Many of them, particularly Steve Cropper and Donald Dunn, actually played as session musicians on the original songs the Blues Brothers performed on SNL and in the movie - Steve Cropper played guitar on Soul Man by Sam and Dave, so when people singing into say play it Steve, it's actually him they're referring to.
As no-ones mentioned it yet, the kid trying to steal the guitar from Rays Music Exchange went on, 9 years later to play Argyle, John McClane's driver in Die Hard
"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses." "Hit it." I don't know how many times I quoted this movie before starting a car trip somewhere. Love this movie, the legendary music, musicians, off-the-charts antics, hilarious dialogue and the ending with all the cops, military and everyone else chasing them is one of my favorite movie moments.
@@RyanCarrington Cab Calloway is a legendary band leader from 20's on. Young Cab is the band leader in that viral Nicholas Brothers nightclub performance video of "Jumpin' Jive."
This film is the reason why practical effects will always be better than CGI. There is no way, even today, that a computer could convincingly recreate that chase scene.
@@Mr17051963It should be noted that this director was known for putting his actors in real danger. Even had some fatalities, including children on one set, when a helicopter crashed onto them. That said, this is one of my top three movies, and that chase scene is one of the greatest of all time 👍
Even if they could do it convincingly, (which someday, they might), it would not make a difference. There's something about simply knowing that they are real that engages with an audience in a more visceral way, then when you know it's all in a computer.
The Blues Brothers is why even people who hate musicals can say they love a musical. It's just so damn hysterical and irreverent, and the music is phenomenal featuring many incredible artists.
Greetings from Chicago! This movie is mandatory viewing here. Hands-down my favorite musical. I don’t know where you guys all get these extended cuts from though. Ive never seen some of these scenes.
It should be mandatory in ANY state. Texan here, and this is one of my top 3 favorite movies. I can relate to being a broke musician out of jail, with a crazy ex, and a lot of respect for those who paved the way for us.
There's a shred of understanding and compassion when Aretha says: "Well, go ahead dammit." at 27:11 that I love. The character is pissed, but the actor is channeling her inner musician and the understanding that playing on stage trumps flipping burgers at this moment.
Yes Aykroyd, Belushi, and Candy are Second City alumni. However, I believe the blues brothers characters originated from a sketch with Aykroyd and Belushi on Saturday Night Live after they left Second City.
@@richmckinney7231 -- In 1978 and 1979, the Blues Brothers Band, complete with Akroyd and Belushi did a bunch of live concerts, too. Those were the basis for their couple of albums that came out at the time.
There were 13 Bluesmobiles which were purchased from the California Highway Patrol. Landis purchased 60 retired Chicago PD cars for $400.00 each. After crash scenes, the damaged cars were taken to a 24-hour repair garage so as to be crashed again. The mall was vacant. It was refurbished and restocked for the film. (The Toys R Us customer that asked if they had a Miss Piggy is a reference to Frank Oz, the voice of Miss Piggy, being the jail official that inventoried and returned Jake's belongings.) The scene crashing through the Daley Center cost $3.5 million (1979 dollars).
You should know that the Blues Brothers band was full of some world class blues musicians. For example Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn were part of Booker T and the MG's' Matt Murphy was a backing guitarist for Sonny Boy Williamson II, and Willie Hall drummed for Issac Hayes. Each and every one of the band had an incredible resume as a musician.
i am surprised Ryan has never seen animal house either...the scene when they are all drunk and singing was real they were SHITFACED in the movie, the actors and extras haha
Dan Aykrod and John Belushi were big jazz fans and performers.In fact,Dan Aykrod has been singing and doing jazz for years and Jims Brother John has also sang with Dan Aykrod.
1:01 - Looks like you're watching the extended cut. It's easy to tell from the picture quality which scenes were added back in. It doesn't add anything essential to the film, but it DOES expand upon a few moments that were less clear in the original cut. 1:54 - The first of MANY cameos in this movie. The clerk is Frank Oz, legendary director and Muppeteer. 5:54 - That's Cathleen Freeman. She was EVERYWHERE in the 80s and 90s. And no, she wasn't. 7:20 - Cab Calloway. Legendary big band leader. 8:13 - That IS James Brown. Also, one of the choir women is Chaka Kahn. 9:57 - Given the camera staging, I wouldn't be surprised if they used a double here, but John Belushi could ACTUALLY do flips like that. He did them in the original SNL sketches. 13:50 - The real cost? Next to nothing. This mall was already scheduled for demolition when they filmed the movie. 19:44 - It's worth mentioning at this point that most of the members of the Blues Brothers Band are members of the SNL house band playing fictionalized versions of themselves. 21:45 - That's Paul Reubens, better known as Peewee Herman. 24:03 - John Lee Hooker, Blues LEGEND. 26:06 - Took ya long enough. 28:12 - Ray scared that kid so hard he ran all the way to LA, where he'd get a job driving Bruce Willis to a Christmas party. 37:29 - It's a speaker from an old air-raid/public alert siren. 38:30 - This is Twiggy, one of the first supermodels. At the time of the movie, she was widely considered one of the most beautiful women in the world. 39:29 - Minnie the Moocher is Cab Calloway's signature song. He was so famous for singing it in his day that Fleischer Studios rotoscoped his performance into a Betty Boop cartoon: ua-cam.com/video/qFhMuFEtIh4/v-deo.html 41:31 - This intro is directly inspired by the introduction to the Blues Brothers first official appearance on SNL: ua-cam.com/video/FTWH1Fdkjow/v-deo.html 52:19- Last great cameo of the movie: a very young Steven Spielberg.
A travelers check is a prepaid check. Is used world wide. As long as your signatures matched. Signed at the bank and again when cashed. If lost or stolen you could go to any bank and get replacements. Works similar to your credit/debit cards. You can still get them. They are still in use.
In 1982, when I was 13, I went with a friend and his family to a drive-in theater where I saw this as a double feature with Animal House. They were my first R movies, and, boy, were they eye opening! Animal House is a must.
@@RyanCarrington Then you are in need of a watch of "Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure". I recommend to herbally pregame to get in the right frame of mind for his silliness. 😉
In Chicago, It's Huge. We know every bit of the movie , when , where, who. John Candy, John Belushi, Dan Akroyd, all got their start on the Second City Stage in Chicago. it's one of the reasons they did the film here but honestly this is a Saturday Night Live Skit come to life. The TV show started about 5-6 years before that. There are so many local tropes and inside things in this film from the time. The incomplete Isenhower Expressway Ramp the Nazi's fly off. Making sure to turn the car lights on when going into the underground because of the huge sign that was there. When they have to pull over in the middle of the expressway there was a weird run nobody could figure out why it was designed that way. The Long Elevator ride in the skyscrapers., The PIcaso. They made them jokes in the movie because we were making fun of them in real life at the time.
Some of the scenes with the incomplete expressways, and aerial drop of the Nazi car were done in Milwaukee - if you look at the buildings in the scene, they are well-known Milwaukee buildings.
47:20 - this portion of the car chase takes place on Lower Wacker Drive, which also featured prominently in the Batmobile chase/battle in The Dark Knight.
The thing that makes the movie so great is the facts that 120% of pure love and passion was put into what is really such a silly and simple idea (orphanage needs money and the heroes are gonna get it for them) and yet you’re with them for the whole ride and you root for them to succeed. Also I’m not really a musical type of guy (like at all) but this is one of many exceptions.
They dropped it from a helicopter. I was a kid with some friends out on a boat in Lake Michigan when they filmed the drop. We had no idea what was going on. It was crazy.
It's almost as fun watching reactions to this movie as watching it outright! Blues Brothers puts me in a great mood every time I see it. John Landis really knocked it out of the park here. Such a gem that kickstarted the decade for a lot of greatness to come. Happy New Year to you sir.
This is the definition of "cool." You can't fake or formulize this. 39:40 "What kind of music is this?" That's big band (a subgenre of jazz). '40s stuff. It can be considered swing, but swing goes back longer and is more about the 1920s. The giveaway of big band is having a large band, hence the name, especially with the members sitting in individual boxes behind the front performer.
Did anyone notice who the person was (at city hall) that took the 5000 dollars from the Blues Brothers near the end of the movie ? He ended up making a pretty good name for himself 📽 🎬 ( Answer below ) Steven Spielberg
A little known fact is that John Landis started his career very briefly as a stuntman. That’s why he has a very strong affection for stuntmen, and likes to employ them. That’s why many of his films are very stunt heavy. I spent an evening with him and his wife at an event, super nice, really down to earth normal people.
Great movie, the Mayor of Chicago basically told the movie makers that they could do whatever they wanted and gave them carte blanch. I've seen "the band" which is from Booker T and the MG's twice, they backed Neil Young one time and Eric Clapton another. Great cameo's from music greats!
I live in Joliet and it still blows me away that the reference the city I live in everytime I see this movie. I'm glad you're watching this and hope you like it. Amazing channel thanks for the entertainment 👍🤗
I babysit a seven year old and every time a song would come on, she would get up and dance. By the end she started getting sleepy and sat here and just moved her arms while dozing off. 😂😊
For years back in the 70s, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi played the characters the blues Brothers for Saturday Night Live (they both were in second city, but the blues Brothers has no association with the second city). No one could have imagine that a reoccurring skit would turn into a hit movie that people are still watching over 40 years later
I live one mile from the bridge they jump! Got to drive over it like 1000 times...and yep, still looks like that, with the fish and chips stand and all!
The dance scene outside of Ray's pawn shop was super difficult to do, cause the scene is supposed to be in the summer but the weather during filming was freezing. If you notice the kids in that scene are all wearing winter clothes. This movie had the most car crashes in it for years until the sequel topped it.
19:45 Yes they are real musicians. Cropper and Dunn are session crew from Booker T. and the MG's. Wiilie Hall was a drummer for Issac Hayes. Tom Bones Malone was a jazz horn player on many famous late night TV shows including SNL.
The guy who was the mentor from the orphanage and performed “Minnie the Moocher” which he first made in 1931 and made “scat singing” famous, was Cab Calloway.
The mall scene, you were wondering the cost, I'm not entirely sure, but I do know the mall was slated to be torn down so they took advantage of the situation.
What a lot of people don’t know about Aretha Franklin is that her rhythm section on all her hits were white dudes she recorded at muscle Shoals recording studio and used the famous swampers as her producers and rhythm section. Of course they played on 95 golden platinum hits and won eight Grammys.
1.This was Dan Aykroyd's baby that started out as a SNL skit. He eventually got with Landis (thus Chicago) and it was built on that. There were already songs made for the Blues Brothers from SNL They also put out one album. 2. All-star cast.🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 3. Booking officer is Frank Oz. Voiced Yoda, Miss Piggy and other Muppets. 4. ".....We have a full tank of gas, a half pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses, hit it" 5. The "Good ol' Boys" haad nothing to bitch about. They were late for their gig. 6. They smash so many cars that "Smokey and the Bandit" was practice. WE'RE ON A MISSION FROM GOD😇😇
In the fall of 1979 and early winter of 1980, the production took over the city of Chicago, its recording studios, several suburbs close to the city, nearby towns like Joliet (the prison there closed in 2002) and a few scenes were shot in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (about 2 hours north of Chicago.) Every available dancer, voice or acting extra in Chicago was excited to be part of the production. Some scenes were shot in California but the majority of the film was filmed in Chicago. Because Belushi was from Chicago and Ackroyd had spent time living there, the movie is filled with in-jokes and references about the city. The Nazi rally is based on a real case of Nazis who wanted to march in the suburb of Skokie, which had a significant population that were Holocaust survivors, and the case went to the US Supreme Court to test “freedom of speech.”
I saw this in 1980 as a 13-year-old kid who knew nothing about blues music. This is still my favorite musical of all time. living in Chicago at the time also helped.😂
If you want to see the band in action check out 12-31-78 when they opened for the Grateful Dead at Winterland in San Francisco. The Dead had played Saturday Night Live a couple months before and John Belushi and Jerry Garcia became friends.
"I'm not usually into musicals..." Little Shop of Horrors (directed by Frank Oz, who played the inventory officer in the opening) and Crybaby will probably change your opinion on that Ryan 😉 Also Rocky Horror if you haven't seen it
john belushi did the final stage show with a broken foot, doing the dancing and cartwheels and all that, he had broken it just before shooting and didnt get it looked at till afterward, but he was so coked up he didnt feel it
Before the movie it was an SNL skit and then so popular, taken on the road for a 22 date tour. Two live albums were cut from a performance at the Universal Amphitheatre. This band was a genuine tribute to soul and Rhythm & Blues. As funny as the movie is,, the music was the heart & soul.
As for the cost of the scene driving through the mall, it was all up front. They spent upwards of $40,000 to partially refurbish an abandoned mall. There had been a 'Toy-R-Us' at that spot, they just spruced it up. They brought in all the stuff to stock the storefronts. They also set the record with the destruction of 104 cars, they upped it in the sequel by 1 with 105. In this film, 64 of them were retired Chicago police cars. The current Guinness world record for 'most cars wrecked in a single film' is 'Transformers-Dark of the Moon' with 562! Damn
Most people stop watching before the end credits. The list of stunt people is epic. Everyone in the mall is a stunt man. They were given the mall set dressing free, but had to pay for anything that was broken afterwards.
Traveler's cheques were like an older form of the prepaid credit-card. The bearer could redeem an endorsed cheque anywhere. They were popular amongst traveler's because they would be replaced if lost or stolen (or so they advertised).
John Belushi: Animal House (1978) Animal House is a must ! Yes John & Dan are singing and Dan plays the harmonica. They're a real band and even had a few concert dates plus of course on...... Saturday Night Live where it all started.
Man there is nothing nerdy about you. You are one of the coolest people I know. Great reaction to one of the best movies ever! Check out Blues Brothers 2000 Unfortunately John Belushi had passed away. As a movie it’s ok. As a musical it’s fantastic. The talent is off the charts! Worth a watch for sure. 👍🏽
24:03 that is legendary blues singer John Lee Hooker. This song is boom boom boom. Another one he is famous for is one scotch, one bourbon and one beer. It is a cover but his version is probably the most famous.
Weird trivia: can you find the Billy Joel song in the movie? The studio demanded some contemporary, popular music be added so John Landis agreed to add a Billy Joel song. But...
Hi Mate, new subscriber here. Love your reaction to the The Blues brothers. I was in my teens when I watched this with my dad and end up been part of my life ever since. The music, comedy and the car chases, its why is a classic movie. They don't make movies or comedy like this anymore. Another movie I grew up with and don't see a lot of reactors cover it is The Cannonball Run from 1981 starring Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr and a young Jackie Chan. I hope you give it a watch.
*Set a car chase record with well over 200 police cars trashed for real. All practical effects! *The kid thief in Ray's Music Store grew up to be Argyle the chauffeur in DIE HARD. *Legendary Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh was the first inmate to dance on a table at the end. *Belushi actually did all those back handsprings down the aisle in the church.
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This movie has Yoda and Princess Leia
And Barf!
The guy near the end with the sandwich is Steven Spielberg.
Didn't recognise him whatsoever! 😬
What a cameo!
You'll rarely find a more consistently entertaining film than this one, honestly.
Real musicians. Great musicians.
The musicians in this movie are outright legends.
Many of them, particularly Steve Cropper and Donald Dunn, actually played as session musicians on the original songs the Blues Brothers performed on SNL and in the movie - Steve Cropper played guitar on Soul Man by Sam and Dave, so when people singing into say play it Steve, it's actually him they're referring to.
@@radicaladz Also members of Booker T and the MGs.
@ThatOraLady - indeed.
As no-ones mentioned it yet, the kid trying to steal the guitar from Rays Music Exchange went on, 9 years later to play Argyle, John McClane's driver in Die Hard
Oh shiiii, that's a great bit of trivia!
How bad do you think he wanted that gig after 8 years
That was Argyle? Oh man! ❤❤
Also the first prisoner to get up on the table in the final "Jailhouse Rock" scene is Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh (he was mates with John Landis)
Mind blown
"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses." "Hit it." I don't know how many times I quoted this movie before starting a car trip somewhere. Love this movie, the legendary music, musicians, off-the-charts antics, hilarious dialogue and the ending with all the cops, military and everyone else chasing them is one of my favorite movie moments.
It's a great movie and that's such a good quote!
I have that quote on a movie poster with Jake and Elwood leaning against the Bluesmobile.😊
@@carriemilito2851 awesome! I need one of those
I'm 8 mins in and you've just said Cab Calloway looks like Jerry Stiller, I am HERE for this! I love this movie!
Of course you remember his hit song Serenity Now. And his Holiday Classic Festivus Fo De Rest of Us.
@Bjy001 I'm not going to lie, he really does look like Jerry 😂
And he is actually right. 😂
Ahahaha I'm glad there's at least a few people in agreement 😂
@@RyanCarrington Cab Calloway is a legendary band leader from 20's on. Young Cab is the band leader in that viral Nicholas Brothers nightclub performance video of "Jumpin' Jive."
This film is the reason why practical effects will always be better than CGI. There is no way, even today, that a computer could convincingly recreate that chase scene.
Bring back practical effects!
Before CGI is where you find the really great movie directors! 👍
@@Mr17051963It should be noted that this director was known for putting his actors in real danger. Even had some fatalities, including children on one set, when a helicopter crashed onto them.
That said, this is one of my top three movies, and that chase scene is one of the greatest of all time 👍
John Carpenter’s The Thing is another example of practical effects being better than CGI.
Even if they could do it convincingly, (which someday, they might), it would not make a difference. There's something about simply knowing that they are real that engages with an audience in a more visceral way, then when you know it's all in a computer.
The Blues Brothers is why even people who hate musicals can say they love a musical. It's just so damn hysterical and irreverent, and the music is phenomenal featuring many incredible artists.
The South Park movie is also a musical
Greetings from Chicago! This movie is mandatory viewing here. Hands-down my favorite musical. I don’t know where you guys all get these extended cuts from though. Ive never seen some of these scenes.
It should be mandatory in ANY state. Texan here, and this is one of my top 3 favorite movies. I can relate to being a broke musician out of jail, with a crazy ex, and a lot of respect for those who paved the way for us.
There's a shred of understanding and compassion when Aretha says: "Well, go ahead dammit." at 27:11 that I love. The character is pissed, but the actor is channeling her inner musician and the understanding that playing on stage trumps flipping burgers at this moment.
Yes Aykroyd, Belushi, and Candy are Second City alumni. However, I believe the blues brothers characters originated from a sketch with Aykroyd and Belushi on Saturday Night Live after they left Second City.
yes, but john could not do anything half, so he made sure that the real band were some of the best in the world!
@@richmckinney7231 -- In 1978 and 1979, the Blues Brothers Band, complete with Akroyd and Belushi did a bunch of live concerts, too. Those were the basis for their couple of albums that came out at the time.
Animal House and 1941 are both worth watching.
TOGA! TOGA!
There were 13 Bluesmobiles which were purchased from the California Highway Patrol. Landis purchased 60 retired Chicago PD cars for $400.00 each. After crash scenes, the damaged cars were taken to a 24-hour repair garage so as to be crashed again. The mall was vacant. It was refurbished and restocked for the film. (The Toys R Us customer that asked if they had a Miss Piggy is a reference to Frank Oz, the voice of Miss Piggy, being the jail official that inventoried and returned Jake's belongings.)
The scene crashing through the Daley Center cost $3.5 million (1979 dollars).
Not sure if the Miss Piggy thing was a reference to Oz being in the film. Could just be coincidence. It's not like it was in the scene he was in.
You should know that the Blues Brothers band was full of some world class blues musicians.
For example Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn were part of Booker T and the MG's' Matt Murphy was a backing guitarist for Sonny Boy Williamson II, and Willie Hall drummed for Issac Hayes.
Each and every one of the band had an incredible resume as a musician.
I saw them backing Otis Redding with Booker T and the MG’s at the Monterey Pop Festival.
Easily the best musical of all time, and it's not close.
It always makes me sad when other reactors don't know who these amazing musicians are.
I will not stand for this disrespect of South Park - The Movie!
This movie has so much musical royalty in it, it's ridiculous.
It's pretty crazy! Jam packed!
i am surprised Ryan has never seen animal house either...the scene when they are all drunk and singing was real they were SHITFACED in the movie, the actors and extras haha
@@kimmyfreak200 OMG, that movie has to be next on his list! Top 5 comedy of all time!
Dan Aykrod and John Belushi were big jazz fans and performers.In fact,Dan Aykrod has been singing and doing jazz for years and Jims Brother John has also sang with Dan Aykrod.
1:01 - Looks like you're watching the extended cut. It's easy to tell from the picture quality which scenes were added back in. It doesn't add anything essential to the film, but it DOES expand upon a few moments that were less clear in the original cut.
1:54 - The first of MANY cameos in this movie. The clerk is Frank Oz, legendary director and Muppeteer.
5:54 - That's Cathleen Freeman. She was EVERYWHERE in the 80s and 90s. And no, she wasn't.
7:20 - Cab Calloway. Legendary big band leader.
8:13 - That IS James Brown. Also, one of the choir women is Chaka Kahn.
9:57 - Given the camera staging, I wouldn't be surprised if they used a double here, but John Belushi could ACTUALLY do flips like that. He did them in the original SNL sketches.
13:50 - The real cost? Next to nothing. This mall was already scheduled for demolition when they filmed the movie.
19:44 - It's worth mentioning at this point that most of the members of the Blues Brothers Band are members of the SNL house band playing fictionalized versions of themselves.
21:45 - That's Paul Reubens, better known as Peewee Herman.
24:03 - John Lee Hooker, Blues LEGEND.
26:06 - Took ya long enough.
28:12 - Ray scared that kid so hard he ran all the way to LA, where he'd get a job driving Bruce Willis to a Christmas party.
37:29 - It's a speaker from an old air-raid/public alert siren.
38:30 - This is Twiggy, one of the first supermodels. At the time of the movie, she was widely considered one of the most beautiful women in the world.
39:29 - Minnie the Moocher is Cab Calloway's signature song. He was so famous for singing it in his day that Fleischer Studios rotoscoped his performance into a Betty Boop cartoon: ua-cam.com/video/qFhMuFEtIh4/v-deo.html
41:31 - This intro is directly inspired by the introduction to the Blues Brothers first official appearance on SNL: ua-cam.com/video/FTWH1Fdkjow/v-deo.html
52:19- Last great cameo of the movie: a very young Steven Spielberg.
another great movie with belushi is animal house
Ghostbusters with Akroyd
@@redhen2123 sad that Belushi died, he would had Bill Murrays role in the series if he hadnt taken an overdose!
@johnbernhardtsen3008 met him at a rolling stones concert, fun times.
The editing in your reaction was PERFECT! Thanks!!! Great reaction video!!!
Appreciate that, man! I spend a lot of time and effort trying to get it right 👊
They didn't show Belushi's face while he was in prison because he didn't have his sunglasses yet.
Ah of course!
The woman at the gas station was English model and actress Twiggy.
A travelers check is a prepaid check. Is used world wide. As long as your signatures matched. Signed at the bank and again when cashed. If lost or stolen you could go to any bank and get replacements. Works similar to your credit/debit cards. You can still get them. They are still in use.
The vehicular carnage alone makes is movie worth the watch.
In 1982, when I was 13, I went with a friend and his family to a drive-in theater where I saw this as a double feature with Animal House. They were my first R movies, and, boy, were they eye opening! Animal House is a must.
Yes, they are all real musicians 😅😅😅
Yes, they are the original Saturday Night Live band where John and Dan came up with the skit introducing the blues Brothers
The waiter at Chez Paul was played by Paul Reubens (PeeWee Herman).
Sounds like im gonna have to google PeeWee Herman 😂
@@RyanCarrington Might as well, he got caught 'googling' himself in a theater once :P
@@OUsniper1 lmao yah people overrated to that
@@RyanCarrington Then you are in need of a watch of "Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure". I recommend to herbally pregame to get in the right frame of mind for his silliness. 😉
@@RyanCarrington pee wee s big adventure was TIM BURTONs 1st film
In Chicago, It's Huge. We know every bit of the movie , when , where, who. John Candy, John Belushi, Dan Akroyd, all got their start on the Second City Stage in Chicago. it's one of the reasons they did the film here but honestly this is a Saturday Night Live Skit come to life. The TV show started about 5-6 years before that. There are so many local tropes and inside things in this film from the time. The incomplete Isenhower Expressway Ramp the Nazi's fly off. Making sure to turn the car lights on when going into the underground because of the huge sign that was there. When they have to pull over in the middle of the expressway there was a weird run nobody could figure out why it was designed that way. The Long Elevator ride in the skyscrapers., The PIcaso. They made them jokes in the movie because we were making fun of them in real life at the time.
Some of the scenes with the incomplete expressways, and aerial drop of the Nazi car were done in Milwaukee - if you look at the buildings in the scene, they are well-known Milwaukee buildings.
47:20 - this portion of the car chase takes place on Lower Wacker Drive, which also featured prominently in the Batmobile chase/battle in The Dark Knight.
Ooh, good trivia! 🙌
The thing that makes the movie so great is the facts that 120% of pure love and passion was put into what is really such a silly and simple idea (orphanage needs money and the heroes are gonna get it for them) and yet you’re with them for the whole ride and you root for them to succeed.
Also I’m not really a musical type of guy (like at all) but this is one of many exceptions.
In another under appreciated cameo, the first person to jump up on the table to dance in the final jailhouse number is legendary guitarist Joe Walsh.
They dropped it from a helicopter. I was a kid with some friends out on a boat in Lake Michigan when they filmed the drop. We had no idea what was going on. It was crazy.
It's almost as fun watching reactions to this movie as watching it outright!
Blues Brothers puts me in a great mood every time I see it.
John Landis really knocked it out of the park here. Such a gem that kickstarted the decade for a lot of greatness to come.
Happy New Year to you sir.
Glad you enjoyed!
Happy New Year to you, too ✌️
Great reaction Hun. Hope all is well. X
When I saw you were reacting to this, I was like, “yeah, we’ll dig this”. Great reaction to a classic musical comedy. 👍
Appreciate the COMEDIES and the LAUGHTER! So helpful at lightening the mood 😊
There was a week in 1980 when they were on the #1 TV. SNL. And had the #1 Movie and the #1 Album. They owned the world.
"Animal House" is another great movie with John Bulushi that I know you'll love. Very funny!
Such an amazing classic film filled with so many legends. Thanx so much, take care, Peace
12:55 You know who doesn't miss Toys R Us? The Blues Brothers!
Brilliant!
This is the definition of "cool." You can't fake or formulize this.
39:40 "What kind of music is this?" That's big band (a subgenre of jazz). '40s stuff. It can be considered swing, but swing goes back longer and is more about the 1920s. The giveaway of big band is having a large band, hence the name, especially with the members sitting in individual boxes behind the front performer.
There are soooo many stars in this movie
Now THAT was enjoyable watching along with you Ryan. Have an excellent weekend! 👍🏻🎶🎵
Thanks, you too!
The Mall scene, was real, The Mall was closing , Bankruptcy so the studio bought the Mall.
😂..the rest is Cinema History! 😂
What an investment 👌
We used to shop in that Mall. It took another 30 years before they actually demolished it. You can see it on a channel called "Dead Malls"
Did anyone notice who the person was (at city hall) that took the 5000 dollars from the Blues Brothers near the end of the movie ? He ended up making a pretty good name for himself
📽 🎬
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Steven Spielberg
A little known fact is that John Landis started his career very briefly as a stuntman. That’s why he has a very strong affection for stuntmen, and likes to employ them. That’s why many of his films are very stunt heavy. I spent an evening with him and his wife at an event, super nice, really down to earth normal people.
Pretty sure this movie still holds the record for most cars wrecked
I think it was broken a couple of years later. I can’t tell you what film though.
Unfortunately one of the Transformers movies had 5x times vehicles destroyed than Blues Brothers.
The sequel destroyed more total vehicles, but this movie still holds the record for the most police cruisers crashed
@dosnostalgic i am confident most of them were CGI
@@viclagina347 Michael Bay does like to blow up real stuff, so I'm pretty sure that record is official.
“Orange whip orange whip”
3 orange whips
Great movie, the Mayor of Chicago basically told the movie makers that they could do whatever they wanted and gave them carte blanch. I've seen "the band" which is from Booker T and the MG's twice, they backed Neil Young one time and Eric Clapton another. Great cameo's from music greats!
There are *so many legends* in there! Love it just for the music.
52:17 That hand gestures that they are doing is something that Curly from The Three Stooges used to do in their old comedies.
I gave the 42nd like and watched 42 minutes after upload
Clearly it's because I know where my towel is
Hey my favorite Brit.. hope you enjoyed the movie. from Arizona U.S
So good!
17:07 cover the door with your hand and it's like cyberpunk billboards over the train.
The sequel called Blues Brothers 2000 isn't anywhere near as good but it does do enough fan service to the original movie to be enjoyable.
I live in Joliet and it still blows me away that the reference the city I live in everytime I see this movie. I'm glad you're watching this and hope you like it. Amazing channel thanks for the entertainment 👍🤗
Carrie Fisher was engaged to Dan Aykroyd when they made this movie.
Well, I never knew that! 🤯
I babysit a seven year old and every time a song would come on, she would get up and dance. By the end she started getting sleepy and sat here and just moved her arms while dozing off. 😂😊
A Chicago Classic. Good stuff.
❤ great reaction of this timeless classic..
Glad you enjoyed it
Lots of fun! Nothing to do on New Year’s Eve? Watch the Blues Brothers!
For years back in the 70s, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi played the characters the blues Brothers for Saturday Night Live (they both were in second city, but the blues Brothers has no association with the second city).
No one could have imagine that a reoccurring skit would turn into a hit movie that people are still watching over 40 years later
I live one mile from the bridge they jump! Got to drive over it like 1000 times...and yep, still looks like that, with the fish and chips stand and all!
The dance scene outside of Ray's pawn shop was super difficult to do, cause the scene is supposed to be in the summer but the weather during filming was freezing. If you notice the kids in that scene are all wearing winter clothes. This movie had the most car crashes in it for years until the sequel topped it.
this movie stood in the world records for the most wrecked cars. they still stand in those record books for the most in one scene(i believe)!
One of the best movie soundtracks ever
19:45 Yes they are real musicians. Cropper and Dunn are session crew from Booker T. and the MG's. Wiilie Hall was a drummer for Issac Hayes. Tom Bones Malone was a jazz horn player on many famous late night TV shows including SNL.
Definitely one of my favorite movies. Total fun and what a cast! The music! Can't beat it! ❤
The guy who was the mentor from the orphanage and performed “Minnie the Moocher” which he first made in 1931 and made “scat singing” famous, was Cab Calloway.
Calloway was also the subject of Rotoscope animation and had Betty Boop, a cartoon, be he "opening act" at one point. He was a groundbreaker.
WHEN I woke up this Morning...I Heard , a Disturbin SOUND! .😂❤
The mall scene, you were wondering the cost, I'm not entirely sure, but I do know the mall was slated to be torn down so they took advantage of the situation.
Sadly it survived until 2005
The hardest one to recognise was Chaka Khan, the most unexpected one was Steven Spielberg! 👌🏼✌🏼
What a lot of people don’t know about Aretha Franklin is that her rhythm section on all her hits were white dudes she recorded at muscle Shoals recording studio and used the famous swampers as her producers and rhythm section. Of course they played on 95 golden platinum hits and won eight Grammys.
1.This was Dan Aykroyd's baby that started out as a SNL skit. He eventually got with Landis (thus Chicago) and it was built on that. There were already songs made for the Blues Brothers from SNL They also put out one album.
2. All-star cast.🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
3. Booking officer is Frank Oz. Voiced Yoda, Miss Piggy and other Muppets.
4. ".....We have a full tank of gas, a half pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses, hit it"
5. The "Good ol' Boys" haad nothing to bitch about. They were late for their gig.
6. They smash so many cars that "Smokey and the Bandit" was practice.
WE'RE ON A MISSION FROM GOD😇😇
In the fall of 1979 and early winter of 1980, the production took over the city of Chicago, its recording studios, several suburbs close to the city, nearby towns like Joliet (the prison there closed in 2002) and a few scenes were shot in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (about 2 hours north of Chicago.) Every available dancer, voice or acting extra in Chicago was excited to be part of the production. Some scenes were shot in California but the majority of the film was filmed in Chicago. Because Belushi was from Chicago and Ackroyd had spent time living there, the movie is filled with in-jokes and references about the city. The Nazi rally is based on a real case of Nazis who wanted to march in the suburb of Skokie, which had a significant population that were Holocaust survivors, and the case went to the US Supreme Court to test “freedom of speech.”
I saw this in 1980 as a 13-year-old kid who knew nothing about blues music. This is still my favorite musical of all time. living in Chicago at the time also helped.😂
Can't have hurt 😂
If you want to see the band in action check out 12-31-78 when they opened for the Grateful Dead at Winterland in San Francisco. The Dead had played Saturday Night Live a couple months before and John Belushi and Jerry Garcia became friends.
At the end when they were playing at the prison, the first inmate to jump up on the table to dance was Joe Walsh, the guitarist for The Eagles. ✌🏼😎🇺🇸
"I'm not usually into musicals..."
Little Shop of Horrors (directed by Frank Oz, who played the inventory officer in the opening) and Crybaby will probably change your opinion on that Ryan 😉
Also Rocky Horror if you haven't seen it
john belushi did the final stage show with a broken foot, doing the dancing and cartwheels and all that, he had broken it just before shooting and didnt get it looked at till afterward, but he was so coked up he didnt feel it
Before the movie it was an SNL skit and then so popular, taken on the road for a 22 date tour. Two live albums were cut from a performance at the Universal Amphitheatre. This band was a genuine tribute to soul and Rhythm & Blues. As funny as the movie is,, the music was the heart & soul.
As for the cost of the scene driving through the mall, it was all up front. They spent upwards of $40,000 to partially refurbish an abandoned mall. There had been a 'Toy-R-Us' at that spot, they just spruced it up. They brought in all the stuff to stock the storefronts. They also set the record with the destruction of 104 cars, they upped it in the sequel by 1 with 105.
In this film, 64 of them were retired Chicago police cars. The current Guinness world record for 'most cars wrecked in a single film' is 'Transformers-Dark of the Moon' with 562! Damn
Great reaction thank you
Thanks for watching 🙌
To make the movie with Dan and John, there was $100,000 budget strictly for cocaine.
Wow. That's how you kick off the 80s haha
Yeah, cast and crew were pushed to the limit, there was very little time for sleeping, it was a crazy time and drugs were everywhere.
The big band guy was Cab Calloway I believe
Most people stop watching before the end credits. The list of stunt people is epic.
Everyone in the mall is a stunt man. They were given the mall set dressing free, but had to pay for anything that was broken afterwards.
What I loved about the country and western bar was if they hate it they throw bottles at you and if they love it they also throw bottles at you
Great reaction as always. This is one of the only musicals I like.
Thanks man!
The mall was being renevated and all the cop cars were being replaced with newer ones so it worked out for the movie.
Traveler's cheques were like an older form of the prepaid credit-card. The bearer could redeem an endorsed cheque anywhere. They were popular amongst traveler's because they would be replaced if lost or stolen (or so they advertised).
Ahhh good to know! Cheers 👊
John Belushi:
Animal House (1978)
Animal House is a must !
Yes John & Dan are singing and Dan plays the harmonica. They're a real band and even had a few concert dates plus of course on...... Saturday Night Live where it all started.
I'm on it! 👊
You should check out Animal House another Belushi movie.
Added to the list!
@@RyanCarrington Have your editing hat on! LOTS of boobies!!! 😂😂😂
@@RyanCarrington But yes...highly recommended. A CLASSIC comedy for the ages.
@@charliemac64 yah the good ol' days hehe
Man there is nothing nerdy about you. You are one of the coolest people I know.
Great reaction to one of the best movies ever!
Check out Blues Brothers 2000
Unfortunately John Belushi had passed away. As a movie it’s ok. As a musical it’s fantastic. The talent is off the charts! Worth a watch for sure. 👍🏽
24:03 that is legendary blues singer John Lee Hooker.
This song is boom boom boom. Another one he is famous for is one scotch, one bourbon and one beer. It is a cover but his version is probably the most famous.
If you look he her desk when she's reading the flamethrower manuel there are pics of her and jake
Weird trivia: can you find the Billy Joel song in the movie?
The studio demanded some contemporary, popular music be added so John Landis agreed to add a Billy Joel song. But...
Hi Mate, new subscriber here. Love your reaction to the The Blues brothers. I was in my teens when I watched this with my dad and end up been part of my life ever since. The music, comedy and the car chases, its why is a classic movie. They don't make movies or comedy like this anymore. Another movie I grew up with and don't see a lot of reactors cover it is The Cannonball Run from 1981 starring Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr and a young Jackie Chan. I hope you give it a watch.
*Set a car chase record with well over 200 police cars trashed for real. All practical effects!
*The kid thief in Ray's Music Store grew up to be Argyle the chauffeur in DIE HARD.
*Legendary Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh was the first inmate to dance on a table at the end.
*Belushi actually did all those back handsprings down the aisle in the church.