# The Blues Brothers movie question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796 "2010-04-29T21:58:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/21 "2010-04-30T13:08:27Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > How come they start their trip to Chicago around 10-11 PM , travel 15 minutes and all of a sudden it’s broad daylight? There is a fade-out and fade-in during that scene to give the impression that they drove all night. Still, it was only 106 miles. I suppose they took a very roundabout route trying to shake the cops. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/22 "2010-04-30T13:19:45Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > I seem to recall that when the producer gave them the money at the end, the brothers took half in order to pay the taxes on the orphanage and told him to split the other half between the band and Ray’s music store. :smack: I forgot. Have to go watch it again! Let’s see, that’s . . . . 1415 times. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/23 "2010-04-30T14:06:31Z")
You can add theft of a helicopter to the list (the final plunge of the Illinois Nazis.) No way that drop was from an overpass. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/24 "2010-04-30T14:17:02Z")
Or maybe they just wanted to shoot the ending of the movie in daylight? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/25 "2010-04-30T14:39:46Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Side note: Presumably Elwood served 17 years for his crimes - the original film was 1980, and he’s released at the beginning of the sequel in 1997. All the band members, not surprisingly, are free by then, and Jake must have gotten out sometime earlier as well, as Elwood is expecting Jake to come pick him up. I had a nightmare once in which they made a really lame sequel to The Blues Brothers. It was like nobody who was involved in the original film had any idea what made the first one so much fun to begin with. Here’s how bad it was in my nightmare: they threw in a kid. I screamed and screamed and screamed! When I woke up and realized it was all just a terrible, terrible dream, I was so relieved to know that my world had not been reduced to a mutant-and-zombie infested wasteland of lameness. But then I couldn’t explain what I found in my jacket pocket: a Blues Brothers 2000 ticket stub! I screamed and screamed and screamed! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/26 "2010-04-30T14:41:04Z")
Well, judging from the car stunts, the brothers routinely violate the laws of physics. ---
**Author:** ![1iLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/1ileft/32/4114_2.png) [@1iLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1iLeft)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/27 "2010-04-30T15:13:35Z")
> [@AllFreedomUnlessDefyingScience](#): > > What I’m wondering is what they would be charged with. Give’em a break - after all they were on a mission from god for christ sake. Plus Elwood did bring that old guy his cheez whiz. That’s gotta count for something. > [@BorgHunter](#): > > I think driving over an open drawbridge is probably illegal too… Only if you don’t have the right stuff - remember - “It’s got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it’s got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It’s a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas.” ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/28 "2010-04-30T15:40:27Z")
> [@1iLeft](#): > > Give’em a break - after all they were on a mission from god for christ sake. … Don’t you blaspheme! Don’t you blaspheme in here! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/29 "2010-04-30T17:15:18Z")
> [@1iLeft](#): > > Give’em a break - after all they were on a mission from god for christ sake. Oh, \*GOD! \* now it all makes sense. I was wondering who this “Gad” person was, and why they were so danged scared of him . . . 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/30 "2010-04-30T19:19:59Z")
Well, I guess they were up shit creek. \ ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/31 "2010-04-30T19:29:56Z")
The Penguin could get them out if she needed them again. ---
**Author:** ![whatami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/85f322/32.png) [@whatami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatami)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/32 "2010-05-01T05:38:59Z")
> [@whatami](#): > > They didn’t steal the PA. Elwood traded the original Bluesmobile for it. Shit. How many times have I seen that movie? I don’t even know. At one point, it was one of three DVDs I had when I didn’t have cable and broadband was a dream of the future. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/33 "2010-05-03T13:53:03Z")
I bet those cops have SCMODS. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/34 "2010-05-03T15:07:42Z")
“Shit!” “What?” “Rollers.” “No!” “Yep.” “Shit.” With each word right on the beat of the song. Awesome exchange. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/35 "2010-05-03T18:57:06Z")
> [@cardinal\_fang](#): > > Littering, when Jake throws the lighter out the window. I’d seen the movie a dozen times before I realized that joke. “Fix the cigarette lighter.” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/36 "2010-05-03T19:38:31Z")
I think Jake shoves Carrie Fisher to the ground at one point, so that’s assault. And when she blow up their sleazy hotel, I’m pretty sure they walk away without paying their bill, so there’s another theft charge. Making toast on a hot plate in the room was probably some kind of fire code violation. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/37 "2010-05-05T15:36:07Z")
The also violated the civil rights of the Illinois Nazi party. But they weaken their suit by their actions of retaliations. Besides. I hate those guys. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/38 "2010-05-05T17:16:37Z")
Too bad it isn’t against the law to make a lame sequel. ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/39 "2010-05-05T17:36:39Z")
Well, can’t get them for impersonating police officers. **Mrs. Tarantino** : Are you the police? **Elwood** : No, ma’am. We’re musicians. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796/40 "2010-05-07T04:58:02Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I think Jake shoves Carrie Fisher to the ground at one point, so that’s assault. No, this isn’t quite fair. As I recall it, she is laying back in his arms and he just drops her. Less criminal, but somehow particularly symbolic and emotionally devastating. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blues-brothers-movie-question/537796.md?page=3)