I never knew Michael Douglas was part of this incredible film
@dcdel19 ай бұрын
It actually was his father, he bought the rights to the book and wanted to star in the movie, but no one wanted a film about mental health
@robbyosborne97086 ай бұрын
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is a masterpiece.
@duncansteedman99864 ай бұрын
Read the book when I was a teenager and imo it’s ever slightly better than the movie.. 👍
@draxcir3 жыл бұрын
Just saw this movie for the first time ever today (2021). Know Danny Devito from Batman returns and on. Had absolutely no idea that was Mr Martini. He is amazing acting. Starting to binge movies form the 70s. I am absolutely floored at how much better movies were back then. Wow.
@fluorosco2 жыл бұрын
Throw Moma from the train is a good one with Danny Devito and Billy Crystal And Romancing the Stone too, with Danny Devito and Michael Douglas Both great comedies. One flew over the cuckoo's nest is special though
@123484772 жыл бұрын
One of Penguin's henchmen from Batman Returns is also in One Flew as a patient.
@Reject101Personal2 жыл бұрын
Films are also good now as well, if you don't just watch standard hollowood stuff. Hate this mentality of things were better back whenever.
@oblitafier Жыл бұрын
I hope you enjoyed your journey through 70’s cinema (and a bit of late 60’s too I hope). By far my favourite period of Hollywood filmmaking.
@jeffvannda1250 Жыл бұрын
I saw it at the theater first few days it was out..tripped me out..
@michaelknapp89614 жыл бұрын
My dad worked at that very mental hospital in Oregon in 1957. He was a college student at Willamette University and worked there at night. He worked in that very day room that they shot in. He was an orderly type worker. Dad was thrilled to see his old stomping grounds in a movie!!
@Harlem554 жыл бұрын
I can only hope the movie was a bit of a caricature of the things that happened there.
@lastnamefirst40352 жыл бұрын
@@Harlem55 it really wasn't. Many institutions as such exist today w horrific conditions and abuse
@kathleendobens66482 жыл бұрын
Wow that's crazy
@michaelknapp89612 жыл бұрын
@@kathleendobens6648 touché
@Vitoandolini134 жыл бұрын
It’s nice to see such long time friendship
@stevet828 Жыл бұрын
My Best Film of all time.
@ionpavlidis59789 ай бұрын
So much talent between these two. Their collaborations were pure gold.
@Marlondurran Жыл бұрын
Danny eventually got a word in..
@TheStuport4 жыл бұрын
"Everyone thought we were crazy"...That Line Say's It All About The Nest I'm sure i'm not alone in saying this movie is absolutely in my Top 10
@Harlem554 жыл бұрын
Indeed- its the only movie I've ever seen that I found had me identifying with the characters as real people in the human sense of things. I've yet to see another movie that stirs up emotion the way this did.
@edkeaton72423 жыл бұрын
Everyone that was connected with the film was both amazing and awesome in every way possible. Michael Douglas did a great job as one of the film's producers and Danny DeVito had shone as one of the mental patients. Jack Nicholson had walked away with his first Oscar which he so richly deserved.
@dontlookback3549 Жыл бұрын
Top 5 movie of ALL TIME!!!!!
@shooter7a4 жыл бұрын
Danny DeVito is a treasure. He also has an absurdly large head.
@Anfubvinch3 жыл бұрын
Not sure if it's his head that's big or his body that's tiny
@joeyb4ever4 жыл бұрын
These two were great in Romancing the Stone, too. Friends since the 60s.
@melvert33 Жыл бұрын
Just watched it again recently with my son, hadn't seen it since I was a teenager. Still an amazing film and amazing performances from all the cast.
@warriorv9359 Жыл бұрын
That movies a masterpiece
@ChrisM541 Жыл бұрын
A true masterpiece of a film.
@irrationalmale2 жыл бұрын
I just saw it. I didn't know Louie and Jim from the show Taxi were in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest together. They were crazy in Taxi also. Time flies. I can't believe this movie was almost 50 years ago. Film-making as art is already over in the US. An industry that is so young is now obsolete as an artistic medium.
@KutWrite Жыл бұрын
It's only obsolete in the social engineering form they pushed it into. indie films and shorts are still wonderful.
@Razormiller Жыл бұрын
Amazing movie. Probably my favourite movie. I first saw it 30yrs ago or so & I actually never knew Michael Douglas was involved in it till just now.
@dontlookback3549 Жыл бұрын
you havent been paying attention!!
@candybiller90982 жыл бұрын
Danny DeVito & Michael Douglas are my favorite actors
@print-master Жыл бұрын
I watch this at least one a year and still notice nuances as if for the first time
@NVRAMboi Жыл бұрын
I had no idea Douglas was involved with that film. Danny DeVito was brilliant in that movie. The entire cast was brilliant.
@KevinShaughnessy-mt9jt Жыл бұрын
From the moment Louie De Palma steps down from the cage An absolute comedy legend was born ! A choice of favorite films, is difficult. Ruthless People is in the top three !
@rejaneapalalways16544 жыл бұрын
the real mental hospital made the authenticity of the entire movie so much more "spot on"! Michael Douglas' resemblance to his dad Kirk Douglas is becoming more apparent EVERY day.
@Lightner4455555555554 жыл бұрын
I had absolutely no idea MD was the producer 😮!!
@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb Жыл бұрын
The bleak Salem light was perfect for the movie. Made the movie almost have a documentary feel. Fun fact: last lobotomy in US was 1967 - a mere 8 years before the movie was made.
@spjfrat Жыл бұрын
DeVito and Christopher Lloyd were new to films. Amazing movie.
@jackoneil39333 жыл бұрын
As a teen Who's father helped cast the film and acted in it, I was able to visit the closed set a few and recall vividly what MIke and Danny related. Even Fred B. Phillips, the makeup artist for the original Star Trek TV sires had a "Cell" as his makeup studio. I recall watching Fred test Billy's neck model prosthetic with a hideously realistic gash as it shot blood into a towel I held as it was supposed to shoot a stream of blood several feet. I recall that shot was cut as deemed to powerfully graphic.
@brianthomason50222 жыл бұрын
Too bad nobody cares long enough to read your long comment
@jackoneil39332 жыл бұрын
@@brianthomason5022 Thanks, At least you read it. Fred was a fun and likable Guy, and In case you are interested, for my dad's work on helping make the film possible Saul and Mike cast him as the Harbor Master in the film.
@ibleebinU Жыл бұрын
@@jackoneil3933 That is awesome!
@ibleebinU Жыл бұрын
@@brianthomason5022 ADD much?
@jackoneil3933 Жыл бұрын
@@ibleebinU Thanks, So many epic stories about the making of the film.
@davidevans31754 жыл бұрын
Michael's younger half-brother Eric was at The Institute of Living, a psych hospital in Hartford, CT during the shooting of the film. I knew Eric pretty well. Eric was released from the IOL the day the film debuted. Kirk would come visit now and then, I'm not sure if Michael visited, I never saw him. My guess is no - there was a lot of friction between those two. Probably generated mostly by Eric, a difficult person.
@KutWrite Жыл бұрын
Why so short? There must be more to this.
@drdrew3 Жыл бұрын
Devito has always been short
@thefrontpage Жыл бұрын
Michael Douglas was one of the producers of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Milos Firman was the director. Kirk Douglas, Michael's father, was a great man and a great actor and he has never been found guilty of any alleged crimes. Michael Douglas is a highly-intelligent, smart, talented man. He was not hogging this interview--he spoke, and then Dan spoke. That's called conversation. You can't compare books and movies---they are different mediums. Michael is indeed very much the same that he's always been; he hasn't changed much at all. People: Please, do your research, deal with facts, and stop posting untrue, stupid, unproven and inaccurate comments!
@AnnetteIovino11 ай бұрын
Thanks for expressing the truth very informative people don't know alot only movie buffs
@gaskellr44Ай бұрын
But it does look very likley that he did rape Natalie Wood though, and got away with it.
@lastnamefirst40352 жыл бұрын
Thank you Mr K Kesey for the book story and film
@lastnamefirst4035 Жыл бұрын
@carolinewoodward1016 Kesey did see the movie but only after he got paid
@mikelaird5458 Жыл бұрын
Cast of cuckoo's next is who's who of future stars and/or character actors for the next 25 years.
@uncletiggermclaren75924 ай бұрын
It amazes me how much has changed since that movie was first shown in 1976 in my home town of Auckland New Zealand. It was restricted to people over 16, as films automatically were in those days, if they had any anti-authoritarianism, any questioning of "the experts". You had always been allowed to watch Tom Mix shooting down guys who wore black hats, but you couldn't be allowed to watch people fighting injustice. And in fact, at the very same time as it was shown, there were people in our state mental institutions, being subjected to actual medical procedures that the Nation had written laws against, the medical research establishment had decided were no longer justified and potentially harmful. And even though repeated efforts by family and ex-patients were made, to get the procedures stopped, simply because those "hospitals" were under the authority of an elderly, high ranked medical professor who had a knighthood,* they carried on with their outmoded and harmful practices because people didn't like to upset him. * For medical discoveries he had made prior to WW2. Important at the time, but no reason to treat his whims and outmoded thinking as sacrosanct.
@X150t3 жыл бұрын
I actually never knew Michael had anything to do with the movie until now, I didn't know he was producing way back in the 70s
@guineapiglady28413 жыл бұрын
I think it's bull.
@WorldwideWyatt2 жыл бұрын
@@guineapiglady2841 his father played the lead in the Broadway play and owned the rights to the film version, he sold the rights to Michael.
@dontlookback3549 Жыл бұрын
it was the first movie he ever produced
@jpgabriele95962 жыл бұрын
Dynamite duo !
@josephkolozi9364 Жыл бұрын
Great cast. Was the first I ever saw most of them. A few years later Taxi benefited from Danny Devito and Christopher Lloyd. I pre fear the book’s perspective but it was a great picture in its own way.
@ganglabesh Жыл бұрын
around 1999 our history teacher was retiring and his last year all we did in class was play monopoly, watch Mr. bean, watch Seinfeld, watch films like one flew
@perspellman3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely too short. Recommend the film about the film, a more than one hour documentary that is on the official DVD. About the way director Milos Forman hoped for the actors to become more hospitalized; it also resulted in a mental distance between actors, the "patients" and Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched in particular. It turned out that she started to feel like a real outsider, truly disliked, and that the others went too far into their roles, like also discribed here with Nicholson's early reaction. One day she decided to distract their mental bubble. Underneath her white uniform she wore some quite sexy lingerie, and without warning she buttoned up the uniform and had a little dance for them. Just imagine! Regardeless, there are reasons to why this film is so highly recognized, and that the audience really believe in the characters.
@Beeznitchio Жыл бұрын
How do they decide which titles that they are associated with to put under their name? The Kominsky Method which I'm sure most don't know, but it is one of his latest so I can see a logic. However, for Devito, they then go with War of the Roses and Matilda. I assume it is because they wanted to use his director credits and not just actors, but he has directed more recent films. I would buy those are some of his bigger films, but that points back to Kominsky Method. Kind of weird.
@jsusna1972 Жыл бұрын
Snaps cigarette in half, "I bet a nickel."
@tonyclifton265 Жыл бұрын
a friend of mine in NY saw michael douglas in public and shouted "you cant bet a nickel, martini!" michael douglas cracked up and joined my friend for a selfie. i guess he gets sick of wall street "greed is good" quotes and the cuckoo's nest reference was a refreshing change
@duewhit310 Жыл бұрын
2 nickels is not a dime, try and smoke it!
@billmalec Жыл бұрын
It was more like..."this is a dime (the whole cigarette). If you break it in half, you don't get two nickels, you get shit".
@gaskellr44Ай бұрын
@@billmalec He's more interested in the naked women playing cards.
@zedblix10892 жыл бұрын
This is a fucking queen martini
@s3dchr2 жыл бұрын
"You don't count the this and the this"
@jasonsmith83004 жыл бұрын
they went to the same acting school and they were there at the same time then afterwords they were roomats
@donelmore2540 Жыл бұрын
I don’t think there’s any way in hell that you would be allowed to film a movie in a mental treatment facility with patients today.
@NelsMala6 ай бұрын
OMG ... Michael is so old now... I really can't handle great actors getting old. i HATE it!!!
@schoolfoodtray9085 жыл бұрын
Pretty recent for TODAY1!
@robertleslie2467 Жыл бұрын
"Hotels".
@davidsegaldrums Жыл бұрын
😂
@roquefortfiles Жыл бұрын
Hit me... hit me..
@X150t3 жыл бұрын
Too short!
@peterkawe64512 жыл бұрын
Wasnt it Forman?
@jumpinjohn80262 жыл бұрын
Milos was the director; Michael was a producer a.k.a. the money man.
@urosmarjanovic663 Жыл бұрын
An astronaut with a plastic bag for a helmet!
@mjackson4082 жыл бұрын
Still babes in the woods- best dressed stars keep it real-
@danielh9844 Жыл бұрын
Did they get any royalties from Dead Poets Society for copying their script?
@mikehunt6511 Жыл бұрын
?
@maxzzyzxx Жыл бұрын
Are you for real?
@murpho999 Жыл бұрын
What a stupid comment. Dead Poet’s Society came out 14 years after. 😂
@melvert33 Жыл бұрын
Yes, are you happy now.
@alanpage3973 Жыл бұрын
Dead poet's society came out years later
@tomallen5837 Жыл бұрын
Poor guy, what a horrible cold Mr Douglas has ;-) Actually, it's just in his nose.... Something is blocking his nose from breathing. Gosh.
@drdrew3 Жыл бұрын
He had oral cancer around 2010. Treatment affected his speech
@tomallen5837 Жыл бұрын
ok thx
@TimTheMusicMan2 жыл бұрын
Unsure why MD is taking up all the air time he was not in the movie.
@JD-zd8tm2 жыл бұрын
He produced it and is explaining why he chose Oregon . Didn't you listen ?
@TimTheMusicMan2 жыл бұрын
@@JD-zd8tm but he was NOT in the movie.
@JD-zd8tm2 жыл бұрын
@@TimTheMusicMan I know he wasn't in the movie BUT he was the producer meaning he put the movie together and was around the set that he chose a lot and that's why he was talking about his POV
@SorryImSam2 жыл бұрын
It's literally called "Produced By Conference" (in the title)
@Reject101Personal2 жыл бұрын
His father had the rights and was in the play. He got the rights from his dad and if it wasn't for Micheal the film would have never been made at all. He has as much right, maybe more than Danny to be talking about it. Bloody educate yourself
@zeigbert1743 Жыл бұрын
They're way beyond baseline, cells.
@mcarlkv53 Жыл бұрын
Know matter how talented you are like Danny Devito if he wasn’t friends with Jewish Michael Douglas you would have never heard of him
@williamwilson6499 Жыл бұрын
Your parents failed you miserably.
@sbonamo Жыл бұрын
You're basing this on.. what?
@paulrashid6529 Жыл бұрын
What do you mean
@GodIsADelusion Жыл бұрын
@@williamwilson6499 And their parents failed them...society is proving itself to be a failure...
@natalie651 Жыл бұрын
they don't make them like this anymore
@kristine8338 Жыл бұрын
You never had the real deal, gentlemen. I hope you invested some money into the facilities just for doing justice… if not, you can still do this. From a mother of a son who suffers from bipolar disorder. ✡️✌🏻🪄💞
@justinhopper5941 Жыл бұрын
They did have the real deal though. They used real patients and some doctors in the film. The other patients in the hospital they were at also helped on production of the film.