![]() ![]() Rohmer was asked about the Moseby line - and the significance of American cinema - in this 1977 interview:īelow are some of the 01/11/01 wittier Twitter variations on Harry Moseby's line (and some of them are pretty damn clever), submitted with the hash tag #nightmoves: As Andrew Sarris famously wrote about "My Night at Maud"'s, there's nothing more cinematic than the spectacle of a man and a woman saying up all night talking. It does "Night Moves" and Rohmer a great disservice when that line is quoted as if it's simply a swipe at the French director's movies, which are light on action and heavy on conversation. ("Night Moves" also stars Jennifer Warren, James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Max Gail, Kenneth Mars and Harris Yulin who, as I have pointed out many times before, should be in every movie ever made.) He's accused of staking her out, as he would have done for any of his sleazy infidelity cases. ![]() The edge in this earlier scene suggests that his discovery may not have been entirely inadvertent. Later that night, Harry drives by the theater as the movie is letting out and sees something indicating that his wife may be having an affair. "You seem to get some weird kind of satisfaction from this sort of thing, don't you?" Charles replies. Moseby is asserting his macho credentials, and ends the scene by teasing Charles about going bowling again sometime. (Watch the clip above.) Ellen ( Susan Clark) invites Harry to join her and Charles (Ben Archibek - that's him at the end of the clip) for a movie: Eric Rohmer's classic " My Night at Maud's" (1970), about an engaged man ( Jean-Louis Trintignant) who spends a long, memorable night in conversation with a divorcee (Françoise Fabian). What some (not all) of the quoters didn't seem to realize or remember is that Harry's remark, as scripted by Alan Sharp, is a brittle homophobic jab at a gay friend of his wife's. It wasn't long before it even became a Twitter meme: #nightmoves. ![]()
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