@@alexanderarkum4793 This happens often with child actors. There was an actress who was watching her own performance as a child and she was crying and the show host was asking her "why are you crying?" and she said "cause I can never do that again. As a child, you have an innocence that you cannot tap into when you grow up.There is no bullshit".
Armand did not want to die. Louis was speaking poetically about how Armand wanted to be reborn through Louis. Louis referred to this rebirth as a second death. If a vampire lives long enough, they begin to go mad, unless they create or find a vampire that belongs to the current age. According to Armand, Louis had grief and heartbreak that reflected the age they were in. Armand wanted that companionship and reflection, to keep him from becoming as vapid and decadent as the vampires in his troupe. Anne's vampires will often bury themselves for decades to ease their mental suffering. This was used by the creators of Underworld. The older vampires in Underworld, would have to seal themselves away for a century, or become insane. Besides, Bram Stoker, Anne Rice has had the greatest influence on vampire lore. You see her influence in everything from Twilight to True Blood. By the way, Claudia was too small and weak to endure the process of creating a vampire. Read the books if you want to know more about Armand. He has his own book, and so does Lestat.
@@w1975b That's explained in the movie. Apparently the "dark gift" is different for every vampire. Some can fly, some can read minds, some can turn into animals, etc. Not all vampires have same powers.
@@uzul42 they all have the same powers /eventually/ but it takes ages and its real spotty at the start depending on how powerful the sire is and how thoroughly they did things. and some shit is never an early unlock. flight and pyrokinesis are always at the end of the upgrade tree. mind reading shit and degrees of preternatural sense are kind of up in the air
and they cant shapeshift into animals, thats not really something anne rice vampires are capable of. actually, they cant change any part of their appearance at all except by cutting it off. hair and nails will grow back to their original shape and wounds will heal to their appearance at the moment of vampiric conception, every time. given enough time.
In the novel, Armand kills Claudia because he wants Louis for himself as a companion. All the other vampires are soulless, boring and old fashioned, and Louis is by comparison a modern vampire with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective, which Armand finds enticing. Louis is a way for Armand to re-engage with the world and they travel the world together for decades, but Louis always suspected he had something to do with Claudia's death and so their relationship was soured and they eventually part ways.
Yes. Armand thought Louis would be too dumb to realize that he was the one behind Claudia's death. He tried to pretend it was all the fault of the other vampires and was pleased when Louis killed them because Armand was tired of being tied down by them and the theatre. The Vampire Chronicles was the name of the book series by Anne Rice, btw.
I rewatch this movie every few years and I always think man, what a waste of talent that Tom Cruise only makes action movies now. I mean, I love Mission Impossible, awesome films, but Tom Cruise is capable of so much more.
@@dfcarvalhoI think collateral is probably his best performance. There are so many subtile gestures he makes in that movie I see something new every time I watch it.
Agreed. There are actors I feel like play the same character / themselves, but in different roles. Like Tom Cruise seems the same in Mission Impossible as he does in War of the worlds as he does in Minority Report etc. Like Nick Cage. But in this film he actually played a character!
Easily my favorite vampire movie. A masterpiece. Tom Cruise is brilliant in the role and was playing something completely different than he ever had before and crushed it. Anne Rice was originally against Tom playing Lestat until she saw his performance and loved it. "I want some more."
This is a great vampire film. River Phoenix was actually cast to play the role as the interviewer Daniel, but sadly died of a drug overdose in 1993. His friend, Christian Slater, played the character. The film is dedicated to Phoenix.
Anne Rice is the creator of The Vampire Chronicles, and is widely regarded as the author who made vampires sexy. Before her books, vampires were mostly portrayed as foul breathed monsters, possessed by a bloodthirsty demon. This is the first book, and it was released back in 1976. I knew a few people who had copies of Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat, years before the film was made. Those friends hated that Tom Cruise was going to play Lestat on film, but I told them that he would knock it out of the park, and that they would eat their words. They did.
Anne Rice modernized vampires, but the creatures have been sexualized since Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1897. The whole pointy things (fangs) sticking into soft flesh (necks) is a metaphor for sex after all.
In film at least , Jean Rollin had been doing erotic vampire films since the 60s . I think that Anne Rice specialized in delving into the vampire psyche more than anyone else . This included love more than actual sex .
@@ExtraSqueaky As someone who has never read the books and never will, I think he was appropriate in the role. Remember that adaptions are not made only for the fans, but the general audience.
If I remember well, Anne Rice wrote a short story about the death of her little girl, then turned it into this novel. Claudia's character was somewhat based on her daughter.
Claudia was based on her daughter michelle. As a way to keep her alive so to speak. Which is one of the reasons I was so upset that they turned her into a teenager for the t v show.
Anne Rice actually said a few times that Claudia was not based on her daughter. “I never consciously thought about it when I was writing the book. I wasn’t conscious of the connection. I knew that I was using the physical beauty of Michele as the model, but Claudia was a fictional character in her own right. The character, the voice, and the things Claudia say have nothing to do with my daughter." -She later admitted she could see the similarities, but her intent was to create a character that would put Louis through the same grief that she (Rice) went through.
@@BulletTooth504 When he was mortal he risked his life to singlehandedly fight a pack of wolves that were killing people . He started out a decent person and a hero . His mother groomed him to be the intelligent , heroic , cultured man that she wished she could be .
Having read the books before seeing this I have a soft spot for Lestat. That being said this is a fabulous film especially with Ann Rice doing the screenplay, it's like a seal of approval
You guys completely misunderstood Armand. He was trapped in the ancient way of life his theatre vampires insisted on living in. He wanted to venture away from the old, and be taken into the new. Louis, being from the New World, would be ideal in escorting him into the future. Louis didn't want him. He didn't want a companion any longer.
The thing to remember is every piece of vampire literature and media draws from Anne Rice's novels the same way every piece of mob fiction draws from The Godfather.
@lynetteoliva1256 ofc not, but modern vampire fiction are steeped balls deep in Ricean vampire lore & tropes to an extent far more palpable than those.
The first few times I watched this movie, Claudia's death made me cry really hard. Especially because I know about Anne Rice's grief is what started the vampire chronicles. Her daughter died very young.
There was a pretty long time gap between Rice's first vampire book and her second. Lestat fed on very powerful vampires before he met Louis. He was able to endure much. Armand is supposed to be 17, and Claudia was 5.
There are vampire lores where stakes in the heart don’t kill a vampire; just paralyze them until,it’s removed. Coffins in the 18th century make sense if you can secure it from the inside, no accidental exposure from a servant or something opening a bedroom door. Habit by the 20th century I guess. Claudia was treated as a child by everyone for thirty years. Maturity comes from experience, but also from people treating you less and less like a child
One of my fav movies of all times. Its such a weird and different kind of vampire story. more like a weird family drama, they're all just lonely and want company, but each character is deeply flawed, still all too human. That's what's so beautiful and tragic about the story.
"Queen Of The Damned" combines the 2nd & 3rd book in the series. This is Lestat's version of him so he's quite different and becomes the leader of the biggest rock band on the planet but is giving away vampire secrets in his songs so many of them go to his concert in Death Valley to kill him.
I 1000% believe in the Mandella effect because I STILL have Bernstaine. Bears books from the 80's and EVERYONE in my family (especially my mom a teacher) specifically remember them being spelled and pronounced "Bern-Steine Bears." I swear to God the Mendella effect is CAUSED BY THE HADRON COLLIDER IN SWITZERLAND
It is also worth noting that a part of Louis' lies to the reporter is to present Lestat much worss than he was. Part of that is because Louis is telling how he felt about Lestat at the time and part of it is because he sort of mashes a few characters together through out his tale. Lestat was kind of a selfish guy, but a lot of it was because he was actually pretty ignorant. He couldn't tell Louis a lot because he really didn't know, but didn't want to be embarressed. Lestat had made other vampires before Louis and it had turned out really bad. Louis was the exception, but Lestat's fuck up by making Claudia really screwed up their dynamic. Lestat had made a lot of enemies, too before he fled France for America, which is why he didn't tell Louis about Armand, (who hated him).
I absolutely love this movie. I was blown away with it back when it came out, I just love the story and the actors all do such a great job. I love Tom Cruise as Lestat. And Kirsten Dunst absolutely killed it as such a young actress. Amazing!
God say what you want about Tom Cruise but damn if he does not look like the PERFECT fucking sexy vampire that's beautiful yet still masculine and absolutely a narcissistic diva.
When I was a kid in the 90s the Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles set the standard for vampire lore. Her books really turned up the sexiness of the vampire and everybody wanted to be one.
My second favorite movie after Coppola's "Dracula". Actually, both are pretty close to a tie in my list. I've seen it at least a dozen times. That moment when Kirsten throws her tantrum, cuts her hair, walks ten steps and it's grown back again, her desperately raged scream - I love this scene! Ah - GREAT movie!
My dog is named Louis because of this movie. I used to play Vampire: the Masquerade, a tabletop Role-playing game, in my early teens and some of vampire lore in that game is loosely based on book series by Anne Rice so I loved this movie. Tom Cruise's performance in this is unbelievable. It makes me wish he'd make more movies like this every now and then in-between his action flicks.
Hello Kids!😊 You guys have the 20th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray which was first released in 2014. Only the artwork (previous brown tone) changed for this release. Armand had just grown tired of being with his gang of vampires for so many years and wanted something new. Kirsten Dunst was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. This is one of the better made vampire films. Great reactions to this fine horror film, Mr. & Mrs. Movies!!!!🎬👏👏👏👏
I think that one common thing with this and Dracula is that you can’t change just from being bitten, you must drink the vampires blood. Remember in Dracula Mia had to drink Draculas blood in order for her to change.
This is genuinely one of my all time favorite movie adaptations of a book. It takes small liberties but overall is faithful to the novel, which is also one of my favorite books. Anne Rice wrote it when she was in a very deep pit of despair and you can tell by just hoe melancholy the tones of the novel/movie are. Also, Armand's plan wasn't to be killed. He wanted Louie for himself but understood thay Claudia was in the way. He only saved Louie after Claudia was dead and hope that Louie's grief would drive him to want to be with Armand, but it backfired because Louie knew what Armand did.
If you like vampire movies you really should see NEAR DARK. A great 80s take. With Bill Paxton & Lance Henrickson, right after Aliens. Directed by Katheryn Bigelow, before Point Break.
You mean *OVERrated. That whole film was an exercise in filmmakers not having even a single clue as to what they had in their hands, as far as the novel 'Queen of the Damned' goes. They gutted literally everything about the actual story in favor of essentially making one long Hot Topic music video. Straight up trash, and a mockery of the source material.
I've heard QotD bastardizes the book. But it's one of my favorite movies. I was OBSESSED with it when I got it for my 13th birthday. I swear I wouldn't be the person I am without it. I literally write vampire romance novels because of that movie.
It's "The Vampire Chronicles" because "Interview" was the first of over a dozen different books about these characters, that became known as the Vampire Chronicles. My favorites are the first four, but there are a lot more. Meanwhile, I attended Anne Rice's Halloween Party a few months after this movie came out, and she was thrilled with Tom Cruise's performance as Lestat (I agree with her -- I still think it's the most fun he's ever been onscreen). Claudia did age and was in fact an adult inside. But time passes differently for vampires, so Louis and Lestat didn't realize 30 years had gone by, and just kept buying her dolls and treating her like a child. She went along with it because it was all she knew, but at a certain point Claudia realized she was no longer that child -- and that's when she snapped. Claudia needed help to turn Madeleine into a vampire because she was too small and weak to do it herself, as a child vampire. She wasn't being manipulative -- she needed someone to look out for her, and Louis was on his way to leaving her. I think Kirsten Dunst was absolutely stunning in the role. The Parisian theatregoers loved the Theatre des Vampires because it was amusing and shocking so it was the talk of the town. They didn't think the killing was real, however. It's interesting because this version incorporated some of Lestat's book that followed (he is a hero in that one, although he definitely does some terrible things, and admits to turning Claudia), which at one point tells his version of the story.
I remember there was some backlash when Tom Cruise was announced to play Lestat. After it came out, it shut down the criticisms. Even Anne Rice said she started shaking because she loved his portrayal.
YES! 😁 Sooooo glad to see you react to this - in my opinion, arguably the best vampire movie out there. I've only just started watching your reaction, but I think it goes without saying that the cast is stellar in their performance - Cruise, Pitt and Dunst absolutely bring it home. Man, I wish that they'd make more of 'The Vampire Chronicles' with Cruise and Pitt in their respective roles. 🥰 ADDENDUM: Armand didn't want Louis to help him die. Armand orchestrated Claudia's death because Armand wanted Louis for himself. He saw in Louis 'an immortal with a mortal soul.' This is elaborated on a little more in the novels, but - in short - vampires struggle to remain connected to the outside world as the world progresses and changes whilst they themselves don't. The same also happened with Claudia - her mind matured whilst her body did not. In fact, she became romantically attached to Louis despite appearing as a child. Armand saw in Louis an opportunity to connect with the world of the time - that's also why Armand views the vampires of the theatre with disdain. They are a relic of times long past. 😉
The series is so.. ugh.. they changed way too much. Louis becomes a black gay man .. Claudia becomes a teenager.. the whole dynamic is changed. The only decent thing about the series was Lestat.
Great reaction Mr and Mrs movies, one of my favorite vampire films. I highly recommend reading the book there is sooo much more to the story (no spoilers) it's so much better than the film yet the film is incredible. The cast really did a fantastic job at brining these wonderful undead characters alive, when ever I read the books I see Tom and Brad all the time. Glad you enjoyed the movie 😊
Armand was once called Amadeo... if you really need the o at the end! The books are great. Highly recommend! Claudia doesn't have enough blood to make an adult vampire. She could only make children.
I probably haven't watched this since it came out and I have totally forgotten how many things "What We Do in the Shadows" snatched from this!! OMG!! How could I forget the burning in the well by the Sun and they did that exact same scene just about on WWD in the S!😅😅😂
Great reaction guys.😊 I watched this in the movie theater when it came out. I loved it then & love it now. I thought Kirsten Dunst was stellar in this, especially as such a young actress. O, Mr. Movie, this movie was Kirsten's 1st movie role. She's older in JUMANJI. Brad Pitt was good in this. I thought Tom Cruise was a bit over the top although it is some of his best acting. My favorite character in the movie was Louis. The movie seems to follow along the same lines of other older vampire tales. Vampires are seductive & sensual, & they can die by a great fire as long as they can't escape it, decapitation & sunlight. I read the books. U know, Armand saying he is the oldest living vampire isn't exactly true. When Lestat says "I am going to give u the choice I never had." He is telling the truth. In the book "The Vampire Lestat", it tells u a little bit about the very old vamp that turned him. The vampire was literally insane. He had been living in the shadows alone & believing he was a demon for so long that he wanted to end it all. Before he did, however, he would create a fledgling in order to pass on the dark gift. So, he created his one & only fledgling, Lestat, right before throwing himself on a giant bonfire/funeral pyre. Lestat searched the world trying to find out about what he was. According to the books, the more ancient the vampire that creates u, then the stronger a fledgling vampire u will be. Louis wasn't able to read minds because his gift/curse was keeping his humanity. That was why, Armand was so fascinated by him. When Armand & Louis are talking in the museum, Armand was asking Louis to be his eternal companion, but Louis says "No." because he can't forgive him for Claudia's death. O, in the book, Claudia's tantrum happens after a build up of frustration of being an eternal child. Louis & Lestat both still treated her as a child. Seeing that beautiful woman bathing & knowing she would never be like that just broke the dam. Imagine having the mind of an adult, but a 5yr old child's body. Anyway, great reaction, & I hope u do check out QUEEN OF THE DAMNED. It's a decent watch.
You two are the CUTEST couple EVER! Couple goals! Khayman, from the Anne Rice vampire chronicles is my FAVORITE vampire and Interview with the Vampire is my personal all-time favorite vampire movie! Cheers from Canada! 😘🥰🤩☺☺
Armand is wrong about being the oldest; there are about a dozen older than him but he is honest in his claim because he has no clue the others exist. While the movie Queen of the Dammed is on the lower end as far as sequels go, it does a good job revealing a lot of Anne Rice's vampire history and origin and is worth it for that.
I think The Lost Boys and Interview with the vampire are the true OG vampire movies with Blade and John Carpenters Vampires following suit, Buffy and True blood are also great TV adaptations and recently The Interview with the vampire TV show really going for it and being great. When I was younger I thought it would be awesome to be a vampire, live forever see how the world evolves etc but as an adult I see it now as a curse, watching all and every friendship and relationship die in front of you because 70/80 years feels like a regular week to you and always being alone unless you're selfish enough to turn someone to appease the loneliness and curse them to the same fate of killing and watching the people they love disappear year by year. Lol and to answer your question no vampire would ever let themselves be discovered if they existed, 7 billion humans kind of sways the numbers regardless of supernatural abilities. going public would be the S word youtube doesn't like lol so the answer IMO is we'd never know if they truly existed or not but as the old saying goes, there's no fire without smoke...
I've really enjoyed some of the directions in the Vampire genre. Including story variations of vampires as recluses, vampires as anomalies, vampires as shadow-world empires, etc. The Anne Rice works, Bram Stoker's Dracula book, White Wolf "masquerade" stuff, movie Blade, movie Underworld, Lost Boys, etc. Vampires have made for some very interesting world building, story telling, and characters. They are a versatile ingredient that mashups well with different settings and tropes. There was a moment in the 90's where this "alternate elaborate shadow-world" sub-genre was how many Vampire works were developing and heading. And they were also being pulled into various ~mainstream projects. Books, paper RPGs, video games, movies, card game, etc. But the mainstreaming and genre development in that direction hit a wall, and they dropped from the different scenes. There was a weird moment following Interview With The Vampire movie, where mainstream pushback against the movie and genre scared off Hollywood talent and entertainment companies from this genre niche. Anne Rice abandoned her own development of the genre and she converted to Christianity. Different micro political groups started trying to wrestle control and push political meaning into the genre works and scene. In the ashes of that direction, the whole genre of the romance vampire emerged to take over a lot of the genre projects.
I read probably half of the books that she wrote concerning the vampire chronicles in the 90’s. I don’t read fiction anymore but I have to say that she is one of my all time favorite writers. Great reaction folks, you two are always fun to watch a movie with.
Technically if they clip their nails they'll just rise the next night with them grown back. In the books any change is not instantly reversed like when Claudia cuts her hair. They just did that for the effect in the movie, and I must admit it is a pretty damn cool effect, and it still gets the point of change being impossible for them. Literally. You wonder why existing in the world after a few hundred years seems to be so challenging for Armand and his coven, but if you remember they literally can't change physically, it makes a lot more sense. Yes, black-out curtains in a regular bed would be possible, at least for an older/stronger vampire. Like Lestat after he drinks Akasha's blood and becomes more or less invincible, he sleeps in a regular bed. He never walks around in broad daylight like in the Queen of the Damned movie, but yeah. It would take a staking/ beheading/burning of the body and then scattering of the ashes to kill a vampire of that caliber, and even then.... You never know 😅 Love this beautiful film full of beautiful men and music and costumes. So nostalgic for me. RIP Anne Rice ❤
Okay, the main thing with Anne Rice vampires is, they're frozen in time. They don't age of course, their bodies always restore back to what they were when they became vampires (such as the hair cutting scene) but also their _minds_ don't change, the longer they live the more unable they become to cope with the world. Lestat freaked out at the helicopter because his mind simply could not comprehend such a drastic change in technology. But newer, younger vampires can help older ones get around that, that's what Armand wanted Louis for.
So, if no alredy mentioned, the author Anne Rice wrote the novel to mourn the death of her daughter, which is depicted through Claudia, Rice said that Louis’s character was based on her, her pain and mourning. As for Armand, he wanted Louis and Claudia was in the way. He orchestrated her death. Yes there are more Vampires. Armand knows Lestat but he didn’t make him. FYI Christian Slater was cast last minute becuase it was originally River Phoenix. Slater donated his paycheck to a non-profit in remembrance of Phoenix.
In Anne Rice lore, the strength of a new vampire depended on the strength of its maker, and ho thouroughly they mixed the maker's blood n its body Louis and Claudia were some of the weakest vampires ever made, because Lestat was afraid of dying if he gave them "too much" of his blood, when there was no such thing. His maker, Magnus never taught him anything, and didn't learn very much from his own maker. Magnus was an elderly alchemist who trapped a vampire, took his blood forcibly, and turned himself into a vampire.
Would absolutely love to see y'all react to the Interview With The Vampire TV show!! I am eagerly awaiting season 2, but man, the acting, the chemistry between actors, the set pieces, the EMOTIONS!! So so good
Lestat's "Master" was a vampire named Magnus, who stole the blood of another vampire to to turn himself. Immediately after creating Lestat, he threw himself into a fire. Lestat had to learn most of his gifts on his own, or by seeking out other vampires. Also, this was always weird with Antonio Banderas playing Armand, because Armand was just a boy when he was turned. Somewhere around 12-14 years old.
Anne Rice definitely wrote some weird love stories into the novels . Louis and Claudia and the incestuous relationship between Lestat and his mother , makes for uncomfortable moments sometimes .
At the risk of sounding like a complete weirdo, I can tell you that I've always been obsessed with vampires. 🧛 🩸 My great-grandfather was literally born in Transylvania and my dad would always tell me a story about how he asked him if vampires were real and he got a smack across the face and was told to to never speak of that again 😮 This movie is pretty good and the books are just amazing. Anne Rice was such a descriptive and beautiful writer. Loved this reaction!
The Vampire Chronicles is the name of the series of vampire novels by Anne Rice. Regarding your "would you want to be a vampire" question: In 1972, when the movie Blacula came out, its star, William Marshall, did a TV interview in which he mentioned that he had been approached on the set by a young woman who was an official in the Count Dracula Society, and who told him that she had always wanted to be a vampire. Marshall had never done a horror movie before, and was apparently somewhat taken aback by the statement.
River Phoenix was casted as David but when he died about a month before shooting his scenes his ckose friend Christian Slater took over as the role of David. Christian Slater also donated his entire earnings he made in the movie to River Phoenix's favorite charities.
In the book Claudia was 5 or 6 years old but due to certain child labor laws they changed the age to 10. The character Claudia lived for about 75 years as a vampire. She went mad because in the it was stated by the author or in the book that Claudia had the mind of an adult but was cursed to stay as a child form.
The Golden Gate Bridge goes north from San Francisco (next to the Presidio) and into Marin County (such as Sausalito), Mount Tamilpais, Muir Woods, Napa, Santa Rosa, Calistoga, etc. It's a very nice place to live -- and (ironically) less expensive than the city. Oakland is actually EAST across the Bay from San Francisco. It's actually in the area known as the "East Bay."
At the end, Armand wanted Louis not to kill him...but Louis said to him "you are dead, and you want me to quicken you" like he wanted him to give Armand purpose, and Louis knowing he wanted to use him, and Armand would give him the answers he wanted, he declined to hurt him.
Claudias mind does age which is why she goes mad. If you were 30 in an 8 year olds body that would make you mad. Also in the book she is 5 What isnt explained in the film is that lestat owns the theatre of the vampires which is how they knew
Y'all should check out 1983's "The Hunger" with David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. I feel American Horror Story "Hotel" borrowed the vampire rules from this film.
Later on in the books, Louis is feared by almost all vampires because while it is still considered a crime among vampires to kill your own kind, Louis killed like almost 200 in a single night. However, in all books besides 'Interview', Lestat takes over as the storyteller instead of Louis.
The lore goes deep, the resilience of the vampires sometimes depend on the strength, closeness to the source, and age of their creator vampire, etc., etc. This film is pretty close to the book, close enough that you can dive right into The Vampire Lestat and learn all about his story, (was definitely one of my favorites of the Chronicles-Though it’s been over 15yrs since I read them.) Queen of the Damned, I forget the title of book 4, then Memnoch The Devil, and The Vampire Armand (where as you could guess you learn all about him-And how they aged the character up by a lot so Antonio Banderas could play him.) Yeah, Anne Rice’s novels are responsible for most of the vampire lore over the last few decades; however, she is often mistakenly blamed for turning vampires into sexual creatures when in reality they had been since at least Bram Stoker’s Dracula. They have always been metaphors for intimacy, romance, and sex, at the very least. Anne Rice, having been Catholic, (and then Catholic again,) borrows a fair amount of her metaphysical world-building from that side of Christianity, as well. The Queen Of The Damned adaptation is pretty horrible, but I still would love if y’all got more into the vampire genre. I fear too many of my picks will be “too artsy” and y’all will probably get to the more popular ones. I’ll throw a few out anyway: John Carpenter’s Vampires (1998;) Only Lovers Left Alive (2013;) A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014;) The Hunger (1983;) Cronos (1993,) Let The Right One In (2008;) Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992.)
One thing that would drive me crazy about the shiny Coolest Water bottle that the Mrs. has would be trying to get ice into it. Unless y'all have a very tall ice dispenser on your fridge that you could put the bottle in without angling it. Lol
Ahh that's cool. Yeah that'd be more practical not to have an ice dispenser when your cup is tall. I have an RTIC and I custom made it where it has (I don't know why I'm telling y'all this) my name in script on one side and the blink-182 smiley face logo on the other.
I think it's not so much that Claudia can read minds here as it is that Armand can torment her by talking to her mind. But that's just a thought. (There is telepathy among the vampires, though.)
Little fact for you... the film is dedicated to River Phoenix after the credits, because he was booked to play the role of the interviewer but he died before filming started. Christian Slater was then offered the role, he didn't want to take it at first (he was in the same friend group with River, Keanu, Joaquin, Wynona etc) but decided to take it and then donated the pay to River's favorite charities. It's quite sad to think this movie probably would have elevated River to the status of Pitt and Cruise but he never got the chance. I believe the role of the interviewer was also supposed to be more pivotal to the story, but it was reduced in the final edit, possibly because they didn't know how well it would be recieved given River's passing.
Oakland is technically Slightly Northeast of SF, next to Emeryville, and Berkeley. South would be the City of Daly City, Milbrae, South San Francisco, and San Bruno. North brings you to Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Mill Valley, Petaluma, and Yosemite National Park.
Magnus is the one who sired Lestat and shortly committed suicide after so he never taught Lestat how to be a vampire outside of informing him about the basics but left him his fortune to aid in his survival. He grew tired of his immortality and sought out an heir to pass it along to
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Lestat turning the radio on to get rid of Louis' whining, only to have it play a version of "Sympathy for the Devil", is just *_chef's kiss_*
Kirsten Dunst should've won an Oscar for this role she was absolutely brilliant for her age.
I agree but strangely enough showed none of this caliber of acting as a adult…..weird
@@alexanderarkum4793 I think every actor/actress are defined by one key role in their career and this was it for Kirsten.
@@postmastersgt1670 yes but so often child stars are phenomenal in a role and then seem to "lose it " as adults and im very curious why
@@alexanderarkum4793 This happens often with child actors. There was an actress who was watching her own performance as a child and she was crying and the show host was asking her "why are you crying?" and she said "cause I can never do that again. As a child, you have an innocence that you cannot tap into when you grow up.There is no bullshit".
@@johnnyskinwalker4095 ok I just wanted a feasible explanation...thanks buddy
I'm always gonna find it lowkey hilarious that Lestat basically vampire baby trapped Louis like a toxic girlfriend.
haha
Armand did not want to die. Louis was speaking poetically about how Armand wanted to be reborn through Louis. Louis referred to this rebirth as a second death. If a vampire lives long enough, they begin to go mad, unless they create or find a vampire that belongs to the current age. According to Armand, Louis had grief and heartbreak that reflected the age they were in. Armand wanted that companionship and reflection, to keep him from becoming as vapid and decadent as the vampires in his troupe. Anne's vampires will often bury themselves for decades to ease their mental suffering. This was used by the creators of Underworld. The older vampires in Underworld, would have to seal themselves away for a century, or become insane. Besides, Bram Stoker, Anne Rice has had the greatest influence on vampire lore. You see her influence in everything from Twilight to True Blood. By the way, Claudia was too small and weak to endure the process of creating a vampire. Read the books if you want to know more about Armand. He has his own book, and so does Lestat.
I was wondering why Claudia or her new mother didn't fly up and move the metal grate and escape.
the elders in underworld do not sleep to keep themselves from going insane they do so to simply rest
@@w1975b That's explained in the movie. Apparently the "dark gift" is different for every vampire. Some can fly, some can read minds, some can turn into animals, etc. Not all vampires have same powers.
@@uzul42 they all have the same powers /eventually/ but it takes ages and its real spotty at the start depending on how powerful the sire is and how thoroughly they did things. and some shit is never an early unlock. flight and pyrokinesis are always at the end of the upgrade tree. mind reading shit and degrees of preternatural sense are kind of up in the air
and they cant shapeshift into animals, thats not really something anne rice vampires are capable of. actually, they cant change any part of their appearance at all except by cutting it off. hair and nails will grow back to their original shape and wounds will heal to their appearance at the moment of vampiric conception, every time. given enough time.
In the novel, Armand kills Claudia because he wants Louis for himself as a companion. All the other vampires are soulless, boring and old fashioned, and Louis is by comparison a modern vampire with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective, which Armand finds enticing. Louis is a way for Armand to re-engage with the world and they travel the world together for decades, but Louis always suspected he had something to do with Claudia's death and so their relationship was soured and they eventually part ways.
Yes. Armand thought Louis would be too dumb to realize that he was the one behind Claudia's death. He tried to pretend it was all the fault of the other vampires and was pleased when Louis killed them because Armand was tired of being tied down by them and the theatre. The Vampire Chronicles was the name of the book series by Anne Rice, btw.
Exactly.
Um spoiler alert
Louis' gift/curse was that he held on to his humanity, a vampire w/a conscience.
@@joeriveracomedy If you don't want spoilers, it's probably not a good idea to watch a condensed reaction on youtube, and then head to the comments.
Easily one of Tom Cruise‘s best top five performances, very underrated in the role
Right? Even Anne Rice was taken back when she saw his performance
I rewatch this movie every few years and I always think man, what a waste of talent that Tom Cruise only makes action movies now. I mean, I love Mission Impossible, awesome films, but Tom Cruise is capable of so much more.
Yup, he's a pretty darn good actor 👍
@@dfcarvalhoI think collateral is probably his best performance. There are so many subtile gestures he makes in that movie I see something new every time I watch it.
Agreed. There are actors I feel like play the same character / themselves, but in different roles. Like Tom Cruise seems the same in Mission Impossible as he does in War of the worlds as he does in Minority Report etc. Like Nick Cage. But in this film he actually played a character!
Easily my favorite vampire movie. A masterpiece. Tom Cruise is brilliant in the role and was playing something completely different than he ever had before and crushed it. Anne Rice was originally against Tom playing Lestat until she saw his performance and loved it.
"I want some more."
One of my favourite movies, period!
This is a great vampire film.
River Phoenix was actually cast to play the role as the interviewer Daniel, but sadly died of a drug overdose in 1993.
His friend, Christian Slater, played the character.
The film is dedicated to Phoenix.
Christian Slater even donated his salary he got from this movie to the charities River Phoneix usually donated to.
*A vampire might end that sentence with **_...happily died of a..._*
Good to know.
Anne Rice is the creator of The Vampire Chronicles, and is widely regarded as the author who made vampires sexy. Before her books, vampires were mostly portrayed as foul breathed monsters, possessed by a bloodthirsty demon. This is the first book, and it was released back in 1976. I knew a few people who had copies of Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat, years before the film was made. Those friends hated that Tom Cruise was going to play Lestat on film, but I told them that he would knock it out of the park, and that they would eat their words. They did.
Anne Rice modernized vampires, but the creatures have been sexualized since Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1897. The whole pointy things (fangs) sticking into soft flesh (necks) is a metaphor for sex after all.
So in a way she was the beginning of the end for all the horror cool creatures of the dark they used to be huh.
In film at least , Jean Rollin had been doing erotic vampire films since the 60s . I think that Anne Rice specialized in delving into the vampire psyche more than anyone else . This included love more than actual sex .
Nope, still hate Tom Cruise in that role. Grossly miscast.
@@ExtraSqueaky As someone who has never read the books and never will, I think he was appropriate in the role. Remember that adaptions are not made only for the fans, but the general audience.
If I remember well, Anne Rice wrote a short story about the death of her little girl, then turned it into this novel. Claudia's character was somewhat based on her daughter.
Claudia was based on her daughter michelle. As a way to keep her alive so to speak. Which is one of the reasons I was so upset that they turned her into a teenager for the t v show.
@@kimwatchesstuff I didn't really care for the TV series adaptation much. Something about it just felt off throughout.
Anne Rice actually said a few times that Claudia was not based on her daughter. “I never consciously thought about it when I was writing the book. I wasn’t conscious of the connection. I knew that I was using the physical beauty of Michele as the model, but Claudia was a fictional character in her own right. The character, the voice, and the things Claudia say have nothing to do with my daughter." -She later admitted she could see the similarities, but her intent was to create a character that would put Louis through the same grief that she (Rice) went through.
There are real Energy Sucking Vampires, people who are just exhausting to be around for whatever reason, usually negative.
Classic movie from 1994 . Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt played so well their roles.
Oakland is East, across the Bay Bridge, not South.
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Still a better Lovestory than Twilight 😂😂😂
Ahaha Twilight?? 💩🤦💩
My golf club set is a better love story than Twilight :)
Twilight has no business being mentioned in the same sentence as Interview
Anything is better than that wretched franchise
Who? Mr and Mrs Movies? Definitely.
The other books are told through Lestat’s point of view and he is actually quite a hero
According to himself. lol
^ yep, lestat is a hero according to lestat.
@@BulletTooth504 When he was mortal he risked his life to singlehandedly fight a pack of wolves that were killing people . He started out a decent person and a hero . His mother groomed him to be the intelligent , heroic , cultured man that she wished she could be .
i wouldnt say a hero but kinda like the show Dexter....he fed on the evil doers
@@flashxdoe295 A complicated hero
Claudia’s mind does in a way develop so she becomes very very intelligent and an adult in a small child
Having read the books before seeing this I have a soft spot for Lestat. That being said this is a fabulous film especially with Ann Rice doing the screenplay, it's like a seal of approval
You guys completely misunderstood Armand. He was trapped in the ancient way of life his theatre vampires insisted on living in. He wanted to venture away from the old, and be taken into the new. Louis, being from the New World, would be ideal in escorting him into the future. Louis didn't want him. He didn't want a companion any longer.
The thing to remember is every piece of vampire literature and media draws from Anne Rice's novels the same way every piece of mob fiction draws from The Godfather.
Did someone forget about Bram Stoker & Sheridan Le Fanu?
@lynetteoliva1256 ofc not, but modern vampire fiction are steeped balls deep in Ricean vampire lore & tropes to an extent far more palpable than those.
Norm McDonald on Interview With The Vampire... "not gay enough" LOL
The first few times I watched this movie, Claudia's death made me cry really hard.
Especially because I know about Anne Rice's grief is what started the vampire chronicles. Her daughter died very young.
There was a pretty long time gap between Rice's first vampire book and her second.
Lestat fed on very powerful vampires before he met Louis. He was able to endure much. Armand is supposed to be 17, and Claudia was 5.
There are vampire lores where stakes in the heart don’t kill a vampire; just paralyze them until,it’s removed.
Coffins in the 18th century make sense if you can secure it from the inside, no accidental exposure from a servant or something opening a bedroom door. Habit by the 20th century I guess.
Claudia was treated as a child by everyone for thirty years. Maturity comes from experience, but also from people treating you less and less like a child
One of my fav movies of all times. Its such a weird and different kind of vampire story. more like a weird family drama, they're all just lonely and want company, but each character is deeply flawed, still all too human. That's what's so beautiful and tragic about the story.
"Queen Of The Damned" combines the 2nd & 3rd book in the series. This is Lestat's version of him so he's quite different and becomes the leader of the biggest rock band on the planet but is giving away vampire secrets in his songs so many of them go to his concert in Death Valley to kill him.
Queen of the damned is really good but some people do not really like it as much but I swear that entire soundtrack is absolute fire 🔥
Just wish Tom had come back to play Lestat again.
@@alucard624 I like to think that Stacee from 'Rock of Ages' is just heavy metal Lestat after a rebrand. I mean, do we ever see him in sunlight?
He’s special because he’s a vampire with humanity.
I 1000% believe in the Mandella effect because I STILL have Bernstaine. Bears books from the 80's and EVERYONE in my family (especially my mom a teacher) specifically remember them being spelled and pronounced "Bern-Steine Bears." I swear to God the Mendella effect is CAUSED BY THE HADRON COLLIDER IN SWITZERLAND
It is also worth noting that a part of Louis' lies to the reporter is to present Lestat much worss than he was. Part of that is because Louis is telling how he felt about Lestat at the time and part of it is because he sort of mashes a few characters together through out his tale.
Lestat was kind of a selfish guy, but a lot of it was because he was actually pretty ignorant. He couldn't tell Louis a lot because he really didn't know, but didn't want to be embarressed. Lestat had made other vampires before Louis and it had turned out really bad. Louis was the exception, but Lestat's fuck up by making Claudia really screwed up their dynamic.
Lestat had made a lot of enemies, too before he fled France for America, which is why he didn't tell Louis about Armand, (who hated him).
I was born in San Francisco and ended up moving out in 95. The last time I visited my hometown, it just broke my heart.
I absolutely love this movie. I was blown away with it back when it came out, I just love the story and the actors all do such a great job. I love Tom Cruise as Lestat. And Kirsten Dunst absolutely killed it as such a young actress. Amazing!
God say what you want about Tom Cruise but damn if he does not look like the PERFECT fucking sexy vampire that's beautiful yet still masculine and absolutely a narcissistic diva.
When I was a kid in the 90s the Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles set the standard for vampire lore. Her books really turned up the sexiness of the vampire and everybody wanted to be one.
My second favorite movie after Coppola's "Dracula". Actually, both are pretty close to a tie in my list. I've seen it at least a dozen times. That moment when Kirsten throws her tantrum, cuts her hair, walks ten steps and it's grown back again, her desperately raged scream - I love this scene! Ah - GREAT movie!
My two favorite vampire films as well.
The second book really makes you see Lestat in a quite different way.
But is Lestat really the most reliable of narrators?
Lestat is the biggest egotist of the vampire chronicles. He is totally biased in the stories he tells about himself.
@@BulletTooth504 For what it's worth, Anne said Lestat is a more reliable narrator than Louis. Still not always reliable, just more.
@@glamazon6172 I've never been a fan of that retcon. She really threw Louis under the bus just to make Lestat more marketable.
@BulletTooth504 If the books were released in different order you might think differently. There is natural bias towards the first version of a story.
Ah, a fine vampire movie and "NO GLITTER". Love it! I also loved the way the historical sets and costuming looked to well researched.
My dog is named Louis because of this movie. I used to play Vampire: the Masquerade, a tabletop Role-playing game, in my early teens and some of vampire lore in that game is loosely based on book series by Anne Rice so I loved this movie. Tom Cruise's performance in this is unbelievable. It makes me wish he'd make more movies like this every now and then in-between his action flicks.
my fav vampire film , stellar cast , great story , amazing villian played by tom cruise
My mother breathlessly says, “Antonio…” just like you do. 😂
I do too 😂 My Aunt loves him
Hello Kids!😊 You guys have the 20th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray which was first released in 2014. Only the artwork (previous brown tone) changed for this release. Armand had just grown tired of being with his gang of vampires for so many years and wanted something new. Kirsten Dunst was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. This is one of the better made vampire films. Great reactions to this fine horror film, Mr. & Mrs. Movies!!!!🎬👏👏👏👏
I think that one common thing with this and Dracula is that you can’t change just from being bitten, you must drink the vampires blood.
Remember in Dracula Mia had to drink Draculas blood in order for her to change.
Anne Rice's daughter had died very young. Claudia was based upon her daughter. She wrote this novel through the grief process.
This is genuinely one of my all time favorite movie adaptations of a book. It takes small liberties but overall is faithful to the novel, which is also one of my favorite books. Anne Rice wrote it when she was in a very deep pit of despair and you can tell by just hoe melancholy the tones of the novel/movie are. Also, Armand's plan wasn't to be killed. He wanted Louie for himself but understood thay Claudia was in the way. He only saved Louie after Claudia was dead and hope that Louie's grief would drive him to want to be with Armand, but it backfired because Louie knew what Armand did.
having read all the books this is actually a good take on the first book. and Kirsten Dunst was a great Claudia.
"Near Dark" is also directed by James Cameron's Wife Jane Bigelow which explains why it's leads are all from "Aliens"
If you like vampire movies you really should see NEAR DARK. A great 80s take. With Bill Paxton & Lance Henrickson, right after Aliens. Directed by Katheryn Bigelow, before Point Break.
Hope Queen of the Damned is next, such underrated vampire film.
The soundtrack is straight fire. Get so pumped every time the concert scene comes on, while re-watching.
You mean *OVERrated.
That whole film was an exercise in filmmakers not having even a single clue as to what they had in their hands, as far as the novel 'Queen of the Damned' goes. They gutted literally everything about the actual story in favor of essentially making one long Hot Topic music video.
Straight up trash, and a mockery of the source material.
I've heard QotD bastardizes the book. But it's one of my favorite movies. I was OBSESSED with it when I got it for my 13th birthday. I swear I wouldn't be the person I am without it. I literally write vampire romance novels because of that movie.
Trash.
I personally love the music hate the movie. Nothing like the book
It's "The Vampire Chronicles" because "Interview" was the first of over a dozen different books about these characters, that became known as the Vampire Chronicles. My favorites are the first four, but there are a lot more. Meanwhile, I attended Anne Rice's Halloween Party a few months after this movie came out, and she was thrilled with Tom Cruise's performance as Lestat (I agree with her -- I still think it's the most fun he's ever been onscreen).
Claudia did age and was in fact an adult inside. But time passes differently for vampires, so Louis and Lestat didn't realize 30 years had gone by, and just kept buying her dolls and treating her like a child. She went along with it because it was all she knew, but at a certain point Claudia realized she was no longer that child -- and that's when she snapped.
Claudia needed help to turn Madeleine into a vampire because she was too small and weak to do it herself, as a child vampire. She wasn't being manipulative -- she needed someone to look out for her, and Louis was on his way to leaving her. I think Kirsten Dunst was absolutely stunning in the role.
The Parisian theatregoers loved the Theatre des Vampires because it was amusing and shocking so it was the talk of the town. They didn't think the killing was real, however.
It's interesting because this version incorporated some of Lestat's book that followed (he is a hero in that one, although he definitely does some terrible things, and admits to turning Claudia), which at one point tells his version of the story.
I remember there was some backlash when Tom Cruise was announced to play Lestat. After it came out, it shut down the criticisms. Even Anne Rice said she started shaking because she loved his portrayal.
Brad makes me.... Drool...
I guess that's about the same as I was thinking....
YES! 😁
Sooooo glad to see you react to this - in my opinion, arguably the best vampire movie out there.
I've only just started watching your reaction, but I think it goes without saying that the cast is stellar in their performance - Cruise, Pitt and Dunst absolutely bring it home.
Man, I wish that they'd make more of 'The Vampire Chronicles' with Cruise and Pitt in their respective roles. 🥰
ADDENDUM:
Armand didn't want Louis to help him die. Armand orchestrated Claudia's death because Armand wanted Louis for himself. He saw in Louis 'an immortal with a mortal soul.'
This is elaborated on a little more in the novels, but - in short - vampires struggle to remain connected to the outside world as the world progresses and changes whilst they themselves don't. The same also happened with Claudia - her mind matured whilst her body did not. In fact, she became romantically attached to Louis despite appearing as a child.
Armand saw in Louis an opportunity to connect with the world of the time - that's also why Armand views the vampires of the theatre with disdain. They are a relic of times long past. 😉
Loved this movie and the books. A shame we couldn't have gotten a proper sequel or TV series from 'em
Have you heard about the TV series.
@@Dularr Yeah. I'll say this though , Queen of the Damned has one of the best movie soundtracks of all time (Soundtrack not score) in my opinion. 🤷♂️
Wouldn't mind an limited series tv adaption of the book Vampire Lestat.
Honestly the series is great
The series is so.. ugh.. they changed way too much. Louis becomes a black gay man .. Claudia becomes a teenager.. the whole dynamic is changed. The only decent thing about the series was Lestat.
Great spanish pronunciation: "Armandooo". I love it!
Great reaction Mr and Mrs movies, one of my favorite vampire films. I highly recommend reading the book there is sooo much more to the story (no spoilers) it's so much better than the film yet the film is incredible. The cast really did a fantastic job at brining these wonderful undead characters alive, when ever I read the books I see Tom and Brad all the time. Glad you enjoyed the movie 😊
Armand was once called Amadeo... if you really need the o at the end! The books are great. Highly recommend! Claudia doesn't have enough blood to make an adult vampire. She could only make children.
I probably haven't watched this since it came out and I have totally forgotten how many things "What We Do in the Shadows" snatched from this!! OMG!!
How could I forget the burning in the well by the Sun and they did that exact same scene just about on WWD in the S!😅😅😂
You guys should watch The Lost Boys (1987)- the quintessential 80's vampire movie.
Great reaction guys.😊 I watched this in the movie theater when it came out. I loved it then & love it now. I thought Kirsten Dunst was stellar in this, especially as such a young actress. O, Mr. Movie, this movie was Kirsten's 1st movie role. She's older in JUMANJI. Brad Pitt was good in this. I thought Tom Cruise was a bit over the top although it is some of his best acting. My favorite character in the movie was Louis. The movie seems to follow along the same lines of other older vampire tales. Vampires are seductive & sensual, & they can die by a great fire as long as they can't escape it, decapitation & sunlight. I read the books. U know, Armand saying he is the oldest living vampire isn't exactly true. When Lestat says "I am going to give u the choice I never had." He is telling the truth. In the book "The Vampire Lestat", it tells u a little bit about the very old vamp that turned him. The vampire was literally insane. He had been living in the shadows alone & believing he was a demon for so long that he wanted to end it all. Before he did, however, he would create a fledgling in order to pass on the dark gift. So, he created his one & only fledgling, Lestat, right before throwing himself on a giant bonfire/funeral pyre. Lestat searched the world trying to find out about what he was. According to the books, the more ancient the vampire that creates u, then the stronger a fledgling vampire u will be. Louis wasn't able to read minds because his gift/curse was keeping his humanity. That was why, Armand was so fascinated by him. When Armand & Louis are talking in the museum, Armand was asking Louis to be his eternal companion, but Louis says "No." because he can't forgive him for Claudia's death. O, in the book, Claudia's tantrum happens after a build up of frustration of being an eternal child. Louis & Lestat both still treated her as a child. Seeing that beautiful woman bathing & knowing she would never be like that just broke the dam. Imagine having the mind of an adult, but a 5yr old child's body. Anyway, great reaction, & I hope u do check out QUEEN OF THE DAMNED. It's a decent watch.
You two are the CUTEST couple EVER! Couple goals! Khayman, from the Anne Rice vampire chronicles is my FAVORITE vampire and Interview with the Vampire is my personal all-time favorite vampire movie! Cheers from Canada! 😘🥰🤩☺☺
lmfao I love Mrs movies vampire fangs 🤣🤣🤣
26:35 we need a "You me and the Movies Out of Context Compilation" - and i nominate THIS moment to be included lololol
I LOVE those sharp teeth you have, Mrs. Movies 😂
Armand is wrong about being the oldest; there are about a dozen older than him but he is honest in his claim because he has no clue the others exist. While the movie Queen of the Dammed is on the lower end as far as sequels go, it does a good job revealing a lot of Anne Rice's vampire history and origin and is worth it for that.
I think The Lost Boys and Interview with the vampire are the true OG vampire movies with Blade and John Carpenters Vampires following suit, Buffy and True blood are also great TV adaptations and recently The Interview with the vampire TV show really going for it and being great. When I was younger I thought it would be awesome to be a vampire, live forever see how the world evolves etc but as an adult I see it now as a curse, watching all and every friendship and relationship die in front of you because 70/80 years feels like a regular week to you and always being alone unless you're selfish enough to turn someone to appease the loneliness and curse them to the same fate of killing and watching the people they love disappear year by year. Lol and to answer your question no vampire would ever let themselves be discovered if they existed, 7 billion humans kind of sways the numbers regardless of supernatural abilities. going public would be the S word youtube doesn't like lol so the answer IMO is we'd never know if they truly existed or not but as the old saying goes, there's no fire without smoke...
Lost boys?
Maybe in its time. But today it's closer to that Tarantino vampire movie.
To me this, Coppola and the Blade movie.
I've really enjoyed some of the directions in the Vampire genre. Including story variations of vampires as recluses, vampires as anomalies, vampires as shadow-world empires, etc. The Anne Rice works, Bram Stoker's Dracula book, White Wolf "masquerade" stuff, movie Blade, movie Underworld, Lost Boys, etc.
Vampires have made for some very interesting world building, story telling, and characters. They are a versatile ingredient that mashups well with different settings and tropes.
There was a moment in the 90's where this "alternate elaborate shadow-world" sub-genre was how many Vampire works were developing and heading. And they were also being pulled into various ~mainstream projects. Books, paper RPGs, video games, movies, card game, etc. But the mainstreaming and genre development in that direction hit a wall, and they dropped from the different scenes.
There was a weird moment following Interview With The Vampire movie, where mainstream pushback against the movie and genre scared off Hollywood talent and entertainment companies from this genre niche. Anne Rice abandoned her own development of the genre and she converted to Christianity. Different micro political groups started trying to wrestle control and push political meaning into the genre works and scene.
In the ashes of that direction, the whole genre of the romance vampire emerged to take over a lot of the genre projects.
I read probably half of the books that she wrote concerning the vampire chronicles in the 90’s. I don’t read fiction anymore but I have to say that she is one of my all time favorite writers.
Great reaction folks, you two are always fun to watch a movie with.
The "O" is silent..in Arrmonde...😂 It's definitely there.
Technically if they clip their nails they'll just rise the next night with them grown back. In the books any change is not instantly reversed like when Claudia cuts her hair. They just did that for the effect in the movie, and I must admit it is a pretty damn cool effect, and it still gets the point of change being impossible for them. Literally. You wonder why existing in the world after a few hundred years seems to be so challenging for Armand and his coven, but if you remember they literally can't change physically, it makes a lot more sense.
Yes, black-out curtains in a regular bed would be possible, at least for an older/stronger vampire. Like Lestat after he drinks Akasha's blood and becomes more or less invincible, he sleeps in a regular bed. He never walks around in broad daylight like in the Queen of the Damned movie, but yeah. It would take a staking/ beheading/burning of the body and then scattering of the ashes to kill a vampire of that caliber, and even then.... You never know 😅 Love this beautiful film full of beautiful men and music and costumes. So nostalgic for me. RIP Anne Rice ❤
Okay, the main thing with Anne Rice vampires is, they're frozen in time. They don't age of course, their bodies always restore back to what they were when they became vampires (such as the hair cutting scene) but also their _minds_ don't change, the longer they live the more unable they become to cope with the world. Lestat freaked out at the helicopter because his mind simply could not comprehend such a drastic change in technology. But newer, younger vampires can help older ones get around that, that's what Armand wanted Louis for.
So, if no alredy mentioned, the author Anne Rice wrote the novel to mourn the death of her daughter, which is depicted through Claudia, Rice said that Louis’s character was based on her, her pain and mourning. As for Armand, he wanted Louis and Claudia was in the way. He orchestrated her death. Yes there are more Vampires. Armand knows Lestat but he didn’t make him. FYI Christian Slater was cast last minute becuase it was originally River Phoenix. Slater donated his paycheck to a non-profit in remembrance of Phoenix.
In Anne Rice lore, the strength of a new vampire depended on the strength of its maker, and ho thouroughly they mixed the maker's blood n its body
Louis and Claudia were some of the weakest vampires ever made, because Lestat was afraid of dying if he gave them "too much" of his blood, when there was no such thing.
His maker, Magnus never taught him anything, and didn't learn very much from his own maker. Magnus was an elderly alchemist who trapped a vampire, took his blood forcibly, and turned himself into a vampire.
Would absolutely love to see y'all react to the Interview With The Vampire TV show!! I am eagerly awaiting season 2, but man, the acting, the chemistry between actors, the set pieces, the EMOTIONS!! So so good
This wouldve been better if Rainman was in this with him. "Yeah, Im definitely an excellent vampire."
Lestat's "Master" was a vampire named Magnus, who stole the blood of another vampire to to turn himself. Immediately after creating Lestat, he threw himself into a fire. Lestat had to learn most of his gifts on his own, or by seeking out other vampires. Also, this was always weird with Antonio Banderas playing Armand, because Armand was just a boy when he was turned. Somewhere around 12-14 years old.
Anne Rice was initially dead set against Tom Cruise, wanting Rutger Hauer instead. She did eventually come around once the movie came out.
Anne Rice definitely wrote some weird love stories into the novels . Louis and Claudia and the incestuous relationship between Lestat and his mother , makes for uncomfortable moments sometimes .
TOM CRUISE acted rounds around Brad Pitt in this movie lol
Yes! Tom Cruise killed it as Lestat. He's a delight to watch. The second half of the movie becomes quite boring without him.
My top 3 favorite vampire movies with Lost Boys and Fright Night.
Even with blackout curtains I wake up with my face all red from the UV rays. These people have spent hundreds of years like this, they know better. XD
At the risk of sounding like a complete weirdo, I can tell you that I've always been obsessed with vampires. 🧛 🩸 My great-grandfather was literally born in Transylvania and my dad would always tell me a story about how he asked him if vampires were real and he got a smack across the face and was told to to never speak of that again 😮 This movie is pretty good and the books are just amazing. Anne Rice was such a descriptive and beautiful writer. Loved this reaction!
The Vampire Chronicles is the name of the series of vampire novels by Anne Rice. Regarding your "would you want to be a vampire" question: In 1972, when the movie Blacula came out, its star, William Marshall, did a TV interview in which he mentioned that he had been approached on the set by a young woman who was an official in the Count Dracula Society, and who told him that she had always wanted to be a vampire. Marshall had never done a horror movie before, and was apparently somewhat taken aback by the statement.
River Phoenix was casted as David but when he died about a month before shooting his scenes his ckose friend Christian Slater took over as the role of David.
Christian Slater also donated his entire earnings he made in the movie to River Phoenix's favorite charities.
In the book Claudia was 5 or 6 years old but due to certain child labor laws they changed the age to 10. The character Claudia lived for about 75 years as a vampire. She went mad because in the it was stated by the author or in the book that Claudia had the mind of an adult but was cursed to stay as a child form.
The Golden Gate Bridge goes north from San Francisco (next to the Presidio) and into Marin County (such as Sausalito), Mount Tamilpais, Muir Woods, Napa, Santa Rosa, Calistoga, etc. It's a very nice place to live -- and (ironically) less expensive than the city. Oakland is actually EAST across the Bay from San Francisco. It's actually in the area known as the "East Bay."
At the end, Armand wanted Louis not to kill him...but Louis said to him "you are dead, and you want me to quicken you" like he wanted him to give Armand purpose, and Louis knowing he wanted to use him, and Armand would give him the answers he wanted, he declined to hurt him.
There are many vampires that Louie has not met yet
Armand wanted Louis to himself because Louis wasn't all jaded, still in touch with his humanity
BTW there is a sequel to this movie. Queen of the Damned (2002)
“Write a novel make a million dollar.”
That is in fact exactly what Lestat goes on to do, multiple times.
Claudias mind does age which is why she goes mad. If you were 30 in an 8 year olds body that would make you mad.
Also in the book she is 5
What isnt explained in the film is that lestat owns the theatre of the vampires which is how they knew
31:52 in the book, Claudia was only 6 years old when she was turned, and Armand was 15 years old.
Y'all should check out 1983's "The Hunger" with David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. I feel American Horror Story "Hotel" borrowed the vampire rules from this film.
Later on in the books, Louis is feared by almost all vampires because while it is still considered a crime among vampires to kill your own kind, Louis killed like almost 200 in a single night. However, in all books besides 'Interview', Lestat takes over as the storyteller instead of Louis.
It IS a Mandela effect - Glad you said that because I was about to type that regarding A vs The.
The lore goes deep, the resilience of the vampires sometimes depend on the strength, closeness to the source, and age of their creator vampire, etc., etc. This film is pretty close to the book, close enough that you can dive right into The Vampire Lestat and learn all about his story, (was definitely one of my favorites of the Chronicles-Though it’s been over 15yrs since I read them.) Queen of the Damned, I forget the title of book 4, then Memnoch The Devil, and The Vampire Armand (where as you could guess you learn all about him-And how they aged the character up by a lot so Antonio Banderas could play him.)
Yeah, Anne Rice’s novels are responsible for most of the vampire lore over the last few decades; however, she is often mistakenly blamed for turning vampires into sexual creatures when in reality they had been since at least Bram Stoker’s Dracula. They have always been metaphors for intimacy, romance, and sex, at the very least.
Anne Rice, having been Catholic, (and then Catholic again,) borrows a fair amount of her metaphysical world-building from that side of Christianity, as well.
The Queen Of The Damned adaptation is pretty horrible, but I still would love if y’all got more into the vampire genre. I fear too many of my picks will be “too artsy” and y’all will probably get to the more popular ones. I’ll throw a few out anyway: John Carpenter’s Vampires (1998;) Only Lovers Left Alive (2013;) A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014;) The Hunger (1983;) Cronos (1993,) Let The Right One In (2008;) Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992.)
Don't forget Love at First Bite (1979). 😏😆
One thing that would drive me crazy about the shiny Coolest Water bottle that the Mrs. has would be trying to get ice into it. Unless y'all have a very tall ice dispenser on your fridge that you could put the bottle in without angling it. Lol
We don’t have an ice dispenser, we just have the ice drawer in the freezer so it’s a non-issue for us. But yes it is very tall.
Ahh that's cool. Yeah that'd be more practical not to have an ice dispenser when your cup is tall. I have an RTIC and I custom made it where it has (I don't know why I'm telling y'all this) my name in script on one side and the blink-182 smiley face logo on the other.
The character Christian Slater plays is called Daniel Malloy. He's made a vampire by Armand, the character Antonio Banderas plays.
I think it's not so much that Claudia can read minds here as it is that Armand can torment her by talking to her mind. But that's just a thought. (There is telepathy among the vampires, though.)
Little fact for you... the film is dedicated to River Phoenix after the credits, because he was booked to play the role of the interviewer but he died before filming started. Christian Slater was then offered the role, he didn't want to take it at first (he was in the same friend group with River, Keanu, Joaquin, Wynona etc) but decided to take it and then donated the pay to River's favorite charities. It's quite sad to think this movie probably would have elevated River to the status of Pitt and Cruise but he never got the chance. I believe the role of the interviewer was also supposed to be more pivotal to the story, but it was reduced in the final edit, possibly because they didn't know how well it would be recieved given River's passing.
I really recommend Queen of the Damned following this! It's supposed to be a sequel to this movie c:
Oakland is technically Slightly Northeast of SF, next to Emeryville, and Berkeley. South would be the City of Daly City, Milbrae, South San Francisco, and San Bruno. North brings you to Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Mill Valley, Petaluma, and Yosemite National Park.
Magnus is the one who sired Lestat and shortly committed suicide after so he never taught Lestat how to be a vampire outside of informing him about the basics but left him his fortune to aid in his survival. He grew tired of his immortality and sought out an heir to pass it along to