Did you know that one of the greatest films of all time was shot on location in January in Salem Oregon? One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest starring Jack Nicholson, shot at the Oregon State Hospital on Center St. NE won 5 Academy awards including Best Picture and Best Actor. The film was adapted from a novel of the same name by Ken Kesey. If you have not seen this movie, it should be the next one on your list. What's amazing to me is that the State Hospital is an open campus. You can walk around the historic grounds and see what is going on there. Here's a video that just showed up on youtube.com talking about the making of the movie.
Here's the trailer for the film.
Generally don't like to post a comment with a link back to my own site, but thought you might enjoy a photo shoot I did at this location:
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I finally (finally!) got around to watching this movie just a few months ago. It's pretty neat that a movie of this caliber was filmed locally.
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