Interview with the Vampire/Anne Rice

[SexyRapunzel]

I went through seven pages to be sure this thread didn't exist yet. Sorry in advance if I missed it but I felt this one movie really couldn't be left out. Not Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, the incredible movie with breath-takingly orchestrated music and heart-wrenching plot lines, which turned me onto her books with a vengeance. I read everything I could lay my eyes on by Anne Rice after that in an almost obsessive way, much like the way I read Harry Potter and the Mists of Avalon. Anyway.

I also happened to have just finished a ragestache picture today of it and figured I'd drop it in an existing thread that I assumed would be here but isn't. Hopefully we can discuss it and any Anne Rice works here, as she is one of my favorite authors, contrary to the rage in the picture

 

[SexyRapunzel]

Also, has anyone read this series, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty? It's a very graphic erotic novel Anne Rice wrote under a fake name. It's SO erotic, in fact, that you can find it only in your local sex stores. When I read this series of books, I masturbated more than I have in my whole life and that's a true story.

 

[Crumb]

I read Interview, Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned years before the movie and a result, I highly dislike the movies.
imo the only redeeming quality the movie had was the fact that Kirsten Dunst played Claudia
granted it was her first movie but I had great hope for her career after that.

 

[SexyRapunzel]

I read Interview, Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned years before the movie and a result, I highly dislike the movies.
imo the only redeeming quality the movie had was the fact that Kirsten Dunst played Claudia
granted it was her first movie but I had great hope for her career after that.

True, but I also have to speak up for Bradd Pitt and even, to my great shame, Tom Cruise in their devotion to portraying their characters. From what I've gathered, Brad was in a very dark place at the time anyway and fell into the sad agony that is Louis while Cruise is very pompous, egotistical and regal by nature given his attention from a very successful acting career and that helped him pull off the very prideful Lestat, although he seemed to have a hard time grasping onto the ancient vampire's sharp wit and intelligence.

Queen of the Damned was an absolute massacre of the book. Forget that the actor that plays Lestat is a sissy boy that doesn't even have Lestat's legendary blonde hair or even the barely mentioned Talamasca, they left out the most important chapters about the witch twins, Maharet and Makare, who later became two of the first vampires to ever be created. They left out the story of the spirit that was able to draw blood and how their mother died, how they were forced away from her burial before they could have a chance to absorb her magic by eating her remains. How the Egyptian queen Akasha wanted to know the secret of their magic and imprisoned them. How she rendered one twin blind and cut the others tongue out so they would never find each other again.

Perhaps the only redeeming quality to Queen of the Damned imo is that Armand is finally portrayed correctly as a cherubic ginger with curls and a baby face, turned far too young.

 

[SweetGeekGirl]

I read Interview, Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned years before the movie and a result, I highly dislike the movies.
imo the only redeeming quality the movie had was the fact that Kirsten Dunst played Claudia
granted it was her first movie but I had great hope for her career after that.

True, but I also have to speak up for Bradd Pitt and even, to my great shame, Tom Cruise in their devotion to portraying their characters. From what I've gathered, Brad was in a very dark place at the time anyway and fell into the sad agony that is Louis while Cruise is very pompous, egotistical and regal by nature given his attention from a very successful acting career and that helped him pull off the very prideful Lestat, although he seemed to have a hard time grasping onto the ancient vampire's sharp wit and intelligence.

Queen of the Damned was an absolute massacre of the book. Forget that the actor that plays Lestat is a sissy boy that doesn't even have Lestat's legendary blonde hair or even the barely mentioned Talamasca, they left out the most important chapters about the witch twins, Maharet and Makare, who later became two of the first vampires to ever be created. They left out the story of the spirit that was able to draw blood and how their mother died, how they were forced away from her burial before they could have a chance to absorb her magic by eating her remains. How the Egyptian queen Akasha wanted to know the secret of their magic and imprisoned them. How she rendered one twin blind and cut the others tongue out so they would never find each other again.

Perhaps the only redeeming quality to Queen of the Damned imo is that Armand is finally portrayed correctly as a cherubic ginger with curls and a baby face, turned far too young.

1. Armand should have been prettier.
2. I actually enjoyed Townsend as Lestat from Lestat's point of view, how Lestat saw himself. Cruise didn't do a bad job as Lestat how Louis saw Lestat - in my humble opinion.
3. Brad Pitt should have been prettier.
4. Queen, the movie, I think really tried to combine two books - Queen and Vampire Lestat. Because of that, it didn't do either one very well. Kind of depressing. It was a pretty beautiful movie in its own right, though.

 

[SweetGeekGirl]

Also, has anyone read this series, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty? It's a very graphic erotic novel Anne Rice wrote under a fake name. It's SO erotic, in fact, that you can find it only in your local sex stores. When I read this series of books, I masturbated more than I have in my whole life and that's a true story.

I found it in my local Borders (when it still existed), actually. It was with the other sex books.

I haven't read more than bits and pieces of it yet. When I was younger, I got particularly familiar with that first chapter. >.> I'll get around to it eventually.

As a junior in high school, one of the books I was reading was Anne Rice's Belinda. Very much a Lolita-type story. I read Exit to Eden around that time, too, I think. Every so often, I get on an Anne Rice kick.

 

[Anonymous]

I read the first 5 books of the Vampire Chronicles before Interview came out. I absolutely love the books, but wasnt too keen on the film. While it did some things really well, I thought it could've been so much better. I think when I'm finally over my Song of Ice and Fire obession, I might go back to the Vampire Chronicles. I really want to read Armand. Never got around to that one.

 

[JessicaLapin]

Totally obsessed through out my teens with the vampire chronicles. I loved them all except Memnoch ugh..as an atheist that was painful. Trying to think of what else to say but I read them like 10 years ago. Maybe Ill add more later when Im not so sleepy. But yea..LOVED them and Interview with the Vampire is my all time favorite movie.