In 1962, the novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by young writer Ken Kesey was released and made waves in American literature.
`One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest` depicts the lives of patients living in an insane asylum.
He loved the story so much that he took on the lead role (Randall McMurphy) himself in his Broadway play.
But things didn’t go as planned.
Few people thought that a film in an independent film project by relatively new names would absolutely win the 5 most prestigious categories of the Oscar.
First of all, it is difficult to deny the role that the novel had an impact on society in the 1960s for the film.
McMurphy quickly becomes the leader of all the fun, all the collective rebellion against head nurse Ratched and her central administration.
Compared to Ken Kesey’s literary work, director Milos Forman made a rather bold change.
Jack Nicholson won the Oscar for his role as McMurphy – the leader of the insane asylum.
Milos Forman has successfully built a world of crazy people with deformed souls and rebellious personalities.
Most of those people entered the camp voluntarily, only a few were forced.
It was here that the wild prisoner realized the thin line between truly crazy people and people with severe psychological damage.
Their lives revolve around cold white painted rooms, between Monopoly chess sets, Western cards and watching flocks of birds fly through the sky outside the iron fence.
McMurphy has breathed new life into the boring and quiet daily life of the `crazy people` here.
The salmon fishing scene at sea is one of the most heroic scenes about the desire for freedom of people who dare to overcome limits.
Milos Forman was very lucky to gather many excellent actors in this film.
Nurse Ratched is the role of a lifetime for actress Louise Fletcher and is one of the most famous villains in world cinema history.
However, the biggest discovery of Milos Forman and the filmmakers was the role of head nurse Ratched.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest set a respectable record at that time with a huge revenue of 109 million USD in the US market.
The entire final scene of the film was shot in one long shot with a calm rhythm like the footsteps of a giant walking towards the light.
Movie trailer `One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest`