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Re: Humbert's guilt etc.
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Quoting STADLEN@aol.com:
> << When I once asked Stephen Schiff why his screenplay didn't show Humbert
> trying to drug Dolores in order to molest her while she slept, he
> replied that
> that would have made the film "too dark." >>
>
> Both film versions play down both HH's criminality and his psychiatric
> history. Both make him too "light", too nice. They collude with
> paedophilia in a way
> that Nabokov himself does not.
>
> Anthony Stadlen
> << When I once asked Stephen Schiff why his screenplay didn't show Humbert
> trying to drug Dolores in order to molest her while she slept, he
> replied that
> that would have made the film "too dark." >>
>
> Both film versions play down both HH's criminality and his psychiatric
> history. Both make him too "light", too nice. They collude with
> paedophilia in a way
> that Nabokov himself does not.
>
> Anthony Stadlen