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Some of my classmates are from various parts of the United States. We wondered whether movies are filmed in various states or just certain places. Please solve the mystery of Ramsdale and whether we can watch movies made throughout the U.S.
Meanwhile, there are thousands of other movies filmed throughout the U.S. Please do not confuse these with another category. That would be movies where the story line is represented in a certain location yet the actual filming is elsewhere. For example, many plots are taking place in one location when the actors and crew are filming the movie in California or New York. More and more, films are shot in Canada where crews can be hired less expensively.
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a. The 1997 Lolita is closer to the novel, it went more in depth about how inappropriate the relationship was. The black & white film had some suggestive themes but due to censorship back then it was made to be more light hearted. Looking at the color version we see how tactful he was in getting close to the girl
The 1962 Quilty is funny and creepy. Actor Peter Sellers was given the opportunity to improvise some of his dialogue. A few years later he and director Stanley Kubrick made Dr. Strangelove, for which they both received Oscar nominations in their categories.
A) The color version of Lolita aligns more closely to the novel due to the scenes being more revealing about the relationship between Humbert and Lolita. For example, the 1997 Lolita stuck with the theme of the book and boldly portrayed its darker and intricate parts of the novel. Meanwhile, the 1962 Lolita does stick with the story-line but certain plot details and character actions are cut out or condensed due to censorship
D) Both film adaptations of Lolita are different in various aspects. For instance, the 1962 film was stricter with censorship while the 1997 film was open to explicit portrayal of the novels themes. Lolita in the 1962 film focused on dark humor and was more restrained depiction of the novels controversial elements while the 1997 film focused on the inappropriate relationship between Humbert and Lolita.
d. The first film has a lighter tone than the second movie, where it uses more dark humor and insinuates the things that happen between Humbert and Lolita. I think the first film has much more humor than the second one due to the censorship placed on the first film and to make it a lighter film to watch while getting the main points across of what happens throughout the film he uses humor. Yes!
e. Within the novel, I detect hints of humor coming from Humbert as he monologues [narrates] about his past experiences with Annabel how he could never finish what he started, and how he claims to be good-looking without showing anything to prove it besides his words.
C) What I like about Louise in the 1997 version of Lolita is that she is given way more screen time compared to the 1962 version. In the 1962 version, Louise is barely shown and is just giving the letter to Humbert so that he can read it. In the 1997, Louise grows more suspicious as she wonders as to why Humbert is constantly interacting with Lolita and is always in her room.
c. What did you notice about the two different versions of Louise, the maid?
I noticed Louise the maid was a bit more sassy. I also got the sense she was more present in this version of the film as well. Though, Ive only scene both versions once.
A) In my opinon the 1997 version seems closer to the novel of Lolita. The black and white version appears to leave more of the actions between the main characters up to interpretation while the later version is more explicit in showing the relationship between Lolita and Humbert.
B) The actors in both movies seem to have adapted their roles accurately to the books but adding their own personalities to the role. For example when the 1997 Humbert acted calm and speechless when his journal was found but the black and white version he acted more in a panic state and tried to explain his actions.
C) Louise the maid had more screen time in the 1997 version of the movie. This extra screentime gives her character more depth as she wondered why Humbert was in Lolita room. In the black and white version this depth is missing.
D) The black and white movie appears to have more humor in it. This could be due to it having more censorship in the topic. The 1997 version takes a serious tone and since its more explicit its probably harder to add humor into this kind of movie. Yes, Travis, and that is a good point.
b. Most of the actors seemed to have played their roles pretty well but Quilty was less interactive in the colored version compared to the black-and-white version. Although the colored version portrayed the characters better Humbert seems more serious compared to how he is in the other version.
d. The difference between the two films is that Lolita (1962) seems to be turning the scenes into comedy while cutting out the small details and the Lolita 1997 version includes all the details and seems to be more serious and dramatic. The 1962 version has more humor because if it was taken too seriously the movie would have been said to be sexual child abuse since Lolita was still a child.
a- Both black & white and color version both use the same book as the source however the color version showed deeper feelings in a way that clearly shows their deep relationship while the black & white tends to show more tone
b-I think all the actors playing on both films did a pretty good job in portraying each chacters personalities, tone, and perspective. Which is important when playing in a film that has a dark tone and is set in a different era.
a) The film in color seems to be closer to the novel. The way the scenes are played corresponds with how it was written. The colored film depicts exactly how each character was and how inappropriate the relationship between Lolita and Humbert was.
d) The first film was lighthearted while the second film had more emotion. I believe that this was influenced by the decade that it was filmed. I think the 1962 version had to have more humor to mask the perversion otherwise the audience would have an extremely difficult time digesting the film.
We shouldn't be talking about these things. And by "these things" I don't necessarily mean sex in general. Sex is okay filtered through the acceptable narratives of or cinematic pop-cultural lexicon. The happy conquests of the charismatic man are a fine topic for a film, as are the the constant failings of the empathetic dope. The female sexual experience is okay as along as it kinda mimics the male sexual experience. Basically we're willing to watch attractive actors an actresses roll in the sheets as long as their sex lives are at their own command. We do not take well to stories of people whose sexual desires do the controlling.
Lolita's Humbert and Shame's Brandon are two such people. Though it seems like they have it all. They're attractive, rich, sophisticated, educated and lead lives of effortless good fortune. Brandon's good looks and success place no limits onto the conquests craved by his sex addiction. Humbert's ridiculous luck places him as the sole guardian of a pretty young girl whose already had just enough experience to alleviate him from any guilt. The only thing Humbert and Brandon lack is someone else to blame.
As spectators to their inevitable downward spirals, it's difficult to watch them make all the choices that lead to their sad end and then feel sorry when they get there, especially when they leave casualties in their wake. The films they inhabit don't ask us to sympathize for them with a wink of dramatic irony like A Clockwork Orange or The Godfather (both great films) do with their protagonists. Instead they ask us to observe and then try to grasp the incredibly complex realtionship we have with the power of our own desires.
This is such an easy source of drama that on most any evening you can find television shows about addicts and hoarders and attempted interventions. On most supermarket shelves you can find magazines with tales of celebrities suffering from addictions. Psychological damage sells. The best of these paint complex portraits of real people trying to survive in a world that demands they be at war with themselves. The worst of them gleefully invite us to shed our empathies and delight in the chaos. It's difficult to have empathy for someone like Brandon whose problem includes attracting a plethora of beautiful women that would make any man jealous. And it's even more difficult to have empathy for someone like Humbert who preys on children.
Add to this the fact that both films omit any context in which to place our sympathies. Shame clearly suggests that Brandon has been damaged somehow, but we never know how. The most common criticism of the film is of its lack of backstory. But I wonder if such details are relevant. Do certain backstories justify his behaivor while others don't? Or would some at least invite our sympathy more than others? It's easy for us to postpone our emotional investment in someone until we have more details. But that's not what the movie asks of us.
In the case of Humbert, while the novel Lolita clearly sets up his penchant for young girls, the film omits this entirely. I've often wondered how viewers in 1962, who didn't have the backstory of the book reacted when their hero began to covet the young Dolores Haze. Of course the film had little choice than to convert the story into comedy to soften the blow. But there's still a surprising amount of drama and suffering to be had among the proceedings. And comedy or drama, there's only so much you can tiptoe around the central plot of a man lusting for an adolescent.
Then there are the other victims of these men's desires. Brandon's severly depressd sister Sissy, who pursues her sexual needs just as nihilistically as Brandon, but has to be chided and demeaned for it. And there's Humbert's Dolores, who has little time in life to be anything other than an object of temptation. Even her mother, the comedic relief, bumbling, boisterious Charlotte doesn't deserve her fate.