One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Soundtrack CD
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
1975, Fantasy Films.
Jack Nitzsche.
Fantasy, CD, 1991, 0025218453127.
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The film version of Ken Kesey’s cult 1962 novel, about a lone rebel turning the order of a state asylum on its head, swept the board at the Oscars, winning best film, director (Milos Forman), actor (Jack Nicholson) and actress (Louise Fletcher). Nitzsche’s score was also nominated, highlighting the film’s central theme of state control of the individual in the shadow of the Vietnam war, in a rather understated way. The quivering, melancholic ‘Opening Theme’ sets the pace with a quietly knowing series of cues that highlight disturbing situations and incidents in an almost matter-of-fact fashion, particularly in ‘Medication Valse’ - the daily round of deadening tranquilisers fed to patients sounding like a Sunday afternoon tea party. Meanwhile ‘Bus Ride To Paradise’ is a reminder of the beatnik break for freedom so much a part of the spirit of the novel.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest Movie Soundtrack. Review: Tim Mowbray.
Track Listing:
1. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Opening Theme).
2. Medication Valse.
3. Bus Ride To Paradise.
4. Cruising.
5. Trolling.
6. Aloha Los Pescadores.
7. Charmaine.
8. Play The Game.
9. Last Dance.
10. Act Of Love.
11. Jingle Bells.
12. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Closing Theme).
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