#that hat is ginormous #Louis de Pointe du Lac #we are all sorry #except #Lestat #Lestat de Lioncourt #THE VAMPIRE LESTAT #who made you wear that thing #it was either that or some other sicker amusement surely you chose the lesser of two evils
“… two wet shriveled things that had been alive, mother and daughter in one another’s arms, the murdered pair on the kitchen floor. But these two lying under the gentle rain were Madeleine and Claudia, … the hand that clutched at the child was whole like a mummy’s hand. But the child, the ancient one, my Claudia, was ashes.”
– Louis de Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire
I remember when I first saw the movie this scene destroyed me. It blew me away to be honest, first, out of sympathy for the character’s loss and also for just how perfectly this one moment, Louis’ expression of grief and compassion for these two people he’s just lost, encapsulated his character.
^This commentary is BEAUTIFUL go read it. ;A; It’s probably the ideas there that drew Brad Pitt to the role, and unfortunately, alot of Louis’s internal turmoil didn’t make it into the movie.
“[Louis] doesn’t hide away or back down, but transforms that grief into a single minded, eerily calm wrath that razes the theatre and its inhabitants to the ground. (That look he gives Santiago after this moment… He doesn’t say anything, he doesn’t need to, you just know immediately, “shit’s about to go down.” and it’s all the more chilling because it’s a startling shift from Louis’ introspective empathy to something much more raw and brutal.)
I’ve never understood how anyone can dismiss him as the whiner, simply because of Lestat’s comment at the end of the movie. I took that line the way friends will dig at each other, slinging transparent insults without really meaning it.”
Brad Pitt is doing a subtly different performance in these two roles, using similar physical mannerisms, but not identical. A comparison can be drawn. Maybe Louis would be the colder version, Mills the hotter version, of reacting to this similar situation.
Both have been roughed up somewhat by their antagonists at this point, but are dressed nicely.
Both are reacting to the first moment of being informed that their wife/S.O. and infant child was murdered (for Louis, Madeleine is the freshly made child!).
What’s especially upsetting about Louis’s loss is that it echoes the beginning of the movie, in which he’d lost his wife and child in childbirth. He’s come all this way and IT F*&KING HAPPENED AGAIN GDI SANTIAGO ;A;
What’s especially upsetting about Det. Mills loss is that he didn’t know he was going to be a father! ;A;
Both have to grieve very quickly in order to move on to…
☆*:.｡. ~VENGEANCE~ .｡.:*☆
Det. Mills serves it up fresh, impulsively, just walks right into the trap laid for him by his antagonist.
Louis serves it a bit cooler, the next night, with some planning involved, and alot more death, taking his antagonists by surprise.
Both essential use fire to do it. Firearm! Get it?? yeah.
Louis knows Revenge is a dish best served en Flambé.
“… two wet shriveled things that had been alive, mother and daughter in one another’s arms, the murdered pair on the kitchen floor. But these two lying under the gentle rain were Madeleine and Claudia, … the hand that clutched at the child was whole like a mummy’s hand. But the child, the ancient one, my Claudia, was ashes.”
– Louis de Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire
“I could see a world of frescoes and murals surrounded us, their colors deep and vibrant above the dancing flame, and gradually the theme and content beside us came clear. It was the terrible `Triumph of Death’ by Breughel, painted on such a massive scale that all the multitude of ghastly figures towered over us in the gloom, those ruthless skeletons ferrying the helpless dead in a fetid moat or pulling a cart of human skulls, beheading an outstretched corpse or hanging humans from the gallows…. So vivid, so perfect was it, I shuddered.”
– Louis de Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire
He turned as I entered the room, and I took him in my arms. With him, I could give vent to the affection I’d held so severely in check with Merrick. I held him to myself and kissed him as men might do with other men when they are alone. I kissed his dark black hair and kissed his eyes, and then I kissed his lips.
i love the term “partners” are we dating? are we robbing a bank? do we run a legal firm? are we the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies and are members of an elite squad known as the special victims unit? who knows.
I-want-my-IWTV 