I went into this movie thinking it was going to be a sappy, Twilight-esque romance vampire film, but I'm glad I was mistaken. Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and a young Kirsten Dunst all turned in masterful performances in a story that was a lot more interesting and engaging than I had expected. I have some questions about the lore surrounding this version of vampires, but they explain just enough to keep me intrigued. It is definitely melancholy, maybe even gothic, but they explore the philosophy of vampires in a way other vampire films I've watched haven't. I am not sure how faithful to Anne Rice's book the movie is, but as a standalone film, this one is definitely one of the better vampire films I've ever seen.
Louis: I'm incredibly depressed. I hate my life and what I've become. Everyone I know is dead and the only person I ever loved as a vampire was murdered. My life has no meaning
Daniel: Wow. I want to become a vampire now! They sound great great. I want powers!
Guy spills his heart out and it just goes over his head.The whole movie built up to him completely missing the point. It was fantastic
Obviously I just watched it for the first time, but it genuinely surprised me. Both him and Cruise knocked it out of the park. The the best movie ever made, but it was fun. Need more vampire Antonio Banderas though in my opinion
The following is my own reevaluation of 1994’s “Interview With The Vampire”; a film I was initially indifferent to, but has since grown on me. It also inspired my curiosity into the world of Anne Rice’s “Vampire Chronicles” novels. Yes, there are some questionable casting choices, but overall the film is a solid adaptation of Rice’s book.
https://musingsofamiddleagedgeek.blog/2019/10/04/interview-with-the-vampire-25-years-later/
After finally reading Bram Stoker's Dracula, I decided to read another emblematic work about the vampire myth : Interview with the Vampire, by the American writer Anne Rice.
In addition to its success with readers, this novel is also known for its theatrical adaptation released in 1994, with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in the lead roles.
The title tells us one main thing : we will read an interview with a vampire. Recorded by a young journalist at the end of the 20th century, the story of the vampire named Louis makes us discover the myth of the vampire as revisited by Anne Rice.
Louis was born in Louisiana at the end of the 18th century, he was about twenty years old when he was attacked and turned into a vampire by Lestat, with whom he will share his life for many decades despite their different personalities. Lestat is unscrupulous, without faith, where Louis doubts, feels guilty, wonders about the origin of vampires, refuses his condition of bloodthirsty killer.
When Lestat turns a young girl into vampire, the duo becomes a strange trio, with the two "fathers" of a vampire who doesn't grow up, condemned to keep her child's body. Louis's adventures would then take him to Central Europe, then to Paris, where his life would change again.
What runs through this book from beginning to end is Louis' quest to understand good and evil and his place in the world. It is also the story of a complex relationship between Louis and his "master" Lestat, as between a son and a father who do not understand each other.
I tend to think of this book as the one that gave birth to the modern vampire myth, rejuvenating it and bringing it up to date, at least at the time the novel came out in the mid-1970s.
There are some fascinating passages in this novel, others a little less so, but I enjoyed rereading it. I think I even enjoyed the second reading more than the first. At least enough to make me want to read the following novels from Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles.
Note : ★★★★☆
So, I remember it being "Interview with A Vampire" but it is now "Interview with The Vampire"
Once I realized this and started to look around on the internet to see others seeing and saying the same thing, I heard a loud ultrasonic ringing coming from my smoke detector, the noise almost undetectable through my ears, but it was at such a high amplitude it literally vibrated my entire skull and skeletal structure - as if I was being scanned by some high frequency microwave beam that could see through walls!
I am just curious if anyone has read the book, and if you did, did you like it and would suggest it? I’ve never read it, but the movie is interesting and was wondering if it’s a good read or not so much.
I just want a demon to kidnap me and love me forever, is that too hard to ask? Thanks in advance! (I know this isn’t per the subreddit decorum but book suggestions would be appreciated as well!)
So I just noticed that interview with 'A' Vampire changed back to the 'The" vampire which is what it's always been for me. I remember watching videos a long time ago when I found out about it switching and the videos were about about how it changed from 'The' to 'A'. Throughout the years I always went back to the title to see if it would change back for me and it was always 'A'.
Well now that it changed back for me, the videos are talking about how it has alway been 'A' and it changed to 'The'. So I'm guessing I have entered 'your reality' and it has always been 'A' for you. The frustrating part is that some of you will never see it my way because well, this is 'your reality' or whatever you want to call it and I'm just the crazy guy that has false memories. (which I assure you, I don't).
I just hope one day we find something that'll have both parties agree that something is happening.
Notice the filename: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:InterviewwithaVampireMoviePoste.JPG#filehistory
The last timestamp is 23:33, 10 December 2017.
On archive.org, the original image says "the" even thought the filename uses "a".
https://web.archive.org/web/20160811141752/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:InterviewwithaVampireMoviePoste.JPG
I love this movie. I've seen it at least a dozen times since it came out.
The movie did fairly alright, and it's based off a series of books.
I know the author always talked about the other books being adapted, so I want to know if there was ever a plan for a sequel for the movie or was it always supposed to be a "one and done" type of movie?
I see a lot of posts regarding this particular phenomenon that are explained with...
>Interview With the Vampire sounds like Interview With a Vampire if you don't enunciate
...but I never, ever heard the name of the movie said out loud.
Interview With the Vampire came out 2 years before I was born and it's not exactly a classic. I had never seen the movie or even heard of it until I got this book in grade 7 which was just a book full of movie parody comics from older issues of Mad Magazine. After reading the parodies of movies I knew, I checked out the parodies of the ones I didn't. Movies like "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", "Patton", and "Maverick", which to this day I have not seen. Another one in the book was "Interview With the Vampire". So when I first heard this whole "A vs. The" thing about this movie, the parody in that book was what I thought of. And I remembered it by it's parody name "Intravenous With a Vampire". Seeing the movie's true title, I assumed that whoever edited the Mad parody of the movie must have overlooked that and used "A" instead of "The", because there's no way that dumbass 12-year-old me would remember the word "intravenous" and not remember "The". But I went and checked the book and it's there with "The".
Is this proof of multiple timelines? No, I'm not saying that at all. I'm just offering this as a counter to the "enunciation" argument that I see that's often regarded as "proof". I was convinced that it was "A" and I never even saw the movie (I've still never seen it). I remember when I discovered this whole thing I was at my cousin's house and I remembered that we had once watched "Spider-Man" on DVD with like pop-up factoids throughout the movie and it mentioned Kirsten Dunst being in the movie and so I got the DVD and was so confused when I saw the true title in the pop-up factoid. Like, how could I remember seeing this factoid, remembering which scene it was in and still get the name of the movie that I've only ever seen in writing wrong? My mind was blown.
So that's my story, thanks for reading.
When Lestsat is introducing Louis to the vampire would he says that the gift is different for all who receive it. And it is know known from the books that he drank from the queen of the damned so it is not far fetched to say that Lestat is most likely one of the most powerful vampires to ever exist.
This is the evidence. At the end of Interview With The Vampire Lestat catches up the Journalist and drinks from him and instantly gains his color back to his skin. But here is the amazing part; he instantly learns how to drive a car and operate a radio as if he knew how to all along.
It is pretty obvious that Lestat can not only gain nourishment from his victims, but their every knowledge.
The Herald is a week closer to it's 10th issue, so celebrate by reading this week's issue!
The Herald continues to grow and this week features more contributors than any previous week. That means the Herald is more "real" than ever!
This week the Herald uncovers the existence of a serial killer in the Five States and highlights tension spreading access the southern regions (all for different and unrelated reasons). Plus an interview with a bounty hunter!
Additionally, I've made some quality of life adjustments to the website. Every article now links to previous and next issues (excluding the current article of course) and features a back to the top button.
https://5sherald.com/
A short preview of a story this week:
"My loyal and dear readers, I can confirm for you today that there is, in fact, a serial killer in the Five States! The authorities are not convinced, but their scope is ridiculously limited. State governments give little concern to the affairs of other states. And a constant feud between governments results in a system where nobody cooperates. The federal government is even less interested in “getting involved in a state’s issue.” However, that is where I come in. If nobody will do a cross-state investigation, then I must..."
Continue reading in Issue IX!
https://5sherald.com/issue-ix/
When I first heard about the IWA/TV ME during the summer, I clearly remember people debating whether Interview with THE Vampire was Interview with A Vampire or the other way around. Now, a couple of months later I found myself earlier this evening googling IWA/TV to see if it had changed (for some odd reason) and sure enough - it did! Over the summer when I read about it and googled it, Interview with The Vampire was Interview with A Vampire, and now magically, its Interview with The Vampire, again? What the actual fuck is going on? I am now seriously questioning if something or someone is manipulating reality, lol. I regret myself for not screenshotting anything when I was really focused on these ME's (and this one in particular), because I, a young and healthy 20 year old, would not be so easily fooled to believe that what I saw and read is now completely reversed. So I ask: Does anyone remember during the summer, Interview With The Vampire being "A" instead of "The", and now all of a sudden it's "The" and people are remembering it to be "A"? If you are like me, please comment or message me.
I don't know if this will let me post, last time I tried it got deleted, but here it goes.
On the 8th of December 2019, me and my friend were discussing Interview with THE vampire, he said to me, it's "A" and that I should look it up. I googled and googled and all that came up was "A". It was one of my all time favorite movies and I thought I knew for a fact that it was THE. We were discussing it on Discord and it was timestamped 12/10/2019 where he told me it was "A" and I told him it was THE, the fact was that it was actually "A".
Anyway, just now, a few minutes ago we heard someone in our voice chat mention the movie, we asked him THE? He said yeah, well we told him to google it, he said that he did and it says THE. We both look it up and to our surprise it's back to THE.
Here is the proof. Timestamped.http://prntscr.com/qjwmne
Edit1- On the 8th of December, I sent my friend a youtube video of a man attempting to debunk the fact that THE no longer existed on google, everything was A now in reality. This is a whole 10 minute video on the subject, it's from 2015. This video is now completely reversed to favor THE over A, saying that it has always been THE but the results are showing up as A. Me and my friend watched it less than a month ago and the video is now flipped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MIM4Y4RkYA and screenshot http://prntscr.com/qk2goj
Edit2 - According to this showtime, with the A in it, the movie came out the same time as two other movies with ME's - Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction.
http://prntscr.com/ql3qt5
Edit3 - I looked through my search history with a special viewer to show me everything that regular history doesn't show. Not only is everything gone except for the above youtube link, there is also a gap of around 20 minutes.
-My continuous search history (as you can see it goes up until 8:05 then stops) - http://prntscr.com/ql3ha8
-My friends continuous search history, he loses about an hour and a half. http://prntscr.com/ql49fa
-My search history that was supposed to be super extensive of me researching and googling.http://prntscr.com/ql3ju4
I finished interview with a vampire a while ago and just started reading the vampire lestat. I didn’t go back to confirm the details but I remember in the first book the vampires were looking for companions to make a connection with a new age so they could survive. But in the beginning of the vampire lestat, lestat started to understand everything about the changes of the world just by lying underground listening to radios and televisions. So why can’t the vampires in Interview with a vampire learn to adapt to the age by themselves?
I've never read any Anne Rice books and was wondering if this would be good for someone not really familiar with those kinda books? I love paranormal stuff and I was also interested in this book because of the era and location it takes place in. I'm a little nervous it's gonna have shades of supermarket romance paperback (I may be totally wrong on that). Would most people enjoy this book or is it not really for everyone?
