Vampire Chronicles: The Tragic Life Of Claudia

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  • Опубликовано: 16 мар 2022
  • Today we return to the Vampire Chronicles and take a look at a rather interesting yet short lived character in Claudia. The 5 year old vampire appears in the interview with the vampire novel and had quite a turbulent relationship with her adoptive fathers Louis and Lestat, developing what would seem to be 2 different personalities depending on what father she was in the presence of. Claudia’s entire life was surrounded by uncertainty and controversy due to her young age and in todays’ video I’m going to go into great detail about all aspects of the vampire’s life, I’ll be looking at her line of thought, her mindset at different stages of her life and the lengths she would go to in order to be free of the child’s body she was trapped in. Please enjoy the life of the Vampire Claudia.
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Комментарии • 318

  • @kaityr9693
    @kaityr9693 8 месяцев назад +678

    Claudia's story is so horribly sad. Stuck in a child's body, an adult many times over but never changing physically. Treated like a child, looking like a child, but very much not. Her going insane was inevitable, and it's so sad how she was clearly IN love with Louis (as much as she could considering her poor mental state), but he only saw her as his child.
    Her death was tragic and horrible, but she shouldn't have ever existed in the first place.

    • @nicholerubes2959
      @nicholerubes2959 5 месяцев назад +10

      I personally never felt sorry for her. She was such a brat. And killed so many people for fun.

    • @shayla106
      @shayla106 3 месяца назад +1

      @@nicholerubes2959whoosh

    • @Detix-rory
      @Detix-rory 2 месяца назад

      ​@@nicholerubes2959fact 😂

    • @DannyJane.
      @DannyJane. Месяц назад +9

      Claudia was going to be a tragedy whether she had been turned or not. Louis found her in a hovel by the body of her dead mother. She would have starved, fallen prey to the disease or to diseased minds. She would never have had any education. Her chances of betterment were slim. Had she survived she still wouldn't have had a chance.

    • @Schrodingers_Kat
      @Schrodingers_Kat Месяц назад +2

      @@nicholerubes2959She was A VAMPIRE 😂😂😂😂

  • @-D3m0nikaSpirit-
    @-D3m0nikaSpirit- 3 месяца назад +226

    What TRULY makes Claudia, such a heart wreching character is that Anne Rice (The author of the original book series behind this film) lost her own daughter to leukemia when her daughter was only 5 years old (about a month shy from her 6th birthday). Claudia is therefore based on Anne Rice's real daughter. She is turned into a vampire at the age of 5-6 because that is how Rice's own daughter will always remain; a child frozen in time.

  • @amiejohnston2842
    @amiejohnston2842 8 месяцев назад +676

    Kirsten Dunst did a fabulous job as Claudia. That was the very first time I had seen her in a film and I was in awe of her performance. Claudia’s transformation still gives me chills and then seeing her learning from Lestat about the “basics” of vampirism is actually quite humorous at times. “Claudia! What have I told you??!!” 🙄😡😒 “Never in the house.” 🤔☺️😁

    • @GiftSparks
      @GiftSparks 8 месяцев назад +28

      Agree- she was fabulous. Also, I think she looked younger than 11. She could have passed for an 8 year old.

    • @serafinaianni971
      @serafinaianni971 8 месяцев назад +7

      Literally Kirsten Dunst even played as Marie Antoinette very well!!

    • @AylaNoelleLee
      @AylaNoelleLee 6 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@GiftSparksReally? I think she looks a little tall for an 8 year old. I personally think she looks her age 11/12

    • @Angel-xd9lt
      @Angel-xd9lt 5 месяцев назад +2

      Kristen Dunst did a great job and Tom Cruise took her under his wing. Did you see the new 2022 Interview With A Vampire TV series Sam Reid plays Lestat... its pretty good. Bailey Bass is wicked as Claudia in the new series***

  • @cheyanngluck8194
    @cheyanngluck8194 8 месяцев назад +396

    Kirsten dunst absolutely killed this role. I swear I always forget this is a young kid playing her. Shes just so mature and adult like in her speech and mannerisms throughout the movie. Then again, she was also really good at playing Judy in Jumanji. Just goes to show how good of an actress she is, even from a young age.

    • @serafinaianni971
      @serafinaianni971 8 месяцев назад +9

      She also played Marie Antoinette

    • @SjofnBM1989
      @SjofnBM1989 6 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@serafinaianni971how is that relevant?

    • @carlycrays2831
      @carlycrays2831 5 месяцев назад +6

      Seriously, always sort of creeped me out that she could pretend to be an adult so well

    • @Nightman221k
      @Nightman221k 5 месяцев назад +7

      She’s a fantastic actress in every role but it’s really impressive to see how much emotion and maturity she was able to put into her Claudia performance when she was a kid. Like, even for an adult actress that would be a tricky role and she made it believable.

    • @kaylynnanson6231
      @kaylynnanson6231 4 месяца назад +10

      For real though! The scene where Lestat tells her to clean up her mess and she growls "*You* clean it up" sounds less like a child and so much like a grown woman who's had enough bs.

  • @DeathSabr3
    @DeathSabr3 2 года назад +701

    I've always enjoyed Dunst's portrayal of Claudia, even if they did age her up a bit.
    Such an interesting character

    • @brianlindee220
      @brianlindee220 2 года назад +25

      She did it perfectly right down to her manure you had the body of a 11year old but the mind of an adult

    • @aussiecoastie72
      @aussiecoastie72 8 месяцев назад +3

      Absolutely yes

    • @user-gi8pk9uc7q
      @user-gi8pk9uc7q 8 месяцев назад +17

      Yeah, I certainly wouldn't want to be stuck in a child's body for all eternity, no wonder Claudia had issues!

    • @marianparoo1544
      @marianparoo1544 8 месяцев назад +2

      They would have to.

    • @13blackcatzzz
      @13blackcatzzz 8 месяцев назад +4

      She was a revelation!!!

  • @sifilore9462
    @sifilore9462 2 года назад +1192

    Claudia had it the worst. In Twilight immortal children r halted both physically and mentally. But for her, it's like people in rl with rare genetic disorders that stops or slows their bodily aging but mind stays true, example of slow...some people with rare conditions appear as 7 but their really 17 and will appear as 17 at 30. For Claudia, she's just like Esther from 2009 horror film, Orphan.

    • @saphirawinters7028
      @saphirawinters7028 8 месяцев назад +58

      Nah, she's more like Dolly from Batman the Animated Series.

    • @attitudeproblem6462
      @attitudeproblem6462 8 месяцев назад +51

      Claudia has always been such a tragic figure to me. She suffered so she made others suffer. And later, when I read Twilight, I wondered if that wasn’t part of the reason that making them so young was forbidden. And also part of the reason Jane was so malicious and malevolent. She was jealous of the ones who were changed as adults.

    • @debbylou5729
      @debbylou5729 8 месяцев назад +4

      Is there an emoji for shaking your head?

    • @katlafae9487
      @katlafae9487 8 месяцев назад +3

      She also like illyasivel von enizbern from fate/stay night due her being half homuculus she appears as a 9 year old. But extremely tragic characters who suffered at the hands of cruelty from others. she honestly the most underrated character in fate/stay night.

    • @oakmaiden2133
      @oakmaiden2133 8 месяцев назад +7

      Claudia was bitten at the age you see her, in Twilight the children you speak of were abominations of vampire/human coupling. Quite different even if it’s all make believe.

  • @cottoncandisandi6109
    @cottoncandisandi6109 8 месяцев назад +166

    Claudia is grief ,personified . Within the first novel , she goes through all the stages of human grieving . We can identify with her because we all have experienced loss . Anne Rice was a genius in regards to bringing " grief " to life. Claudia is a perfect character ! 😘

  • @gracefulannie-grcflannie-
    @gracefulannie-grcflannie- 2 года назад +483

    Claudia's age has always been the main change from book to film that never bothered me.

    • @BillyCistra
      @BillyCistra 2 года назад +40

      I feel like it made her less awkward for sure lol. I had no problem with the change as it was still a problem for Louie when they went to the Old World.

    • @knowledge-girl
      @knowledge-girl 8 месяцев назад +58

      It didn't bother me in the movie, but the idea of a full teenager as in the TV series bothers me. Claudia's story is about a woman trapped in a child's body, and a teenager of that era was an adult.

    • @gracefulannie-grcflannie-
      @gracefulannie-grcflannie- 8 месяцев назад +16

      @@knowledge-girl Yeah. You don't make that change just because it's more difficult to work with a five year old.

    • @melissaferguson9650
      @melissaferguson9650 6 месяцев назад +2

      Claudia was 5

    • @wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396
      @wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396 2 месяца назад +1

      @@knowledge-girlAt 14, I grew to the height I am now. Not an inch taller and I was pretty much through puberty. So, I can’t relate to people in the TV series calling her a “little girl”. There was one scene of Claudia with a policeman in the series and she was as tall as him, yet she doesn’t have “vampire strength”. Teenagers are pretty strong! Like I had much more energy at 14 then now. I could climb up a rope or tree. I can do that now. So when is the “magic age” where vampires come into full power?

  • @torievictoria
    @torievictoria 6 месяцев назад +90

    I've never thought they made Claudia older because they didn't think a small child could play the role. I think they knew that actually watching a five-year-old in some of these scenes would have been so horrifying to the audience it would have been all they reacted to. And this part has never occurred to me before, but I can't imagine there would be any way to do it without potentially traumatizing the child actor.

    • @joshfacio9379
      @joshfacio9379 Месяц назад +4

      I wonder if they didnt go that young is because kids change so fast, and small kids faces will lengthen and be less roundish so itd be hard to protray claudia as a immortal 5 year old.

  • @piapress2959
    @piapress2959 8 месяцев назад +395

    Is it just me, or was Brad Pitt the abused/battered wife of the relationship, like he was 10 seconds away from a lifetime movie.

    • @misskuni
      @misskuni 8 месяцев назад +9

      Lol

    • @piapress2959
      @piapress2959 8 месяцев назад +7

      @@misskuni 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @teegreen3909
      @teegreen3909 8 месяцев назад +30

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂, He was a kept Man

    • @larajimena2235
      @larajimena2235 8 месяцев назад +7

      ​@@teegreen3909Louis was rich

    • @CS-gh3qh
      @CS-gh3qh 8 месяцев назад +47

      😂He was always hiding somewhere in the house and popping out randomly looking shocked at the monstrosities that were occurring, despite being a monster himself 😂

  • @ld4206
    @ld4206 2 года назад +178

    "I want some more" Such an iconic line.

  • @corricat7201
    @corricat7201 6 месяцев назад +55

    I always feel bad for Madeline. She literally didn’t do anything. She didn’t even finish turning before she suffered

    • @struggleskywalker1025
      @struggleskywalker1025 2 месяца назад +6

      In the movie sure, but in the books Madeline was ruthless and vicious for no reason. She enjoyed the the sadism of the hunt and kill.

    • @wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396
      @wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396 2 месяца назад +3

      @@struggleskywalker1025Well, in the series, she seems to be a Nazi sympathizer…so there’s that? :/

    • @struggleskywalker1025
      @struggleskywalker1025 2 месяца назад +1

      @@wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396 how do you gather that, we only saw her once so far

  • @zsuzsannasalda
    @zsuzsannasalda Месяц назад +22

    Claudia is the immortal child. Anne Rice lost her daughter to leukaemia at the age of 5 . She represents for Anne a child who never dies , but also represent someone who never grows up . Never gets old , never gets married , has a family .....

  • @chattycatty3336
    @chattycatty3336 19 дней назад +5

    from a womans perspective, i can see how her condition drove her mad... I remember when i was ~9 or so, looking in the mirror, a lanky, flat-chested girl, who wished to look like her classmates. Who always felt "too boney" and was told "youll feel beautiful one day, just give it time."
    And they were right... Im 22 now and im the most confident ive ever been. I cant imagine if i was stuck in that body forever... It wasnt my build that was the issue, i was just a child who was ready to grow up.
    Claudia spent MANY years in that same body. all the while her mind matured, her body was frozen in time. She felt robbed of her future. Robbed of her independence, her confidence, her husband, her kids, her grandkids, EVERYTHING. Doomed to spend eternity in a society that wouldnt even let you wear your hair up as a child until WAY after her death. Cursed to have nothing but dolls and frilly dresses to entertain herself. Id go mad to...

  • @melissacooper8724
    @melissacooper8724 7 месяцев назад +57

    I remember in The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror that Lisa was smitten with a vampire named Edmund who had the body of an 8 year old. Lisa was tempted to become a vampire like Edmund, but when she learned that she would remain in an 8 year old body forever she reconsidered. It's funny that whether or not she was a vampire, she is still 8 years old despite the show being on for three decades!

  • @m.c.9419
    @m.c.9419 8 месяцев назад +62

    I can't even watch this movie because of what happens to Claudia and the other woman she turned to be her forever mom. They both didn't deserve that brutal end.

    • @Myshka535
      @Myshka535 6 месяцев назад +15

      Well they did, actually. They both were merciless killers, killing a lot of people, also in a very cruel way and just for fun, instead of doing it just so they can eat and survive, like Luis did. They absolutely enjoyed going on killing spree. In the book,
      Madeline did get to be a vampire for a while and was very cruel so yeah, their violent death was very sad from a story perspective but they did murder a lot of people without ever feeling any remorse..

    • @LifeInPink999
      @LifeInPink999 5 месяцев назад +5

      Her “forever mom” was the vampire body Claudia secured for herself. She didn't need a mother if something a companion but in this case Claudia used this poor lady.

    • @Mystique_Raven
      @Mystique_Raven 5 месяцев назад +2

      In the Novel they go deeper into that relationship and omg it is twisted the movie did skip a lot in that area of the novel.

    • @Mystique_Raven
      @Mystique_Raven 3 месяца назад +4

      @@LifeInPink999 exactly in the Vampire Armand we find out this and how he put her head on Madeline’s body and how horrible that was hence why he ended up burning them. That experiment was hella wild

  • @thegreenmanofnorwich
    @thegreenmanofnorwich 8 месяцев назад +74

    In some ways, she's a bit like Babydoll from Batman - eternally youthful and resentful for it. Though Babydol would have taken going back to her youth, whereas I don't think that Claudia would.
    I thought Kirsten Dunst did a really good job of it in the film.

  • @NostalgiaBrit
    @NostalgiaBrit 2 года назад +111

    I'm greatly looking forward to reading the _'Claudia’s Story'_ graphic novel, when it arrives, in a few days! It apparently offers some unique insights and events that we don't get from _'Interview with the Vampire', 'The Vampire Lestat',_ or the _'Mayfair Witches'_ book that *Claudia* briefly cameoed in! 🥰❤️

  • @iriebuddha
    @iriebuddha Месяц назад +8

    going back and watching this movie....kirsten dunst absolutely smashed that role, her persona in the book and the movie are very close.

  • @coreypriest9933
    @coreypriest9933 8 месяцев назад +25

    That is the WORST. Claudia was flaying around, attached to a different body. That’s terrifying!

  • @Cc-xh6pn
    @Cc-xh6pn 8 месяцев назад +43

    The Body Thief was an amazing book. The whole series intertwined beautifully

    • @almasantiago1100
      @almasantiago1100 20 дней назад

      I read that book when I was a child and I absolutely loved it! I love it still!

  • @saucygyal6480
    @saucygyal6480 6 месяцев назад +70

    They spoiled tf outta her. I blame Lestat for creating that monster & using her as bait to keep louie

  • @fictionalizedreality2025
    @fictionalizedreality2025 7 месяцев назад +42

    I never understood why Lestat never got in trouble for making her, they glossed over the fact her immoralizes a 5 year old

    • @Veelasiren
      @Veelasiren 5 месяцев назад +7

      Lestat the "brat prince" sure does get away with a lot.

  • @bwy553
    @bwy553 8 месяцев назад +82

    I bet the vampire woman’s body and Claudia’s head, both being vampiric, each kept trying to regrow the missing head/body and thus rejecting each other.

    • @knowledge-girl
      @knowledge-girl 8 месяцев назад +14

      That book was the last book I read, I was so creeped out by what Armand had done.

    • @dharusiokay9426
      @dharusiokay9426 8 месяцев назад +12

      Hmm, it has been shown that 'fusing' with body parts of other vampires is possible (Thorne's eyes and Maharet), but who knows if Claudias' head would have adapted to the new body, the series has never been quite consistent in worldbuilding and rules...

  • @LLS-cf1iz
    @LLS-cf1iz 2 года назад +48

    I’ve only read The Interview with the Vampire and also The Vampire Lestat.
    Now after watching this I’m very intrigued and excited to read on and see what happens

  • @thomaswest2583
    @thomaswest2583 8 месяцев назад +35

    In the book the blood Lestat drank from the children Claudia gave him. There blood was poisoned. The poison severely weakened Lestat warping his appearance and making him weakened state.

    • @joshfacio9379
      @joshfacio9379 Месяц назад +1

      Yup, she fed him dead blood which he told her years before to never drink

    • @thomaswest2583
      @thomaswest2583 Месяц назад

      @@joshfacio9379 In the book it was poisoned in the earlier movie it was dead blood.

  • @PresidentMikeJohnson
    @PresidentMikeJohnson 5 месяцев назад +14

    they’re vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires, how avant garde

  • @oakmaiden2133
    @oakmaiden2133 8 месяцев назад +17

    It was an awesome portrait of the teen years stuck between child and adult.... pure torture!😮

  • @mm277hb
    @mm277hb 8 месяцев назад +18

    wow!! i had no idea there was so much more folklore to claudia. this video was amazing!! thank you!!

  • @MrCrystalwarrior1
    @MrCrystalwarrior1 8 месяцев назад +29

    The movie 'Near Dark' also has a side-story line about the young boy vampire who yearns for someone his own age in the gang he was reborn a monster into.

    • @susieq1279
      @susieq1279 8 месяцев назад +2

      This is such an underrated, fairly unknown movie. I first saw it in my early teens, I think. It's an interesting concept. Lost Boys is one of my favorite movies of all time and I think that is part of why I liked Near Dark so much.

    • @Frances643
      @Frances643 6 месяцев назад +3

      Swedish novel/movie ‘let the right one in ‘ is really good. One is a human child the other a vampire. It’s terrifying.

    • @MrCrystalwarrior1
      @MrCrystalwarrior1 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@Frances643 Totally agree with you there :-) I've seen both the original language version and the English language re-make. The original is still the best and scariest of the two :-)

    • @wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396
      @wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396 2 месяца назад

      @@MrCrystalwarrior1Then there was the ill fated Let The Right one in TV show…I think it was on Showtime. I only got to see a few episodes of it.😊

    • @darkthrone7201
      @darkthrone7201 24 дня назад +1

      ​@@susieq1279 fun fact did you know that the Little vampire boy homer in near dark and the actor who played Michael in the lost boys are brothers.

  • @clinetime2022
    @clinetime2022 8 месяцев назад +20

    I like the interview with dunst where the woman was all excited to ask her what it was like kissing Brad pitt and she made a face and said he stinks

    • @kittykatz4001
      @kittykatz4001 4 месяца назад +5

      I think she said he had bad breath and dry lips too! I was 💀!

  • @jasminnemcdonald94A
    @jasminnemcdonald94A 3 месяца назад +5

    This child is so troubled. She didn't ask to be turned into a vampire.

  • @coreypriest9933
    @coreypriest9933 8 месяцев назад +23

    Remember that Lestat wouldn’t talk about Magnus.
    It was terrifying when he was transformed as well (I hope SOME show includes the “wolf killer” and Magnus.

  • @sugaray7435
    @sugaray7435 7 месяцев назад +11

    I rarely remembered this movie as soon as I saw Kirsten as a vampire I was like I REMEMBER! lol

  • @ladyD2005
    @ladyD2005 2 года назад +35

    The only thing I can think to say is poor Claudia!!

  • @CS-gh3qh
    @CS-gh3qh 8 месяцев назад +26

    I’m confused as to how it would’ve worked between Claudia and the doll maker. The doll maker saw Claudia as a child too and was attached to her because her own child died. So no matter what, Claudia will be a child in her eyes, she even said, “a child that will never die.” Claudia was a grown a** woman. I can’t see her being okay with that dynamic in the long run. So what did Claudia really want from the doll maker? A companion? A lover? A protector? A mouthpiece?
    Oh and did Claudia know her life was in danger when they found the other vampires, simply because she was in a child’s body? What was her gift?

    • @allaboutkaith
      @allaboutkaith 7 месяцев назад +16

      I think it was to feed their own fantasy. Claudia wants a mature body that she can see in the doll maker and the doll maker will have a child who will never die.

    • @lexispassion718
      @lexispassion718 7 месяцев назад +3

      Claudia got punished/killed because she killed Lestat (or at least tried to) and when Armand's clan found out, there's this one rule that vampires can't kill their own kind, so they killed her.. It was also one rule that she had no maturity because she was so young, she wouldn't be able to control her thirst, etc.. And the doll maker saw Claudia's vampire teeth so ig he was scared? If you want to know more, lmk.

    • @kittykatz4001
      @kittykatz4001 4 месяца назад +7

      Claudia, though an adult, forever trapped in a child’s body, still needed a fully adult (vampire) caretaker, to navigate the world they lived in: If Louis and/or Lestat left $$$ for Claudia and Madeline to live, Claudia, as a little girl could not buy a home or rent or order clothing to purchase etc. blah blah blah…
      Claudia, due to her child body needed an adult companion/caretaker.

    • @darkthrone7201
      @darkthrone7201 24 дня назад +3

      Claudia wasn't strong enough to survive on her own she needed someone to stay with her, she can't be a true vampire in every sense of the word only a killer depending on circumstances, she couldn't flourish in vampire society conduct herself and master the ways of a vampire like lestat, Louis or Armando could, she needed Madeline to help her.

  • @lexispassion718
    @lexispassion718 7 месяцев назад +3

    You just gained a new subscriber, sir!! I love amd enjoyed your video very much!

  • @Somebody9666
    @Somebody9666 7 месяцев назад +11

    When i first saw this movie I seriously didn't know it was Tom Cruise until the end credits. Litreally asked my friends who watched it with me "Tom Cruise was in this? Where was he?"💀

    • @Bunny11344
      @Bunny11344 5 месяцев назад +4

      How’d u not know?😅 he’s so distinctive

    • @kittykatz4001
      @kittykatz4001 4 месяца назад

      I am ☠️!

  • @gabrielwatson7721
    @gabrielwatson7721 8 месяцев назад +55

    I honestly don't know why this whole thing with Claudia makes me uncomfortable. Every scene seems so, I don't know, preditory-ish towards children. Does anyone else feel this way?

    • @tiffanybarnes3831
      @tiffanybarnes3831 8 месяцев назад +13

      I literally just commented this and the ignorant people don't even get it 🙄

    • @itsjustme5030
      @itsjustme5030 8 месяцев назад +9

      You nailed it, I never liked this part of the movie or the books.

    • @ceciliawade
      @ceciliawade 8 месяцев назад

      Yeah, because it's a child acting like an adult in an adult film; Hollywood is full of pedos.

    • @RozettaVyper
      @RozettaVyper 8 месяцев назад +27

      It was suppose to. It was suppose to make the reader/viewer relate to Claudia's strife even more. She is mentally, emotionally and spiritually an adult but physically stuck as a child. That is unsettling.

  • @n.jboltz599
    @n.jboltz599 8 месяцев назад +20

    something that slightly confused me was why did they kill Madeline?
    she had no role in the original crime of trying to kill lestat and had no role in turning Claudia. she hadn't even finished turning into a vampire when she was burned with Claudia- so why was she killed too?

    • @Megan-rr6qg
      @Megan-rr6qg 8 месяцев назад +39

      The killing of Claudia and Madeline was just to isolate Louis because Armand sucks

    • @Janellabelle
      @Janellabelle 7 месяцев назад +12

      ​@@Megan-rr6qgyea everything went downhill for them when they met Armand.

    • @asinomas619
      @asinomas619 5 месяцев назад +3

      Por Louis, Armand enloqueció de amor cuando lo vió por primera vez su olor, el olor dulce y la carne suave, así mismo como le pasó a Lestat, así le ocurrió a Armand, lo que hizo lo hizo por amor, por querer tenerlo solo para él y lo dice en la película, "te quería solo para mí, no podía permitir que te vayas"

    • @lollipopsnsugarsmiles4176
      @lollipopsnsugarsmiles4176 6 дней назад

      She was in the wrong place in the wrong time. I felt bad for her too

  • @callmepheebsformyphoebenam8113
    @callmepheebsformyphoebenam8113 8 месяцев назад +9

    I'm doing some research for original myths about vampires and I accidentally found your channel. I'm looking forward to watch more of your videos and I need some ideas for my novels😁

    • @jeremyhall2727
      @jeremyhall2727 7 месяцев назад

      Best of luck to you mate. I really hope it will turn out great. Hopefully I may get a character or some bystander role. I'm a big black bald dude with glasses 🤷🏾‍♀️😂 a vampire may eat me or something. Feel free to used it as an guess character. No payment required (screenshot mate for legal reasons😅). I hope the book turns out good 👍🏾

  • @knowledge-girl
    @knowledge-girl 8 месяцев назад +46

    Claudia was honestly my favorite character in the series. I thought she was so interesting, a woman trapped in a child's body.

  • @CoryseFraser
    @CoryseFraser 6 месяцев назад +8

    In the novel, Claudia is only five years old, and 10 in the movie.

  • @dariamorgendorffer7813
    @dariamorgendorffer7813 2 месяца назад +4

    That movie broke my heart. It's a beautiful movie that really managed to grasp Anne Rice novel. All the actors were great, but Kristen Dunst was AMAZING!!! Imagine trying to explain to an 11 yrs old how to understand the frustration, the anger, the melancholia that a child might go through because she couldn't NEVER age while her mind was. And the fact that she understood these complexities demonstrate her acting capabilities. It's such a tragic role. *Spoilers*: I have to say that the moment she died, the movie wasn't the same. I missed her conniving ways, her ability to question her predicament, her wits, and mostly her tragedy. Neil Jordan's Interview with a vampire is one of the best adaptations of the genre.

  • @Black.Rose743
    @Black.Rose743 7 месяцев назад +12

    I felt so bad for Claudia, her life was basically torture

  • @jarlairess
    @jarlairess 7 месяцев назад +12

    Lestat should have raised Claudia until she was old enough to receive the Gift. That was my initial thought when I saw it all those years ago

    • @Heythereitskirstyn
      @Heythereitskirstyn 7 месяцев назад +20

      She was dying that why she was turned there was no way she would have lived to be old enough for the gift

    • @thecajunphoenix
      @thecajunphoenix 2 месяца назад +1

      @@Heythereitskirstyn That's what makes it all the more heartbreaking.
      Death might have been more merciful than turning her because Claudia doesn't even get to go through puberty.

    • @thecajunphoenix
      @thecajunphoenix Месяц назад

      @@P55999 That's also true.
      Also, some vampires also suffer "Age Without Youth" since they technically cannot die, but their external bodies still go through the vampiric equivalent of the aging process.

  • @asinomas619
    @asinomas619 5 месяцев назад +8

    Ser un vampiro es algo oscuro, un ser sin alma, por lo tanto yo creo que Claudia al ser tan pequña y con un alma pura si era sacrilegio, profanar algo tan dulce, sin embargo Lestat no iba a permitir que Louis lo dejara, estaba técnicamente desesperado, esa es la realidad, deseaba tener a Louis con él por toda la eternidad, y una niña tan pequeña de robaba su atención, su cariño, y eso Lestat no lo iba a soportar, para él Louis es el amor de su vida, queria compartir con él, queria que fuera como él, sin embargo al darse cuenta de la niña que lo robaba, decidió tonar a la niña para que tambien fuera su hija, enseñarle todo, que fuera como él, solo que quizás no imaginó que en algún momento esa pequeña cosita iba a ser la perdición total Louis y que él se quedaria sin la persona amada

  • @mylfygamer
    @mylfygamer 7 месяцев назад +16

    I was so happy they weren't going to use a tall 5yo. Kirsten Duntst's "Claudia" was heartbreaking.
    I love the Vampire Chronicles.
    Have any is you read Pandora?

  • @user-pn3tt9cb5r
    @user-pn3tt9cb5r 8 месяцев назад +14

    I do applaud her for acting it was very hard to do this type of acting 10/10 Olivia done was fantastic.

  • @lexispassion718
    @lexispassion718 7 месяцев назад +3

    Me: really enjoying this interesting video
    Ad: *and i took it personally* 😂

  • @loveshighermind2879
    @loveshighermind2879 5 месяцев назад +5

    Great talk

  • @Schelbig
    @Schelbig 8 месяцев назад +24

    I’m surprised that TVD vampires don’t have immortal children in the show

    • @youngspaghettii
      @youngspaghettii 7 месяцев назад +4

      Probably because a television series is always predicted to be on for several seasons at the onset and a child will visibly grow up within that time frame ? Think about it haha

    • @struggleskywalker1025
      @struggleskywalker1025 2 месяца назад +2

      @@youngspaghettiiexactly the only show that had a child vampire was Buffy, and it was only for like the first season and then they killed him off when they introduced Spike cuz the kid had a massive puberty stroke.

  • @JerzCe73
    @JerzCe73 5 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you for mentioning Merrick

  • @lydiaezell6556
    @lydiaezell6556 8 месяцев назад +9

    this movie was literally a core memory and i have been trying to find it for years after this popped up on my home page i was like omg. went and looked up claudia cutting hair scene and this was it i literally so vividly remembered this scene of her cutting her hair and it growing back.

  • @brittanyfinney5386
    @brittanyfinney5386 8 месяцев назад +2

    This movie was my youth and my adulthood years i love this film so much I recorded every time it aired on tv

  • @nicholascollins7219
    @nicholascollins7219 8 месяцев назад +10

    Claudia had awful fate in first place, which she had plague gen within her blood, she would die still been her age and been crused with immortality forever young vampire child which she hated Lestat for it. Even it is a tragic and sadly for her fate went two-way death sentence with the plague or by the sun. Lestat new all and not sharing vampire code rules with them both and his true strengths, especially to Louis.

    • @abitcattywampus
      @abitcattywampus 7 месяцев назад +5

      Lestat didn't "know all." His sire deleted himself after he turned Lestat without telling him anything of use.

    • @nicholascollins7219
      @nicholascollins7219 7 месяцев назад +1

      Louis just wants to end Claudia suffering by suffering no more, that's it, but Lestat reappeared from shadows and token the child, which he knew breaking vampire code to turn the child into a vampire first place.

    • @asinomas619
      @asinomas619 5 месяцев назад +3

      Lestat era egoísta, le cegaba los celos, las ganas de que Louis fuera como él, que sólo lo necesitará a él, a nadie más, y eso Lestat no iba a tolerar, esa niña le estaba quitando lo que mas amaba

  • @meariijenkins7205
    @meariijenkins7205 7 месяцев назад +20

    My only issue is that they had an 11 year old kiss a grown man. Hollywood is so perverted.

  • @erinclarke2606
    @erinclarke2606 8 месяцев назад +3

    Omg HP folklore? I didn't know you had another channel. This vid is a year old so i am a bit behind. Also didnt you change folklore at one stage? When did you go back or am i crazy lol

  • @immystery3946
    @immystery3946 8 месяцев назад +3

    Ive never read the books or watched the movie, i remember my parents watching the movie as I played the only scene i remember is her death

  • @ashleighkyle7047
    @ashleighkyle7047 6 месяцев назад +11

    She is the saddest character in my opinion. Forever a child

  • @00loudog
    @00loudog 5 месяцев назад +2

    This is awsome havent srrn this movie in a very long time ive always liked kristen dunce she was good in the virgin suicides too

  • @Lucky-ei6yh
    @Lucky-ei6yh 8 месяцев назад +4

    Dean, I would recognize your voice a mile away

  • @1Skorpia
    @1Skorpia 8 месяцев назад +18

    I truly feel for claudia. As a teen i couldnt wait for my womanly body. I was so thin. Now id give anything to have my teen body back. My body is not looking great. I cant imagine being permanently 5 with the mind of a grown adult woman.

  • @ddanielpho
    @ddanielpho 3 дня назад

    The ending was sad! Louis Knew all Along Amand was the mastermind. I wish there were a sequel to How Louis Deals with Amand. Fantasy and intrigued.

  • @AWindy94
    @AWindy94 5 месяцев назад +2

    I just finished interview with the Vampire 😄🦇

  • @peach7210
    @peach7210 9 дней назад

    It's been decades since I've read the book. Claudia being 5 years old??? I didn't remember that. 😮

  • @sleeperholdASMR
    @sleeperholdASMR 5 месяцев назад +2

    Though the scene I imagined while you were describing Claudia's surgery was really interesting, I feel like that whole addition seems really Frankenstein'd in there (no pun intended lol). The transition of events from the surgery back to the execution was sloppy, in my honest opinion (not you, the story itself; you did great). I did not care for that bit so much so that I couldn't resist letting it be known. 😂

  • @user-gi8pk9uc7q
    @user-gi8pk9uc7q 8 месяцев назад +6

    And she has no impulse control!

  • @Luckimee
    @Luckimee 8 месяцев назад +34

    Tom Cruise was finer than Brad in this movie. Fight me! 😂

    • @evenstar04
      @evenstar04 8 месяцев назад +5

      Ew

    • @jennag3226
      @jennag3226 8 месяцев назад +3

      Lestat was effeminate in this movie. Eww

    • @Discordia5
      @Discordia5 8 месяцев назад +15

      This might be the only time Tom Cruise was ever attractive to me. He's usually fugly, but honestly looked amazing with that long blonde hair.

    • @darkthrone7201
      @darkthrone7201 24 дня назад +1

      Brad Pitt was too depressed for me lestat should have put him out of his misery.

  • @Norbingel
    @Norbingel Месяц назад

    It's great that the story was able to portray how a mind in an immortal child's body would outgrow that body. She would eventually speak and act much more maturely than she appears. However, at the same time, it also reveals what I consider a problem in vampire stories. The average vampire doesn't really get more mature than their physical age appears. Ever adult vampire here acts like their "age", not as mature as we might see a normal old human can be. It's not an inescapable problem though as the wisdom that comes with age might just be mostly wisdom that comes with a growing realization of an impending death.

  • @kikithepupper6774
    @kikithepupper6774 8 дней назад

    Kristen Dunst was so young and she nailed the role so well it scared me

  • @AcademyNS
    @AcademyNS 8 месяцев назад +8

    Claudia's death. Allegedly.

  • @robertabray-enhus3198
    @robertabray-enhus3198 7 месяцев назад +8

    You stay the age you are,when you’re made.
    If You were made at 10 years old,you’ll look like that age,for eternity. But unfortunately,your mind grows up,and you don’t.

  • @serenabennett3622
    @serenabennett3622 7 месяцев назад +1

    ‘Unwritten rules’ of vampires 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @anitabarnes
    @anitabarnes 5 месяцев назад +3

    There is a rule u don't make a child vampire becausethey are stuck in a child body will not change stay the same with blood thirsty nature like the grow ups vampires but feel sorry for her and new mom she WANTED SO SHE GET AWAY FROM THE HELL

  • @nelsonwinkler2153
    @nelsonwinkler2153 Месяц назад

    what is the name od this movie?

  • @renrodriguez5337
    @renrodriguez5337 8 месяцев назад +1

    Took Forever to upload changed my mind

  • @MrsCKane
    @MrsCKane 2 месяца назад +3

    I always wondered why didn't Claudia and Madeline just remove their dresses and cover their whole bodies with them. They wore huge hooped skirts. It would have been easy to hide from the sun under those till night time. 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @VampireFolkloreVideos
      @VampireFolkloreVideos  2 месяца назад +2

      i literally thought the exact same thing lol

    • @darkthrone7201
      @darkthrone7201 24 дня назад +1

      It Wouldn't have worked unfortunately your talking about the scorching sun on vampire flesh it wouldn't have worked.

    • @MrsCKane
      @MrsCKane 18 дней назад +1

      @@darkthrone7201 with the dresses covering them completely and blocking the sun, yes it would have worked.

    • @MrsCKane
      @MrsCKane 18 дней назад +1

      @@VampireFolkloreVideos I also wondered why they didn't climb the walls using their vampire strength to climb up (or even jump up as we've seen they can jump great distances) and break the grate open and escape. Or their combined strength to break the door or walls around them.
      After all Armand used his bare hands to break Louis free from his stone imprisonment (and then his iron coffin) after Initially I think starting with a pickaxe. . .? 🤔

  • @Whitneypyant
    @Whitneypyant 6 месяцев назад +4

    So both Lestat and Louis doomed her

  • @Nyemuul
    @Nyemuul Месяц назад

    if the spirit was claudia (end of the video), this might be a huge thing in the series... given what she says in ep7👁️

  • @angelaholmes8888
    @angelaholmes8888 2 месяца назад +3

    Claudia story is truly sad i really enjoyed dunst performance but bailey bass took her version of claudia to a different level im glad the show changed the age to 14 i was sad that she couldn't continue in the role Delaney is doing a good job

  • @SarahJacobs-nb3lw
    @SarahJacobs-nb3lw 8 месяцев назад +1

    I was wondering what happened to her,

  • @Urm0mz
    @Urm0mz Месяц назад

    I always thought Claudia NOT maturing mentally would have been an amazing acting challenge as well. Being 5-12 years old mentally FOREVER is another allegory for chronic and terminal illnesses.
    After 100 years of being 5, things that used to entertain or occupy time slowly becomes boring and incessant.

  • @brianlindee220
    @brianlindee220 2 года назад +10

    Wasn't she in the Mayfair witches series as a spirit

    • @VampireFolkloreVideos
      @VampireFolkloreVideos  2 года назад +9

      She was...a very angry spirit

    • @brianlindee220
      @brianlindee220 2 года назад +1

      @@VampireFolkloreVideos I only caught some of it One of the Mayfair witches contacted Claudia so Louis and lastat could make peace

    • @brianlindee220
      @brianlindee220 2 года назад

      @@VampireFolkloreVideos yah I looked that up on Google she wasn't just a agree vampire in life she was more like a poltergeist on steroids because she couldn't grow up and have a nice pair of breasts

    • @erinharkiewicz7239
      @erinharkiewicz7239 8 месяцев назад

      She was.

    • @Whitneypyant
      @Whitneypyant 6 месяцев назад

      I know I what to see the Mayfair witches

  • @savannajimenez1792
    @savannajimenez1792 Час назад

    What is this movie?

  • @melodygarrison7531
    @melodygarrison7531 8 месяцев назад +4

    If you believe in heaven then if one dies as a child or infant you would remain that age for eternity. Now that is fu@#ed up

    • @Itzpapalotl.
      @Itzpapalotl. 8 месяцев назад +2

      Supposedly everyone is around 30 years old in the afterlife.

    • @sonniepronounceds-au-ni9287
      @sonniepronounceds-au-ni9287 7 месяцев назад +2

      Dude, nowhere does it say the kid would stay a child forever or even reference anything related to it. You literally do not have a body anymore at that point. We are given different spiritual bodies on Judgement day as everyone is resurrected. You are just basing your worries on your own imaginings of how you think things could be instead of actually looking at what Scripture says about anything.

    • @shayla106
      @shayla106 3 месяца назад

      @@sonniepronounceds-au-ni9287 You sound condescending

    • @sonniepronounceds-au-ni9287
      @sonniepronounceds-au-ni9287 3 месяца назад

      @@shayla106 You can't tell tone in text that well. Try reading things out loud in different tones, and you will realize how much it can change in hostility solely based on tone of voice.
      Being condescending here wouldn't be a sin even if it was the intent. I am simply correcting her after she just committed heresy.
      If I am angry at what was said, then I have a right to be because I worry about those who may believe that lie, including the one who said it, along with being offended on behalf of God who was slandered. Being blunt and rude aren't sins when done without hypocrisy for the correction of sins so that others may know better and potentially be saved.
      Christ himself whipped the money lenders out of the temple and flipped tables. St Paul was blunt and had no problem calling the early churches fools in correcting them. The prophet Elijah mocked the priests of Baal by telling them to shout louder so that if their false god was real, then he might hear them. If sounding rude to someone was in itself a sin, then how would you ever teach anyone when people take any form of correction as being offensive?

  • @_ukiy0o_
    @_ukiy0o_ 4 месяца назад +1

    Claudia legit did not deserve that ending.

  • @nyeshamclilly7524
    @nyeshamclilly7524 20 дней назад

    This was my movie , they saved her life because her mama was dead and she was suffering with that deadly disease

  • @herbwitch5681
    @herbwitch5681 Месяц назад

    Vampire law: Never kill your own kind… unless you really, really want to.

  • @captainjellicoe1701e
    @captainjellicoe1701e 5 месяцев назад +2

    ann rice is one of my favorite authors just below Stephen King

  • @michaelhowell2326
    @michaelhowell2326 8 месяцев назад +15

    If a child is turned to a vampire, does their brain stay the same or does it grow with time? Would a 5 yo stay 5 in the mind? If hair regrows as it was, shouldn't the mind?

    • @marianparoo1544
      @marianparoo1544 8 месяцев назад +36

      No, in the book it was clear she matured emotionally and mentally

    • @michaelhowell2326
      @michaelhowell2326 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@marianparoo1544 so it's a bit hit or miss on its lore, huh?

    • @SapiophileGoddess
      @SapiophileGoddess 8 месяцев назад +1

      8:15

    • @katyrye
      @katyrye 8 месяцев назад +1

      It's Rice's take and it's good. But since she doesn't age, does she hit puberty?

    • @marianparoo1544
      @marianparoo1544 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@katyrye Never. :(

  • @blasiandoll9367
    @blasiandoll9367 6 месяцев назад +6

    Growing up is learning that Claudia and Louie were the bad guys. How you get mad at lestat for saving your life but not Louie for causing the need to save your life. Lestat was just trying to follow rules and be nice by doing Louie a favor and then gets murdered over it…guess lestat got the last laugh 😂😂😂

    • @asinomas619
      @asinomas619 5 месяцев назад +4

      Armand lo dijo, Lestat no era capaz de enseñarle todo lo que debía de saber él quería que Louis dependiera de él siempre, que siempre estuviera escondido detrás de él como un niño asustado, No le dijo que un vampiro al matar a otro vampiro era condenado, Lestat tenía toda la razón, pero era un egoísta, quería tener a Louis con él y eso implicaba a la niña

    • @niccawicca
      @niccawicca 2 месяца назад

      Lestat unwisely chose Louis to be a vampire. Louis regrets being turned into a vampire. He has morals and would rather be a human that doesn't kill humans for survival. Lestat turned Claudia into a vampire to avoid losing Louis. Louis wanted to get away from Lestat's cruel games. So, Lestat turned Claudia into a vampire by manipulating Louis. But Claudia and Louis got tired of Lestat. Lestat should have known Claudia would be too vulnerable to fight against vampires who want her dead from being a child. Lestat turning Claudia into a vampire made her life hell. She would never grow up with a woman's body. Lestat is this hedonistic mess who had a bad father figure. So, Lestat became another bad father figure to Claudia. Which is how she became a spoiled killer without impulse control. Which made her not prepared to protect herself from more dangerous vampires that were less impulsive and spoiled. Lestat is known for making a nonstop mess of things compared to more self-controlled vampires. Unlike Lestat, Louis cleaned himself up eventually after Claudia died.

    • @lissaquon607
      @lissaquon607 Месяц назад +1

      Nah. Lestat is still the bad guy. Louis may have fed on her and hastened her death, but she was already dying. Lestat is the one who made her existence immortal hell and used her as a toy to keep Louis around.

  • @aimeem
    @aimeem 4 месяца назад +1

    Our relationship is falling apart... I know! Let's have a kid, that'll fix things!

  • @dixiepoet
    @dixiepoet 6 месяцев назад +4

    I assumed she was around 11-12 not 5

    • @AylaNoelleLee
      @AylaNoelleLee 6 месяцев назад +4

      In the book she was 5 but was aged up to 11/12 for the film because a real 5 year old wouldn't understand the emotional depth of Claudia

  • @blackwidowspider9852
    @blackwidowspider9852 8 месяцев назад +1

    That was a house girl you know this right?

  • @marieangels6
    @marieangels6 8 месяцев назад +1

    It was 10 in the movie. Not 11

  • @jasminkrieger8228
    @jasminkrieger8228 8 месяцев назад +4

    He should have never bitten transform her as child but later she later resented him as betray the one who turned her he wanted a family a child to take care of but still and out of guild

  • @TheOfficialPettyBoo
    @TheOfficialPettyBoo 4 месяца назад

    Name

  • @wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396
    @wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396 2 месяца назад

    So it is ok to kill Claudia if she killed Lestat (which he lived) but it was ok for Armand to kill a female vampire in order to put Claudia’s head on it and ok for Lestat to make a child vampire.

  • @peach7210
    @peach7210 9 дней назад

    Wait... wasn't the servant that Lestat brought into the room to give Claudia her first reading a female?