GirlChat #593368
kittens has it right about Nabakov's protagonist not being a GLer, but an obsessive. He is damaged goods and manipulates Lolita. Quilty is his counterpoint as the unrepentant monster.
As for the Kubrick version; even when Kubrick missed the entire point of a book ( see The Shining ) he never failed to make great art. But at the point in his career when he did Lolita, he had been seduced by Further, I also prefer Melanie Griffith's version of Charlotte Haze. You can see, despite her crassness and pretentiousness that she might have been a halfway decent match for some Teleiophile. You also see the jealousy over Lolita's youth more clearly. Shelly Winters' version is such a caricature that you cannot see her appealing to anyone in such a way as to have begot a daughter. Kubrick's version is worthwhile seeing. And it may even be better art than Adrian Lynne's adaptation ( just as his version of The Shining is better art than Mick Garris' miniseries; ) but in its way, I think it gets more things right. As for Leon. Its a masterpiece. Though too check out kid Portman in the film Beautiful Girls as the tween soul-mate of Timothy Hutton's character returning to his hometown. And I also thought that she was perfection as Pacino's step-daughter in the film Heat; which has a scene many step-dads have seen played-out in RL, but never before in film. Dante |