vampire-chronicles-rp: #WELL THIS IS SUDDENLY HILARIOUS
I know right?? Those dudes look so unhappy! “We got this fucking ship and built that whole set for like a 4 second shot omg”
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“I’m telling you, one day it broke me. It was like, ‘Life’s too short for this quality of life.’ I called David Geffen, who was a good friend. He was a producer, and he’d just come to visit. I said, ‘David, I can’t do this anymore. I can’t do it. What will it cost me to get out?’ And he goes, very calmly, ‘Forty million dollars.’ And I go, ‘OK, thank you.’ It actually took the anxiety off of me. I was like, ‘I’ve got to man up and ride this through, and that’s what I’m going to do.’”
…Still, he says he doesn’t necessarily regret “Interview with a Vampire.”
“I don’t lament the failures,” he said. “The failures prepare you for the next one. It’s a step you needed to take, and I’m all for it.”
Brad Pitt, in an article by Mike Scott, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
“Another big problem was the script, which was written by Rice herself, taking her first shot at writing a screenplay. Pitt hadn’t seen it until two weeks before shooting started. When he finally did get a copy, he realized that everything in Rice’s book that was interesting about his character … was gone.
And so here he was, a rising young actor and budding sex symbol, stuck in an uninteresting, passive role.
"In the book you have this guy asking, ‘Who am I?’ Which was probably applicable to me at that time: ‘Am I good? Am I of the angels? Am I bad? Am I of the devil?’ In the book it is a guy going on this search of discovery. And in the meantime, he has this Lestat character that he’s entranced by and abhors. … In the movie, they took the sensational aspects of Lestat and made that the pulse of the film, and those things are very enjoyable and very good, but for me, there was just nothing to do – you just sit and watch.”
Brad Pitt, in an article by Mike Scott, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
[Amy] Nicholson astutely connects Eyes Wide Shut back to Interview with the Vampire through their intentionally strained eroticism, which serves to acknowledge the films’ respective true theme of the capitalist power that lingers under the superficial sexual roleplay. This, in turn, underlines the great irony of Cruise’s career: that his weirdest and most original performances, particularly in these two films, are often panned because they entail subtly blunt trickery that involves the deliberate assumption of cold, alienating theatrical tactics that point inward toward their own inherent falseness. These are Cruise’s most daring and revealing turns, rather than the obligatorily “relevant” performances that often win him praise.
Louis is hungry. Look at those veins! This is near the end of the interview.
lunchiemunchies: #THEY HAD TO GO UPSIDE DOWN FOR THE MAKEUP ARTISTS TO FIND THE VEINS #YIKES
^This is correct, actually. Before filming every night, they had to sit upside down for about an hour so the veins could be traced with blue tattoo ink. So those are really where his veins are!
Am I at a new level of insanity when I’m posting the life cast designed to hold prosthetics for Tom Cruise as the character Lestat?
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Screen-used costume from this scene, sold for $9,000
Brad Pitt and Thandie Newton were dating during the filming of Interview with the Vampire. Sorta adds a new dimension to that scene where Louis kills Yvette.
—-Press release, all media. HOLD for release until 1 April 2014——
WHAT’S IN A NAME
Few, even staunchest, fans of Anne Rice’s classic bestseller Interview with the Vampire will know that book that started off Lestat’s legendary odyssey originally had a slightly different title. Running up to the publication of Prince Lestat, a cover mock-up of the first edition with the original title was released, signed by Anne Rice herself.
From a recent interview with her editor at the time: “While Anne’s title was catchy, to the point, we felt at the time that we had to make a statement with the title. For almost a century Bram Stoker’s Dracula had been the mold for the literary vampire, and with her sexy, tragic vampire Lestat, Anne changed all that. We felt that Lestat was not any old vampire, but the new vampire for a whole new generation. And that’s why it’s not an interview with A vampire, but with THE vampire!”
Anne Rice’s vampire books have never been out of print, and a new novel round Lestat will appear this autumn – testament that Lestat is not only the vampire for the generation of readers in the ’70s, but for any generation!
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WOW!! TL;DR, no really, you should read this. DID YOU KNOW there was an alternate title for IWTV?!!
The difference between “a” and “the” is ENORMOUS.
I-want-my-IWTV 