Jack Nicholson In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nst

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Favorite Actor Assignment - Jack Nicholson It was quite hard for me to pick a favorite actor for this assignment; however, after thinking a bit about it, Jack Nicholson has claimed the number one spot on my list of preferred actors. He gets the top spot, because he has starred in many movies, which I believe are highly noteworthy. Moreover, he tends to play psychotic characters, and he often makes a viewer believe that he is truly psychotic in many cases. For example, Nicholson stared in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), which was directed by Miloš Forman, and pulled off the role of a mental patient quite well. Nicholson also tends to have a unique flare about him that makes him stand out from other actors. He is truly a superb actor, for he is so believable. Nicholson definitely played some crazy roles in his acting days, and that is why I am pretty fond of him. The Shining (1980), directed by Stanley Kubrick, is an incredible movie, and Nicholson certainly made the movie just as respectable as the book. He brings Jack Torrance, the main character, to life in a way that I believe no other actor could. Nicholson is simply highly serious yet sarcastically comical in many of the films he stars in, and his role in the 1980 film is no exception. In The …show more content…

He plays his characters to the point where a viewer believes Nicholson truly lived his life as the character he is playing in a film. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Nicholson plays Randle McMurphy, a psychiatric ward patient, to the point of his performance seeming to be of a reality to him. I say this, because Nicholson seems awfully disturbed in The Shining (1980) as well. Overall, Nicholson seems to have a knack for playing mentally unordinary characters. I think this makes him even more of an interesting actor, since his talent makes his performances almost overly spot-on to be

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