the extra 11 inches
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Lolita
Lester_Burnham_Risen — 12 years ago(November 28, 2013 01:21 AM)
I could accept a lanky 5 foot nine inch Lolita as my own Lolita was 5'6", but why include the up front bit "4'10" in one sock"?
Kubrick had her at 5'3" but still "low" enough to get away with it.
I kept thinking of Kidman in her earlier roles as those long legs kept filling the screen.
also the Lyon husky voice was far more sexy.
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Lester_Burnham_Risen — 11 years ago(April 28, 2014 06:15 AM)
..your "own lolita was 5;6"???
I say that tongue in cheek as Humbert [in the book] sets out the "rules of the game" historically as to sex with young girls, and makes the point that Annabele was same age as Lol but so was HE.
so the gal I speak of [M1] was 15 but I was 19 so she was not really in Lolita "category".
moreso was the case 2 years earlier when at 17 I also had a 15 year old girlfriend [M2] that insisted we go see this movie in 1962.
ironically just this week I got to see Splendor in the Grass again after 52 years which was the catalyst for breakup with M2 [and not Lolita from 6 months before].
so all those memories came flooding back and indeed the words of SITG gained even more meaning.
have you seen SITG? another great 1962 movie, and how similar the need for "closure" in the endings of both movies
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Saemilin — 11 years ago(April 28, 2014 12:59 PM)
You were 19 and you dated a 15 year old? I could never do it myself. I had an 18 year old fall in love with me when I was 28 and I stopped it before it began as it was just too weird.
She had so many experiences of discovery to encounter as a young woman, and with a young man with whom she can share them with. Whereas I had already had them. I would just be providing those experiences for her. I have already created those memories with someone else. To regurgitate them, for her. Watching her grow in front of me while I am still. It provides no joy for me to engineer an abomination of a relationship.
They say that true love isn't when two lovers stare at each other. True love is when two lovers stare away from each other, but in the same direction.
So even though she's of legal age (18), I saw her as just a baby.
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Lester_Burnham_Risen — 11 years ago(April 28, 2014 07:47 PM)
you sound american where all of life is Carefully Taught by numbers right down to ages of people "dating" - what a horrible american expression.
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Lester_Burnham_Risen — 11 years ago(April 30, 2014 05:01 AM)
poopey is on ignore
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dackerma2000 — 11 years ago(August 02, 2014 01:52 AM)
Interesting comment. Likewise how people view Quilty (the truly dangerous and powerful and rich and manipulative child predator and child pornographer who has the police under his control and has easy and allowed access to young victims via his plays) as some sort of savior for Lolita. If you view Quilty as the true villain of Lolita then Humbert is doing society a favor by killing Quilty.