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theme (character type (Desi)):
Lolita → Gone Girl.
On the commentary Fincher says he wanted a Claire Quilty type for Desi and found it in Neil Patrick Harris.
“Fincher said he wanted a Claire quilty type and he's like, what's a modern Claire quilty type?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 2:18:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
unmapped (business context):
Lolita → Dr. Strangelove.
The speaker says the takeaway from Lolita was that Sellers maybe saved it commercially, so the studio wanted more Sellers for a Kubrick film.
“the takeaway from Lolita was like, sellers maybe saved that movie commercially.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:18:08 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Lolita:
The 'normal guy' scene is both funny and skin-crawling.
“I think it's both. Like, it is very funny, but it does make my skin crawl where the tension of it is like unbearable.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:01:50 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
career (career context):
Spartacus → Lolita.
Spartacus, Kubrick's biggest hit, is offered as one reason he got to make Lolita.
“So that's one reason he probably gets to make a lead.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:11:47 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Lolita:
The tagline 'How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?' is praised as one of the all-time greats, and later said to beat the movie itself.
“Look, this movie does have one of, if not the single greatest tagline of all time.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:12:00 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
unmapped (censorship):
Lolita → Will Hays.
The poster tagline boasts that the film got through the Hays Code.
“And so that tagline is like, can you believe we got it through the code?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:14:15 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
unmapped (answer film):
Lolita → Lolita (Adrian Lyne version).
Lyne's voiceover lifts the novel's language, described as the move if you want to do the anti-Kubrick Lolita 30 years later.
“which feels like the smart move to do if you're trying to do the anti-Kubric Lolita, like 30 years later.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:21:00 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Lolita:
Kubrick moved the Quilty killing to the top so the second half would not deflate.
“But it's why he moved the quilty killing up to the top of the movie is he's like, otherwise, the balloon is deflated and then something shocking happens at the end.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:26:50 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
theme (shape comparison):
Lolita → The Thing.
Quilty is compared to the shapeless menace of John Carpenter's The Thing.
“No, I'm saying he's like the thing, like John Carpenter's the thing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:27:45 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
unmapped (left to make):
One-Eyed Jacks → Lolita.
Kubrick quit One-Eyed Jacks, announcing he was leaving to do Lolita.
“He announced like, I'm leaving to do Lolita.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:39:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
industry (financing):
The Killing → Lolita.
Harris sold his rights to The Killing to raise the money to buy Lolita's rights.
“Um, has to sell his rights to the killing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:40:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
lineage (romantic lineage):
Stanley Kubrick → Lolita.
Kubrick (per the dossier) places Lolita in the lineage of illicit love stories like Romeo and Juliet.
“If you consider Romeo and Juliet, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, the red and the black.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:41:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Lolita:
At Film Forum the audience split into reverence, cursed object, and bafflement.
“And there were, I could feel there are people who are just like, reverence, Kubrick, masterpiece, obviously.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:50:59 · Fran Hoepfner (0.60 sure it was them) -
theme (tonal comparison):
Lolita → The Lobster.
The code-dodging dialogue gave the speaker the feel of The Lobster, a movie with a weirdly agreed-upon reality.
“The more I started to see it as like, oh, this feels like the lobster.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:51:25 · Fran Hoepfner (0.60 sure it was them) -
unmapped (improvised method):
Lolita → Dr. Strangelove.
Sellers improvised on set in both films and Kubrick folded the best improvisations into the script.
“so a lot of that is just sellers, which is going to be the same with Strange Love.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:00:23 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Lolita:
Sellers' improvisations were folded back into the script by rewriting, the same method used for Dr. Strangelove.
“The retro writing where he would like take sellers, improvs and then pick the right ones and go like, that's now part of the script.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:00:32 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
unmapped (screenwriter credit):
Vladimir Nabokov → Lolita.
Nabokov is the sole credited screenwriter and was Oscar-nominated, though by his own account about 20 percent of his script is on screen.
“Nabakov says about 20% of his screenplays on screen, but he is the only credited screenwriter and he did get an Oscar nomination.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:00:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Lolita:
The film's one Oscar nomination went to Nabokov for the screenplay.
“The film's only Oscar nomination.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:00:46 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
craft (structural change):
Lolita (1955 novel) → Lolita.
Kubrick's stated reason for restructuring: the novel's narrative interest drops once Humbert gets Lolita into bed.
“Kubrick's take, says, the main problem with the book is, and even with the film is the main narrative interest initially boils down to Will Humbrick, get Lolita into bed.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:10:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Lolita:
Warner Bros. reportedly offered Kubrick a million dollars not to make the film.
“They said you could have a $1000000 if you Don't make the movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:11:35 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Lolita:
Everyone calls her Lolita on screen; in the book it is Humbert's private name for her.
“The other big difference they make in the script, obviously, is that everyone calls your Lolita.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:17:22 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
unmapped (restores what Kubrick cut):
Lolita (Adrian Lyne version) → Lolita.
The Lyne film opens on Humbert's childhood backstory, which the Kubrick film removes.
“Which the Adrian line movie, like front loads.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:17:43 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
programming (first Kubrick-Sellers pairing):
Lolita → Dr. Strangelove.
Unlike Strangelove, Lolita had no prior Kubrick-Sellers connection.
“Because it's not like Strange Love where you're like, okay, there's a pre-existing connection now.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:20:10 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
unmapped (multiple-Sellers template):
Lolita → Dr. Strangelove.
The speaker says Lolita is where the multiple-Sellers-characters hit began, which is odd given Lolita comes first.
“It's kind of odd that this is the one that creates that.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:20:56 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
unmapped (off-screen events):
Lolita → Nope.
Both films put their biggest events off screen and tell them in talk.
“the nope thing where you're like, oh, like the biggest events are happening off screen and you're both telling us and not.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:22:07 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
theme (genre comparison):
Lolita → Universal Monster movies.
Mason's confessional scenes feel like a Universal monster monologuing about his curse.
“Those Mason scenes feel like Universal Monster shit where it's like the guy monologuing about his affliction”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:25:20 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
craft (on-set music):
West Side Story → Lolita.
West Side Story music was played on set to make Shelley Winters cry.
“And so they would play like West Side Story music to make Shelley Winters cry.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:28:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Lolita:
Kubrick played mood music on set: West Side Story for Winters, Irma la Douce for Mason.
“And so they would play like West Side Story music to make Shelley Winters cry.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:28:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Lolita:
The final reunion scene between Humbert and Lolita took about two weeks to shoot.
“They shot that for like 2 weeks.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:28:52 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Lolita:
Studio suggestions to get past the code included making Humbert and Lolita marry.
“Have them actually get married, I guess, just sort of with the thought of like, well, if they're married, then it's sort of like, it's legal.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:34:53 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
industry (studio-executive comedy):
Lolita → Hail, Caesar!.
Studio executives pitching Hays-code fixes sound like Hail, Caesar!.
“it makes me think of like Hail Caesar or whatever.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:35:18 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
industry (distribution):
Lolita → MGM.
The Hays Code seal meant MGM picked up the film after other studios ran.
“which meant that MGM picked it up.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:37:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
unmapped (what the code changed):
Lolita (1955 novel) → Lolita.
Kubrick says the film could not portray the obsession, so it implies Humbert loves her from the start.
“Whereas in the, he says, in my film, the fact that his sexual obsession could not be portrayed at all, just implies that he's in love with her from the start.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:40:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
unmapped (regret):
Stanley Kubrick → Lolita.
Kubrick later said that had he known how severe the limits would be he probably would not have made it.
“Kubrick later finally just comes out and says it and says, if I'd realized how severe limitations would be, I probably just wouldn't have made it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:43:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
lineage (later adaptation / contrast):
Lolita → Lolita (Adrian Lyne version).
The Lyne version does what Kubrick's could not and is called boring and unsuccessful.
“there's the line movie that does everything he couldn't do.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:44:25 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
lineage (adaptation):
Lolita (1955 novel) → Lolita.
The 1962 film is adapted from Nabokov's novel; the speaker reads Crowther's review saying the film keeps the names and a resemblance of plot.
“They made a movie from a script in which the characters have the same name as the characters in the book, and the plot bears a resemblance to the original”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:47:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
people (composer):
Nelson Riddle → Lolita.
Nelson Riddle wrote the Lolita Ya-Ya song that plays when Lolita is introduced.
“Yeah, the Yaya song by Nelson Riddle.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:53:14 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
craft (sounds like):
Lolita → Wes Anderson.
The Lolita Ya-Ya song is called something that would fit in a Wes Anderson movie.
“this would be in a fucking Wes Anderson movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:53:21 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Lolita:
At the drive-in, the hands under the blanket are staged as a Kubrick bit about hands.
“the drive-in theater, which is like a clever Kubrick bit of like watching how the hands move around.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:53:55 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Lolita:
Winters' nail polish is called the only outward physicalization of sex in the film.
“being the only outward physicalization of sex in this movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:54:18 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
industry (box-office rivals):
That Touch of Mink → Lolita.
The weekend Lolita opened at number five, That Touch of Mink was number one.
“No, number one at the box office, Griffin.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 2:09:11 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
industry (box-office rivals):
Advise and Consent → Lolita.
Advise and Consent, a Preminger political drama, was number two that weekend.
“Number 2 at the box office is a political drama.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 2:10:10 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
industry (box-office rivals):
West Side Story → Lolita.
West Side Story was still number three in its 37th week.
“It's in its 37th week of complete box office domination.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 2:11:42 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
industry (box-office rivals):
Boys' Night Out → Lolita.
Boys' Night Out, number four, is the kind of premise the Hays-era could allow.
“This is exactly what you could do in the haze coat.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 2:13:23 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)