Interview with the Vampire 1994
- Director: Neil Jordan
- Seen by this director: Breakfast on Pluto, The Butcher Boy, The Crying Game, Mona Lisa
- Based on the novel by Anne Rice
- Cast: Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater, Thandiwe Newton, Stephen Rea
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Brad Pitt – Ad Astra, Once upon a Time in Hollywood, World War Z, The Tree of Life, Inglourious Basterds, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Burn After Reading, Babel, Troy, confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Friends, The Fight Club, Being John Malkovich, Meet Joe Black, Twelve Monkeys, Seven, True Romance, Thelma and Louise
- Tom Cruise - Edge of Tomorrow, Oblivion, Valkyria, War of the Worlds, A Few Good Men, Rain Man, Cocktail
- Kirsten Dunst – Upside Down, Hidden Figures, Melancholia, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mona Lisa’s Smile, Levity, Virgin Suicides, Little Women
- Antonio Banderos – Once upon a Time in Mexico. Frida, Evita, Philadelphia
- Christian Slater – The Power of Few, Bobby, True Romance, Star Trek the Undiscovered Country, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
- Thandiwe Newton – 2012, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, The Chronicles of Riddick, Beloved, Gridlock’d
- Stephen Rea – Utopia, V for Vendetta, Tara Road, Breakfast on Pluto, Till Crazy, Butcher Boy, Fever Pitch, Michael Collins, The Crying Game
- Why? I remember it as interesting.
- Seen: Once before. Now 15 May 2023
Zombies are best but some vampires are
cool. Spike. Dracula. Nosferatu. Mitchell and Hal.
Louis (Pitt) is telling his story to the
interviewer (Slater) of his non-life as a vampire. Two hundred or so years ago
he was made a vampire by Lestat (Cruise) who is evil and loves killing. Poor
Louis hates killing, hates himself.
Cruise was a controversial choice to play
Lestat and I agree with the nay-sayers. He can be a decent actor, for example
in Born on the Fourth of July, but a vampire he ain’t. Pitt makes a good
melancholy sad-eyed vampire but by far the best is 12-year-old Dunst as
Claudia, a fierce precocious child vampire.
The story is mostly quite boring with only a few moments of drama. See my list of favourite vampires above. They are all more interesting.
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