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Review Summaries
"Based on the Book "Interview with the Vampire", by Anne Rice, this film is a horror story about the origins of a centuries-old vampire. The movie starts out with a young reporter (Christian Slater) interviewing a man who claims to be a 200 year-old vampire. The man, Louis (Brad Pitt), starts to share his story, beginning in 18th-century New Orleans when he first encounters the eccentric vampire, Lestat (Tom Cruise). Lestat converts Louis, who is still mourning the death of his wife, into an immortal like himself and trains him in their way of life. Louis, however, fails to adapt to the grotesque lifestyle and instead, torments himself with guilt. The two vampires remain closely intertwined, though reluctantly on Louis's part, while becoming romantically involved with another of their kind; Claudia (Kirsten Dunst), who is a mature immortal trapped in the body of a little girl. "
Anelise Conaway, Resident Scholar
"In modern San Francisco, a 200-year-old vampire named Louis de Pointe du Lac (Pitt) agrees to tell his story to an Interviewer (Christian Slater). He had been a plantation owner near New Orleans in the late 18th century when his wife and daughter died, leaving him heartbroken. During his subsequent year of wild dissipation, he meets a worldly vampire named Lestat (Cruise) who offers to make him immortal, and does so by draining Louis's blood. But Louis hates being a vampire and fights the need to kill humans for his survival. Eventually Louis and Lestat turn a young girl named Claudia (Dunst, then 12) into a vampire, and the odd family/menage a trois careen along their bloody way. Louis also makes it to the continent, where he meets several other vampires (played by Banderas and Stephen Rea) in Paris. Irish director Neil Jordan and Cruise seemed odd choices for this 1994 project, which is often compelling to look at, but drags and repels at times."
David Loftus, Resident Interview with the Vampire Scholar
"This movie, based off of Ann Rice's Vampire Chronicle book by the same name, follows the exploits of Louis and Lestat beginning in Louis plantainon in New Orleans. They travel and feast upon the sinners while Louis searches for meaning in his life, both as a human and as a vampire. Later in the movie, Lestat created Claudia to be their "child." Doll-like and trapped in the body of an 8 year old, she travels beside them. Once Claudia begins to question the world, she and Louis leave Lestat in a rather violent way and search the old world for others like them. "
Colleen, Resident Scholar
"Louis is a 200 year old vampire giving an interview in San Francisco. We hear the story of his young vampire days with his maker, Lestat (some see homosexual overtones implied.) We also meet Claudia, the little girl he and Lestat made into a vampire and raised together. "
Senzu Bean, Resident Scholar
"This is a vampire story that goes well beyond other movies of this genre. It looks at the who, what, where, how and why of vampirism and their guilt and motives about there new type of lifestyle. Can they do what they want? Is there limits? And should they feel guilty for the taking of human life? This movie addresses all these issues as well as go completely into their world, where we feel a sympathy for these creature. A must watch for the vampire fan."
Nancy Ferrinda, Resident Scholar
"The vampire Louis tells his story, beginning over two hundred years before when he was mortal. He struggles with his urges to kill. Lestat is his maker & companion and has long ago lost any sense of guilt he feels over killing. The story starts in San Francisco and eventually takes us to Paris and New Orleans. Along the way they find a sick little girl whose mother has died and Lestat decides to make her a vampire also, against everything he has ever been taught about choosing people too young. She will never grow any older, will always be a little girl. "
Kim Mills, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie Actual chase scenes or violence - 36.7% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 23.3% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?**
- fantasy story on present day Earth
Horror film?
Yes
Kind of Horror Story
- hungry vampires
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
- long lived adults
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- super strength
- is very quick
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Body type
- average (man)
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Hair color
- blonde
Body type
- very skinny (female)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
- long-lived adults
Profession/status:
- killer
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- is very quick
- mind reading
- super strength
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavy
Body type
- average (man)
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity
- French
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physical condition
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Earth setting:
- 20th century (1970's to Present)
- 19th century
- 18th century
- 20th Century (1950-1970)
- 20th Century (1900-1950)
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Big cities?
Yes
Misc settings
- mansion
Kind of city
- Dirty, crime-ridden (like NY)
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Tone of movie
- depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing full frontal--women
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Kinds of F/X
- nasty human transformations
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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