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In a message dated 17/05/2010 17:51:57 GMT Daylight Time,
chaiselongue@EARTHLINK.NET writes:
I would like to see more discussion about Nabokov in relation to other
writers. I would like to see his ideas discussed and challenged.
Not that the following directly follows from the above, but it prompts me
to ask: Has there been any discussion on this list about Luc Besson's film
"Leon" in relation either to Lolita, or the two films? I saw Leon for the
first time about a week ago, and was (to use an adverb currently colossally
popular among UK politicians) hugely impressed. In my view this film was
far, far superior to Kubrick's Lolita. I haven't seen the other one with
Irons. It also seemed to contrast constructively and revealingly with Nabokov's
original. Nabokov would have been infinitely better served by Besson, than
by clumsy, clunky Kubrick, one of my least favourite film-makers.
Charles Harrison-Wallace
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