The Blues Brothers: Epic Mall Chase Scene
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 พ.ย. 2024
- The Blues Brothers: Joliet Jake Blues and Elwood Blues trash Dixie Square Mall in a '74 Dodge Monaco sedan aka the Bluesmobile.
Tunes: 'Soothe Me' by Sam & Dave, and the Blues Brother's theme song 'I Can't Turn You Lose'.
The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical comedy film directed by John Landis. It stars John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues and Dan Aykroyd as his brother Elwood, characters developed from the recurring musical sketch "The Blues Brothers" on NBC variety series Saturday Night Live. The film is set in and around Chicago, Illinois, where it was filmed, and the screenplay was written by Aykroyd and Landis. It features musical numbers by rhythm and blues (R&B), soul, and blues singers James Brown, Cab Calloway (in his final feature film role), Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Chaka Khan, and John Lee Hooker. It features non-musical supporting performances by Carrie Fisher, Henry Gibson, Charles Napier, Kathleen Freeman and John Candy.
The story is a tale of redemption for paroled convict Jake and his blood brother Elwood, who set out on "a mission from God" to prevent foreclosure of the Roman Catholic orphanage in which they were raised. To do so, they must reunite their R&B band and organize a performance to earn $5,000 needed to pay the orphanage's property tax bill. Along the way, they are targeted by a homicidal "mystery woman", Neo-Nazis, and a country and western band-all while being relentlessly pursued by the police.
Universal Studios, which had won the bidding war for the film, was hoping to take advantage of Belushi's popularity in the wake of Saturday Night Live, the film Animal House, and The Blues Brothers' musical success; it soon found itself unable to control production costs. The start of filming was delayed when Aykroyd, who was 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. On location in Chicago, Belushi's partying and drug use caused lengthy and costly delays that, along with the destructive car chases depicted onscreen, made the final film one of the most expensive comedies ever produced.
Due to concerns that the film would fail, its initial bookings were less than half of those similar films normally received. Released in the United States on June 20, 1980, it received mostly positive reviews from critics and grossed over $115 million in theaters worldwide before its release on home video, and has become a cult classic over the years. A sequel, Blues Brothers 2000, was released in 1998 to critical and commercial failure. In 2020, The Blues Brothers was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
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😂 This whole scene gets me all the time!
One of the absolute best scene in any movie ever.
This was and still is the best movie ever. They destroyed that mall. Loved it.
This was filmed at the Dixie Square Mall in then rapidly declining (now impoverished semi abandoned crime ridden hood) south Chicago suburb of Harvey, IL. Harvey had been a middle class suburb just a decade earlier and Dixie Square Mall was open less then 13 years before it was closed for good. The mall had been shuttered for over a year by the time Blues Brothers was filmed and the story fronts were elaborately staged with merchandise and new cars in the parking lots.
@@jKLa Mall closed in -78, film was shot in -79. Then the mall sat there destroyed until 2012 when it was torn down. According to wiki.
@@groovechampion1462 wow, that's a long time in that condition!
''They broke my watch..''
“I’m gonna catch that sucker, if it’s the last thing I ever do.”
Jake's revenge on the broken watches.
the broke my watch. maybe the best one liner ever
I get in tears when i see toys r us, I would buy stuff that would make me happy in that store.
0:32 concerned voice) Elwood 🤨
If you look at 4:12 at the bottom right hand side, notice that a random soccer ball flies out of nowhere towards the bluesmobile
I watched this movie a hundred times on HBO in the 1980s and never caught that. Nice catch.
44 years later, still the funniest movie ever made 😂
Movie will always be relevant, classic greatness❤❤❤❤
The best scene in the movie
Change my mind
3:03
Jake: This place has got everything.
Pier One Imports, Toys R Us, sad to see them go out of business. I loved this scene as a teenager, hilarious.
@@douglasdixon524not to mentioned the early new Oldsmobiles
The most ironic thing is that this shopping center (Dixie Square Mall) was closed several months before the filming of this film and will be demolished shortly after.
Moreover, all the brands present in this scene paid to be present there.
Just a quiet Friday night at the mall.
“If it’s the last thing I ever DO”
Nice mall
Reminds me of Coconut Mall in Mario Kart
The new law is designed as an attempt to protect people who are in
The new rules will allow companies that are in need to pay
The new rules will allow companies that are in need to pay more to comply with
RIP Oldsmobile 🕊
1:55 Not the toy store 😢
Something I never noticed until now. At 4:31, there's a man standing in a t-shirt and briefs outside Penney's. Was he scared out of a dressing room?
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, a half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses; Hit It!
In the bull pin outside
And it’s just sad that practically all the stores in this are literally out of business
Le Palace de la rue du Faubourg Montmartre à Paris et jusqu'au Croco Club à Miami Beach le disco est le roi. Plongez dans l'univers de l'année 1979. The Book
Hey movie ketchup can you get Duel 1971 telephone booth wreck scene please
Jake and Elwood?
Disco Pants and Haircuts, my favorite place in Dixie Square Mall.
1:54
the guy holds a grover and asks for a miss pig E --> mkultra and ibm booz allen
This don’t look no expressway to me!
You can see why it costs a small fortune to make a film😂😂😂