While the film has plenty of powerful passages, it is far too long. It really drags on toward the end so as to do the book more justice by adding pseudo-depth to it. Film is a different medium, so I think Lyne should have had a bit more fun with the script - not as much fun ...
A NOTE ON THIS ANALYSIS. I COMPARE, SCENE BY SCENE, AT THE END OF EACH, KUBRICK'S FILM WITH NABOKOV'S SCREENPLAY. I HAVE ALSO UNDERLINED THAT DIALOGUE WHICH IS FROM THE NABOKOV SCREENPLAY BUT WHICH IS USUALLY PARAPHRASED. DIALOGUE IN THE FILM WHICH WAS IN THE BOOK, BUT NOT IN THE SC...
Building on Susan Mizruchi’s article, “Lolitain History,” Wood uses Deleuze and Guattari’s analysis of the affective dimensions of fascism to show how the characters inLolitaare driven by fascistic desires. Unlike Deleuze and Guattari , Nabokov portrays liberating desire as a delusory trap. I...
In chapter three of the novelThe Gift(written in Russian in 1935–1937) the similar gist of Lolita's first chapter is outlined to the protagonist, Fyodor Cherdyntsev, by his obnoxious landlord Shchyogolev as an idea of a novel he would write "if I only had the time": a man marries ...
Lolita's influence can scarcely be overstated. Nabokov's flamboyant brilliance - born of his attempt to wring as much expression from his acquired English as he had from his native Russian - contrasted sharply with the gloomy Anglo-American realism of the time and prepared the … Read...
I admit it: I still don't understand sentence diagramming. Though as a middle schooler I dutifully, if grudgingly, submitted to that classic English classroom exercise, the practice didn't stick, nor did whatever habit of composition it meant to convey.
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