Oh wow! Thanks for the recommendation *u*
First songs I tried by Royal Blood, Come on Over, and Figure It Out, and I already agree with you! The voice is in the range I’d imagine for Lestat; as much as I headcanon that Lestat loves Bruce Springsteen I don’t think his voice would be as low as the Boss’s.
YES I want this bc of reasons! He deserved so much more out of that concert. I would suggest that the people behind the scenes look at footage of ACTUAL 80’s BANDS for reference on how to do Lestat’s concert accurately.
Hit the jump for my rambling about the soundtrack…
Honestly tho, the soundtrack to IWTV was mostly orchestral, and I would imagine a re-do of that trainwreck of a movie QotD would be more … modern rock? At least 80’s, because it takes place in 1985, IIRC… more along the lines of the G ‘n R’s Sympathy for the Devil cover that plays at the end (which I still prefer to the original, because I heard this cover first!)
Or Bruce Springsteen. We know Lestat and Louis both love the Boss, don’t even try to convince me otherwise.
Elliot Goldenthal did an amazing job on the IWTV soundtrack, especially in how he perfectly captured the different characters: humorous/upbeat pieces like Lestat’s Tarantella and the more quietly disturbing Libera Me, etc.
Side note: Speaking of The American Boychoir (they sung Libera Me), I’m reminded of the Vega Choir’s cover of Radiohead’s Creep for the Social Network. That was sorta along the same lines.
katzenfabrik replied to your photo“Another QUESTION FOR LESTAT answered: Lestat here: I want to answer…”
You’re doing the lord’s work.Thank you, glad to know someone appreciates these efforts!
How do you all feel about this new development? I’m sort of mixed on these Fan Questions for Lestat, bc on the one hand I should be thrilled that “Lestat” is actually interacting in social media after 20+ of only interacting through canon…
…AND YET these answers read
somewhatout-of-character to the point where I just *facepalm* so….*** Fortunately we have occasional corrections to these FQL installments 😀
OMG, you are far too wondeeful to me. (((i-want-my-iwtv)))
Well you’re a VC fandom MVP, just true facts.
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Fantastic artwork
is it socially acceptable to reblog my own art? becauce I’m not going to repost it and I want it on my dash, now that it became even more canon xD
It is TOTALLY socially acceptable to reblog your own art! I just reblogged it and I’m reblogging it again – minutes later – from you because of REASONS. What, is there some kind of limit to the amount you can like something and share it? I THINK NOT. ❤
These blogs are for fun, sharing ideas and fanart, etc. and if you lose followers over reblogging ✧°˖:*wHATevER yOu WAnT*:･ﾟ✧ (as long as it’s not intended to be offensive) then you don’t need those followers anyway. Does it even matter how many followers you have? I could have a handful of followers and be just as happy participating here.
And yes, it is even more canon now, which is a valid reason in itself for reblogging it ^____^
/end vc fandom love rant
Anne Rice’s ‘Vampire Chronicles’ Takes Flight at Universal
Setting up a potential “Twilight”-like franchise, Universal Pictures has acquired movie rights to Anne Rice’s novels in “The Vampire Chronicles” series for Brian Grazer and Imagine Entertainment.YOU GUYS.
According to Variety, Universal Pictures has acquired the production rights to multiple books in Anne Rice’s beloved Vampire Chronicles series, apparently including but not limited to The Vampire Lestat.
The first screenplay they mention within the article is an adaptation of Tale of the Body Thief, which you’ll remember is actually written by Anne’s son Christopher Rice.
The article mentions Interview with a Vampire and the latest book in the series, Prince Lestat, which raises the question of a remake of the Brad Pitt/Tom Cruise version of Interview we’ve all come to adore in its be-wigged glory.
Imagine President Erica Huggins will oversee the films for Imagine Entertainment, Bobby Cohen will be executive producer, and Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are onboard to produce. The latter two are also known for teaming up on multiple projects such as Transformers, Now You See Me, Cowboys and Aliens, and Star Trek Into Darkness
which worries me just a little.No word yet on any release dates, but since Body Thief sounds like maybe it’s already being worked on, that might be the first to go, I’m not sure.
So. Thoughts? Dreamcasts? General freaking out? Hit me up at my askbox and let me know.
WHAT? WHAAAAAT?
I would love to see a film version of The Vampire Lestat (as long as it was better than Queen of the Damned), but … aaaugh! I am wary of that production team, who would write the script, and dear G-D, so many possible casting pitfalls.
… The Vampire Chronicles would probably work better as a TV series than a series of movies; I’d much rather see the plot of a book unfold over the course of a season, as opposed to seeing it crammed into a 2 hour film : But I honestly don’t think I want to see anything from that production team. Also, IWtV is a classic now. I don’t want to see a remake of it. Ever. It’d be like trying remake The Lost Boys or Amadeus— there are certain films that are so perfect, so iconic that the thought of someone remaking them just makes me feel ill.
I’m…somewhat less pessimistic than the previous commentator. While I think a TVC miniseries would have its advantages, I take the IWTV film as proof that those stories can be executed well in movie form, if handled properly. As for the production team…I like the Star Trek reboot films quite a bit, but I can’t say I’ve heard anything good about the other examples on that resume. That certainly makes me wary.
Regarding a possible IWTV remake, my feelings are mixed. On one hand, I don’t know that I’m necessarily opposed to a remake in principle–not on the level that I would be opposed to a remake of The Lost Boys, at least. On the other hand: for one thing, IWTV simply doesn’t need to be remade. It’s a damn good movie as is, it’s become something of a classic, and it’s not outdated or (in my opinion) flawed enough that it requires or would even benefit from a new version. For another thing, while I’m not opposed to a remake in principle, I probably wouldn’t trust anyone to do it well. (Frankly, I would say of IWTV what I say of other classic films–such as The Lost Boys and even things like Near Dark–whenever I hear people chattering about remake ideas: you don’t need to remake it. Just re-release it.)
I would absolutely love to see a good series of TVC films. If the filmmakers could pull it off. I’m not sure if this news has me more excited or more nervous.
I don’t know that I’m necessarily opposed to a remake in principle… for one thing, IWTV simply doesn’t need to be remade. It’s a damn good movie as is, it’s become something of a classic, and it’s not outdated or (in my opinion) flawed enough that it requires or would even benefit from a new version…
I would absolutely love to see a good series of TVC films.
AGREED
Yes, a lot of S2B2 stuff is absolutely very invested in characters. And that _does_ tend to make it feel good to write. I know that some of the authors have had a lot more experience with the romance genre than I’ve had, though I would make a case that the few Vampire Chronicles books I have under my belt were similar in some ways. I just… didn’t want to read romance based on what I inferred from the covers of what my classmates were reading in school, and yet I remember wishing there were the sorts of partnership, friendship, and romance that I _did_ like, when I was a school kid who was digging through whatever fantasy and sci-fi I could stand. I remember being deeply disappointed in the sexuality in whichever of Asimov’s full length robot novels I read, and being far more enthralled by Ender’s relationship with Jane in “Speaker For the Dead” and in “Xenocide.”
I didn’t discover “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” until years later, and at the time, I was like “WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME READ SOMETHING WITH PLURAL MARRIAGE EWW” to Ben and he was like “SHUT UP AND KEEP READING YOU WILL LIKE THIS BOOK” and now, boy howdy, has that book influenced the way I write the dynamics of groups of friends who are in a movement. And you can trace some of these chains back from authors I love to authors they clearly love: how Connie Willis and Lois McMaster Bujold and Audrey Niffenegger make clear nods to Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, for instance. How a CRAPTON of people nod to the relationship between Holmes and Watson, for another, and that’s not just authors. It’s FASCINATING that we live in an era where there’s a fairly queerbaiting platonic male friendship version on TV, an avowedly homoromantic comedy between a straight man and a “butch homosexual” in a recent film version, an amazing friendship between a female Watson and a male Holmes on another TV show, and don’t get me started on House and Wilson. I MEAN WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE.
And don’t even get me started on all the versions of Tony and Steve, because holy CRAP. I’ll say that again: what a time to be alive.
Feelin’ this. Speaking of, have you ever read any of those god awful nerd forum debates about how women are ruining science fiction by putting their romance feelings into the creation and reception of SF? I first encountered it when I was writing about BSG. Anyway, they address precisely the sort of stuff you’re referring to here (by which I mean distinguishing “proper” hard SF, for example Asimov, from this diluted “soft” SF like the Ender series). Women and their feelings, man, is the gist, just ruining all the fun to be had in clear, clean, conceptual SF. Never mind that Orson Scott Card is a man.
Lots of feelings authors are men. Some of whom are terrible, but hell, my favorite authors include Kurt Vonnegut Jnr, James Baldwin, Junchiro Tanazaki, Joseph Heller, Albert Camus, and many other human men who have lots and lots and lots of feelings and are very interested in minute human interactions, which men also have, and write about, and have done forever (sometimes awfully). But there’s a vocal segment of the SF reading community that is adamant it’s all about ladies being soppy. For me character interaction is what I am interested in and what I like. That’s the stuff I like. I’m not hugely interested in anything when I can’t see it directly shaping and flowing through human interaction.
I have a lot to say about Anne Rice’s VC as having that “fanfic feeling” – I’ve been known to wank on about it at length but here are the two short bullet points about why I agree with you:
1) Firstly, Rice revisits, repeats, and draws out her characters, often returning to them many times. Whether that’s good or bad is your call, but she does, and it does have a kind of… doing fanfic on herself thing going on, you know? Going back to a text and delving with is common in fic (and long running sequential properties more generally, of course, but the line gets fine between those two things anyway);
2) This is the big one for me: One of the things I specifically like about fanfic, and a big factor in the works I choose to make public, is that I think fic engages with or can engage with a particular mode of psychological reflection. I react to a text, I have an emotional resonance with it, and fic allows me to think that through, to think about why that is, to interrogate it. Rice’s characters are psychological archetypes, frozen in the moment they turn. They’re psychological costumes that are easy to pick up and put on. They read like fic characters not only because of what they are in the text, but because of how they read as open to adoption.
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That isn’t explained very well, because I’m tried and a bit dopey, but yes, basically. Yes I agree.
And agreed. What a time.
Is is ‘whoomp there it is’ or ‘whoop there it is’?
do you ever read a fic that is so much better than the actual canon that you get angry
Welcome to the Vampire Chronicles fandom, my friends.
#vampire chronicles #//basically fan fic is how we survive #//if you think I’m exaggerating you aren’t one of us #ooc
#TRUTH
adirotynd: #tvc #fandom woes #fanfiction means never having to say ‘tarquinn blackwood’
Um… so many reasons… and I haven’t read that book in awhile so I’m not the best resource for this. The fandom tends to hate on Benji bc:
- He’s a shameless Gary Stu
- He’s a child, maybe 12? Marius knows better (without spoiling anything, I’ll leave it at that).
- He smokes (not a character FLAW per se, but it seemed to be a cheap way to make him look “tough kid” or whatever)
- Emotionally/intellectually he’s flawless! He’s such an angelic person! He can do no wrong! Such characters are inherently unlikable maybe bc we can’t suspend disbelief for someone so PURE OF HEART.
- The way he talks seems oddly teenage? I remember someone saying that as a complaint.
Mostly we hate him because (and this can all be applied to Sybelle equally) of his existence, how he came into Armand’s life, and what happened to him seemed wildly out of the VC universe and out of character for everyone involved.
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It’s also the handling of race and race relations, I think. Benji is literally a 12-year-old Arab child that Sybelle’s abusive, controlling brother bought to be a companion to Sybelle. The family had been visiting the Holy Land when the parents got killed in a car crash, and so Sybelle was depressed and wouldn’t play the piano (she was a concert pianist and her brother was isolating and exploiting her like Colonel Parker on steroids). He got Benji to look after Sybelle, and engineer her behaviour, knowing Sybelle would do as Benji asked (i.e. look after herself, play the piano), and he hit Benji anyway.
It’s hard to explain the clumsiness of the writing, but it’s like… there’s this patina of attempts at evocative detail re: Benji’s clothing and the references he makes, but essentially the book sets up this situation where the quirky Arab kid gets bought by rich white Americans, and that’s bad because the situation is abusive, but then Armand saves them from the evil brother, so then everything’s YAY! And Benji’s such a funny little character!
I’d put it down to Anne Rice being kind of poor at handling gritty “realistic” modern situations (especially since the entire existence of Sybelle and Benji, and their entire circumstances, are there purely because she needed to retcon a character death away), and shoehorning them into her very heightened, stylised, dark fairytale, mostly historical books. So Benji having apparently been bought is talked off in hushed tones like Sybelle knows it’s a bad thing, but nobody seems very concerned to look into his origins or try and put him in touch with his family or anything. I mean, this is a kid who’s been taken across international borders illegally, presumably with fake papers! And now he lives with Sybelle and it’s all quirky and funny how he smokes like a chimney and goes out in the middle of the night in New York City and somehow this is all just… charcaterful! And okay, because he’s happy with Sybelle and Armand!
To be fair, a lot of this is basic Anne Rice tropes: a poor or ordinary child gets swept up by someone rich and given all the education/resources/stuff money can buy, and they are super-happy together and it’s a beneficial arrangement for both parties. Her books have a ton of this rags-to-riches stuff. But I think what makes it unsettling is when she crosses a cultural and racial border, with all the inherent echoes of slavery and colonialism that entails…
He’d been flat out kidnapped by Fox under the felonious terms of a long-term lease of bondage for which Fox paid Benji’s father five thousand dollars. A fabricated emigration passport was thrown into the bargain. He’d been the genius of the tribe, without doubt, had mixed feelings about going home and had learnt in the New York streets to steal, smoke and curse, in that order. Though he swore up and down he couldn’t read, it turned out that he could, and began to do so obsessively just as soon as I started throwing books at him.
In fact, he could read English, Hebrew and Arabic, having read all three in the newspapers of his homeland since before he could remember.
He loved taking care of Sybelle. He saw to it that she ate, drank milk, bathed and changed her clothes when none of these routine tasks interested her. He prided himself on the fact that he could by his wits obtain for her whatever she needed, no matter what happened to her.”
gaby-queen: #BOTH THESE CHARACTERS WERE SO UNNECESSARY, #LITERALLY WHY ARE THEY EVEN THERE, #WHY, #they just dont belong im sorry i cant with any of their characterization, #why would armand, #why would marius, #IT MAKES ZERO SENSE.
^THIS is basically the visceral response and I agree 100% kthanxbye
I-want-my-IWTV 