Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Produced By Conference

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Danny DeVito sat down with long-time collaborator Michael Douglas at the 2019 Produced by Conference in Los Angeles. Here they talk about casting the 1975 classic film, "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest," which Douglas produced and where DeVito was a cast member.
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@draxcir 3 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.

@fluorosco 2 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

@12348477 2 жыл бұрын

One of Penguin's henchmen from Batman Returns is also in One Flew as a patient.

@Reject101Personal 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..

@Vitoandolini13 4 жыл бұрын

It’s nice to see such long time friendship

@stevet828 10 ай бұрын

My Best Film of all time.

@Marlondurran Жыл бұрын

Danny eventually got a word in..

@michaelknapp8961 3 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!!

@Harlem55 3 жыл бұрын

I can only hope the movie was a bit of a caricature of the things that happened there.

@lastnamefirst4035 2 жыл бұрын

@@Harlem55 it really wasn't. Many institutions as such exist today w horrific conditions and abuse

@kathleendobens6648 2 жыл бұрын

Wow that's crazy

@michaelknapp8961 2 жыл бұрын

@@kathleendobens6648 touché

@leokimvideo 6 ай бұрын

I never knew Michael Douglas was part of this incredible film

@dcdel1 5 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

@edkeaton7242 2 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.

@robbyosborne9708 2 ай бұрын

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is a masterpiece.

@duncansteedman9986 Ай бұрын

Read the book when I was a teenager and imo it’s ever slightly better than the movie.. 👍

@dontlookback3549 Жыл бұрын

Top 5 movie of ALL TIME!!!!!

@TheStuport 3 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

@Harlem55 3 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.

@joeyb4ever 3 жыл бұрын

These two were great in Romancing the Stone, too. Friends since the 60s.

@warriorv9359 Жыл бұрын

That movies a masterpiece

@shooter7a 3 жыл бұрын

Danny DeVito is a treasure. He also has an absurdly large head.

@Anfubvinch 3 жыл бұрын

Not sure if it's his head that's big or his body that's tiny

@irrationalmale 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.

@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.

@ChrisM541 Жыл бұрын

A true masterpiece of a film.

@ionpavlidis5978 5 ай бұрын

So much talent between these two. Their collaborations were pure gold.

@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 !

@rejaneapalalways1654 3 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.

@spjfrat Жыл бұрын

DeVito and Christopher Lloyd were new to films. Amazing movie.

@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.

@Lightner445555555555 3 жыл бұрын

I had absolutely no idea MD was the producer 😮!!

@candybiller9098 2 жыл бұрын

Danny DeVito & Michael Douglas are my favorite actors

@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!!

@print-master Жыл бұрын

I watch this at least one a year and still notice nuances as if for the first time

@jackoneil3933 2 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.

@brianthomason5022 2 жыл бұрын

Too bad nobody cares long enough to read your long comment

@jackoneil3933 2 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.

@davidevans3175 3 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.

@jpgabriele9596 2 жыл бұрын

Dynamite duo !

@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

@uncletiggermclaren7592 18 күн 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.

@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

@X150t 3 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

@guineapiglady2841 2 жыл бұрын

I think it's bull.

@WorldwideWyatt 2 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

@lastnamefirst4035 2 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

@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!

@user-ql4zz2eo3n 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for expressing the truth very informative people don't know alot only movie buffs

@KutWrite Жыл бұрын

Why so short? There must be more to this.

@drdrew3 Жыл бұрын

Devito has always been short

@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.

@mikelaird5458 Жыл бұрын

Cast of cuckoo's next is who's who of future stars and/or character actors for the next 25 years.

@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".

@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.

@perspellman 3 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.

@zedblix1089 2 жыл бұрын

This is a fucking queen martini

@s3dchr Жыл бұрын

"You don't count the this and the this"

@jasonsmith8300 3 жыл бұрын

they went to the same acting school and they were there at the same time then afterwords they were roomats

@schoolfoodtray908 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty recent for TODAY1!

@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.

@roquefortfiles Жыл бұрын

Hit me... hit me..

@peterkawe6451 2 жыл бұрын

Wasnt it Forman?

@jumpinjohn8026 2 жыл бұрын

Milos was the director; Michael was a producer a.k.a. the money man.

@robertleslie2467 Жыл бұрын

"Hotels".

@davidsegaldrums Жыл бұрын

😂

@mjackson408 Жыл бұрын

Still babes in the woods- best dressed stars keep it real-

@X150t 3 жыл бұрын

Too short!

@urosmarjanovic663 Жыл бұрын

An astronaut with a plastic bag for a helmet!

@user-gd4vx8hb3n 2 ай бұрын

OMG ... Michael is so old now... I really can't handle great actors getting old. i HATE it!!!

@zeigbert1743 Жыл бұрын

They're way beyond baseline, cells.

@danielh9844 Жыл бұрын

Did they get any royalties from Dead Poets Society for copying their script?

@mikehunt6511 Жыл бұрын

@stonehobson2487 Жыл бұрын

@@mikehunt6511 Yeah. WTF.

@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.

@TimTheMusicMan 2 жыл бұрын

Unsure why MD is taking up all the air time he was not in the movie.

@JD-zd8tm 2 жыл бұрын

He produced it and is explaining why he chose Oregon . Didn't you listen ?

@TimTheMusicMan 2 жыл бұрын

@@JD-zd8tm but he was NOT in the movie.

@JD-zd8tm 2 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

@SamSam-xb1ur 2 жыл бұрын

It's literally called "Produced By Conference" (in the title)

@Reject101Personal 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

@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

@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 10 ай 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.