’Cuckoo’s’ hospital to become museum
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SALEM, Oregon - It's one of the most memorable moments in movie history: silent Chief Bromden smashes a heavy appliance through a barred window to escape from a cruel mental institution in the 1975 classic "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
As demolition begins on most of the 125-year-old building where the movie was filmed, workers plan to preserve one section and the marble hydrotherapy device Bromden used for a museum of mental health.
Workers on Monday began tearing down the roof of the Oregon State Hospital's J Building to make way for a new hospital complex to be finished by 2011.
Hospital spokeswoman Patricia Feeny said the movie's producers donated the prop that resembles a large bathroom sink with various faucets and spigots, to the hospital.
The movie based on Ken Kesey's 1962 novel was fictional, but it has become closely associated over the years with real-life problems at Oregon's crumbling, overcrowded psychiatric facility.
In the Oscar-winning story, Randle P. McMurphy, played by Jack Nicholson, locks horns with the authoritarian Nurse Ratched, who has cowed the institution's patients into dejected submission.
Chief Bromden, played by Will Sampson, becomes enraged after hospital officials perform a lobotomy on Nicholson's character. He lifts the machine over his head and throws it through the window to clear the way for his escape.
Workers on Monday began tearing down the roof of the Oregon State Hospital's J Building to make way for a new hospital complex to be finished by 2011.
Hospital spokeswoman Patricia Feeny said the movie's producers donated the prop that resembles a large bathroom sink with various faucets and spigots, to the hospital.
The movie based on Ken Kesey's 1962 novel was fictional, but it has become closely associated over the years with real-life problems at Oregon's crumbling, overcrowded psychiatric facility.
In the Oscar-winning story, Randle P. McMurphy, played by Jack Nicholson, locks horns with the authoritarian Nurse Ratched, who has cowed the institution's patients into dejected submission.
Chief Bromden, played by Will Sampson, becomes enraged after hospital officials perform a lobotomy on Nicholson's character. He lifts the machine over his head and throws it through the window to clear the way for his escape.