Lolita Fan

Huge fan of the book and both movies.

[lolitafan1997]

It is okay to be a fan of Lolita 1997.

You can appreciate the movie just as you did the novel.

You can appreciate the wonderful language.

You can appreciate the historic views of 1940s America.

You can appreciate the brilliant acting from the lead characters.

You can think Jeremy Irons is handsome as Humbert Humbert.

You can think that Dominique Swain is beautiful as Dolores Haze.

You can appreciate the hairstyles and outfits and the beautiful scenery.

Loving this movie does not make you a pedophile or a bad person. You are just someone appreciating the art of a very controversial novel being brought to life on the big screen.

I love this movie and you can love it too.

[lolitafan1997]

Dominique Swain loves pinball. Do you love pinball?

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Dominique Swain on Instagram.

A very young looking Blonde Dolores Haze.

What do you think?

Better or prefer the original?

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Dominique Swain from her Instagram.

Dolores Haze is all grown up.

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Been away on X working on a new account and trying to get monetized.

I haven’t been on here in forever.

I’m sorry.

I miss you guys.

I miss talking about Dolores Haze and how good that book and movie are.

I hope to be back soon.

Thank you for keeping the blog alive while I’ve been gone.

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Dolores and I can’t believe we have over 1600 followers to our little home on the internet.

Thank you to each and evey one of you.

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Dolores and i can’t believe we have over 1600 followers.

We are shaking our head in disbelief.

Thank you to each and every one of you.

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I’ve been off Tumblr for months.

Been busy with a new X account and got distracted.

What have I missed?

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Dominique Swain on Instagram modeling a 1976 McDonald’s uniform.

It’s as good as you would expect. I bet she can still fit those 1940’s outfits today.

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Dominique Swain on Instagram.

Going back to the 1980’s.

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Summer is over for another year but we still have our memories.

I hope you made some good memories this year.

[lolitafan1997]

we never really think about dolores in the winter and autumn time! what goes through your mind when you think of dolores in the winter? to me, i think of pretty, soft wool coats, with ribbons, dolores throwing snow balls to her mother and humbert, getting yelled at for it. snow days off from school, dolores trying to catch snow with her tongue!

I was, believe it or not, just thinking about this and going to post. The whole Lolita story takes place in spring, summer, and maybe fall, but not winter that I can remember. Or, at least not in the movie.

The above Instagram post is about as close as we will ever get. But I think your description is beautiful and believable.

Thank you for the question.

[doloresdisparue]

This is blatantly false and something I can only imagine comes from watching the dreadful 97 adaptation too many times. The novel absolutely takes place in winter too and talks about Dolly what she wears (it's not ribbons because that's another thing that sticks to this story with barely any basis in the text) and what she does. A few examples:

We know she does love throwing snowballs and sliding down snow banks like almost any kid but she didn't involve Humbert in it, probably glad for the opportunity to have fun and forgetsbout him for a moment.

We know she foregoes weather appropriate clothes for fashion (the shoes) but still doesn't care about keeping her clothes clean and that she wears a coat with a fur collar she's probably proud of (and that she fidgets and dances around when nervous).

Even with weather appropriate shoes her legs turn pink because she didn't wear tights - again showing the determination of a tween trying to be stylish, that she carried her books instead of using a bag...

... and that she was scared of neighbours inquiring too closely thanks to Humberts constant threats and ominous proclamations of what would happen to her if she sought help.

I cannot overstate enough that the 97 movie is a dogshit adaptation that probably conveniently skipped the winter months because that wouldn't have given them an excuse to put the child actress in crop tops and shorts to ogle at.

[lolitafan1997]

Yes I was talking about the movie.

The book covered two years or longer I think we all understand winter happened during that time and was shown in many scenes in the book.

Thank you for posting all the winter scenes from the book so we can read them in December.

I love your passion for this topic please reply to any of my posts and correct me when I am wrong. I want this to be an accurate blog.

[sadmessyfawn]

I was a daisy-fresh girl, and look what you’ve done to me ♡

-Lolita

[lolitafan1997]

Love these black and white photos. A whole different atmosphere then the color ones.

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hello! i absolutely adore your blog!! i'm reading lolita now, but still havent finished yet. i saw somewhere that dolores was engaging in homosexual activity in the camp, or humbert thought she was?? what do you think about that?? maybe i'm wrong i dont know..

I think the only thing that happened to Dolores at camp was what she said about Charlie.

Now you can take this three ways.

1. Dolores was telling a lie to look experienced.

2. It was true what happened at camp with Charlie.

3. Humbert made the whole damn thing up to try and excuse himself for raping a minor.

I could honestly believe either of these and that’s the beauty of Nabokov’s writing. He has us so messed up we don’t know what is real or not.

Thank you for the question.

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if you could ask vladimir nabokov anything about the book lolita, what would you ask him?? i love your blog btw!!

This is an impossible question to answer because lo have so many questions.

Maybe the one I would want to know most is “What really happened to Dolores.”

I have seen many theories and like to believe that she lived. Remember Humbert is a liar and some think the whole went and got revenge on Quilty was another lie/fantasy and that she still lived.

Another theory is that everything after her getting away, the letter, him going to see her, was all a lie and made up and he just never saw her again.

What I would like to know from my many followers is what would you ask Nabokov if you could? Comment below.

[lolitafan1997]

we never really think about dolores in the winter and autumn time! what goes through your mind when you think of dolores in the winter? to me, i think of pretty, soft wool coats, with ribbons, dolores throwing snow balls to her mother and humbert, getting yelled at for it. snow days off from school, dolores trying to catch snow with her tongue!

I was, believe it or not, just thinking about this and going to post. The whole Lolita story takes place in spring, summer, and maybe fall, but not winter that I can remember. Or, at least not in the movie.

The above Instagram post is about as close as we will ever get. But I think your description is beautiful and believable.

Thank you for the question.

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Next week is September!