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Watched Interview With a Vampire for First Time (Aka what is this heteroerotic masterpiece of a mess
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This is, hands down, my favourite vampire movies, and one of Tom Cruise's best moves (up there with Top Gun and A Few Good Men). Sexuality is treated as being part and parcel of being a vampire. After all, what could me more intimate than drinking another's blood, and sharing your blood with that person in return?
Amazing movie. Pretty much everyone was fantastic, but Dunst and Cruise were real standouts. Given the subject matter I thought it would be goofy as shit, but somehow Cruise sold it. He might be nutty, but damn the man can act.
The actual novels range from thinly veiled to full on explicit gay erotica. Every vampire is at least Bi.
Rice wrote a bunch of erotica under a pen name in the 80s too. While ostensibly it's about the girl, it's really like 75% about the guy being turned into a sex slave with lots of other guys. And she is a LOT more creative with the gay stuff.
The movie is pretty great. Just don't watch the other one. Books are a bit uneven, but some of them are pretty entertaining.
Rice wrote a bunch of erotica under a pen name in the 80s too. While ostensibly it's about the girl, it's really like 75% about the guy being turned into a sex slave with lots of other guys. And she is a LOT more creative with the gay stuff.
The movie is pretty great. Just don't watch the other one. Books are a bit uneven, but some of them are pretty entertaining.
She goes back and forth. Back to being, at least trying to be, Catholic... Then leaving again because she loves the gays and the church doesn't. Repeat ad nauseum. At least that is the impression I get.
River Phoenix was supposed to play the part of the interviewer but he ODd before filming started.
Love the movie. Love the books. Love the lore that Rice came up with. Shame what they did with Queen of the Damned.
Love the movie. Love the books. Love the lore that Rice came up with. Shame what they did with Queen of the Damned.
They just made the whole film coincide with the quality of the book's ending. It's pretty great before that, though. Stephen King is embarrassed by that ending.
This movie is awesome. It has everything, fantasy, horror, history, drama, 90s-cheesiness and action.
How does that make her 'crazy'?
A lot of people turn to religion after the death of a loved one. It probably helped her and she sees the good in it but disagrees with them when it comes to lgbt/abortion issues. Which makes her a lot more sane than most.
Maybe it's been too many centuries since I watched the movie, but I always took that to be a father-child relationship and don't really recall a romantic or sexual one there. Feel like people may be mistaking the dialogue ("Oh Louis, my love") of endearment for sexual overtones. Never read the book, so let me know if I'm wrong.
Really great movie I love the narration throughout it.
On a side note apparently Brad Pitt wasn't liking how dark and gloomy this movie was shooting always at night and he asked about just fucking bailing from the production halfway through but was told he would have to pay millions in penalties....
On a side note apparently Brad Pitt wasn't liking how dark and gloomy this movie was shooting always at night and he asked about just fucking bailing from the production halfway through but was told he would have to pay millions in penalties....
I'm not going to derail the thread here with my thoughts on religion, especially organized religion, but I never said she was crazy. Sure, I quoted a post that said that, but I was just trying to convey the reason why it is possible to find some loopy and seemingly out of character quotes from her. One of the times she went back to being Catholic I recall her basically renouncing the books, etc.
I remember the first time I watched this was with my stepmom as a teenager and I remember at one point I asked her
"Uhh....like...they're supposed to be gay or something right!?" because holy shit the sexual tension in that movie was high.
That said I absolutely loved it and it is my favorite vampire movie.
"Uhh....like...they're supposed to be gay or something right!?" because holy shit the sexual tension in that movie was high.
That said I absolutely loved it and it is my favorite vampire movie.
For sure. Vampires in general have always been tied to the psychosexual.
This was the first rated R movie my friends and I ever snuck into. Shit was too much catnip to 13-year-old girls, I'm not sure the theater would've cared if we'd just outright bought the tickets.
I remember my sister loved it, and I'd tease her for watching "This girly ass movie"(which it is). But then that scene happens, and I'm like "That's bad ass".This movie is awesome. It has everything, fantasy, horror, history, drama, 90s-cheesiness and action.
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I'm sure Lestat says in QOTD that they have permanent erections...
Pretentious as hell, overly somber, and annoyingly mopey. I still get a guilty pleasure from it however.
This was always one of my favorite movies. Kirsten Dunst's performance still ranks as the best acting by a child actor I've ever seen. It was also the first movie I ever watched that had Brad Pitt in it, which made me suddenly take him seriously as an actor.
The novel was the main inspiration behind the setting in Vampire: The Masquerade. I was a big fan of that setting back in the day, which made me appreciate IwtV even more.
The novel was the main inspiration behind the setting in Vampire: The Masquerade. I was a big fan of that setting back in the day, which made me appreciate IwtV even more.
This stated my childhood obsession with vampires. Was equally afraid and intrigued by it because of all the hot vampire dudes eating people.
I thought so, too, because someday I switched channels and it was some calm scene with dreamy Brad Pitt.
And only years later I watched the full movie and realised how bloody this movie is.
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It also needs to be said that Anne Rice was huge at the time. It's like how The DaVinci Code or 50 Shades of Grey gets made, two decades on people will stumble upon these movies and think, "where did these come from?" It's because of the books.
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I was late to it, and didn't watch it until I was maybe 20. It didn't do a lot for me.
Then again, I don't like most vampire movies and maybe need to rewatch it now. There are only a small handful of vampire movies I think are actually good: Let the Right One In, Let Me In, The Lost Boys, Nosferatu, Fright Night...
Then again, I don't like most vampire movies and maybe need to rewatch it now. There are only a small handful of vampire movies I think are actually good: Let the Right One In, Let Me In, The Lost Boys, Nosferatu, Fright Night...
Yup. Rice is largely credited with reimagining vampire mythology and that all started with Interview in the 70s, not unlike how Tolkien transformed and solidified high fantasy with his novels. There would be no TruBlood, Twilight, Blade, Buffy, Vampire Diaries etc without Anne Rice's influence on the genre. The very idea of the modern vampire as seen in those IPs directly derive from Ricean vampires being not grotesque bat monsters but hyper sexual, attractive, seductive beings fully enmeshed in the human world but also hidden from it.
Interview is a classic and it's a shame the other novels never got the same treatment.
Love the film! Tom Cruise is seriously so fucking good in this movie. Definitely one of his best performances imo.
Kirsten Dunst's best performance. She's been slumming ever since.
(I haven't had the mood for Melancholia yet; it sounds oddly excellent).
(I haven't had the mood for Melancholia yet; it sounds oddly excellent).
What I wouldn't do for a well done Memnoch.
Blood and Gold as well The Vampire Armand... I auppose they'd make for great gay porn with actual plot lol.
And if you want the craziest vampire movie ever made, Vampire's Kiss is free with Amazon Prime right now.
the OP is basically a list of cool and crazy shit in the film, though
what's not to like
Claudia starts as a child but its clear her mind grew up to adulthood and she was stuck as a child.
Way late in the book series, they tell Louis that just before she died, she asked to be decapitated and to staple her head on an adult body. It seems to work but she seems to have gone insane. It's a retcon because that wasn't in the first book.
EDIT was supposed to be a spoiler but dont know how to do it and it's a 20 year old book so...
Wrong book. That was (the book) Pandora and she(Pandora) did that with Marius.
Weren't these called Sleeping Beauty or something? There were 3 of them and OMG it was like one of those "romantic" novels on steroids. I remember the very very graphic depictions of gay sex. TBH, it was hot LOL
Yes. Though upon googling to refresh my memory, she has written a fourth, published in 2015. News to me. The plot summary was disappointing (lol).
I originally found out about these because I sort of collect old gay porn magazines when I can find them and one of them had an excerpt (they didn't seem to know it was actually Rice).
They're not even obscure... If you have any brick and mortar bookstores left near you, they probably have them. Abundantly available online of course.
Thank you my memory is truly terrible these days (I read them in the 90's which are a blur to me now). Makes me want to reread the first few books which I think were my favorites.