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Posted by: BakeTheMooCow at May 7, 2008, 9:24 am

Topic: Leon is Humbert Humbert Forum: JoBlo

That's an interesting theory. I haven't watched Leon in a very long time and I'd have to give it another viewing to catch similarities, but I'd venture that the outline of a man developing a relationship with a young girl is probably inspired by Lolita and not a 'loose adaptation of'. There are too many essential differences such as Leon being hesitant of taking care of Mathilda, while Humbert actively seeking to get Dolores alone with him. And maybe the director's cut pushes the sexual nature of the relationship further, but how far? And even then, I'd imagine it was Mathilda who is attracted to Leon and not the other way around. In fact, Kubrick's Lolita is the loose adaptation because it deviates so much from the novel, despite the screenplay being written by Nabokov. By the way, no one has ever or could ever come close to adequately adapting that book to film. Not Kubrick, certainly not Adrian Lyne. It's impossible. Film is not a rich enough medium for Lolita.

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