maggie is a 2015 post-apocalyptic horror drama film directed by henry hobson , in his directorial debut , written by john scott 3 , and starring arnold schwarzenegger , abigail breslin and joely richardson .

maggie is a dramatic departure for schwarzenegger , who is better known for his action film roles .

the film was originally set to have its world premiere at the 2014 toronto international film festival , but lionsgate bought the american distribution rights and pulled the film out of the festival 's roster .

it instead premiered at the 2015 tribeca film festival on april 23 , 2015 , as part of their lineup , followed by a limited theatrical release and simultaneous vod release on may 8 , 2015 .

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“maggie” is playing as part of the tribeca film festival . a theatrical release will follow on may 8 .
the film will be released on 24 july . it premiered at the tribeca film festival in april to mixed reviews .
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maggie was shared with an audience for the first time at the 2015 tribeca film festival on wednesday . the film was originally scooped up by lionsgate before its initially - scheduled world premiere at toronto last year .
2015 film credits include : maggie ' s plan by rebecca miller , james lapine ' s custody and the silent treatment by ira sachs .
maggie screens again at the tribeca film festival on april 25 , 9 : 30pm . for more information and to purchase tickets , visit the festival ' s website . maggie opens in theaters and vod on may 8 .
levy ' s film , mistress america , marks his third collaboration with director noah baumbach . the film , which stars greta gerwig , premiered at the 2015 sundance film festival and was released by fox searchlight on august 14 .
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raw deal … arnold schwarzenegger and abigail breslin in maggie . photograph : lukas ettlin
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its creepy atmosphere aside ,
maggie
is a slog of the living dead .
freddy ' s dead : the final nightmare is a 1991 horror - fantasy film , the sixth , and as the title suggests , intended to be the last film in the series of films featuring freddy krueger . however , the box office success of the film prevented the series from ending ( much like friday the 13th parts four and nine ) . another film , wes craven ' s new nightmare , was produced following this film .
sony pictures classics has set an awards - qualifying december release in the u . s . for “the lady in the van , ” starring maggie smith . the film will premiere as a special presentation at the toronto film festival . “the lady in the van” is a film version of a british play that starred smith . the movie is directed by [ … ]
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although freddy’s dead was a box office success , it received mostly negative reviews both the critics and the fans alike . the film holds an poor overall score of only 21 % on rotten tomatoes , making it the second lowest rating nightmare on elm street film . the critics criticised the film’s poor 3d visual effects and its handicapped comedic film style . in nightmare on elm street encyclopedia dvd features , robert shaye apologized to the fans about the film’s poor reception .
as for maggie , i hope it ' s as good as i ' ve read .
wade brings maggie back to his kansas farm , where he lives with maggie ' s stepmother caroline ( joely richardson ) ; maggie ' s own mother , wade ' s first wife , has died years before . wade and caroline ' s two other children have been sent to live with caroline ' s sister for safety , so that they can look after maggie .
maggie then says
freddy ' s dead .
and the credits roll , showing archive footage of all the six films ( at the time of the film ' s release ) .
the film will be directed by commercial director henry hobson . production will commence in the fall .
julianne moore portrays a columbia professor and the wife of ethan hawke’s character in “maggie’s plan . ”
‘she’s wonderful - she’s just kind of destroying my life’ … gerwig and hawke in maggie’s plan .
i ' m absolutely thrilled that sony classics will be distributing maggie ' s plan . they are an iconic company and the perfect home for this film ,
said miller in a statement .
played the role of wade in the film for $ 0 after falling in love with the script .
miller is also the screenwriter of the feature film proof ( 2005 ) adapted from the stage play .
greta gerwig plays a single woman and ethan hawke a married educator in rebecca miller’s “maggie’s plan . ”
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“in maggie , i am the everyman … dealing with the most basic concerns – protecting his family . ”
arnold schwarzenegger is turning to the zombie world , signing on to star in and produce “ maggie . ”
as part of the deal , the film will not screen at the toronto fest , as had been planned .
written and directed by miller - - with a script based on a story by karen rinaldi - - the comedy - drama premiered at the 2015 toronto international film festival and will screen soon at the new york film festival .
according to box office mojo , maggie will come out in theaters on may 8th from roadside attractions . directed by hobson off a black list script by john scott 3 , maggie stars schwarzenegger , breslin , and joely richardson .
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what a hoot , loved this film ! every character is well acted and are given great dialog . highly recommended .
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the film also features bill hader , maya rudolph , travis fimmel , ida rohatyn , wallace shawn and mina sundwall .
, is intent on living out a meticulously planned life . to conquer that goal , maggie controls the lives of others to help meet her needs . writer / director rebecca miller’s film is tonally the complete opposite of its lead – true to life , it’s unpredictable and a bit of a mess . and that’s what makes maggie’s plan such a delight .
maya rudolph and bill hader play a married couple who are friends with ms . gerwig’s character in “maggie’s plan . ”
it’s most prestigious star would have to be dame maggie smith , who played violet crawley , dowager countess of grantham .
wade brings maggie home to his wife / maggie ' s stepmother caroline ( joely richardson ) and her siblings bobby and molly ( aiden and carsen flowers ) . the children are sent to stay with their aunt until maggie ' s issue is dealt with . she talks to bobby , who more or less knows what ' s going to happen to her .
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really excited to start shooting maggie today with our director @ henryhobson and my fantastic co - star , @ yoabbaabba . urltoken
after a couple of weeks seeking out his teenage daughter maggie , wade finds her in the quarantine wing of a hospital . maggie has been infected by a lethal outbreak that transforms the victim into a zombie . wade ' s friend dr . vern kaplan releases maggie to spend her last days with wade and her family . her stepmother caroline asks wade to take their little kids to her sister ' s house to keep them safe . while maggie is slowly transformed , wade stays with her protecting maggie . but dr . vern warns him that the moment that he will have to take an ultimate decision is closer .
arnold schwarzenegger ' s
maggie ,
an indie zombie drama shot in new orleans last fall , has landed a distribution deal , and on the eve of what would have been its premiere at next month ' s toronto international film festival . according to deadline , lionsgate acquired director henry hobson ' s film this week , with an eye for an early 2015 release .
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baumbach’s muse and frequent collaborator , greta gerwig , also gives the film a feeling of familiarity as the title character . we’ve seen her play a version of maggie many times before ; it is her bread and butter . maggie is guileless and enthusiastic—one sharp - tongued character aptly describes her as “a little bit stupid”—which gives a purity to her fumbling attempts toward maturity and stability .
schwarzenegger is showing no signs of slowing down as he continues ramping up his film career following his seven years as california governor .
there is potential for a touching film about goodbyes here , but debutant director henry hobson doesn ' t really pull it off .
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the directorial debut of henry hobson , “maggie” is a zombie drama about what happens to a rural midwest family in the wake of their eldest daughter being bitten . that inky black bite marks maggie ( “zombieland’s” abigail breslin ) for death . in her final days , maggie’s father ( schwarzenegger ) reminisces with her , cares for her , and wonders what to do when she turns from his firstborn into one of the walking dead . the law demands maggie be turned over to the police for confinement , and eventual euthanasia , but family man and farmer wade struggles with the cruel possibility that it might be kinder to put down maggie himself .
it’s a bold tonal decision , to be sure , but—not unlike the plan in “maggie’s plan”—it doesn’t quite turn out as expected .
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galt niederhoffer ' s the romantics , which premiered at 2010 ' s sundance film festival , marked levy ' s third trip to utah . in 2008 , he launched the first series of green porno which also screened at the toronto and berlin international film festivals . between parts 1 and 2 of the green porno series , levy lensed wendy and lucy . the film earned rave reviews for its cinematography after opening at the cannes film festival . in 2007 levy provided cinematography fellow service to the sundance institute director ' s lab .
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as a film , “maggie” feels slight . set after the rise of the “necro - ambulist” virus , the film tells the story of wade , a father ( schwarzenegger ) who finds his daughter maggie ( abigail breslin ) after she has run away . unfortunately , at some point , she was attacked and bitten by someone with the virus , so by the time he finds her , it ' s too late . she ' s been infected , and doctors inform wade that she will turn at some point in the next few weeks , and when that happens , his options are limited . he can turn her in to the government quarantine , he can give her the same “cocktail” drug they administer in the quarantine , or he can find a way to kill her quick . there is no good option , and from the beginning of the film , it ' s just a slow sad countdown to that moment where maggie isn ' t maggie anymore .
last year , some eyebrows were raised when the zombie movie “ maggie , ” originally scheduled to premiere as part of the midnight madness lineup at the toronto international film festival , was pulled at the last minute , when lionsgate acquired the movie just before the fest . and while some wondered if it was an indication of the film’s quality , it was actually a canny move on behalf of the studio . “maggie” is not your standard zombie movie , and while it tantalizingly puts action hero arnold schwarzenegger into the lead role , the film is actually low on setpieces , and instead is a ponderous , sombre take on the genre that may leave those looking for a traditional horror flick disappointed .
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maggie is a us horror drama about a young woman returning to her family home after she ' s been infected with an incurable disease .
caa is repping domestic rights to “maggie . ” lotus , which was formed this year by execs from inferno , is selling international rights .
the most moving part of maggie is a brief sequence during which maggie gets to spend one last night with a group of high school friends , including trent ( bryce romero ) , a guy she had a relationship with who’s now also infected . whereas all of the moments between maggie and wade feel rather monotonous , seeing an infected maggie try to have some fun with her healthy high school friends is incredibly refreshing . there’s no forgetting the fact that maggie is on her way out , but getting to see her hang out with her best friend allie ( raeden greer ) and share one last tender moment with trent makes her two subsequent scenes with them the most effective tearjerkers of the movie .
most of maggie is so dark you can barely make out the zombies or the humans . it also moves more slowly than the ghouls .
it completely undercuts a later scene in which maggie meets up with her friends , and one of them , who’s infected and a bit further along than her , casts doubt on whether quarantine is a place anyone should want to go and generally illustrates the internal struggles of the film’s characters in a much less expository way than all the over - intense doctor lectures . if things had seemed more normal after maggie first got infected , the scene would be a great turning point and a way to illustrate the challenges maggie’s family will soon face without over - explaining them .
wade tries to create of his home a fortress to protect them from the outside world , but that becomes increasingly difficult . wade has to kill a couple of neighbors who have turned into zombies , and the local police threaten to forcibly take maggie into custody . still , wade tries to preserve some sense of normalcy for maggie , as they reminisce about her late mother , and maggie spends a night hanging out with old friends . but even while with her friends , maggie is reminded of what awaits her ; her boyfriend has also been infected with the virus .
when maggie finds the trapped fox , she returns to the house to get a gun . the closeup of the gun on the mantle reveals it to be a double barrel shotgun , but when maggie takes it from the mantle it is in fact a . 22 bolt action rifle .
the film tells the story of a deadly zombie virus that has put a plague on the world . when maggie , a vivacious young woman becomes infected , her father brings her home to let her be with their family . as maggie’s condition worsens , their relationship is tested , a father’s love holding on stronger than the disease . this heart - wrenching twist on the zombie apocalypse puts a human face on an inexplicable horror .
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reviewed at tribeca film festival ( spotlight ) , april 22 , 2015 . mpaa rating : pg - 13 . running time : 94 min .
summary maggie is a us horror drama about a young woman returning to her family home after she ' s been infected with an incurable disease .
maggie ' s condition starts to get worse . she goes into the woods and encounters a small fox . she later runs back into her home with her face caked in blood . maggie mentions the fox to her parents . wade goes into the woods and finds the fox in pain , and he shoots it . caroline urges wade to call the authorities in to take maggie away . a couple of officers do show up later , but wade fights one of them . maggie comes in and assures them that she is fine so that they won ' t take her away .
he shot maggie ' s plan for director rebecca miller , starring greta gerwig , ethan hawke , julianne moore , bill hader and maya rudolph .
the film tells the story of a deadly zombie virus that has put a plague on the world . when maggie , a vivacious young woman becomes infected , her father brings her home to let her be with their family . as maggie’s condition worsens , their relationship is tested , a father’s love holding on stronger than the disease . this heart - wrenching twist on the zombie apocalypse puts a human face on an inexplicable horror .
hobson , 34 , born in salisbury , wiltshire , has no film connections in his family . his father is a university lecturer , his mother a radiographer . he could barely believe it as he watched the footage produced during the film’s 25 - day shoot . schwarzenegger is in almost every scene .
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cut to a few years later . john has left georgette and married maggie . the two have a daughter together but also split time with john’s kids with georgette ( mina sundwall and jackson frazer ) . they seem happy—and maggie is even thriving amid the chaos of balancing work and mothering three kids—but it doesn’t take long for john to wallow in misery once more . all this time later , he still hasn’t finished the behemoth book that brought him and maggie together in the first place . this makes maggie begin to question her own happiness—and question whether she even wants to be with john anymore .
arnold schwarzenegger and abigial breslin are being joined in new orleans by joely richardson as production begins this month on the independently produced zombie drama
maggie .
the film has been in pre - production for several weeks , with principal photography under way and expected to last through the end of october .
breslin’s portrayal of the film’s title role , maggie , marks her second venture into walking dead territory , following zombieland , the 2009 feature in which breslin teamed with a rag tag group of survivors to fend off zombies in a post - apocalyptic world . the award - winning actress was last seen in the weinstein company’s award - winning film august : osage county , as well as the recent films , enders game , the call , perfect sisters , and new year’s eve . her latest film final girl , directed by tyler shields with wes bently and alexander ludwig , is set for release in 2015 .
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the film is currently available via on demand . also starring academy award® nominee abigail breslin ( best supporting actress , little miss sunshine ) and joely richardson ( tv’s “nip / tuck , ” the girl with the dragon tattoo ) , maggie follows the outbreak of a deadly zombie virus that sweeps the nation .
as maggie advances toward maternity — but before she is actually pregnant — a work mix - up conspires to introduce her to john ( ethan hawke ) , a part - time professor who asks maggie to read the first chapter of his novel . that should be a warning — isn’t there some office at city hall that distributes cautionary pamphlets about guys with novels that supposedly need reading ? — but maggie falls for him anyway . also , he’s married .
her plan is derailed when she meets john ( ethan hawke ) , a hunky new adjunct professor at her place of work , the new college . over some chilly outdoor coffee dates , maggie gives john feedback on a novel he’s writing , and learns of his unhappy marriage to georgette . “she’s wonderful - she’s just kind of destroying my life , ” john says of georgette to maggie . it isn’t long before maggie and john spark up an affair .
“ as the nation reels from a lethal virus that turns its victims into zombies , wade’s ( schwarzenegger ) daughter maggie ( breslin ) has been infected . now , as maggie’s condition worsens , wade will stop at nothing to protect her from the authorities seeking to kill her to eradicate the virus . ”
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it actually plays very much as a first draft ; nothing about it is necessarily bad , but it would’ve been significantly better with just a bit of care towards taking the idea of maggie’s inexorable transformation and restructuring all the other plot elements to fit in with it . instead , the film skips the beginning of maggie’s illness and starts with wade bringing her home after she ran away to hide it . most of the detail of the dilemma he and maggie now face is explained in conversations with doctors rather than in interactions with other characters , which takes all the emotions that should slowly evolve over the course of the film and puts them in your face up front , leaving you to feel like , “ok . they’re sad about all that stuff . now what ? ”
rather than dwell on the burgeoning ( and warmly winning ) romance , miller boldly shifts the action to three years later , well before the film hits its halfway mark . maggie , now married to john and with a three - year old child of her own , has everything she’s ever wished for – except she’s unhappy , despite her new family and spacious apartment . frustrated by john’s inability to finish his novel , and worried they’re bound to eventually fall out of love , maggie makes it her mission to reunite john with his ex - wife . regrettably for maggie , her grand scheme doesn’t go to plan .
schwarzenegger said he was looking forward to playing an everyman character , as a father trying to save his daughter , in maggie . photograph : yonhap / aap
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sony pictures classics has set an awards - qualifying december release in the u . s . for “ the lady in the van , ” starring maggie smith .
at the start of the film , no doubt most zombie genre fans will be thinking the smart choice is to just kill maggie so she ' s not a threat to the rest of the family or society . fans will assume wade ' s desire to avoid turning his daughter over to quarantine makes him that stereotypical character from every zombie film who is infected or has an infected loved one but keeps it secret and endangers the rest of the group . which is exactly what you ' re supposed to think at first , because the rest of the film depends on you having those early assumptions in order to give you the experience of changed perspective .
this level of emotional heft is rare for a schwarzenegger film , but the action icon carries it better than any other performance of his entire career . his tired eyes gaze across the smoking fields of the midwest with a broken and hopeless desperation . even more beautifully executed is breslin’s take on maggie , and daresay eclipses arnold entirely by exhibiting the exact opposite of subtle emotion . there is no serenity for maggie ; there is only the knowledge that soon she will lose control and “turn” .
that ' s precisely what writer john scott 3 and director henry hobson conspire to do in their film maggie , a zombie apocalypse horror film starring action star arnold schwarzenegger that ' s actually not an apocalypse after all ; that has more drama than horror ; and in which schwarzenegger is not only not the main character , but is instead an ordinary father left helpless in the face of his daughter ' s horrible illness . it ' s really a film about how families and society deal with terminal illness and the terrible pain it inflicts - - in quite different ways - - on the sick individuals , their families , and on the community around them .
that his daughter is dying of some kind of zombie - inducing virus is not the problem that ultimately derails “maggie” . director henry hobson and screenwriter john scott 3 are dealing in allegory here . what undoes this film is its unwillingness to be as emotionally brutal as this material requires . the actors are game for the ultimate heart of darkness of its scenario , that of a father possibly having to kill his own daughter , yet “maggie” prefers to hide behind the heavy - handed symbolism of its visuals rather than deal with its tragedy head - on . the ending is an infuriating cop - out , negating the tense crisis build - up the film successfully created .
and this is perhaps the cleverest aspect of the script by john scott 3 . ultimately , “maggie” is concerned with what comes with the decision to take a life . while we have seen scores of movies about the undead in recent years , with many of them stacking up the body count for pure entertainment value , this film finds wade , caroline , and even maggie herself , grappling with the choice of what to do when the fateful moment arrives when the young girl can’t control her urges . will wade be able to hand over his daughter to the authorities when he’s been told that quarantine will only guarantee maggie a horrible , painful death ? is caroline’s pragmatism and fear about maggie’s condition only heightened because it’s not her own flesh and blood child ? or is wade being too naive in thinking he can control whatever comes next ? these are all bigger thematic concerns than you would usually see in this kind of genre movie , and yet , “maggie” can’t sustain on those ideas alone .
arnold schwarzenegger , left , abigail breslin and joely richardson are starring in the new orleans - shot zombie drama ' maggie , ' production of which is currently underway .
maggie ' s friend allie ( raeden greer ) visits her and invites her to hang out with friends . they gather around a bonfire , along with a boy named trent ( bryce romero ) , who is also infected . he says he would blow his brains out if he needed to . maggie spends some alone time with trent , culminating in a kiss between the two of them . at the end of the night , allie brings maggie home , and allie cries alone in her car .
“maggie’s plan” is rated r ( under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian ) . discreet sex and intense academic jargon . running time : 1 hour 38 minutes .
hyperion ' s filmography includes act of valor ( 2008 ) , the way ( 2011 ) , god ' s pocket ( 2014 ) – as well as the documentaries it might get loud ( 2008 ) and waiting for lightning ( 2012 ) . upcoming films and festival favorites include maggie ' s plan directed by rebecca miller ( world premiere at the toronto film festival 2015 ) , the hallow directed by corin hardy ( sundance 2015 ) , mediterranea directed by jonas carpignano ( cannes film festival 2015 ) , the last verse ( jerusalem film festival 2015 ) , the 2016 steve aoki documentary i ' ll sleep when i ' m dead and the heroes project documentary , 2016 .
for decades , arnold schwarzenegger has been more than an action hero . he’s been a titan , an unstoppable force , the definition of invincible . but in his latest film , “maggie , ” he’s faced with a challenge that offers no bad guy to topple , no win to be had . his daughter is dying , and there’s nothing he can do , save for shed a few tears . in short , “maggie” is not what most fans would expect when hearing that schwarzenegger made a zombie movie .
the number compares very well with the last film adaptation of a bennett play : the history boys debuted with £795 , 000 in 2006 , on its way to a total of £4 . 34m . much of the difference can be attributed to the box - office power of smith , who supported the film with an appearance on the graham norton show , her first chatshow appearance in four decades . the film had a very defined ( older ) audience , which the distributor sony was able to target with marketing .
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besides its negative critical reviews , some fans also considered the film as one of the worst nightmare on elm street films along with freddy ' s revenge and 2010 remake .
geoff gilmore , chief creative officer of the tribeca film festival , in his introduction to the world premiere of maggie , the first feature by henry hobson - starring some guy you may have heard of named arnold schwarzenegger - called the film
a cross between a zombie movie and a family melodrama .
that ' s as accurate a description as any for what this film aspires to be , and largely achieves . the zombie genre - and there ' s more than enough films , not to mention tv , books , comics , etc . , to qualify as such - has proven elastic enough to encompass many variations and combinations . maggie , as gilmore indicated , combines the zombie movie with an arthouse - friendly family drama . it ' s an elegantly made , moody and restrained piece , capped with an equally restrained and quiet central performance by schwarzenegger .
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rumours of a feature - length film have been circulating since the itv period drama concluded in december 2015 and it has finally been confirmed . so , what do we know ?
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i honestly wish i liked the film more , but at this point , we ' ve seen a whole lot of zombie movies , and while this one tries to find a new way into the idea , it doesn ' t do anything particularly new . there ' s one scene where , after wade kills two zombies he encounters in the woods , he is forced to deal with a surviving family member face to face and watch her grieve over them . it ' s a moment we never see in the horror movie version of this story . little by little , the film keeps tightening its focus until it is simply wade , alone in the house with his daughter , waiting for her to become something he no longer recognizes . if the entire function of the film is to create a framework in which we see schwarzenegger cry , then , sure , mission accomplished . but “maggie” eventually disappoints . even back at the beginning of the modern version of this genre , george romero made movies that were positively laden with subtext . a film like this almost feels like the filmmakers believe they are too “good” to make a real horror film , and as a result , “maggie” feels toothless , no matter how pronounced its taste for flesh .
maggie is lacking in action , so must rely on its performances to succeed . the casting certainly makes it notable as a curiosity , but as cinema it’s the hobbling dead .
the last 20 minutes of the movie was in 3d . in order to know when to put on the glasses , doc gave glasses to maggie to use in her dream .
in an interview , robert englund replied to a reporter’s question about his view on the film : “ ( it has a ) good poster . ” in his book hollywood monster , he comments that freddy ' s dead is one of his least favorite nightmare films in the franchise , and he also describes the film as
the weakest nightmare sequel ever
.
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we ' re delighted to continue our relationship with arnold schwarzenegger , who turns in a performance that marks a dramatic departure from his action persona , and partner with our friends at lotus entertainment on a film that will resonate with thriller aficionados everywhere ,
stated lionsgate ' s coo steve beeks . bill johnson and jim seibel , co - chairs of lotus entertainment , producers on the film , added :
maggie takes the zombie genre in exciting new directions , and it offers something for everyone – star power , horror , suspense and riveting performances that will keep moviegoers on the edge of their seats .
silver reel and gold star films financed the film which lionsgate will release theatrically in north america in early 2015 .
maggie is almost completely zombified . wade sits in the living room with his shotgun , not quite ready to use it . maggie walks downstairs , her skin all grey and her eyes blackened . she sees her father sleeping , holding the gun . she goes over to him and kisses his forehead one last time . she then goes to the roof of the house and thinks about her mother . maggie jumps off the roof , and the last thing she appears to see is her as a child frolicking through the flowers with her mother .
it’s a rare light comedy from miller , best known for weighty dramas like “ personal velocity ” and “ the ballad of jack and rose . ” but despite the machinations and manipulations of the film’s titular plot , “maggie’s plan” almost isn’t screwball enough . the characters must undergo some introspection , as well , and striking a balance between those two dynamics proves challenging .
maggie , starring abigail breslin , arnold schwarzenegger , and joely richardson , is a movie that tries to take the zombie craze and boil it down to its most personal , human elements—to varying degrees of success . for a movie that tries so hard not to be a “zombie movie , ” maggie as at its best when it embraces its natural sense of suspense .
most of the global population has been plagued by the necroambulist virus that turns people into zombies . farmers have burnt down their fields and crops to prevent further contamination . maggie ' s father wade ( arnold schwarzenegger ) goes out searching for his daughter . maggie is taken by armed officials and placed in an area at the hospital with other infected people . she has a bite wound on her arm , and the infection is going to gradually spread throughout her body . wade is allowed to take maggie home to settle her affairs until the virus progresses to the point where she must be quarantined . on the trip back , they stop at a store for maggie to get sunglasses . wade encounters a zombie and breaks its neck .
schwarzenegger leads the film as wade , a father who manages to track down his missing daughter in the midst of a zombie apocalypse only to find out that she’s been bitten . even though he’s well aware that maggie ( abigail breslin ) will become increasingly dangerous , he’s willing to put his own life at risk so that they can spend her last few weeks together .
remained in first place on the per theater chart with an average of $ 18 , 182 . it wasn ' t the only film in the $ 10 , 000 chart this week .
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stars schwarzenegger as a father clinging to the draining humanity of his infected daughter ( abigail breslin ) , and we now know when lionsgate affiliate roadside attractions will release the film to theaters .
the itv period drama came to an end on christmas day in 2015 , but it was finally confirmed by the sun in may that a full length feature film edition would be made .
i t didn’t take long for the protests to begin . disability - rights advocates , having perceived–whether they’d seen it or not–a different film than i had , began attacking eastwood and million dollar baby as an anti - disability “snuff film . ” disabled members of the anti - assisted suicide group not dead yet staged a civilized protest in chicago on jan . 19 , where the chicago film critics association ( including well - known critic roger ebert , with whom i had corresponded frequently via e - mail ) had gathered to pay tribute to veteran filmmaker robert altman .
maggie’s step - siblings are sent away to live with other family members as soon as she’s brought home with the virus without giving much time to show her normal life with them . there’s an aspect of creeping isolation to maggie , but it would’ve worked better if it was slowly spaced out over the course of the film instead of starting so abruptly and then not coming up again until caroline eventually leaves wade alone with her in the final stages of infection . the isolation was present , but it could’ve had greater impact with a slower , steadier progression .
gerwig plays maggie , a young woman who , at the outset of miller’s borderline romantic comedy , seems to have a firmer head on her shoulders than the bumbling dancer the actor played to perfection in frances ha – still the actor’s strongest vehicle to date . maggie is single , but hell - bent on having a baby via a surrogate , who fancies himself a “pickle entrepreneur” . she urgently relays this to her close friend , tony ( a delightfully wry bill hader ) , over the whirlwind opening minutes of miller’s rapid fire , new york - set film .
the duo ' s other films include : while we ' re young , which premiered at the 2014 toronto international film festival and stars ben stiller , naomi watts , amanda seyfried and adam driver ; and frances ha in stylish black - and - white , co - written and starring gerwig , which premiered at the 2012 telluride film festival and opened in theaters the following year .
home win … maggie smith and alex jennings in the lady in the van , this week’s highest - earning new release at the uk box - office . photograph : allstar / bbc films
it is not often that a film comes along which not only subverts genre expectations , but in fact uses that subversion of expectations to create a disconnect between how we traditionally perceive the themes and moral imperatives inherent in the genre and what we are experiencing in the film itself . as our expectation of fulfillment of tropes takes root during viewing of a film , teasing us into aligning ourselves with certain traditional attitudes in order to grant our approval for a certain outcome , our embrace of those assumptions makes us vulnerable should anyone decide to yank the rug out from under us .
breslin made her feature film debut as the leading lady to mel gibson – at the age of five – in m . night shyamalan’s 2002 blockbuster film signs . four years later , for her performance as the pageant - obsessed olive in the 2006 sundance festival award winner little miss sunshine , breslin was nominated for academy award ® , sag and bafta “best supporting actress” honors , making her the fifth youngest actress ever nominated for an oscar . she also received a “best actress award” from the tokyo international film festival and was honored as showest’s “female star of tomorrow” in 2008 .
from the press release : the film tells the story of a deadly zombie virus that has put a plague on the world . when maggie , a vivacious young woman becomes infected , her father brings her home to let her be with their family . as maggie’s condition worsens , their relationship is tested , a father’s love holding on stronger than the disease . this heart - wrenching twist on the zombie apocalypse puts a human face on an inexplicable horror . stay tuned for updates and a trailer before the release next year . we ' re definitely curious about this .
maggie was young in years when she began working on jane , a murder , and when she finished , her writing had changed . she was no longer writing a book of lyric poetry . instead , she transforms jane’s journal entries into lyric poetry by a process of selection and lineation . paragraphs of prose from newspapers , letters , and in maggie’s own voice mingle with the poetry . in the end , the speaker and her subject are so intimately related that distinguishing between them – pulling them apart to see light between them , saying , this is jane and this here is maggie – becomes impossible and perhaps irrelevant . such is the promiscuity of unconscious life . such is the effect of maggie’s innovations in form . the last two stanzas / paragraphs are these :
when maggie talks to kelly , she discovers that neither he nor anyone else remembers carlos , spencer , or john . doc , who is able to control his dreams , tells her that freddy didn ' t just kill them ; he erased them . later , maggie , tracy , and doc each have nightmares about freddy ; maggie discovers that she is freddy ' s daughter , and now he can kill more victims outside springwood . freddy tells doc that the dream demons gave him his power , and doc tears off a shred of freddy ' s sweater before he wakes up .
the film is hytner’s first directorial outing after ending his decade at the head of the british national theatre . he and bennett previously collaborated on “the madness of king george” and “the history boys . ”
in my professional opinion , eastwood , who turns 75 on may 31 , is now making the best , most challenging films of his career . more than any film eastwood has made , million dollar baby lends itself to complex and conflicting interpretations , which is a mark of masterful filmmaking . nearly unanimous critical praise can’t be casually dismissed ; it arises from carefully considered assessment of a praiseworthy film .
but that makes it all the more frustrating that maggie isn’t really good , either . maggie could have been a rare treat : a genre movie that eschews big explosions and bloody showdowns to get to the intimate , human tragedy underneath . instead , what we get is a genuinely new take that winds up feeling , somehow , like the same old stuff we’ve seen a million times before .


lolita is a 1962 british-american black comedy-drama film directed by stanley kubrick .

based on his novel of the same title , vladimir nabokov also wrote the screenplay .

it follows a middle-aged literature lecturer who becomes obsessed with an adolescent girl .

the film stars james mason as humbert humbert , sue lyon as dolores haze ( lolita ) , and shelley winters as charlotte haze , with peter sellers as clare quilty .

owing to the mpaa 's restrictions at the time , the film toned down the more provocative aspects of the novel , sometimes leaving much to the audience 's imagination .

the actress who played lolita , sue lyon , was 14 at the time of filming .

lolita polarized contemporary critics , but is well-received today .

kubrick later commented , however , that if he had realized how severe the censorship limitations were going to be , he probably would never have made the film .

lolita ( 1962 film )

lolita 1962 ( kubrick ) vs . lolita 1997 ( lyne ) - the student room
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lolita ( 1962 film ) - quilty ' s
dr . zempf
and peter sellers role as doctor strangelove
james mason and sue lyon in stanley kubrick ' s film of lolita ( 1962 ) . photograph : ronald grant archive
“lolita 1962 . ” internet movie database . 2005 . 11 dec . 2005 < urltoken > .
nice hat : in the 1962 film , delores is first seen wearing a hat with feathers trimming the brim .
croce , arlene , in sight and sound ( london ) , autumn 1962 .
lolita ( 1962 film ) - quilty ' s
dr . zempf
and peter sellers role as doctor strangelove | quilty dr zempf peter sellers role doctor strangelove
making a spectacle of yourself : the 1962 film ' s advertising has delores wearing heart - shaped sunglasses . however , she doesn ' t wear these in the film .
lolita , that ' s right . lolita , diminutive of dolores . . .
lolita was nominated for the academy award for best screenplay . the film was nominated for four golden globes , the golden lion from the venice film festival 1962 and the bafta award for best british actor ( james mason ) .
lolita is a british - american drama film in 1962 , directed by stanley kubrick . the story is based on the the novel of vladimir nabokov in 1955 . like the book was too controversial appearance in the film . in several countries , the film was censored .
an aging intellectual becomes obsessed with a young teenage girl when he becomes a boarder in her mother ' s house in lolita ( 1962 ) . >
“how did they ever make a movie of lolita ? ” was the question posed by the posters advertising stanley kubrick’s film adaptation of vladimir nabokov’s famously controversial novel , released on this day in 1962 .
mills was considered for the role of lolita haze in stanley kubrick’s 1962 film version of lolita . however , walt disney discouraged the casting , feeling the role was not up to disney’s wholesome standard , and the part eventually went to sue lyon .
in the novel , lolita is a brunette . in the film , she is a blonde .
lolita has been adapted twice . stanley kubrick’s 1962 version is a pop culture fixture via its heart - shaped sunglasses . much like the status of the film as a ‘classic’ , the sunglasses are a case of collective mis - remembering – they never appear in the film ( lolita wears cats - eyes sunglasses )
in 1962 , sue lyon had a hit single with
yah yah lolita ,
a version of bob harris '
theme from lolita
that combined a latin instrumental with her repeated
yah yahs .
lolita . dir : stanley kubrick . cast : james mason , shelley winters , sue lyon , peter sellers . 1962 . dvd . warner home video , 2007 .
burgess , anthony . a clockwork orange . 1962 . london : penguin books , 2011 ( or other edition ) .
was nabokov ' s book about obsession , lust and pedophilia , undeniably so . the 1962 kubrick film version with james mason as humbert humbert , sue lyon as . . .
columbia pictures agreed to finance the film if peter sellers played at least four major roles . the condition stemmed from the studio’s opinion that much of the success of kubrick’s previous film lolita ( 1962 ) was based on sellers’s performance in which his single character assumes a number of identities .
as it is often the case in the 1962 adaptation , the movie’s sexual connotations are a lot less direct than in the book . here is how lolita explains the corresponding episode :
recently for class i had to experience lolita in its three most popular forms — the original 1958 novel by vladimir nabokov and the two film adaptations , the 1962 version directed by stanley kubrick and the 1997 version directed by adrian lyne .
established the field of speech - act theory , argues that
performative
statements can have the effect of actions ( 1962 ) .
devin mckinney , “review : lolita ” , film quarterly , 52 . 3 ( 1999 ) , p . 49 .
the legion of decency agreed to pass the film as long as children under 18 were barred from seeing the film .
“how did they ever make a movie of lolita ? ” was the tagline to 1962 film version of vladimir nabokov’s lolita , directed by stanley kubrick . this particular novel was steeped in controversy since the day it was published . often regarded as pornography and it has been on and off the banned book list for decades .
‘lolita’ was remade in 1997 and directed by adrian lyne . it starred jeremy irons as humbert , melanie griffith as charlotte and dominique swain as lolita . the film was widely publicised as being more faithful to nabokov’s novel than the kubrick film .
lodger professor humbert ( james mason ) is getting academic , masking his lust for lolita ( sue lyon ) , until she ' s summoned by her mom charlotte ( shelley winters ) , who soon delivers unwelcome news in stanley kubrick ' s lolita , 1962 . >
schrader , paul ,
lolita ,
in american film , vol . 15 , no . 1 , october 1989 .
title lolita genre film notes - contemp record ( c 1962 ) by sue lyon of orig cast . music : nelson riddle . words : bob harris . cond : nelson riddle .
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professor humbert ( james mason ) finds writer quilty ( peter sellers ) in his unkempt rented mansion in what amounts to the prologue to stanley kubrick ' s lolita , 1962 , from the vladimir nabokov novel . >
seesslen , g . ,
3x lolita ,
in epd film ( frankfurt ) , vol . 15 , january 1998 .
devin mckinney , “review : lolita ” , film quarterly , 52 . 3 ( 1999 ) , pp . 48 - 52 .
the film humbert , charlotte and lolita watch at the drive - in is the curse of frankenstein ( 1957 ) . when the film cut to the three characters in the car , stanley kubrick had a different soundtrack recorded to make the film sound scarier .
3 humbert mentions the “corpuscles of krause” ( lolita , 60 / 66 ) , a “gonadal glow” ( lolita , 134 / 152 ) , or “glans mauve” ( lolita , 107 / 120 ) .
from the start , the mere existence of stanley kubrick’s film adaptation of lolita ( 1962 ) was presented as a reason for its existence . “how did they ever make a film of lolita” ? asked the film’s tag - line . well , as at least one critic observed at the time , they didn’t . kubrick’s sitcom adaptation of lolita is a textbook case of what the culture critic dwight macdonald called “mid - cult” : the film sanitizes the novel , renders it safe for mass public consumption , and then congratulates its audience for having had an “artistic” experience . the film’s defenders point to the severe restrictions imposed by the hays code . but the problem with kubrick’s lolita is not the sexual subtext the filmmaker omitted . it’s the sexual subtext he added .
in the film he is described as “a very peculiar figure by the name of clare quilty who keeps popping up in the most unexpected places ( and sporting equally unexpected accents ) ” ( lolita 1962 ) . this plot point is very subtle , and any viewer who was not familiar with the text may not have gotten that implication while watching the film .
thanks to the novel and the film , the name
lolita
has become a common term applied to sexually precocious young women .
shout out : at the beginning of the 1962 film , humbert asks a man if he ' s quilty . quilty jokingly replies
no , i ' m spartacus
, a celebrated line from kubrick ' s previous work .
you ' ll never know complete satisfaction until you’ve tried your hand at directing , ” stanley kubrick told his close friend and producer james b . harris one day , late in 1962 . the pair had been creative partners for nearly a decade - - working together on a string of critically successful pictures : the killing ( 1956 ) , paths of glory ( 1957 ) and lolita ( 1962 ) .
throughout the film , lolita ' s mother and friends refer to her by the nickname ; ' lolita ' . in the novel , dolores haze ' s nickname
lolita
was given to her only by humbert , and he was the only one who used the name . lolita ' s mother used ' lo ' as dolores ' nickname .
since the censors would allow nothing close to a suggestion of pedophilia , lolita’s age had to be increased from 12 in vladimir nabokov’s original novel to 14 for the film . they also objected to a scene where humbert humbert was to gaze at lolita’s picture while in bed with her mother charlotte ; in the end , the scene was filmed with charlotte lying fully dressed on the bed and humbert lying beside her wearing a robe ( lolita 1962 ) .
college town busybody charlotte ( shelley winters ) can ' t resist approaching the minor celebrity at the dance , tv writer clare quilty ( peter sellers ) , who can ' t recall meeting her , in stanley kubrick ' s lolita , 1962 .
marianne stone would wear the piece of jewellery she wears here around her upper left arm in das geheimnis der schwarzen koffer ( 1962 ) and again in hysteria ( 1965 ) .
college town busybody charlotte ( shelley winters ) can ' t resist approaching the minor celebrity at the dance , tv writer clare quilty ( peter sellers ) , who can ' t recall meeting her , in stanley kubrick ' s lolita , 1962 . >
professor humbert ( james mason ) is considering an offer of lodging from charlotte haze ( shelley winters ) when he meets her daughter ( sue lyon , title character ) in stanley kubrick ' s lolita , 1962 , from the vladimir nabokov novel . >
the iconic heart - shaped sunglasses which lolita wears , appear only in publicity photos , as well as the soundtrack album ' s cover , taken by bert stern ; lolita wears cat ' s eye sunglasses in the film .
the film’s posters played up the controversial nature of the film’s content and the book’s reputation , using the provocative tagline above a picture of lyon - as - lolita , wearing heart - shaped sunglasses and a seductive expression , with a lollipop in her mouth . lolita received mixed reviews– the new yorker ’s pauline kael was one critic who raved about the film–but its acting was widely praised . the film earned one academy award nomination , for best adapted screenplay .
‘lolita’ premiered on june 13 , 1962 in new york city . it performed fairly well , with little advertising and relying mostly on word - of - mouth ; many critics seemed uninterested or dismissive of the film while others gave it glowing reviews . however , the film was very controversial , due to the hebephilia - related content , and therefore while many things are suggested , hardly any are shown . ‘lolita’ registered box - office receipts of 3 . 7 million dollars on its opening run .
charlotte ( shelley winters ) takes a call from her teenage daughter ( the title character ) during an awkward post - honeymoon snuggle with her irritated lodger - turned - husband , professor humbert ( james mason ) in stanley kubrick ' s lolita , 1962 . >
sue lyon as the title character in stanley kubrick ' s 1961 film version of lolita , with a screenplay written by nabokov . warner bros . hide caption
narrator ( humbert ) : what drives me insane is the twofold nature of this nymphet , a veteran nymphet perhaps , this mixture in my lolita of tender , dreamy childishness and a kind of eerie vulgarity . i know it is madness to keep this journal , but it gives me a strange thrill to do so ( lolita , 1962 ) .
also turned down the role of lolita . at the time , her father ,
lolita : book vs . movie - 1584 words | study guides and book summaries
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bratty teenage daughter : lolita , or so humbert would want us to believe .
although vladimir nabokov originally thought that sue lyon was the right selection to play lolita , years later nabokov said that the ideal lolita would have been catherine demongeot .
where did you learn film editing ? you started out as a still photographer .
combs , richard , in monthly film bulletin ( london ) , august 1984 .
adapting american drama to film . the transfer from stage to screen . . .
branigan , edward . 1992 . narrative comprehension and film . oxon : routledge .
while humbert initially describes this imaginative appropriation as a form of shielding lolita from the beastliness of his desires , it is precisely this method of aestheticizing lolita that leads to the monstrous acts of the latter half of the book . this scene of venal masturbation leads directly to humbert’s later mistreatment of lolita by offering him for the first time an image of lolita separated from her ”real“ existence , a template for a variously unconscious lolita , a lolita considered as an aesthetic object . ( durantaye 71 )
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is not perfect , but it makes for the most highly entertaining summer film of the year – a genuine love for film , filmmaking and just being a kid .
in the end , kubrick’s bowdlerization or egregious misprision of his source text didn’t much matter , because his film did something far more lasting : it gave the world an image of lolita . the film’s poster—the hazy photograph of lolita in her heart - shaped sunglasses , a glistening lollipop entering her moist lips—supplied america with the instantly recognizable signifiers of lolita that would endure in the age of instagram . that image , once seen , cannot be unseen . the merely textual lolita has been lost to us forever .
the film is deliberately vague about lolita’s age . kubrick had in fact commented : “i think that some people had the mental picture of a nine - year - old , but lolita was twelve - and - a - half in the book ; sue lyon was thirteen . ” actually , lyon was 14 by the time filming started and 15 when it finished . although passed without cuts , ‘lolita’ was rated ‘x’ by the british board of film censors when released in 1962 , meaning no one under 16 years of age was permitted to watch . the production code administration passed the film with a few snips on the soundtrack and an early fade to the scene in which lolita seduces humbert after her mother’s death . the british and australian prints , however , contain the scene as originally shot .
whether it had to do with her casting as lolita ( 1962 ) , or not , sue lyon , 3 years earlier , played a
lolita type
character in an episode of _
the loretta young show
( 1953 ) _ , entitled ; alien love , in which she flirts with her older male teacher , who winds up in trouble for it .
nabokov , vladimir , lolita , new york , 1974 ; second edition , 1983 .
great debate . doubt i’ll ever watch lolita . too far outside my comfort zone .
- it wasn ' t a date . - it was a date , lolita .
- you don ' t love me . - i do love you , lolita .
nabokov , vladimir . lolita : a screenplay . new york : vintage , 1997 .
and her underage daughter , lolita ( sue lyon ) . charlotte is a lonely widow
charlotte , but he marries her anyway , just to be close to lolita . humbert
traﬃc and is killed . meanwhile , lolita has been away at camp climax ( in
stanley kubrick : [ three - way ] humbert vs . quilty vs . lolita .
i liked the 1962 film a lot . i wouldn’t say it’s one of kubrick’s best efforts but considering what he had to work with i think it was a splendid effort . the film managed to capture both the tortured soul of humbert and his cunning . obviously , it was impossible to replicate nuances of the book , but kubrick came closer than i could have imagined .
the heart - shaped sunglasses became all the rage after the film ' s release .
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drive - in theater : one scene takes place there in the stanley kubrick film .
of the whole work . indeed , the final caption of the film offers a subtle
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errol flynn was considered for humbert humbert , but died before the film was made .
this was the first time stanley kubrick used first - person narration in a film .
fwiw , i agree that the earlier thread was misbegotten and is probably best ignored . however , this thread should probably be renamed , perhaps to something a la our usual format e . g .
lolita ( 1962 , 1997 )
, otherwise that earlier thread will be the only one that shows up in searches for threads with the word
lolita
in the title . ( a search for
lolita
does not turn up
lolitas
. )
the 1962 lolita was a product of its time , unfortunately , meaning it was heavily held back by censors . needless to say , kubrick is no prude ( one only has to watch eyes wide shut ) to know that , but his version of lolita was very tame , with almost none of the sexual innuendos littered throughout the novel — in fact , there was very little physical contact between lolita and humbert , the scenes often fading to black before anything happens .
with regard to
lolita ,
which stanley kubrick turned into a 1962 film that starred james mason as the scandalous professor , humbert humbert , and sue lyon as his sexually precocious bedmate , mr . dearden said mr . lyne had long wanted to direct his own version of the book . and when the rights became available recently , mr . dearden said , carolco bought them .
kubrick had nabokov ' s consent to have the film adaptation be like this , and said that the reason for using this technique was to maintain interest in the film , as kubrick thought that the novel started to lose interest halfway through when humbert had seduced lolita .
diabolical quilty ( peter sellers ) obscures his face and poses as a cop , contriving a chance encounter with humbert ( james mason ) , whom we know , some years later , will shoot him , in stanley kubrick ' s lolita , 1962 , from vladimir nabokov ' s novel and screenplay . >
it begins : ' lolita , light of my life , fire of my loins . '
the credits are played over footage of lolita ' s toenails being painted . see more »
your name , and lolita ' s , were put in by mere chance . . .
my two youngest , jack and mary , are in the same grade as your lolita .
without the name o the man who took her away rom him . so lolita , the
burns , d . e . ,
pistols and cherry pies : lolita from page to screen ,
in literature / film quarterly ( salisbury , maryland ) , october 1984 .
the film is so faithful to the novel that it shares similar flaws . after a stay at beardsley college , humbert and lolita go back on the road and the story flags . and though frank langella is effectively sinister as clare quilty , who lures lolita from humbert , the grand guignol scene of his murder belongs in another film ( and another novel ) .
which would indicate that if a film is sufficiently interesting people will watch it for three hours and forty minutes . but in actual fact , the napoleon film will probably be shorter .
individual vs . society in ken kessey ' s novel and film
one . . .
—actresses considered for the role of lolita include : tuesday weld , hayley mills , joey heatherton , and jill haworth . lolita author vladimir nabokov agreed with kubrick that sue lyon was right for the role , but years later stated that catherine demongeot would have been the ideal lolita .
nabokov ' s lolita is nothing like the bottle - blond , lollipop - licking sex kitten played by sue lyon in the 1962 film directed by stanley kubrick ( who , as was his habit , based his movie on the novel in only the very loosest sense ) . nor does she bear much resemblance to the show - biz pop tarts and tramp - stamped bad girls often compared to her today .
lolita , lolita , lolita ! for ever tonight we must part : because separation is sweeter than clasping a ghost to one’s heart because it’s a maddening summer because the whole night is in bloom because you’re in love with a strummer who brings his guitar to your room . you know he’s a clown and a cheater you know i am tender and true— but he is singing now lolita the songs i’ve been making for you ! ( lolita : a screenplay 127 )
it featured a picture of lolita in a seductive lollipop pose . she wore heart - shaped sunglasses and licked a red lollipop . indeed , at the time of the film ' s making , sexual freedom and content had not advanced to the point of acceptance that is commonly seen today . lolita ' s opening credits , however , contain some of the most overtly - erotic , idealizing images of the entire film - designed to set the tone of the film .
lolita was buried at the time of premieres under criticism . the film would pedophilia glorify and contain a wealth of erotic scenes . in several countries , the film was therefore censored . in reality , expose and sex never explicitly portrayed . erotic intense than the opening scene , in which professor humbert toes lolita paints with nail polish , the images are not . however , the film contains sexual symbolism and small picture jokes that were considered risky in the early 1960s .
even as mama charlotte is working her
moves
, humbert is thinking of lolita and insists that charlotte is being to liberal with lolita , letting her galavant with boys . mom laughs it off , until lolita comes home early from her party , thereby interrupting the hunt . tempers flare , mother and daughter argue , and mom looks to have lolita out of the way . when it turns out lolita ' s best friend , mona , also slipped away from the party
the 1962 film by kubrick was an interesting one . it starred james mason as humbert , sue luon as lolita , shelley winters as charlotte haze and peter sellers as claire quilty . the screenplay was attributed to nabokov ( and he actually got an oscar nomination for it ) , but in reality it was mostly re - written by kubrick and james harris . nabokov published his version of the script separately in 1974 .
one thing herr confessed during those early long phone conversations was that he had reviewed kubrick’s lolita ( 1962 ) during his first writing gig after college , a year - long pro bono stint at the new leader , where he “had followed manny farber . . . , one of the best of all writers on movies . ”
“lolita . ” the complete review . 2000 . 11 dec . 2005 < urltoken 2005 > .
nabokov , vladimir . lolita . the original novel . new york : vintage international . 1995 .
- you ' re imagining things . - shut up , lolita . stop that silly talk .
lolita , light of my life , fire of my loins . my sin , my soul .
note on the editions of lolita used in this paper : for practical purposes , both the references from the annotated lolita and the 2006 penguin edition are given in this paper , with the annotated version coming first , as in for instance : ( lolita 59 / 64 - 65 ) .
kubrick later said ( in a 1972 interview ) about lolita that had he known how extreme the censorship limitations would be , he probably never would have made the film at all , because he felt that he wasn ' t able to make the relationship between lolita and humbert fully accurate .
gabbard , krin ,
the circulation of sadomasochistic desire in the lolita texts ,
in journal of film and video ( atlanta ) , vol . 46 , no . 2 , 1994 .
phillips , gene d . , stanley kubrick : a film odyssey , new york , 1977 .
beautiful , beautiful black and white film . might be the best looking one i’ve ever seen .
the book is amazing . but i am always scared to watch the film of a book .
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of the story , the enchanted hunters / hunted enchanters play , in both novel and film .
overall , i am very proud of this film and commend zak and his team for this achievement . the film as a whole is not really my personal taste , but i can certainly appreciate it and would recommend others to go and see it , and support the australian film industry .
kubrick won two awards for best director , from the new york film critics circle and the italian national syndicate of film journalists , and was nominated for one by the directors guild of america .
importantly , however , lyne also sticks primarily to the use of limited subjective narrative in the visual components of the film . humbert humbert is rarely off screen in the film . for instance , a scene where charlotte ( melanie griffith ) and lolita argue over whether or not lolita should go to summer camp that ends with lolita bringing humbert breakfast is seen over humbert’s shoulder in lyne’s film , rather than in the traditional over the shoulder shot - countershot format sans humbert employed by kubrick . our view is often confined to what humbert sees , just like in nabokov’s original text . the potential for the much - discussed unreliable narrator of lolita remains in lyne’s film . this helps to create a more sympathetic humbert , but the spectator is warned not to trust his or her sympathies .
bick , ilsa j . , and krin gabbard ,
' that hurts ! ' : humor and sadomasochism in lolita : the circulation of sadomasochistic desire in the lolita texts ,
in journal of film and video ( atlanta ) , vol . 46 , no . 2 , summer 1994 .
production : aa productions . an anya productions / transworld pictures production , in association with seven arts productions , for mgm ; black and white ; running time : 153 minutes ; length : 13 , 798 feet . released june 1962 .
the production code administration passed the film with a few snips on the soundtrack and an early fade to the scene in which lolita seduces humbert after her mother ' s death . the pca awarded the film certificate no . 20000 . the british and australian prints contain the scene as originally shot .
and lolita died in childbirth . however , it refers lolita as
mrs . richard f . schiller
, her married name , which we don ' t learn until the end of the book
wife husbandry : on several levels . humbert actually muses on the possibility of impregnating lolita with lolita : the next generation . ideally really soon , as in before she grows up and gets uninteresting .
denys arcand’s controversial conversation piece from the ‘80s has a unique claim to fame for being the only film to have been nominated for best foreign language film in addition to its sequel . the sequel was
veteran arranger nelson riddle composed ( with bob harris ) and conducted the music for kubrick ' s next film , lolita ( 1962 ) . the score , typical in style of the hollywood soundtracks of its day , is suitably moody and atmospheric , and , as might be expected , the orchestrations are lovely . the standout track is
lolita ya - ya ,
with its loping guitar riff and baby doll
ya - ya - wo - wo - ya - ya
vocal .
lolita ya - ya
was released as a single and was credited to sue lyon , although she does not receive credit on the lp . a four minute version of the song is reprised later on as
thoughts of lolita .
apple , alfred . the annotated lolita . revised ed . new york : vintage books , 1991 .
2 lara delage - toriel and xavier fassion beautifully illustrated the musical potential of nabokov’s writing during the lolita toulouse conference , in their musical exploration of lolita through reading , songs , music and sound objects .
this is where we get the terms
lolita complex
, or
lolicon
in japan , and the slang for
lolita
, meaning a sexually attractive and / or promiscuous young girl .
lolita : hey , let ' s tell mother . humbert : tell mother what ? lolita : ( she smiles knowingly ) you know what . humbert : no , i don ' t think that would be very funny . lolita : ( laughing ) i wonder what she ' d do ? hmm ?
i never felt like it was enough suffering on lolita ' s part depicted in the kubrick version .
five film adaptations to watch / study ( after reading the source novel ) : 1984 ( 1984 , michael radford ) , brazil ( 1985 , terry gilliam ) , lolita ( 1961 , stanley kubrick ) , lolita ( 1996 , adrian lyne ) , a clockwork orange ( 1971 , stanley kubrick ) .
lolita is not always loyal to vladimir nabokov ' s novel . one of the most notable changes in the film is kubrick ' s style of direction . events that happened in the novel ' s ending occurred in the film ' s beginning . this is a rarely used technique called in medias res .
lolita is not always loyal to vladimir nabokov ' s novel . one of the most notable changes in the film is kubrick ' s style of direction . events that happened in the novel ' s ending occured in the film ' s beginning . this is a rarely used technique called in medias res .
nelson , thomas allen , kubrick : inside a film artist ' s maze , bloomington , 2000 .
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the film is nothing by modern standards : there is no overt sexuality ; it is all innuendo and implication . the title character , played by 14 year old sue lyon , has affairs with four men ( that we know of ) in the film , yet there is no nudity , no love scenes , not even one scene of her kissing any of the older men she is involved with , yet in 1962 it caused a huge fervor .
during this scene , pregnant lolita drinks a beer . fabulous . humbert tries to get lolita to go away with him again . and , at this point , i think he needs to take a tip from
lolita , light of my life , fire of my loins . my sin , my soul .
my favorite thing about this movie is how clearly kubrick hates every single one of these characters except lolita .
lolita . arles : actes sud , 1996 . [ also available in russian ; see next entry . ]
well , the
vista - sister
, that ' s like ,
lolita - sweeter
.
i ' ll accept the charges . it ' s lolita . she ' s calling long - distance .
eventually lolita will grow into a teenager and then into a women and she will no longer be so yearned for . jong states , “humbert humbert is in love with something which by definition cannot last” ( jong 366 ) . it is physically impossible for lolita to stay young forever . nabokov says , “the day when my lolita ages , will be the day my life ends” ( nabokov 273 ) . humbert fears the day when lolita grows into a woman and therefore humbert humbert’s obsession will end and no true love will ever exist . in vladimir nabokov’s novel , lolita , humbert humbert and lolita will never be able to develop true love .
nabokov , vladimir . lolita . 1955 . london : penguin books , 2011 ( or other edition ) .
lolita is a film that , well , i am not all that fond of . it is long , drawn out , and the payoff at the end really isn’t worth it . however , i would view it again if only to prompt discussion about the film , which stands as a great thought - provoker , especially over the significance of one’s teenage years , and the impact of that loss on the character of lolita .
story - time and discourse - time in the novel and film
beloved & q . . . ;
the film was nominated for four academy awards and also seven bafta awards , of which it won four .
kubrick constructed his lolita not in regards to censorship of the time , as the article suggests , but because his film was about humbert’s moral dilemma in exploiting the girl contrasted against quilty’s guiltless exploitation as an everyday routine .
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yet today the name lolita evokes for most people a girl who knows she ' s sexy and uses it . half a century of such misperceptions about lolita and the novel that bears her name have inspired a new book , chasing lolita : how popular culture corrupted nabokov ' s little girl all over again , by graham vickers .
humbert : why does she [ michelle ] give me these searching looks whenever she comes to the house ? lolita : how should i know ? humbert : have you told her anything about us ? lolita : no . have you ? humbert : you ' ve told her nothing - lolita : you think i ' m crazy ?
- the many personalities of lolita and humbert in nabokov’s lolita although they are intimately involved , the title character of nabokov ' s lolita never fully reveals her true self to humbert . likewise , humbert pours his physical love into lolita , but he never reveals to his stepdaughter a self that is separate from his obsession with her . these two characters mask large parts of their personalities from each other and the rest of the world , creating different images and personas in regard to different people and situations . . . . [ tags : nabokov lolita essays ]
lolita ( 1962 ) was stanley kubrick ' s sixth film - a brilliant , sly adaptation of vladimir nabokov ' s celebrated yet controversially - infamous 1955 novel of a middle - aged man ' s unusual , doomed sexual passion / obsession for a precocious , seductive
nymphet
girl . [ note : the scandalous book was banned in paris in 1956 - 1958 , and not published in its full form in the us or uk until 1958 . ] the age of lolita in the novel was raised from 12 years old to that of a typical high - schooler - probably 14 or 15 .
double indemnity was certainly not the first film noir to be made ; many films dating more than a decade prior have been later classified as film noir , however , the success of double indemnity among critics and audiences alike at the time of its release has caused it to receive the greatest recognition as the most identifiable film noir .
the aim of this paper is to stress the importance of music and song in nabokov’s lolita ( 1955 ) , and also in kubrick’s interpretation of it in his film ( 1962 ) . indeed kubrick’s adaptation does bring about , as linda hutcheon puts it , a “transcoding process” from the code of writing into the code of film ( hutcheon 7 ) , which is itself multisemiotic , as film associates moving and still images , language , and , of course , music . the analysis begins with a scrutiny of songs in the novel , as humbert uses songs to not only screen his deeds like in the davenport scene , but also to fuel his contemptuous vision of lolita . then the study turns to the function of music in characterization , in both novel and film : the film ' s characters are associated to musical themes that reflect thematic patterns of characterization in the novel . we will finally draw from those analyses the illustration of how both works use music to organize a subtle destabilization of signs that undermines the first - degree reading or viewing .
1 . ’lolita , light of my life , fire of my loins . my sin , my soul . ’
break the cutie : the entire book could be considered one for lolita , considering her childhood is essentially destroyed .
when the 1997 version of lolita was widely censored in the us , many asked why the reaction was so strong to this film . after all , the novel was published in the us in 1958 , kubrick ' s film version appeared in 1962 , and we hear more shocking tales of sexual depravity every day on the daytime talk shows . but after seeing lyne ' s brilliant version of lolita , i can see how he manages to breathe fresh controversy into this familiar story . lyne ' s lascivious lens eroticizes lolita ' s every movement and pose . the viewer is forced to see her through the eyes of humbert and to feel his obsession and desire . we are co - conspirators in his crime , and at the end we share his shame . rather than shocking us ( and having us pull away in revulsion ) , lyne draws us in and makes us face the humbert in ourselves . this is an incredibly powerful film .
, and the camera follows lolita on stage , as if it were part of the show . the retro - prospective mise - en - abyme perfectly works here . retrospectively , the title of the play echoes the previous episode at the hotel , where quilty had been musing on humbert’s “lovely little tall girl” . prospectively , the forthcoming departure of lolita with the playwright is indicated in the only glance they exchange during the whole film ( just before lolita enters the stage ) , and in the last words of lolita in the school play , “to the dark kingdom , away , away” , since quilty has been repeatedly associated to dark colors and dark lighting throughout the film .
stam robert . “film and narration : two versions of lolita ” . in twentieth - century american fiction on screen . ed . palmer , r . barton . cambridge : cambridge university press , 2007 . 106 - 126 .
during her six - year run at disney , mills was arguably the most popular child actress of the era . critics noted that america’s favourite child star was , in fact , quite british and very ladylike . the success of “let’s get together” ( which hit no . 8 on the billboard hot 100 singles chart and no . 17 in britain ) also led to the release of a record album on disney’s buena vista label , let’s get together with hayley mills , which also included her only other hit song , “johnny jingo” ( billboard no . 21 , 1962 ) . in 1962 british exhibitors voted her the most popular film actress in the country .
this passage somehow represents the use of music in both novel and film . just as in this description of a musical soundtrack at odds with the scene depicted ( very similar to kubrick’s film ) , nabokov created a subtle a discrepancy between humbert’s musical voice and the movements of “the shivering flower” he is conjuring up , namely , lolita .
when stanley kubrick made lolita hollywood was broadening its acceptance of slightly more scandalous stories to be tackled on film . martin scorsese said that at a time when american cinema was on its way down , due to the collapse of the studio system , with lolita , kubrick made a film that made people “stop and look” at the possibilities or at what american cinema would become . in that regard kubrick pushed the envelope with lolita , not only by tackling the controversial topic – an older man infatuated with a young girl – but also in the way he filmed it .
one of the posters for lolita , stanley kubrick’s adaptation of vladimir nabokov’s notorious 1955 novel proclaimed : ‘how did they ever make a movie of lolita ? ’ . indeed . the subject material – essentially paedophilia – had to be toned down in the censorious sixties and much of the graphic sexual scenes contained in the book had to be implied on film . that kubrick made such a colourful and provocative film is a testament to his genius behind the camera .
. act i of that play is certainly when quilty meets lolita and humbert in the enchanted hunters hotel , which is the very title of the play written by quilty and in which lolita is cast as the leading nymph . let us now turn to the function of this play - within - the - play in both novel and film .
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mario puzo himself assisted on the screenplay for coppola’s classic . unsurprisingly , therefore , the film stays faithful to the manner and quality of the book . some backstories are eliminated , while others appear in the godfather ii . the ending of the film is actually more gloomy than the book . but both film and book complement each other perfectly .
by the time the hotel manages to get an extra bed , lolita has already fallen asleep , alone , in the room and there ' s this whole slapstick comedy of the porter and humbert trying to get the cot in the room without waking lolita . despite extra cot , humbert tries to crawl into bed with lolita and she cock - blocks him . and this is what i actually find interesting about lolita , the film and the character . for all of lolita having come to mean a promiscuous and sexually active young girl , lolita is not very promiscuous . she knows about the facts of life , she ' s not blind to humbert ' s attentions and she will eventually have a sexual relationship with him but she ' s not encouraging him either . it ' s not like alicia silverstone in
— lolita author vladimir nabokov , who wrote the screenplay for the film , turned in a script that ran 400 pages and called for a seven - hour film . kubrick and producer james harris had to alter it significantly . the unused screenplay deviated from the novel and featured a hitchcock - like cameo for nabokov , who is referred to as “that nut with a butterfly net . ” he later published the complete script in 1974 as lolita : a screenplay .
i understand there was some controversy over the ending of the film - where the french soldiers are executed for desertion - that you asked to change it so that the men would not be shot at the end of the film .
to be the film in which the director first resorted to the typically kubrickian musical techniques he was to develop in his following movies . kubrick later said that he viewed film as a mostly non - verbal experience ( as exemplified by
that was the most surprising thing about the film ; the comedy . i actually found it to be very amusing , and this coupled with the catchy , upbeat songs enabled me to really enjoy the film and overlook its flaws .
appel , alfred , jr . :
tristram in movielove : ' lolita ' at the movies
. in :
lolita . s . u . n . y . college at brockport , m . a . thesis , 1995 .
lolita . harvard university , a . b . thesis , honors in english and american literature and language , 1995 .
lem , stanislav ; dushenko , d . ( tr . ) .
lolita , ili stavrogin i beatriche .
levine , robert t . :
' my ultraviolet darling ' : the loss of lolita ' s childhood
.
- - - . the annotated lolita . ed . alfred appel jr . . new york : vintage , 1991 .
tastes like diabetes : humbert ' s in - universe reaction to the girly magazines and corny music that lolita enjoys .
try to think of your poor little lolita , all alone in the world . you must live for her sake .
by the way , according to the life magazine article that appeared in may , 1962 , just before the kubrick movie premiered , nabokov stated unequivocally that he would never write the screenplay , that to conjure lolita in his mind was one thing , but to portray her with actors in a movie would be “a sin” . apparently when kubrick offered him the job , he caved and not only scribed the film , but gave himself a walk - on cameo . reportedly , only 20 percent of nabokov’s script was used .
right now , i’m revolting against the conventions of movies . who says a film has to cost a million dollars and be safe and innocuous enough to satisfy every 12 - year - old in america ? we’re creating a movie equivalent of off broadway , fresh and experimental and personal . the lovely thing is that i’m alive at just the time when i can do this . - shirley clarke , 1962
so you have the problem that some people are only listening and not really paying attention with their eyes . film is
amrit nahata ' s kissaa kursee kaa , the film which will never be released =
kissā kursī kā
.
in the end , i think lolita isn’t an entirely successful film . it feels very slow to me at times , quilty doesn’t fit well , and there’s really nobody to root for once the brilliant shelley winters ( as lolita’s mother ) is no longer in the picture . but i think it’s a dry run for the film that kubrick made next . dr strangelove has the same black humour , the same dry detachment , and relies heavily on the improvisational skills of sellers .
the reason i say that is because i ' m just not sure i ' m buying his claim that he would never have made lolita if he ' d known what kind of hassle he would get from film censors over it . pull the other one , stan . you knew what you were letting yourself in for when you started making this film .
this sober approach to what nabokov called the exhilaration of
philistine vulgarity
means that this
lolita
isn ' t a comedy . stanley kubrick ' s 1962 film was , and that ' s often been held against it . still , it ' s remarkable how much of the book kubrick manages to get : the slyness , the whole atmosphere of erotic dementia and the book ' s satiric celebration of roadside america . kubrick translated that into a black - comic version of fast , slangy , disrespectful american movie comedies .
undoubtedly a film by a great director benefits from being seen again in retrospect , since the films he has directed subsequently shed a new light on it . such is the case with lolita ( 1962 ) , misunderstood at the time of its release when kubrick ' s status as an auteur was not yet firmly established . the reputation of vladimir nabokov , author of the original and scandalous book , overshadowed the director ' s attempt at translating it for the screen . two main criticisms were levelled at the film : one was its
betrayal
of a literary masterpiece , its failure to create an equivalent style , while the other was the disappointment of many who expected a titillating erotic experience . seen today lolita appears as a turning point in kubrick ' s career .