And that""s the bet! Now does anybody want any of it? Huh?" Harding, contemptuously nicknamed "Hard-on" by McMurphy, gambles $25 that McMurphy isn""t strong enough."Darabont""s film is a patiently-told, allegorical tale (unfolding like a long-played, sometimes painstaking, persistent chess game) of friendship, patience, hope, survival, emancipation, and ultimate redemption and salvation by the time of the film""s finale.He introduces himself as Brian Roberts (Michael York), an innocent, introverted and naive teacher hoping to pay his rent by offering English lessons.The vegetative, sick-looking, mute boy was wheeled in, also confined in a wheelchair, and a few scenes later, Jason - with an intense power to control minds - had recreated himself as a little girl and was leading the Professor into another illusionary fabrication - the Cerebro dome.He always flirtatiously accepted whatever answer the female provided: ("Incredible! Five for five.You can""t see these, can you?...You""re not cheating me, are you?"), but adminstered electrical shocks to her male counterpart for every response, even though some of his answers were correct.