Can we take a minute to appreciate all the little cinematography touches in these scenes? From filming Jake and the guards from underneath as they walk through the cell block (in step with each other no less) to the foreshadowing of Jakes walking out of prison almost completely overcome by the rising sun. This movie is amazing on so many levels.
Couldn't agree more. Proper camera angles, today films are just too fast paced with no creativity. You really feel like you're able to take in the whole surroundings of the enviroment through film with quality, carefully positioned angles like this.
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The shorter of the two guards escorting Jake is played by Father Gerald Walling, a Jesuit priest and my drama professor at Marquette University four years after this film was released. He was a really nice guy and a great acting coach. When I told him that I’m from Joliet, he had a few stories about filming at the Collins Street prison.
@@pab1381 I lived in Forest Park back in the late ‘90s (above the old Circle Theater) before living in Oak Park for a few more years and then moving further north. I recently drove through there for the first time in several years, and it has definitely gentrified!
One of the best openings of any movie. Love how the light is so bright when he is walkingbout of the prison and the timing of the music was perfect. And I sing along to the song everytime I hear it
The lighting, the street scenes, the big city neighborhoods, and the town folk add so much to this crazy classic movie that will live on forever!! only once in a lifetime you have a comedy so original with so much talent from both sides. Trying making a movie like this today!
I was at the Chicago White Sox on Saturday, 5/14/22. Two things. First, when they start playing "Sweet Home Chicago", you know the game is over and it's time to exit the ballpark. Two, it warmed my heart to hear people that weren't even alive when this movie was released singing along to "Sweet Home Chicago". That tells you how iconic this movie is!
The gate that Jake was released at. It was broken when they came to film this, so the studio paid to fix it because they really wanted that shot, but then it’s only when they were ready to film that they were told they would only be allowed to open it once. So the shot that’s in the movie is the one and only take they were able to film
Picked my father up from north country corrections yesterday, had to watch this before I took the ride up. Lol gave em a hug just like the movie hahaha,to bad I got a colarado and not an old crown vic.
That guy as the corrections officer is Frank Oz, the voice and puppeteer of Yoda from Star Wars as well as Sesame Street’s original voice and puppeteer for Grover, Cookie Monster, Bert etc. as well as the original Miss Piggy, Animal, Fozzie Bear & Sam the Eagle. You can hear a little Bert in the Blues Brothers too.
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@@SCCelticGoddes That man did not teach Luke Skywalker the ways of the force to be remembered as Miss Piggy (although it is another fantastic role he was in, just not what I would go to as an example of his fantastic puppeteering skills.)
@@SCCelticGoddes if you listen carefully to Frank Oz as he is talking at the screen check-in, you hear that he sounds exactly like Bert from Sesame Street. Because, of course, Frank played Bert while Henson played Ernie!
The prison warden Frank Oz who checks out Belushi is the same guy who checks in Dan Akyroid as a policeman in Trading Places when he's arrested. Now there is a good piece of historical filming.
There's nothing like the feeling walking out of the joint after doing a few years, I still remember that feeling 43 years later. This movie brought that all back.
Because most of the films based on an SNL sketch had long since run the one joke well into the ground on the show. The only "joke" in the Blues Brothers SNL appearances was "you get to hear a classic blues song played by a really good band and sung by guys who really love blues music." They saved giving them characters and a backstory for the movie.
Gerald C. Walling, who played one of the prison guards, was a Jesuit priest for 60 years, spending most of his career as a professor in the Theater Departments at Loyola University, St. Ignatius High School (Chicago), and Marquette University.
Frank Oz as Yoda and Carrie Fisher as Leia are the two actors that are both in Star Wars Empire Strikes Back and this movie which both came out in 1980.
The reason for all the low/high shots and everything being from the rear is because you can't see Jakes face. That's because he does not have his sunglasses yet. You only get to see Jakes eyes in ONE scene.
Not just that but all the other things Elwood did involving driving even before he ran the red light. That's why the cops chased him in the first place afterwards
2 questions how come the release officer didn't mention the shirt shouldn't have said white shirt also second just have the release procedure really work in Joliet open
Fun Fact: The prison that is in this film is actually abandoned and is now only for tourists to come in, and there is a elementary school when you take a right. You wonder why do I know this stuff? Is because I live in Joliet, IL =/
The first 5 minutes of this musical comedy has no music in it. A movie these days would be too afraid of that, and play a heavy orchestral theme over the entire sequence, removing the vast echo of the prison.
Actually, I think it's very clever. The movie - maybe - intends to trick you into thinking it's not a comedy. I caught this on cable many years ago and I thought it was going to be a gritty blue-collar or prison drama. When John Belushi leaned over the line and the guitar started strumming I started wondering what the hell was going on.
@@lyssaj6129 If you can't talk without using the word "like" unnecessarily, you should at least try to type without using the word "like" unnecessarily. You'll find that like you will be taken more seriously than like, you know, if you don't. Just a suggestion.
Cory R I think the 1980 movie is better than the 1998 movie since it's more action packed. I just feel bad almost every member in the movie is dead. Like Carrie Fisher (Mystery Woman), John Belushi (Jake Blues), Ray Charles (Ray), and many more. I hope they will all rest in peace
My uncle love this movie.... When I get in the 2 DVD set that explains the movie and all the quirks and interesting things about it... Well,,, His eyes lit up with a big smile!
Those signs are common. I can think of at least 3 places in New Mexico that have them - along the roads past the penitentiary and "county", the minimum security prison, and the boys' reform school.
You know I've been thinking a lot about what this film means with the brothers no matter what they've gotten themselves into being criminals musicians etc you can definitely see the brotherly love between each other and that's because the people that played the brothers Dan aykroyd and John Belushi cared about each other had a true brotherly Love in real life watch any video where Dan aykroyd talks about John Belushi and he'll say the same thing. John Belushi and Dan aykroyd were. ❤❤
