I can tell this is cool, but I am too hearing impaired to understand the words:

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Jack Nicholson won the 1974 BAFTA for Best Actor for Chinatown & The Last Detail.

But he was on a set in Salem, Oregon filming “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” — so he sent over an in absentia acceptance speech with help from Danny DeVito, Louise Fletcher, and other “inmates”.

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Jack Nicholson accepting a best actor Bafta whilst on the set of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is, and always shall be, the best acceptance speech in the history of cinema.

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1. Here's a captioned version:

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2. Thank you. nt

[Skittles]

3. that is so cool

interesting to see the younger nurse smiling

[Thunderbeast]

4. I loved "One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest"

when it was released.

Sadly, my love for the film waned when mental illness arrived in my own family.

The stereotypes portrayed in the film added to the stigma of mental illness. The scenes inside the Oregon State Hospital made individuals, already suspicious of hospitalization, less willing to seek treatment. Nurse Rached became the evil face of mental health therapies.

Early implementation of Electro-shock therapy WAS brutal. It is now prescribed for persistent depression in a surgical setting under anesthesia (and has been for fifty years). The outcomes are often beneficial.

Prefrontal lobotomies have not been performed (except in extremely rare circumstances) since the 1950s.

Again, while Cookoo's Nest was an entertaining story, it set back mental health treatment (and acceptance) in palpable ways.