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.
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
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!!
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.
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.
The Commonwealth - The Jason Davis Story - Pitch Deck Reel. The pitch deck for this movie project was recently placed on TH-cam; already acquiring some decent attention in just a few days. It's based on a true story, sharing many synergies with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Michael Douglas needs to know about this opportunity; The Commonwealth.
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.
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 !
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
@@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
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
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. ✡️✌🏻🪄💞
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.
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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.
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
One of Penguin's henchmen from Batman Returns is also in One Flew as a patient.
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.
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.
I saw it at the theater first few days it was out..tripped me out..
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is a masterpiece.
Read the book when I was a teenager and imo it’s ever slightly better than the movie.. 👍
It’s nice to see such long time friendship
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!!
I can only hope the movie was a bit of a caricature of the things that happened there.
@@Harlem55 it really wasn't. Many institutions as such exist today w horrific conditions and abuse
Wow that's crazy
@@kathleendobens6648 touché
My Best Film of all time.
I never knew Michael Douglas was part of this incredible film
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
Top 5 movie of ALL TIME!!!!!
So much talent between these two. Their collaborations were pure gold.
Danny eventually got a word in..
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.
"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
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.
These two were great in Romancing the Stone, too. Friends since the 60s.
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.
That movies a masterpiece
Danny DeVito is a treasure. He also has an absurdly large head.
Not sure if it's his head that's big or his body that's tiny
A true masterpiece of a film.
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.
you havent been paying attention!!
The Commonwealth - The Jason Davis Story - Pitch Deck Reel. The pitch deck for this movie project was recently placed on TH-cam; already acquiring some decent attention in just a few days. It's based on a true story, sharing many synergies with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Michael Douglas needs to know about this opportunity; The Commonwealth.
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.
It's only obsolete in the social engineering form they pushed it into. indie films and shorts are still wonderful.
I watch this at least one a year and still notice nuances as if for the first time
I had no idea Douglas was involved with that film. Danny DeVito was brilliant in that movie. The entire cast was brilliant.
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 !
Danny DeVito & Michael Douglas are my favorite actors
DeVito and Christopher Lloyd were new to films. Amazing movie.
I had absolutely no idea MD was the producer 😮!!
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.
Too bad nobody cares long enough to read your long comment
@@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.
@@jackoneil3933 That is awesome!
@@brianthomason5022 ADD much?
@@ibleebinU Thanks, So many epic stories about the making of the film.
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.
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.
Why so short? There must be more to this.
Devito has always been short
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.
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.
Thank you Mr K Kesey for the book story and film
@carolinewoodward1016 Kesey did see the movie but only after he got paid
Dynamite duo !
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
I think it's bull.
@@guineapiglady2841 his father played the lead in the Broadway play and owned the rights to the film version, he sold the rights to Michael.
it was the first movie he ever produced
Snaps cigarette in half, "I bet a nickel."
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
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.
2 nickels is not a dime, try and smoke it!
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".
@@billmalec He's more interested in the naked women playing cards.
Cast of cuckoo's next is who's who of future stars and/or character actors for the next 25 years.
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
This is a fucking queen martini
"You don't count the this and the this"
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.
they went to the same acting school and they were there at the same time then afterwords they were roomats
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.
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!
Thanks for expressing the truth very informative people don't know alot only movie buffs
But it does look very likley that he did rape Natalie Wood though, and got away with it.
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.
"Hotels".
😂
Pretty recent for TODAY1!
Hit me... hit me..
OMG ... Michael is so old now... I really can't handle great actors getting old. i HATE it!!!
Too short!
Wasnt it Forman?
Milos was the director; Michael was a producer a.k.a. the money man.
An astronaut with a plastic bag for a helmet!
Still babes in the woods- best dressed stars keep it real-
they don't make them like this anymore
Did they get any royalties from Dead Poets Society for copying their script?
?
Are you for real?
What a stupid comment. Dead Poet’s Society came out 14 years after. 😂
Yes, are you happy now.
Dead poet's society came out years later
Unsure why MD is taking up all the air time he was not in the movie.
He produced it and is explaining why he chose Oregon . Didn't you listen ?
@@JD-zd8tm but he was NOT in the movie.
@@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
It's literally called "Produced By Conference" (in the title)
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
They're way beyond baseline, cells.
Poor guy, what a horrible cold Mr Douglas has ;-) Actually, it's just in his nose.... Something is blocking his nose from breathing. Gosh.
He had oral cancer around 2010. Treatment affected his speech
ok thx
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
Your parents failed you miserably.
You're basing this on.. what?
What do you mean
@@williamwilson6499 And their parents failed them...society is proving itself to be a failure...
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. ✡️✌🏻🪄💞
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.