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http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/adapting-nabokov Nabokov and
the Movies, John Colapinto. Jan.2015
The axiom that great novels make bad movie adaptations has not been entirely
true for Vladimir Nabokov, whose books depend to a surprising degree on
plot-heavy narratives (not to say cravenly pulpy story lines) that lend
themselves well to the screen. Take "Lolita".
[.] the film version of "King, Queen, Knave"-directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
and starring David Niven and Gina Lollobrigida-was released in 1972. But
trying to force Nabokov's exquisitely controlled satire of bourgeois
materialism and conventionality into a slapstick would-be youth comedy was a
grave error. The movie is a sloppy, slapdash affair that badly squanders its
source material (and its actors), and it serves as a reminder of all that
could be bad about early-seventies movies. Everyone involved seems desperate
to appear young and with-it. You can see for yourself-the
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsatflUkqGw> entire movie has been uploaded
to YouTube.
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http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/adapting-nabokov Nabokov and
the Movies, John Colapinto. Jan.2015
The axiom that great novels make bad movie adaptations has not been entirely
true for Vladimir Nabokov, whose books depend to a surprising degree on
plot-heavy narratives (not to say cravenly pulpy story lines) that lend
themselves well to the screen. Take "Lolita".
[.] the film version of "King, Queen, Knave"-directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
and starring David Niven and Gina Lollobrigida-was released in 1972. But
trying to force Nabokov's exquisitely controlled satire of bourgeois
materialism and conventionality into a slapstick would-be youth comedy was a
grave error. The movie is a sloppy, slapdash affair that badly squanders its
source material (and its actors), and it serves as a reminder of all that
could be bad about early-seventies movies. Everyone involved seems desperate
to appear young and with-it. You can see for yourself-the
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsatflUkqGw> entire movie has been uploaded
to YouTube.
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
AdaOnline: "http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/
The Nabokov Society of Japan's Annotations to Ada: http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html
The VN Bibliography Blog: http://vnbiblio.com/
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