Blues Brothers Band Back Together Meme

"You two are such a letdown. I prayed fervently for both of you. It saddens and grieves me that the two young men I taught to believe in the Ten Commandments have returned to me as two thieves with dirty tongues and negative attitudes. Exit! And do not return... until you have atoned for your sins."

Aretha Franklin stars in one of the film's most memorable moments, which takes place at her South Side soul food diner. Cab Calloway struts through a great old-style performance of Minnie the Moocher as a kind of road manager for the Blues Brothers. The Brothers appear in various outlandish numbers; the most amusing is the band performing in a country and western saloon where wire mesh has been placed to shield the band from beer bottles hurled by patrons. I was referring to the musical moments interspersed among the chases. The truth is that the whole film is a pursuit, with Jake and Elwood flying an old police cruiser that seems to have a life of its own as it hops over suspension bridges from one side to the other. Rarely has a film been as liberated with its locales as this one. The pursuit scenes are spectacular and fantastic, taking place under elevated railway lines, on overpasses, in subway tunnels beneath the Loop, and literally through Daley Center. One incident in particular, a pileup involving maybe a dozen police vehicles, must be seen to be believed: I've never seen stunt synchronization on this level before.

1. Dan Aykroyd penned the 324-page first draft of The Blues Brothers.

Dan Aykroyd's first effort at screenwriting resulted in a script over three times the length of the normal screenplay (given that one page usually equals one minute of screen time). Additionally, he had never read a script before. In only three weeks, John Landis crafted a shorter, filmable version.

The Palace Hotel Ballroom, where the band plays their climactic performance, was originally a country club during production, but was subsequently renamed the South Shore Cultural Center after the Chicago suburb in which it is situated. The Hollywood Palladium was used to shoot the indoor concert sequences. [21]The shooting in downtown Chicago took place on Sundays throughout the summer of 1979, and a large portion of the city was closed to the public. The cost of shooting the city's grandest scene came to $3.5 million. [10] Permission was granted when Belushi and Aykroyd volunteered to contribute $50,000 to charity after the completion of the film. [10] While the Bluesmobile was permitted to be driven into the Daley Center foyer, special breakaway panes were temporarily installed in place of the building's usual glass. [10] [22] The speeding automobile damaged 35 granite paver stones and a bronze air grille in the structure, totaling $7,650. [10] For shooting purposes, interior images of the elevator, staircase, and assessor's office were recreated on a film set. [10]

Blues Brothers Getting The Band Back Together Meme

The Bluesmobile is chasing state police through the mall.

Park Ridge, Illinois, was the site of the first traffic stop. The shopping center vehicle pursuit was shot at Harvey, Illinois's genuine, but defunct, Dixie Square Mall. [15] The bridge leap was recorded on a genuine drawbridge on Chicago's southeast side, the 95th Street bridge over the Calumet River. Wrigley Field's main entrance (with the sign that reads "Preserve life. Drive carefully and avoid fires") makes a short cameo during the "Illinois Nazis" episode "Visit it after Elwood incorrectly puts the ballpark's address, 1060 West Addison, on his driver's license as his home address. (Elwood's Illinois driver's license number is a nearly-valid encoded number that includes Aykroyd's birth date.) Jake's last encounter with his girlfriend took place in a recreation of a piece of Chicago's abandoned freight tunnel system. The lower Wacker Drive, Lake Street, and the Richard J. Daley Center were also used as pursuit locations. [16]