Awww thank u for the compliments! I’m such a successful drug dealer, addicted a fresh victim to our beloved drug of choice, lovable dysfunctional vampires ♥u♥
shut up Claudia you know you love it you helped him WRITE that monologue…
Yes, I read all the books. Should you read all the books?
Well, if, for example, you’re not so interested in Armand as a character, I would recommend skipping TVA, bc it’s largely his story. BUT, you may miss good moments with other characters that you do like. Same goes for the other books past TVA.
Short answer is: give it all a chance, skim if you must, and decide for yourself, it’s meant to be fun, it’s not a religion, there are no chants to memorize, you will not be quizzed next Monday ;]
Y’know, that is a good question but also a tough one to answer. I’m sure there are academic articles on it (here’s one I skimmed, looks intriguing, thanks to takemetocoffin-or-losemeforever for the link!), and I did a movie!IWTV kill tally (according to the tally, 73% of the on-screen mortals killed were Caucasian).
I percolated on this with coldinhumanity, and the short answer is: Maybe, but if so, it’s unintentional. These are 200+ yr old vampires, and they have outdated conceptions of things.
In movie!IWTV: Louis kills Yvette, a poc, it was accidental. We see him struggling with it and trying to make Yvette leave him alone, but she seems to actually care about him, “Are you still our master at all? You must send away this friend of yours… they’re frightened of him. And they’re frightened of you.” I headcanon that they had a good relationship prior to his turning, maybe the best possible relationship under the circumstances.
Not saying that Louis was a fantastic slave owner, but we aren’t told negative things about him in that role, only that movie!Yvette (and I think it’s in book!IWTV, too) NOTICED his daytime absence in the fields, and seemed to want him back out there.
I think Anne Rice attempts to consider political concepts and weave them into her work if possible, but it’s not her main focus. Akasha’s idea for world peace was presented, and refuted. Was Akasha a misandrist? That’s not racism, but it’s hatred of a group of people who all share a certain characteristic having and/or being a dick, and AR strove to show us how impractical it was to try to remove them, 40% of the world’s population, in order to “improve” the remainder.
In the books, I’d say that:
Anne Rice began the first one in the style of the Victorian-era gothic novels she loved, and emulated the way those novels exoticised anything that could be exoticised, such as, exotic people.
The whole series are basically white men from the capitals of Europe.
She has had some non-Caucasian vampires (I won’t spoil anything by mentioning them by name), who are typically from places that western history acknowledge as good and impressive, like Ancient Egypt and India.
I don’t think she intends to be racist, and her characters rarely have dialogue that would explicitly state such. In the narration, however, one could argue that there are implied racial opinions.
helloitsfeffsagain you owe me something, I searched half an hour for it until I found it on my side blog.
Louis expression is on point, though 😀 One of my favourite fanarts. But sadly, the source doesn’t lead to an account of deviantart anymore :((
Oh, thank you so much. I’m sorry, I thought that you’ve saved the pic somewhere “near to you”, like the gallery of your phone like I do. :cc In return I can give you this pic of Louis and Lestat that I love (but it’s not mine, obv) :
Well I would have had it on my phone, but I wanted to give credits to the artist cause there is no name on the graphic. Thank you, hadn’t seen that one yet^.^
I didn’t buy it bc I don’t have a Bluray player; and I would have bought said Bluray player JUST to watch the new bonus features in a 20th Anniversary edition of IWTV if it had any, which it sadly does not (or so I’ve been told) ;A;
BUT I do know that the picture quality is in fact better in the Bluray. Let me show you! omg ppl want to know about the extras not the picture quality idec i do what i want
At first glance, on a laptop or smaller device screen (and at this teensy size like ugh) these two shots of Louis look identical (it’s not exactly the same frame but it’s as close as I could get w/o going crazay):
But when you see it on a bigger screen, there’s more resolution on the Bluray version, it’s a sharper image:
As far as the extra features, which is what u really wanted to know about before I took a detour…
As mentioned above, I don’t think there are any on the 20th anniversary edition :[ BUT THERE SHOULD BE… and I know specifically that Neil Jordan has been informed within the last year that WE WANT EXTRAS AND CUT SCENES AND SUCH like how did he not know that??! Just bc it’s 20yrs old doesn’t mean it’s been forgotten.
Is it worth buying it for just a better picture? I would, if I had a Bluray player. Maybe I’ll finally do that since you reminded me…
Anyone have the IWTV Bluray who can tell us if there’s anything new/special on it that I am unaware of?
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