ouo another one claimed by the VC fandom. It stands the test of time, it can really be rewatched many times, you can watch it for something different every time I sometimes watch it for the extras in every scene, they do a great job, too ;]
Accidental Steven Rea marathon hahaha. I think he would appreciate that.
omg thats so cute! I always love to hear stories of how people got into this series *u*
You can thank Dante Ferretti for the gorgeous set designs. I believe he was told to make the whole feel of it “like a funeral parlor,” and he was also inspired by old prints and the surreal environments of Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
My story is similar. I was around that age, and had to sneak it. I saw the movie on VHS tape. That meant it had to be rewound each time. And they said it would lose quality over numbers of plays! I would pause it and try to draw the beautiful characters, too.
Don’t even ask bc thankfully those drawings are LONG GONE.
“Might as well ask heaven what it sees, no human can know….”
Y’know, I have lost count… definitely has to be more times than Neil Jordan has seen it. Maybe more times than it’s editor has seen it. The fact that I have a copy of it to pull gifs and screencaps from makes it so I can watch it frame-by-frame in excruciating detail and even re-edit parts of it to suit my needs but WHAT ARE YOU IMPLYING??!!
I will add that one weekend, around Halloween one year, it was on TV alot, and I ended up watching it 4 times in one weekend and THAT IS TOO MUCH. Even for me.
My favorite viewings are with other ppl though, where we say the lines out loud and make fun of all the stuff that can be made fun of.
I do not want to think about the number of times I watched it. I remember I bought it at the bookstore, and stuffed it in my bag so my mother wouldn’t see—I was pretty young and she’d have flipped if she saw me getting it. But since I had to get it at the bookstore and not the local shop, it was twice the price and I wondered if it’d be worth it.
I have more than gotten my money’s worth out of it. I think I watched it four times this month alone. But I don’t do that all the time. Its one of my full time obsessions along with Harry Potter and Marvel (though its more than Marvel but slightly less than Harry Potter, just because I’ve been in the HP one for….eight years more?), so whenever I’m not currently loony over something in the media world, I turn to it when I want something darker/more mature/artsier than the earlier HP movies/books but not as fucking depressing as the later ones. Marvel isn’t that deep, there’s not much to think on, and its fun, but I don’t do much writing on it or analyzing with it. I read a comic in one setting, have one of the films playing while I watch TV. Oh and I forgot Star Wars but that’s like the only film MY ENTIRE FAMILY can sit down and enjoy so that’s always a together thing
With Interview, I can sit down with tea or wine at the end of the day, and the camera slowly pans over San Francisco, the choir in the background, that eerie Latin hymn that I know in English and hear on Sundays but in this setting it speaks of something of another world, a world made safe only by the screen between it and myself. Louis talks shortly with Daniel and then he goes on “The master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans…” and I relax and get lost in this other world and other time. I’ve long lost track of the times I’ve fallen asleep near the end of it, only to wake when Louis finds Lestat in the present day, to stay awake through Louis’ attack on Daniel and then grin when the music turns up and the G n’ R cover of the Stones over powers the whole scene and its almost dawn now, both and their world and in mine.
Its too loud at points and too jarring to be called a lullaby—but I compare it not only to the fact I use it to relax but I’ve never seen a movie (until OLLA) that flowed so well, one segment of the story to the next—its a smooth film.
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well. I didn’t intend to go that far. But there you have it. For God’s sake please no one mention Phantom or Elisabeth or Labyrinth or request me to do one of these soul spillings for any of the films I listed above, because its late, and alas, I am a member of a dinural species and need my sleep.
…With Interview, I can sit down with tea or wine at the end of the day, and the camera slowly pans over San Francisco, the choir in the background, that eerie Latin hymn that I know in English and hear on Sundays but in this setting it speaks of something of another world, a world made safe only by the screen between it and myself… I’ve long lost track of the times I’ve fallen asleep near the end of it, only to wake when Louis finds Lestat in the present day…
^This whole para is so beautiful and btw #I know that feel, sis.
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