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Night Moves

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Night Moves	comment	A 1975 neo-noir mystery, directed by Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant) and starring Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, and Susan Clark.Hackman plays Harry Moseby, a private investigator (and former pro football player) hired by an ex-Hollywood starlet to track down her wayward teenage daughter. Also features Edward Binns, Harris Yulin, Kenneth Mars, and early appearances from Melanie Griffith and James Woods.Not to be confused with the 2013 movie of the same name with Jesse Eisenberg, or with the 1976 album (and song) by Bob Seger.
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Night Moves / int_1171ed72	type	Sexy Shirt Switch
Night Moves / int_1171ed72	comment	Sexy Shirt Switch: A variant. Delly takes a shower in Harry's room and then puts on one of his shirts (clearly wearing nothing underneath) in a clumsy attempt to seduce him, but nothing comes of it.
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Night Moves / int_126ce03c	type	I Was Quite a Looker
Night Moves / int_126ce03c	comment	I Was Quite a Looker: Crossed with Big-Breast Pride. Arlene looks at a photo of her from her younger days as a Hollywood starlet and says "I had lovely tits, even if I do say so myself." She then admits that "they're sitting on a little bit of silicone now, but when they were up for grabs, they were really something special."
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Night Moves / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
Night Moves / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: Of Film Noir. Arlene asks Harry if he's the kind of detective who never lets go of a case; he jokingly responds, "That was true in the old days. Before we had a union." It turns out it's still true, but it does him little good. Delly's death/probable murder pulls him back into the case, but he misses important clues, and even at the very end he doesn't really understand the crimes he's been investigating, and may not even make it through alive.
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Night Moves / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Night Moves / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: At the end of the movie, a badly-injured Harry tries to redirect the boat back towards the mainland but it isn't clear if he'll survive.
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Night Moves / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Night Moves / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Harry's father disappeared when he was a child (and possibly his mother, too; it's unclear).
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Night Moves / int_34960f22	type	Vapor Wear
Night Moves / int_34960f22	comment	Vapor Wear: It's the Seventies; none of the women bother much with bras. Ellen (Susan Clark) wears a particularly gauzy shirt at one point with nothing underneath.
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Night Moves / int_403ad150	type	The Bermuda Triangle
Night Moves / int_403ad150	comment	The Bermuda Triangle: When Delly finds a wrecked plane underwater Tom Iverson mentions this.
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Night Moves / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
Night Moves / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: Arlene slept with Delly's sometime-boyfriend Marv Ellman, and it's suggested that Delly wanted to seduce her former stepfather Tom to even the score.
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Night Moves / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Night Moves / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: When Harry and Tom fight, Tom grabs the inner part of a large seashell so the outer part covers his hand and punches Harry with it.
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Night Moves / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Night Moves / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Paula is dead and Harry has been shot far out at sea and may never get back home, and he still doesn’t fully understand the mystery he was trying to solve.
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Night Moves / int_59657f84	type	Trapped in a Sinking Car
Night Moves / int_59657f84	comment	Trapped In a Sinking Plane: Joey Zeigler's death at the end.
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Night Moves / int_63d3ce1a	type	Dismantled MacGuffin
Night Moves / int_63d3ce1a	comment	Dismantled MacGuffin: Paula says that Tom and his cohorts have been smuggling pieces of some priceless antique into the country one at a time. (Though this has no real effect on Harry's investigation, since he doesn't even find out about it until the very end.)
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Night Moves / int_6563aeb6	type	Shameless Fanservice Girl
Night Moves / int_6563aeb6	comment	Shameless Fanservice Girl: Delly has little restraint in being naked in front of much older men.
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Night Moves / int_65b696be	type	Fille Fatale
Night Moves / int_65b696be	comment	Fille Fatale: Delly would like to think she is, but her naivete gets her killed.
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Night Moves / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Night Moves / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: A non-human example: Tom Iverson's boat is named "Point of View," which within the movie is a reference to the glass bottom of the boat. But in a more symbolic sense it refers to the use of vision within the story, which both reveals and conceals crucial details. The glass bottom of the boat, in particular, shows a couple of important elements of the mystery.
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Night Moves / int_6d56cebf	type	Chess Motifs
Night Moves / int_6d56cebf	comment	Chess Motifs: Harry takes a little chess board with him everywhere he goes, and references a game played in 1922 between K. Emmrich and Bruno Moritz in which Moritz could have won the game if he had seen a play requiring three knight moves, but he played something else and lost. (This is a metaphor for Harry's own inability to see the truth of the mystery unfolding around him.) The title of the movie references both this game and the fact that certain key scenes take place at night.
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Night Moves / int_6ea4cf8c	type	Jailbait Taboo
Night Moves / int_6ea4cf8c	comment	Jailbait Taboo: Discussed Trope. Tom Iverson says that he wants to get rid of Delly because she's just too tempting and apparently he's given into temptation before. He says "There oughta be a law!", and an unamused Harry says "There is."
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Night Moves / int_814356cb	type	White-Dwarf Starlet
Night Moves / int_814356cb	comment	White-Dwarf Starlet: Averted by Arlene Iverson. When she asks Harry if he ever saw any of her movies, he can't come up with anything. She just shrugs it off, admitting that she was never that big but she got the consolation prize: marrying a studio executive.
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Night Moves / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
Night Moves / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: Delly, though it's suggested her mother is the real problem.
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Night Moves / int_97a82530	type	Sewer Gator
Night Moves / int_97a82530	comment	Sewer Gator: Paula mentions they have these in New York, but Harry seems skeptical.
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Night Moves / int_9a6990	type	Skinny Dipping
Night Moves / int_9a6990	comment	Skinny Dipping: Harry and Paula take the "Point of View" out one night so Delly can do this.
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Night Moves / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Night Moves / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Harry comes to believe that much of Delly's rebelliousness comes from Arlene just not paying much attention to her.
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Night Moves / int_ab89e132	type	Men Are Uncultured
Night Moves / int_ab89e132	comment	Men Are Uncultured: "I saw a Rohmer film once. It was kinda like watching paint dry." (Ellen has gone to see My Night at Maud's.)
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Night Moves / int_abc60c5d	type	Harmful to Minors
Night Moves / int_abc60c5d	comment	Harmful to Minors: Arlene Iverson's father went bankrupt and committed suicide when she was a child (which probably explains some of her own less-than-perfect parenting of Delly).
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Night Moves / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Night Moves / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: As a film noir this has a lot of snark, but Paula is the main culprit.
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Night Moves / int_cbd2bfa3	type	Glory Days
Night Moves / int_cbd2bfa3	comment	Glory Days: Harry's past as a pro football player. He doesn't seem so much obsessed with the past as unhappy with the present. When Paula asks him where he was when the Kennedys were killed, he says that when JFK was shot he was on a bus with his team on the way to a game; when Bobby Kennedy was killed, he was tailing a philanderer. Throughout the movie it's clear that the sleaze he's continually mired in is starting to get to him.
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Night Moves / int_ce165390	type	Casting Couch
Night Moves / int_ce165390	comment	Casting Couch: Arlene Iverson says, "When I was [Delly's] age I was down on my knees to half the men in this town!"
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Night Moves / int_cf4d770	type	Nightmare Fuel
Night Moves / int_cf4d770	comment	Nightmare Fuel: In-Universe and very literal; after Delly finds the sunken plane (with a partially-eaten corpse inside) she wakes up screaming from a nightmare.
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Night Moves / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
Night Moves / int_deea2fb5	comment	Idle Rich: Arlene Iverson seems to be this, as the widow of a studio bigwig, but actually the money is mostly in a trust fund for Delly. Harry makes it pretty clear he thinks that's the only reason Arlene wants to get her back.
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Night Moves / int_df5c3013	type	Think Unsexy Thoughts
Night Moves / int_df5c3013	comment	Think Unsexy Thoughts: When Paula asks Harry why he doesn't respond to Delly's (rather juvenile) attempts to be sexy, he says he just thinks of things like "George Washington's teeth."
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Night Moves / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Night Moves / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: The night Delly finds the sunken plane, Paula seduces Harry so Tom can go out and check it out without Harry noticing.
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Night Moves / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
Night Moves / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: Paula tells Harry he can follow her to Tom's place, but that he should keep his distance because her car is spewing so much smoke.
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