Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0000511, Fri, 17 Mar 1995 11:35:04 -0800

Subject
LOLITA film remake
Date
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------------------ Inresponse to Galya Diment's comment:" But knowing
Hollywood, it's of
> course quite possible that they will simply rewrite the whole thing and
> make Humbert and Lolita into young romantic lovers.
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Galya is right! My money's on this one.

It'll be a HH in his late twenties and some 'starlet'
who's about seventeen or eighteen - but made to look
a little bit younger. What they won't do (I bet) is
make it quite plain that L is *twelve years old* [when
H first meets her]

and if they want to emphasise this approach, they'll
cast someone like Elsa Lanchester as Charlotte

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