"How can they put "Lolita" on the screen?" This was the slogan when the 1962 version of "Lolita" was released. In 1955, Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov published the novel "Lolita". This masterpiece, which was later hailed as a "milestone of contemporary literature", has been listed as a banned book for a long time and has received widespread and lasting criticism. Why does this happen? Let's start with the Chinese translation of its movie "One Tree Pear Blossom Pressed Begonia".
In the eighth year of Tiansheng in the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a scholar named Zhang Xian. He is very talented, and is known as the "Hua Nong Ying" doctor because of the famous phrase "Yun Po Yue Lai Hua Nong Ying". It is said that Zhang Xian married an 18-year-old concubine when he was 80 years old. Su Dongpo, a joke-loving friend, wrote a poem to tease him: "Eighteen bride and 80 Lang, pale hair and red makeup. The mandarin ducks are in double nights," A pear tree presses a begonia." Later, "a pear flower presses a begonia" became a euphemism for old couples and young wives, that is, "old cows eat tender grass."
"Lolita" tells such a story: University professor Farhambert is still single after middle age. Since the death of her first love girl when she was young, there is always a gentle and obscene nightmare hidden in her heart-those ten The teenage girls have an irresistible magical attraction to him. Once he accidentally saw Lolita, a 12-year-old girl, and immediately fell in love with her madly. In order to get close to her, he did not hesitate to marry Lolita's mother Charlotte. Lolita seduced Humbert when Humbert went out to play with Lolita. After learning the truth, Charlotte rushed out of the house angrily and was hit and killed by a car. After Charlotte's death, Humbert took Lolita to roam around. Lolita gradually couldn't bear this kind of life and was abducted by Playboy Claire Quinning. A few years later, Humbert discovered that Lolita was a woman and pregnant. He shot Kunning in despair...
Nabokov is one of the most important novelists in the 20th century. His literary review collection "Literary Lectures" has a great influence on later generations. "Lolita", a novel based on incest/pedophilia, made the upper class society feel very angry, but its literary value has been increasingly recognized, and it is considered a masterpiece comparable to "Ulysses". As Nabokov said in the preface of "Literary Lectures", if readers open "Madame Bovary" "only think that this is a work that'condemns the bourgeoisie', it would be too disappointing and too sorry for the author." "Lolita" is not a novel to render pornography. The language of the novel is full of prose and unconstrained atmosphere. It shows the inner world of a shy, autistic, and neurotic man with detailed descriptions and psychological depictions. It's so vivid and vivid. Another popular interpretation of the novel is that "Lolita" is not simply a novel of sex. It alludes to the surrender of the traditional elite culture represented by Europe to the modern popular culture represented by the United States, or the old European civilization vainly attempting to rejuvenate by persuading the young American culture. It expresses the sadness and helplessness of the former and the latter. Arrogant orgy.
"Lolita" was put on the screen twice. The 1962 version was directed by the film master Kubrick. At that time, because of the controversy, some stars refused Kubrick's invitation for fear of affecting the image. In 1997, Adrian Lynn, director of "Love You Nine and a Half Weeks", remade the film. Readers who are dissatisfied with the translation of the Chinese version of "Lolita" can experience the master's demeanor from the two films.
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