#that he was holding it together like how he was in bb1 n how it went to shit when he was in joliet

[turnonyrlovelight]

to be loved is to be changed but with the blues brothers in the second movie.

the fact that the entire band had changed, had aged and had moved toward their own things because they all had people with them, had each other and the support, but elwood coming out of prison looking the same because he hadn't gotten any love, hadn't been able to change or age properly because it was just him, the outside world was changing and evolving and he missed changing and evolving with it.

that's why the ending and the buildup to the battle of the bands in bb2k is so important because it shows elwood opening up, and everyone opening up around him. it shows that he can love and he is loved, that there's people who rely on him after he relied on jake so long, he's changing. by the end of the movie he's completely different: he's happy, you can feel the love in the battle of the bands scene and the way he truly doesn't want to let go of anyone again because he loves them. by the end of the movie he's not stuck with curtis's kid, the bartender and the orphan mother mary gave to him; they become their own people in his mind, they become family members and at some point in the movie during the county fair scene you can see it change from the bartender and the kid to mack and buster, and cab changes in the revival tent scene because he finds all of this stuff out and begins to process it through song afterward.

everyone in the main four have their recognition scenes in the movie, whether it be elwood sitting on that log alone and having buster hyping him up, buster listening to elwood say the same to willie in the club, cab on the phone in his office realising curtis was his father and mack realising during looking for a fox that he's good at what he does, he's a good friend.

that's why bb2k is so important !! it's the story of change and how some things have to go on, no matter how much it hurts- that you never have to forget it, but you have to shift it so it becomes a sweet memory rather than a bitter one.

[turnonyrlovelight]

HAIIII GUESS WHO'S THINKING ABT JAKE

like. what happened after bb1 ?? when did jake get out of prison and did curtis pick him up ? how did he react when elwood got the longer sentence ??? did jake just have to redo his five years plus some extra for being an accessory ?

i kinda like to think that it was curtis that picked him up, that this was during the transitional stage where the orphanage was about to shut down but they didn't exactly know it yet, they just knew the church was deciding. curtis took him back to the orphanage one last time, jake stayed w him and sister mary, they were glad he was out, trying to make it feel like every other time that one brother would be in prison and the other was out, but they knew this time it was different. elwood got the brunt of the punishment. did curtis die first or was it jake ?? did jake leave first, go traveling and then die ??? what was he thinking during it ? did he try to get the band back together like elwood had ?? like, what's going on between bb1 and bb2k, how's jake holding up ? was burton mercer his parole officer again ???

did burton die or did he just lay low during 2k ?? in one of those cop cars going down to louisiana, giving little details to cab and elizondo but never saying who he was, just saying he had been on the previous blues bros case.

and another thing is, did cab ever think about it before he joined the band ? y'know like, if there was a moment late at night or during a drive thru the states where he thought about curtis, thought about his mother, thought about jake and elwood, saw security and news footage of elwood and buster and thought like. hold on, why's the kid complicit in this ??? is this actually a kidnapping or is he in on it aswell ?? like, what if cab did extra research ? he's sitting there late one night reading newspaper excerpts and watching old news reports, researching curtis performing in the 30s n 40s. [assuming it's that bc he joined the orphanage when cab was born so that was 1947] did cab ever see the resemblance he had to curtis ??? realise they had similar traits and that he was more like him that he realised ??

this also kinda ties into my post abt wishing there were followup books and things about 2k like there were with bb1. bb private 2k edition, investigation details on the comeback tour and battle of the bands, interviews, backstories, how buster, mack and cab came to be, how jake and curtis's final years were, how sister mary went up in ranks when she got to the hospital and how her and curtis dealt with the orphanage closing. would it have more details on how curtis felt about cab ? did he regret him ?? did he feel bad, ever want to see him, write letters to his mother when he sent money along as well ??? bwaahhhh im having so many thoughts and i cannot get them all into posts n pages n shid im gonna have to write a oneshot or smth