Climaxes of "Cutter's Way" vs "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and Their Music (SPOILERS FOR BOTH)

1975's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was a blockbuster hit that also won Best Picture, Actor, Actress, and more.

1981's Cutter's Way was a little seen flop of a movie -- which certainly has its cult, nonetheless.

The two films share something though: musical scores by Jack Nitschze. I'm not familiar with all of Jack's scores, but I definitely know the Cuckoo's Nest score, and I could hear its weirdness(atonal strings and zithers and "bending" tuneforks or some such) in Cutter's Way.

But the two films really show off Jack's power at their respective climaxes:

CUCKOO"S NEST: The mute Indian manages to rip the water tank out of the floor(Nicholson could not), heave it through a window, and to make his running escape from the asylum.

CUTTER'S WAY: Cutter hijacks his rich foe's white stallion and rides the steed a long distance over Santa Barbara backyard mansion party terrain, knocking over tents and tables and forcing guests to scatter as he bears down on the mansion and the villain he wants to kill.

Great, rousing scenes, both -- and Jack Nitschzke's music in both cases SOARS to bring the audience a sense of triumph and excitement. That both "triumphs" are undercut by failure(Nicholson had to die to inspire the Indian to escape; Heard is shot and dies trying to get the bad guy)...we still get a "good feeling" from some music which is at once very exciting and extremely weird.

There ain't nothin' like it anywhere else in movies.