"well thank you, THANK YOU!!, the day I get released from the slammer and my own brother picks me up in a fucking cop car" I miss this movie...I gotta buy it...I haven't seen it for years except on TV...god damn I love this movie...it's truly one of those life changing experiences...
For your reading pleasure, the entire script (with screen shots) Enjoy http://www.nederpoparchief.nl/bluesbrothers/script_a.html
uh oh...that'll keep us busy for a while...and I'm supposed to be out fixing the beater car right now...DAMN YOU!!! hahaha... "we're gonna go talk to bob"...
I just spent the last half hour skimming it, and they have wav files for the classic lines, make sure you give a listen. http://www.nederpoparchief.nl/bluesbrothers/light.wav http://www.nederpoparchief.nl/bluesbrothers/howmuch.wav
I just got done reading all the way up to the scene where they pick up Matt "Guitar" Murphy and Blue Lou... "well, go on dammit"...
The scenes where the cop cars pile up off the embankment on the highway, and the one where the trooper's car with John Candy ends up crashed into the semi were shot on route 12 in Wauconda, Il, about 3 miles from where I lived. You can see the little hotel near that intersection in one of the shots. We got to watch them pile up the cars when they shot the scene. Was fargin GREAT! The cars sat there for almost 3 months while they slowly hauled them away.
Can you hand me the mike? HI, this is car...... what number are we?? Five five This is car fifty five.........ah, were in a truck! OK, super nerd here. I was president of the Blues Brothers Fan Club of Australia. Yeah, I LOVE that movie! I like a few others found my way to the blues after watching that movie at about 7 years old. John Lee Hooker blew my mind when I first saw that, how the hell can someone have such a powerful voice!! WOW! Yup too learned the harp after that movie!!! Just a note on Booker T & the MG's, only Steve Cropper and Donald Dunn were members of the band, but Green Onions is the best instrumental ever! Followed by Albatross. It was estimated that John Belushi went through 700 pairs of sunglasses during filming, they were lost, given away (To the young Lady's) and often broken. Some members of the cast believe that we never saw the same pair twice! Dan Akroyd 'decorated' the dash of the car to give it a more used look even know at the time he didn't smoke. We offered to help. you refused to take our money. So I said, I guess your really up shit creek......... Shit, whats one more old nigger to the board of education? Are you two the police? No ma'am, were musicians. Doc
I saw the Blues Brothers live at the Universal Amphitheater when they opened for Steve Martin. One of the best damn shows I ever saw. There is a guy I know named Burt Levy who is a road racer and writer from the Chicago area. Back when they were making the Blues Brothers movie the producers put the word out to the local SCCA that they needed drivers. The producers were tight on money so they wanted to use locals to do the a lot of the driving. The stunt guys did all the crashes and stuff but they used the locals where it was just fast driving, they paid $45 a day. Burt said the craziest thing he saw was one of the camera cars. It had a platform built off the front end like 6" off the ground with a camera mount and a little fiberglass seat like from an airport waiting area, with a nylon lapbelt. Burt talked to the cameraman who sat in this rig and filmed and asked him if it was scarry sitting there at 70+ mph dodging people and cars and light poles and bridge abutments. The guy says, "Naw, it's only scarry when I don't look through the camera." Now a shameless plug, Burt Levy has written a series of books, 4 so far, fiction, about a 19 year old kid named Buddy Palumbo who goes to work at the local Sinclair station in Passaic NJ in 1952. He likes working on cars and is good at it and gets caught up in the sports car racing rage of the early '50s. Because he's a good wrench he ends up going to Indy, the Carrera Panamericana, Bonneville, Elkhart Lake, Watkins Glen and Le Mans. He also builds a special out of a wrecked Jag XK120 with a Cadillac engine that gets named "The Fabulous Trashwagon". When he couldn't find a publisher Burt went into hock and published the books himself. He also sold sponsorships and there are sections in each book with sponsors ads but most of them are done in '50s style and are mixed in with real ads from old race programs. His first book was titled "The Last Open Road" and won a bunch of book awards. It may be in your local library if you want a free read or you can go to lastopenroad.com. End of shameless plug. Cheers, Kurt
A32Flathead, You know I'm a soul man, I'll be coming at you on September 15th heading down the road with the Blues Brothers blasting away. Cruiser
Look forward to it Wayne, you realise you & Ginger will be outnumbered that weekend....There's gonna be 3 Brits!!
Dave, Ginger and I have an old vintage American plan to kick you limey ass's into shape. The plan works great on the cry baby French, Brit's will be a little harder. The plan involves having USA tattooed across your ass's, this will be an honor for you and the British nation.
I took up Harmonica after hearing Paul Butterfields East-West & Charley Musselwhites Stand Back records; I also love the Blues Brothers & Animal House. For those who dont know They filmed Animal House in and around Eugene Oregon. While there John Belushi started hanging out with Curtis Salgado a vocalist and harp man who used to front the Robert Cray band when they first started out. I saw Curtis fronting the Robert Cray Band @ the Keystone in Palo Alto CA back the and in my opinion he was every bit as good as Kim Wilson front the T-Birds back when Jimmie Vaughan was in the band. The Robert Cray band were a fixture up in Eugene at the time of filming. During down time on the set Curtis turned John onto his extensive Blues record collection. So when shooting was complete and John was back at Saturday Night Live he shared his new found excitement for the Blues with Dan Aykroyd and the rest is all the great cool stuff weve been reminiscing about. I think it is safe to say that without Curtis Salgado the Blues Brothers would never have been made. Recently Curtis Salgado has been fighting liver cancer, and there has been benefit concerts in various places to help with his medical expenses. I know they had one in Seattle WA and down here in the Bay Area And I think another might be in the works here in the Bay Area not sure yet. For more info heres his web site: http://www.curtissalgado.com/
I must have been about 14 had seen Blues Brothers for the first time. I cant think of what i would be like without that movie It should be handed to you when you are born so you can be sure to see it. Anyways there I was in a record store in Berkley CA and a beam of light form heaven shines on a blakc t shirt with the blues brothers on the front just like the drawing on the bathroom wall in the movie. It was perfect It made an excellent replacement for the homemade one I had made. I LOVE THE BLUES BROTHERS! "You got my money muthafucka" "Did you get me my cheezwhiz boy?" " I hate illinois nazis"
john candy to cops:"hey i'm gonna get an orange whip, orange whip? orange whip? you guys wanna orange whip?"
Ours was "Elwood", a 69 Dodge Polara. Ex Glendora, CA black and white police car with a pumped 383. We replaced the blown auto with a 4 speed, fabbed clutch linkage and a tunnel. 275/60-15s on CHP wheels with dog dishes. Plastic back seat and stripped. 140 mph certified speedo. Total cost was about $700! That thing handed ass to many a Chevelle in Fresno in the late 80s (you know who you are!). Windshield molding blew off with the speedo buried on the way out to the Sat night drags...scary. Ended up in the Livermore junkyard.
What fun is quoting if you're just reading the script? Kinda like showing up with your heap on a trailer... My favorite scene is still the one where Carrie Fisher blows the shit out of Elwood's flop house with the rocket launcher. The bros just dust off and head up the street...
YEAH!!! I take one orange whip! Or better 3!!! Truly one of the best movies: My buddy Jake also has his nickname because looking like him... He used to wear black and glasses all the time! On every American Car show here in southern Germany. Here he is on stage with my old band "The Hustlers" doin Rhythm and Blues and Country Rockabilly And my buddy Planters as Elwood, and "Nadja" ;-)) And yours truly... This was a mix beetween "The Good Old Boys and the Blues Bros" at my 30th birthday bash! I can't see a Movie on this site...??? http://209.43.123.28/ sth wrong?
No it isn't!!! Is a very well translated movie.I have seen both! Exept the thing with the catalytic converters. No one back in 1980 had a idea what this is..... It' just hilarious how they translated it! Always a runnin gag more!
We had a few Orange Whips at the post Road Burners rockabilly road tour last year. If I remember correctly we had a floating cooler loaded with orange whips, it was floating because the post party was at the hotel pool. It is all fun till Otis cracks his head open, well it's still fun after that for the rest of us!! jeff
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