Friday, August 17, 2018

Open Culture — Aretha’s Franklin’s Pitch-Perfect Performance in The Blues Brothers, the Film That Reinvigorated Her Career (1980)


For your weekend listening.

Open Culture
Aretha’s Franklin’s Pitch-Perfect Performance in The Blues Brothers, the Film That Reinvigorated Her Career (1980)
Josh Jones

1 comment:

Konrad said...

Who can forget Aretha’s part on the original Blues Brothers? Hilarious. I love the quick camera shots, like when “Blue Lou” rhythmically struts down the lunch counter as he plays a saxophone.

That movie never gets old.

Yes…RIP Aretha.

We also lost Cab Calloway, Matt “Guitar” Murphy, James “Reverend Cleophus” Brown, Allan “Mr. Fabulous” Rubin, and of course Carrie Fischer, John Belushi, John Candy, Ray Charles, and many other celebrities who were in the Blues Brothers.

Unfortunately the article indulges in hate (i.e. political correctness)…

“There are many films of the 70s and 80s that could never get made today.”

Meaning that these days no one would watch a movie that celebrates Black music like the Blues Brothers did.

False.

“Bird,” “Ray,” “Krush Groove,” and other movies have celebrated Black music.

“Black Panther” was not about music, but its phenomenal box office success proves that all audiences will watch “Black” movies if the movies are good. (I didn’t see “Black Panther.”)

What people will not watch are movies that use political correctness to hide a lousy story, lousy dialogue, lousy music, lousy editing, lousy music, and so on.

You didn’t like “Ghostbusters” (2016) or “Ocean’s 8” (2018) because they were awful in very way? That proves you are a “sexist.” You didn’t like the insultingly poor storyline in “The Last Jedi”? You are a Trump-worshipping fascist.

On 22 Nov 2019, yet another “Terminator” movie will be released, and will be heavily feminized, with men being incompetent losers. It will bomb.

Q. Why does the Hollywood movie industry each day become more militant in its bashing of males, heterosexuals and normal women?

A. Hollywood now produces mainly excrement, which is masked via political correctness and identity politics. If you don’t like excrement, and if you prefer a good story, it’s because you are a racist, sexist, trans-phone, homo-phobe, anti-Semite, right-wing fascist Trump worshiper. So shut up and pay.

Soon the Chinese film industry will eclipse Hollywood.