Paper Moon

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well as you read this post. Although the weather in Istanbul is now really awful, I am on my winter vacation as a teacher, which is great!

Normally, I would write my article for Film and Literature class, but I only managed to write 2.500 words before deciding to sleep on it, so I decided to watch a movie with my mother and we saw Paper Moon on Bein Connect I do not know if we can find it on Netflix or not but I will check it again.

It was shot in 1973, so it's a black-and-white film, which I prefer :)

Paper Moon is a 1973 Paramount Pictures road comedy-drama directed by Peter Bogdanovich and distributed in the United States. The screenplay was written by Alvin Sargent from Joe David Brown's novel Addie Pray, which was published in 1971. The black-and-white picture is set during the Great Depression in Kansas and Missouri. As protagonists Moze and Addie, it stars Ryan and Tatum O'Neal, who are real-life father and daughter.

Tatum O'Neal's portrayal as Addie was well praised by reviewers, garnering her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the youngest competitive winner in Academy Award history.

Itinerant con artist Moses Pray meets nine-year-old Addie Loggins at her mother's memorial ceremony in Gorham, Kansas, approximately 1936, when the locals assume he is Addie's father. He denies it, but offers to take Addie to her aunt's house in St. Joseph, Missouri.Moses persuades the brother of the guy who inadvertently murdered Addie's mother to give him $200 for the newly orphaned Addie at a nearby grain mill. Addie overhears this exchange and demands the money as rightly hers after Moses spends almost half the money restoring his ancient Model A convertible and buys her a train ticket. Moses offers to let Addie travel with him until he has raised the entire $200 to present to her. After that, Moses goes around visiting newly bereaved ladies, professing to have sold their departed husbands costly, customized Bibles, and the widows pay him for the Bibles imprinted with their names. Addie joins the con by posing as his daughter and demonstrating a knack for confidence tactics like selling Bibles and the fast change con. Moses and Addie become into a formidable duo as time goes on.One night, Addie and "Moze" (as Addie refers to him) stop at a local carnival, where Moze becomes enamored with a "exotic dancer" named Miss Trixie Delight and abandons Addie at a photo booth to have her own image made (of herself sitting on a crescent moon, as the film's title suggests). To Addie's dismay, Moze asks "Miss Trixie"—and her oppressed African American adolescent maid, Imogene—to join Addie and him. Addie quickly gets friends with Imogene and is envious of Trixie. When Addie finds that Moze has spent their money on a brand-new Model 68 convertible to impress Miss Trixie, she and Imogene hatch a scheme. They persuade a staff at the hotel where the gang is staying to take them to Trixie. Moze is then sent up to Trixie's room, where he discovers the clerk and Trixie having sex. Moze quickly abandons Miss Trixie and Imogene, while Addie leaves Imogene enough money to cover her own return trip.Moze discovers a bootlegger's shop full of whiskey while staying at another motel in a rural region, takes some of it, and sells it back to the bootlegger. Unfortunately for Addie and Moze, the bootlegger's identical brother is the local sheriff, and he promptly captures them. Addie puts their money in her hat, grabs their vehicle key, and the two flee.

To avoid capture, they sell their new automobile for a dilapidated Model T farm tractor after Moze defeats a hillbilly named Leroy in a "rasslin' bout." Moze and Addie make it across the state line to Missouri, where Moze pulls another con, only to be apprehended by the sheriff and his deputies; outside of their authority and unable to make an arrest, they beat Moze and steal him of his and Addie's funds. Moze, humiliated and defeated, abandons Addie at her aunt's house in St. Joseph, but a dejected Addie rejoins him on the journey. When he declines her company, she reminds him that he still owes her $200 and that his vehicle has just driven away without him. They all board the truck and go together.

In general, I enjoy the film, although in some parts, Addie smokes, which I find unpleasant and relationship between Addie and Moze is like father-daughter relationship but that character is not kind of a father figure, maybe Addie is really his daughter and that is why they might live together :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGZZ7s7FJlM&ab_channel=Movieclips