Set in the midwest of the depression-era, Paper Moon follows Moses Pray and Addie Loggins – one a con artist, the other, the young girl who’s the daughter of a woman who’s just passed away. The pair meet when ‘Mose’ stops by the sparsely-attended funeral in Kansas of a woman he once knew (we never see her). In attendance, is the woman’s young daughter, Addie, whom Moses agrees to transport to St Joseph, Mo — for money, of course. Mose – an inveterate hustler, has been working ostensibly as a representative of the Kansas Bible Company – who picks his marks from the obits, and tries to sell – at exorbitant prices – the decedents’ spouse the custom bible they’d previously ordered. Wise beyond her years, Addie picks up on Moses’ grift, and very quickly, she and Mose become a team. Traveling from town to town, making money in every dishonest way imaginable, and looking for the ultimate score. The colorful characters they meet along the way make the film all the more interesting. One in particular – Miss Trixie Delight – an exotic dancer who Mose rescues from a traveling carnival and the girl who works for her, poor, suffering Imogene. Addie sees Miss Delight as a potential rival, and she concocts a plan with Imogene to free themselves of her. The film’s peppered with regional dialogue, one of the most memorable line’s uttered when Mose is forced to wrestle a backwoodsman in order to trade his new car for the hillbilly’s battered old truck; “make him say calf-rope, Leroy!” one of the observers calls out. Paper Moon, directed by Peter Bogdonovich is adapted from the novel, “Addie Pray” (1971) by Joe David Brown.
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《纸月》以大萧条时期的中西部为背景，讲述了摩西·普赖斯和艾迪·洛金斯的故事——一个是骗子，另一个是刚刚去世的女子的女儿。两人在《莫斯》路过堪萨斯州一个他曾经认识的女人的葬礼时相遇（我们从未见过她）。在场的是这位妇女的小女儿艾迪，摩西同意把她送到密苏里州的圣约瑟夫——当然是为了钱。莫斯——一个根深蒂固的骗子，表面上一直是堪萨斯圣经公司的代表——他从讣告中挑选自己的标记，并试图以高昂的价格出售死者配偶之前订购的定制圣经。智慧超越了她的年龄，艾迪拿起摩西的欺诈，很快，她和莫斯成为一个团队。从一个城镇到另一个城镇旅行，以各种不诚实的方式赚钱，并寻找最终的分数。他们一路上遇到的五颜六色的人物使这部电影更加有趣。特别是一位——特里克西·乔伊小姐——一位来自异国情调的舞蹈演员，她从一场旅行嘉年华会中救出了一位为她工作的女孩，可怜的伊莫金。艾迪认为喜悦小姐是一个潜在的竞争对手，她与伊莫金策划了一个摆脱她的计划。这部电影充满了区域对话，其中最令人难忘的一句台词是莫斯为了用他的新车换成乡下人破旧的卡车而被迫与一个穷乡僻壤的人摔跤；“让他说小牛绳，勒罗伊！”一名观察员大声喊道。彼得·博格多诺维奇执导的《纸月亮》改编自乔·大卫·布朗的小说《阿迪·普赖斯》（1971）。
重点词汇释义
Set in产生，开始，到来，恶化
con artist骗子; 行骗者
young girl少女
In attendance到; 出席; 陪同; 陪伴
for money现款交易
of course当然; 自然; 当然不
has been已经
