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Brad Pitt is doing a subtly different performance in these two roles, using similar physical mannerisms, but not identical. A comparison can be drawn. Maybe Louis would be the colder version, Mills the hotter version, of reacting to this similar situation.
- Both have been roughed up somewhat by their antagonists at this point, but are dressed nicely.
- Both are reacting to the first moment of being informed that their wife/S.O. and infant child was murdered (for Louis, Madeleine is the freshly made child!).
- What’s especially upsetting about Louis’s loss is that it echoes the beginning of the movie, in which he’d lost his wife and child in childbirth. He’s come all this way and IT F*&KING HAPPENED AGAIN GDI SANTIAGO ;A;
- What’s especially upsetting about Det. Mills loss is that he didn’t know he was going to be a father! ;A;
- Both have to grieve very quickly in order to move on to…
- ☆*:.｡. ~VENGEANCE~ .｡.:*☆
- Det. Mills serves it up fresh, impulsively, just walks right into the trap laid for him by his antagonist.
- Louis serves it a bit cooler, the next night, with some planning involved, and alot more death, taking his antagonists by surprise.
- Both essential use fire to do it. Firearm! Get it?? yeah.
- Louis knows Revenge is a dish best served en Flambé.
“She begged for her life… and for the life of the baby inside of her.”
F*&king Theatre des Vampires again!!!
…or AU in which Lestat finally gets Louis to wear a nice bright suit (in exchange for letting him cut his hair short) and Louis was just too damn attractive.
“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
#[ Interesting to read this ] #[ I’m inclined to agree with Brad Pitt ] #[ because while I do love the movie there’s definitely big differences between movie-Louis and book-Louis ] #[ going only off the movie you would think Louis to be passive ] #[ but in the book he’s got a lot more depth and definitely is not ‘passive’ ] #[ Louis doesn’t really shed that passivity until the burning of the theatre in the movie ] #[ while in the book you have him fighting Lestat from the start ] #[ and I will always find that scene with the priest a big turning point ] #[ which is why it makes me so sad that they scripted it but never filmed it ]
SAME ;A;
“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
Brad Pitt re: Louis de Pointe du Lac:
“You have a guy here who has a… he’s s’posed to do this and he’s s’posed to do that, and it doesn’t feel right for him, but yet, ahh… that’s, that’s… those are his instincts now, so… therein lies the whole dilemma.”
I-want-my-IWTV 