I love this movie. This was the first vampire movie I ever watched. I was 8 years old. This movie literally changed my life. I spent years trying to remember the title because I had originally thought this was the Leslie Nielsen vampire movie. When I finally saw it again at 11. I read the entire series. A series that was far too mature for an 11 year old but I couldn’t put it down and my taste in literature dramatically changed. I went from being an extrovert to being an introverted book nerd. Throughout my teen years no other characters could compare to my love for Lestat. I was completely obsessed with the antagonists in books and always sided with them. So thank you Anne Rice for making a book series so powerful and moving that it changed my personality. I don’t know whether to hug you or slap the shit out of you.
^This happened to me similarly, too. Not quite the same, I was given IWTV when I was 11 and saw the movie after, sneaking over to a friend’s house bc it was rated R and I wasn’t allowed to watch it. I have the same feeling for AR, the VC had a huge enough influence. For better or worse *shrugs*
I was an ambivert. I was completely obsessed with antagonists, too. The VC encouraged me to develop all those extroverted traits I loved in Lestat, which other characters didn’t always approve of, but he dgaf! He marches to his own drum. Among so many things, he taught me that you don’t need anyone else’s validation or approval to be happy. The VC has been a huge source of strength. So much great advice. Here’s one:
“It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster to our colors, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn’t destroy us, if it doesn’t burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.” – Lestat, Queen of the Damned
//OOC: Yeah, so here’s actual the question I asked on Facebook AND the response, for those interested, since there’s a version going around without the question. Never actually asked about sex just the depth of the relationship, but Anne does usually throw that in during ship questions. (I still apply fanon logic since Ursula banged Vittorio in his book. Discrepancies, love it for fic and RP reasons.)
Yeah.. well, we all read PL, right? In this book EVERYONE loves EVERYONE and EVERYTHING in EVERY moment EVER mentioned! So yeah, of course that Marius loves Daniel. It does not confirm anything.
And sex. Didn’t Lestat say in QOTD that his johnson was like priapus ready for something that could never been performed anymore? Not with pleaure that is. So, well, technically, penetration is possible…but orgasm through that? Nah…
merciful-death said: ooc; Didn’t post the full question because I didn’t want to show disrespect by posting your real name on Tumblr. I apologize.
Yeah, I’d have done the same, Merciful “D”. 😉
//OOC: It was never explicitly stated in PL that Daniel reciprocated feelings for Marius, which is why I asked. With Anne’s response, now we know. Again, the point of this question was the ship, not sex, but the fandom seems incapable of enjoying the happy parts of anything without someone having a fit.
The Vampire Chronicles: If you shipped it, it was or will be canon at some point. The ship whore’s delight.
I completely lost it at “and Marius, in a long simple burgundy colored velvet robe, would preside.” And lost it all over again at “Armand in finest burnt gold brocade and lace would be best man for Louis. David Talbot in dark hunter green velvet and white linen would be best man for Lestat.”
READ IT.
*~Love is in the air~*
If I could sit and watch this wedding and hear Lestat laugh and see Louis smile I swear I would be a puddle of happy tears.
CAN WE GET SOME COSPLAYERS ON THIS PLZ? COSPLAY VID/PIC REQUEST
Dear anon, this is an impossible question to answer a simple “Books 1-4″ or “Books 1-3, and then 5″ or such and so forth…
… as some ppl refuse to read Prince Lestat, or a bunch of the other books, won’t even give them a chance not that they all deserve a wholehearted chance necessarily…
Very good description. It really does depend on who you ask, I personally admit them all before Prince Lestat to be cannon, that last one went just a bit too far.
i I personally recommend that people read the first three books (IWTV, TVL, QOTD) and if they really enjoy it to try reading the rest of them.
But my caveat for that is that if they don’t care for Body Thief or Memnoch then still give Pandora and Vittorio a chance, then Armand, and if they enjoyed Armand and Pandora, to try Blood and Gold.
Its complicated, but so is the series, for such a seemingly straightforward concept of “vampires decide to write tell-all memoirs of their behind the scenes lives.”
i was drawing some eyes as i am wont to do. but i decided to draw different characters (old and new) that are in prince lestat and expres them through eyes alone so yaaay character design yasss bitch
maybe i’ll draw faces sometime. but we have the windows to the soul rn and that’s almost as good
I “met” Lestat for the first time during my third year of high school and there was the twilight-hype everywhere so all my classmates where like: “read twilight read twilight!) xD I had never thought of reading something vampires-related because I’ve never been an horror fan (better, I can’t read horror because I am afraid of almost everything…especially clowns, but this is another story~) and I had always associated vampires with this genre. Buut I was veeery curious to find out more about these fantasy creatures (I love fantasy! ♡), but Twilight was not at all my cup of tea! so I started browsing in my usual bookshoop and then I found…it: “interview with the vampire”! I remember that I thought: “this title is cool!”, although I expected something like an essay about vampires in literature in the form of an interview (I expected to receive answers on vampires mythology by Louis…now it seems a bit hilarious since he’s always whining about not having a clue xD), but I was not disappointed at all by the actual book *-* and then…it was a marathon of the whole series in a summer and I also saw the movie (and I also made my friends watch it, but not all of them appreciated it …ppst: the Italian dubbing is very good for this one!).
My favourite character at first was Louis (aah the charm of the good and tormented guy!), but then I fell in love with Lestat when I read “the vampire lestat” (“Scelti dalle tenebre”/“Chosen by darkness” in Italian)…very traditional story I guess xD! I love his endless love for life :3 (and I ship him hard with nicki and louis of course u.u). Moreover, I felt really near him in because of some similar thoughts I had in that period of my life, and the part of human-lestat always moves me ;__;
I also like Louis, Gabrielle and David Talbot 🙂 but in general I like them all (well…except Dora *hem hem*).
I’ve also read the mummy and angel time (here only “angel”) but not all anne rice books are published here or some of them are not easy to find (cry to heaven for example) so I think I’ll read them in English! 🙂
I hope my answer was entertaining and my English not too awkward XD
As I said, I love stories like these, and this one did not disappoint, thank u!
Re: Twilight an old memeything by someone else ages ago:
“Scelti dalle tenebre”/“Chosen by darkness” in Italian
^That’s hot. HOT. When does that occur in the book/movie?
the Italian dubbing is very good
Oh wow, I should check that out. I think French is the only other language option on the DVD I have.
Yay! 😀 I’m glad!
This could be renamed as “how Lestat saved me from Twilight LOL
I love that meme! X”’D
I think that the Italian title is referred to the whole “oh what a beautiful child of darkness you will be”…I guess. We changed also other VC titles:
– Blood and gold (I love this title ♡) here is “Il vampiro Marius” (the vampire marius…yes, we have the vampire marius but not the vampire lestat XD)
– Blackwood farm is “il vampiro di blackwood” (the vampire of blackwood)
– Blood canticle is only “blood” because “omg too religious CUT IT CUT IT!”
– Angel time>>only angel because yes
Oh and…we don’t have vittorio the vampire T_T
If you want to take a look: https://youtu.be/QnLKsaIXmFg
this is the “dinner scene” 😀 the only strange thing is that they pronounce “Louis” as “Lúi” and it is a pronoun (he/him) in Italian, so some sentences came out a bit…strange and hilarious ’_’
I saw the original version too but I can’t figure out very clearly…what accent are they using? >//
^this is all relevant to my interests. So bizarre, the revision of the titles of all those books!
Watch that dinner scene in Italian, I think they got the voices very close to the original ones. I often find that the French dubs of things, for example, have lower voices in general.
they pronounce “Louis” as “Lúi” and it is a pronoun (he/him) in Italian, so some sentences came out a bit…strange and hilarious
I saw the original version too but I can’t figure out very clearly…what accent are they using? >//
I think the actors ended up sounding just plain American English, although certain characters seemed to have that Creole NOLA accent going (like Yvette, and Claudia’s seamstress) or spoke French entirely (Claudia’s first kill).
Tom’s Lestat was going for a classic novel rhythm to the way he spoke, the emphasis he put on certain words in a sentence. Canon Lestat is half-French and half-Italian (his momma, Gabrielle, is Italian), but he grew up entirely in France so he would have more of a French accent.
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