Will the women at your table be able to resist pointing at you and telling you to ‘Think’? There will be time to dance, tap your feet, and join in with your favourite songs. You’ll be treated to a night when all the classics are played. Our evening with The Blues Brothers will put that right.
One of the only things that I found annoying about the film is that the final big gig just doesn’t last long enough. ‘The Blues Brothers’ come to TorreviejaĬontinuing our monthly music extravaganzas, we’re proud to present ‘The Blues Brothers’ on Thursday 28 th June here at Christopher’s. And so, the band is fully reformed, and the mayhem can begin. He’s sold on the idea of getting back out there. He’s delighted to be snatched away from his drudgery.Īretha tries to force him to stay, with a powerful rendition of ‘Think’. Relaying the order to Matt in the kitchen, the realisation of what it really means is plain to see on Murphy’s face. Watch it here: “ Four fried chickens and a coke”. Jake orders four fried chicken and a coke. She takes the order from the Blues brothers – Elwood simply wants dry, toasted white bread. The place is owned by Mrs Murphy – portrayed by the amazing Aretha Franklin. Jake and Elwood arrive at the Soul Food Café to collect the last two members of the band – Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy and Blue Lou, the sax player. Its uniqueness is what makes it so memorable.Īnd who can forget the food order given by Jake Blues at the Soul Food Café? “I want four fried chickens and a coke” It’s a modern musical, packed with everything you could wish for in a film: action, car chases, good versus evil, and a touch of romance. When it first hit the big screen in 1980, The Blues Brothers immediately became a cult classic. One crash in particular, a pileup involving maybe a dozen police cars, has to be seen to be believed: I've never seen stunt coordination like this before.What’s the link between food, The Blues Brothers, and Torrevieja? There are incredible, sensational chase sequences under the elevated train tracks, on overpasses, in subway tunnels under the Loop, and literally through Daley Center.
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There can rarely have been a movie that made so free with its locations as this one. The fact is, the whole movie is a chase, with Jake and Elwood piloting a used police car that seems, as it hurdles across suspension bridges from one side to the other, to have a life of its own. I was saying the musical numbers interrupt the chases. The Brothers themselves star in several improbable numbers the funniest has the band playing in a country and western bar where wire mesh has been installed to protect the band from beer bottles thrown by the customers. Cab Calloway, as a sort of road manager for the Blues Brothers, struts through a wonderful old-style production of Minnie the Moocher. The chase is interrupted from time to time for musical numbers, which are mostly very good and filled with high-powered energy.Īretha Franklin occupies one of the movie's best scenes, in her South Side soul food restaurant. The plot develops into a sort of musical Mad Mad Mad Mad World, with the Blues Brothers being pursued at the same time by avenging cops, Nazis, and an enraged country and western band led by Charles Napier, that character actor with the smile like Jaws. One of the intriguing things about this movie is the way it borrows so freely and literally from news events. Their adventures include run-ins with suburban cops, good ol' boys, and Nazis who are trying to stage a demonstration. They find their old friends in unlikely places, like a restaurant run by Aretha Franklin, a music shop run by Ray Charles, and a gospel church run by James Brown. Their odyssey takes them to several sleazy Chicago locations, including a Van Buren flophouse, Maxwell Street, and lower Wacker Drive. The brothers visit their old orphanage, learn that its future is in jeopardy because of five thousand dollars due in back taxes, and determine to raise the money by getting their old band together and putting on a show. The movie's plot is a simple one, to put it mildly.