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communistdracula:

laurencombeferre:

notquiteachild:

laurencombeferre:

notquiteachild:

laurencombeferre:

Apparently, Universal has acquired the rights to the Vampire Chronicles books, and possible plans include remaking IWTV and QOTD

I think I need a drink…

This is your chance to cast! I don’t know how to feel about this news.

Oh gosh, if only! I’d kill for the chance to do that…

And same here – I have a feeling that this is either going to be really good or absolutely horrible :/

Just have to cross my fingers and hope that they don’t make another Antonio-Banderas-as-Armand kind of mistake again. We deserve so much more.

OH GOD

I still watch IWTV and sit there like O.o every time he appears – I just want to know what possessed them to cast him?? I picture them reading his description in TVL and just going “lololol no fuck that”

But on the other hand, will the new Claudia be as good as Kirsten Dunst’s Claudia, because she was pretty much perfect. That’s going to be a tough act to follow…

I just want an actually slavic redheaded teenager looking boy for Armand for once.
Also for them to not whitewash David pls

Let’s talk about the horrendous casting in QotD before we rip on Banderas!Armand omfg… this fanart by permanentglitter is amusing tho. [higher res]

Ok… I used to be completely on board with the Banderas!Armand haters but I’ve grown pretty nostalgic about that casting, and actually figured out why they did that.

If they had cast a cherubic teenage redhead it might have been confusing to people who hadn’t read the books, and might have taken the sympathy away from Louis (who was supposed to remain the focus, it’s HIS story, after all). That would have been compromised by omg cute little redhead bby we want to snuggles you!

In the interest of that story, and keeping it accessible to an audience who had not read the book(s), Armand was to be the teacher/father figure Louis didn’t get from Lestat. They had to cast someone:

  • who would appear older than Louis
  • who would appear to be a teacher/father figure to Louis
  • who was a bigger star than Brad Pitt (or at least older than BP)
  • and have some European or other ethnicity, because these Parisian vampires were supposed to be darker, scarier, more like Real Vampires of the Old Ways than the softer Americanized Vampires. Their vampire makeup (aside from their TdV costuming) shows them to almost be a different, more vicious species from Louis (who has to still maintain his “most human”-looking vampire status).

So that’s my little defense of Banderas!Antonio. I’ve left the bandwagon of hating on him, he did a magnificent job with Armand, if you think about what I wrote.

… I will admit that the wig was pretty silly, but maybe he was meant to be slightly like those Asian senpais of old, with all that long hair. Maybe it was a nod to Marius, who had long hair bc he wasn’t allowed to cut it for like 7 months before he was turned. Who knows… 

“Another big problem was the script, which was written by Rice herself, taking her first shot at writing a screenplay. Pitt hadn’t seen it until two weeks before shooting started. When he finally did get a copy, he realized that everything in Rice’s book that was interesting about his character … was gone.

And so here he was, a rising young actor and budding sex symbol, stuck in an uninteresting, passive role.

"In the book you have this guy asking, ‘Who am I?’ Which was probably applicable to me at that time: ‘Am I good? Am I of the angels? Am I bad? Am I of the devil?’ In the book it is a guy going on this search of discovery. And in the meantime, he has this Lestat character that he’s entranced by and abhors. … In the movie, they took the sensational aspects of Lestat and made that the pulse of the film, and those things are very enjoyable and very good, but for me, there was just nothing to do — you just sit and watch.”

Brad Pitt, in an article by Mike Scott, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune  

merciful-death:

#[ Interesting to read this ] #[ I’m inclined to agree with Brad Pitt ] #[ because while I do love the movie there’s definitely big differences between movie-Louis and book-Louis ] #[ going only off the movie you would think Louis to be passive ] #[ but in the book he’s got a lot more depth and definitely is not ‘passive’ ] #[ Louis doesn’t really shed that passivity until the burning of the theatre in the movie ] #[ while in the book you have him fighting Lestat from the start ] #[ and I will always find that scene with the priest a big turning point ] #[ which is why it makes me so sad that they scripted it but never filmed it ]

SAME ;A;

Source: nola.com

Besides the facts that Lestat is a serial killer and essentially does the opposite of what he’s advised, why is there so much chatter about “you wouldn’t want to be his friend”, “he’s not the one you’d want to be around”?? What else has Lestat done to make himself sound so unpleasant?

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You can sum it up with “Does not play well with others.”

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He’s kind of a bitch. In the books, he’s impulsive, a bully… he’s constantly biting back insults, violence, and laughter just to function in conversation. He covers up a lot of insecurity with bravado and that doesn’t always work in his interactions with others. He also dissolves into tears fairly easily.

Unfortunately monogamy is also difficult for him. He needs a lot of attention from a lot of sources. He’ll purposely sabotage a relationship, subconsciously or deliberately, to engage in another with someone else 😛 And regret doing so. 

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THAT said, he can also be the most loving out of all of the VC characters. He’s got a lot of love to give, and he gets frustrated when people don’t accept it the way he wants to give it.

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vampchronfic:

i-want-my-iwtv:

vampchronfic:

Pretty sure this is the view Lestat had just as Daniel drove across the bridge in that Mustang.

# love the idea that Lestat was chilling on top of this bridge

# caught the image in Daniel’s mind of Louis

# and started hot pursuit

# and waited in that car

# until the interview was over

# yes

# just for the movie!verse bc we all know Lestat found out about Louis after the book came out

# Definitely Movie!verse

#But I really like this scene,

# Wish it could somehow be shoe-horned into canon.

# Oh, wait! Fanfic!

# AGREES AGGRESSIVELY

Source: vmbra

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everlastingporcelain:

vampchronfic:

Louis brought home a few new friends.

*Suddenly imagines Lestat complaining about the kitty hair on his new furniture*

“Are these a snack, mon cher? If you intend to keep all 10 of them as pets in our home, there will be consequences.” (*internally screaming* bc CAT HAIR ON RED VELVET CRIMINAL ACT)

Source: weheartit.com

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  • Lestat and Louis KISSING
  • FOR THE FIRST TIME
  • Lestat giving tender soft kisses at first
  • as to not spook Louis, to ease him in gently
  • but then Lestat just LICKS LOUIS’S LIPS AND 
  • LOUIS GASPS IN SURPRISE AND LESTAT TAKES ADVANTAGE OF LOUIS’S OPEN MOUTH
  • AND LICKS HIS WAY INSIDE, NO SHAME
  • AND LOUIS IS SO SHOCKED HE GROANS AND THEN
  • SO DOES LESTAT AND ITS SO DEEP IT VIBRATES AND 
  • (♥ω♥*) ✧❥✧¸.•*¨*✧♡✧ ℒℴѵℯ ✧♡✧*¨*•.❥

[repurposed this bc of reasons]

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).

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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.

Vampire Chronicles, for @diplomacywink and @i-want-my-iwtv

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cloudsinvenice:

i-want-my-iwtv:

cloudsinvenice:

  • Funniest character: Mael is just always very funny to me. He would hate that, which increases the funny. 

Also I agree, Mael is unintentionally amusing and he WOULD hate that anyone thinks so. He has this earnestness and rageness, just always on the edge of (and threatening to be) breaking out a can of whoopass. Like a perpetually PMSing Thor, maybe.

I just have to reblog this for i-want-my-iwtv’s majestic definition of Mael. This one is for the ages. In twelve years in this fandom I have never seen this bettered. 

[X]

Reblog if you Multiship :)

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devilsviolinist:

i-want-my-iwtv:

i-am-not-a-chihuahua:

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In no particular order: Lestat/Louis, Lestat/Daniel, Lestat/Armand, Lestat/Marius, Lestat/Akasha, Lestat/David, Lestat/A fancy chair, Lestat/Big silk pillows, Lestat/A cameo collection, Lestat/his reflection in a mirror…

*Glares at the list of ships, noticing a particular ship missing.*

Lestat/Nicolas = not as hot as Lestat/A fancy chair. (just kidding ahhh! Omission was an honest mistake! The ellipsis should’ve covered that ship but I’ll see myself out)