Milos Forman

Jan Tomas Formas it’s a movie director, actor and writer, born on 1932 in Checoslovaquia, better know as Milos Forman, he become in a grate director on the United States, he rise a notable success in 1975 with the adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, that won five Academy awards including the best director. Another notable succeed was the movie Amadeus, that won eight Academy awards. On 1997 received the Crystal Globe for his artistic contribution to the cinema world on Karlovy Vary Festival, Milos forman is a grate and sensitive director that has touched many hearts with his movies.

His first successful movie was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, based on the novel of the same name, the movie focus on a character that is guilty of five violation intents, for this reason Randall Mac Murphy must go to jail, but he is recluded on a psychiatry hospital for his apparent mental illness to be examinated, he did it for avoid prison.

Through his live on the psychiatry hospital he will be the protagonist of several episodes of bad behavior between sick people ,breaking the pacific life of the hospital, if one of them disobey laws, they are punished with electroshocks. If this isn’t enough doctors take away from them a part oh their brains as Mc Murphy after attack Ratched nurse. Finally a friend kills Mc Murphy. This movie won the Academy awards of best actor, best director, best movie, best actress and best-adapted novel.

The second succeed Movie of Milos Forman was Amadeus, Amadeus at the beginning was a dramatic performance written by Peter Shaffer in 1979.

In i981, Milos Forman went to the show of Amadeus in Broadway,. He hated the movies and biographical scenes of musicians because he founded those terribly boring, but after see the first act, told to Peter Shaffler who known Milos’s trajectory that If the second act is good as the first , he will made the movie. The rest is story. Peter Shaffler and Milos Forman worked together during four exhaustive months.

Milos Forman put together a romantic legend between fiction and reality in a majestic way, where shows the death of a mysterious man, the grate enemy of Mozart Salieri. Forman adapted the movie with music, images and dialogues creating a perfect armory.

The movie shows Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ‘s life told by his rival Antonio Salieri. The film begins when the old Saleri intend kill himself while yell that he was Mozart’s murder, he is put on a mental hospital, here he told to a priest how he killed Mozart.

Personally I just have seen only the first twenty minutes of Amadeus and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by accident, but after done this work I really want to rent all these movies to see and appreciate the work of this magnificent director of cinema.