Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Eat You? I don't even like talking to you on the phone.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
What can be better than Christian Slater, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Antonio Banderas all in the same movie? This is one of those movies I can watch again and again, when I'm in one of those dark, romantic moods that calls for a good vampire movie.
Directed by Neil Jordan, a great Irish director who also directed Breakfast On Pluto, the Cillian Murphy movie that is next on our marathon list. You can see from watching this film, that Neil Jordan actually cares about staying true to Anne Rice's novel and takes her input into careful consideration to avoid bastardizing the characters in the story, unlike Queen of the Damned where the characters and story were bastardized so much, the whole thing was like a damn goth-band music video. Totally unrecognizable. Lestat played by Stuart Townsend? Did the director lose a bet?
Anyway, fantastic screenplay. Fantastic cast (all except Kirsten Dunst, but then again she does have snaggleteeth so maybe I can forgive them for trying to go for real-looking vampire teeth so they can save on the budget for special effects.)
Christian Slater is the curious, kinda-jaded, reporter conducting an interview with the vampire, Luis (Brad Pitt). Luis is a tortured vampire who is happy to tell his story that starts in the year 1791 - New Orleans and leads all the way up to present day.
Lestat (Tom Cruise)is a vampire that comes out of the shadows and seeks out Luis. He asks him first if he wants to become a vampire and join him as a hetero lifemate and he says yes but then once he is made immortal, he is like, "I immediately regret this decision. I didn't know I was actually going to have to eat people. " To avoid eating people, he just eats the animals and comes off as a total gaylord to Lestat who at first thinks its funny and cute but then you can see it gets on his nerves.
Luis gets frustrated as he notices all the slaves on the plantation can sense evil and are scared shitless of him and his new pal, Lestat. So, he burns his own house down and sets his slaves free. They leave their nice, neat flaming little shit and set on for traveling adventures. Lestat is a ruthless, badass vampire and takes pride in his vampiric work while Luis is still a bitch who can't deal. He's all set on breaking up with Lestat and moving on to be miserable elsewhere. Then Lestat makes a vampire kid (Snaggletooth) to manipulate Luis into staying with him. She takes to vampire life well and then turns into a screaming brat who tortures your ears during several scenes of overacting and bitch-fits. "Feck You! This is a house of lies!" It gets old real quick and you are supposed to sympathize and understand what it must be like living as a forever-young, sheltered vampire with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt as your 2 dads. The pscyho bitch scenes are all painful to watch and listen to and all you want while they are happening is for her to stop talking and to go on with the story. "Go ON with the Chlorafil."
The story takes some more turns after that on a dark, long and winding road. The story gets weirder and better. The ending was awesome, closing in an awesome cover of "Sympathy for the Devil" by Guns N' Roses.
This was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. I would watch it with my best friend and we would talk about the man-candy and what it might be like to be a vampiric creature of the night and how much Kirsten Dunst sucks. 1995, good times.
Now, of course, it has a bit of a nostalgic feel to it. I can pretty much say all the dialoge along with the movie and remember all the parts I used to find funny with my friends. I think I can draw new things from it as well. I am able to notice different things and appreciate it different things such as cinematography and art direction of the film. A more educated view of film that I've picked up from the college years. That and I have more jokes now to blurt out during the movie with Tom Cruise losing his mind to Scientology and all. Its great fun.
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