Lolita is the remake of
the 1962 film based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov about
Humbert Humbert, a forty year old European man who develops a
passion for his landlady's twelve year old daughter, Dolores,
better known as Lolita. He is tormented by desires, but is
unable to stop.
Animal Action:
There is a scene
where Humbert is in a taxi on his way to Lolita's house and a
dog is heard barking. The dog is seen running from the steps
of a front porch towards the car. Then he is seen jumping up
to the window barking as the taxi slowly moves down the
street. As the taxi moves on, the dog chases the vehicle down
the road a short distance. The same dog is seen in several
other scenes jumping up and down barking when Humbert arrives
home. These scenes were shot in cuts. For the scene where the
dog jumps up to the car window, as a safety precaution, a
plywood barrier covered with a black cloth was attached to the
side of the car to insure that the dog would not come into
contact with the tires. For all other chase scenes the dog is
at least 15ft. away from the car.
There is a scene at
a hotel when Lolita gets down on her hands and knees to
playfully hold a cocker spaniels face in her hands.. The
trainer placed the dog on his mark and cued him with verbal
commands.
Other animal action
consists of several scenes where a dog is seen sitting on a
porch at a store or outside a residence. There are some cows
seen in a field as Humbert drives his car down a country road.
A strip of fly paper is also seen in a scene with flys stuck
to it. A bug light is seen on the front porch of a hotel and
moths are supposedly being zapped by the light.
