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Lolita is Vladimir Nabokov's most popular work. Most of them are confessions of death row prisoner humbert, telling the love story of a middle-aged man and an underage girl. This novel was originally not allowed to be published in the United States, and was first published by Olympia Publishing House in Paris, Europe on 1955. The American version was finally published on 1958, and the work soared to the first place in the best-seller list of The New York Times. Lolita has been adapted into a movie. There are also songs, nouns and fashion styles related to this. Creation background

One of the most impressive achievements of Lolita is that Nabokov, as an immigrant writer, created the American social and cultural background more truly than most native American writers. But this "sense of reality" is only an indispensable natural background to a great extent, and it does not give humbert's world of desire any sense of reality in the sociological sense. Nabokov has always been a magician obsessed with manipulating hallucinations.

Like many characters in Nabokov's works, humbert is an extremely individualistic artist in disguise. He is naturally sensitive and imaginative, but almost paranoid. He once quoted a poet in his novel: "The sense of morality in human nature is an obligation, and we must give the soul a sense of beauty." Of course, in Lolita, this so-called "aesthetic feeling" is both artistic and poetic, and full of guilt about depravity. As the object of his desire, Lolita is only the product of humbert's consciousness, a fantasy that he whimsically tries to grab from the external reality and time. abstract

The novel describes a middle-aged man, Humbert Humbert, who immigrated from France to the United States. When he was a teenager, he fell in love with a girl, Annabel, who was 14 years old. Finally, Annabel died of typhoid fever, which created the childhood love in humbert. He defined "leprechaun" as "nine to fourteen years old". Humbert was first abandoned by a rich widow, and later fell in love with the landlord Charlotte Hai Zi14-year-old daughter Lolita, calling her a leprechaun.

Lolita teased humbert wantonly, making humbert unable to extricate herself. In order to get close to this precocious and enthusiastic little girl, humbert married his landlady and became Lolita's stepfather. He controlled Lolita with pocket money, beautiful clothes and other things that little girls would like. The original name of the girl in the novel is dolores Harz, and the nickname pronounced in Spanish is Lolita or Lolita, so it is the title of the book. Later, the landlady found that her husband and daughter were in love, ran out in a rage and was killed by a car. Humbert took Lolita out of the summer camp to travel together, and they enjoyed touching. When Lolita grew up, she began to hate her stepfather. She realized that "even the saddest family life is better than this incest". So she began to associate with boys of the same age, and escaped from her stepfather through a trip, which humbert could not find.

One day, humbert received a letter from Lolita, saying that she was married and pregnant and needed money from her stepfather. Humbert gave her $400 in cash and a check for $2,500, and then sold the house. The buyer paid USD 65,438+00,000 in advance for the contract of the house. Lolita rejected humbert's request to restore the frontier, and humbert was heartbroken. He shot and killed Queldi, the playwright who took Lolita away (considered by the heroine to be a talented philosopher in the East), and humbert died in prison in 1950 due to blood clot. Seventeen-year-old Lolita died in childbirth. Lolita's experience

Because of readers' dual interests, Lolita was very popular at that time. The peculiar content and exquisite writing make it a book that appeals to both refined and popular tastes.

The success of Lolita immediately promoted the author Vladimir Nabokov to an international famous figure. Nabokov told reporters in an interview: "Lolita is famous, not me." This is his modesty. Nabokov's name not only resounded in the international literary world, but also became a best-selling trademark in the publishing industry. He was born in 1899, and he was not famous in the west until 1958 when he was 60 years old. His success can be used as an encouragement to those unknown writers who are still struggling to farm in those years.

The first edition of Lolita is only 5000. Graham greene, a British writer, wrote a review in The Times of London after reading it, praising it as one of the three best novels of 1955. Lolita will become an international bestseller in this activity.

Green and Will have different views of avoiding publishing house editors. The former sees literature and words, while the latter only sees superficial obscene words. Lolita's final victory in the literary world can be said to be all the credit of Green. After Green's favorable comments, the small American literary magazine "AncIIor Review" also paid attention to it, and the young editor of this magazine was Jason, who was currently managing the biweekly editing of the New York Book Review. Epstein. Soon American and British publishers changed their minds and published Lolita in Britain, the United States and Canada.

When the first edition of Lolita was published by Paris Olympia Bookstore, the British government authorities asked the French government to ban it.

After the advent of Britain and the United States, the British cabinet also held a meeting to debate, but it did not ban sales. New Zealand was later banned.

Lolita was published by Putnam Bookstore in the United States on July 2 1958, and immediately became a best seller. 1959 1 month, Lolita climbed to the first place in The New York Times bestseller list! (Finally, he was pushed off the throne by another Russian writer, Pasternak's doctor zhivago. At that time, most of the book reviews focused on the so-called "Lolita incident" dispute, rather than the literary value of this book. Basic information

Director Adrian Lynn

Screenwriter: Vladimir Nabokov

Stephen schiff

Actor: jeremy irons plays humbert.

Dominique swain plays Lolita.

Country: USA/France

Movie genre: love/plot

Color: color

Mix: dolby digital Surround Sound /SDDS

Format: 35mm widescreen system

Length: 137 minutes

Dialogue language: English plot

The story tells the love story of a middle-aged man and an underage girl Lolita. Humbert, who teaches French in universities for a living, is Lolita Junzilong, who is over middle age. Since her first love girl died when she was young, she has always had a gentle and obscene nightmare in her heart. Those teenage girls have irresistible magic attraction to him. He hides this secret desire and only calls for those superficial and crazy spirits with trembling souls.

By chance, he became a tenant of Charlotte (Lolita's mother). He fell madly in love with Charlotte's daughter Lolita, who was only 14 years old. At the same time, Charlotte also took a fancy to humbert and devoted herself to finding a backer for herself and Lolita. In order to continue to live with Lolita, the spirit in her heart, humbert married Charlotte against her will. But Charlotte finally discovered humbert's infatuation with her daughter. An angry Charlotte rushed out of the house but was killed in a car accident. Humbert and Lolita began an incestuous love, and Lolita fled everywhere on the American highway ... until Lolita got bored and finally left him. Humbert, who lost the spirit of life, killed Lolita's kidnapper, kral Kunning, in despair and sadness.

Perhaps what impressed me about this movie or what impressed me was the hero's hazy and tragic love for Lolita.

At the end of the movie, Lolita and the man who kidnapped him left, and the hero searched frantically, but found nothing.

No one knows what his heart is like. Maybe all we can see is sadness, pain and heartbreak. What is his love for Lolita?

Is it infatuation with the shadow of the past or another unknown throb?

Three years later, he felt lonely in the house where Lolita once lived.

Received a letter from Lolita. Lolita married another man, got pregnant and needed money. He drove to the town where his lover lived.

He stood at the door, confused. She opened the door and looked at each other. What impressed me most about the whole movie was the way the hero looked at Lolita.

Joy, sadness, incomprehension, surprise, etc. ,

Lolita was surprised when he gave her four thousand dollars, but she didn't want to go with him.

This is where I cry, shaking hands, white envelope, Lolita's surprised voice, you gave us 4000 yuan.

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

"That's the only thing that fascinates me." Lolita, who is quite pregnant, seems to recall that the old man, with his dog, likes all girls.

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

"What about me?"

What she got was silence. She didn't go with him.

He opened the door with tears. She saw him off and said to her puppy, "Say goodbye to dad."

Perhaps it can be seen from here that Lolita has never loved, from beginning to end.

When he drove away, he saw a pregnant woman standing in the distance, serene, maybe haggard.

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

The end result is a gunshot, blood and despair.

He killed a pervert man who was haunting Lolita and drove Lolita's old car alone.

Aimless, with empty eyes.

There are many police cars behind, chasing and tearing.

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

1950 died of myocardial infarction in prison.

On Christmas 1950, Lolita died in childbirth.

This is a very good movie, maybe a little boring.

He extended the places and details that the novel didn't have. Maybe someone would cry, such as me. be in the background

1962, film geek Kubrick and his producer James B. Harris spent 1.5 million dollars to buy the copyright of Lolita, which was a considerable sum at that time. In the first draft of the screenplay, the screenwriter Caird Williamsham changed the ending of the story to humbert and Lolita finally get married in order to meet the standards of the film censorship board. But no one liked the ending, so Kubrick decided to be as loyal to the original as possible without violating the standards of the review Committee. An important compromise to the censorship board is that Lolita in the movie is older than 12 in the novel. Finally, the novel was adapted by Kubrick into the movie "A pear tree hits a begonia".

1962, movie master Kubrick put the novel on the screen. This version seems too conservative today, but in the early 1960 s, such a bold picture theme was shocking, and pioneers such as non-meritorious deeds dared not eat this "crab."

Obviously, Kubrick regards this story as a "cartoon", so its theme is closer to ridicule and metaphor at the cultural level than sympathy and description at the individual level-he wants to show people the absurdity and absurdity of the characters. For example, the soundtrack of this movie is almost all bubble gum dance music, and the frivolous "Cha Cha" ... The whole movie is full of black humor, and its untimely "funny" even makes people wonder what Kudos is for. For example, there is a scene where humbert and a black waiter try their best to open a folding canvas bed. Its funny body language and interaction with the environment and props are reminiscent of Chaplin's bridge. Luo has gone to bed, and this bed that can't be opened has fulfilled humbert's wish (he can finally sleep with Luo justifiably). But unfortunately, this bed was subdued by the nosy black waiter-humbert's sexual attempt was frustrated and withered. The naughty black waiter made fun of poor humbert, not Kubrick.

Judging from the story, this version has many shortcomings. The biggest regret is that the film doesn't explain why humbert is so obsessed with Lolita, and Kuyt completely ignores the character Annabel in the original. It is said that a random clip of 150 minutes is enough to lay the psychological foundation for humbert when he was young, but the director seems to assume that the audience is familiar with the story, so he deleted the necessary "antecedents" and made humbert almost a psychopath from the beginning. But in fact, humbert in the novel once had an unforgettable first love-"I finally failed to keep a complete ending of my Annabel stage, perhaps because of the unsuccessful date at the beginning"-humbert as an adult always lingered in the beautiful feeling of innocence as a child, so when he first saw Lolita wearing a bikini and sunglasses to bathe in the sun and read a book on the grass, he was completely captured by her.

Secondly, the actor problem.

Choosing to play Professor humbert has experienced many twists and turns. James mason is the first choice for director Kubrick and producer James B. Harris. But because this gentleman is going to perform on Broadway, Cook has to consider laurence olivier. But the latter refused the role under the persuasion of his agent, so Ku turned to Peter Ustinov and was rejected. The producer recommended david niven again, but he agreed. But considering that his TV sponsor "Four-Star Theater" would oppose the decision, this fellow got cold feet. Finally, james mason finally made up her mind to quit the Broadway show and take part in the filming of Lolita. It's a pity that this "villain" who plays in the north-northwest always looks unhappy, and I've never seen him play humbert. The beginning of the movie is the end of the story: humbert shot Quilty. It is said that the publisher wants humbert to become a cold-blooded killer before the audience finds out that he is a pedophile, so that no one will sympathize with his experience (! )。

Peter Sellers plays Quilty, a charming and dangerous TV writer. You may wonder why I mentioned him for the second time, which is exactly what I want to ask Kubrick. Because in the film, even if the role of the host is not usurped, the character is at least equal to humbert-so that the new director Adrian Lynn laughed and said that the film should be renamed Quilty. He has too many scenes, one is a TV screenwriter, one is a plainclothes policeman, one is a German psychiatrist, and the other is a playboy who kidnapped Lolita. He worked tirelessly with humbert like a chameleon and stuttered like a rapper. Maybe what Ku means is that he and humbert are two sides of the same coin, a gentleman, a villain, an open gun in the back, a senior British intellectual and a low-level American traitor. However, Cyrus was really outstanding in acting, which was even more incisive in the later Dr. Strange Love.

As for Lolita, the stunner of angel and devil, she is only 12 years old in the book (! ), and her actor Sue Lyons was 14 (the movie 196 1 was 15 at the premiere and didn't attend; It was not until 1962 that he was allowed to enter the stadium. Judging from today's aesthetics, he does not have the quality of a "leprechaun". Although there is nothing wrong with it, it always lacks that "fatal" attraction. It is believed that because the film grading system has not been implemented, Kuyt must handle sex scenes carefully to avoid being banned. In fact, there is no "adult" lens in the film, which undoubtedly gives Lolita a skill and no place to use it. Suppose Kubrick made this film by 1999, it must be really an eye-opener.

Shelley winters plays Charlotte Hayes, Lolita's mother, a tragic figure with comedy, vulgar, affectionate, sensitive and neurotic.

In short, Kuyt did not pour (I think) due sympathy or understanding into the characters and lacked a sense of tragedy. Although it was written by everyone, I still ignored many techniques in the film. Moreover, you will find that this film has obvious Hitchcock suspense flavor, such as humbert's psychological activities when he plans to murder Hayes, and Quilty's anonymous phone calls and stalking after his incarnation-especially when he turns his back on humbert in the hotel. And the car chase scene on the highway are the essence of West Cork, which makes the whole movie quite "entertaining"-but you know what "entertaining" means in Kubrick's movie.

1997, adrian lyne, an American director who made TV commercials, remake Lolita and released it in Europe. Compared with 30 years ago, this version is undoubtedly more "wild" and more faithful to the original. Especially the description of the sexual relationship between the hero and heroine can be described as "naked". After all, he is the director of Nine Weeks, and the overall atmosphere of the film is quite "soft-core" pornography.

China fans should be familiar with Adrian Lynn's styles, such as Nine Weeks, Fatal Temptation, Immoral Trading, etc., which have appeared in D City for a long time. It is characterized by strong lust and insufficient ideological depth, and has been entangled in the relationship between men and women in love, an upper-middle bourgeoisie. When he released the rumor that he was going to remake Lolita, many comments immediately responded that it was "terrible", but Lynn was unmoved and just re-edited it after the filming to comply with the strict anti-child pornography law in the United States (this law took the Tin Drum to court). However, it was followed by a red light in domestic cinemas. Although the director's film title is very bright, the film's cast is strong, and the overseas box office is also very successful, but no American distributor is willing to touch this hot potato, because the incest theme in American society can be described as a street mouse, so the film was finally released first on the cable TV network "Showtime". Fortunately, Samuel Goldwyn Company paid a high price for the cinema screening rights of this film, and started a small-scale partial screening on September 25th, 1998. After a long wait of nearly two years, the American audience can finally see its true face.

Technically, these two films are not what they used to be. The new version of Howard Atherton is great, with exquisite lighting and costumes. The soundtrack also invited ennio morricone, a master figure who has been galloping for many years, to echo each other and render gloomy, desperate and gloomy emotions to the fullest. The film budget is as high as $56 million, which shows Lynn's ambition to reshape the classics.

Especially commendable is Professor humbert played by Jeremy Irons, whose devastating anti-hero image is definitely better than that of James Mason. In addition, the tape version of the novel was read by irons himself, but it's a pity that domestic fans didn't recognize his murder voice.

Lolita, played by dominique swain, is a 15-year-old girl who stands out from more than 2,500 contestants. At that time, she was still a middle school student and had no previous performance experience. It is bathed in sunlight and water droplets splashed by sprinklers. Reading on the lawn is a classic eroticism. In the future, she will also play john travolta's daughter-another Lolita image in John Woo's Two Heroes.

Melanie griffith and Frank Langella play Hayes and Quilty respectively.

In a word, the two directors have diametrically opposite attitudes towards the same subject. The former is satirical black humor, and the latter is black goth with empathy. It must be admitted that the latter is more exciting than the former and has an irresistible momentum of emotional agitation. Perhaps it is a preconceived influence (the new version has been released on vcd for a long time). I think the 1997 version is original, full of characters and exquisite in all aspects. Although the slanderous version of Kubrick is suspected of being a traitor, I still insist that the new version is better.

Note: Samuel Goldwyn (1882- 1974), an American Polish film producer, founded his own film company in 19 17, and in 1925, he merged with Louis Bi Meyer to form MGM (.

1997, Lolita's story was made into a movie for the second time. Lolita has become more vivid, brighter and more charming, but the artistic conception has also become shallow, and love is empty, leaving only lust.

In 2005, Lolita appeared on the screen again. In the film "Love, Stop Looking" at Cannes Film Festival, American director Jia arranged a 2 1 year-old female star AlexisDziena to play Lolita.