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VAGRANT STORY COVER ART SERIES
In the background you’ll see, the city of Lea Monde, where a majority of Vagrant Story takes place, along with the Rood Inverse, which features as one of the main driving forces of the story, in the game.Īdditionally, which can’t be seen by everybody, there is actually a map of Ivalice inserted into the very back of the image, to remind people of how this game does still connect back to Final Fantasy, and it’s Ivalice Alliance series of games.“ “ This piece features, the main character from Vagrant Story, Ashley Riot prominently in the centre, meanwhile many of the other various characters from the game, namely, Sydney Losstarot, Romeo Guildenstern, Callo Merlose and Rosencrantz are shown within the silhouette of Ashley Riot, along with a few monsters, the Minotaur and a Dragon, which seem to be iconic monsters from the game as well. Marvin Law, the artist behind it was glad that he could finish this piece for our RPG Art Challenge at least and wrote the following: It was part of our Playstation Tribute in December 2014 already and this piece was actually supposed to be for that project but as so often in our lives, things work different as planned. Vagrant Story is one of my favourite video games ever made and I can’t believe that it was never remastered or got a sequel. GA-HQ Community Members can either claim a game or a game character of their choice if it is related to the Art Challenge Theme or get a selection of three games or characters picked for them The whole lot of them/us – seeing the world through humbert-tinted glasses, seeing all others as Other and Object, as solipsistic dream-reality.The Game-Art-HQ Art Challenges are both a Challenge and a Community Project that is organized through our Group on DeviantART. Isn’t that our media as a whole? our culture as a whole? the image of the sexy girl sells intrigues gets the hands on the books.Īs elizabeth janeway said in her review in the new york review of books: “Humbert is every man who is driven by desire, wanting his Lolita so badly that it never occurs to him to consider her as a human being, or as anything but a dream-figment made flesh.” it was what people desired, requested and bought. nabokov did not produce the sexy girl covers of lolita, and kubrick had only the smallest hand in it. My conclusion is that the lolita complex existed before “lolita” (and of course it did) – a patriarchal society is essentially operating with the same delusions of humbert humbert. and yet, look at the top row of lolita covers: all legitimate publishing companies, not prone to smut.
VAGRANT STORY COVER ART FULL
…straying so far from the intention of nabokov that the phenomenon begins to look more like the symptom of something larger, something sicker.Īfter a lot of researching covers, it was here, in this sampling of concept covers for the book about the lolita covers, that i found an image that best represents the story to me:īut why aren’t all the covers like that? even the ones published by “legitimate” publishing companies, with full academic credentials, with no intended connection to the film surely they must have read nabokov’s instructions for the cover. Which very well could have, after tremendous sales, have influenced the following covers: Here’s a couple of kubrick inspired covers:
At the heart of all of this seems to be the desire to make the sexual aspect of the novel more palatable. There are other factors that have contributed to the incorrect reading, from the book’s initial publication in Olympia Press’s Traveller’s Series (essentially, a collection of dirty books), to Kubrick’s startlingly unfaithful adaptation. It became the image of Lolita, and it was ubiquitous. Once this image became associated with “Lolita”-and it’s important to remember that, in the film, Lolita is sixteen years old, not twelve-it really didn’t matter that it was a terribly inaccurate portrait.
Are those films primarily to blame for the sexualization of Lolita?Īs is argued in several of the book’s essays, the promotional image of Sue Lyon in the heart-shaped sunglasses, taken by photographer Bert Stern, is easily the most significant culprit in this regard, much more so than the Kubrick film itself (significantly, neither the sunglasses nor the lollipop ever appears in the film), or the later film by Adrian Lyne.
VAGRANT STORY COVER ART MOVIE
Many of the covers guilty of misrepresenting Lolita as a teen seductress feature images from Hollywood movie adaptations of the book- Kubrick’s 1962 version, starring Sue Lyon, and Adrian Lyne’s 1997 one.
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