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I was thrilled to find the VC fandom here, alive! Starting to really wake up and come out from hiding and even gathering fresh fans! What a time to be part of the People Off the Page…
VC::ooh mister lestat by bsse2004 in the style of Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant
Lestat actually has this effect.
angelicasylum: #someone better hide this before anne rice finds it and violently shits herself
If Anne Rice finds my tumblr… I don’t think she would approve of 90% of the content. I will violently shit myself.
Am I the only one who actually liked Tom Cruise as Lestat..? I see a lot of people in the fandom claiming Townsend did much better and I don’t see it—at all. I honestly hated Townsend as Lestat, all he did was sit pretty…
The short answer is that I think the majority of the VC fandom preferred Cruise ;D
Compare:
A) Cruise was Lestat. Even in this production still he was Lestat.
B) Townsend going for like bratty!Lestat:
(by textsfromthevampire ^This meme actually works in reference to Lestat and Stuart Townsend AS Lestat.)
The long answer is:
I didn’t hate Townsend. I don’t like to throw hate on actors for their acting (except James Franco, lol). I’d say ST did the best he could with what he was given. His failure as Lestat was a group effort (makeup, costume, script writer, dialogue coach, director, editor, sfx, etc. all had a hand in what we got on the screen) much as Cruise’s success was a group effort (wherein all those things previously mentioned came together so perfectly).
The actor is one part of the machine in creating that character. The failure or success of the character can ultimately be placed on the director since s/he’s the one who coordinates and makes all the aesthetic choices for the entire film.
Agreed. I think that with a decent script and a different approach, we might never have had the kind of group recoil from Townsend that we did. The thing about that movie is that there’s times when the aesthetics and atmosphere were really right (I still weep over Maharet’s house, or the deleted scenes’ original version of the intro), but more times when it bowed to the obvious attempt to make a commercial boy/girl/ancient vampire queen love triangle movie for a generation of teens who liked Aaliyah and/or Korn, which apparently was the only idea they could be arsed executing/move quickly enough on when they finally realised the rights were going to run out and needed exploiting.
Jesus christ. It’s been TWELVE YEARS and, despite the mild affection I’ve weirdly developed for the movie (apparently just because it’s been around for so long, and mocked for so long, like an ugly family heirloom), apparently I still find it hard to talk about it without ranting. 😛
I can’t believe you’ve seen the deleted scenes, ffs! Impressive commitment there. It IS an ugle family heirloom. Like the butchering they did to the Lestat musical when it came to NY. Apparently it was a shell of the successful production they had going in San Francisco; much of the best was cut out as, I believe, it was deemed “too gay” for NY…
Agreed on all points that I can agree to, considering that I haven’t been able to sit through the whole movie. From what I’ve seen, it’s enough torment.
Korn was the band of choice then, as far as “Not safe for public consumption, it’s pure corruption of the innocents!” music at the time, along with Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, and Tool… definitely some others I’m neglecting, but maybe the producers went with Korn bc it was the only band willing to write songs for a movie in that way. NIN certainly had only dabbled in soundtracks at that time, as I recall, and they generally never play those songs (e.g. “the Perfect Drug”) live, for some reason. Maybe it’s a rights issue.
ANYWAY. I do think Townsend had a chance, and he did the best with what he was given.
Can I ask everyone in the vc rp fandom a favour? I feel like this sounds really shitty of me but if anyone finds out of anyway to audition for the new vc films could you please let me know? I really really really want to at least have a go at playing Armand.
I’ll keep an eye open for you~ But it doesn’t sound shitty at all! Why shouldn’t fans become part of the production? Who would know Armand better than the people who, really, already play him in every conceivable way but in front of a camera?
thanks, I really apprieciate it, both you looking out for me and for being so niceDUDE I WOULD BE FIRST IN LINE TO AUDITION. Or share the news if there are auditions. I think casting cosplayers could be fantastic.
Along the same lines, I would love to see fahrlightloki in a movie with the real Loki. Or just as Loki on her own in an Avengers movie. Either way. She’s a perf Loki. There must be a VC role for her…
Thankyou. It’s good to know I can rely on people. I-want-my-iwtv who would you audition for?
Gosh anything. I think I could pull off Merrick with alot of tanning, makeup, and fitness regime… or a Theatre des Vampires member, maybe Estelle 😉 I don’t really have the physical foundation of any other main character. If we’re going for later books, I could go for Eudoxia.
How about yourself, vampire-chronicles-rp?
anaryawe said: Thanks for the morning laugh at Lestat’s foot fetish! Is that based on a fic or just your own thought?
Nope, not from a fic, just my own thoughts! I’m glad u like 😉
Keep in mind that headcanons are the sparkling seeds of fic, the plot points on which a story can be woven around. Wouldn’t you love to read it fleshed out? I’d love to write it! But now it’s out there, and anyone can write it, and when they do, I won’t be able to write mine, because it won’t be “original” anymore… :- *siiigh*
Just felt like explaining my reluctance to share these ideas, before I can write them up properly… but I AM glad you liked it!
You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
What was the most arousing moment you’ve ever experienced Lestat?
mortcharmant-deactivated2014112:
“My— What an intrusive question, étranger gris. But I shall humour you none the less…” Lestat paused and tapped at his chin thoughtfully, a low hum rising from his chest. “I imagine I’m not allowed to use any blood sampling moments, as there are far too many and that would be an easy answer—” his grin turned devious as his eyes bored into the stranger’s own…
”I would have to say it was the night I allowed a delightful mademoiselle to put her corset on me. How it tightened and constricted was glorious and suffocating. I looked like ‘pure sex’ according to her as she added more to my “ensemble”. By the end of it I was dressed up more like a tart than she and it was exhilarating. I let her live after that moment and frequented her regularly for those games of ours. It’s a pity she died three months later at the hands of a violent pick pocket.”
#fanart request permanentglitter (or anyone!) pretty pleeeease? With a cherry on top! *u*
Update: fanart request filled! By anaryawe.
“Take me from this earth
an endless night-
this, the end of life.
From the dark I feel your lips
and taste your bloody kiss.”
― Anne Rice
What are some of your favorite Lestat facts and head canons? (Book and IWTV movie versions)
Are you the same Anon who asked me this a month ago? Why ask me when there are perfectly wonderful Lestat RPers who have full writeups about him, as well? I’ve listed them again at the end of this post.
I have alot of headcanons, and really, these are the seeds for fic/RPs. Headcanons come from canon, author interviews, and fanfic/RP. When they come from fanfic/RP, it’s ideas that fans have developed to answer the gaps left in canon, so they’re kind of preciously guarded until they are written into fic and released that way.
Go to my headcanon accepted tag for headcanons of others that I’ve agreed with ;] but gdi you twisted my arm, so here’s a little peek into my own headcanons… in general strokes. I wouldn’t say favorites. Just ideas that are floating around, begging to be written as fic. They apply to book!Lestat more than movie!Lestat, I guess.
- Lestat’s birthday is November 7. This is undisputed. He always acts like he couldn’t care less, but if nothing happens that night, he’s wildly offended and can sulk for weeks or more afterwards. So Louis has calendar reminders far in advance so he can arrange an appropriately decadent outing/event/gift of some kind.
- What do you get the man who has everything and can do anything? Experiences. Everyone in Lestat’s inner circle try to set aside the norm in order to try to give him a unique thrill for his birthday. More often than not they just decide to give him what he wants in the bedroom 😉
- Lestat knows the date that he was turned and does not celebrate it, but spends it in service to others somehow; being kept busy for that entire night is especially important. He does not like to be in France on that night.
- Lestat will lapse into paralysis when overcome with emotion, and Louis is the best at drawing him back out of it, with gentle touches and soothing words, or a little blood-dipped kiss, but even he usually just has to wait until Lestat resurfaces on his own. Sometimes Lestat is not himself if he’s “woken up” from it and it’s jarring to watch.
- Lestat is a believer in Retail Therapy and has bought things immediately after or during an argument (even something as simple as a pair of shades at a gas station) in order to regain control of his emotions. It’s partly because he enjoys the whole exchange he has with the retail person.
- Lestat had time to know his little sister, and mourned her loss, but didn’t write about it, ever, because it was too painful. She died young, she didn’t have enough hand-eye coordination developed yet to learn to hunt with him, but he wanted that for her so badly, and Gabrielle would have allowed it.
- Lestat has a recent foot fetish. About his own feet. He can spend hours in a CVS picking out nail colors and he paints his toenails himself. He has 3 shoeboxes full of colors and glitters. Louis dislikes the smell, so Lestat will do it in the courtyard and wait until dry before showing off his artwork.
- Lestat used to paint Claudia’s little fingernails. He did all sorts of girly activities with her, since it was difficult to find any children her age to befriend her.
Lestat RPers I’ve seen and enjoy watching (in no special order): askthebratprince, eternallyfabulousbratlestat, monsieur-le-rockstar, maestrolestat, gorgeous-fiend, princelestat, primusdux, asavagegardenindeed, lestattheonetruepope, mortcharmant
I’m also tagging viaticumforthemarquise, who, as his mother, has her own headcanons about her son.
And merciful-death, who, as his #1 bitch, has his own headcanons about his maker.
