I’m honored yet again to be asked to provide the poster artwork for the Anne Rice Vampire Lestat Fan Club’s 2015 Annual Halloween Ball – again this year with Anne Rice herself in attendance. This year, we went with something a little different. As Anne Rice has revived her beloved characters with the recent novel ‘The Prince Lestat’ and with more novels promised for the future, we had to rely on symbolism rather than clutter the image up with all of her beloved literary figures.
That’s you?? Oh wow, yes I already follow @whatwedointheshadows! A+++ blog for A+++ vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows!
WWDITS was clearly influenced by VC in some ways, not the least of which is the tagline “Some Interviews with Some Vampires” like c’mon…
[X] There were other refs too, but on its own, this was such a charming and hilarious movie and really I hope that our VC TV series takes a few notes from this. These are a pack of wonderful, lovable, dysfunctional vampires!
Yes, we have a series of #unreliable narrators in the VC who tell the stories from their experiences, and their “facts” don’t always align.
[^X Remember these Social Network posters I did? I REMEMBER THEM]
There are many examples of canon “facts” being different in different books. One of the best examples of this is whether Louis visited Lestat sometime after he burned down the Theatre des Vampires, but before his interview w/ Daniel. Lestat says it didn’t happen.
Lestat acknowledges that IWTV was inaccurate but he doesn’t hold it against Louis:
“But this is the tale that was told by Louis in Interview with the Vampire, which for all its contradictions and terrible misunderstandings manages to capture the atmosphere in which Claudia and Louis and I came together and stayed together for sixty-five years.
… As for the lies he told, the mistakes he made, well, I forgive him his excess of imagination, his bitterness, and his vanity, which was, after all, never very great. I never revealed to him half my powers, and with reason, because he shrank in guilt and self-loathing from using even half of his own. ”
When ppl complain about the storylines/facts being inconsistent, well, I can only remind them that she wrote the books in the order in which she was exploring her characters. Did some things get lost or confused along the way? YES. I don’t read other series, so I can’t say that there is – or should be – a standard to which we hold authors and expect them to have consistent storylines/facts.
But from what I know of the Bible, considered a sacred canon by many ppl worldwide, even that text has unreliable narrators describing scenes which vary to the point of discrepancy.
I understand that inconsistencies can pierce the delicate suspension of disbelief for some readers. The seeming concerted deviation from the pre-established VC verse is a major reason why it’s impossible for me (and others) to accept PL in its entirety. So I know that feel, bro!
Basically what I’m saying is that the #unreliable narrator excuse quiets this type of confusion for me, for the information that I accept as canon.
Interview with the Vampire poster commission, by Matt Ryan Tobin. Click through for an interview, and the glow-in-the-dark version!
Woah! Look at how he even sneaked in that part when Lestat first noms on Louis:
…and the fact that he flew was never once questioned like yes ask about “Is there a God/Devil?” but also “Hey Lestat remember that time you bit me and we FLEW what was up w/ that? Can you fly??”
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