I am astonished to hear about Miloš Forman's death from Steemit before anywhere else, being Czech it tells a lot about how much time I spend absorbing mainstream media.. ZERO apparently :D
@czechglobalhosts he deserves a bit longer post than that tho!
He is one MF good filmmaker and always entertaining and inspiring to watch in interviews.. Son of a gun :D as Michael Douglas used to call him..
He was one of the roughly 80 000 people who exiled from our country after it has been invaded and occupied by USSR's Red Army and Warsaw pact armies in response to and a bitter end to freedom filled days of Prague Spring.. 1968..
After a year passed the frontiers closed shut for the next 20 years and whoever left the country, wouldn't have had a great time returning to normalized totalitaritarian Czechoslovakia under USSR occupation..
.. a new beginning for Mr Forman.. who as I'm only now learning was an orphan to victims of Holocaust..
Strong fate..
Photo: Bjorn Elgstrand/Getty Images
SO many great movies that came out of this man's imagination and hard work of his and his team..
Besides the obvious One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest , Hair and People vs. Larry Flint, he gave us Amadeus an almost 3 hour long epic journey into life of unique and controversial genius W.A.Mozart was and the never changing human values/weaknesses .. Hair one that I never saw.. but definitely one of my favourite was Man on the Moon with Jim Carrey in the lead role..
Portraying life of Andy Kaufmann, a comedian to the core :D who doesn't stop poping jokes, not even on his own funeral.. a must watch!
He portrays inspiring life stories filled with purpose, humour, sadness, music, love, human weaknesses and always great characters one can really get into.. his films have everything..
Wow, writing this I'm really inspired to complete watching his work now.. to fill the gaps in education :D
Thank you Miloš Forman ! Not that many people make me proud to come from the same country and I'm sure I'm not the only one feeling that here.. alive in our hearts and minds forever!
Thanks for the post! Also it's nice to find fellow Czech here on Steemit and a big fish too! Was wondering if there is somebody like you here :D
Zdar ! !