Just for fun in the winter of '79 - '80, at the NJ state auction I bought an ex NJSP 1976 Gran Fury 440 Interceptor (the Gran Fury was the Plymouth-badged version of the Dodge Monaco). It had been a supervisor's car or maybe a detective unit (or both) and was all dark blue with black cloth interior. There was no evidence it had ever been anything but dark blue or had a light bar or cage, so it had almost no holes where things had been removed before the sale. It had apparently never suffered a lot of hard use, and especially on an ex police car scale, it was in great shape inside and out with almost no wear on the seats. It had only about 72k miles and I paid $1,200. Speaking of Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, hearing the secondaries on that 440 kick in made it very difficult to resist putting my foot in it, which of course dropped my gas mileage into negative numbers. That beast was all about straight line acceleration. It didn't want to turn or stop worth a crap especially when it had a head of steam. All of that power and weight led to some heart stopping brake fade. As was to be expected especially in 1980, once the movie came out later that summer my friends started calling it the Bluesmobile. I kept it for a few years and traded it in on a new van in 1983.
One of the things that makes “The Blues Brothers” my all time favorite comedy is the complete lack of inhibition from the film makers. I think a big factor in how well a movie works is how seriously it takes itself compared to how seriously it SHOULD take itself. Movies often fail because of a large gap between the two. But the people who made "The Blues Brothers" knew how ridiculous the movie was, decided to just have a blast being ridiculous, and it works spectacularly.
My church's minister - obviously a huge fan of this movie - did an entire service themed on it. He described how it's about two brothers "On a mission from God" to save their orphanage. And that it set a record for the most vehicles destroyed in a movie production. Upon hearing that, all I could think was "How in the hell do those fit together?" But it does! This is a totally absurd over-the-top bonkers ridiculous movie, and it 100% embraces being such, with amazing results. It knew exactly what it was trying to be, and didn't hold back. I've been wanting to see "The Mitchells vs. the Machines," I get the sense it is likewise fully embracing the absurdity of it's premise. The opposite extreme, the one you describe as failing due to the gap between how serious they are and how seriously they take themselves, is Armageddon. Is it an action movie? A drama? A romance? A comedy? I don't think even the actors knew what it was supposed to be.
Hmmm...interesting. Now that you put it that way, it makes it much easier to not go into detail about how that drawbridge jump scene is totally unrealistic.
My first car was an '85 Dodge Diplomat that was an old police car. It was my substitute BluesMobile. It had a 318 cubic inch plant. Cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. And it ran like shit on regular gas!
95th and the Calumet River. I crossed this bridge almost every day going to my best friends house when I grew up in South Chicago. There's a big goof in this scene. They show the boys jumping from the East Side aiming for the South Chicago side. But they land the car back on the East side! The building seen thru the car window is Cal Fish. It's on the East Side side of the bridge. BTW Best damn smoked fish on the planet!
@@peoriavideosltd6822 No sorry but your wrong. It's on the East Side end of the bridge. In other words it's on the right (south) side of 95th St. AFTER you cross over from the South Chicago side (west end) of the bridge. I've crossed that bridge literally thousands of times and have gotten smoked fish and shrimp from Cal Fish many times. One of my first jobs, as a kid, was on 96th and Ewing which is about 1/2 mile from the bridge on the East Side. BTW If you want a picture I have a few I took about 5 years ago when I was home for a wedding on the East Side
It’s got a cop motor 440 cubic inch plant It’s got Cop tires Cop suspension Cop shocks It was a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas So whaddaya say is it the new bluesmobile or what?
So many out-of-date references just in this short scene. 'Four hundred and forty cubic inch plant..." That's 7.2 liters today. "It'll run good on regular gas." Regular gas had tetraethyl lead in it. Long gone. Cigarette lighter? They call them 'accessory outlets' now.
Carburetor is assumed since fuel injection was a luxury then. Violated all emissions and mileage regulations by today's standards. No airbags, ABS and crappy crash ratings.
@@alexgataric And likewise, as seen in this movie (especially the Mall Chase bit), handled like crap, very clumsy on anything other than straight down the road. They were all over the place, both the Bluesmobile and the cop cars chasing it.
First time I've noticed this but on the shot that starts at 0:34/0:35 to 0:36, you can actually JUST see the brakes lock up because the shot wasn't filmed back-to-back with the shot at 0:37, where it goes onto the actual bridge. That's because there's like a half a meter high gap between the road and the bridge road-surface which is actually visible in the 0:35-0:36 shot... So to actually get the car onto the slanted bridge surface they had to put a ramp there lmao. I never noticed that in the other 9 billion times I saw the movie :p
+Mythbuster If you go to the bridge in google maps, you can see the fish shop is on the other side of the street, meaning the interior was shot facing away from the bridge. I've seen a picture somewhere of the bluesmobile before the jump, they had a long stretch of road cleared leading up to a ramp onto the bridge. Those kinds of pictures are the best.
Yes, most draw bridges actually dip below the road on both sides, so if you tried this in real life you'd literally crash into a wall on the other side. Couple of Cubans tried this in the 70's down in Miami- and they all died when they hit the wall on the other side (or so the story goes).
Fact: the boat they jumped over is the W.W. HOLLOWAY owned by Columbia Steamship Co, the big crane on her deck is called self unloader, which can be able to unload its own cargo with it. Please show Credit for the sailors on that boat who risk their lives for YOU, with out you knowing.
@Gordonsflash, I THINK that Smokeyand the Bandit (or maybe Cannonball Run) did more? I speak under potential correction. Of course the brothers was, nay IS, a way better movie...
There's a goof in this scene: Jake and Elwood are facing east when they cross the bridge, since the little guard tower is on the northeast part corner of the bridge. However, they are immediately shown heading to the Chicago skyway, which is due west.
I live in the suburbs of Chicago and often see variations of the Dodge the BB's drove with the logos painted over. I've yet to see one that still retains the Mount Prospect Police emblem on it and doubt if I will ever. Mt. Prospect is less than 10 miles from my home and whenever I see one passing through the neighborhood you know what comes to mind.
My mind is failing me, but I believe I read that there were something like 42 true 440 Dodge Monacoes trashed in the filming. Not to mention the 100 and something actual Dane County ex police cars trashed in the final pileup scene. Might be wrong. but that is my recollection.
Those two quick shots of the greasy gears deep within the bowels of the drawbridge is one of my favorite shot(s) in film.
It is one of the more unusual shots in any film but it works for some strange reason.
@@markfryer9880 Probably because its the actual mechanism for the bridge. I like it too.
@Alan Cogan AHAHA!~
This whole sequence is a metaphor for life.
I just biked to Calumet Fisheries located right next to that bridge. They have a mural of the Blues Brothers on the side of their smoker 😁
I was just on that bridge today. Also got some fish at Calumet fisheries .
Just for fun in the winter of '79 - '80, at the NJ state auction I bought an ex NJSP 1976 Gran Fury 440 Interceptor (the Gran Fury was the Plymouth-badged version of the Dodge Monaco). It had been a supervisor's car or maybe a detective unit (or both) and was all dark blue with black cloth interior. There was no evidence it had ever been anything but dark blue or had a light bar or cage, so it had almost no holes where things had been removed before the sale. It had apparently never suffered a lot of hard use, and especially on an ex police car scale, it was in great shape inside and out with almost no wear on the seats. It had only about 72k miles and I paid $1,200. Speaking of Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, hearing the secondaries on that 440 kick in made it very difficult to resist putting my foot in it, which of course dropped my gas mileage into negative numbers. That beast was all about straight line acceleration. It didn't want to turn or stop worth a crap especially when it had a head of steam. All of that power and weight led to some heart stopping brake fade. As was to be expected especially in 1980, once the movie came out later that summer my friends started calling it the Bluesmobile. I kept it for a few years and traded it in on a new van in 1983.
It dosent matter how many times you watch this movie, it just gets better and better each and every time
You said it.
yes.
One of the things that makes “The Blues Brothers” my all time favorite comedy is the complete lack of inhibition from the film makers. I think a big factor in how well a movie works is how seriously it takes itself compared to how seriously it SHOULD take itself. Movies often fail because of a large gap between the two. But the people who made "The Blues Brothers" knew how ridiculous the movie was, decided to just have a blast being ridiculous, and it works spectacularly.
My church's minister - obviously a huge fan of this movie - did an entire service themed on it. He described how it's about two brothers "On a mission from God" to save their orphanage. And that it set a record for the most vehicles destroyed in a movie production. Upon hearing that, all I could think was "How in the hell do those fit together?" But it does! This is a totally absurd over-the-top bonkers ridiculous movie, and it 100% embraces being such, with amazing results. It knew exactly what it was trying to be, and didn't hold back. I've been wanting to see "The Mitchells vs. the Machines," I get the sense it is likewise fully embracing the absurdity of it's premise. The opposite extreme, the one you describe as failing due to the gap between how serious they are and how seriously they take themselves, is Armageddon. Is it an action movie? A drama? A romance? A comedy? I don't think even the actors knew what it was supposed to be.
One of my favorite movies of all time too. I don't think it was ridiculous, but fricking awesome!
Hmmm...interesting. Now that you put it that way, it makes it much easier to not go into detail about how that drawbridge jump scene is totally unrealistic.
Yeah the movie is VERY different from others 80s comedy.
Which makes it so special
I was in Chicago when they made the movie. I remember WLS giving away damaged cop cars as a promotional stunt. They had dozens of them!
"Car's got a lot of pick up." I can't tell you how many times I quote that! Thanks for putting this up!
This is THE Chicago movie. Everyone must see this when they are young.
Hey Ferris Bueller is a pretty awesome Chicago movie too.
VengefulBatz and Christmas vacation and Wayne's world
VengefulBatz and home alone the first one only
Ferris Bueller is limp.
It's too bad they only made one.
Elwood is so badass when he floors it.
TREVOR HARRIS TOTNES TORQUAY PLYMOUTH
My first car was an '85 Dodge Diplomat that was an old police car. It was my substitute BluesMobile. It had a 318 cubic inch plant. Cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. And it ran like shit on regular gas!
I had one two,great car,wish I still had it.
Probably the reason why it ran like shit on regular gas, you had a cadillac converter in it XD
@@robertparker6280 catalytic converter*
Cigarette lighter?????
It probably ran like shit on any gas.
Somebody in Detroit literally did this on 9/16/2020... he destroyed his car upon landing tho lol
That brought me here now too lol
But not the Bluesmobile
Got a link?
Obviously didn't have cop tires, cop suspension, or cop shocks.
Dukes of Hazzard ruined every car they used for jump stunts.
He never did fix that cigarette lighter...
It's got a cop cigarette lighter
@@vakezanimation762 😂😂😂
Well he did throw it out the window
That Fish Take-away has been on my to go to list ever since. Love from Australia.
they're about to re-open soon after a fire burnt a lot of the place down/ Come thru!
I live 5 minutes away from that bridge down here in the South Chicago neighborhood.
They raises the bridges in Chicago for the protests in May 2020, I honestly contemplated going blues brothers on them
You didn’t like it huh? 😊
Need a bluesmobile to do it!
@@jonessoda4me1 he didn't like the bridge raising, man was prolly late to work
If you thought you hated it, consider how the bike couriers felt.
One of the most rememberable scenes in the film! Always loved this scene and that car, I want one.
1974 Dodge Monaco - When you absolutely, positively need to jump an open draw bridge, accept no substitute!
11 people are just pissed because their car don't have a cop engine, cop tires, cop shocks, cop suspension and it can't run good on regular gas......
ahoneanatwo but they do have a cigarette lighter.
And they can't do burnouts or jump bridges when there going up to let a boat pass by
Try 18 now
ahoneanatwo bet that are the cops from A view to a kill
@@michaelopnv634 but they have Cadillac converters
95th and the Calumet River. I crossed this bridge almost every day going to my best friends house when I grew up in South Chicago.
There's a big goof in this scene. They show the boys jumping from the East Side aiming for the South Chicago side. But they land the car back on the East side! The building seen thru the car window is Cal Fish. It's on the East Side side of the bridge. BTW Best damn smoked fish on the planet!
Calumet Fisheries is on the west side of the bridge, on the south side of the street.
@@peoriavideosltd6822 No sorry but your wrong. It's on the East Side end of the bridge. In other words it's on the right (south) side of 95th St. AFTER you cross over from the South Chicago side (west end) of the bridge. I've crossed that bridge literally thousands of times and have gotten smoked fish and shrimp from Cal Fish many times. One of my first jobs, as a kid, was on 96th and Ewing which is about 1/2 mile from the bridge on the East Side.
BTW If you want a picture I have a few I took about 5 years ago when I was home for a wedding on the East Side
@@yaesuman So Google Street View and the maps on Yelp and on Cal Fisheries website and Facebook page are all wrong?
0:34 You can see the rear wheel lock as the car is stopped by the stuntman before he gets to the bridge.
the front tire starts to leave a skid mark too...
I never noticed that till you mentioned it.
Also how low of an angle the bridge is at when they drive off.
Wow,,,, i never noticed
Boy I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
Such a perfect movie.
I work in construction and at this moment we are repaving the street on both sides of this bridge. Not much has changed in 40 yrs
Probably replacing the pavement that was there during filming!
I have a diecast of this car, Dodge Monaco 1974. Greenlight. A classic Film. A perfect team.
Rip John Belushi.
This scene is still amazing to see!!
In their defense, they were on a mission from God.
Although at that point in time they were not aware of their mission.
@@markfryer9880 they've been on that mission since birth
So nothing can stop them.
I can't believe that area once looked so nice. I went biking on that bridge last week. Half the buildings there are decrepit and in serious disrepair.
Good to know that those blues brothers are watching out for us all on the mission from God.
Car's got a lot of pickup
It’s got a cop motor 440 cubic inch plant
It’s got Cop tires
Cop suspension
Cop shocks
It was a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas
So whaddaya say is it the new bluesmobile or what?
+RAPTOR 479 classic 👌
dnasty312 catalytic converters are gay
Fix the cigerrette lighter
0:49 Aykroyd’s Chicago accent really shines
Except he's from Canada LOL
@@edwardpate6128 And Belushi has roots from Hungary
But he grew up in Chicago
Jobn grew up in Wheaton, IL
@@alismyname2508 True. Aykroyd was the one who introduced Belushi to Chicago blues.
The best musical movie of all time
The BluesMobil's jump still rules.
So many out-of-date references just in this short scene. 'Four hundred and forty cubic inch plant..." That's 7.2 liters today. "It'll run good on regular gas." Regular gas had tetraethyl lead in it. Long gone. Cigarette lighter? They call them 'accessory outlets' now.
Carburetor is assumed since fuel injection was a luxury then. Violated all emissions and mileage regulations by today's standards. No airbags, ABS and crappy crash ratings.
@@alexgataric And likewise, as seen in this movie (especially the Mall Chase bit), handled like crap, very clumsy on anything other than straight down the road. They were all over the place, both the Bluesmobile and the cop cars chasing it.
Bingo!!
My aunt lives on the great east side of Chicago right by the bridge do amazing to see the bridge over 40 years
It's funny I drive over this bridge daily xD
Joncolecio my aunt does that to always wanted to go With her and try to jump
@@DoubleAron77 just tell her you dont like the car
“You don’t like it?”
No I don’t like it
*floors it*
First time I've noticed this but on the shot that starts at 0:34/0:35 to 0:36, you can actually JUST see the brakes lock up because the shot wasn't filmed back-to-back with the shot at 0:37, where it goes onto the actual bridge. That's because there's like a half a meter high gap between the road and the bridge road-surface which is actually visible in the 0:35-0:36 shot... So to actually get the car onto the slanted bridge surface they had to put a ramp there lmao. I never noticed that in the other 9 billion times I saw the movie :p
+Mythbuster If you go to the bridge in google maps, you can see the fish shop is on the other side of the street, meaning the interior was shot facing away from the bridge. I've seen a picture somewhere of the bluesmobile before the jump, they had a long stretch of road cleared leading up to a ramp onto the bridge. Those kinds of pictures are the best.
+Mythbuster
I thought you were the REAL Mythbusters...
Car's got a lot of pickup.
Yes, most draw bridges actually dip below the road on both sides, so if you tried this in real life you'd literally crash into a wall on the other side. Couple of Cubans tried this in the 70's down in Miami- and they all died when they hit the wall on the other side (or so the story goes).
Speed DeMonaco it’s a different fish shop. That was filmed a few blocks away. The actual fish shop is Calumet Fisheries, not kingfish
People---Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT attempt a jump from a drawbrdge. Stay safe, and may God go with you.
That's quite the badassery right there.
Throws cig lighter out the window. "Fix the cigarette lighter"
I remember the era of no seat belts, and no headrests. And smoking!
"She Caught the Katy", performed by John Belushi here.
I'm a car guy, I reckon this scene is largely responsible for that.
The Events of this would repeat itself 40 years later
Fact: the boat they jumped over is the W.W. HOLLOWAY owned by Columbia Steamship Co, the big crane on her deck is called self unloader, which can be able to unload its own cargo with it. Please show Credit for the sailors on that boat who risk their lives for YOU, with out you knowing.
The ship in the scene was the SS Henry A. Hawgood
, renamed to W.W. Holloway in 1937, which was built in 1906 and scrapped in 1986.
YAY! I’m so glad to know I’m not the only boat fan here
God Bless YOU... sweet post!
+John Dinu Well, I think this is the best comment I ever received on one of my videos :) Thank you very much, God bless you!
+John Dinu YTYTYYTYTy
Chicago police dispatcher : The use of force in the apprehending of the Blues Brothers has been approved
*unnecessary violence
Funniest scene of the whole film. Big traffic jam? Nah, sod that lol
The mother of all movies.
my grandma is watching this with me 😂
thanks for posting this !
Most wrecked cars in movie history.
@Gordonsflash, I THINK that Smokeyand the Bandit (or maybe Cannonball Run) did more? I speak under potential correction. Of course the brothers was, nay IS, a way better movie...
Turbo Dismount should make a level like this.
Anthony 103.4 good idea
All The junk on the dashboard is the funniest part of the movie
There's a goof in this scene:
Jake and Elwood are facing east when they cross the bridge, since the little guard tower is on the northeast part corner of the bridge. However, they are immediately shown heading to the Chicago skyway, which is due west.
95th street Bridge
I think it was a lighting issue… looks like it was shot early in the morning so they had to be facing that way to get good shots inside the car.
Love this movie 😈☻
Jake did not need convincing twice after that bridge jump!
I cane here after hearing about the SUV in Florida that jumped an open drawbridge.
Yeah but that jump sucked ass.
@@Burritosuupreme that's because the driver wasn't as experienced as Elwood.
@@marvinthemaniac7698 🤣🤣
@@Burritosuupreme Made U laugh 😃
Thats one of my favourite scenes !
Who’s here because of the guy jumping the drawbridge in Detroit on 09/16/2020
this goes out to the family that had to jump a drawbridge recently as it tried to open while they were driving across !!!
74 Dodge Monaco.
Jake (before the bridge jump): "No, I don't like it."
Also Jake (after the bridge jump): "Fix the cigarette lighter!"
Elwood is the best wheelman for a getaway.
Happy 40th anniversary the blues brothers 2020
Oh sweet memories
I live 2 minutes away from that bridge
We wouldn’t have that awesome jump without The Dukes of Hazzard.
We probably would've
Those '72 Dodge Polaras made an excellent squad car. Worked for the Polk County Sheriff department.
Crazy how this was filmed close to where I live
I live in the suburbs of Chicago and often see variations of the Dodge the BB's drove with the logos painted over. I've yet to see one that still retains the Mount Prospect Police emblem on it and doubt if I will ever. Mt. Prospect is less than 10 miles from my home and whenever I see one passing through the neighborhood you know what comes to mind.
Some people have no clue in life.
Thanks for the video clip.
Pass by this bridge going to work all the time.
My let's play of Driver 2 in free ride mode ;)
My mind is failing me, but I believe I read that there were something like 42 true 440 Dodge Monacoes trashed in the filming.
Not to mention the 100 and something actual Dane County ex police cars trashed in the final pileup scene. Might be wrong. but that is my recollection.
Iconic.
Wonder if anybody's ever attempted something like this.
I would think so
Yep somebody finally did a few days ago in Detroit 😀
@@shanewilhelmi693 Hope they made it across. They probably got a busted undercarriage doing it.
The sound of that big 8 at 1.18!
Better one is when they open up the 4 barrel after busting through the glass coming out of the mall.
@@uhrsker and when they make the Illinois Nazis jump into the river!
It’s got a 440 cubic inch plant.
If anyone has a car like the Bluesmobile, Cal Fish is looking for someone to park in front for pictures.
I was tricked I tell y’a!!😅 clicked on a link for another bridge video
Lol you got me
I'm on my way there. Theres a smoked fish joint right by the bridge. That is worth the trip on its own. At 23 seconds you can see it.
That 440 must have had a lot of direct connection parts in it to make that jump. Purple cam for the win...
0:21 My reaction after watching Blues Brothers 2000
I'm old school enough to remember when officers smoked while in patrol cars
This movie made me want a 1972 Dodge monaco
Dayum i love that car
"...you don't like it?"
Cool thanks for post :)
Drawbridge gates were still up on the other side of the bridge.
7 people have no clue what they are doing with their lives...
@Alan Cogan do the world a favor and don't politicize this. We have enough of that horseshit everywhere else.
Had one of these wish I could find another one
0:04 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Joilet Jake: Fix the cigarette lighter.
Me: Except you just threw it out the window!
Except
That IS the part that usually quits.
Whoa, the Chicago skyline looks so different. Even the Sears (er, Willis) Tower had little stubby antennas!
Instructions for fixing a cigar lighter: quit smoking.
I would be too scared to jump over the draw bridge.
Look closely the Edmond Fitzgerald boat in shitcago 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤔
East Side
classic !
Elwood: "You Don't Like It!?"
Joliet Jake: "No. I DON'T LIKE It!!!"
(Elwood Hits The Gas)😝
0:36: Get ready to jump the gap!