<VV> Anachronism Re: Corvair Sightings

[FrankCB]

Bill,
     There's a typical movie anachronism involved here.  Before he leaves for his first day at the school, Dreyfuss is shown listening to a radio report on the just-announced finding of the Warren Commission covering JFK's assassination.  This is ONE year after JFK's death which puts the year at 1964 and the month around Sept. since it's the first day of the new school year.  Ralph Nader's infamous book won't be published for another YEAR, in 1965, so no one could have read it yet. 
     But what else can you expect from Hollywood.  Despite this, it is a good movie.
     Frank "timing is everything" Burkhard 

In a message dated 03/13/09 13:19:47 Eastern Daylight Time, gojoe283 at yahoo.com writes:
I found the clips for "Mr. Holland's Opus" on YouTube this week.  Great movie. 

Richard Dreyfuss (?) drives an EM coupe in the movie.  On his first day as a high school music teacher, he pulls into the parking lot.  A crewcut VERY conservative looking Vice-Principal Stevens sees him: 

Stevens (Looking at the car):  Corvair, huh?  You read Ralph Nader's book? 
Holland:  Well, I'm afraid I'm going to have to keep it till the wheels fall off 
Steven:  Well, you may not have to wait very long... 

Mr. Holland never gets rid of the coupe, and in the 1990s his deaf son Cole restores it and calls it a classic.  In fact, parts of the movie show Cole listening to the vibrations of the engine while he works on it, and you get the sense he and the car are sort of birds of a feather. 

Bill H.