The Blues Brothers Thread

[Barry Lee]

haha. I totally agree with you. It's (again) a great great movie. We need more movies like "The Blues Brothers."

 

[Super Scooter]

"You traded the Blues Mobile for a microphone? ... Ok, I can see that."

 

[MGov]

Jane Byrne was the Mayor of Chicago when they shot it and was trying to attract more filmmaking to the city. So John Landis, Ackroyd and Belushi pretty much had the run of the city for shooting. Including a bunch of Chicago Police cruisers that were being retired anyway.

I met a guy who was a P.A. on the shoot and his job during part of the chase was to make sure no cross traffic or pedestrians got into the intersection for one of the shots under the el tracks. He thought he was going to die because they were flying down the street and his radio wasn't working.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

I'm waiting on a Blues Brothers 3 of some sort with Jim Belushi in it playing the role he was supposed to play: The blood brother of Jake Blues, Brother Zee Blues.

Did you know that Jake's mother died having him while in prison, but in the treatment for BB2K Zee (with a different name) was supposed to be Jake's baby brother? Jim and John's real mother was going to cameo as Jake's mom in the film.

Elwood J. Blues is taking the name Jake as a middle name and obviously changing his last name from Delaney, the last name of the officer who delivered the abandoned child to the orphanage. He was named Elwood because Sister Mary Stigmata had a habit of naming the children by the letter of the alphabet, and she was obviously up to the "E"s.

Jake E. Blues takes "Elwood" as a middle name. His last name was Papageorge or Papageorgio (can't recall right this second). After being born, he was delivered to the orphanage.

I think that BB2K was good about handling the passing of Jake by not saying how he passed away, but I think (personally) it was an Al Capone kind of thing: pneumonia, paranoia that he was being poisoned kept him from his med's, passed away in prison--like his mom. Befitting, I reckon.

 

[Kiki]

Heehee, I love this movie. I love all the cameos, like Frank Oz, Twiggy, Jame Brown, etc. The music was great too (my fave band member is Blue Lou ^^) and the plot in general was a lot of fun. I love it when the car goes threw the toy store and the lady at the counter says to the costomer, whos' holding a Grover plush, "Is there anything else you'd like?" (or something like that) and then the guy replies "Um yes, do you have a Miss Piggy?" And then the car just suddenly crashes into the store!
Yeah.. . groovy movie.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

I've always wanted to be in a (planned) police car chase and to drive through a mall after seeing this movie.

 

[Kiki]

Heehee, same 'ere.
They should have more car chases in movies these days, y'know...

 

[Barry Lee]

I just watched it the other night while in my car on the portable dvd player, its really awesome when your riding in the car while watching the car chases, I really love this movie. Also, R.I.P. James Brown, he actually sang live in the church where the movie was, he was truely awesome in it.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

There aren't very many good car chases in movies. If they're done right then they're worth it.

James Brown and Aretha Franklin both had to sing live because they sing their songs different every time and couldn't lip sync to their pre-recorded stuff.

Can you imagine how cool it would have been to be in the church or Soul Food Cafe those days? Or, at the end of BB2K when The Blues Brothers Band and Louisiana Gator Boys bands jammed? Wow.