Detailed information about Adrian Lynn, director of the movie "Lolita"

Director: Adrian Lynn

Screenwriter: Vladimir Nabokov

Stephen Schiff

Actor : Jeremy Irons as Hambert

Dominic Swann as Lolita

Country: United States/France

Film type: Romance/Drama

Color: Color

Mix: Dolby Digital Surround/SDDS

Format: 35mm widescreen system

Duration: 137 minutes

Dialogue language: English

The story tells the story of an adulterous affair between a middle-aged man and an underage girl, Lolita. Humbert, who makes a living by teaching French at the university, is a middle-aged Lolita. Jun Zilong has always harbored a gentle and obscene nightmare in his heart since the death of his first love when he was young. Those teenage girls have an irresistible magical attraction to him. He concealed this secret desire and just called out to those superficial and arrogant elves with his trembling soul.

By chance, he became the tenant of Charlotte (Lolita's mother). He fell madly in love with Charlotte's 14-year-old daughter, Lolita. At the same time, Charlotte also took a fancy to Humbert and wanted to find a backer for herself and Lolita. In order to continue to live with the elf in his heart, Lolita, Humbert married Charlotte against his will. But in the end Charlotte discovered Humbert's obsession with her daughter. Enraged, Charlotte rushed out of the house, but was killed in a car accident. Humboldt then took Lolita and began an incestuous love affair that ran around on the highways of the United States...until the arrogant Lolita became tired and finally left him. Humbert, who lost the elf in his life, killed the man who abducted Lolita - Clara Kunin in despair and sorrow.

Perhaps what impressed people or me deeply about this movie was the hazy and tragic love of the male protagonist for Lolita.

At the end of the movie, Lolita and Kidnapping His man was gone, and the hero searched frantically, but found nothing.

No one knows what is in his heart. Maybe all we can see is sadness, pain, and heart-rending, what kind of love he has for Lolita.

Is it a fascination with the shadow of the past, or another unknown throbbing.

Three years later, when he stayed lonely in the house where he once lived with Lolita,

He received a letter from Lolita, and Lolita and another A man got married, got pregnant, and needed money. He drove to the town where the person he loved lived.

He stood at the door with a complicated heart. She opened the door and looked at each other. The whole movie The most unforgettable thing about the film is the way the male protagonist looked at Lolita.

Joy, sadness, incomprehension, surprise, etc.

He gave Lolita four thousand When the money came, she was pleasantly surprised, but she was not willing to leave with him.

This is the place that made me cry. The trembling hands, the white envelope, Lolita's surprised voice, you gave us four thousand dollars.

"Yes, even if you refuse to go with me, you can still get it"

"That's the only one who fascinates me" Lolita seemed to be holding out her belly She recalled the old man who had a dog and liked all the girls.

Forcing them to have sex with boys and taking pictures is his hobby.

"What about me?"

What she got was silence, and she did not leave with him.

He opened the door with tears, and she saw him off, saying to her puppy: "Say goodbye to my daddy."

Maybe you can tell from this, Lolita Never loved, from beginning to end.

As he drove away, he saw a pregnant woman standing in the distance, peaceful and perhaps faded.

For a moment, he had an illusion and saw that she was still the coquettish girl she was back then, wearing a blue skirt, lively and beautiful.

The final ending is gunshots, blood, and despair.

He killed the perverted man who haunted Lolita and drove alone in the classic car he used to travel with Lolita.

Aimless, eyes empty.

Behind them were many police cars, chasing and tearing apart.

He stopped the car and stood where he could see her town, "I heard the laughter of children. What makes me sad is not that there is no Lolita around me, but that there is no Lolita in the laughter."< /p>

He died of myocardial infarction in prison in 1950.

On Christmas Day 1950, Lolita died in childbirth.

This is a very good movie, perhaps a bit dull.

He extends the details that are not found in the novel. Maybe some people will cry, such as me.

In 1962, movie geek Kubrick and his producer James B. Harris spent $1.5 million to buy the rights to the novel "Lolita". It was a considerable sum at the time. In the first draft of the screenplay, screenwriter Kelder Wilhelmham changed the ending of the story to have Humbert marry Lolita in order to meet the standards of the film censorship board. But no one liked the ending, so Kubrick decided to be as faithful to the original work as possible without violating censor board standards. One of the important compromises made to the censorship board was that Lolita in the movie was older than the 12-year-old in the novel. Finally, this novel was adapted into the movie "A Pear Blossom Over a Begonia" by Kubrick.

In 1962, film master Kubrick adapted the novel onto the screen. Today, this version seems too "conservative", but in the early 1960s, such bold screen themes were shocking, and non-pioneers like Kudos would not dare to take this "crab".

It is obvious that Kubrick treated this story as a "caricature", so its theme is closer to ridicule and metaphor at the cultural level rather than compassion and description at the individual level. ——He wants to strip the ridiculousness and absurdity of the characters to people. For example, the soundtrack of this film is almost all bubblegum dance music, frivolous "cha cha cha"... The whole film is full of black humor, and its inappropriate "funny" even makes people wonder what Ku's intentions are. For example, there is a scene where Hambert and a black waiter go to great lengths to open a folding cot. Their funny body language and interaction with the environment and props are reminiscent of Chaplin's scenes. Luo was already asleep, and this bed that could not be opened fulfilled Hambert's wish (he could finally share the bed with Luo legitimately). But unfortunately, the bed was subdued by the noisy black waiter - Hambert's sexual attempt failed and he withered. This troublesome black waiter took Kubrick's place and teased poor Hambert.

From a story point of view, this version has many shortcomings. The biggest shortcoming is that the film does not explain "why" Hambert is so obsessed with Lolita at all, and Kudos completely ignored Anna in the original work. The character of Bell. It is said that a random stretch of the 150-minute film length is enough to lay out the psychological foundation laid by Hambert in his youth. However, the director seems to have assumed that the audience is familiar with the ins and outs of this story, so he cut off the necessary "antecedent" to make the film more familiar. Hambert is a psychopath almost from the get-go. But in fact, Hambert in the novel once had an unforgettable first love - "I ultimately failed to keep my Annabelle phase with a complete ending, perhaps because of the unsuccessful date at the beginning." - As an adult Hambert has always been nostalgic for that innocent and beautiful feeling like childhood, so when he first saw Lolita wearing a bikini and sunglasses on the grass, bathing in the sun and reading a book, he completely fell into Her prisoner.

The second is the issue of actors.

The choice to play Professor Hambert went through many twists and turns. Director Kubrick and producer James B. Harris' first choice was James Mason. However, because this guy had Broadway performance commitments, Kubrick had to consider Laurence Olivier. But the latter refused the role under the persuasion of his agent, so Ku turned to Peter Ustinov, who was later dismissed; the producer recommended David Niven, and he agreed, but considering his TV show sponsors The "Four Star Theater" would object to this decision, but he ran away. In the end, James Mason finally made up his mind to withdraw from the Broadway show and participate in the filming of Lolita. Unfortunately, this actor The "villain" in North by Northwest always has a bad look on his face, and I never saw his interpretation of Hambert show any intense emotion. The film begins with the end of the story: Hambert shoots Quilty. It is said that the publisher wanted Hambert to become a cold-blooded killer before the audience discovered that he was a pedophile, so that no one would sympathize with his plight (!).

Peter Sellers plays the charming and dangerous TV writer Quilty. You may be wondering why I mentioned him second, but that's exactly what I wanted to ask Kubrick. Because in the film, this character is at least equal to Humbert, if not the star of the show - so much so that Adrian Lynn, the director of the new version, joked that the film should be renamed "Quilty". He has too many roles. He is a TV drama writer, a plainclothes policeman, a German psychiatrist, and a playboy who abducts Lolita. He is like a chameleon who relentlessly deals with Hambert. , whose crackling speed is like a rap singer. Perhaps Ku means that he and Humbert are two sides of the same coin, one is a gentleman and the other is a scoundrel, one is a high-ranking British intellectual and the other is a low-level sexual pervert in the United States. However, Sellers does have outstanding acting skills, which will be more vividly demonstrated in the later "Dr. Strangelove".

As for Lolita, this beauty mixed with angels and devils, she was only 12 years old in the book (!), while her actress Sue Lyons was 14 at the time (15 when the film premiered in 1961 Years old, did not attend; was not allowed to enter until the UK premiere in 1962). Judging from today's aesthetics, it does not have the qualities of a "little goblin". Although I can't find any major faults, it still lacks that "fatal" appeal. It is believed that because the film classification system has not yet been implemented, Kudos had to carefully handle sexual scenes to avoid the fate of being banned. In fact, there are no "adult" scenes in the film at all, which undoubtedly makes Lolita's skills unavailable. Useless. Assuming that Kubrick made this film during "Eyes Wide Shut" in 1999, it must have really been "Eyes Wide Opened."

Shelley Winters plays Lolita's mother Charlotte Hayes, a tragic figure full of comic relief, vulgar, sentimental, sensitive and neurotic.

In short, Kudos did not put the sympathy or understanding into the characters that (in my opinion) they should have, and lacked a sense of tragedy. Although it was written by everyone, I still don’t understand many of the techniques in the film, and , you will find that this film has a very obvious Hitchcock-like suspense flavor, such as Hambert's psychological activities when he planned to murder Hayes, the anonymous phone calls and tracking after Quilty's incarnation - especially when he was in the hotel The conversation between the two when Lee turned his back on Hambert, and the subsequent close car chase scene on the road, are all the essence of Cork in the West End. These make the whole film quite "entertaining" - but you know, in Kubu What does it mean to have "entertainment" in Rick's film.

In 1997, "Lolita" was re-shot by Adrian Lyne, an American director with a background in television commercials, and was released in Europe. Compared with 30 years ago, this version is undoubtedly more "wild" and more faithful to the original work. Especially the depiction of the sexual relationship between the hero and heroine can be described as "naked". After all, he is the director of "9 and a Half Weeks to Love You", and the overall atmosphere of the film has the flavor of a "soft-core" porn film.

Chinese movie fans should be very familiar with Adrian Lynn's style, such as "Nine and a Half Weeks", "Fatal Attraction", "Immoral Deal" that appeared in D City very early ” and so on are all written by him. It is characterized by a strong sense of lust, a lack of deep thinking, and always being entangled in the confusing and infatuated relationship between men and women of the middle and upper bourgeoisie for a long time. When he announced that he was going to remake Lolita, many comments immediately responded, "Too bad." However, Lynn remained unmoved. However, after the filming was completed, he re-edited it to comply with the severe opposition from the United States. Child pornography laws (the laws that brought the Tin Drum to court). But then it encountered red flags in domestic theaters. Although the director was well-known, and the film had a strong cast and a successful overseas box office, no American distributor was willing to touch this hot potato because the incest theme was so popular in the country. American society can be described as a street rat, and everyone wants to beat it up, so the film had the bad luck of being the first to be screened on the cable TV network "Showtime". Fortunately, Samuel Goldwyn Company (Note) bought the film's theater screening rights at a high price and started a small-scale partial release on September 25, 1998. After a long wait of nearly 2 years, American audiences can finally see its true face.

Technically speaking, the two films are completely different from what they were in the past. The photography (Howard Atherton) of the new version is excellent, the lighting and costumes are very sophisticated, and the soundtrack is also composed by Ennio, a master who has been working for many years. Morricone echoes the two, severely exaggerating the gloomy, desperate and gloomy mood. The total budget of the film is as high as 56 million US dollars, which shows Lynn's ambition to reinvent the classic.

What is particularly commendable is Professor Humbert played by Jeremy Irons. His destructive anti-hero image is definitely better than that of James Mason. In addition, the tape version of the novel was written by Irons. Sri Lanka himself read it aloud, but it is a pity that domestic movie fans did not have the opportunity to listen to his murderous voice.

The 15-year-old girl Dominique Swain who played Lolita was selected from more than 2,500 competitors. She was still a middle school student at the time and had no previous acting experience. It is bathed in sunlight and water droplets from sprinklers. The appearance of lying on the lawn reading can be described as an erotic classic. Later, she also played John Traverta's daughter in John Woo's "The Face" - another "Lolita" image.

Melanie Griffith and Frank Langella play Hayes and Quilty respectively.

To sum up, it can be seen that the two directors have completely opposite approaches to the same subject matter. The former is an ironic black humor, and the latter is an empathetic black goth. It must be admitted that the latter is more exciting than the former, and it has the momentum of being unable to stop stirring up emotions. Maybe it's the influence of preconceptions (the new version was released on VCD very early). I think the 1997 version is more original, with full characters and exquisiteness in every aspect. Although the version that slandered the master Kubrick is suspected of being a traitor, I still insist that the new version is better.

Note: Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974) was a Polish-American film producer. He founded his own film company in 1917 and merged it with the Louis B. Meyer Company in 1925. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

In 1997, the story of "Lolita" was made into a movie for the second time. Lolita became more vivid, brighter and more exciting, but the artistic conception also became shallow, and love was empty. Lost, only erotic desire stirring.

In 2005, "Lolita" appeared on the screen again. American director Jarmusch arranged for 21-year-old female star Alexis Dziena to play Lolita in the Cannes Film Festival entry "Love, Don't Have to Find". Rita.