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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Night Moves |
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NIGHT MOVES was directed by Arthur Penn in 1975.
Private eye Harry Moseby has just discovered that his wife Ellen is cheating on him when he's asked by ex-actress Arlene Iverson to find her 16 years old daughter Delly who's left home. Moseby finds Delly at her stepfather's home in Florida and brings her back to Los Angeles.
A few weeks later, Delly dies during a movie stunt. Moseby thinks she's been murdered and comes back to Florida. There, he finds out that Delly, while scuba-diving, had discovered a sunken plane belonging to smugglers and recognized the pilot. When Moseby is attacked while trying to recover the Mexican relics lying underwater near the plane, he's then sure that she was murdered.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Night Moves |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- stolen goods organization
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- private investigator
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- red
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- average (woman)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Southeast
- California
Water?
Yes
Water:
- scuba under
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- run over
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Jazz/r&b
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