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| Title: lolita [film] - moi... lolita song |
| Description: Lolita is a 1997 film directed by Adrian Lyne and was the second screen adaptation of the novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The film stars Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert and Dominique Swain (15 years old during filming) as Dolores "Lolita" Haze. Supporting roles are Melanie Griffith, playing Charlotte Haze, and Frank Langella as Clare Quilty.
The screenplay was written by Stephen Schiff, and the film has a score by Ennio Morricone. Schiff was commissioned to write the screenplay after scripts by James Dearden, David Mamet and Harold Pinter had been rejected by the producers.
The first adaptation of Lolita was the 1962 version directed by Stanley Kubrick. Stephen Schiff, screenwriter of the 1997 version, has commented that, "Right from the beginning, it was clear to all of us that this movie was not a 'remake' of Kubrick's film. Rather, we were out to make a new adaptation of a very great novel". He added that, "Some of the filmmakers involved actually looked upon the Kubrick version as a kind of 'what not to do'", and quipped that Kubrick's film should have been called "Quilty" due to the prominent role of that character. Despite Schiff's confidence, the 1997 film was refused release by all the major Hollywood studios, many of whom may have feared legal action arising from the passage of the ambiguously worded Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996. However, the film earned a large number of viewers when it aired on Showtime, and fared well in VHS and DVD sales and rentals[ |
| Tags: adrian, alizee, clip, dominique, film, girl, griffith, irons, jeremy, lolita, lyne, moi, nabokov, sexy, swain, vladimir |
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