Day 6: The Blues Brothers

Today I watched a fairly old movie, made in 1980. It was really good though, hilarious! Its based around music too which is even better because im a music person. "Joliet" Jake Blues (John Belushi) is released from prison after serving three years for armed robbery. When his brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) picks him up he is very irritated because Elwood is in the "bluesmobile" (an old police car) instead of the Cadillac the brothers used to own. The brothers visit their childhood home, a Roman Catholic orphanage, and learn that it will be closed unless $5,000 is collected. The brothers visit a church service where Jake has an idea that they can raise the funds by re-forming their rhythm and blues band.
Elwood's crazy driving alerts two police troopers who see he has a suspended license. But when they attempt to arrest him he speeds off, escaping through the Dixie Square Mall! As the brothers arrive at the small house where Elwood lives, a mystery woman launches a bazooka attack but leaves them unharmed. The next morning, she detonates a bomb that demolishes the building, which also fails to injure the brothers and saves them from being arrested. Jake and Elwood begin tracking down members of the band.  On the way to find the guitarist they drive through a rally of  "The Illinois Nazis", adding another enemy to the brothers growing list.
After all of the old members decided to rejoin, Marini and Murphy meet are at a soul food restaurant which Murphy owns with his wife. Against her advice, the two musicians leave and rejoin the band. The reunited group get instruments and equipment from a pawn shop on a loan. So now they owe the pawn shop... and they need $5,000! And this is just the beginning, so if you want to see what happens next you should watch the movie. It gets CRAZY! Let me just say the Bluesmobile runs out of gas on the way to a gig making Jake and Elwood late, THEN at the gig they see that all the concert-goers are their list of enemies and a ton of police officers. So watch the movie! Heres a trailer!