No need to tell him what to observe, or what to remember. He always knew such things. Years ago, when I’d done the dark magic on him, I hadn’t had to tell him anything; he had savored the smallest aspects of it all on his own. And later he’d said I’d failed to guide him. Didn’t he know how unnecessary that had always been?
Omg, I cannot! ;A; I didn’t read the HP books, only saw some of the movies, so I’ll turn this over to more qualified ppl.
^I do think Claudia would end up in the same house as Lestat, continuing the tradition like the Malfoy line does, but I could be wrong on that. The sorting hat would be taking a LONG time w/ Claudia, tho.
Anyone is invited to sort our beloved characters! Do the thing (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧
*Harry Potter Nerd Mode: Activated.*
*Vampire Chronicles Obsessed Fan Mode: Also Activated*
*Geekery is in full force*
Claudia is clever, so I’m tempted to say Ravenclaw, but more than clever she is cunning, ruthless, loyal only to a select few (in her case, Louis), and as much as I don’t want to dump her in Slytherin just for being evil, I have to say that she is a text book Slytherin.
Louis on the other hand is a bit of a loner; he’s reserved, bookish (more in death than in life), philosophical, a touch melancholy, and has a quiet wisdom to his ways that shows in his writing, even if he’s unaware that he has it. Ravenclaw.
Armand will do anything or anyone to get what he wants, and maintains more ambition than he does courage or wisdom. He’s not loyal to anyone other than himself (okay, so also Ricardo, occasionally Marius or Bianca, and later on Benji and Sybelle)…but still. I’m going with Slytherin.
Marius is a Ravenclaw, that’s not even a question. Bianca is ruthless as a mortal and then as an immortal, I think she’s a Slytherin too, which explains why she and Armand get along (usually). Sybelle is a Ravenclaw, Benji is Hufflepuff–kind, loyal, friendly, communicative and extroverted: Hufflepuff.
David is a Ravenclaw, but Slytherin wouldn’t shock me at all. Merrick is Gryffindor. I don’t know why, I really don’t, but I can’t see her as anything else. Gabrielle is also a Gryffindor. Jesse is a Ravenclaw like David, but she falls more towards Gryffindor than Slytherin for her back-up house.
akldjfa;ldksfj;akj Mona and Quinn were expelled before the sorting ceremony so I’m not going to bother with them mostly because I hate them
Pandora…hmm, I want to say Ravenclaw for her bearing, but honestly she’s more of a Slytherin.
I’m not sure where to put Lestat….Possibly Hufflepuff becuase despite his RATHER IDIOTIC BEHAVIOR (which goes to show: not exactly Ravenclaw material) he’s not exceptionally chivalrous in his bursts of bravery. He’s courageous and loyal, but not in a Gryffindor way. He cares deeply about his coven and will do what’s best for them, but he doesn’t have much personal ambition to be more than what he is. He’s not sure what he is, the rock star, the Brat Prince, the gorgeous fiend, the fallen angel, the poor marquis’s son who wanted to be an actor–but whatever he is, he is, in a Satre-meets-Decartes type of way, so he doesn’t have that ambition or drive to gain power via either knowledge or control that Slytherins do.
Okay, I know that I already submitted stuff to you before, but I think I have discovered something really cool. It seems to me that it’s the original script for the movie. However, I have not dug deep research into it.
Anyways, it’s very VERY morbid compared to the movie and in some parts is more like the book (and others, especially in the beginning, aren’t but are intriguing??).
@i-want-my-iwtv replied: Yes! I’m aware of this version of the script, April 1992, second draft (allegedly, but I bet there were a lot more drafts). Pretty easy to find, and this is the one that is probably most commonly printed out for the actors to sign, when you see autographed copies up on eBay.
It is a really fun read, even w/ the slightly ooc dialogue at times, but I can understand that AR was trying to shoehorn in as much canon as she could and I can’t fault her for that goal! And yes, it includes scenes that didn’t make it into the final cut. Some weren’t even filmed 😛
It has little gems in it like the names of Louis’ wife and child who died:
“DIANNE DE POINTE DU LAC 1763 – 1791 INFANT JEAN MARIE – 1791”
^Dianne would have been a little older than Louis, if she died at 28 ;A; And really, “DiANNE”? Nice author cameo, AR. Very smooth ;]
Fortunately for us, some of the filmed scenes that didn’t make it into the final cut still had production stills taken which were used in pre-release publicity (collected them in my #cut scenes tag) like this one:
^I think this was another early Tryna-Get-This-Dumb-Fledgling-To-Kill-People scene, before Louis ran off to chill in the sewers for a bit.
This version of the script also has a rewrite of the Lestat/Gabrielle waking-up-inside-a-crowded-church scene, but Louis and Claudia w/Lestat instead of Gabrielle!
lunchiemunchies: #I WOULD’VE LOVED TO SEE THIS EXCHANGE #BECAUSE LOUIS IS LAUGHING AND THAT MAKES LESTAT WANT TO LAUGH #IT WOULD’VE BEEN SUCH A CUTE LITTLE MOMENT #AND A FUNNY SCENE SINCE THEY’D SCARE THE PEOPLE #INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
“It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face.” Interview with the Vampire – (1994)
“Even in his cruelest moments, Louis touched
the tenderness in me, seducing me with his staggering dependence, his
infatuation with my every gesture and every spoken word.” – The Vampire Lestat
Lestat, IWTV:oh hell no, if anyone is going to be louis de pointe du lac’s boyfriend, it’s me
Lestat, IWTV:oh hell no, if anyone is going to have louis de pointe du lac’s child, it’s me
Lestat, Prince Lestat:oh hell no, if anyone is going to marry louis de pointe du lac, it’s me
^Stan and Michele Rice on the left, Lestat and Claudia de Lioncourt on the right. As a side note, before this gets into the more serious topic, AR has said she based Lestat on Stan, and there is a story out there that his name was meant to be “Lestan,” but ended up as “Lestat” bc of a typographical error. I don’t have a source on that.
(In the first draft of [IWTV], Rice described Claudia as three or four years old.)… Rice based Claudia’s appearance on her own daughter, Michele, who died at the age of five from leukemia. Claudia even shares Michele’s birthday, September 21.* However, despite the intense tone of suffering and guilt evident in Louis’s telling of the story, Rice insists that she had not been aware that she had included her feelings about Michele’s tragic death. “I never consciously thought about it when I was writing the book,” she says. “I wasn’t conscious of the connection. I knew that I was using the physical beauty of Michele as the model, but Claudia was a fictional character in her own right. The character, the voice, and the things Claudia say have nothing to do with my daughter – but there’s no question that this is the symbolic working out of a terrible grief. What else can it possibly be?”
In the first version of [IWTV], Claudia eventually goes off with three vampire brothers whom she meets in Paris. She does not die. As such, it was as if Rice had attempted to give her daughter a form of immortality. Rice, however, experienced psychological problems that cleared up only after she had rewritten the ending – by killing off Claudia and taking Louis through an experience of intense grieving. This version was much more cathartic for Rice.
Hit the jump for more, cut for length, not content.
From Premiere Magazine, November 1994:
(sorry, I don’t have a link, I transcribed this from the page)
In real life, Claudia was a nickname for Michele Rice, Anne Rice’s vibrant blond daughter, who had once piled her hair on top of her head, and spoken in a smoky voice like Claudia Cardinale. She was three years old when she developed leukemia, and five when she died, in 1972.
At first, Rice soaked her maternal despair in a steady stream of sixpacks. Then she unleashed her rage unto paper, into what eventually became Interview with the Vampire. Michele was reincarnated as Claudia, the raging woman locked in a child’s body. “Louis was me,” says Rice. “That dark, brooding, melancholy person ripped from Catholic faith and tormented with guilt – that was me. I’d love to be Lestat: the wishful me, the active, the dream, the other one. Louis was the more true, autobiographical portrait of the conflicted and lost and orphaned person. That’s what the book is about. It’s about being orphaned.”
“Writers write about what obsesses them,” says Rice. “You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I’m writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.“
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