Sunday, September 22, 2013

You look like Ken Kesey

"My mother says so, too".

The brief exchange was recalled as we listened to a one hour NPR show about "One flew over the cuckoo's nest", an iconic novel, later turned into a very different but equally iconic movie.

The story of how the movie came to be made is interesting but the aspect we found most fascinating was how Dr. Brooks of the Oregon State Hospital became Dr. Spivey in the film and what he achieved for the real patients at the actual hospital in Salem, Oregon, where the movie was produced.

Dr. Brooks got hospital patients on the payroll of the production in a variety of roles, not just the background extras but in other support jobs, from makeup to costuming.

Here is a man who is going about his life, with success but not remarkable to the outside world.

Along comes the film crew, and he does "all the right things", his life erupts  - as TheEditor phrased it - into a bouquet of color.

You never know if or when life presents you with an opportunity to be remarkable in the sense of stepping out of everyday life and do something good. 

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