Ebony Lolita, lets talk?

[richardmurray]

Is Lolita impossible to adapt and moreover, what are your thoughts to a "Lolita" involving all black characters ?
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[Troy]

You could adapt anything. The real question is why adapt Lolita with black characters?

[richardmurray]

@Troy thanks for your reply. I admit the source of my approach is two things.

First one writer said you can't make a screenplay of Lolita because to be true to the book it has to be from the abusers perspective and has to involve the abuser abusing a child, or underaged female, and the prior two movies production and after effect are examples that give proof to this. But whenever soeone says something can't be written that inspires me. 

Second, I rarely think of non black characters in my imagination, no matter who. 

 

Now to your question, why adapt lolita with black characters?

I have questions. Why do you call that the real question? What do you see that is problematic or some negative that I don't? I want to know. I am guessing but I can be wrong, you see Lolita with Black characters as terrible de facto or something negative that I don't, am I right? 

[Troy]

It is a matter of opinion, so I'm not saying you are right or wrong.  Why adapt a pedophile into a Black character?  What purposes does that serve?  Just leave that character as originally written.  

[richardmurray]

@Troy of course it is opinion, i didn't say you said I was right or wrong. but you asked 

 

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Why adapt a pedophile into a Black character?  What purposes does that serve?  Just leave that character as originally written.  

 

Why adapt a pedophile into a Black character? 

I simply imagine characters black and while I don't normally think of black pedophiles, it is easier for me to convert a non black character into black than write a non black character.

What purposes does that serve? 

Just my way of creating

Just leave that character as originally written.  

I have thought about what you are not saying or alluding to and i get it. a black writer writing a black pedophile has two potential negatives. 

1) non blacks who can utilize such a character as license

2) blacks who despise the sight of black characters in negative forms as such

Both will create a negative creative or commercial response to such a work. I think, I can be wrong, I get your point, though you are not as clear as I wish o rhoped you would be. 

 

what do you think my fellow black writers? 

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