It's a shame that Anne Rice went crazy... The books were actually pretty interesting. This movie was actually great from what I remember.
Love this movie.
Hilarious how adamantly against the Cruise casting Rice initially was, but Neil Jordan pushed hard for it and finally convinced her.
Might be my favorite Cruise performance. I wish he'd play more antagonist roles.
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.
Is there a documentary about her? This sounds fascinating.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.
How does that make her 'crazy'?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.
Okay I meant homoerotic but its also also a pedophlie type hetroerotic relationship between Pitt and Dunst so it still works.
Totally not a mistake.
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.
For sure. Vampires in general have always been tied to the psychosexual.Ann Rice's vampire novels have always been erotic. If anything the films tone it down a lot.
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.
Only an HBO production could give justice to the books. For example...
Lestat turns his mom Gabrielle into a vampire. Then they become a couple, and even though his dick no longer works, she insists that he insert it in her as they slept. Must've been like pushing a rope because in Rice's universe vampires don't have erections. I read that when i was 13!
I guess its not that shocking in light of Game of Thrones...
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".
In The Vampire Armand, Armand tells his own story of what happened in the Théâtre des Vampires leading up to Claudia's execution: Claudia offered to leave Louis if Armand could give her the body of a woman, no matter how painful or violent this effort would be. Armand agreed to Claudia's demands and decapitated her, attempting to place her head – and thus her mind – on the body of another vampire woman, believing that the healing powers of vampire blood would allow Claudia to heal herself. The attempt failed and, with Claudia near death and Armand seeing that he could rid himself of her and have Louis to himself, he simply locked her in the air shaft with Madeleine and left them both to die.
I mean, in the book Pitts character bites a willing male servant and describes how he can feel the guys erect dick pressing against him.
So yeah, just a tad homoerotic.
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.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.
I'm sure Lestat says in QOTD that they have permanent erections...
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.
Give The Hunger a go if you want a really great vampire movie.
the OP is basically a list of cool and crazy shit in the film, though
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.
Wrong book. That was (the book) Pandora and she(Pandora) did that with Marius.Only an HBO production could give justice to the books. For example...
Lestat turns his mom Gabrielle into a vampire. Then they become a couple, and even though his dick no longer works, she insists that he insert it in her as they slept. Must've been like pushing a rope because in Rice's universe vampires don't have erections. I read that when i was 13!
I guess its not that shocking in light of Game of Thrones...
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.
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
Wrong book. That was (the book) Pandora and she(Pandora) did that with Marius.