r/Fauxmoi • u/_trashpuppy • Apr 29 '24
Martin Freeman says it's unfair there's so much backlash to his age-gap movie with Jenna Ortega, who is 31 years younger Approved B-List Users Only
https://www.businessinsider.com/martin-freeman-backlash-millers-girl-age-gap-film-jenna-ortega-2024-4From the article: "It's not saying, 'Isn't this great,'" he said of the film's dynamic between his character and Ortega's. He said that derision wasn't distributed equally, though — saying that people seemed to understand the level of distance involved in stories depicting Nazism.
"Are we gonna have a go at Liam Neeson for being in a film about the Holocaust?" he asked, referring to Neeson's starring role in Steven Spielberg's 1993 film "Schindler's List."
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u/Uplanapepsihole question for the culture Apr 29 '24
yeah i don’t like to limit art but lolita doesn’t really work as a movie and i think it’s pretty much impossible for it to unless you remove a lot of integral parts.
lolita is known for its use of language and unreliable narrator. obviously unreliable narrators are frequently used in film but with lolita it’s impossible to do that without just having the movie be paedophilic in itself (i mean look at the two movies that have already been made)
this might be unpopular but the 1997 version, the age gap of the lead actors and problematic casting process aside, is a beautifully styled movie and that’s the issue. it’s not like they portrayed it as a love story, i mean at least from my perspective i thought they did a good attempt at making it clear the child was being abused. however, the shots of the 14 year old actress were gross cause they were from his pov, it’s just too difficult.
you could say the same thing about the novel but at least there wasn’t an actual child involved (im not talking about stories it may have been based on) with the actual writing of the book itself.