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Lolita And Dr Strangelove

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“Lolita” and “Dr. Strangelove” are Kubrick’s attempts at using comedy more prevalently in his films. While not straying from interesting and dark subject matter, Kubrick seemed to move to using comedy as a way to enhance his narratives. In “Lolita” Kubrick explores several different forms of comedy in dialog, dramatic irony, awkward humor, and even slapstick. The characters in the film also each have very distinct humorous character traits. The movie even opens up with Quilty drunkenly using humor in attempt to stop Humbert killing him. However In my opinion the film was hurt by the wide range of comedy as it seemed to take away from the plot more than it added too it. For example the scene where Humbert tries to open the cot while Lolita
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