“This is my birthday present from Louis. Use as I like, he tells me…
I do not understand entirely what is meant by birthday. Was I born into this world on the 21st of September or was it on that day that I departed all things human to become this?
My gentlemen parents are forever reluctant to illuminate such simple matters. One would think it bad taste to dwell on such subjects. Louis looks puzzled, then miserable, before he returns to the evening paper. And Lestat, he smiles and plays a little Mozart for me, then answers with a shrug: ‘It was the day you were born to us.’ ”
– Claudia de Lioncourt, Queen of the Damned
Is this her birthday? Or the night she was turned? They don’t answer her. I think it was the night she was turned, “you were born to US”
According to this, September 21 is Michele Rice’s birthday, 1966. Michele died of
GET IT? GET IT? BECAUSE THE MOVIE IS SO BAD IT MIGHT NOT BE WORTH LIVING IN A WORLD WHERE IT EXISTS. YOU’RE WELCOME.
Yes this world is still worth living in, marred as it is by that film. This describes my feeling for that heartbreaking work of staggering genius (by textsfromthevampire):
So I’ve only seen QOTD 1x all the way through, and I had people helping me through it by making fun of it via group rewatch, so I couldn’t come up with drinking game rules other than just buy one bottle of wine per person and work your way through it the entire time, maybe every 5 minutes take a sip?
Nonono wait, don’t die of alcohol poisoning I can’t afford to lose a follower that way!
Opening this up to everyone. Anyone have drinking game rules for QOTD?
YO I GOT THIS
It’s funny, I was actually thinking about coming up with rules for this movie only a day or two ago. As with all movie-related drinking games, I recommend cherry picking only a few from these, as using them all might result in death, but here’s what I was able to come up with. I like the two rules fairytalesgoneawrysuggested, so I am gonna slap them in here as the first two:
– Every time Marius makes a new vampire – Every time you see Armand’s nipples – Every time you see Lestat’s nipples – Guys, there are just nipples everywhere in this movie, it’s hilarious – Every time a vampire hisses – Every time a vampire’s eyes turn red
– Every time cryptic cello music plays – Every time the word “shadows” is used – Every time the word “friend(s)” is used sarcastically – Drink/drain (your choice) for each nu metal song you recognize in the background
– Every time IRL media-related branding is blatantly mentioned/shown on screen – Every time someone on screen is wearing a fishnet/mesh top – If you’re feeling ambitious, every time a background character is wearing a pleather outfit/every time Lestat is wearing leather pants – Every time a scene has bad vampire slow-fast-mo in it (take it easy on this one there will be plenty of opportunities lmao) – Every time Akasha does something that is intended to look cryptic and alluring, but just comes off as absurd – Every time Akasha hand flicks someone to death – Drain every time there’s a shitty abstract Akasha-related montage
– Every time a vampire goes jet packing into the sky – Every time Lestat makes a joke about “meals/eating” – Every time Lestat gives someone excessive bedroom eyes – Drain every time Marius says “hello, David :D”
– Drink for Marius’s golf clap on stage, I can’t even you guys
– Every time one of Lestat’s managing staff are visibly uncomfortable – Every time Lestat’s journal is passed on to a different person – Every time someone tells Jesse not to do something – Every time Jesse does it anyway – Every time you think “shouldn’t Louis have been in this scene?” – Every time a character dies THAT FUCKING SHOULDN’T HAVE
So I’ve only seen QOTD 1x all the way through, and I had people helping me through it by making fun of it via group rewatch, so I couldn’t come up with drinking game rules other than just buy one bottle of wine per person and work your way through it the entire time, maybe every 5 minutes take a sip?
Nonono wait, don’t die of alcohol poisoning I can’t afford to lose a follower that way!
Opening this up to everyone. Anyone have drinking game rules for QOTD?
I don’t now if someone else made this before o see it. But about the redeemable things — and I think that the only one— of the movie “The Queen of The Damned”, was his soundtrack and the videos that they made for it.
Among them we could find the song “Forsaken”, interpreted in the album by David Draiman from the band Disturbed and in the movie by Jonathan Davis from the band Korn.
Who was filmed based on the silent film “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” of the year 1920.
Considered the first expressionist film in history and one of the most influential German expressionist films.
Basically tells the story of Dr. Caligari and the sleepwalker Cesare, who are involved in a series of murders in a German mountain village.
And here is the comparison with the video “Forsaken”, in which Stuart Townsend in his interpretation of a brunette Vampire Lestat, made the character of “Cesare” in the music video.
You are absolutely not a ‘nobody.’ Haven’t you noticed how I address my readers at almost every opportunity? “So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always; I love you; I wish you were here… in my arms.” My actual published words. I adore you. Silly fangirls, serious fangirls, silly fanboys, serious fanboys, agenderfans, even the ruthless critics, all!
These “Vampire Chronicles” are my life, laid out as honestly as possible for you. Perhaps in my search for goodness, I’ve already found it in sharing my stories. With you.
Do me a small favor, Anon: please give yourself some of the love you give to me. For the courage it took to write your message, and too many other reasons to list here, you deserve it.
I’ve explained this to another person like you… I’m an actor, as you know already, but beneath the performance must lie real substance, real experience, in order to engage with you, the audience. What good is the best performance from one of the greatest actors (ME) if there is no audience? You’re needed, every last one of you. Actors feed off their audience’s reaction, though the lines may be the same, it’s never the same show twice. Even when you read my books a second, third, fourth time around, you bring different life experiences of your own, and though the plot points are the same, your reaction to it is not.
What are my books but stories? And what are stories? Experiences in someone’s navigation of life, “Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer/The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/ Or to take arms against a sea of troubles/ And by opposing end them…”
I have always wanted you to experience my journey, be my captive audience, and learn from my example, whether I was being “good” or “bad” (or somewhere in between). Perhaps you can learn to take arms against your sea of troubles the way I’ve done, or suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune as I’ve suffered… more than one lifetime’s worth of both.
I know these stories have had an impact on you, on many. Have I saved lives? Like yours? I hope so. Killing evildoers is one way to save lives, writing is quite possibly another way. My autobiography had been intended for Louis, to give him everything I wouldn’t give him before that point. To save his life, if he was at all thinking he might end it. The fact that the novel touched so many lives in such a positive way made me want to share more. And more!
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