Mysllaw M. Yep. Especially since it was based off of a guy who kidnapped and raped a little girl in real life and pretended to be her father until she finally was rescued and brought back to her mother. Her name was Sally Horner. Look it up.
Well themovie kinda romantisizes it , even the movie cover is sexual. If they wanted us to find it appauling they shouldnt present her in an alluring way.they do it on purpose.
He is dictating what she can or cannot do regarding her social life, yet at the same time he is painting her toenails in a servile manner. Weird combination!
I dont thinkg they look anything alike. Dominique Swain, is much more beautiful with refined features and has a real youthful look in the 1997 version. The 1960's version she can pass older than portrayed and rather plain looking.
@@GG-yn6jw I disagree with how Dominique is more “beautiful”, I think Sue was just as beautiful. And they likely had to make her look older here because the audience would’ve criticised about it since Sue was only just around 14 when they filmed this.
@@BillyBob-il9el I think that's her point though, this Lolita is beautiful but has less delicate features and definitely looks older than Dominique, so it just makes it even easier to excuse Humbert's relationship with her, which is all this version of the story really tries to do.
James Mason was an absolutely terrific actor. I first saw him as Captain Nemo in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Since this period of time, I have seen him in many excellent films.
I too, saw him in that film when I was in grammar school. Also loved Kirk Douglas in that film. James Mason was an extremely talented, journeyman of his profession: very professional.
+jimmythesaint What's obsessive about commenting on the book and movies I've seen. I have a right to express myself about the movies and book Lolita. Have you read the book or seen the movies? You must like Steve McQueen, he was a great actor as his grandson in The Vampire Diaries.
You missed the important part where she follows up her love question by playing him (again) by asking him if she can be in Clare Quilty's play. It's a complete brilliant con, and you missed it.
it was very powerful when the teacher was discussing Lolita , talking about how she changes from being very self possessed, to having no control... it is a very perceptively written piece, and not featured in this scene, but is too perfect
it's a classic literary piece that depicts a tabu subject. The movie is literally about that so I dont understand why anyone would want to comment on it when it's the whole point already.
Well true, but it's a behavioral study on how a child molester takes advantage of a minor who is in trauma over the lose of her mother. And then attempts to control her into dependency buy guilt. Along with a lot of other things. A must see for you students writing your thesis.
Thank you Barb. Oh you know comments are mostly for the uneducated who make the most ignorant comments about things they only have subjective feelings about.
R.I.P. Suellyn Lyon 10/07/1946- 26/12/2019 “I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.” -Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1955. Forever will be missed.
Sue Lyons who is vaguely remembered as a 'ditzy blond' was an actress of such talent and presence that she was given key roles in films by MAJOR directors Stanley Kubrick, John Huston and John Ford. Her career high point was fairly brief but... dazzling.
God, I'm late (and I really hate that fact) but, I'm here to pay my respect to late Sue Lyon. Such a marvelous actress. So sad to hear her passing. May you rejoin your family as well as two of the greatest directors ever (whom you have worked for) John Huston and Stanley Kubrick. Godspeed!
@@joaopaulowdeandrade7905 Most film critics would disagree with you. In fact, most would suggest that Dominique's acting was one of its few redeeming qualities. Most people feel like she was snubbed for recognition of her talent. Dominique and Sue are both lovely girls, Sue recently passed - hurt me deeply - and I abhor the day I'll hear about Dom's passing too.
with the way herpbert warps everything if you look at lolita’s words, you can tell that they were likely said less like a cheating seductress and more like a kid who was just trying to survive. god i feel horrible for her
her changes in mood in a couple minutes are amazing : she goes from "fake innocence" to slightly snide kid, to starting to be surly juvenile, to being innocent again, and then suddenly almost womanly beguiling softness : she is manipulating him too,as she needs to
Sue Lyons was not some blond bimbo but the clear choice of two of the greatest directors, John Huston and Stanley Kubrick for key roles in two serious and demanding films. Lolita and Night of the Iguana. I do not think she was given her due.
This is such a weird scene but it does demonstrate the dynamic between them. The guy likes to think he has control over anything and can make demands, but she runs everything. He is her servant. She casually dismisses his demands and jokes around because she does not see him as a threat in any way. She has no fear of losing him or any of the things he provides, but he fears losing her.
Elena biebs you do understand tho that you are romanticizing the whole storyline because you find the actor attractive. If he was an old fat ugly man you would agree with many that this is disturbing and nothing but that. You should read the book, that would defiantly change your view
Yeah know, Irons is stiff and bland. James Mason is brilliant and feels like a person, a creep yes, but a person. This is so much better than that stupid 1997 movie
@@salvation.7665 I guess that's the clever thing about the 1997 movie in that Jeremy is charming and almost bumbling as Humbert, which somewhat obscures, until the film progresses, how sinister his behaviour is
Late response, but what did you think he was doing earlier?, Also with the black and white film it's hard to tell what colour the nail polish is supposed to be. 💅
Surprised about the comments here. In the scene he is clearly the insecure one fearing she might go off with others while trying to "convince" her how much fun she has with him. She reads him like a book and gives him just enough so he keeps being her servant.
It's more than that, much more. Earlier in the movie "Humbert" (Mason) has a line in a chess game with Charlotte: something about "taking her queen". The statement about "Rex" and "Ray" being derived from words for king is very important to the hidden meanings here and in the book.
@@BlueSkies570 Humbert is trying to teach Charlotte how to play chess. Just as Lolita comes down the stairs in the background, Charlotte says - while studying the chessboard intently - "You're going to take my queen?" Humbert replies, "That is my intention."
Humbert even seems a bit more dignified and restrained than other residents of Ramsdale, particularly Lolita's aggressive mother, in a way that invites the audience to sympathize with Humbert. Humbert is portrayed as someone urbane and sophisticated trapped in a provincial small town populated by slightly lecherous people, a refugee from Old World Europe in an especially crass part of the New World. For example, Lolita's piano teacher comes across in the film as aggressive and predatory compared to which Humbert seems fairly restrained. The film character of John Farlow talks suggestively of "swapping partners" at a dance in a way that repels Humbert. Jenkins believes that in the film it is Quilty, not Humbert, who acts as the embodiment of evil. The expansion of Quilty's character and the way Quilty torments Humbert also invites the audience to sympathize with Humbert.
But we're also watching this story unfold through HIS eyes and his interpretation of events, so his restraint and her advances are almost certainly exaggerated. I guess we can say this movie does a good job of really showing how Humbert uses his scope to defend himself, but really I think this version just acts to kind of excuse him. At least i feel like that was the audience takeaway
Humbert thinks he is the smartest guy in the room, but he is actually getting played by Lolita and Quilty, but won't realize it until the end of the film.
this film, needless to say, is not for everyone. funny thing is, it's more controversial now than it was then. you don't think that's funny, you probably shouldn't watch it.
In real life Ron Wood of the rolling stones married a very young 18 yr old a couple years ago . He was about 67 years old then. Just like Humbert Humbert(James Mason) he locked her up . She finally got out of it and told all about crazy domineering Ronnie Wood . This is par for the course for males in midlife crisis . They desire the girl not so much for sex but they feel their mortality will be at an end in ten or so years . This anxiety and depression leads to the desire for a Lolita. Most of them just fantasize . Those who get involved will serve long jail sentences
Irons played the pathetic creep perfectly. In my opinion is shows how low a man can become when he has no restraints or discipline over his sexual behavior. The part in that movie where Lolita is playing with his emotions after he goes out to get bananas perfectly shows how much he is only a man in husk, but pathetic when he feels he lost control.
"No dates. A typical order from a jealous father, but in this case is the order of jealous obsessed man who doesn't want to lose her underaged "lover". Lolita has always an answer for everything. It's so obvious that she's hiding something and she comes up with a lie in such a sassy way, like she's thinking she is so clever and she can trick anyone whenever and however she pleases.
Kubrick did as well as you could with the angle, maybe with Lolita in a medium, (unlikely), but he failed to capture the circumstances of the novel, which is much better. For one thing, this girl is like 14 going on 16, and Lolita was twelve and a half. That is all the difference in the world.
I am not condoning this, but in all honesty- she doesn't look like a child in this film portrayed as she does in the 1997 version. She appears to be a young woman in her late teens. The 1997 version was far worse and hard to watch at times.
Interesting to see people saying he's manipulative and taking advantage of a child in grief of her mother, that's very true but I've always seen it as him being the victim who's being manipulated
That's kind of the point. He's older and he's male: she's younger and she's female. So normally he would be exclusively be the manipulator and she the victim, yet in the plot she manages to get control over him and become the seducer. Of course this is a fantasy of middle-aged and older men, but still...
Lolita is exhibit A of a movie that never would get made today. Regardless of the point of the story, this is too romantic for too long to be acceptable by today's standards. No top level director or crew would touch on this story today, they would get canceled immediately. Shows how the culture and the world is changing a lot.
Yes; if you want a good adaption of Lolita watch andrian lyne’s; this one is horribly boring and turns pedophelia into comedy, and ruins a majority of the characters.
hi lol, The book is a dark comedy. The 1997 film rids of all the charm and irony of the novel. The Adrian Lynne version is dull, melodramatic, and lifeless.
Das Kinophile ENTP mmm the 1997 film had a lot of charm and irony in it. It more accurately reflected the book to me not just in terms of content but in tone and theme. The score for the film by Ennio Morricone alone just totally captures it for me.
I love Kubrick's work but I have never been able to bring myself to watch this film. I can now see that there is a good reason as to why I can't bring myself to watch this film.
You need the critic's eye. I couldn't bring myself, like tons of others, to watch The Silence of the Lambs, at first, but the acting was superb and the plot and direction perfect. I object to crude graphic scenes, yet TV now, shows nothing else.
pahari75 That’s really much of the point of the movie - nobody is innocent ...not Humbert, not Lolita, not her mother, not Quilty, not the neighbors... nobody.
I won't deny both movies were amazing but i swear humbert just ticks me off when it comes to her buisness! But yet again she is still a kid so what can i do?
This movie illustrates how sin destroys our lives. The man with pervert thoughts about the younger woman and then the young woman being rebellious and morally corrupt. It ended sadly for everyone.
We are often impressed or nailed with what we see first, but I have to admit even though I like Domi better, Sue is really pretty.I don't know what other people think but sometimes I like and feel in love with the person who is controlling me.
what a dirty story ... I think that's the only reason why it got very popular back then is because the topic it discus in a time like that ... the film is good
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" oh, you're a fine one to talk about someone elses mind" haha one of Lolitas best lines.
Perhaps her best one.
I've always wondered... Why do people in old movies have such a specific weird accent in english that NO ONE has anymore?
Katherine I think they had training to sound like that
Jacob Wilkins Humbert was British you idiots. He had a British accent
Viking Song cause it's not a normal british accent it's a mix of american and british so it sounds a little like both
The Mid-Atlantic accent was best exemplified by Katherine Hepburn as well as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Ikr ?!
I can't tell who's worse, people who don't get the point of the story or people who romanticize it
Mysllaw M. Yep. Especially since it was based off of a guy who kidnapped and raped a little girl in real life and pretended to be her father until she finally was rescued and brought back to her mother. Her name was Sally Horner. Look it up.
Both versions freak me out.
Well themovie kinda romantisizes it , even the movie cover is sexual. If they wanted us to find it appauling they shouldnt present her in an alluring way.they do it on purpose.
Chewy Praline The movie was made on the point of view of HH
Maria Regina thanks for the reference I wouldn’t ever known
Humbert is such a control freak.
I mean... control is like one of the main themes of the novel so yah
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Diana Winchester yeah it is
That is because he is a pervert. I honestly don't know how this movie made it past the censors.
Diana
in some ways yes, in others no; personally Kubrick's was way better in the setting because it was made shortly after the novel
Sue Lyon looked so beautiful. Sadly she is gone now. She will be greatly missed. R.I.P
I don't believe it. When I watched this film about 3 years ago I looked her up on Wikipedia and she was still around. RIP.
She is still alive. She is with Jeffrey Epstein on his island.
@CaliDorko If "beautiful" has automatic sexual connotations for you, then you're the one who's mind is corrupted.
Sue Lyon passed away ????😢😢😢
She has a difficult life because of this early sexualization
This Lolita is so sassy, lol. I love it.
Faustulus Maximus ❤️❤️
Sue Lyons is hysterical! She really can't stand him.
It's not a date .. Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🏜️ Jah sisters
It’s pedophilia! You people are completely mind CONtrolled!
unlike the book! She is a ghost there
He is dictating what she can or cannot do regarding her social life, yet at the same time he is painting her toenails in a servile manner. Weird combination!
Simon damn just made it more wicked lol
shes like his doll, dressing her and arranging her as he sees fit.
One of my favorite scenes, even though this movie freaks me right the heck out.
@@itsalice2780 Exactly
Yeah VERY weird combination
Okay I watch the ‘97 version this morning and this girl looks so much like Dominique Swain I love how good they casted
I dont thinkg they look anything alike. Dominique Swain, is much more beautiful with refined features and has a real youthful look in the 1997 version. The 1960's version she can pass older than portrayed and rather plain looking.
@@GG-yn6jw I disagree with how Dominique is more “beautiful”, I think Sue was just as beautiful. And they likely had to make her look older here because the audience would’ve criticised about it since Sue was only just around 14 when they filmed this.
@@GG-yn6jw You watched both films. Surely you understand the story. Yet you're nitpicking little girl's features?
No, she doesn't.
@@BillyBob-il9el I think that's her point though, this Lolita is beautiful but has less delicate features and definitely looks older than Dominique, so it just makes it even easier to excuse Humbert's relationship with her, which is all this version of the story really tries to do.
He takes forever to paint her toes lol
Existential Crisis why is the phandom everywhere?
Well, he's not doing it just to paint her nails you know.
As someone who's into women's feet, maybe he is.
Maybe he considers it a task worth savouring!
@@TallSilentGuy
Of course!
Grooming her literally and figuratively.
Turns out she’s grooming him
Exactly
Frr
he is so manipulative
LOL! He is??? You're blind. He's an amateur.
Yes, children are very easy to manipulate or lie to, we do it everyday.
@@lorihensley4962 She's is Manipulative aswell they both are
She play's him like a cheap flea market violin and had him eating out of her hand throughout whole movie.
@@timcoker4685 thank you! one of the few sensible comments.
James Mason was an absolutely terrific actor. I first saw him as Captain Nemo in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Since this period of time, I have seen him in many excellent films.
Terrific in this part, full of subtleties!
Love British actors, they've got style and class. Thinking of Dirk Bogarde..
I too, saw him in that film when I was in grammar school. Also loved Kirk Douglas in that film. James Mason was an extremely talented, journeyman of his profession: very professional.
You still love me, she says, completely he says even though he's keeping her a prisoner who's not allowed friends or freedom.
holy frggn crap.. absolutely cannot believe your obsession.
+jimmythesaint What's obsessive about commenting on the book and movies I've seen. I have a right to express myself about the movies and book Lolita. Have you read the book or seen the movies? You must like Steve McQueen, he was a great actor as his grandson in The Vampire Diaries.
Damn, I see your comments on every video about Lolita.
Keep commenting.
You missed the important part where she follows up her love question by playing him (again) by asking him if she can be in Clare Quilty's play. It's a complete brilliant con, and you missed it.
You would never know this was sues first major role. She was wonderful in this
it was very powerful when the teacher was discussing Lolita , talking about how she changes from being very self possessed, to having no control... it is a very perceptively written piece, and not featured in this scene, but is too perfect
Wrong. She is in total control. She's playing him while he questions where she has been, which does not include piano practice.
@@SanVic You're a very sick man. She's 12.
@@letolethe3344 why is he sick? he described the character
@@enochianwolf a child has no control over an adult.
@@star_is_g wrong! Do you feed your kids if they cry? I should hope so
So.. no ones going to comment on how creepy this is
it's a classic literary piece that depicts a tabu subject. The movie is literally about that so I dont understand why anyone would want to comment on it when it's the whole point already.
Well true, but it's a behavioral study on how a child molester takes advantage of a minor who is in trauma over the lose of her mother. And then attempts to control her into dependency buy guilt. Along with a lot of other things. A must see for you students writing your thesis.
Maybe you missed the fact that's the entire point?
Thank you Barb. Oh you know comments are mostly for the uneducated who make the most ignorant comments about things they only have subjective feelings about.
Bingo, Barbora... well said.
So courageous of James Mason to play the role in 1962 or any year really.
R.I.P. Suellyn Lyon
10/07/1946- 26/12/2019
“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”
-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1955.
Forever will be missed.
Sue Lyons who is vaguely remembered as a 'ditzy blond' was an actress of such talent and presence that she was given key roles in films by MAJOR directors Stanley Kubrick, John Huston and John Ford. Her career high point was fairly brief but... dazzling.
She comes across as anything but ditzy here
i love how she is ordinary teenager and then so much more, back and forth, back and forth. i think Sue Lyon was amazing and this is her best scene
jfc every bit of dialogue is just a barrage of red flags and warning signs
that's the point of the whole book and movie...
stating the obvious
God, I'm late (and I really hate that fact) but, I'm here to pay my respect to late Sue Lyon. Such a marvelous actress. So sad to hear her passing. May you rejoin your family as well as two of the greatest directors ever (whom you have worked for) John Huston and Stanley Kubrick. Godspeed!
Humbert (pervert) stalks Lolita after school, he use guilt & the fact he pays for her to comply to no dates with boys her age. Groom.
I like this movie more than 97's version.
That’s because Kubrick directed this one 👀👀
cuz u have taste
97 version completly sucks. 97 Lolita ,looks like a Little witch of Harry Potter movie. She haven ,t carisma.
I too, great movie!
@@joaopaulowdeandrade7905 Most film critics would disagree with you. In fact, most would suggest that Dominique's acting was one of its few redeeming qualities. Most people feel like she was snubbed for recognition of her talent. Dominique and Sue are both lovely girls, Sue recently passed - hurt me deeply - and I abhor the day I'll hear about Dom's passing too.
Lolita passed away today, 12/27/19.
What? Which Lolita?
@@NinaWTF The actress, dramatically and unfortunately passed to a better place some weeks ago.
@@starsanddust2449 how unfortunate! I hope she lived her life at its best and fullest. RIP
@@NinaWTF indeed, I hope the same.
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with the way herpbert warps everything if you look at lolita’s words, you can tell that they were likely said less like a cheating seductress and more like a kid who was just trying to survive. god i feel horrible for her
her changes in mood in a couple minutes are amazing : she goes from "fake innocence" to slightly snide kid, to starting to be surly juvenile, to being innocent again, and then suddenly almost womanly beguiling softness : she is manipulating him too,as she needs to
Is she really manipulating him? Or is it from a pedophile’s perspective and that’s what he needs to believe?
The whole book and movie is his point of view, we see what he perceives as a pedophile who’s in love with a 12 year old girl lmao
She's not manipulative, this is simply from the view of a pedohile.
Fantastic acting - her acting was that of a consummate professional !
Both.
Sue Lyons was not some blond bimbo but the clear choice of two of the greatest directors, John Huston and Stanley Kubrick for key roles in two serious and demanding films. Lolita and Night of the Iguana. I do not think she was given her due.
It seems like she quit herself.
Why is it that most actresses of 20th century didn't get their due?
"You're a fine one to talk about someone else's mind." Actually he is, for the very reasons you think he isn't.
he's doing her nails. Not for her but for him.
James Mason was really enjoying the acting here. 😮
I fell in love with James Mason when I was 9, long before I saw Lolita of course.
Sue Lyon's Lolita was very different from Nabokov's. I love her all the same.
How is it different?
@@Himerosteam Nabokov doesn't really develop her
This is such a weird scene but it does demonstrate the dynamic between them. The guy likes to think he has control over anything and can make demands, but she runs everything. He is her servant. She casually dismisses his demands and jokes around because she does not see him as a threat in any way. She has no fear of losing him or any of the things he provides, but he fears losing her.
Bro it’s an underaged girl and her step dad
You can’t be serious. He’s a lion and she’s a sickly antelope. She has no power. He’s a chimo and she is entirely at his mercy.
@@yolandaponkers1581 Did you even watch the movie? She leaves him for a different pedo she was seeing the entire time.
@@shawn576 did you read the book is a better question 😂
She is a CHILD
"Roy and Rex", co-captains of the football team: Etymologically, both names mean 'king'.
"Don't avoid the Iss-sea-you!"
Her “um” at 20 seconds was remarkable
Jeremy irons is the only Humbert for me.. this dude looks so creepy and Jeremy ahhh I just love him
Elena biebs Dominique swain is the perfect fit for Lo, and The dialogue is more accurate... definitely the better movie.
Elena biebs you do understand tho that you are romanticizing the whole storyline because you find the actor attractive. If he was an old fat ugly man you would agree with many that this is disturbing and nothing but that. You should read the book, that would defiantly change your view
Yeah know, Irons is stiff and bland. James Mason is brilliant and feels like a person, a creep yes, but a person. This is so much better than that stupid 1997 movie
Why is everyone ignoring the fact that this movie is about hebephilia?.... am I the only one who wonder about how the legally got away with this?
@@salvation.7665 I guess that's the clever thing about the 1997 movie in that Jeremy is charming and almost bumbling as Humbert, which somewhat obscures, until the film progresses, how sinister his behaviour is
2 minutes in, I just realized that Humbert is painting Lolita’s toenails 🙄
Late response, but what did you think he was doing earlier?, Also with the black and white film it's hard to tell what colour the nail polish is supposed to be. 💅
This is beautifully scripted Kubrick is a genius 😁
Vivian Darkbloom, the name given to a minor character in the movie, is an anagram for Vladimir Nabokov, the story's creator.
RIP Lolita
R.I.P.
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Surprised about the comments here. In the scene he is clearly the insecure one fearing she might go off with others while trying to "convince" her how much fun she has with him. She reads him like a book and gives him just enough so he keeps being her servant.
Stanley Kubrick best director
“nasty minded boys”
look who’s talking 😭
Tbf, Sue Lyon was great a lot closer to Lo in the book than Dominique Swain.She portrays her as more hateful towards Humbert and sarcastic.
Love this movie. Never get tired of watching it.
Perv.
🤣🤣🤣
who’s here after sue passed away 😔💓
A careful reading of the novel helps to understand the motivations of the characters better, and the book is discreet, nonetheless.
The phrase "Frigid Queen" puzzled me at first (0:24), till I realized this was a play on "Dairy Queen".
It's more than that, much more. Earlier in the movie "Humbert" (Mason) has a line in a chess game with Charlotte: something about "taking her queen". The statement about "Rex" and "Ray" being derived from words for king is very important to the hidden meanings here and in the book.
@@BlueSkies570 Humbert is trying to teach Charlotte how to play chess. Just as Lolita comes down the stairs in the background, Charlotte says - while studying the chessboard intently - "You're going to take my queen?" Humbert replies, "That is my intention."
Im baffled that she wasn’t even nominated for an Academy Award.
Another baffling snub was Gena Rowlands in ‘Under The Influence’ (1974)
Hayley Mills was offered the Sue Lyon role but had to turn it down to keep her squeaky clean Disney image in tact.
Humbert even seems a bit more dignified and restrained than other residents of Ramsdale, particularly Lolita's aggressive mother, in a way that invites the audience to sympathize with Humbert. Humbert is portrayed as someone urbane and sophisticated trapped in a provincial small town populated by slightly lecherous people, a refugee from Old World Europe in an especially crass part of the New World. For example, Lolita's piano teacher comes across in the film as aggressive and predatory compared to which Humbert seems fairly restrained. The film character of John Farlow talks suggestively of "swapping partners" at a dance in a way that repels Humbert. Jenkins believes that in the film it is Quilty, not Humbert, who acts as the embodiment of evil. The expansion of Quilty's character and the way Quilty torments Humbert also invites the audience to sympathize with Humbert.
Nice analysis, Vegeta
But we're also watching this story unfold through HIS eyes and his interpretation of events, so his restraint and her advances are almost certainly exaggerated. I guess we can say this movie does a good job of really showing how Humbert uses his scope to defend himself, but really I think this version just acts to kind of excuse him. At least i feel like that was the audience takeaway
Humbert thinks he is the smartest guy in the room, but he is actually getting played by Lolita and Quilty, but won't realize it until the end of the film.
Excellent analysis, but I fear your educated vocabulary will be lost on the mouth-breathing cretins on this page.
In my view he comes across as snide, arrogant, conceited, and oh-so-above it all, looking down on everyone and everything except his own nastiness.
this film, needless to say, is not for everyone. funny thing is, it's more controversial now than it was then. you don't think that's funny, you probably shouldn't watch it.
Simply here to see if Bill Hader’s impression was accurate... it was 😂
Borrowing it from the library. Can't wait to see what the big deal is.
In real life Ron Wood of the rolling stones married a very young 18 yr old a couple years ago . He was about 67 years old then. Just like Humbert Humbert(James Mason) he locked her up . She finally got out of it and told all about crazy domineering Ronnie Wood . This is par for the course for males in midlife crisis . They desire the girl not so much for sex but they feel their mortality will be at an end in ten or so years . This anxiety and depression leads to the desire for a Lolita. Most of them just fantasize . Those who get involved will serve long jail sentences
love the bit "long jail sentences"
He is way too old for this part and he isn’t creepy, irons humbert was enough to give anyone nightmares
Both actors were about the right age for the part. Humbert is old enough to be the girl's father.
That's the point, in fact.
Irons played the pathetic creep perfectly. In my opinion is shows how low a man can become when he has no restraints or discipline over his sexual behavior. The part in that movie where Lolita is playing with his emotions after he goes out to get bananas perfectly shows how much he is only a man in husk, but pathetic when he feels he lost control.
how did they ever make a movie called Lolita
Hollywood is sick. So many sick movies past and present.
Yes, I doubt if these writers even read Lolita
its almost like thats the point and hes what is called a vi-llain pro-tag-o-nist
"No dates. A typical order from a jealous father, but in this case is the order of jealous obsessed man who doesn't want to lose her underaged "lover".
Lolita has always an answer for everything. It's so obvious that she's hiding something and she comes up with a lie in such a sassy way, like she's thinking she is so clever and she can trick anyone whenever and however she pleases.
That girl is beautiful!
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Kubrick did as well as you could with the angle, maybe with Lolita in a medium, (unlikely), but he failed to capture the circumstances of the novel, which is much better.
For one thing, this girl is like 14 going on 16, and Lolita was twelve and a half. That is all the difference in the world.
This is so emotionally repressed
"You can't have her. She belongs to a Marine". Ummm....what?
It wasn't a date
The level of possessiveness and manipulation is scary.
Typical old guy behavior with young women. Except that she is a child.
wow this is sick, a grown man with a child
@Chrissie Brooks. For real that is disgusting, my question was how wasn't he locked up yet?
Child? Wake up Lady, today might shock you to death!
I am not condoning this, but in all honesty- she doesn't look like a child in this film portrayed as she does in the 1997 version. She appears to be a young woman in her late teens. The 1997 version was far worse and hard to watch at times.
Interesting to see people saying he's manipulative and taking advantage of a child in grief of her mother, that's very true but I've always seen it as him being the victim who's being manipulated
I thought the reader was being manipulated. When I read it.
That's kind of the point. He's older and he's male: she's younger and she's female. So normally he would be exclusively be the manipulator and she the victim, yet in the plot she manages to get control over him and become the seducer. Of course this is a fantasy of middle-aged and older men, but still...
@@hebneh - Try reading the book. He drugs the kid and rapes her to start.
He's old
@@talkindurinthemovie - Get that GED genius.
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Lolita is exhibit A of a movie that never would get made today. Regardless of the point of the story, this is too romantic for too long to be acceptable by today's standards. No top level director or crew would touch on this story today, they would get canceled immediately.
Shows how the culture and the world is changing a lot.
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And this is supposed to be the great film genius. Never seen a more dull, tenseless scene in my life.
This film is one of Kubrick's earlier works before he really got his signature style. Watch A Clockwork Orange, 2001, or Eyes Wide Shut
Yes; if you want a good adaption of Lolita watch andrian lyne’s; this one is horribly boring and turns pedophelia into comedy, and ruins a majority of the characters.
hi lol, The book is a dark comedy. The 1997 film rids of all the charm and irony of the novel. The Adrian Lynne version is dull, melodramatic, and lifeless.
Disagree. The Kubrick version is superior.
Das Kinophile ENTP mmm the 1997 film had a lot of charm and irony in it. It more accurately reflected the book to me not just in terms of content but in tone and theme. The score for the film by Ennio Morricone alone just totally captures it for me.
It’s scares me how he reminds me of my farther
I’m so sorry😭
I love Kubrick's work but I have never been able to bring myself to watch this film. I can now see that there is a good reason as to why I can't bring myself to watch this film.
If you keep in mind both men are obsessed narcissists who end up murderer and victim it is not hard to watch.
You need the critic's eye.
I couldn't bring myself, like tons of others, to watch The Silence of the Lambs, at first, but the acting was superb and the plot and direction perfect. I object to crude graphic scenes, yet TV now, shows nothing else.
I wonder what he meant by "tidying up"
This part shows how manipulative he is
Other way around technically. He clearly doesn't have control here.
They're both despicable characters, IMO.
@@kaya856 He's literally begging her for attention. I didn't say he wasn't a predator dude, learn what nuance is.
In the words of Harold Steptoe: You dirty old man!
I can't seriously this movie was made in the 60s!!! That's a shocker because of the taboo subject! It's the 60s!!!
Both have enslaved each other!
pahari75 That’s really much of the point of the movie - nobody is innocent ...not Humbert, not Lolita, not her mother, not Quilty, not the neighbors... nobody.
@alien soup I’m innocent...
@@chocolateking1143 Ok, Jesus...but I'm just talking about the characters in the movie.
@@aliensoup2420 quilty is just a normal guy
Sue Lyon trained my right arm back in the day...
I won't deny both movies were amazing but i swear humbert just ticks me off when it comes to her buisness! But yet again she is still a kid so what can i do?
Either way, they were a "thing" whether you agree or not. She was being pampered and he simply reminded her of the fact.
OMG Stewie talking to Lolita!!!!!
Why does the end say this is a romance movie?
In the past the one scene is so long🙂😆
Esta atriz,da primeira versão do filme,é mais bonita do que a atriz da versão de 1997.
No lo otra de 1997 es MAs bella!!
I'm here only to see if this movie, and other classics, are available to rent on YT because I'm switching my Prime membership from annual to monthly.
This movie illustrates how sin destroys our lives. The man with pervert thoughts about the younger woman and then the young woman being rebellious and morally corrupt. It ended sadly for everyone.
The young “woman” is a child. Children rebel. Humbert destroyed both their lives with his sin.
There basically flirting the entire video
She looks 20 to me 🤷♂️
she was 13-14 at the time
This is sick. And even sicker that so many people are okay with this movie
😂😂😂😂😂 it's movie from 1962
damn damn damn
I'm just surprised the film made it passed the censor
Im guessing this is where Joker got his name from in Full Metal Jacket
"Who does the cooking?I do."
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We are often impressed or nailed with what we see first, but I have to admit even though I like Domi better, Sue is really pretty.I don't know what other people think but sometimes I like and feel in love with the person who is controlling me.
This movie can be nicely paired with the Collector (the movie which was based on Fowles novel).
what a dirty story ... I think that's the only reason why it got very popular back then is because the topic it discus in a time like that ... the film is good