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u dont stay married to someone for 65 yrs without any frick frack
i-want-my-iwtv, re: Lestat/Louis during Interview with the Vampire
Dat basic ho looks like an old-school vampire all up on mortal!Louis. Foreshadowing?
Louis et Lumière
(re: Louis & rings in the film) pinky ring was a gay code, or “no marriage plz”-code at some point. I’ve always thought that Louis’ pinky ring is his dead wifes wedding ring, and so signifies both “all the loves I’ve lost” and “tried heterosexuality once and it was a disaster”…
Oooh, thanks for this! Added it to my post.
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- mortal!Louis about to show us a good spot to shoot him.
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- His “wedding” ring looks silver in this pic but the design is so similar to the other shots, it might be a trick of the lighting.
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- It’s significant that he tries to stop Lestat w/ the hand w/ the wedding ring, and he’s grabbing Lestat’s left hand (wedding hand), too.
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- Sit your ass down, Daniel.
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- So a vampire can cry.
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- End of the story, nothing more to tell. That “wedding” band gleams. Not an accident.
A chronological retrospective of the two rings Louis wears. For 200 years. Apparently Lestat could get him to change his wardrobe, kill people, and all kinds of other depraved things etc., but Louis kept his jewelry to a strict minimum.
One appears to be his wedding ring.
- in the movie version, Louis is a widow. Maybe the ring was his wedding ring.
- After the Dark Gift, he keeps it on. Maybe it’s earned new significance towards Lestat, now.
- After Lestat’s “death,” Louis continues to wear the ring. Maybe it’s significant to both people he’s lost.
The other is a pinky ring.
- This one may have just been fashionable to begin with.
- Maybe it symbolized the child who died with his wife in childbirth.
- Later, maybe it’s earned new significance when Claudia is given the Dark Gift.
- After Claudia’s death, Louis continues to wear the ring. Maybe it’s significant to both “children” he’s lost.
UPDATE: anaryawe says:
(re: Louis & rings in the film) pinky ring was a gay code, or “no marriage plz”-code at some point. I’ve always thought that Louis’ pinky ring is his dead wifes wedding ring, and so signifies both “all the loves I’ve lost” and “tried heterosexuality once and it was a disaster”…
if the phantom of the opera has taught me anything it’s that if all else fails you set the place on fire and cry
And if the Vampire Chronicles have taught me anything it’s that if all else fails, you set the place on fire and mope.
Yeah, pretty much!
We make fun of Louis for his pyromania so much hell I do it too!, but he was a plantation owner and that means slash & burn may have been part of the regular crop production. Setting fires was a step in standard operating procedure. Wiki says: “The resulting ash fertilizes the soil and the burned field is then planted at the beginning of the next rainy season with crops…”
But then you have this exchange from IWTV:
“ ‘Fire purifies …’ Claudia said. And I said, `No, fire merely destroys…’ ”
So yeah maybe it’s just the pyromania…
theadveturesoflestatandfriends:
vampire-chronicles-rp, I can see what you’re talking about in this gif. He is thinking about eating the birds.
It’s just something I’ve always thought about this scene, but like it would be one little party of humanity he could reclaim by setting them free,
Maybe these birds remind him of his chicken diet earlier… and yes, agreed w/ vampire-chronicles-rp.
I-want-my-IWTV 