Line #9 Film/Hick


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3	A 2011 limited-release RoadTripPlot [[FilmOfTheBook film based on the novel]], directed by Creator/DerickMartini and starring Creator/ChloeGraceMoretz, in a role that evokes some of the TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior from her [[Film/KickAss other big movies]], taken up to eleven.
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5	Luli (Moretz) is 13 years old, from the middle of Nebraska, daughter of two [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic parents]] and way too influenced by Western pop culture. She always tells BlatantLies to make her miserable home life seem not so bad. When her parents seem to abandon her one day, she chances upon a commercial on the TV for UsefulNotes/LasVegas, and she decides straight away to escape, eventually falling in with the worst kind of people...
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8	!!Provides examples of:
9	* AbusiveParents: Luli's parents just leave her alone one day, inspiring her escape.
10	* AttemptedRape: Luli is nearly raped by a man in the bathroom, but manages to hold him off long enough before Eddie intervenes.
11	* AxCrazy: From the start, we can tell that Eddie's a little off, but then he decides that [[spoiler: he and Luli are somehow star-crossed lovers, ties her to a bed and most likely rapes her.]]
12	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: [[DisappearedDad Luli's dad's just gone]] and her Mom's sold their land to a developer, she's witnessed two murders and caused another, and she is totally disillusioned about her life. But Beau, the 'cleaner', offers Luli a place to stay in Los Angeles, where she can hopefully start her young life over.]]
13	* BunniesForCuteness: Glenda buys a massive stuffed rabbit and carries it in the back behind Luli when they first meet. It ends up being a delivery for a friend of her's kid.
14	* ChainedToABed: [[spoiler:Eventually Eddie snaps and decides Luli is his soulmate, tying her to a bed. Maybe other things happened too...]]
15	%%* ChekhovsGun: A literal example. [[InsistentTerminology "It's not a gun, it's a .45 Smith & Wesson."]]
16	* CompulsiveLiar: Luli frequently feels the need to tell lies about her home life, presumably to avoid telling the truth.
17	* FilleFatale: Luli, blatantly. Despite being only 13, she spends a majority of the film in tiny, revealing outfits that seem to have been designed by pedophiles for pedophiles. She has no qualms about walking around in her underwear in front of strangers, routinely asks strange men if they think she's pretty and if they want to kiss her, etc. all in attempts to manipulate them into doing what she wants. Practically any scene she shares with a male character is incredibly uncomfortable to watch.
18	%%* HeroicBSOD: Luli, [[spoiler:after Eddie shoots Glenda, and Luli shoots Eddie.]]
19	* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Eddie claims the gun is empty (without checking) and dry-fires until (whoops) he finds it isn't, shooting Glenda dead.
20	* NiceGuy: Clement, the boy Luli meets at the motel, and Beau, [[spoiler: who wants to send Luli to live with his sister to get her as far away from the mess she was in as possible.]]
21	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Eddie rescues Luli from a man's rape attempt, then beats him to death in spite of her protests against it.
22	* PaperTiger: Luli talks a big game and practices trying to be a badass FilleFatale, but very quickly proves to be out of her element, from the moment she meets Eddie and answers his question timidly as a mouse.
23	* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Luli tosses around several slurs when she's angry at Eddie, which he tries to call her out on.
24	%%* RedRightHand: Eddie's limp.
25	* SawItInAMovieOnce: The majority of the films ShoutOut number is Luli copying things she's seen in movies.
26	** Luli practices with her new gun in the mirror, quoting the bullet counting sequence from ''Film/DirtyHarry'' shortly before pointing it at someone for real.
27	** Trying on a skimpy outfit, she alternates between Leia in ''Film/ANewHope'' and Norma Desmond in ''Film/SunsetBoulevard''.
28	** One of her pros for going to Las Vegas is 'Be like that girl from ''Series/RemingtonSteele'''.
29	** Glenda cites the trope by name for explaining her plan to [[WoundedGazelleGambit have Luli fake a seizure]] to rob a storeowner.
30	%%* SmokingBarrelBlowout: Luli does this after using her revolver.
31	* SoundtrackDissonance:
32	** While untying Luli and trying to escape Eddie, Glinda tells her to sing the song to calm her nerves, starting the first two lines. Luli continues, and both of them shut up when Eddie shows up behind them with a gun, casually finishing the verse.
33	** Again soon after, when [[spoiler: Luli shoots Eddie]], '[[Music/PatsyCline I've Fallen To Pieces]]' plays.
34	* SuddenSoundtrackStop: When Luli [[spoiler: shoots Eddie]], the sound cuts out entirely and is replaced with Luli saying the word 'Pop'. Immediately after, sound returns.
35	* TraumaticHaircut: [[spoiler:After being chased and possibly raped by Eddie, Luli wakes up to find her long blonde hair now chopped short and dyed black. Eddie says that he did it because he thought she would like it.]]
36	%%* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Might as well be TheMovie of this trope.
37	* UnreliableNarrator: Eddie tells Luli that Glenda gave him a grand to take Luli off her hands. [[spoiler:Glenda shows up after a few days after Eddie has taken her hostage, telling her that he lied.]]

Context Film / Hick