Word: lolitas
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...really fair to judge Lolita in comparison with the book. Rewritten by Nabakov and directed by Stanley Kubrick, the screenplay can easily stand on its own. It is absurd, grotesque, and very funny, and it introduces a fine young actress, Sue Lyon...
...movie's opening scenes establish the unreal tone which Director Kubrick adeptly maintains for the remaining two hours. While the titles are flashed on the screen, Humbert Humbert (James Mason) is shown behind them giving a manicure treatment to Lolita (Sue Lyon). The movie proper opens with the scene that ends the book. Gun in pocket, James Mason stalks into Clare Quilty's (Peter Sellers) mansion, and commits an amusing if horrifying murder. Sellers is superb as he tries to talk the insane Humbert out of killing him--an unshaven, hungover ping-pong player...
...Lolita. A baby-satyr (James Mason) and a pseudonymphet (Sue Lyon) are featured in this witless wonder that resembles no book of Nabokov...
...Lolita. A baby-satyr (James Mason) and a pseudo nymphet (Sue Lyon) are featured in this witless wonder that resembles no book of Nabokov...
...book is a kind of Cook's tour of literary themes and cultural scenes that have recently proved captivating to American consumers. It has a collection of bizarre travelers on a sea voyage (Ship of Fools), a love story between professorial January and a relentlessly teen-aged May (Lolita), and sightseeing trips through Venice, Corfu and Athens (Greece, after all, is the In place to visit). Despite all this shifting scenery, What a Way to Go never really gets moving. But thanks to Author Morris' gift for cleverness and crazy characterization, it does have its moments...