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From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@hotpop.com>
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>I am Australian, and over here there was a much-overblown furore when
Lyne's
>`Lolita' finally made it to our shores. It was actually initially refused
>classification, until a decision was made by parliament to revoke the
>decision. All of this was utterly ridiculous and actually did more good
than
>bad for the movie - the controversy surrounding it meant that it made a
>larger profit in Australia than anywhere else in the world.
>
>For me, the only sin it committed was that of boredom (quite a thing to say
>of an adaptation of one of your favourite novels), though Dominique Swain
>made an excellent Lo. I fondly wish that David Lynch, who was also after
the
>rights, had gotten them after all. That would have been one fascinating
>movie! (Though it would likely have had about as much to do with the book
as
>did the Kubrick adaptation).
>
>I think the difference with American Beauty is that (ATTN: spoiler
>approaching) the relationship is never actually consummated, as it is in
>`Lolita'. Over here at least, you can look all you like, as long as you
>don't touch.
>
>Camille Scaysbrook
>P.S. Interestingly, given what I said earlier about Salinger and Nabokov,
>the talk on the Salinger Forum recently has all been about the congruencies
>between `American Beauty' and `The Catcher in the Rye'!
>
>>
>> EDITOR's NOTE. Interesting thought.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Thomas E.Braun <cawriter@usa.net>
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>> >Anyone care to discuss why "American Beauty" seduced this year's Oscars
>> while,
>> >two years earlier, Adrian Lyne's "Lolita" couldn't even find an American
>> >distributor because the subject matter - a middle-aged man lusting after
>a
>> >teenaged girl - was too hot to handle? One good point: maybe the
>religious
>> >right is finally dying a most overdue death in America, so that
>> >"controversial" topics can again be discussed.
>> >
>> >Tom Braun
>> >Palmdale, California, USA
>> >cawriter@hotmail.com
>> >
>> >____________________________________________________________________
>> >Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
>>
>
From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@hotpop.com>
>
>----------------- Message requiring your approval (50
lines) ------------------
>I am Australian, and over here there was a much-overblown furore when
Lyne's
>`Lolita' finally made it to our shores. It was actually initially refused
>classification, until a decision was made by parliament to revoke the
>decision. All of this was utterly ridiculous and actually did more good
than
>bad for the movie - the controversy surrounding it meant that it made a
>larger profit in Australia than anywhere else in the world.
>
>For me, the only sin it committed was that of boredom (quite a thing to say
>of an adaptation of one of your favourite novels), though Dominique Swain
>made an excellent Lo. I fondly wish that David Lynch, who was also after
the
>rights, had gotten them after all. That would have been one fascinating
>movie! (Though it would likely have had about as much to do with the book
as
>did the Kubrick adaptation).
>
>I think the difference with American Beauty is that (ATTN: spoiler
>approaching) the relationship is never actually consummated, as it is in
>`Lolita'. Over here at least, you can look all you like, as long as you
>don't touch.
>
>Camille Scaysbrook
>P.S. Interestingly, given what I said earlier about Salinger and Nabokov,
>the talk on the Salinger Forum recently has all been about the congruencies
>between `American Beauty' and `The Catcher in the Rye'!
>
>>
>> EDITOR's NOTE. Interesting thought.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Thomas E.Braun <cawriter@usa.net>
>> .
>> >
>> >----------------- Message requiring your approval (13
>> lines) ------------------
>> >Anyone care to discuss why "American Beauty" seduced this year's Oscars
>> while,
>> >two years earlier, Adrian Lyne's "Lolita" couldn't even find an American
>> >distributor because the subject matter - a middle-aged man lusting after
>a
>> >teenaged girl - was too hot to handle? One good point: maybe the
>religious
>> >right is finally dying a most overdue death in America, so that
>> >"controversial" topics can again be discussed.
>> >
>> >Tom Braun
>> >Palmdale, California, USA
>> >cawriter@hotmail.com
>> >
>> >____________________________________________________________________
>> >Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
>>
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