Re: Lolita -- Book vs. Movie
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 15 Feb 1999 10:39:54 +1100
Jim wrote:
> I finally got to see the film adaptation of Lolita. Wonderful job. I
> think I'd even love the book if it were read aloud by Jeremy Irons.
I'm happy to say that it's finally gone to the chief censors in Australia
and looks set for release in a few months time (though cinematically or on
cable I don't know) I'm glad to hear it's faithful to the book because,
while I liked Kubrick's `Lolita', that's just what it was - Kubrick's
`Lolita'. There seemed to be so little of the delicate beauty balanced with
black depravity that characterised Nabokov's approach to the subject.
As for recent movies ... about an hour ago I was asleep and dreaming. I was
at the Oscars with my old English teacher and we were watching `Shakespeare
in Love' on a big stage that was designed to look like the Globe Theatre (:
Camille
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