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DN's Reply -- The LOLITA movie: Cause for excitement or dread?
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From: "Sandy P. Klein" <taxi@flinet.com>
Dmitri Nabokov has asked I forward the below in regards to the two (2)
attachments:
With regard to" the current flurry over A. Lynn's new _LOLITA_ -- Dmitri
Nabokov suggests: Perhaps the poshlost' people, as well as the
correctness freaks and the religious bigots ought to reserve judgement
until they've seen the picture."
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From: Rodney Welch <RWelch@scjob.sces.org>
Perhaps I should reserve judgment, and certainly I'm being entirely
premature, but I dread the forthcoming LOLITA and have ever since it was
first announced.
First of all, there's Director Adrian Lyne -- a poshlyak if ever there
was one. Both FATAL ATTRACTION and NINE AND A HALF WEEKS are true
"howlers" in the philistine tradition -- "falsely civilized" in the worst
sense of the word. Lyne's films have almost all been wildly popular and
thunderously stupid. These fears have not been allayed by the flurry of
coverage in Vanity Fair and Esquire.
The new Dolores Haze looks perfectly hideous -- judging from the latest
Esquire cover, she may be as unbeguiling a nymphet as God ever blew
breath into.
Has anyone gotten a sneak peek at a rough cut of the picture? Are my
fears in vain? Why in the hell do people bother making movies of literary
classics?
The pleasures of a great novel -- and this is certainly true of almost
all of VN's books -- are almost never cinematic.
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From: alexander young <ayoung@email.gc.cuny.edu>
I strongly agree with Rodney Welch's comments on the forthcoming Lolita
film. If I'm not mistaken, the director was also involved with Basic
Instict, another ridiculous piece of trash.
-Seth Young
Dmitri Nabokov has asked I forward the below in regards to the two (2)
attachments:
With regard to" the current flurry over A. Lynn's new _LOLITA_ -- Dmitri
Nabokov suggests: Perhaps the poshlost' people, as well as the
correctness freaks and the religious bigots ought to reserve judgement
until they've seen the picture."
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From: Rodney Welch <RWelch@scjob.sces.org>
Perhaps I should reserve judgment, and certainly I'm being entirely
premature, but I dread the forthcoming LOLITA and have ever since it was
first announced.
First of all, there's Director Adrian Lyne -- a poshlyak if ever there
was one. Both FATAL ATTRACTION and NINE AND A HALF WEEKS are true
"howlers" in the philistine tradition -- "falsely civilized" in the worst
sense of the word. Lyne's films have almost all been wildly popular and
thunderously stupid. These fears have not been allayed by the flurry of
coverage in Vanity Fair and Esquire.
The new Dolores Haze looks perfectly hideous -- judging from the latest
Esquire cover, she may be as unbeguiling a nymphet as God ever blew
breath into.
Has anyone gotten a sneak peek at a rough cut of the picture? Are my
fears in vain? Why in the hell do people bother making movies of literary
classics?
The pleasures of a great novel -- and this is certainly true of almost
all of VN's books -- are almost never cinematic.
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From: alexander young <ayoung@email.gc.cuny.edu>
I strongly agree with Rodney Welch's comments on the forthcoming Lolita
film. If I'm not mistaken, the director was also involved with Basic
Instict, another ridiculous piece of trash.
-Seth Young