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The Blues Brothers: A 133-minute Extravaganza

The Blues Brothers: A 133-minute Extravaganza

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 Executive Producer: Jerry FlanaganThe Blues Brothers soundtrack is a 133-minute extravaganza of music, cocktails, shadow dancing, premium cigars, fun, and surprises while watching the 1980 classic movie released by Universal Pictures. During the summer of 1980, at the age of 12, I felt like I was hanging out with amazing celebrities through on-screen movies like John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway, James Brown, Ray Charles, Carrie Fisher, and Aretha Franklin. In the 80s, there were some fantastic movies to enjoy, and The Blues Brothers movie was one of them, grossing over $115 million at the box office with a $27.5 million budget. Millions more were made through the franchise brand over the next 45 years. The Blues Brothers emerged as a cult classic, blending comedy, music, and bold creativity. Originating from Saturday Night Live, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi crafted iconic personas that transcended TV, music, and film. Despite facing production challenges, costly delays, an unconventional script, and budget overruns, the film celebrated legendary R&B artists and solidified its legacy. The franchise grew over decades, encompassing tours, albums, and a sequel, achieving cultural recognition as a significant piece of entertainment history.Regardless of whether it was seen as genuine, The Blues Brothers, Jake and Elwood, were incredibly popular in the late 1970s. Sporting vintage black suits, narrow ties, fedoras, and black Ray-Ban sunglasses. The Blues Brothers played spirited versions of classic soul hits from the Stax-Volt record label. Universal Pictures, which won the bidding war for the film, was hoping to take advantage of Belushi's popularity in the wake of Saturday Night Live, the 1978 film Animal House, and the Blues Brothers' musical success. The movie project 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 John 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 film one of the most expensive comedies ever produced. Owing to concerns that the film would fail, its initial theater bookings were less than half of those to 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. Sadly, the sequel's script fell short of the original’s hype, even though the original cast returned. In 2020, The Blues Brothers was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" to the 1970s and 80s.Don Kirshner recounts the Blues Brothers’ origin story: “In 1969, Marshall Checker of Checkers Records contacted me about a new blues group performing in Chicago’s South Side clubs. Today they are no longer an authentic blues act, but have managed to become a viable commercial product.” In reality, however, vocalist Jake and harpist Elwood Blues were music lovers John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, two of SNL’s brightest stars who created their respective aliases in early 1976 to warm up crowds before performances of the hit series. Launching their national TV career in bee costumes, the Blues Brothers, featuring Belushi and Aykroyd, performed “I’m a King Bee,” and their appearances increased in frequency.The movie project had neither a budget nor a script. Universal head Lew Wasserman thought the film could be made for $12 million; the filmmakers wanted $20 million. It was impossible to settle on an amount without a screenplay to review, and after Mitch Glazer declined to help him, Aykroyd wrote one on his own. At Aykroyd's demand, soul and R&B stars James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin were cast in speaking parts to support musical numbers built around them. This later caused friction in the production between John Landis and Universal, as the costs far exceeded the original budget. Since none of them except Ray Charles had any hits in recent years, the studio wanted Landis to replace them with younger acts. The character portrayed by Cab Calloway is named Curtis as a homage to Curtis Salgado, an Oregon blues musician who inspired Belushi while he was in that area filming the Animal House (1978) movie. "Minnie the Moocher" is a jazz song co-written by American musician Cab Calloway and first recorded in 1931 by Calloway and his big band orchestra, selling over a million copies. "Minnie the Moocher" is famous for its nonsensical ad libbed lyrics, also known as scat singing (for example, its ...
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