Posted on 07/17/2015 1:56:54 PM PDT by Borges
In the novel, she is is a normal kid who does not act or dress provocatively.
It is the mentally ill narrator who misinterprets her every word and gesture to justify his predation.
I’ve been thinking this for a while and came across this article which exactly that. Projecting the current ‘over sexualized nymphet’ culture on the novel is borderline obscene not to mention false.
I don’t disagree with this opinion piece however, Nabokov wrote the screenplay for the movie and got an Oscar nomination for it.
His credit was spurious. Virtually nothing of what he wrote was used in the film. He published his own screenplay later on. I actually like Kubrick’s film. The girl in the film is clearly about 16 or 17. Over the age of consent in many states back then.
And Sting got a word that rhymes with "cough".
I think Spears and Perry are pushing 30.
But their initial claim to fame was the Nymphet image.
But he spent a lot of time with Kubrick and I don’t believe there were any major disagreements during the making of the film.
None of these cheap hookers are Sue Lyons - who practically steals the movie.
It’s my favorite Sting rhyme/line and most likely a product of his English teacher background.
In the letter correspondence he states that he would not allow any film that used an actual 12 year old.
I confress that’s how I ended up finding out that Nabokov wrote Lolita.
The song was written just a few years after Nabokov died. I wonder what he would have thought.
I could just imagine Stewart Copeland rolling his eyes when he heard that one.
I suspect Nabokov would have loved the mention. And how could you roll your eyes at lyrical perfection?
Well he pronounced the name wrong to begin with. It’s Na-BO-Kov.
And worse, he MARRIES the mother to get access to the child! (at least, that is my memory from reading it 25 years ago.)
He did suggest that they try and make Lyons a little bit more grubby, but I don’t think Kubrick tried hard enough.
The book was not just a simple tale of a sexual abuser of a child. I read it also as an allegory of the relationship of Europe and the US, intellectuals vs. mass culture, the postmodern vs. the high modern. Nabokov described the fault lines in postwar American culture.
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