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Louise Fletcher Dead: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Oscar Winner Was 88 - Variety

Louise Fletcher, Oscar Winner for ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ Dies at 88

Louise Fletcher, who won the best actress Oscar for her indelible performance as Nurse Ratched in Milos Forman’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s

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R.I.P.

colonel-kira-nerys:

v-e-l-v-e-t-g-o-l-d-m-i-n-e:

man I wish people appreciated more what Louise Fletcher did on DS9 because like… yeah Dukat it’s a great villain and truly despicable but Louise Fletcher was absolutely amazing as Kai Winn and how hateful she was, but she still played her with so much depth

You’re right and you should say it. Louise Fletcher deserves all of the awards. 

And can I add that it’s a crime that we don’t talk more about this scene?

Originally posted by trekgate

Kai Winn was put in the Cardassian equivalent of a concentration camp. She was beaten, abused, possibly raped, and most likely worked half to death. None of that excuses her later actions, but you can bet I wouldn’t have survived everything that she did without an obsession with power. If i were in her shoes, I would also want to have so much power that I would never, ever be put in the position of “victim” ever again.

Yes, so much! It always bothers me when people say that she is just pure evil but are willing to see  the grey areas of Dukat’s character, because it’s obvious to me she wasn’t always just evil. One of the scenes that hit me on this rewatch also was this one:

this is preceded by the bullshit story Dukat under the Bajoran disguise is feeding her, but the dialogue is pretty interesting for me:

Dukat: When the Resistance destroyed the Cardassian outpost in Relliketh, Gul Dukat ordered a hundred Bajorans rounded up. His intention was to send us to the capital for public execution.
Winn: A hundred from Relliketh. When did that occur?
Dukat: Just before the great famine. By sheer luck, my transport was rerouted to a labour camp. I learned years later that the dispatcher had misread the orders.

Like far from me from defend her actions, lol. Winn is absolutely terrible at what she did with Bareil, both in cheating her victory over him and later on letting him die, and she was power hungry and ruthless and it ultimately led to her downfall, but she wasn’t just an evil caricature. She had so much depth and honestly, kudos for Louise Fletcher for being able to play her so wonderfully when Kai Winn was in actually just a handful of episodes.

captaincrusher:

Another one of my fav Ds9 scenes.

I wrote about this in another post and I don’t think I can say it better now so I’ll just paste that in:

I love this scene because it says so much.

Firstly, about Kai Winn as a character. She isn’t a one dimensional villain. She isn’t blindly following her faith and that is her only motivation. She has struggled with it and have been punished for it. It would have been so much easier for her to chose another path. To renounce her faith or to simply stop teaching it. But she fought for it.

Secondly, about Bajor as a society. Why is their faith so important to them? Because so many people like Kai Winn had only their faith during the occupation. They held on to their faith. Surely partly because the Cardassians hated it. It was always a form of resistance in itself to keep believing, keep praying, keep gathering in secrecy.

Thirdly, it says a lot about Ds9 as a show. This is exactly why I love Ds9. They weren’t satisfied with Winn as a simple antagonist, there to show up now and then and make trouble for Sisko with some religious opposition. Instead they made her complex. They chose to let us understand her. They do this with a lot of their characters and they do it so well.

How the scene plays out comes as a surprise when viewing the episode for the first time. Of course they are going to exchange some banter and then go separate ways? Of course we the viewers will be left satisfied with knowing who the enemy and the heroes are? No, says Ds9.

Instead Winn here challenges Kira’s, and in turn the viewer’s, maybe quite simplistic narrative. Her disdain for Winn is understandable, but Winn reminds her and the viewers that reality is always more complicated.

colonel-kira-nerys:

bashir-one-alpha:

The one (1) time I liked Kai Winn

I still think it’s incredibly fucked up that he raped her by deception, and the show doesn’t ever really address this…? she never would have slept with him if she knew who it really was (hence the slap) and therefore she was raped. that’s super fucked up and the writers don’t really explore it at all.

ds9vgrconfessions:

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[Dukat gets a lot of credit for being one of Trek’s most effective and well-acted villains, but I think Winn deserves just as much credit for being a vastly different yet equally deep antagonist. Every condescending word that slithered out of her mouth made my skin crawl, and her utter lack of charisma even in-universe was obviously deliberate. Yet she was still believable as a person and served as an excellent contrast to Dukat’s slimy “charms”. ]

I’m ready to walk the path the Pah wraiths have laid out for me.

essyltinexile:

I love that no one thought Kai Winn was more evil than Louise Fletcher. [x]

singofsolace:

Winn Adami, in honor of Louise Fletcher’s 81st birthday!