Interview with the Vampire Paper
Heather Bishop
Professor Radek
FLM 2009-100
2 December 2011
Summary Applications Paper: Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles I have enjoyed many vampire movies over the years, long before they became the popular pop-culture genre they have become due to the success of The Twilight Saga films. One movie I have enjoyed viewing many times since its debut in 1994 is Interview with the Vampire. This film is an adaptation of the book Interview with the Vampire written by Anne Rice in 1973 and published in 1976. The movie was directed by Neil Jordan who also co-wrote the script with Anne Rice. Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles is the story of Louis (Brad Pitt), portraying a depressed man, as he tells of his life as a vampire to a radio reporter (Christian Slater) in modern time San Francisco. It is the story of the coming of age, vampire style. Louis starts out by telling how he was turned into a vampire by Lestat (Tom Cruise) and how Lestat tried to teach him how to be a vampire and the art of feeding. Louis, however, could never get used to killing humans and thus learned to sustain himself on a diet of animals. Louis becomes very bitter and enraged toward Lestat for making him a vampire. Lestat then tries to reduce the bitterness and anger of Louis by giving him a family. He does this by turning a young girl, Claudia (Kirsten Dunst), and therefore giving Louis the child he had once lost. Claudia eventually also turns bitter and angry toward Lestat as she comes to mature, yet she still looks and is treated as a child. Lois and Claudia then try to destroy Lestat and escape on a ship to Europe to find other vampires. After they arrive in Europe they come across the Theatre des Vampires in Paris where they meet Armand (Antonio Banderas) and his troupe of theatrical vampires. These other vampires eventually find out what Claudia and Louis have done to Lestat and are bound by oath to avenge Lestat’s undoing. The theme of Interview with the
Professor Radek
FLM 2009-100
2 December 2011
Summary Applications Paper: Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles I have enjoyed many vampire movies over the years, long before they became the popular pop-culture genre they have become due to the success of The Twilight Saga films. One movie I have enjoyed viewing many times since its debut in 1994 is Interview with the Vampire. This film is an adaptation of the book Interview with the Vampire written by Anne Rice in 1973 and published in 1976. The movie was directed by Neil Jordan who also co-wrote the script with Anne Rice. Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles is the story of Louis (Brad Pitt), portraying a depressed man, as he tells of his life as a vampire to a radio reporter (Christian Slater) in modern time San Francisco. It is the story of the coming of age, vampire style. Louis starts out by telling how he was turned into a vampire by Lestat (Tom Cruise) and how Lestat tried to teach him how to be a vampire and the art of feeding. Louis, however, could never get used to killing humans and thus learned to sustain himself on a diet of animals. Louis becomes very bitter and enraged toward Lestat for making him a vampire. Lestat then tries to reduce the bitterness and anger of Louis by giving him a family. He does this by turning a young girl, Claudia (Kirsten Dunst), and therefore giving Louis the child he had once lost. Claudia eventually also turns bitter and angry toward Lestat as she comes to mature, yet she still looks and is treated as a child. Lois and Claudia then try to destroy Lestat and escape on a ship to Europe to find other vampires. After they arrive in Europe they come across the Theatre des Vampires in Paris where they meet Armand (Antonio Banderas) and his troupe of theatrical vampires. These other vampires eventually find out what Claudia and Louis have done to Lestat and are bound by oath to avenge Lestat’s undoing. The theme of Interview with the
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