{"id":187630,"date":"2023-07-13T07:58:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T11:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=187630"},"modified":"2023-07-13T08:01:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T12:01:06","slug":"coach-beard-and-after-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=187630","title":{"rendered":"Coach Beard and <i>After Hours<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zPU5iPhD77k\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nI remember when this episode &#8211; &#8220;Beard After Hours&#8221; &#8211; aired and there was a lot of confusion about it. Some critics clocked the reference to <i>After Hours<\/i> (and well they should, especially if they&#8217;re paid the big bucks), but others didn&#8217;t even mention it. Kind of egregious. No excuse. It took a simple Google search to discover the homage. I was disappointed that more critics didn&#8217;t take the opportunity to dig into the source material, excavating the comparisons and associations, and also maybe talk a little bit about the original? Am I the only one who thinks that would be a cool way to approach a TV re-cap?? Others had zero idea what was going on. A friend of mine said to me, &#8220;I know this is referencing SOMEthing but WHAT IS IT.&#8221; I told her. She was very excited and I was psyched she KNEW already even if she didn&#8217;t know what the episode was in reference TO. <\/p>\n<p>I mentioned this episode in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/8197-after-hours-no-exit\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">my essay on <i>After Hours<\/i><\/a>, clocking just a couple of the &#8220;nods&#8221;. Keys. Underground nightclubs. A bouncer. An endless night. <\/p>\n<p>I mentioned it expressly because <i>After Hours<\/i> has a devoted fan base (understatement) and many people name this as their favorite Scorsese (particularly among younger Gen-Z-ers, according to my nephew. This is fascinating and should be talked about more. I told &#8220;Marty&#8221; about my nephew&#8217;s thoughts in this regard and he was very interested. I&#8217;m proud of that! lol).  But what influence did it have on the industry? Where did it GO? What shadow did it cast? You can look at Richard Linklater&#8217;s films, and their experiments with time &#8211; the &#8220;Before&#8221; trilogy, of course &#8211; each movie taking place in a 24-hour period. You could look at some of Seinfeld&#8217;s more hallucinatory surreal encounters, the absurd and the random careening through people&#8217;s lives. There are other &#8220;one wild night in New York&#8221; movies, but &#8230; is that really an <i>After Hours<\/i> nod? Vincente Minnelli&#8217;s <i>The Clock<\/i> came out in 1945 and it&#8217;s the quintessential &#8220;24-hours in New York&#8221; movie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beard After Hours&#8221; aired long before I got the Criterion gig, but it made me happy because I remember seeing <i>After Hours<\/i> in the theatre, and how much fun it was. Decades passed before I saw it again and I remembered it vividly. Shots, characters, mood: all fresh in my brain as though I saw it yesterday. Not every film is like that!<\/p>\n<p>So I did just want to shout it out, as the most explicit &#8220;nod&#8221; we have to a great and under-sung (except by its fan-base) film &#8211; and a fun and intriguing way to get people to check out the source material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when this episode &#8211; &#8220;Beard After Hours&#8221; &#8211; aired and there was a lot of confusion about it. 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