Interview With The Vampire

In Neil Jordain’s unabashed roman comedy, Stephen Woolley Producer, Anne Rice adapts her own best seller, the movie was filmed back in 1994 but now celebrates the 30th anniversary. “Interview with the Vampire” the story of Louis, a vampire recounting his tortured existence and complex relationships with other immortals, During an interview, when asked to give his thoughts about the film, an amused Tom Cruise wondered, “Do you have any idea how hard it is to be an immortal?”

‘This unruly temper and extreme zeal remains intact, not to mention the theatrical melancholy, poised dapperness and charming stubborn rudeness, during the astounding decades that follow, with only a larger follower base concentrating on the film. In an interview with photographer/ director, my fondness rom com stemmed from a dinner with romance filmmaker, Catherine Briella, who casually spoke about how much she adored the movie.

It has come to a point where a certain demographics has to say that one of the masterpieces from their salad days ‘cannot be produced today. But two vampires, who happen to be utterly gorgeous, attempt to bite kiss the twelve-year-old version of Kirsten dents who pulls off a performance of her lifetime and then the kiss turns the little girl into a corrupted grown-up and then she traverses the night time sordid with the two heroes. A father figure, step father or perhaps even in some sense, a platonic lover? Um, what year was this appropriate again?

Christian Slater is casted as Malloy a journalist, who is wandering around modern-day California looking for hip-looking bohemian people to feature in his life in the city articles to write. On an interview, he crosses paths with a sophisticated and brooding man known as Louis played by Pitt who has rented a small room to stay and during the interview, oh sorry the tape recording hones in. He claims to be a vampire who has existed for two centuries, former slave master and plantation owner in 18th century. He gives into death after his wife and child die. Maybe the cruelty in Tom Cruise’s sanguine lips is what entraps him in the parasitism and spiritual death that is slavery.

Cruise cannot resist imbuing Lestat with neurotic energy, relentless intensity, and abject irritation at other people’s relaxed attitude towards discipline and dedication, and he is fabulous in this performance, which is a magniloquent comic interlude of a kind which he never repeated. Wanting to make amends and looking for praise in Louis’s eyes, he bites Louis and introduces him to life as part of his vampire brotherhood.

The relationship between Lest at and Louis is more like that of a teacher and a pupil in the dark arts, who Pitt was to mimic five years later in Fight Club, only this time, he was in the role of the dominant party. It is however Louis who has slight reservations about nourishing herself with blood from humans calling down rather sheepishly animals until Lest at shows his kind indifference. Together they are to find themselves in an endearing two sucking monsters and a baby (or more likely a girl) situation after they meet Claudia, (Kirsten Dunst) a plague orphan who happens to be more of a doll than a child.

They move to Paris in search of a coven of vampires, led by Armand (Antonio Banderas) and Santiago (Stephen Rea), who operate a clandestine vampire theatre, set in the fashionable quarters of the city where fake humans pretending to be real vampires kill real people on stage: neo-vampire snuff horror.

So what is it like being a vampire, Malloy asks Louis? Cliché images of Dracula, battling crucifixes and warding off garlic flood his mind immediately. Louis dismisses all this as, “the vulgar fictions of a demented Irishman!” (Well actually, Anne Rice! Is that any way to talk about Abraham “Bram” Stoker who invented Dracula and brought the whole vampire phenomenon into being?) But what the film makes so brilliantly clear is that the vampire’s lived experience is in fact, so to speak, a very complicated affair. It differs from a vampire to a vampire. Louis himself has a romantic almost an idealistic view of a vampire, dazzled, in his heart, by the endless desire whereas cruel Lest at merely exists in perpetual avarice.

Initially it appears that Louis has discovered a relative and even a lover in Armand in Paris, but in the end is driven away by Armand’s Euro vampirism. Louis is a current day vampire, very open and full of democratic ideals, a product of the age of the new world. He even emancipates his slaves and sets the big house on fire much to Le stat’s whiny frustration. Interview With the Vampire still is incredibly thrilling, funny, shocking and intense in equal measure.

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