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.
As I get older, both the novel and the movie seem to get creepier and creepier.
ReplyDeletePatti - Now that's a movie/book premise I find hard to take...
ReplyDeleteJames Mason was the king of creepy. Nobody did it better.
ReplyDeleteIf 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.
ReplyDeleteThey 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.
ReplyDeleteAnd, 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.