#lolita a screenplay

[lolita-on-the-dotted-line]

[lolitafan1997]

Clip from one of the deleted scenes. They always cut out the parts where Lo told him the truth.

Same as in the book. Very few times did he slip up and let us know what she was really saying and not what he pretended she said.

[doloresdisparue]

it's mindblowing how we're even still argueing whether the book is a love story when given the opportunity to showcase the story again in plainer language this is what nabokov turned out. there is no place in the world where you could hide.

[selkiecoded]

i love libby because i love library but ill admit i miss overdrive terribly. i still have her because shes a great epub reader and libby just cant compete with that.

[jodielandons]

the miller's girl screenplay reads just like this lolita-esque harry styles wattpad fanfic i stumbled across in high school... yet somehow it was considered one of the best unproduced screenplays of 2016 and is now a major motion picture starring the most popular young actress of the past few years....

y'all write your stories no matter what you think of the concept! obviously anything is possible lmao

[pooklet]

People You'd Like to Get to Know Better

Was tagged by @furbyq!

Last song: I Don't Care (Cobra Starship Suave Suarez Remix) by Fall Out Boy

Favorite color: Pink!

Currently watching: Dimension 20: Mentopolis.

Last movie: The Barbie movie. (I didn't like it!)

Last reading: Just finished Lolita: A Screenplay by Vladimir Nabokov, and started A Glossary of Haunting by Eve Tuck and C. Ree.

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Sweet! A bitch loves to bake.

Last thing I googled: "lol omg fierce canceled" Was looking for any hard sales numbers that might've leaked so as to explain this TRAGEDY.

Current obsession: Good Omens season 2 has been eating away at my brain, and I've gotten back into Amigurmi and making plarn.

Currently working on: Sims? Editing Cakebread pics. But in general, making a new craft desk out of a hollow core door.

Tagging: uhhhh @lilithpleasant @mrs-mquve @horusmenhosetix @kitteninthewindow and @skulldilocks (I think I already know the answers but I always want to know more about my favorite person. 💗)

[byneddiedingo]

Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, and Robert McKim in The Mark of Zorro (Fred Niblo, 1920)

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Noah Beery, Charles Hill Mailes, Claire McDowell, Marguerite De La Motte, Robert McKim, George Periolat, Walt Whitman, Sidney De Gray, Tote De Crow. Screenplay: Douglas Fairbanks, Eugene Miller, based on a magazine story by Johnston McCulley. Cinematography: William C. McGann, Harris Thorpe. Art direction: Edward M. Langley.

Film firsts are usually worth checking out, and The Mark of Zorro is a double first: It's the first appearance of the title character on screen, and it's the first of the genre of films for which Douglas Fairbanks remains best-known, the swashbuckler. Since Fairbanks and co-scenarist Eugene Miller adapted Johnston McCulley's 1919 magazine story, "The Curse of Capistrano," the masked hero has been played by Tyrone Power, Guy Williams (in the Disney TV series), Frank Langella, George Hamilton (in a spoof featuring Zorro's gay twin brother), Alain Delon, and (as the aging Zorro and his hand-picked successor) Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas, and appeared in numerous Mexican and European films. The trope of the do-gooder who pretends to be a wimp but turns into a force for justice has its precursor in the Baroness Orczy's play and novel The Scarlet Pimpernel and lives on in countless superhero tales, most notably the Clark Kent/Superman story. As the languid fop Don Diego Vega, Fairbanks affects a weary slouch and spends his time doing tricks that involve a handkerchief. When he turns into Zorro, with mask and scarf over his head, he pastes on a little mustache oddly reminiscent of Boris Badenov, and succeeds in taking on the villains with great élan. The film itself begins slowly, with too much exposition crammed into the intertitles, but eventually Fairbanks gets his act together, and the climax of the movie is a hilarious showpiece for his acrobatic moves. He leads the Capistrano constabulary on a merry chase over walls and across rooftops, inevitably tempting them into disaster: He leaps over a pigsty, for example, whereupon the pursuers fall into it. At the end, revealing his secret identity, he wins the hand of Lolita Pulido (Marguerite De La Motte), by saving her family's estate from the clutches of the evil governor (George Periolat) and his henchmen, Capitán Juan Ramon (Robert McKim) and Sgt. Pedro Gonzales (Noah Beery), both of whom get branded with the emblematic Z (though the sergeant gets his only in the seat of his pants). Good fun, once it gets going. 

[mashamorevvna]

2, 3, 6 for the unusual writing asks!

thank youuuu 🥺🥺

2. What is the most experimental or bizarre thing you've written? Share it here (or a quote from it).

it's gonna be "it would not be i any longer (it would be we, it would be us)"! i don't think it's particularly bizarre or experimental in form but id never done 2nd person before, and i guess maybe the experimental part of it was playing the double pov slash possession which was really quite fun. genuinely find anything pertaining subsumption of identity to be extremely interesting stuff for an unreliable narrator to tackle

3. When did you first start writing, whether that was fanfiction or original work? What was your first work about, to the best you remember? (For bonus points, quote it!)

genuinely can't quite remember, my teens are incredibly hazy memory wise. it's a toss up between the original work that was a gothic horror pastiche of renaissance italy with an ancient rome scaffolding or straight up skyrim fanfiction. it is what it is

6. Name three writing inspirations: one dead published author, one living published author, and one fanficcer/fellow amateur writer.

dead author(s): oh its clarice lispector hands down. in terms of prose she just had a clarity of thought and word choice that I find SO admirable. and in general the way she centered and delved so deep in the interiority of female characters was so mesmerising to me

marguerite duras is a close second! it's very difficult for translated prose to sound 'right' in italian but hers did, and the lover + the malady of death were quite stunning pieces of short fiction (as was the screenplay for hiroshima mon amour)

living author(s): obligatory catherynne m valente mention. deathless was My special book during my teens and in general i hold it quite dear to me as inspo. also obligatory mention to mary szybist's poetry bc she has this poem reframing the virgin mary's annunciation with lines from lolita that i will think about until i die

fanficcer(s): ao3 user smaragdina who influenced my fanfic sensibilities since i was 13 and what i look for (character pieces, gen fic, rare pairs etc) in a way that's pretty hard to overstate. anddd ao3 user steepled_fingers for writing my favourite fanfic of all time. incredible work about a dubious and horrific robot/human relationship

[sunlilys]

some notes on lolita (1962)

dir. stanley kubrick

kubrick paid $150,000 for the rights to the film

vladimir nabakov turned down kubrick’s first offer to write the screenplay. later explaining, “the idea of tampering with my own novel caused me only revulsion.”

nabakov’s first draft was over 400 pages long

nabakov did not recognize the script when he first saw the movie (a few days before the premiere), believing that the film told a vastly different story than the novel, and what his script was trying to convey

vladimir nabakov went on to publish his version the screenplay

[lolitafan1997]

This scene was never in the final movie, but I found it in the shooting script. Here is some of it below.

[doloresdisparue]

(dolores letter from the novel)

(dolores after humbert tracks her and richard down anyway from the never realised screenplay written by nabokov himself)

this is so deeply sad to me. of course we get glimpses of humbert being violent towards dolly in the novel (and this is, for a moment, not counting the obvious sexual abuse) but she was genuinely scared of him and what he might do to her. she told him she thought he had murdered charlotte. it’s not reaching far to conclude she could meet a similar fate for trying to run. and even more than two years later she thought he might retaliate violently (and she was right to worry given that he was planning to kill her husband!)

[realtime1960s]

June 13, 1962 - Opening today is “Lolita,” a psychological comedy-drama directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the 1955 novel of the same title by Vladimir Nabokov, who wrote the screenplay. The film follows Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged European literature professor who becomes infatuated with Dolores Haze (nicknamed "Lolita"), an adolescent girl, with disastrous results. It stars James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, and Sue Lyon (pictured) as Lolita.

[geekcavepodcast]

Miguel Bernardeau and Renata Notni Join Amazon’s “Zorro”

Miguel Bernardeau and Renata Notni have joined the cast of Amazon Studios and Secuoya Studios’ Zorro series. Javier Quintas and Miguel Angel Vivas are directing. Carlos Portela wrote the screenplay.

Zorro is set to be a modern take on the character. Bernardeau will portray Diego de la Vega, a landowner and disguised hero of the people. Notni will portray Lolita Marquez, a love from Diego’s younger years.

Variety broke the news.

(Image from Penguin Classics’ edition of Johnston McCulley’s The Mark of Zorro)

[byneddiedingo]

Welcome, Mr. Marshall! (Luis García Berlanga, 1953)

Cast: Manolo Morán, José Isbert, Lolita Sevilla, Alberto Romea, Elvira Quintillá, Luis P��rez de León, Félix Fernández, Fernando Aguirre. Screenplay: Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis García Berlanga, Miguel Mihura. Cinematography: Manuel Berenguer. Film editing: Pepita Orduna. Music: Jesús García Leoz. As he so often did, Luis García Berlanga thumbed his nose at the Franco-era censors with a satiric look at a small Spanish village out to court foreign aid from the Americans under the Marshall Plan. The residents set up a kind of Andalusian Potemkin village, donning costumes they don't usually wear and generally dressing up the place in the fashion they think American tourists will expect. In dream sequences, we see what the villagers not only hope but also what they fear they will get from the Americans.

[donfadrique]

Part Two

4/🗡️

I'm in love with the screenplay (I hope I won't regret it later xD). It is close to the book and at the same time original; there is logic in it and there are no errors that could force a historian to cover their ears; it is made for people with a sense of humor; the characters’ lines are like aphorisms; the screenplay is the backbone of the movie and makes it dynamic and interesting.

5/🗡️

So Diego returns home. He doesn’t know why his father needs him and thinks that nothing has changed in California during his absence. And we see that the true Diego is not only a brave cornet. The true Diego smiles nostalgically and charmingly in a tavern while listening to a local folk song. The true Diego is polite, but he is used to giving orders.

NB! Diego is dressed in expensive and beautiful traveling clothes not because he is pretending to be a fop, but because he is the son of the Mayor (Alcalde), His Excellency Don Alejandro.

6/🗡️

Having met Captain Pasquale, Diego still does not wear the mask of a sissy. He asks the Captain in a harsh tone what the hell is going on and why his house has turned into a barracks. However, upon hearing that power in the city now belongs to the new mayor, who is supported by the military led by Pasquale, Diego forces himself to smile sweetly (Power perfectly portrays a man who has to think very quickly and change his style of behavior on the fly).

Captain Pasquale, reveling in his power, is showing off in front of Diego, the son of the FORMER Alcalde, and his flattered chuckle in response to Diego’s remark "How can I refuse a man anything with a naked sword in his hand?" is especially noteworthy. (If any of you were waiting for ambiguous remarks and situations, then they got the first one of them. However, irony and "multi-layered" jokes are characteristic of the screenplay and make it so wonderful.)

I toy with the sword. Do you fancy the weapon? © Captain Pasquale

You may see a double bottom in or not, but the idea of flirting (wittingly or unwittingly) was introduced by Captain Pasquale. (And this was unexpected, yeah.)

NB! Looking straight ahead, Diego is frowning and worried, but turning his face to the Captain, he smiles kindly. Thus, the viewer sees that Diego is pretending so as not to get into a trouble before meeting his parents.

The idea to portray a dandy is also not entirely Diego’s! By lying to Pasquale that he was not interested in weapons, Diego hid the fact that he was a duelist and a military man. When Inez Quintero, the wife of the corrupt Alcalde, enchanted by the handsome young caballero from Madrid, invites Diego to accompany her while she goes shopping, Diego instantly complements his new personality with new details, thus becoming a sissy and a fop.

Luis Quintero: That's one little peacock that won't give us any trouble.

Pasquale: You think not?

Flattering nickname "Cockerel" vs derogatory one "Peacock" — what an excellent play on words!

Luis Quintero: Ha-ha! The Capitán is jealous. The fop has pricked the fencing master. Touché.

The implication is that Diego has charmed Inez (whose husband is not against her love affair with the Captain, as I understand it).

So YES, in this movie the sword is not only a sword, but also a euphemism, a phallic symbol. (Nowadays they have almost forgotten how to joke so subtly, alas. They talk about sex rudely and directly, which is why this masterpiece is considered "old-fashioned".)

Well, Diego now needs to try to charm and fool Pasquale (while Diego himself is enchanted by the young Lolita).

It's funny how Rathbone managed to sit on the table in such cavalry boots, and sit elegantly! He was a very talented person :)

7/🗡️

Wow, Lolita is interested in Diego, but Inez tells her to calm down and not rush to get married, otherwise she will send Lolita to a convent. Everyone is competing for Diego's attention 😏

8/🗡️

Don Alejandro says "Two wrongs don't make a right". He refuses to go against the government he served for 30 years. He refuses to break the law the way local authorities do. In addition, Don Alejandro understands that the caballeros' uprising will be easily suppressed by the soldiers. But Padre Felipe is indignant, and when Diego pretends to be indifferent, the Padre is disappointed in him.

Fray Felipe: To think that the boy that I helped to raise, the boy that I taught to hold a firm wrist behind a true point, has turned into a puppy! Bah!

Don Diego Vega: Well! Tsk, tsk, tsk! How vexatious!