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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American psychological comedy drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey. The film stars Jack Nicholson who plays a new patient at a mental institution alongside Louise Fletcher who plays an austere nurse. It also features a supporting cast of Will Sampson, Danny DeVito, Sydney Lassick, William Redfield, as well as Christopher Lloyd and Brad Dourif in their film debuts. <br> <br>Filming began in January 1975 and lasted three months, taking place on location in Salem, Oregon, and the surrounding area, as well as Depoe Bay on the north Oregon coast. The producers decided to shoot the film in the Oregon State Hospital, an actual mental hospital, as this was also the setting of the novel. The hospital is still in operation (as of 2022), though the original buildings seen in the film have been demolished. The film released on November 19, 1975. Considered by many to be one of the greatest films ever made, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is No. 33 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movies list. <br> <br> <br> <br>Danny DeVito was the first to be cast, reprising his role as the patient Martini from the 1971 off-Broadway production. Chief Bromden (who turns out to be the title character), played by Will Sampson, was found through the referral of Mel Lambert (who portrayed the harbormaster in the fishing scene), a used car dealer Douglas met on an airplane flight when Douglas told him they wanted a &quot;big guy&quot; to play the part. Lambert's father often sold cars to Native American customers and six months later called Douglas to say: &quot;the biggest sonofabitch Indian came in the other day!&quot; <br> <br>Bud Cort was considered for the role of Billy Bibbit. <br> <br> <br> <br>Miloš Forman had considered Shelley Duvall for the role of Candy; coincidentally, she, Nicholson, and Scatman Crothers (who portrays Turkle) would all later appear as part of the main cast of the 1980 film adaptation of The Shining. While screening Thieves Like Us (1974) to see if she was right for the role, he became interested in Louise Fletcher, who had a supporting role, for the role of Nurse Ratched. A mutual acquaintance, the casting director Fred Roos, had already mentioned Fletcher's name as a possibility. Even so, it took four or five meetings, over a year, (during which the role was offered to other actresses such as Jeanne Moreau, Colleen Dewhurst, Ellen Burstyn, Angela Lansbury, Anne Bancroft, and Geraldine Page) for Fletcher to secure the role of Nurse Ratched. Her final audition was late in 1974, with Forman, Zaentz, and Douglas. The day after Christmas, her agent called to say she was expected at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem on January 4 to begin rehearsals. In 2016, Fletcher recalled that Nicholson's salary was &quot;enormous&quot;, while the rest of the cast worked at or close to scale. She put in 11 weeks, earning $10,000 before taxes.

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Grin_Reaper
Grin_Reaper
2 years ago

Thanks for posting. It's been many years since I watched this forgotten masterpiece.

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

Yeah it is a fucking most excellent movie... Others have said, "it's probably one of the best movies ever made." - But this is also like saying one flavour of ice cream is better than all the others. They are all different and they are incredibly great, to incredibly shit, for a whole heap of different reasons, to a whole heap of different people.

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2 years ago

GREAT MOVIE

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

Yeah - it took a few viewings over many decades, to "get it" that while Nicholson was trying to liberate these brain dead cunts, to help them escape etc., the rotten joke of it all was that they were in there by voluntary admission and they wanted to be there.... and one of the lessons in life is to choose to leave people who choose to stay stuck - instead of getting caught up in their shit with them. And look what happened to Nicholson... Nurse Ratshit and the system of institutionalised degeneracy.

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

Had he of gone his own way, and looked after himself, instead of getting caught up rescuing the weak minded degerates, none of this would have ever happened.

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