Jack Nicholson did not want to go to the Oscar. It was 1976 and was nominated for the best actor “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Milos Forman The film, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a nationwide dramatic re-relief on July 13 and 16, became a sensation-the second largest earning photo of 1975, Behind the “jaw”, And nine were received Oscar nomination,
But Nicolson was not feeling optimistic. In five years, he was already nominated five times. He also lost five times. And he told his creator, Michael DouglasThat he could not go through it again.
Douglas said in an interview with The Associated Press recently, “I remember how difficult I was to come to the ceremony. He was very reluctant, but we took him there.” “And then definitely we lost four awards. Jack was sitting right in front of me and bent back and said ‘Oh, Mickey D, Mickey D, I told you, man.’ I just said, ‘Wait there.’ ,
Douglas, of course, was correct. “One Flave Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” “Big Five” – Screen, director, actor, actress and picture – will go to sweep the first film to do so in 41 years, (It’s Han One Night, “in 1934), which is only” The Silence of the Lambs “. She was one of the many worshiped moments for a film that no one wanted to make or distribute, which stood on the test of quite a literal time.
“This is my first 50th anniversary,” said Douglas. “This is the first film that I have ever made. There is a film that is so permanent that people get a lot, it is a wonderful feeling. It is bringing back a lot of great memories.”
The film conversion of Ken Casey’s countercractive novel was a decisive moment for Hollywood’s son Douglas, stuck in television and his father, Kirk Douglas found a lifeline for the film, was given book rights, and many were like unknown artists. Danny davito And Christopher Lloyd.
Devito was actually officially the first person. Douglas, who was known for about 10 years, brought the foreman to see Martini playing on stage.
“Millo said, ‘Yes! Danny! Perfect! Cast!’ Douglas said in his best check tone. But I always knew how talented he was.
A joyful shoot
Although the topics of the film are challenging, it was not a tortured shoot from any stretch unlike its many new Hollywood contemporaries. He had his annoyance (such as foreman refused to show the cast Dillies) and more severe tests (he was halfway to know that William was dying of redfield redfield leukemia), but it was fun for most parts.
“We were very serious about the work, because meet was very serious. And we had the content, the work of Casey, and reverence for him. We were not trivial about it. But we had a ball,” Davito said laughing.
A part of it is that they were shot at a real state hospital in Salem, Oregon. Everyone stopped in the same motal and will be in the same bus in the morning to set. It is not difficult and it would not have been difficult even if they were not.
“There was complete commitment,” Douglas said. “It comes when you do not go home for your life at night. We stopped for lunch on the first day and I saw Jack pushed his tray away and go out to get some wind. I said, ‘Jack, you are right?” He said, ‘Who are these people?
Not dismissing Nicolson’s talk, Davito remembers that he and the artists also asked if he could sleep in the hospital.
“They don’t let us happen,” Davito said. “There were some seriously upset in the floor of us who murdered.”
A permanent inheritance
The film will again be in theaters From Fathome Entertainment on 13 July and 16 JulyThis is a new 4K restoration from the academy film Archive and Tetro Dela Paes Films with an introduction by Leonard Maltin.
“This is a grand print and reminds me how good the sound was,” Douglas said.
Davito thinks, “It is really a big way, because meet was really paying attention to all the great things in the screenplay and story.”
“In addition to the shock of holy toledo, am I old?” Davito said it was a treasure – and he continues to see his old friends, including Douglas, Lloyd, and of course, Nicolson, who played the hero, RP McMarfi.
A person Douglas feels that his contribution to the “Cuckoo’s Nest” has not received proper attention, the manufacturer Saul Zents, who died in 2014. His music company, Fantasy Records, who had Creation Clearwater Revival, funded the attempt, which began in a budget of $ 1.6 million and began the balloon by the end of $ 4 million. He was a gambler, Douglas said, and it paid.
And whatever sour grapes could be present between Douglas and his father, who played the role of RP McMarfi on Broadway and dreamed of doing so on the film, perhaps the most unique. This was eventually important for their relationship.
Douglas said, “McMarfi is as good as it is going to get any actor, and I am now far in my career, to understand that you have four, perhaps five good parts, really great parts. I am sure that he was one for Dad,” Douglas said.
“Through this, it was probably disappointing not to be able to see it. On the other hand, the fact that his son did it and the picture turned out so well? Thank God that the picture came out. It would have been a disaster if it was not.”
Douglas said: “It was a fairy tale from beginning to end. I suspect that something else came close to it. Even my Oscar for the best actor did not really cross that moment in my career after years.”
Lindsay Bahr, Associated Press