‘One Flew Over the Cuskoo’s Nest’.
Love how they connect everything 🙂
LOL! Gypsy! I started my post, stepped away for a phone call, came back, posted and then saw your post! Too funny! 😆
Keeper of Pandora's Box & The Yellow Brick Road.
I don’t know if she actually *is* Nurse Ratched as part of the show’s storyline. I think she was just made to resemble her as a gag- a nod to the character, but it remains to be seen if she actually behaves like her.
@AngieBelle wrote:
I don’t know if she actually *is* Nurse Ratched as part of the show’s storyline. I think she was just made to resemble her as a gag- a nod to the character, but it remains to be seen if she actually behaves like her.
Perhaps, however, considering that her appearance matches the notorious Nurse Ratched and that she was, in fact, the nurse that oversaw the psychiatric ward for the SB Hospital, I’d lay my money down on her being one nasty piece of business.
Apparently some people are even speculating that her fairy tale character may be Ursula. 😉
Keeper of Pandora's Box & The Yellow Brick Road.
@TheGoldenKey wrote:
@AngieBelle wrote:
I don’t know if she actually *is* Nurse Ratched as part of the show’s storyline. I think she was just made to resemble her as a gag- a nod to the character, but it remains to be seen if she actually behaves like her.
Perhaps, however, considering that her appearance matches the notorious Nurse Ratched and that she was, in fact, the nurse that oversaw the psychiatric ward for the SB Hospital, I’d lay my money down on her being one nasty piece of business.
Apparently some people are even speculating that her fairy tale character may be Ursula. 😉
I could have written it off as just being an innocent nod to the character from the book if it had been left at just one visual reference. But seeing Eddy Kitsis say, “Sure looked like Nurse Ratched to me,” with a sly grin, makes me believe that she IS that character from the book. The whole setup of the psych ward, the secret entrance, having it in a dank, dark basement environment, with sparse cells instead of rooms, plus the fact that Sidney got locked up there just so Regina could stash him somewhere out of the way, that all adds to the sinister feeling of it all. And now they’re making a point of using that same nurse again, in a scene with an out of control mental patient, when they could have had any random nurse in the scene. That cements for me that she’s Ratched in particular, and she’s bad news.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_RatchedHopefully, If she is put in charge of Belle and she does wind up being like this Nurse Ratched, it won’t take long for Rumple to find out.
Aww, poor Belle. She’s going to be an absolute wreck for the next few weeks. 🙁 But I’m glad Ruby is offering to take care of her. Ruby’s a sweetheart and has enough wolf strength to keep a handle on Belle’s freak outs.
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