Lykanthrocide on Nostr: Watched The Blues Brothers for the first time. I must have seen some uncut version, ...
Watched The Blues Brothers for the first time. I must have seen some uncut version, because it was over two hours long. Some thoughts:
- The whole film is an excellent example of cartoon-as-live-action. Everything from the musical numbers to the slapstick, to Belushi's and Aykroyd's aggressive stoicism is richly silly enough to be animated, but works so well as live-action that I'll excuse it.
- I know it's about blues and similar music genres, but the amount of negro worship borders on egregious
- That said, the movie handled the American NatSocs comlaritively tastefully. They were comparable as antagonists to the police forces in silliness (they were both fairly serious when untouched by the brothers' antics) and were even given a platform to offer actual far-right views. Nothing particularly bad happened to them, especially when compared with other antagonists and especially with the NatSocs in garbage like Inglorious Bastards, Schindler's List, and other jewish wet dreams.
- The fact that Cab Calloway could still do what he did on stage at his age was impressive, and I'm glad I've seen enough cartoons from the 20s and 30s to appreciate it.
- It's a shame the Gospel took a backseat to the gospel in the James Brown church scene, but I guess we can't have any positive depictions of genuine Christianity in our subversive Hollywood movie.
- The restaurant scene was hilarious, and I sometimes wish I could be that powerfully obnoxious to someone wicked without negative consequences.
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- The whole film is an excellent example of cartoon-as-live-action. Everything from the musical numbers to the slapstick, to Belushi's and Aykroyd's aggressive stoicism is richly silly enough to be animated, but works so well as live-action that I'll excuse it.
- I know it's about blues and similar music genres, but the amount of negro worship borders on egregious
- That said, the movie handled the American NatSocs comlaritively tastefully. They were comparable as antagonists to the police forces in silliness (they were both fairly serious when untouched by the brothers' antics) and were even given a platform to offer actual far-right views. Nothing particularly bad happened to them, especially when compared with other antagonists and especially with the NatSocs in garbage like Inglorious Bastards, Schindler's List, and other jewish wet dreams.
- The fact that Cab Calloway could still do what he did on stage at his age was impressive, and I'm glad I've seen enough cartoons from the 20s and 30s to appreciate it.
- It's a shame the Gospel took a backseat to the gospel in the James Brown church scene, but I guess we can't have any positive depictions of genuine Christianity in our subversive Hollywood movie.
- The restaurant scene was hilarious, and I sometimes wish I could be that powerfully obnoxious to someone wicked without negative consequences.
Dad (nprofile…88ve) cool_boy_mew (nprofile…r70d) Sun (nprofile…h6f2)