Re: packards in tv and movies

Posted by 55PackardGuy On 2011/12/29 0:46:15

In the movie, Miss Daisy was driven around in a few different cars. The first chauffeur driven one was, I believe, a great big Hudson. I had never realized what beautiful specialty cars Hudson made until I saw that movie. Further down the road was, I believe, a 1965 or so Cadillac. No Packards though.

It's an interesting movie trick for telling the passage of time--different cars to show the time period or the passing of the years. One of my favorite directors, David Lynch, is always throwing curves at the viewer by mixing and matching cars from many different time periods from two or three decades, and usually showing the contemporary characters driving very striking 60's and 70's cars, even in settings from the '90s and later. I think he has a real eye for what particular models and colors stand out. Cars are characters, or at least moveable sculpture.