Novel v. Film
Welcome back bloggers! Today, for my fifth and final blog post about Lolita, I will be comparing the novel to its 1962 film adaptation. The stills that I’ve incorporated throughout my posts have all been taken from this film. The 1962 film was directed by Stanley Kubrick, and the screenplay was written by Vladimir Nabokov himself. I find it fascinating that Nabokov was responsible for the film adaptation because there were several distinct discrepancies between the novel and film. In my opinion, the most striking of those discrepancies was the emphasis of Clare Quilty’s role in the film. In the film version of Lolita, the opening scene is that of Clare Quilty’s murder, immediately suggesting the importance of his character. From that scene forward, Quilty’s secretive presence is suggested in several scenes in which he is not included in the novel. On some occasions during the film, the main characters were not even aware of his presence. In the final scene of the film, when H...
