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VOTED "GEM" OF THE WEEK BY THE EDITOR! MY thanks to James Womack!
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Subject: Nabokov in Cult New Zealand Splatter-film Shock!
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:41:55 +0400 (MSD)
From: "redjames" <jwomack@yandex.ru>
Reply-To: jwomack@yandex.ru
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Dear All,
Just a minor Nabokov sighting, which didn't seem to have been
mentioned before: Peter Jackson (most recently the director of
-Lord of the Rings-) made early on in his career a tongue-in-cheek
horror film called -Braindead-, set in New Zealand in 1957. Late
on in this film, as a character (nameless, he is a guest at a party)
is being pinned to a sofa by a flesh-eating zombie, he yelps in fear,
'I'm sorry I called Nabokov a paedophile!'. A little later, when it
looks as if the humans are finally getting the upper hand over the
zombies, the same guest stands up, brushes himself off, and says,
'Hah! some of my best friends are paedophiles!' He is then promptly
munched. Justice of a kind, I suppose.
James Womack.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Nabokov in Cult New Zealand Splatter-film Shock!
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:41:55 +0400 (MSD)
From: "redjames" <jwomack@yandex.ru>
Reply-To: jwomack@yandex.ru
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Dear All,
Just a minor Nabokov sighting, which didn't seem to have been
mentioned before: Peter Jackson (most recently the director of
-Lord of the Rings-) made early on in his career a tongue-in-cheek
horror film called -Braindead-, set in New Zealand in 1957. Late
on in this film, as a character (nameless, he is a guest at a party)
is being pinned to a sofa by a flesh-eating zombie, he yelps in fear,
'I'm sorry I called Nabokov a paedophile!'. A little later, when it
looks as if the humans are finally getting the upper hand over the
zombies, the same guest stands up, brushes himself off, and says,
'Hah! some of my best friends are paedophiles!' He is then promptly
munched. Justice of a kind, I suppose.
James Womack.