Day 2 of Group Presentations

Group 4 Presentation

Group 4's movie was extremely unique and well made. The images that were shown were most definitely great representations of Nabokov. All the chess scenes were cool, and it took me a while to get that as she read the book Nabokov's chess piece moved because the game of worlds had begun. The escape from Zembla scene was really funny, and I enjoyed the other little plays within the movie. The whole thing was kind of set up like a frame story would be, which was great since Nabokov employs that technique within some of his works as well.

Group 6 Presentation

This presentation was my favorite of the lot. It was extremely creative, and it was interesting to see each person's unique representation of a character and what they would have written. The characters portrayed in this presentation were Humbert, Lolita, Shade, and Kinbote as the commentator. There were 4 different poems/pieces, which corresponds with the 4 cantos of Shade's poem. I liked that they Incorporated our class list into their pieces, as well as some of the blogs of their fellow classmates. The poem written from Shade's point of view was my favorite because it was quite entertaining and funny. Like Shade's poem, it was rhymed. And I thought it was interesting that he is writing from his own afterlife, whereas in the novel he writes about the death of his daughter. Each person did a great job of embodying their character and writing in the way that their characters really would. It was obvious that they put a lot of time into it, and I enjoyed it a lot.

Group 6 Presentation

Like all of the other presentations, group 6's was quite entertaining. They looked at the way fairy tales were incorporated into Nabokov's Lolita. Some of the ones they played out were little red riding hood, the little mermaid, snow white, beauty and the beast, sleeping beauty, Frankenstein, and the story of Actaeon. The use of pictures from the computer as scene backdrops was creative, and the cops excerpt from the end was funny. The part where the guys were watching little girls at play was comical as well.

Overall, the presentations were great. Super creative as well as entertaining.