Why was he such a bad Humbert?
He was the best Humbert he could be.
>>7804308
Doesn't strike me as Humbert, desu. He should have a handsome yet disgusting look, no? Like overly manly, a contrast to Lolita.
>>7804342
No, I think that his appearance is spot on. He is supposed to be a handsome guy who people don't want to think is abusing his stepdaughter. The rottenness is all on the inside.
>>7804351
I thought he was bullshitting because he kept reminding me how hot he was, as if he were trying to make me believe that Lolita fell in love with him and not that he was a predator who was fully to blame.
>>7804375
I feel inclined to believe him, I don't see how he could have kept the ruse going for so long without the reactions that adult women gave him. If it actually happened the way he described, that is. I guess it could all be a lie or a fantasy, like the plot of Pale Fire.
um, because he was a pedophile
>>7804391
I think he described himself differently, as not so handsome, at one point near the end, while he was visiting Dolly and Dick.
The problem with Irons is that he has that dignified air about him. He doesn't really give off that dreadful satyr vibe.
>>7804478
That's because by then he was feeling old and withered, and insecure because Lolita had traded him for another man.
>>7804493
This, he looks way too "nice" to be that sexually devious.
I think a good Humbert portrait would be all about the eyes, the looks he gives, the glimpses you get into his rotten insides.
>>7804497
>and insecure because Lolita had traded him for another man.
So maybe the reason he felt so godly looking is because he was deluded. He got cucked and his bubble burst.
To each their own, I guess. He is highly unreliable, so whatever we say is a maybe.
He was damn good in Brideshead Revisited tho.
>>7804518
Maybe, but I think it's more both ways, like most people are. i think he was legitimately handsome, but in his mind he was so above other people that it made himself even more handsome in his own eyes. In the end, he starts seeing himself for who he really is though, and gets disgusted, having the opposite effect of thinking he was ugly now.
So maybe it's just how he saw himself at the time. Maybe is the right word indeed though.
>>7804300
Shit that girl is hot as fuck
Is the movie for it good?
>>7804509
So... me?
>>7804542
meh
>>7804300
Lolita is a comedy and the tone was perfectly captured by Kubrick in his adaptation. The 90's movie tried to make a brooding erotic thriller.
>>7804876
It had some tragic elements in it too
s-she's hot
>>7804896
It's more of a farce than a tragedy. Nabokov never wrote straightforward tragedies.
>>7804876
You cannot possibly have read the book and still think Kubrick perfectly captured the tone. Even Kubrick disagrees with you.
They should make a new Lolita with Benedict Cumberbatch as Humbert.
>>7804945
He should've gone with Nabokov's script.
>>7804954
With Benedict Cumberbatch as Lolita
>>7804391
Kinbote was really a kind you pleb
>>7804945
it's never about capturing something exactly its about creating a new work of art
