Journalist Daniel de Visé tells the story of the classic comedy starring Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.
The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic, John Landis’ 1980s caper musical starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, had it all. Just about every major sound was squeezed into its chaotic story of two recidivist brothers “on a mission from God”.
If their comedic instincts were alike, their upbringings were distinctly different. Belushi, the son of Albanian immigrants based outside Chicago, was a sports star in high school with a passion for both theatre and “puritanical living” . Aykroyd grew up across the border in Ottawa, where he revealed early on a genius-level IQ and a penchant for distracting bullies with impersonations to hide nervous tics.
As Belushi descended into a deepening cocaine addiction, Aykroyd – despite no writing experience – madly scrambled to draft the script. A first cut was an overblown 324 pages with ever more outlandish subplots against a storyline of two brothers attempting to right wrongs and save their childhood orphanage from a punitive new city tax.
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