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'''''Lolita''''' is a 1962 [[black comedy]][{{Cite web |last=cinephiliabeyond |date=2025-07-13 |title=Filming the Unfilmable and Achieving the Unimaginable: How Kubrick's 'Lolita' Eventually Won Critics Over and Established Itself as an Acclaimed Sardonic Black Comedy • Cinephilia & Beyond |url=https://cinephiliabeyond.org/lolita/ |access-date=2025-09-28}}][{{Cite thesis |last=Lochem |first=D. van |title=A Study of Two Quiltys: On Kubrick's Adaptation of Lolita into a Black Comedy |date=2016 |degree=Bachelor Thesis |url=https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/26054}}][{{Cite web |title=The Boar |url=https://theboar.org/2022/03/the-subversive-brilliance-of-kubricks-lolita/ |access-date=2025-09-28 |website=theboar.org}}]-[[psychological drama film]] directed by [[Stanley Kubrick]], based on [[Lolita|the 1955 novel]] by [[Vladimir Nabokov]]. The [[black-and-white film]] follows a middle-aged literature professor who develops an infatuation with an adolescent. It stars [[James Mason]] as Humbert Humbert, [[Shelley Winters]] as Mrs. Haze, [[Peter Sellers]] as Quilty, and [[Sue Lyon]] (in her film debut) as Dolores "Lolita" Haze. |
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'''''Lolita''''' is a 1962 [[black comedy]][{{Cite web |last=cinephiliabeyond |date=2025-07-13 |title=Filming the Unfilmable and Achieving the Unimaginable: How Kubrick's 'Lolita' Eventually Won Critics Over and Established Itself as an Acclaimed Sardonic Black Comedy • Cinephilia & Beyond |url=https://cinephiliabeyond.org/lolita/ |access-date=2025-09-28}}][{{Cite thesis |last=Lochem |first=D. van |title=A Study of Two Quiltys: On Kubrick's Adaptation of Lolita into a Black Comedy |date=2016 |degree=Bachelor Thesis |url=https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/26054}}][{{Cite web |title=The Boar |url=https://theboar.org/2022/03/the-subversive-brilliance-of-kubricks-lolita/ |access-date=2025-09-28 |website=theboar.org}}]-[[psychological drama film]] directed by [[Stanley Kubrick]], based on [[Lolita|the 1955 novel]] by [[Vladimir Nabokov]]. The [[black-and-white film]] follows a middle-aged literature professor who develops an infatuation with an adolescent. It stars [[James Mason]] as Humbert Humbert, [[Shelley Winters]] as Mrs. Haze, [[Peter Sellers]] as Quilty, and [[Sue Lyon]] (in her film debut) as Dolores "Lolita" Haze. |
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The novel was considered "unfilmable" when Kubrick acquired the rights around the time of its U.S. publication. Owing to restrictions imposed by the [[Hays Code]] (1934–68), Kubrick and producer [[James B. Harris]] were compelled to tone down the pedophilic elements that were central to the novel's narrative.[Kolker and Abrams, 2024 p. 178: "...the pair had to work carefully to get the novel made into a film. They began immediately downplaying the paedophilic aspects of the novel."] Sue Lyon was 14 years old at the time filming began and played a 13-year-old girl at the time of Humbert's seduction.[Kolker and Abrams, 2024 p. 184: "Lyon was fourteen when filming started and fifteen when it finished...Lolita was twelve and a half in the book; Sue Lyon [her character] was thirteen."] |
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The novel was considered "[[Unfilmability|unfilmable]]" when Kubrick acquired the rights around the time of its U.S. publication. Owing to restrictions imposed by the [[Hays Code]] (1934–68), Kubrick and producer [[James B. Harris]] were compelled to tone down the pedophilic elements that were central to the novel's narrative.[Kolker and Abrams, 2024 p. 178: "...the pair had to work carefully to get the novel made into a film. They began immediately downplaying the paedophilic aspects of the novel."] Sue Lyon was 14 years old at the time filming began and played a 13-year-old girl at the time of Humbert's seduction.[Kolker and Abrams, 2024 p. 184: "Lyon was fourteen when filming started and fifteen when it finished...Lolita was twelve and a half in the book; Sue Lyon [her character] was thirteen."] |
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