The Blues Brothers

 

 

Screenplay by       John Landis

          Dan Aykroyd

 

Produced by       Robert K. Weiss

 

Directed by       John Landis

 

 

 

Cast List:

 

John Belushi      Joliet Jake

Dan Aykroyd      Elwood Blues

James Brown      Reverend James

Cab Calloway     Curtis

Ray Charles      Ray

Carrie Fisher     Mystery Woman

Aretha Franklin      Soul Food Café Owner

Henry Gibson      Nazi Leader

John Candy     Burton Mercer

 

 

 

FADE IN:

 

 

WALKING THROUGH THE PRISON

 

Jake is escorted by two Guards down a jail hall.

 

PRISONER

Hey!!

 

 

IN THE PAROLE OFFICE

 

GUARD ONE

Well, this is it.

 

He opens the door and all three of them enter the room.

 

GUARD TWO

What wing?

 

GUARD ONE

Maximum wing, block 9.

 

GUARD TWO

Standard release?

 

GUARD ONE

Parole, 3 out of 5, good behavior.

 

GUARD TWO

Gimme a minute...

 

He gets Jake's belongings.

 

GUARD TWO

One Timex digital watch, broken. One unused prophylactic. One soiled.

 

Outside view of Elwood pulling up to the jail entrance.

 

GUARD TWO

One black suit jacket. One pair of black suit pants. One hat, black. One pair of sunglasses. Twenty three dollars and seven cents. Sign here.

 

Jake signs an "X" on the form.

 

Opening Credits start rolling.

 

SONG: "She Caught the Katy" (background music)

 

 

JAKE AND ELWOOD IN THE CAR

 

JAKE

What's this?

 

ELWOOD

What?

 

JAKE

This car. This stupid car. Where's the Cadillac? The Caddy? Where's the Caddy?

 

ELWOOD

The what?

 

JAKE

The Cadillac we used to have. The Blues Mobile!

 

ELWOOD

I traded it.

 

JAKE

You traded the Blues Mobile for this?

 

ELWOOD

No. For a microphone.

 

JAKE

A microphone? Okay I can see that. Well, what the hell is this?

 

ELWOOD

This was a bargain. I picked it up at the Mount Prospect City Police auction last spring. It's an old Mount Prospect Police Car. They were practically giving them away.

 

JAKE

Well, thank you pal, the day I get out of prison, my own brother picks me up in a police car.

 

Fog horn and warning bell sounds.

 

ELWOOD

You don't like it?

 

JAKE

No, I don't like it.

 

Elwood drives over a raising draw bridge.

 

JAKE

Cars got a lot of pick up.

 

ELWOOD

It's got a cop motor, a four hundred and forty 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. Whaddya say? Is it the new Blues Mobile or what?

 

JAKE

Fix the cigarette lighter.

 

 

OUTSIDE THE ORPHANAGE

 

JAKE

What are we doing here?

 

ELWOOD

You promised you'd visit the penguin the day you got out.

 

JAKE

Yeah? So, I lied to her.

 

ELWOOD

You can't lie to a nun. We gotta go in and visit the penguin.

 

JAKE

No fucking way!

 

 

INSIDE THE ORPHANAGE

 

Jake and Elwood go in and climb the stairs until they reach a door. Just before Elwood knocks on the door, a voice is heard from inside.

 

NUN

Who is it?

 

ELWOOD

Jake and Elwood.

 

NUN

Come in.

 

They go in. The door shuts behind them.

 

NUN

Hello boys, nice to see you. Please, have a seat.

 

Jack and Elwood sit on seats at back of room.

 

NUN

No no boys. Come over here in front of me. I want to see your faces.

 

They shuffle up a bit closer.

 

NUN

The county took a tax assessment of this property last month. They want five thousand dollars.

 

ELWOOD

Doesn't the church have to pay that?

 

NUN

They would if they were interested in keeping the place, but they aren't. The Arch Bishop wants to sell this building outright to the board of Education.

 

ELWOOD

What's gonna happen to you?

 

NUN

I'll be sent to the missions.

 

JAKE

Forget it, five grand; no problem, we'll have it for you in the morning. Let's go Elwood.

 

NUN

NO NO! I will not take your filthy stolen money.

 

JAKE

Well then, I guess you're really up shit creek.

 

The nun hits Jake on the hand with a ruler.

 

NUN

I beg your pardon what did you say?

 

JAKE

I offered to help you. You refused to take our money, then I said "I guess you're really up shit creek"

 

She hit's him again.

 

ELWOOD

Christ Jake take it easy, man

 

NUN

Elwood!

 

She starts hitting them both as the language deteriorates.

 

ELWOOD

Ah you fat penguin!

 

The ruler breaks and the Nun reaches for a sword. Jake and Elwood go tumbling down the stairs.

 

NUN

You are such a disappointing pair. I prayed so hard for you. It saddens and hurts me that the two young men whom I raised to believe in the ten commandments have returned to me as two thieves, with filthy mouths and bad attitudes. Get out! And don't come back until you've redeemed yourselves.

 

She disappears back into her office and the door mysteriously closes.

 

CURTIS

Boys, you gotta learn not to talk to nuns that way. Jake! Elwood!

 

JAKE & ELWOOD

Curtis!

 

CURTIS

Hey, buy you boys a drink?

 

 

CURTIS'S KITCHEN

 

CURTIS

Boys, things are bad. They're gonna sell this place to the board of education and I'll be out on the street. That money's gotta be in the Cook County Assessors office within 11 days.

 

JAKE

They wouldn't turn you out would they?

 

CURTIS

Shit. What's one more old nigger to the board of education?

 

ELWOOD

Curtis, you and the penguin are the the only family we got. And you're the only one that was ever good to us. Singing Elmore James tunes and blowing the harp for us down here.

 

CURTIS

Well, the sister was right. You boys could use a little churching up. Slide on down to the Triple Rock and catch Reverend Cleophis. You boys listen to what he's got to say.

 

JAKE

Curtis, I don't wanna listen to no jive ass preacher talking to me about heaven and hell.

 

CURTIS

Jake, you get wise! You get to church!

 

 

AT THE TRIPLE ROCK CHURCH

 

MC

And now, this weeks sermon is from our beloved the Reverend Cleophis James.

 

REVEREND JAMES

And now people. And now people. When I woke up this morning, I heard a disturbing sound. I said, when I woke up this morning I heard a disturbing sound. What I heard was the jingle-jangle of a thousand lost souls. And I'm talking about the souls of all the men and women, departed from this life. Wait a minute, the Lord says the souls of us here on earth is, secret of divine life, they'll not find. Because it's too late... Too late yeah, too late for them to ever see again, the light they once chose not to follow, don't be lost when the time comes. For the day of the Lord cometh, out of deep in the night. Amen. Amen.

 

SONG: "The Old Landmark" (congregation singing and dancing).

 

ELWOOD

Jake, you alright?

 

Ray of sunlight shines through the church onto Jake.

 

JAKE

The band...

(louder)

The band...

 

REVEREND JAMES

Do you see the light?

 

JAKE

(louder)

The band!

 

REVEREND JAMES

Do you see the light?

 

ELWOOD

What light?

 

REVEREND JAMES

Have you seen the light?

 

JAKE

Yes, Yes! Jesus H. god damned bastard Christ, I have seen the light!

 

Jake starts dancing with the others.

 

JAKE

The band Elwood. The band!

 

ELWOOD

The band?... The band. The band? The band!

 

REVEREND JAMES

Praise God.

 

ELWOOD

And God bless the United States of America.

 

 

JAKE AND ELWOOD, IN THEIR CAR

 

SONG: "Soothe me" (In the background.)

 

JAKE

We'll put the band back together, do a few gigs, we get some bread. Bang! Five thousand bucks.

 

ELWOOD

Yeah, well, getting the band back together might not be that easy.

 

JAKE

What're you talking about?

 

ELWOOD

They split, they all took straight jobs.

 

JAKE

Yeah so you know where they are. You said you were gonna keep in touch with them

 

ELWOOD

I got a coupla leads, a few phone numbers, but I mean, how many of them visited or even wrote you huh?

 

JAKE

They're not the kinda guys who write letters. You were outside, I was inside, you were s'posed to keep in touch with the band. I kept asking you if we were gonna play again.

 

ELWOOD

Well, what was I gonna do? Take away you're only hope? Take away the very thing that kept you going in there? I took the liberty of bullshitting you, okay?

 

JAKE

You lied to me.

 

ELWOOD

It wasn't lies, it was just bullshit.

 

Jake and Elwood are in the car, and go through a yellow traffic light. Police lights flash in the rear view mirror.

 

ELWOOD

Shit!

 

JAKE

What?

 

ELWOOD

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