Blues Brothers Movie Quilt Blanket

The Blues Brothers Movie Quilt Blanket is an excellent choice for anybody who wants to remain warm without sacrificing style. This cozy blanket has the same artwork as the movie poster that inspired it, except this time it’s been transformed into a blanket. The words “Ray, Jake, Elwood, Aretha Franklin, Delmar, and The King” are printed in blue on this blanket, which also displays a picture of those individuals. Because it can be cleaned in a washing machine, it will maintain its pristine appearance for a far longer period of time than the original movie poster did. Separately, you may purchase pillowcases that match your duvet cover.

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Blues Brothers Movie

The Blues Brothers is a musical comedy film directed by John Landis and released in 1980. [4] It stars John Belushi as “Joliet” Jake Blues and Dan Aykroyd as his brother Elwood, characters based on the NBC variety show Saturday Night Live’s musical routine “The Blues Brothers.” The film was shot in and around Chicago, Illinois, and Aykroyd and Landis wrote the script. James Brown, Cab Calloway (in his last feature film performance), Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Chaka Khan, and John Lee Hooker perform musical numbers. Carrie Fisher, Henry Gibson, Charles Napier, Kathleen Freeman, and John Candy provide non-musical supporting roles. Jake, a paroled felon, and his blood brother Elwood set out on a “mission from God” to save the Roman Catholic orphanage where they were reared from foreclosure. To do so, they’ll have to reassemble their R&B band and go on a show to raise the $5,000 required to pay the orphanage’s property tax bill. Along the way, they are chased by the cops and are targeted by a murderous “mystery lady,” Neo-Nazis, and a country and western band.

Universal Studios, which had won the bidding battle for the film, hoped to capitalize on Belushi’s notoriety in the aftermath of Saturday Night Live, the film Animal House, and the musical success of The Blues Brothers; but, it quickly found itself unable to manage production expenses. The start of shooting was delayed because Aykroyd, who had never written a screenplay before, spent six months providing a lengthy and unusual draft that Landis had to revise before production started without a definitive budget. Belushi’s partying and drug usage on set in Chicago created long and costly delays, which, along with the automobile chases featured onscreen, making the finished picture one of the most expensive comedies ever filmed.

The film’s first bookings were less than half of what such films usually obtain due to fears that it would flop. It earned largely excellent reviews from reviewers and made over $115 million in cinemas worldwide before being released on home video, and has since become a cult classic. Blues Brothers 2000, a sequel, was published in 1998 to critical and financial acclaim. The Library of Congress chose the film for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 2020 as “culturally, historically, or aesthetically important.”