John Landis struck gold with his madcap 1980 comedy, a masterpiece of choreographed destruction with a killer soundtrack
One of the longstanding hallmarks of a John Landis production are cameos from other film directors, which explains the fun incongruity of Jonathan Demme and David Cronenberg passing through Into the Night or the highbrow/lowbrow cognitive dissonance of Atom Egoyan, Gillo Pontecorvo, and Costa-Gavras appearing in The Stupids. But when Steven Spielberg turns up as the Cook county tax accessor near the end of Landis’ blowout
comedy The Blues Brothers, it feels less like a hat-tip than a statement.
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