| Nabokov himself dealt with it
quite lightly. "Couple of inches taller. Pink-rimmed
glasses.......How simple!" mused Humbert Humbert on the
transformation of his Lolita into Dolores Schiller. But she still had
"....the famous Lolita smile......which wandered with myopic
softness over chance objects...." Stanley Kubrick, an OO himself,
wasn't prepared to leave it so gentle and suggestive. And so the picture
of Sue Lyon with heart shaped sun glasses became the icon of the 1962
film. But the scenes where Humbert finds her pregnant and wearing her
Buddy Holly glasses are for Eddy the most poignant and erotic. |
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