BROKEN DOLL: a claudia playlist
“the b r o k e n lady doll on the floor seemed a better representation of my true self than the baby dolls with which Lestat used to torment me…”
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Could I maybe get. A happy birthday from lestat its my 19th birthday today 😊
♛Bon anniversaire, ma petite! I would send you a doll, but some girls outgrow them at a certain age, apparently. Myself, I’m over 200 years old and I love dolls. There’s no accounting for taste in some people.
Of course, he gave me a doll as usual, the replica of me, which as always wears a duplicate of my newest
dress. To France he sends for these dolls, he wants me to know. And what should I do with it? Play with it
as if I were really a child?
“Is there a message here, my beloved father?” I asked him this evening. “That I shall be a doll forever
myself?” He has given me thirty such dolls over the years if recollection serves me. And recollection never
does anything else. Each doll has been exactly like the rest. They would crowd me out of my bedroom if I
kept them. But I do not keep them. I burn them, sooner or later. I smash their china faces with the poker. I
watch the fire eat their hair. I can’t say that I like doing this. After all, the dolls are beautiful. And they do
resemble me. Yet, it becomes the appropriate gesture. The doll expects it. So do I.
– The Vampire Claudia, Queen of the Damned
Some work in progress! Here some samples of the animatic I am working on, I love the song “I’ll never have that chance” which Elton John wrote for the musical of Lestat. If I ever finish it I am going to post it here :3
A Lestat and Louis doll by an unknown designer, posted here. They appear to be ball jointed dolls.
These are gorgeous and this is the VC merch we deserve.
^This Lestat doll was posted to AR’s FB page in response to her request for doll suggestions, but she hasn’t liked or commented on it as of this posting.
A custom Lestat doll head made by RedLorna [X] for a ball jointed doll customer, (who must have the body, bc there aren’t any pics of it that I can find). One of the best custom Lestat doll faces I’ve seen.
RedLorna:
“Photoshoot Yorick. Doll belongs fox-a .
Thus. Minimi Tom Cruise as Lestat from “Interview with the Vampire.”
My third mejk for minimization. The most difficult and most interesting to me.”
Anne is so cute and sweet.
YES WE WANT ACTION FIGURES PLZ *grabby hands*
She wants “mass produced and readily available action figures …that might pass for Lestat, so that anyone could have one for a few bucks” !!! Anne, do you know how much Barbies cost these days? More than “a few bucks” but still, I like where she’s going with this.
@gothiccharmschool added:
I WANT A MOPING LOUIS FIGURE!
@cloudsinvenice added:
I WANT MOPING LOUIS ACTION FIGURE, THAT STILL COUNTS AS ACTION and he comes with a few dead rat accessories… and a few tattered books. Also:
- Claudia w/ little gold scissors, mini-doll, and dagger-stabby action
- Lestat w/ violet shades, multiple outfits sold separately
- Santiago w/ scythe
@vampchronfic added:
- Maharet and sets of different colored eyes.
@octoberreads added:
- And a Lestat with a pull string that says “still whining
@audacityinblack added:
- A Daniel figure though…
- Would come with tiny tape recorder, notebook, magically “emptying” bottles, and real clinging-to-Armand action.
@annabellioncourt added:
- I mean, come on, not just the Hot Toys figures or the standard five inch figures, but the funko pops, and all those other novelty vinyl figures.
@phantomseptember added:
- Imagine how many wardrobe extensions they could sell for a Lestat action figure!
@redversaillesrose added:
- Nicki w/ violin. Hands sold separately.
Hello, I need the VC fandoms help remembering something. In the IWTV movie, there are the scenes where claudia has dolls and rejects them, and where she cuts her hair and learns it does not grow back. Question: where were these in the books?(1 of 2)
(2 of 2) I remember these scenes somewhere in the books pretty vividly, but I just reread IWTV over again and couldnt find them. Did i dream them being in the books after years of watching the movie?
So actually, I couldn’t remember either, so I just skimmed IWTV, and neither actually happened quite that way in that book. But it’s still sort of canon bc Anne Rice wrote the script, and she was trying to incorporate later canon stuff where she could.
In QOTD, Claudia mentions it in her diary: “Of course, he gave me a doll as usual, the replica of me, which as always wears a duplicate of my newest
dress. To France he sends for these dolls, he wants me to know. And what should I do with it? Play with it
as if I were really a child?…
He has given me thirty such dolls over the years if recollection serves me…
They would crowd me out of my bedroom if I
kept them. But I do not keep them. I burn them, sooner or later. I smash their china faces with the poker. I
watch the fire eat their hair.”
[X] In IWTV, Claudia crushes a doll in front of Louis and she talks about being disappointed in baby dolls… she was pretty spoiled by her dads, so I would bet she got them at other times than just her “birthday,” too! Maybe the fanciest ones were received annually.
^The haircut thing is actually something Gabrielle experienced in TVL. She had cut it and the next night it had grown back to its full length it had been when she died:
Her long heavy hair had slipped over
her shoulders again, and exasperated, she took hold of it in both
hands. Then suddenly she made a low hissing sound, and her body
went rigid. She was holding her long tresses and staring at them.
“My God, ” she whispered. And then in a spasm, she let go of her
hair and screamed.
The sound paralyzed me. It sent a flash of white
pain through my head. I had never heard her scream. And she
screamed again as if she were on fire.
Dolls from Interview with the Vampire, auctioned at different times.
772. (Left) A Victorian-style
porcelain doll belonging to the vampire Claudia. This doll measures 17 x 8.5 in. and consists of stuffed
fabric body, porcelain head, hands and feet, applied hair and brown and creme satin and lace dress with apron, with a
matching feathered hat and tiny white shoes. Glass doll eyes finish the figure, which comes on a wooden base display
stand. In very good condition. Comes with a Warner Bros. certificate of authenticity. $600 – $800
519. (Right) A Victorian-style porcelain doll belonging
to the vampire Claudia. In the film, the Claudia character amassed a
collection of dolls costumed in her likeness – one presented to her each
year on the date of her vampiric “birth into darkness”. This doll measures
19 in. tall and consists of stuffed fabric body, porcelain head, hands and
feet, applied blonde hair, green and crème fabric dress with lace and pearl
front, lace and silk hair tie and complete with white shoes. Glass doll eyes
finish the figure, which comes on a wooden base display stand. In very
good condition. Comes with a Warner Bros. certificate of authenticity. $600 – $800
I couldn’t find either one in a screencap from the movie, otherwise I would have included it. Just extra dolls in the pile. But I didn’t know that they were meant to be in her likeness. Makes sense, though, even little girls today like to have dolls that look just like themselves!
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