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I find a vampire book in the library and of course it opens right up to Lestat.
NICE FIND.
Lestat should really be on the cover I mean like between Lestat and the Lost Boys’ David, which vampire wrote 9 books chronicling his ENTIRE life story, misadventures, and shared a unique vampire origin story? Among other things?
When you are a vampire, you become very… sexy.
I saw What We Do in the Shadows at the premiere for it in NY. It’s a great vampire mockumentary! I was in stitches. Just excellent. Can’t wait to buy a copy on DVD, the creators said there would be loads of extra goodies *u*
There was a Q&A afterwards with the creators, and I asked them if any of their vampires took inspiration from Anne Rice’s, and they did say the costume design was definitely influenced by Interview with the Vampire, among other vampire movies. The Lost Boys was a big inspiration, too. C’mon tho, Lestat himself had to be an influence. These are very dysfunctional vampires.
I don’t want to spoil anything but there is a scene that is particularly reminiscent of a scene in IWTV!
I saw you posted smthg with “What we do in the shadows”. Have you seen it? If not you should. It’s really good. And the tagline is: “Some interviews with some vampires”
Yes I just saw it recently, I looooooved it! Cannot wait to get it on DVD bc there are supposedly lots of great extras TuT
There was a Q&A after the screening I went to so of course I had to ask on behalf of the fandom not bc I am a crazy person if the VC was an influence for their vampires, and they sort of brushed it off, they said only that their costume designer was influenced by IWTV. The sets had similar coloring! and there were other similarities! but at any rate They said that the Lost Boys was their biggest influence.
BUT THERE IS A SCENE that we both know is very reminiscent of a particular scene in IWTV. Which the WWDitS guys said was their favorite to film, and it was one of the most expensive to shoot.
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The Fred Astaire gag! They had their own take on it.
Since you mentioned me as a potential reference re: The Lost Boys vampires and tattoos (I’m oddly flattered to be considered the TLB reference, by the way): no, in the movie none of them are shown to have tattoos–just piercings. However, in theory I think they would indeed retain any tattoos they had from when they were human, and could get permanent ones after being turned (which could be removed by scraping/cutting/etc. off the tattooed skin and letting it regenerate to its natural state).
You are ABSOLUTELY The Lost Boys authority!
thank you for your commentary on tattoos, I agree 100%. I think it would be the same for the Ricean vampires.
So a tattoo, gotten before or after turning, could potentially be permanent, or it could be removed as you’ve described.
I-want-my-IWTV 