|| I will take Antonio over creepy cherub guy trying way too hard to be 17 but looks 40 any day. I just pretend Antonio is Santino fucking with you.
I like the idea that it’s Santino fucking with us, hahaha.
I have such nostalgia for Antonio!Armand. Antonio doesn’t deserve the hate he gets for Armand, he did a great job, and brought a dark European hawtness to it. Check out my #Defending Antonio tag for legitimate ideas defending his casting.
In essence: if they had cast a cherubic teenage redhead (or older creepy cherub dude trying to look 17 *cough cough* movie!QotD *cough*) 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! <– If the person at least had the right appearance.
Let’s say it was an appeal to those who hadn’t read the book(s) … casting an Armand that they could understand more easily as being a more mature/father/teacher figure for Louis.
Also I read it somewhere that since Louis already had that dubious relationship with Claudia, casting someone also very young to play Armand would make Louis appear a pedophile for the non-reader audience, maybe? It makes sense perhaps but I can’t remember where I saw it!
|| I will take Antonio over creepy cherub guy trying way too hard to be 17 but looks 40 any day. I just pretend Antonio is Santino fucking with you.
I like the idea that it’s Santino fucking with us, hahaha.
I have such nostalgia for Antonio!Armand. Antonio doesn’t deserve the hate he gets for Armand, he did a great job, and brought a dark European hawtness to it. Check out my #Defending Antonio tag for legitimate ideas defending his casting.
In essence: if they had cast a cherubic teenage redhead (or older creepy cherub dude trying to look 17 *cough cough* movie!QotD *cough*) 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! <– If the person at least had the right appearance.
Let’s say it was an appeal to those who hadn’t read the book(s) … casting an Armand that they could understand more easily as being a more mature/father/teacher figure for Louis.
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And even better that you agree with me in defense of Antonio! Look, I started out in this fandom on the hate bandwagon against Banderas!Armand, but… nostalgia and a little consideration go a long way *u*
So they actually are working on Tale of the Body Thief: Christopher Rice wrote the screenplay (for freeeee) at AR’s request and they are both in meetings about that with the people who own the rights to it.
Yes, that would be a particularly big challenge, to be as loathsome as AR sometimes describes him, while still being a little Botticelli angel, that’s Armand’s whole delicious appeal!
Yeah, well, for Armand’s backstory, one would have to make The Vampire Armand, instead. I think that would be a fantastic movie, so much happens in it, it probably would be better as a series, with episodes to break it down. His life with his family. His religious zealotry as a young man. His kidnapping. The whole brothel time period. Marius rescuing him. The Palazzo time period in his life. BIANCA SOLDERINI and her story! Etc.
ooc; We had an awesome turn out for the Interview with the Vampire livestream. For those who can stomach it, I will be livestreaming Queen of the Damned Sunday, November 23 at 4PM CST/5PM EST. It’ll be our afternoon of comedy.
The livestream will be at…
This was so much fun.
This really was a blast and I have to thank everyone involved for finally helping me get through this movie. It was just as awful as I had always suspected it was, and yet, so much less painful bc you all were making it fun.
The takeaway messages seemed to be:
Lestat has a serious boob fetish. Like stronger than any of us realize.
Plot? What Plot? What do you need plot points or explanation for when you have Lessssstaaaaat?
Pronounce his name with a lot of “s” and a lot of “a”.
Jesse is not Bella Swan altho there are similarities in this movie version of her and that is upsetting.
David Talbot was actually pretty hot here and deserved so much better.
Armand was was actually worse here than in IWTV and deserved so much worse. #Defending Antonio!
Lestat is actually the Queer of the Damned.
This would have been better with liquor, but sadly, I couldn’t drink as it was a work night and I am incapable of the Little Drink.
So thank you merciful-death for setting this up and I am excite for the next one!
Maggie: I never thought I’d meet someone like you. But come on. I mean, do you still really want me? Are you really that great of a guy?
Narrator: Michael had always thought of himself as that great a guy. The kind of guy who could raise someone else’s baby.
Michael: Of course I am.
Narrator: But he wasn’t, and he regretted it the moment he said it.
Episode 2×012 “Hand to God”
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Passive-aggressively ignoring someone until they leave you, disgusted and on the verge of suicide, is not being a good boyfriend.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 2: Armand is the best character in the series no matter what anyone else, including and especially Anne Rice, says.
Excellent article on Nerdist about Universal wanting to reboot Rice’s Vampire Chronicles. This is my favorite part:
Plus, of all the art forms, music is the most subjective. Readers of the novels could imagine Lestat’s music sounding like anything they wanted it to; hair metal people probably thought they sounded like Mötley Crüe, while New Wave fans might have thought Lestat sounded like Bowie. Anne Rice has said that in her mind, Lestat sounded like Jim Morrison of the Doors. (For the record, as a pseudo goth kid, in my mind Lestat sounded like Peter Murphy of Bauhaus.) I’m pretty sure no one ever wanted them to sound like Korn, but that’s what we ended up with.
Lemme just give you the main points. My comments in italics.
Don’t Chase The Twilight Audience: PREACH.
Consider Cable Television: There are alot of TV vampire series but this one really could be unique among the rest.
Use the Broadway Musical Structure: It’s worked since Ariel the Little Mermaid, and before that. It’s worked in countless movies.
Skip “Rock Star” Lestat: I think it could be handled differently than in QotD. It’s very much a part of his modern bravado. Korn was probably chosen for QotD because (I think) the lead singer had expressed interest in the project. It was also a time when Korn was among the EXPLICIT CONTENT evil corrupting-of-innocents bands of the time.
Keep Anne Rice As Part of the Creative Process: YES. Whatever you feel about her, she did a great job keeping the IWTV movie close to the source material. These ARE her precious babies, and she’s gonna make sure they’re handled with care ❤
“Whatever you feel about her, she did a great job keeping the IWTV movie close to the source material. These ARE her precious babies, and she’s gonna make sure they’re handled with care <3”
With one glaring exception:
Noooo he is not a total failure. I really do think that was a carefully considered choice. I lay out my theory of the Banderas!Armand casting here.
In essence: 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!
Let’s say it was an appeal to those who hadn’t read the book(s) … casting an Armand that they could understand more easily as being a more mature/father/teacher figure for Louis.
I-want-my-IWTV 