Line #2 YMMV/MrHollandsOpus


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments:
2	-->'''Jacobs:''' Mr Holland, it has come to my attention that you are teaching the students rock 'n' roll.\
3	'''Holland:''' Is this a problem?\
4	'''Wolters:''' Is this a problem? Yes, I think so. Our only job is to teach. We cannot teach, and the students cannot learn, if there is no discipline.\
5	'''Holland:''' I'm sorry, what exactly is your point, Gene?\
6	'''Wolters:''' My point is rock 'n' roll, by its very nature, leads to a breakdown in discipline.\
7	'''Holland:''' Would you like me to deny that rock 'n' roll exists?\
8	'''Wolters:''' What I am... what we are saying is that you should be pushing the classics. [[Music/JohannesBrahms Brahms]]. [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]]. [[Music/IgorStravinsky Stravinsky]].\
9	'''Holland:''' ''(dryly)'' Stravinsky was the music of UsefulNotes/TheRussianRevolution if you want to talk about a breakdown in discipline.\
10	'''Wolters:''' You are deliberately missing the point!\
11	'''Holland:''' How about The Kingston Trio, Gene? How about "Sing Along With Mitch"?[[note]]Mitch Miller[[/note]]\
12	'''Jacobs:''' Just a minute, gentlemen! Mr Holland, I do not want to interfere in the curriculum of any teacher. But next week I have a meeting with the school board. There are people who believe rock 'n' roll is [[RockMeAsmodeus a message sent from the devil himself]]. Now, when that issue comes up, what can I tell them?\
13	'''Holland:''' ''(firmly)'' Mrs Jacobs, you tell them that I am teaching ''music'', and that I will use anything, from [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]] to Music/BillieHoliday to rock 'n' roll... if I think it"ll help me teach a student to ''love music''.\
14	'''Jacobs:''' ''(smiling)'' That's... a reasonable answer, Mr Holland. I can tell them that.
15	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[spoiler: The (non-metaphorical) titular opus.]]
16	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The ending.
17	** Also qualifying, is the marching band playing in the parade scene, when Lou Russ marches by banging the drum, and his parents, especially his father, excitedly exclaim how proud they are of him, especially when you remember that Lou was an academically struggling student.
18	* FridgeBrilliance:
19	** Glenn sings John Lennon's "Beautiful Boy" which contains the lyric "Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans" meaning many of us try to be successful without taking a moment to enjoy the journey, something Glenn had been doing.
20	** Vice Principal Wolters' reaction to Glenn's Corvair is completely understandable given that not long after the 1965 school year started, Ralph Nader published ''Literature/UnsafeAtAnySpeed'', which thoroughly condemned the Corvair as a death machine. Later testing would temper the criticism, but by then the damage was done.
21	* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/TerrenceHoward played Lewis, the gifted athlete who Mr. Holland taught "to bang a drum."
22	* TearJerker:
23	** Mr. Holland's lesson about Beethoven's deafness qualifies, because it's essentially in grief about the discovery of his own son, Cole being deaf.
24	** The entire scene of Lou Russ's funeral, qualifies as one, especially Bill Meister reading 'Flanders Fields', and the soldier giving Lou's grieving father the flag in honor of his son.
25	** The following scene, with the graduating class of 1972, where Mrs. Jacobs tells Mr. Holland she's retiring, and gives him a compass as a sediment of his work.
26	** "Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful... ''Cole''."

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