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The Blues Brothers use the Bluesmobile to evade pursuers in a number of high-speed chases throughout the film, culminating in a police pursuit / race to Chicago after the band's performance north of the city.

The Blues Brothers just won't quit.

While filming another scene, stuntman Bob Minor suffered serious head injuries and a crew member required a leg amputation after a car rolled on to him. When the band is playing in Ray's Music Exchange, and also at big gig at the end, we can clearly hear the drums and cymbals crashing, but the drummer is faking his movements; the cymbals do not move, nor does the drummer actually make contact with the drums with his drumsticks.

Once the bottom of the pickup is in view, its kicker tube is obvious behind the passenger-side front wheel well. They even drive through a beach full of swimmers in bathing suits.
"He saved my life, and then he asked me to marry him. When the band is playing "Jailhouse Rock", the drummer goes from hitting the ride cymbal to the high hats in the same bar (four measures). However, when the switch is made to the external shot, the troopers' car can clearly be seen moving at full speed from a place somewhere to the right of the billboard and passing behind it, at which point the crash with the RV occurs.

On the landing, the Bluesmobile's right tail light is out, but when we see the car again, just before it falls apart, both tail lights are working. |

When they are going to jump the bridge there's an obvious gap between the bridge and the road that a car couldn't pass. But he supplemented his work in front of the camera with a handful of stunting stints—including one on The Blues Brothers. For the scenes after that, the bumperette is back in shape. The next time you want to laugh in a sarcastic, old-timey way, thank Jackie Gleason for popularizing har de har via his iconic 1950s show, The Honeymooners. The PA speaker the Blues Brothers use for announcing their concert is shown to be an outdoor warning siren taken from a children's play area. When the Blues Brothers jump over the cop car when coming out of the tunnel, the weather changes four different times in only a few seconds, and also throughout the whole end-of-movie chase scene. During the state trooper crash, Car 73 appears to crash down the embankment twice.

I haven't done a video in a while, but it doesn't mean I haven't been working on any! This group of people disappears and reappears several times in subsequent shots. During "Sweet Home Chicago", there is the sound of a baritone sax solo, but no one on stage is playing a baritone sax.

This could not happen with no gas.

The movie inter-cuts between Jake and Elwood riding peacefully in the elevator up to the Cook County Assessor's Office and the police and military surrounding and storming the building. The 3 pinball machines in Bob's Country Bunker are side by side against the wall as the Blues Brothers enter, but have moved to separate locations near the end of the scene.

Even though the film was released in 1980, it is still the 1970s because of the date seen on the paid taxes receipt issued by the Cook County clerk, indicating it is August, 1979. There are no leaves on the trees. While it pumped about $12 million into the local economy, all those car stunts scared residents enough that many of them called the local newspapers to report what they were seeing. During the second big chase, a number of state troopers go off the right side of the road and crash.



[4], The film used 13 different cars to depict the Bluesmobile, all of which were former police cars purchased from the California Highway Patrol, and were mocked up to look like former Mount Prospect, Illinois patrol cars. This phrase meaning a thing or person that offers visual appeal but not much substance originally referred to such a feature of a TV program. Blues Brothers 2000 sought to outdo the original by including a number of outrageous stunts.

Backstage at the Palace Hotel concert, Curtis and the band prepare for "Minnie the Moocher."

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised. And I thought ... wow, what if that happens again? According to Landis, there was no need to explain the car's powers.


Belushi earned $500,000 for his work in the movie; Aykroyd received $250,000. When being chased by the Illinois Nazis, the Bluesmobile comes to a halt and just misses falling over the edge of an incomplete bridge.

Added 6 years ago anonymously in funny GIFs Source: Watch the full video | Create GIF from this video. For example, when they crash through the window of the Oldsmobile dealership Elwood's window is rolled up, but after he comments "New Oldsmobiles are in early this year." … The people magnified them, to make great or embiggen, if we may invent an English parallel as ugly.”. [6], According to Dan Aykroyd, the horn-shaped loudspeaker atop the Bluesmobile was actually a duplicate of a massive Cold War-era air raid siren (CLM Model 92729DP) installed in the schoolyard at "Our Lady of Annunciation" where Aykroyd attended elementary school while growing up in Ottawa, Canada. When the Good Old Boys arrive at Bob's Country Bunker, it is clearly after closing time.

Forty stunt drivers were flown in every weekend to do the work. ", "THE BLUES BROTHERS MOVIE CHICAGO PREMIER 6/16/80, 35 YEARS AGO", "Bluesmobiles in the movies The 1990 Ford Crown Victoria", "Cars from Movies – The Blues Brothers' Bluesmobile", "The greatest movie car stunts of all time, and the stories behind them", "January 4th - the Bluesmobile (Blues Brothers 2000)", The Blues Brothers: Original Soundtrack Recording, Blues Brothers and Friends: Live from Chicago's House of Blues, Blues Brothers 2000: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bluesmobile&oldid=980893578, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 29 September 2020, at 03:08. During the end Jail House Rock scene, every guard is carrying a shotgun. When the SWAT commander stops at the security desk to ask the guard if "two men in black suits and hats carrying a briefcase" had come through there, the guard replies "Yeah, I sent them down that way". The penguin tells Jake & Elwood that the church won't pay the taxes because they want to sell the property. Jake and Elwood ultimately would have had to drive through the city to reach that location, short of driving west by dozens of miles to bypass it. [12] The car was equipped with a 190 hp 351 cubic inch engine, 4-speed automatic transmission and full optional Police Package including front bullbar, canine cage insert, and Appleton spotlights. The vehicle's model is never referred to in the original film by Elwood, who purchased the car, or the various police officers and dispatch operators coordinating the manhunt. Search, discover and share your favorite Blues Brothers GIFs. When the camera cuts, we see the key swinging in his left hand.

When entering the stage it is still swinging in his right hand. After the Illinois Nazi's Pinto crashes through the street, Elwood guns the engine and the Bluesmobile leaps over the hole.

One shot has bottles of Budweiser and Olympia beer while the next has bottles of Miller, Miller Lite, or Schlitz.

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