IL FILM DELLA SETTIMANA: THE BLUES BROTHERS

Dite tutto quello che volete su questo grande classico che è entrato a far parte della storia del cinema:do:

bellissimo e mitico, sia il primo che il secondo:do:
la colonna sonora è parte della storia ormai:bubu:
indimenticabile

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Scritto da: nicoletta75 08/12/2003 13.44
bellissimo e mitico, sia il primo che il secondo:do:
la colonna sonora è parte della storia ormai:bubu:
indimenticabile

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Ricordiamo anche il defunto John Candy nel primo film, questo attore venne definito l'erede di "Stanlio".

John Candy was a genial, rotund, and sandy-haired character lead of American and Canadian films and TV since the 1970s who specialized in broad comedy features and savvy TV parodies. He began as an actor in his native Canada, performing in a children's theater group. Candy moved on to satirical revues and started his long association with Dan Aykroyd. Candy's comedy career took off in 1972 when he joined Chicago's famed Second City comedy troupe which counted John Belushi, Shelley Long, Gilda Radner and Bill Murray among its members. Two years later, he co-founded its Canadian offshoot in Toronto with Radner, Joe Flaherty, Dan Aykroyd, Eugene Levy and Rosemary Radcliffe. Candy came to attention throughout North America as a performer and award-winning writer with the resulting "SCTV" in its successive incarnations as a syndicated, NBC, and Cinemax TV series.
Although he created many memorable and hilarious characters in countless sketches on "SCTV", Candy lacked the uncanny mimetic virtuosity of some of his co-stars. However his extremely likable personality and his reliable knack for eliciting laughs helped Candy emerge as one of the stars of the ensemble. After appearing in several films with Second City alumni such as John Belushi and Bill Murray (Steven Spielberg's "1941", 1979; John Landis's "The Blues Brothers", 1980; Ivan Reitman's "Stripes" 1981), Candy landed an inauspicious first feature lead in David Steinberg's raucous and tasteless Canadian comedy, "Going Berserk" (1983). He went on to provide sturdy comic support to Tom Hanks in "Splash" (1984) and to Richard Pryor in "Brewster's Millions" (1985) before landing a successful starring vehicle with "Summer Rental" (1985).

Candy has been busy ever since, alternating between leads and supporting roles in a succession of wildly variable comedies, often playing lovable slobs, bumbling schemers or overbearing wiseguys. He has had some of his better roles in the John Hughes productions "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" (1987), "The Great Outdoors" (1988), "Uncle Buck" (1989), and "Only the Lonely" (1991). Oliver Stone's "JFK" (1991) presented the him in a rare dramatic supporting role, and Candy provided support as the coach of the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team in the sleeper comedy "Cool Runnings" (1993).

Though Candy was quite overweight and an inveterate smoker, his death from heart failure at age 43 (while on location in Mexico filming "Wagons East", a Western comedy) shocked and saddened Hollywood. He left behind several completed, though not released projects, a slew of others still in various stages of development, and a lasting legacy of laughter.

Nel tuo forum hai detto che è morto di un tumore maligno, la biografia ufficiale dice che è morto di infarto.
Poi vorrei sapere: dove si vede John Candy nel primo film dei Blues Brothers???

Ah adesso ricordo... il poliziotto che indica Belushi al concerto.
Credo che sia proprio Belushi la star del film da compiangere, non solo il paffuto e simpaticissimo Candy.