Lolita (1997) * Part 11

OVERVIEW

* Director: Adrian Lyne
* Writers (WGA): Vladimir Nabokov (novel)
Stephen Schiff (screenplay)
* Genre: Drama / Romance
* Release date(s): September 27, 1997
* Tagline: A forbidden love. An unthinkable attraction. The ultimate price.
* Plot Outline: A man marries his landlady so he can take advantage of her daughter.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Lolita
• 1997
• Adrian
• Lyne
• Vladimir
• Nabokov
• Jeremy
• Irons
• Melanie
• Griffith
• Frank
• Langella
• Dominique
• Swain

[sookala]

Such a gorgeous movie.

[DamnQuilty]

@marzomarshall I Agree. I though Nabokov was mocking on the suburbian middle class american people, their society of the plastics and seemingly perfect lifes. The plot that seems to wants the reader to like H.H even if in real life you must likely hate him; shows not at all ethical situations as if they were right. So the book complains and mock at the same time, for me. And also is obvius that is not promoting pedophilia; not at all. The book wants the reader to use her his brain.

[coscinaippogrifo]

The (ridiculous) Humbert of the movie is not a pederast because Lolita is played by a probably 16 yo girl (who is not a nymphet as Nabokov would have intended). Those creatures are beautiful only for an "artist and madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in his loins"...Basically, certain beautifully perverse aesthetes. In a plain movie which just plays it safe, -opposite of the book- they couldn't represent the reality. Lolita should look much younger that that.

[coscinaippogrifo]

@immythomsonreow Actually you're very right, I started re-reading Lolita after ages and she's 12 (I was waiting for someone to correct me ;) ...But still, he writes that "nine and fourtheen are the boundaries -the mirrory beaches and rosy rocks- of an enchanted island haunted by those nymphets of mine and surrounded by a vast, misty sea", so...He is a pederast, but an aesthete desperate poet also, and I'd like to see things as he does -except children ;)

[immythomsonreow]

@coscinaippogrifo no actually she's 12 turning 13

[KellyGreen5555]

@carolineleiden Hate to break it to you but 14 is not an adult woman.

[coscinaippogrifo]

@carolineleiden Well, in the book, Lolita is 9...He's definitely a pederast, but that's not the point, the point is how Nabokov managed to make it look like the most extraordinary love story ever (and this movie doesn't...)

[OneZeroFour104]

@carolineleiden Semantics. Hebephilia is the proper term, but the whole point of both the novel and film isn't to justify any sort of chronophilia, merely present a tragedy of love.

[MadameApathy]

@carolineleiden In the book she was twelve. They aged her up to make it less controversial.

[XanStephP]

@zxcvqwer84 In the movie Damage you do get to see Jeremy Irons running naked.

[carolineleiden]

The Humbert in this film is not a pederast: she is 14. She has all the grown up secundary sexcharacteristics. She is a woman, albeit a young one.

Pedophiles like their victims much younger than that.

[prettyinpink814]

@Christ4lifeJesus Nabokov implied (in the novel) that Humbert was the primary user of the name Lolita. Lolita was not only the girl, but has the connotation of sexual desires he feels toward "nymphets" aka young girls. Her school friends call her Lo and Dolly. Her mother uses Dolores. Lolita refers to herself as Dolly. Nabokov humorously noted in an interview that after the book was published (in the 1960s) people stopped naming their daughters Lolita.