dispatches from the original script
Scenes from the original script that were cut from the film. Guys. In my head this is totally canon.
-----"The Whorehouse Scene"-----
SCENE 18
Location: INT. GIRLS' LOUNGE
The room is furnished in bright orange shag carpeting, a couple of loud, plaid, convertible couches, chrome coffee table, a hot plate and toaster oven. A large poster version of "Sexual Positions of the Zodiac." There is a big 21-inch color TV console with a video game orogramned. There are three women in the room. CONNIE, a slight blonde, white, waif-like creature no more than 20, a runaway. She is playing the video game with PENNY, a young, well-rounded black lady. Another woman STREAK, watches them play. She is a mature, statuesque woman of thirty, who wears a short-cropped, black haircut with a pink streak down one side of it. All of these women are clothed in light housecoats.CECILLE: Girls, I'd like to introduce a Mr. Joliet Jake and his brother....
ELWOOD: El-wood.
CECILLE: Now, who wants to take Jake upstairs?
CONNIE: I'll take him.
CECILLE: Uh, uh, not you, honey ... Streak... ?
The girl with the streak opens the door to the hall and motions for Jake to go upstairs. Jake pauses, looks at her, raises his eyebrow above his shades, turns and goes out into the hall. She follows him, closing the door.CECILLE: Now, Elwood, what can we do for you?
ELWOOD: How about a cup of tea?
CECILLE: A cup of tea? Why... sure. Penny, put on the kettle. Connie, take care of Elwood.
Penny gets up from the couch and puts a kettle on the hot plate. Elwood sits next to the little blonde. SCENE 19
Location: ELWOOD AND CONNIE
ELWOOD: So, what's on the TV?
CONNIE: Just some games, like, you can put different games on.
ELWOOD: Ya ever watch Highway Patrol with Broderick Crawford? ... Used to be my favorite show.
CONNIE: No. Like, this is cable TV. They don't got that show on cable. Like, with cable you get movies and these games. Ya wanta play?
ELWOOD: Sure.
Connie gets up to program a video game. SCENE 20
Location: WIDE SHOT - ROOM
The kettle whistles. The door opens and Jake walks in. He knots his tie.JAKE: Okay, Elwood, let's go.
CECILLE: But your tea is ready.
ELWOOD: It's okay. We have to go.
Jake hands Cecille his $23.07.CECILLE: 'Bye now. Come again.
Jake and Elwood exit.
-----Seeing their old beds at the orphanage-----
SCENE 40
Location: INT. 0RPHANAGE DORMITORY - DAY
A long chamber with rows of little iron frame cots, a sink, table and chair next to each one. The windows have wire mesh grating over them. Jake and Elwood enter and walk through the room. Elwood stops at one of the cots.ELWOOD: Look, our old beds ....
JAKE: Yeah ... with chairs! Boy, these kids really got it plush.
-----Discussing the crime-----
SISTER MARY: So, Jake ... was it worth it?
JAKE: What?
SISTER MARY: Turning a gun on your fellow man, threatening a life for a few miserable dollars and going to prison for it.
JAKE: No. . .I guess not.
SISTER MARY: Did you learn anything from your experience?
JAKE: Yeah. Never hit an all night gas station before six p.m.
SISTER MARY: Wiseacre!! Elwood, where were you while your brother was stealing?
ELWOOD: I was in the car waiting for him.
SISTER MARY: And you didn't betray him to the law?
JAKE: It was my rap. Why should I?
SISTER MARY: Elwood, what were you doing when Jake was in prison?
ELWOOD: I took a job, Sister, I waited for my brother.
SISTER MARY: So now, what do you two have planned... another cheap robbery...?
-----A quip that got cut-----
SCENE 91
Location: INT. BLUESMOBILE - MOVING - SHOPPING MALL - NIGHT
ELWOOD: (brightening) The expressway, the slab, man.
-----Brotherly moment-----
SCENE 119
Location: EXT. PARKING LOT - DAY
Elwood parks the car and turns to JakeELWOOD: Don't go away, Jake.
JAKE: (aggravated) Where am I gonna go?
Elwood exits the car.
-----Elwood eats shaving cream...-----
SCENE 123
Location: INT. PLANT - FINISHING LINE - DAY
A different section of conveyor. It is humming, stationary. A BIG WOMAN in safety goggles sorts through the cans, pulling them off and placing them in boxes. SCENE 124
Location: ELWOOD
He approaches the woman, gives her a small wave, picks up a can from in front of her. SCENE 125
Location: CLOSEUP - CAN
An 11 oz. can of Gillette Hot Shave. SCENE 126
Location: ELWOOD AND WOMAN
Elwood holds the can of shaving cream above his mouth. The woman shakes her head "no!" Elwood nods "yes" and fills his mouth with shaving cream. He swallows the cream, smiles, licks his lips and rubs his stomach with enjoyment. The woman shakes her head resignedly. Elwood continues to walk down the line and quickly lifts two more cans and slips them into his coat pocket. He stops at a door marked SUPERVISOR.
-----"He's a robot" conversation-----
MURPHY: Ho! Ha! Haa! You mad men, I don't believe It. Jake, you monster. Ha! Incredible. Ha! I love you, you maniac! What are you doing out so early? I thought they gave you five years.
JAKE: Parole. Good Behavior.
MURPHY: Ho! Good behavior...you party animal, I love ya. Amazing! How's your brother? I'm asking you because I know he can't answer that. He never talks ...he's a robot...you never talk, do you, Elwood?
ELWOOD: No, I guess not.
MURPHY: Ha! Ho! I say, 'You never talk, do you?', Then he says, 'No!' I love you guys, you're maniacs. I love ya!
The other members of the band eye Jake and Elwood with open hostility.ELWOOD: (to band) Nice to see you guys.
-----Parking ticket skit-----
SCENE 172
Location: EXT. SIDEWALK CAFE - STREET - WIDE - NIGHT
A Chicago City Police motorcycle is parked behind the Bluesmobile. An officer is placing a parking ticket on the windshield, Jake and Elwood come out of the restaurant, to the Bluesmobile.
SCENE 173
Location: ANGLE ON ELWOOD AND COP
Elwood opens the car door, scoops the ticket off the windshield and puts it in a pocket.ELWOOD: Thank you.. thank you very much, Officer, thank you and good night.
"The Peter Gunn Theme" comes in hard as the Bluesmobile makes a radical U-turn into traffic. Three cars have to swerve to avoid hitting the Bluesmobile, two crash into parked cars, the third demolishes the officer's parked motorcycle.
-----Trusting in Jake-----
SCENE 214
Location: INT. BLUESMOBILE - MOVING - EXPRESSWAY - NIGHT
JAKE: (to Elwood) So I said I'd get us some instruments and amps and I did, didn't I?
ELWOOD: Yap!
-----Another brotherly moment-----
The Cadillac pulls out onto the highway. Elwood puts his arm around Jake comfortingly.
ELWOOD: Don't worry, Jake. We got almost two days before the deadline. We'll get the five thousand bucks for the Penguin. God won't let us down.
JAKE: (muttering) Yeah, yeah. Sure.
-----Jake's various bans-----
MAURY: How far do you want to drive?
ELWOOD: Anywhere within a two-thousand mile radius.
JAKE: Relax, I can't go into Ohio, Kentucky, Florida, or Canada.
-----Elwood hitting on Twiggy (extended)-----
A chocolate brown XKE convertible pulls into the station. It is driven by a very beautiful and elegant CHIC LADY.CHIC LADY: Excuse me, sir.
Elwood looks around and points to himself.CHIC LADY: Yes, you. Would you please fill it up with premium and check under the hood?
ELWOOD: (smiles) Sure. You want I should wash the windows?
CHIC LADY: No, that's all right. I'm in kind of a hurry.
Elwood pulls the nozzle, squeezes it, and nothing comes out. He sticks the nozzle in her tank anyway and walks over and leans on her window.ELWOOD: So what kind of mileage you get with this machine?
SCENE 272
Location: EXT. GAS STATION - DAY
Time has passed. Elwood still leaning on the Chic Lady's window.ELWOOD: So maybe you would like to come around and see the show tonight?
CHIC LADY: (smiles) I'm awfully sorry, but I have a prior dinner engagement.
The tanker truck pulls in. The DRIVER commences standard refill procedures. Elwood locks the nozzle on the pump already in the tank of the XKE. The Driver approaches Elwood.DRIVER: Where's old Jim?
ELWOOD: Around the back.
Elwood leans in the Chic Lady's window.ELWOOD: I'm sorry you won't be able to catch the show. We got a hot band. Maybe after the gig we could... you know... hang out together.
SCENE 275
Location: EXT. GAS STATION - DAY
Jake is lying on the hood of the Bluesmobile nursing the wine. Elwood is chatting with the Chic Lady, gas pouring out of the XKE.
-----Small cut conversation-----
SCENE 290
Location: EXT. STREET NEAR PALACE HOTEL BALLROOM - NIGHT
Jake and Elwood see the cop cars from a half mile away. Elwood turns off the lights.ELWOOD: Rollers!
JAKE: Yeah. Lots of 'em too.
ELWOOD: I think we gotta disappear.
Elwood leaves the highway and drives the Bluesmobile off the road into the woods.
-----Mafia line-----
The number finishes, the crowd applauds wildly. A huge man in a suit steps from seemingly nowhere.ELWOOD: My God, the mafia is after us!
-----Another cut couple of lines-----
SCENE 303
Location: INT. CONCRETE TUNNEL
Jake and Elwood are hustling down a long concrete tunnel.ELWOOD: I hope this thing leads someplace.
JAKE: Elwood, we're gone, man.