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What is Lolita?

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Directory? The novel Lolita

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Banned books: 1954. After the manuscript of Lolita was completed, it was "a hateful novel of several elderly people with poor reading ability", so it was rejected by four neurotic American publishing houses. This book is a household name in America and is read as a "yellow book". From 1955 to 1982, this book was banned in Britain, Argentina, South Africa and other countries.

1September, 955, after setbacks, Lolita was finally recognized and published by Paris Olympia Publishing House. After the publication of Tolerant France, it was repeatedly criticized as an immoral or even anti-American novel. It is precisely because of this understanding that this novel was destined to be produced at the first sight (even in the 1990s). An interesting example is typing the keyword "Lolita" on the Internet, and at least 50% of all searched web pages involve sex and pornography.

Controversy: As for novels, the focus of controversy is naturally the social responsibility of art. A book review in The New York Times said: "Lolita is undoubtedly a news in the book world ..." The most critical and confusing controversy about Lolita is that Nabokov is not interested in moral issues. Many people's reading motivation may really be to see how immoral Lolita is. Curious readers will always associate it with Lady Chatterley's Lover and Ulysses, which has caused worldwide controversy because of its pornographic description. One critic consciously discovered the true meaning of this ambiguity, calling Lolita a symbol of "aging Europe seducing young America", but another critic found Lolita a fable of "young America seducing old Europe".

In the face of different arguments, Nabokov's own answer is very clear: "In modern times, the word' pornography' means second-rate quality, commercialization and some strict narrative rules, which is also true. Therefore, in pornographic novels, there must be a scene described by personality. In addition, the description of the scene in the book must follow a route that gradually enters a climax, and there must be new changes, new combinations and new sexual content, and more and more people are involved (Sade once called the gardener there). Therefore, at the end of the book, there must be more sexual content than the previous chapters. " Nabokov also said: "Lolita is not a pornographic novel at all."

China was the first person to translate and introduce Nabokov's works;

Almost no one does not know Lolita, but perhaps because of this, Nabokov has not really exerted a great influence in China, which is a pity. Mei Shaowu, the translator who first introduced Nabokov, was even more so-"I was the first person to introduce Nabokov to China. In the early 1980s, Shanghai Translation Publishing House wanted to publish a set of books introducing American literature. When I found him, I chose Nabokov, because he was a very important writer in the west at that time and was called the' king of novels'.

They asked me to translate Lolita, but I refused. This novel is about an old man falling in love with a little girl. I don't like it very much, and I think it's against the morality of China. But then I saw a comment that it satirized American society, and it was still of positive significance. Don't treat it as a pornographic novel. Now it is also well received in the United States. I think it's still a good work.

1985, an American writer came to my house to chat. He heard that I translated Puning, so he suggested that I translate Dim Fire, saying it was Nabokov's best work. After reading this book, I found it too difficult to translate. Li Wenjun suggested that I choose a translator. I spent half a year translating several chapters and publishing them in World Literature. 1999, it took me more than half a year to translate it all.

Nabokov can use uncommon classical words. To translate his books, he must prepare a Webster's international dictionary. What he wrote is obscure, which makes you puzzled the first time, makes sense the second time, and breaks your head the third time. Therefore, translation has its own fun. Like Nabokov, he always plays charades, sometimes I can't figure it out, and it will be very happy to be suddenly enlightened.

Nabokov's works are very famous in the world, but few people know him in China, probably because he is not as well known as Milan Kundera. "

China's Lolita Love Book-Daoist Magic

Introduction: In order to save the life of a girl who was killed by lightning at the age of 17, a 33-year-old middle-aged man tried to stop the tragedy with gossip and nine palaces. Because of his familiarity with Taoism, he constantly explored the mysterious power that exists in this world, but failed again and again. A Lolita-style love, coupled with a sad and tortuous story, Zhou Dedong indulged Wang Yang's writing with imagination, and strung up a dense suspense net with two main lines of love and terror.

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 appreciated by the refined public.

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, British writer. After reading it, Green wrote a review in The Times of London, calling it 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.

Lolita is very popular in the street.

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Text | Spring

I don't know what strange evil power influenced me, but Lolita's style swept the streets in an instant. Lace wrinkle, Barbie's powder makeup, but powder, pink, green, pink and blue are all piled on your body, so you must make it look retro, have a lot of accessories, and look like a ghost doll princess crawling out of the castle.

So far, only HELLO KITTY has worn a classic pink, and has created a group of old, middle-aged and young people to pay tribute to and imitate it. Taiwan Province Province is particularly prone to such lovely hierarch, from Rainie Yang to Xiao Qiang. One with tears in his eyes and an innocent pink face apologized to everyone for not learning history well. You must forgive me. One is 40 years old, still wearing a ballet skirt all day, clinging to the title of the first beauty in Taiwan Province Province, saying: Mirror mirror, tell me, what do fans want? In American Beauty, loveliness is an original sin, and the scent of a girl arouses a man's most primitive desire. Men also eat this set, such as a jade girl's head and a beautiful country. After the age of 30, the discount will be given, and after the age of 40, the box will be pressed. Female artists have only two choices: either you are so annoying that people won't tell you how old you are, or face time calmly and let the years pass. It's just that how many years does it take a woman in this entertainment circle to get a Maggie Cheung and a Hepburn? Most people are still chasing Lolita all over the street, hoping that this exquisite and innocent dress can clean up the boundless heart together. I am particularly afraid of seeing an old woman dressed as Kawaii, just as I am particularly afraid of shopping and seeing Obasan rush into the ladies' room. Time is running out and feelings are gone. How terrible it is to have to dress up as an old angel.

It is said that there are only two things in this world that are the most sad. First, the hero died; Second, beauty is fading away. Think about this statement carefully. It's another pattern made up by men. Just an excuse to make love to myself, a piece of paper for the yellow-faced woman. In the face of time, everyone should be convinced. They are old, can rock and roll, and can be dignified. They can also lie on their balcony and scream and say, Look, Lolita is very popular in the street!

The movie Lolita (1997)

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The story tells the story of an ambiguous relationship between a middle-aged man and an underage girl Lolita. Humbert is past middle age. He lives by teaching French in college. Since the death of his first love girl when he was young, he has always had a gentle and obscene nightmare in his 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, bent on finding a backer for 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.

Behind the scenes/tidbits

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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 script, 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. Today, this version is too conservative, but in the early 1960s, such bold screen themes were still shocking, and pioneers such as Kudos 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 cut off 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 movie is as suspenseful as Kirk in West Side, such as humbert's psychological activities when he plans to murder Hayes, Quilty's anonymous phone calls and follow-up, 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. American director Jia arranged a 2 1 year-old female star AlexisDziena to play Lolita in the film Love, No Search at Cannes Film Festival.

Lori and Lolita

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The evolution of Lolita in Japan;

Lolita is the abbreviation of Lolita from the beginning, which refers to lovely and charming young girls (mostly 7 ~ 14 years old). It originated from the novel Lolita and extended to the later culture. Lolita = adjective, representing a lovely girl like Lolita, Lolita = girl, often used in movies and Japanese GALGAME culture.

Recently, due to the influence of Japanese and British and American film culture, Lolita became popular and evolved into a service style. Especially in Japan, Lolita has become a representative clothing brand, which is highly praised by more and more girls, thus gradually replacing Lolita as an adjective and representing the status of a lovely young girl like Lolita.

Clothing style Lolita

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We first heard that Lolita is the name of a novel, the name of a girl of 12 years old. If we only understand the novel, we can simply understand it as a precocious sexy girl and her connection with pedophiles. Moreover, people who have been exposed to western culture will find that the "Lolita" girls mentioned by westerners are those girls who wear miniskirts and mature makeup, but have girls' bangs. Simply put, it is the situation that "girls force themselves to wear girls' clothes". However, when "Lolita" spread to Japan, the Japanese regarded it as a synonym for innocent and lovely girls, and uniformly called girls under 14 as "Lolita generation", and their attitude became "girls wear less women's clothes", that is, mature women yearned for girls. And almost all the oriental "Lolita" dressed themselves up as the palace doll fashion in the movie "The Story of the Next Wife". The Hong Kong version of Lolita comes from this, and so does the Guangdong version of Lolita, which is used to learning from Hong Kong. But the difference is that the age of Guangdong Lolita players is concentrated in 13-25 years old, most of them are under 20 years old, and some are seventeen or eighteen years old. They don't need to fight for act young, but more often they seek a brand-new dress attitude and a different way of life.

The Three Nationalities in Lolita

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1. Sweet love Lolita-Pink, pink blue, white and other pink series are the main materials, and lace is widely used in fabrics to create a doll-like cuteness and romance. It is the most popular style in Guangzhou, and it will not be too ostentatious when walking in the street.

Second, ElegantGothic Lolita-the main color is black and white, characterized by expressing the feeling of mysterious terror and death. Usually decorated with cross silverware and other strong dark makeup, such as black nails, eye shadow and lip color, to emphasize mystery.

Third, the classic Lolita-basically similar to the first one, but mainly in simple colors, focusing on tailoring to express elegant ideas, and the colors are not picky, such as brown and white. Lace will be reduced accordingly, lotus leaf pleats are the biggest feature, and the overall style is relatively simple and clean, suitable for beginners.

Lolita is not Cosplay: the former represents life attitude, while the latter emphasizes role imitation.

The lovely "Lolita" are very young, but they are very vigilant. When facing strangers, they think more about protecting themselves. When I asked for an interview, they all looked at me with wide eyes and horror. After careful consideration, they timidly asked if they could take out their press cards. When the reporter's card and business card were sent out together, they immediately took out their mobile phones to take pictures. After confirmation, the "princesses" smiled sweetly and asked me to continue taking pictures.

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