Why was this good again?
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Why was this good again?
Step up nigga
>>67559909
What are you even doing here?
>>67560363
>Looks like a 30 year old women
>Lolita
>>67560414
She was 14.
>>67560363
>>67560414
>>67560438
>yfw Nabokov realized that Sue Lyon was too old to play Lolita and suggested Catherine Demongeot, then 11 years old, to play her
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>>67559909
Does she get nakid?
>>67561319
It makes Humbert more sympathetic. You can understand being attracted to Sue Lyon. I think the first hour of the movie is perfect. 10/10 dark comedy. I think afterShelly Winters diesit goes downhill.
>>67559909
Jeremy Irons was fucking perfect for that role. I actually prefer that version to Kubrick's.
>>67561458
>You can understand being attracted to Sue Lyon
Which is one of the reasons Vlad took issue with it. We are supposed to be repulsed by Humbert for his actions, and charmed by his language.
By seeing what Lolita looks like, half the mystery is already gone. "Lolita" doesn't exist except as Humbert's fantasy. Dolores Haze exists, and what we know about her is entirely through Humbert's word.
>>67561868
I understand. I haven't read the book, but it's on my list. Like I said, I loved the first half of the movie, but I've heard it doesn't do justice to the book.
>>67562017
Fantastic book worth multiple reads. If you can track down the annotated edition. Nabokov referenced a lot of contemporary events like a similar kidnapping case in the 40s and one character, a tennis instructor, was based on a real-life tennis pro who would mess around with his underage "ball boys"
>>67561319
>zazie dans le metro
Decent film IMO
But yes, L would always be inherently flawed as a film. Neither did anything approaching justice to the book.
Is it true that they quoted Lolita in Batman v Superman? Because that would be pretty amusing since Jeremy Irons is in it.
>>67562432
Louis Malle would've been a good director for Lolita, considering he dealt with similar issues in Zazie and Pretty Baby, and Murmur of the Heart proved he could handle taboo subject matter with respect and humor.
>>67561354
Not explicitly
>>67562514
Yeah, Eisenberg slips a Lolita quote or two into some of his autistic rambling.
>implying you wouldn't
