Results: 15 things that flew over the cuckoo's nest
Published on 11/22/2015
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40 years ago, this month, 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest' premiered. If you are a fan of the movie, here are a few things you might not know. But check off the ones that you do know:
The movie was delayed in making as the script was confiscated by Czech customs, when Kirk Douglas sent it to Milos Forman. Both unaware that this happened.
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The movie was almost not distributed because Fox wanted a different ending, United Artist distributed the movie
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Jack Nicholson was not first choice for 'McMurphy'; Kirk Douglas, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando, & Burt Reynolds were also considered
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Anne Bancroft, Colleen Dewhurst, Geraldine Page, and Angela Lansbury were all in the running, for Nurse Rached, before Louise Fletcher ultimately got the part.
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Forman’s original view of Nurse Ratched was as “the personification of evil, in the movie it was hidden in her belief that she was actually helping patients
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Several of the movie's stars were not actors, but actual hospital patients
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Many scenes were shot without the hospital patients knowing
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Jack Nicholson and producer Forman had a huge fight which cost in production time and money
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Danny Devito, missing his wife in real life, created an imaginary friend while making the movie
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The crew actually worried about one of the cast members, a real patient, as he would often break down
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Louise Fletcher ripped her dress off one night to show her male costars that she was still a woman and not the character of her nurse role
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During the fishing scene, Jack's girlfriend Angelica Huston is standing at the dock watching the boat come back
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The movie won all 5 academy awards that year
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Ran forever, it seems, in the theatres ... 11 straight years
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The bookwriter, Kesey, has said to never see the movie, as he believes the book is better
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Have you seen the movie?
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Have you seen the movie?
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If you have not, will you now?
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