A documentary on the artist David Wojnarowicz shows the ways that the rebel was a prophet, and honors him appropriately. It features musical numbers by rhythm and blues (R&B), soul, and blues singers James Brown, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Chaka Khan, and John Lee Hooker. ", "The CLUI Land Use Database-Dixie Square Mall", "The Blues Brothers - Chicago Filming Locations", "Incredible stunt driving: "That was all real, "Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies List is Laughable", "Vatican Calls The Blues Brothers "Catholic, "Vatican beatifies Blues Brothers ... well almost", "The Melbourne Blues Brothers go global! Finding the office of the Cook County Assessor, the brothers pay the tax bill. In 2020, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[5]. In prison, the band plays "Jailhouse Rock" for the inmates. CheatBook Issue (03/2021) March 2021: CheatBook(03/2021) - Issue March 2021 - A Cheat-Code Tracker with cheats and Hints for several popular PC Action and adventure Games.381 PC Games, 9 Walkthroughs for PC and 58 Console Cheats are represented in this new version from Strategy Games, Adventure Games to Action Games. Costs for filming the largest scene in the city's history totaled $3.5 million. The characters, Jake and Elwood Blues, were created by Belushi and Aykroyd in performances on Saturday Night Live. Get up to the minute entertainment news, celebrity interviews, celeb videos, photos, movies, TV, music news and pop culture on ABCNews.com. That night, state troopers attempt to arrest Elwood for driving with a suspended license due to his 116 parking tickets and 56 moving violations. Horn players Lou Marini, Tom Malone, and Alan Rubin had all played in Blood, Sweat & Tears and the house band on Saturday Night Live. Over the years, it has retained a following through television and home video. Drive safely, prevent fires') makes a brief appearance when the 'Illinois Nazis' visit it after Elwood falsely registers the ballpark's location, 1060 West Addison, as his home address on his driver's license. [7], Cocaine was already so prevalent on the set (like many other film productions of that era) that Aykroyd, who used far less than his partner, claims a section of the budget was actually set aside for purchases of the drug during night shooting. [16] The bridge jump was filmed on an actual drawbridge, the 95th Street bridge over the Calumet River, on the southeast side of Chicago. The pair visit the Roman Catholic orphanage where they were raised, and they learn from Sister Mary Stigmata that it will be closed unless $5,000 in property taxes is collected. A small town is terrorized by "The Banana Killer", which turns out to be the missing link between man and ape. Landis returned to direct the film and Aykroyd reprised his role, joining John Goodman, Joe Morton, and 10-year-old J. Evan Bonifant as the new Blues Brothers. I listen mostly to music from the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's. Rated PG-13 for exotic dancing and some language, The Blues Brothers Declared a Catholic Classic by the Vatican, ‘Bill and Ted Face The Music’: The Long-Awaited Third Installment Is A Cheery Delight [Review], ‘Bad Boys for Life’ and 35 Other Movie Sequels That Took Forever to Hit the Screen (Photos), Poll Board Recommendations: The most quotable movie, When The Girl from Ipanema Passes They lastly invite the final two band members, Matt "Guitar" Murphy and "Blue Lou" Marini, who now run a soul food restaurant along with Matt's wife; they rejoin the band against the advice of Mrs. Murphy. Other songs in the film include: The 1998 sequel, Blues Brothers 2000, had similar traits to the original, including large car-chase scenes and musical numbers. The next morning, during a police raid, the same woman detonates a bomb that demolishes the building but, miraculously, again leaves Jake and Elwood unharmed. [7], Aykroyd had never written a screenplay before, as he admitted in the 1998 documentary Stories Behind the Making of The Blues Brothers, or even read one, and he was unable to find a writing partner. 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Consequently, he put together a very descriptive volume that explained the characters' origins and how the band members were recruited. Singer/songwriter Stephen Bishop is a Illinois State Trooper who complains that Jake and Elwood broke his watch (a result of the car chase in the mall). Just beforehand, Belushi fell off a borrowed skateboard and seriously injured his knee, making it unlikely he could go through with the scene, which required him to sing, dance, and do cartwheels. I live in Texas. The film's final budget was $27.5 million (equivalent to $85 million in 2019), $10 million over its original budget. 'Every blue-collar Joe wants his John Belushi story', said Smokey Wendell, who was eventually hired to keep it away from the star. Get the latest music news, watch video clips from music shows, events, and exclusive performances from your favorite artists. Cab Calloway initially wanted to do a disco variation on his signature tune, "Minnie the Moocher", having done the song in several styles in the past, but Landis insisted that the song be done faithfully to the original big-band version. The members of The Blues Brothers Band were themselves notable. With Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, Walter Levine, Tom Davis. [7], The Blues Brothers opened on June 20, 1980, with a release in 594 theaters. The new Bluesmobile was depicted as having abilities such as functioning like a submarine in deep Mississippi water, having radio-control capabilities, and jumping about 300 feet over a road construction site. If you have any general questions, please read our FAQ, which also includes instructions on how to send us e-mail for corrections to menus or general show info.For corrections and additions to episode details for specific shows, click through to the episode and submit corrections via the specific list provider: TVmaze.com or TV.com.TVmaze.com or TV It featured a press conference, a panel discussion where Aykroyd joined by satellite, and a screening of the original theatrical version of the film. The Palace Hotel Ballroom, where the band performs their climactic concert, was at the time of filming a country club, but later became the South Shore Cultural Center, named after the Chicago neighborhood where it is located. People often recognized him and slipped him cocaine, a drug he was already using heavily on his own, hoping to use it with him. In the final car chase scene, the production actually dropped a Ford Pinto, representing that which was driven by the 'Illinois Nazis', from a helicopter at an altitude of about 1,200 feetâand had to gain a Special Airworthiness Certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration to do it. The first cut of The Blues Brothers lasted two and a half hours, with an intermission. The Lake Freeway (North) was a planned but not completed six-lane freeway, and I-794 contained an unfinished ramp off which the Nazis drove. Janet Maslin of The New York Times criticized The Blues Brothers for shortchanging viewers on more details about Jake and Elwood's affinity for African-American culture. Discover new music on MTV. [11], The film used 13 different cars bought at auction from the California Highway Patrol to depict the retired 1974 Mount Prospect, Illinois Dodge Monaco patrol car. Written by Released in the United States on June 20, 1980, it received mostly positive reviews. Use the HTML below. They mount a loudspeaker atop the Bluesmobile and drive the Chicago area promoting the concert. Then she hires a ... See full summary ». The other chase scenes included lower Wacker Drive, Lake Street, and Richard J. Daley Center.[17]. The band stumbles into a gig at Bob's Country Bunker, a local honky-tonk. [7], Much of The Blues Brothers was shot on location in and around Chicago between July and October 1979, including Joliet Correctional Center in nearby Joliet, Illinois, and Wauconda, Illinois, where the car crashes into the side of Route 12. When Weiss saw the supposedly final $17.5 million budget, he reportedly joked, 'I think we've spent that much already. [24], Landis' difficulties continued even after principal photography was completed. Elwood must reunite the old band, with a few new members, and go on another "Mission from God." On the former issue, Universal head Lew Wasserman thought the film could be made for $12 million; the filmmakers wanted $20 million. All Rights Reserved. Mayall, John – Bare Wires 6. In a March 2011 interview with Ain't it Cool News, Landis also mentioned he had approved the Blu-ray's remastered transfer. On their way to meet the final two band members, the brothers find the road through Jackson Park blocked by an American Nazi Party demonstration on a bridge; Elwood runs them off the bridge into the East Lagoon, and the commander orders a subordinate to write down their vehicle's license plate. [14] Nearly 200 movies have been filmed in Chicago. [7], The movie's original budget was quickly surpassed, and back in Los Angeles, Wasserman grew increasingly frustrated. Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War. [28], Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave The Blues Brothers three out of four stars, praising it for its energetic musical numbers and 'incredible' car chases. It ranks second, between Wayne's World and Wayne's World 2, among films adapted from Saturday Night Live sketches. [24] More than 40 stunt drivers were hired, and the crew kept a 24-hour body shop to repair cars. Five of them: Willie "Too Big" Hall, Murphy "Murph" Dunne, Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, Tom "Bones" Malone, Donald "Duck" Dunn, and are playing at a deserted Holiday Inn lounge and quickly agree to rejoin. Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Once again hitting the road to re-unite the band and win the big prize at the New Orleans Battle of the Bands, Elwood is pursued cross-country by the cops, led by Cabel the Curtis' son (and Elwood's step-brother), the Russian Mafia, and a militia group. I like many genres of music. [24] At the time of its release, The Blues Brothers held the world record for the most cars destroyed in one film until it was surpassed by a single car in its 1998 sequel. [7] To soften the impact, Aykroyd made a joke of the thick script and had it bound with the cover of the Los Angeles Yellow Pages directory for when he turned it in to producer Robert K. Weiss. Franklin required several takes, and Brown simply rerecorded his performance live. / Winky Dink & You / Sonny & Cher / Smothers Brothers / Commercial Icons of the 1960s / Soupy Sales / The Carpenters / Route 66 / Bozo / The Carpenters Christmas Specials / Local Kid Shows / Death of TV's Superman / Wonderama / Sesame Street / Bob Hope Specials / Little Rascals / 1980's Retro Gay T-Shirts / 1980's TV Wrestling / Fess Parker / Howdy At the Richard J. Daley Center, they rush inside the adjacent Chicago City Hall building, soon followed by hundreds of police, state troopers, SWAT teams, firefighters, Illinois National Guardsmen, and the Military Police. One night, Aykroyd found him crashing on the sofa of a nearby house, where Belushi had already helped himself to food in the refrigerator. For the large car chases, filmmakers purchased 60 police cars at $400 each, and most were destroyed at the completion of the filming. Plays during the scene where one of the Illinois Nazis learns about the "traffic menace" Elwood Blues' address 1060 West Addison from another Illinois Nazi and then the two Nazis proceed to drive to that address (, "We're on a mission from God." A black comedy about two nineteenth century grave robbers, who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school. The Blues Brothers band (as "Murph & The Magic Tones", Murphy Dunne, vocals and piano; Steve Cropper, guitar; Willie Hall, drums; Donald "Duck" Dunn, bass) (plays in the Holiday's Inn scene). Nevertheless, at one point, Landis found Belushi with what he described as a 'mountain' of cocaine on a table in his trailer, which led to a tearful confrontation in which Belushi admitted his addiction and feared it could eventually kill him. On May 19, 2020, the movie was given a 4K UHD release; it has a new 4K remaster from the original negative and the extended footage was remastered from the same archived print as well. [24], For the scene when the Blues Brothers finally arrive at the Richard J. Daley Center, a mechanic took several months to rig the car to fall apart. His mother, Katherine Esther Jackson (née Scruse), played clarinet and piano, had aspired to be a country-and-western performer, and worked part-time at Sears. â nominated, This page was last edited on 18 March 2021, at 22:35. The shopping mall car chase was filmed in the real, albeit shuttered, Dixie Square Mall, in Harvey, Illinois. Jake Blues is released from prison after serving three years, and he is picked up by his brother Elwood in his Bluesmobile, a battered former police car. [22], The filming in downtown Chicago was conducted on Sundays during the summer of 1979, and much of downtown was cordoned off from the public. As good as the original Blues Brothers movie was, as bad is this sequel: After a rather boring warmup of old scenes which are by far not as good as the original ones, it looks like the producers have run out of money - because the end is where there was the first hope that there will be some action. Just as their receipt is stamped, they are arrested by the mob of law officers. [11][12], Principal photography began in July 1979, with the film's budget still not settled. Dozens of artists were packed into an all-star band called The Louisiana Gator Boys. They went further, stating, The Blues Brothers 'is a memorable film, and, judging by the facts, a Catholic one. '[25] It won the Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing and Sound Effects,[26] is 14th on Total Film magazine's "List of the 50 Greatest Comedy Films of All Time"[citation needed] and is number 69 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies". [45] The album was a followup to their debut, the live album, Briefcase Full of Blues. [13] Made with the cooperation of Mayor Jane M. Byrne, it is credited for putting Chicago on the map as a venue for filmmaking. Jake's final confrontation with his girlfriend was filmed in a replica of a section of the abandoned Chicago freight tunnel system. Steve Cropper and Donald Dunn are architects of the Stax Records sound (Cropper's guitar can be heard at the start of the Sam & Dave song "Soul Man") and were half of Booker T. & the M.G.'s. Universal Studios narrowly beat Paramount Pictures for the project. [11] Permission was given after Belushi and Aykroyd offered to donate $50,000 to a charity after filming. Since none of them except Charles had had any hits in recent years, the studio wanted the director to replace them withâor add performances byâyounger acts, such as Rose Royce, whose "Car Wash" had made them disco stars after its use in the 1976 film of that name. The start of filming was delayed when Aykroyd, new to film screenwriting, took six months to deliver a long and unconventional script that Landis had to rewrite before production, which began without a final budget. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? As they walk into the flophouse where Elwood lives, an unknown woman fires a multiple barrelled rocket launcher at Jake, destroying the building's entrance, but somehow leaving the brothers unharmed. The vehicles were outfitted by the studio to do particular driving chores; some were customized for speed and others for jumps, depending on the scene. All Lyrics displayed by LyricsPlanet.com are property of their respective owners. It has become a cult film, spawning the sequel Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), which was a critical and commercial failure. One day after the editing was done, Wasserman invited Landis up to his office to speak with Ted Mann, head of the Mann Theatres chain, which dominated film exhibition in the Western United States. The interior concert scenes were filmed in the Hollywood Palladium. King, and Eric Clapton, among others. Even with many returning cast members, the film was considered a box-office failure, only generating a little over $14 million in sales, and critics' reactions were negative. Stephen Scaia
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