Blues essays

Blues essays Chicago is one of our nations greatest cities, from the Sears Tower to Lake Shore Drive, even Frank Sinatra showed enormous love for the city. It has produced some of the best art and music, and has made itself well known in our countrys short history. But how can you portray such a city onto the big screen? John Landis did a great comedy with Animal House, and he took a shot with filming a movie in Chicago and did it perfectly. The Blues Brothers(1980) shows Chicago as a magnificent city with all races and ethnics. Almost every aspect of the city is shown and you almost feel what it is like to live in Chicago. The Blues Brothers is easily one of the finest movies to ever be filmed in Chicago. The Blues Brothers is a flat out musical-comedy that is just brilliant. The film includes music legends like Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and Ray Charles. All three add a wonderful part into this movie. The Blues Brothers themselves are musicians and as for the comedy part, that comes from Jake and Elwood Blues, played by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. They are trying to save the orphanage(which is actually located in Calumet City) that they grew up in, and they try doing this by getting there old band back together. If the band gets back together they can pay Cook County the 5,000.00 dollars the orphanage owes. But in doing this the manage to tick everyone off they run into. Throughout the movie the Blues brothers travel all over the city and you get to see as much as you can of Chicago without going on a tour of the city. The movie starts off with Joliet Jake getting released from the Joliet Correctional Center, located in Joliet, IL. Joliet is one of Illinoiss largest cities, next to Chicago, and is home to numerous prisons. Now with the movie starting out the way it does you can obviously see that the main character is no stranger to prisons, hence the name Joliet Jake. If the viewer has no idea on where Jolie...