2013: Post 4: Researching Short Film Content (2)

Lolita is a Novel by Vladimir Nabokov, written in English and published in 1955 in Paris and 1958 in New York. The Novel is a story told from a sexual groomer’s point of view. We all agreed that reading the book or watching part of the film would be good idea as it would give us more of an idea of what a sexual groomer would do to attract the opposite gender.  The main Character of the book is a man named ‘Humbert Humbert’, a literary scholar, who has harboured a long-time obsession with young girls; he suggests that this was caused by the death of a premature sweetheart, Annabel Leigh. Humbert then moves to Ramsdale a small Town in England, where he is then shown around the house by Charlotte, it is here that Humbert then notices Charlotte’s 12-year-old daughter named Lolita and immediatly falls in love with her. Later on in the book Humbert gets married to Charlotte so he can keep seeing her named Lolita that he loves.



Jeremy Irons as Humbert in the film Lolita (picture shown on Google images



This research was very helpful to our film as it gave our group more of how our script could end, we also gained an idea as to how we should structure our storyline. It also gave us a great idea on how old we would need our actresses to be and how our main character Alan would look. When reading the book I also took some note's on the ways and techniques that Humbert would use to disquise himself from being a groomer. This is very useful to me and my group as we initially found it very difficult to camouflage the fact that Alan is a groomer. This is because we were keen to build qeustions in the audiences minds as to whether he was or wasnt at fault. In the book there are many interesting facts that helped us within our group, these facts were mainly based on how a groomer would prevent getting cought and how he would come in touch with the person being groomed, for example Mr. Humbert uses a young girls mother to see Lolita and he see's her when he is being showed around the house by her mother. The book also provided further ideas for our plot with regard to how groomers use and abuse their victims cares in order to gain access to them. This is predaminently ahcieved by building up a level of trust.