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2016 Postmortem

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CincyDem

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Sat Jan 14, 2017, 01:04 PM Jan 2017

Just watching the Blues Brothers (1980)... [View all]



...aside from just being a great movie, there's a scene that is particularly painful 37 years later.

Henry Gibson, acting as the leader of the American Nazi Party, is bull horning on the bridge about white power. And the crowd is yelling and screaming him down. This is based on some true experiences in the late 70's in the Marquette Park area where the American Nazis won a court case to march through predominantly Jewish Skokie.

The scary thing is that this was unthinkapbout satire humor in 1980 and today it's mainstream executive branch policy.

(and Carrie Fisher is great, even if by her own admission she doesn't remember a moment of the filming).
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