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Edit page. See the full list. What if that happens again? We had rings, we got blood tests, the whole shot. But then I got back together with Paul Simon. Upon her untimely death in , Dan Aykroyd would pen a loving tribute to his former flame , proving there were no hard feelings for the split.
In the end, we really cannot blame the Princess Leia actress for her decision anyway, especially since the last guy who had saved her life on film, anyway turned out to be her brother. Lives that could not be saved, however, on the The Blues Brothers set were the many, many cars used during production, and when I say "used," I mean to completion.
According to an inside look on its epic car chase through the streets of Chicago from Yahoo! Ranking right above the original film is the sequel Blues Brothers with one more car fatality than its predecessor. While most of the films innumerable car deaths are played for laughs, the tragic collapse of the Bluesmobile after enduring bridge jumps, backflips, and all kids of impossible things brings a tear to your eye.
Dan Aykroyd reveals in the featurette, which you can also watch by purchasing The Blues Brothers DVD or Blu-ray on Amazon , that a scene was actually shot explaining how the old police car gained supernatural abilities from being kept in a power transformer room under a train. John Landis would eventually cut it from the theatrical release, feeling a magic car needed no explanation.
Providing what could be some insight into John Landis' perspective on magic cars is Dan Aykroyd's testimony from a Vanity Fair article about the frequent uses of cocaine that occurred on the Blues Brothers set. It is well known that John Belushi was an addict, which eventually cost him his life Yet, he was only one of many from the cast and crew using the drug on set, including Aykroyd, who explained that it was actually included in the film's budget to keep things rolling while shooting late at night.
In his first attempt at writing a screenplay, Dan Aykroyd penned a script that was nearly three times the length of the average screenplay given that one page usually equals one minute of screen time. John Landis put together a shorter, filmable version in just three weeks. Most of The Blues Brothers was shot throughout Chicago , which wasn't a major film production hotspot at the time. The scene was filmed at the Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois, which had been shuttered in —before filming commenced.
Though the mall never reopened, it was only finally torn down in All of the car chases and stunts were real and not created with CGI. Forty stunt drivers were flown in every weekend to do the work. After one take, Landis realized it looked like he was just speeding up the film, so he got stunt pedestrians to walk down the sidewalks to show just how fast the cars were really going. A ditch was dug so the cars in the big pile-up scene would flip when they hit it.
Aykroyd would, of course, go on to star in films like Ghostbusters and Coneheads , but Animal House really kickstarted his career. There were plenty of explosions, special effects, and car chases. Dozens of cop cars chase them through the streets of Chicago and a total of cars were destroyed during filming.
They held the world record for most cars destroyed in a film for two years until The Junkman destroyed cars and a plane. While many films build giant sets to destroy for filming purposes, The Blues Brothers destroyed an actual mall. The iconic scene was filmed in Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois, which had recently been closed due to crime and gang activity in the area.
According to a documentary on the 25 th Anniversary Edition of The Blues Brothers , the then-empty mall was filled with actual merchandise from stores, with the promise that any merchandise undamaged would be returned. The parking lot of the mall was also filled with all brand-new cars since that was the only way they would have been able to fill the abandoned lot.
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