It's a Honky Tonk Parade .

Two differents experiences made me thought again about the great movie that " PAPER MOON " is.
My band Melody Syndrome just arrived from London and we were supposed to play one hour after at a new exhibition in le Marais in Paris . After a good hour playing and few drinks to relax from the long journey , i was paying attention to a specific picture . In the 50's and 60's , the cool cats , " blousons noirs" as we say in France , where hanging out in piece of waste land after the WWII or in Funfairs .
( Dig the 1960 movie of Marcel Carné call : " Terrain Vague " )

While they were at the pellet guns stand , they could have a free picture of themselves shooting , at only one condition , to shoot right in the middle . That's what makes the camera shoot . On the picture the main person is the shooter , most of the time really focus on his target , and sometimes friends in the back ground or some birds . Funfairs gived a lot to the world of photography , in an artistic way . While in the Funfairs in France , in the 20's and 30's we had boats , and plane wher you can sat on , a photograph take a picture of you and ten minutes letter you can pick it  up , in U.S.A they had this specific background , and it was call : a PAPER MOON .

Paper Moon is one of those movie that you need to watch ounce a year or more . It's got everything in it . But i won't tell much . Tatum O'neal not even 10 years old in this movie , gives a lesson of acting , she's a genius and an angel.
Paper Moon is a 1973 American motion picture comedy directed by Peter Bogdanovich and released by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was adapted from the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown, and the film was shot in black-and-white. The film is set during the Great Depression in the U.S. state of Kansas and it starred the real life father and daughter pairing of Ryan and Tatum O'Neal, as on-screen father and daughter Moses and Addie.
Here is some scenes of it and the main theme . Enjoy






say It is only a paper moon
sailing over a cardboard sea,
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me.


yes It is only a canvas sky
Hanging over a muslin tree,
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me.


Without your love,
It's a honky-tonk parade.
Without your love,
It's a melody played in a penny arcade.


It's a Barnum and Bailey world,
Just as phony as it can be,
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me.


Without your love,
It's a honky-tonk parade.
Without your love,
It's a melody played in a penny arcade.


It's a Barnum and Bailey world
Just as phony as it can be,
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me.