Post by Jaga on Apr 15, 2018 4:50:45 GMT -7
He was an amazing director and his movies were just masterminded. More about him and his work:
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Milos Forman: 6 iconic scenes of the director’s iconoclastic characters
Milos Forman, who died Saturday at 86, was never the most prolific filmmaker. But over a career that included two best director Oscars (for 1975’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and 1984’s “Amadeus”) and a nomination for 1996’s “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” he became known for a body of work celebrating fiercely independent spirits.
Born in Czechoslovakia in 1932, to parents who died in a Nazi concentration camp when he was 9, Forman emigrated to the United States shortly after the Communists crushed the politically and artistically liberating movement known as the Prague Spring, in 1968. Three years later, his first American film, the generation-gap comedy “Taking Off,” centered on stuffy middle-class parents who learn to let their freak flag fly after their teenage daughter runs away from home.
But it was with films like “Cuckoo’s Nest,” based on the 1962 novel by counterculture writer Ken Kesey about a convict who fakes mental illness to escape prison, that the director made his name. In that movie and several others, Forman celebrated the rebel, the madman, the genius — the heroes who won’t remain silent in the face of mediocrity, the establishment or outright repression. Here are half a dozen film clips from the director’s work spotlighting his fascination with — and perhaps affinity for — the maverick.
1. The filmmaker’s best known work, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” earned Forman his first Oscar for directing. This scene sets up the battle of wills between Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a criminal who conned his way into a mental hospital to avoid prison, and steely-eyed Nurse Ratched, played by Louise Fletcher.
fragments of the movies are attached to this article
www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/04/14/milos-forman-six-iconic-scenes-of-the-directors-iconoclastic-characters/?utm_term=.e246ef2fe770
Milos Forman: 6 iconic scenes of the director’s iconoclastic characters
Milos Forman, who died Saturday at 86, was never the most prolific filmmaker. But over a career that included two best director Oscars (for 1975’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and 1984’s “Amadeus”) and a nomination for 1996’s “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” he became known for a body of work celebrating fiercely independent spirits.
Born in Czechoslovakia in 1932, to parents who died in a Nazi concentration camp when he was 9, Forman emigrated to the United States shortly after the Communists crushed the politically and artistically liberating movement known as the Prague Spring, in 1968. Three years later, his first American film, the generation-gap comedy “Taking Off,” centered on stuffy middle-class parents who learn to let their freak flag fly after their teenage daughter runs away from home.
But it was with films like “Cuckoo’s Nest,” based on the 1962 novel by counterculture writer Ken Kesey about a convict who fakes mental illness to escape prison, that the director made his name. In that movie and several others, Forman celebrated the rebel, the madman, the genius — the heroes who won’t remain silent in the face of mediocrity, the establishment or outright repression. Here are half a dozen film clips from the director’s work spotlighting his fascination with — and perhaps affinity for — the maverick.
1. The filmmaker’s best known work, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” earned Forman his first Oscar for directing. This scene sets up the battle of wills between Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a criminal who conned his way into a mental hospital to avoid prison, and steely-eyed Nurse Ratched, played by Louise Fletcher.
fragments of the movies are attached to this article