90’s Lolitas Volume 2: Adrian Lyne’s Lolita (Erotic 90’s, Part 18)

2023-10-03 · 71 min · episode 217 · 5 entities

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In the previous decade, Adrian Lyne had made two movies ( Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal ) that had grossed over $100 million in the US alone. With carte blanche to do whatever he wanted, he made an adaptation of the Nabokov novel about a 40-year-old pedophile’s obsession with his adolescent step-daughter – and no distributor wanted to release it. In a decade rife with the commodification and sexualization of young teens (see our previous episode on Drew Barrymore), what lines did Lyne’s Lolita cross? (00:00) Adrian Lyne Struggles To Get Lolita Made (20:21) Casting Dominique Swain (29:35) The Problems of Adapting Lolita (39:32) Press Coverage and More Problems (47:58) Response and Distribution Difficulties (58:54) “Criminal”, Kids, and Complexity