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-Resurrected Writer-
Thought about reading it several times before, but never got around to it.
How much tamer is the movie?
Well I guess since you don't really get to hear his thoughts and feelings like you do in the book it kind of seems to play down how really obsessed, manipulative, and perverse he actually is without it.
I hope maybe that works? Since I suck at describing things...
sweatdrop The film is nothing like the book really. In the film, you never hear the thoughts of the narrator. Whereas in the book the story was incidental, in the movie the focus is on the story. You never see really see Humbert Humbert as insane like you do in the book. All the lies and exaggerations he repeats to himself in the book are absent from the film.
Ignoring that, the "lolita" is not young and innocent. She is far too old and manipulative. Rather than being the victim of a *****, she is a seducer.
This is not to say the movie was bad. The movie was a good movie. It just did not hold true to the book in a number of ways. Rather than watch Jeremy Irons on the screen, I think it would be much better to get the audiotape of Lolita which he did.
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