They kept making the 12yo Lolita rather further along in her teens...but the '97 remake did feature a more or less 16yo Dominique Swain, rather less womanly, rather than the ~17yo Sue Lyon of this version.
And, of course, it's meant to be creepish. That the road trip in the novel might've been inspired by that in Patricia Highsmith's THE PRICE OF SALT is amusing to me.
Patricia Abbott is the author of more than 125 stories that have appeared online, in print journals and in various anthologies. She is the author of two print novels CONCRETE ANGEL (2015) and SHOT IN DETROIT (2016)(Polis Books). CONCRETE ANGEL was nominated for an Anthony and Macavity Award in 2016. SHOT IN DETROIT was nominated for an Edgar Award and an Anthony Award in 2017. A collection of her stories I BRING SORROW AND OTHER STORIES OF TRANSGRESSION will appear in 2018.
She also authored two ebooks, MONKEY JUSTICE and HOME INVASION and co-edited DISCOUNT NOIR. She won a Derringer award for her story "My Hero." She lives outside Detroit.
Patricia (Patti) Abbott
SHOT IN DETROIT
Edgar Nominee 2017, Anthony nominee 2017
CONCRETE ANGEL
Polis Books, 2015-nominated for the Anthony and Macavity Awards
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As I get older, both the novel and the movie seem to get creepier and creepier.
Patti - Now that's a movie/book premise I find hard to take...
James Mason was the king of creepy. Nobody did it better.
If they did it today, she would be eight instead of twelve.
I like all of Kubrick's b//w movies more than any of the ones he made in color.
They kept making the 12yo Lolita rather further along in her teens...but the '97 remake did feature a more or less 16yo Dominique Swain, rather less womanly, rather than the ~17yo Sue Lyon of this version.
And, of course, it's meant to be creepish. That the road trip in the novel might've been inspired by that in Patricia Highsmith's THE PRICE OF SALT is amusing to me.
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