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I have woken up feeling mightily offended. I don’t know what by, but when I find it, so help me… [Hugh Laurie’s tweet]
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 nice
DUDE 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…
This is actually what happened with the Nicolas-losing-his-hands situation, too…
foreordain: #PRETTY PEOPLE #I THOUGHT THIS WAS LESTAT AND LOUIS AT FIRST BEFORE I SCROLLED DOWN AND SAW THE HEELS #BUT NOW I AM CONVINCED LOUIS LIKES WEARING HEELS #IWTV #?
Yeah ok #headcanon accepted
As a mortal you catch glimpses of infinity: the vast expanse of outer space when you look up into the night sky, mathematical equations that never come clean and never repeat, black holes, perfect circles, figure eights. These are all abstract concepts, however. They are far removed from you and easy to put in the back of your mind as they carry no relevance. It keeps you from going mad.
It is not so simple for an immortal, as the only truly relevant thing is infinity and yet it is still incomprehensible. Inescapable. There is no brushing it off when you look at a face and see an entire universe hidden in just the eyes alone. Imagine then, looking into the sky and seeing the same. You see yourself reflected everywhere and you think yes, I am this. I am the infinite made tangible and solid.
It drives many to the brink of insanity.
For myself, even after all this time, I feel nothing but absolute and dazzling power.
#this could be canon #this should be canon
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.
sometimes i think about the fact daniel probs has many excerpts from louis of armand sharing his sexual prowess and he was like ‘this is good playboy material’ one night in 1979 and armand was like ‘oh yes there was much playing involved’
“….But the book as published represents only a portion of the tapes of that interview made by the reporter. Louis told the young man much that was not included, particularly with regard to the master vampire, Armand, whom he had met in Paris. One tale was Armand’s account of his methods of seduction; that is, the art of the vampire at its peak in the year 1876.”
!!OMG VC FANFIC BY AR!!
Apparently, Universal has acquired the rights to the Vampire Chronicles books, and possible plans include remaking IWTV and QOTD
I think I need a drink…
This is your chance to cast! I don’t know how to feel about this news.
Oh gosh, if only! I’d kill for the chance to do that…
And same here – I have a feeling that this is either going to be really good or absolutely horrible
Just have to cross my fingers and hope that they don’t make another Antonio-Banderas-as-Armand kind of mistake again. We deserve so much more.
OH GOD
I still watch IWTV and sit there like O.o every time he appears – I just want to know what possessed them to cast him?? I picture them reading his description in TVL and just going “lololol no fuck that”
But on the other hand, will the new Claudia be as good as Kirsten Dunst’s Claudia, because she was pretty much perfect. That’s going to be a tough act to follow…
I just want an actually slavic redheaded teenager looking boy for Armand for once.
Also for them to not whitewash David pls
Let’s talk about the horrendous casting in QotD before we rip on Banderas!Armand omfg… this fanart by permanentglitter is amusing tho. [higher res]
Ok… I used to be completely on board with the Banderas!Armand haters but I’ve grown pretty nostalgic about that casting, and actually figured out why they did that.
If they had cast a cherubic teenage redhead it might have been confusing to people who hadn’t read the books, and might have taken the sympathy away from Louis (who was supposed to remain the focus, it’s HIS story, after all). That would have been compromised by omg cute little redhead bby we want to snuggles you!
In the interest of that story, and keeping it accessible to an audience who had not read the book(s), Armand was to be the teacher/father figure Louis didn’t get from Lestat. They had to cast someone:
- who would appear older than Louis
- who would appear to be a teacher/father figure to Louis
- who was a bigger star than Brad Pitt (or at least older than BP)
- and have some European or other ethnicity, because these Parisian vampires were supposed to be darker, scarier, more like Real Vampires of the Old Ways than the softer Americanized Vampires. Their vampire makeup (aside from their TdV costuming) shows them to almost be a different, more vicious species from Louis (who has to still maintain his “most human”-looking vampire status).
So that’s my little defense of Banderas!Antonio. I’ve left the bandwagon of hating on him, he did a magnificent job with Armand, if you think about what I wrote.
… I will admit that the wig was pretty silly, but maybe he was meant to be slightly like those Asian senpais of old, with all that long hair. Maybe it was a nod to Marius, who had long hair bc he wasn’t allowed to cut it for like 7 months before he was turned. Who knows…
my life became 600% better when i started acting like a self obsessed piece of shit like 10/10 would recommend
even if u don’t actually genuinely love yourself its fuckin fun to act like you think you’re the human embodiment of perfection go on try it life’s too short to not fall in love with yourself
– Lestat de Lioncourt (basically)
