Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
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| Directed by | Neil Jordan |
| Produced by | David Geffen Stephen Woolley |
| Written by | Anne Rice (novel and screenplay) |
| Starring | Tom Cruise Brad Pitt Christian Slater Kirsten Dunst |
| Music by | Elliot Goldenthal |
| Release date(s) | November 11, 1994 |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English, French |
| Followed by | Queen of the Damned |
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Interview with the Vampire (full title: Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles) is a 1994 film, based on the 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. The film was directed by Neil Jordan, and starred Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Kirsten Dunst.
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[edit] Differences between the book and the film
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| Louis is grief-stricken over the death of his wife and child. | Louis is depressed and blames himself for the death of his brother. |
| Lestat never appears in Paris after Louis sets him on fire in New Orleans. | After Claudia and Madeleine are destroyed, Louis encounters Lestat at the Théâtre des Vampires, where he has testified to Armand that Claudia had tried to kill him. |
| When Lestat drinks from the twin boys Claudia has given him as a "gift", he is severely weakened as drinking "dead blood" has negative effects on vampires. | It is not the dead blood that weakens Lestat, it is the fact that Claudia has drugged them with absinthe and laudanum. |
| At the end of the film, Daniel the interviewer is attacked in his car by Lestat, who implies that he'll turn him into a vampire. | Daniel leaves Louis intending to seek out Lestat in New Orleans. He is turned into a vampire by Armand in The Queen of the Damned. |
| This is not mentioned in the film. It is only said that they were traveling various countries without finding any other vampires. | Louis and Claudia find a race of mindless vampires in Translyvania. |
[edit] Reception
The casting of Cruise as Lestat was initially criticized by Anne Rice, who said that Cruise was "no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler" and the casting was "so bizarre, it's almost impossible to imagine how it's going to work." Nevertheless, she was satisfied with Cruise's performance after seeing the completed film, saying that "from the moment he appeared Tom was Lestat for me" and "That Tom did make Lestat work was something I could not see in a crystal ball."
[edit] Soundtrack
Interview with the Vampire soundtrack by Elliot Goldenthal
[edit] Trivia
River Phoenix originally was cast for the role of the interviewer before he died.[1]
[edit] External links
- Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles at the Internet Movie Database
- Interview with the Vampire at Rotten Tomatoes
- Interview With The Vampire at Tom Cruise Online.com
