#joliet jake

[caleod]

13-5-24

[remerg]

What if u could just lift up Jake as if he were some kind of cat- (prob only Elwood can actually do that)

Merely based of an image of Dany kinda lifting John up (said image under the cut)

This one is so funny to me bc

Look at their faces oh my god these fucking idiots/pos

[arcade-blade]

The silverfish in my basement

[creaturefeaturecommando]

The Blues Brothers is a movie centered around two white men but is a direct and loud love letter to black people and black culture. It’s the definition of appreciation not appropriation. Like the scenes where black people are on screen for a majority of the time and they’re the focus and then Jake and Elwood join in and they’re dancing and singing with the folks but never trying to outshine them or anything. And it’s not even from the musicals scenes solely, look at the pictures Elwood has taped on his wall of different black blues legends and artists, this movie is a love letter and I love it.

No other movie could pull this off today.

[danrhysdesign]

We’re on a mission from god

Wip from a poster design!!

Please don’t repost, only reblog.

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[m1lky-m00nie]

Photocard pic with my Jake Blues photo card with my cake, since today is John Belushi’s B-day today!! 🎼

(I got homemade strawberry shortcake today that is in the background + currently watching the film Neighbors 1981 that is in the back too)

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

I mentioned before that I headcanon the Blues Brothers as transmasc, but my more recent headcanon is that they exist in the same universe as the musical Chicago. In that case they could very well have ended up in a queer organization in 1970s Chicago led by an elderly Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, who of course would've fully encouraged Jake and Elwood in their transition and in their musical careers:

Roxie: Hey you can live the life you like, boys. Velma: Just—neither of you do the spread-eagle with your brother's honey, okay?

After Roxie and Velma leave, the brothers presumably have this exchange:

Jake: Elwood, before those two got together and started doing vaudeville, didn't they both kill their husbands? Elwood: Well, Velma was charged with murdering her husband and sister. Roxie was charged with killing her boyfriend when he dumped her, but she was married to a different guy. Neither of them was convicted— Jake: Eh, even if they weren't convicted, it's still damn cool. Also now that you mention it, didn't Roxie's husband leave because the guy she killed knocked her up? Elwood: That's what the press said during the trial. But the funny thing is, nobody who knows her ever said anything about her having a kid. I actually went to the library and looked through the birth records in the papers, but I didn't find any mention of one. I assume she didn't carry the pregnancy to term, one way or another.

Then Billy Flynn, even older than Roxie and Velma (and also gay because no shit sherlock) shuffles by and mutters to the brothers: "She wasn't actually pregnant. We just cooked that shit up for the press. I probably shouldn't be telling you that, but I've only got a few more years to go, so what does it matter if this gets out? Just more limelight for me and the dame."

Also, since there's nothing I enjoy like a good fix fic for problematic source material, I'm officially declaring that Mary Sunshine is by now a proud Trans Elder™ whose final articles are about the Blues Brothers: first after Jake's robbery, and again after he and Elwood had that legendary car chase.

[old-wild-child]

If I had a nickel for every time I watched a movie where John Belushi's character was a singer in a band and performed a cover of Jailhouse Rock, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.

[jojotier]

I feel like it's instrumental that Dave Strider never sees Blues Brothers 1980 in his formulative years bc if he saw Joliet Jake rip his shades off of his face, the shades he and his brother Elwood Blues never take off, even while sleeping or entering a hot sauna with 10 other grown men, and he sees Joliet Jake on his knees ripping those shades off and looking up at his jilted ex Carrie Fisher with soulful eyes, Begging for her to believe him so that Carrie Fisher doesn't kill he and his brother with a machine gun (long story) and sees the way Carrie Fisher melts and loses all anger that would be it. That would alter the course of Dave's relationships forever. Every time he'd really want something he'd have a little voice in the back of his head going 'pull a joliet jake'

[elwoodsharmonica]

Merry crisis have this terrible drawing of Jake I did reference picture next to it I felt it was giving Jake vibes so I drew it it looks nothing like John but I tried anyway haven't drawn him much anyway so I wanted to try

[torturedfolkloredepartment]

“Blues brothers isn’t a real musical “

Me if i was delusional anyways

Enjoy

[remerg]

Keeping him stylized but also looking like the photos hueheheheh-

Just did it for the funnies, really liked how his expressions looked on each photo🗿🗿🗿👈👉

[arcade-blade]

Art/doodle dump bc its Johnnys B-Day (some of these are kinda old)

[creaturefeaturecommando]

Me and My Brother watching Blues Brother and it’s at the Illinois Nazis scene and I’m watching the cops protecting the Nazis from the crowd and I’m just like

Not shit has changed except for the fact there would be a lot less white people against the Nazis and instead of shouting “fuck you !” They’d be insisting that we make friends with Nazis and try to “change their minds”

[chernobog13]

Things you don’t see anymore: Howard Johnson’s, telephone booths, and hot chicks with flame throwers.

Carrie Fisher, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd - The Blues Brothers (1980)