Hey what do you think of the movies Byzantium and only lovers left alive they are two of my favorite movies

Those movies came out within a year of eachother (Byzantium in 2012 and OLLA in 2013) so it makes sense to like them both, they both had good cinematography and they both aimed to make their own mark on the vampiring mythology and physiology.

I didn’t like Byzantium, sadly, and I’d rather not dwell on the reasons why since it’s one of your fave movies.

OLLA, on the other hand, is almost the VC movie we’ve deserved for a long time and I loved it! Definitely one of my faves, too. It’s humorous, sensuous, clever, dramatic, all built on a strong foundation of the characters’ chemistry w/ each other. Not alot actually HAPPENS, plot-wise, but it doesn’t need to. We’re getting a slice of life of these characters. It’s mostly a collection of charming subtle moments, like Adam trying Eve’s new “cuisine” for the first time:

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^Yes, this moment has a sexiness to it *drool* but more than that, he is almost childlike in both his resistance to *~and his curiosity about~* this New Thing bc he won’t let Eve know she can improve his mood so easily bc Adam is a SERYUS Brooding Musician ffs.

Then of course there are the obvious comparisons to IWTV (and IDK if these were intentional or not but the dynamic works as well here as it does in IWTV), which makes it a little bit of a VC AU:

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^Never in the house you naughty girls!

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^Little sisters to big bro/sis/makers: “We are going to have S O  M U C H fun” 

So yes, I loooooved OLLA. So many questions about those characters! I want the backstory on all of them. WHAT HAPPENED IN PARIS 87 YRS AGO? 

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^Some bad shit went down in Paris for our faves, too. 

Omg, pls do Nicholas and Armand!

I’m so flattered that you want my headcanon *cries* So I’ll do Nicolas now, Armand in the next one ;] Previously: Louis.

Same disclaimer: #your headcanon may vary.

Nicolas is often compared to Louis, and I do see them as both being thin men, almost 6 ft tall, not huge in the muscle department, and they have similar hair color and texture (dark and wavy to their shoulders). They also both carry themselves in a fairly dignified manner, they both have long legs and yes, nice butts. But the differences are very apparent when: 

A) You are within a few feet from them: Nicolas is more fidgety, often crossing and uncrossing his legs, changing positions, gesturing more when speaking. He has wider shoulders than Louis, and is small-waisted due to a high metabolism in life, he ate an enormous amount of food w/o any consequences. Not athletically inclined, just great genetics (altho I picture his dad as very barrel-shaped, which was part of why he liked to dress his son up so much, better model!). Conversely, Louis was malnourished and the quality and amount of what he was willing to eat/drink would have ended him if he hadn’t found someone else to do it first.

B) You take off their clothes: Nicolas’ high metabolism and hearty appetite (even in Paris, he was eating that great French bread and wine) made for muscles like a racehorse. More for savory than sweet; I don’t imagine Nicolas as having much of a preference for pastries, which he would eat only bc Lestat was something of a foodie and brought treats home now and then. 

I would also imagine Nicolas is darker-skinned than Louis and Lestat, and this complexion further defines his muscles, especially when his skin is wet, all those sharp edges really shine ❤

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[X] ^I couldn’t find a good human body as an example so here’s a thoroughbred. Not this dark color for his skin, example is for the muscle definition. Nicolas would not have been a horse that would let many ppl ride him, tho.

C) When you get very close to them: Nicolas has a sprinkling of birthmarks that are not mentioned in canon, which form constellations mainly on his face, neck, chest, and arms. Louis might have these too, but a lot less. Lestat liked to trace connections with his finger when they were in bed together and Nicolas secretly loved that

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^Kylo Ren has these facial birthmarks.

Also, differently from Louis’ blazing green eyes: I don’t think Nicolas’ eye color is mentioned in canon, EDIT: “His brown eyes were very big and trusting.”… “large sober brown eyes” I always pictured them as that great light brown w/ dark limbal rings that absorbs all the light in the area, almost gold in sunlight:

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[X] He also has long eyelashes, longer than Louis’ eyelashes, and along those lines, for performances at the theatre, I headcanon that he let Lestat apply some guyliner for dramatic effect ;] Not that he needed it, but that he liked Lestat giving him that kind of special attention. 

I was scrolling through your posts when I saw a production still of Louis wearing that coat he wears when he and Claudia arrive in Paris and he’s in a cemetery, maybe a cemetery in Paris? Is there any explanation for this production still? I’ve never seen it before.

That is a fabulous coat. 

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[X] Possibly a teensy ref to Lestat’s fur-lined cloak in TVL? Not fluffy enough to be wolf, but hopefully fake fur for the movie.

This is the image you referred to (it appears that he’s wearing the same coat with jacket underneath as in the screencap above):

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I don’t know of any cemeteries that have multiple levels like that, what is that, stadium seating?, definitely not in NOLA (at least one of the cemeteries in NOLA is that crowded tho). There is a scene in one version of the script (thanks @thesaramonster!) that mentions a graveyard in Transylvania of course, when Claudia and Louis are on their own, searching for other vampires:

MONTAGE OF SKETCHES

A TRANSLYVANIAN VILLAGE, A GRAVEYARD.

RUINED CASTLE AFTER CASTLE, LOOKING INTO THE SKIES…

LOUIS
The quest for these Old World
vampires filled me with bitterness.

We searched village after village,
ruin after ruin and I was glad when
always we found nothing. For what
could the damned really have to say
to the damned?

^So I don’t think Neil Jordan tried to include the scene in the book where they find and kill a zombpire, but that production still might have been sort of a reference to it. 

But it’s especially sad that Louis still has that coat after Claudia’s been killed ;A; 

Can you imagine how painful it would have been, returning to the hotel room he shared with Claudia, all her clothes and accessories exactly as they were when she left it last? ;A;

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xtoxictears:

xtoxictears:

When someone tries to tell you that you have to be pale to be goth, just remember this picture.😘

Bringing this back! Someone actually stole this post (as in with my quote, I didn’t make the picture) but took the time to cut my username out and now its being shared all over facebook, ruuude~ So here is the original.:P

Tbh even though Antonio Banderas Armand wasn’t exactly canon, he was still better than the Armand in The Queen of the Damned movie XD

Banderas!Armand was 85% Santino and 15% Armand. He was Armand in name and title, everything else was Santino. 

The Armand in movie!QOTD (Matthew Newton) is no Botticelli angel himself ok? And I’m sorry bc I know some ppl actually really liked him, but look:

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^This was one of the only pics I found where he looks remotely like the 

Botticelli paintings and he’s still pretty far off.

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^He looks more like a Claudia cosplayer tbh. Same lipstick color, strand of beads necklace, the humidity has wilted his perm tho.

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garama:

Lestat is my favourite art meme

it’s 3:00 am,

have mercy on me(me)

The last one has transparent background so you can meme together with Lestat. Now that there’s the original screen cap I see how I didn’t even manage to catch the original expression goddammit

But I’m lazy so I’m not going to fix it, forgive me , THankyou & good night!

Can we just have this animated movie already? These look like stills from an animated movie and wE NEEDS IT

annabellioncourt:

annabellioncourt:

annabellioncourt:

IWTV is on Syfy right now, and I’m 100% sure that they lowered the red levels and partially desaturated it to fit the dark and gritty Syfy Aesthetic.

i know they did, I have seen this movie 7737468394 times and I know it visuals by heart, what kind of butchery is this?????

THIS IS THE HOTEL SCENE. ITS SUPPOSED TO BE REDS AND GOLDS AND CANDLELIGHT??? THEY ALL LOOK LIKE THEY’RE LITERALLY CORPSES. 

WTF SYFY? We need Fictional Character Protective Services.