This movie was released in 1994,
and stars Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, and Christian
Slater. This was an awesome movie. I think one of the reasons I liked it as
much as I did is because I finished the book two days before I watched the
film. The book was written by Anne Rice in 1976 and is the first book in the
quite large Vampire Chronicles.
This film technically takes place
in the early 1990`s roughly, although the story being told takes place through
various centuries starting in the year 1791. This film is about a reporter
called Daniel interviewing a vampire. That’s the recent day part of the movie.
The rest is a flashback of Louis` life. Louis is the vampire being interviewed.
Without giving away too much of the story, basically it tells us how Louis was
transformed by a seductive, yet evil vampire named Lestat. The two of them find
and transform a child named Claudia. The rest of the story is more or less
Louis and Claudia searching Europe for other vampires and ending up in Paris.
There is a lot of stuff going on in
this movie and I don`t want to spoil a lot of it, so that’s all I will say
about the plot. This was really interesting to watch because I had just
finished the book two days prior to watching this, so I could really make
comparisons. I loved the book, it was so imaginative, seductive in tone, and
amazingly well written. So I had really high hopes going into this movie,
especially with such an amazing cast. They definitely changed some things from
the book, but it in no way took away from the film. This is quite a dark story
with certain aspects that can be disturbing to some people. The character of
Claudia is very interesting because she was transformed as a child therefore
she will always have the body of a child. This really angers her and we first
see this inner anger in a scene where Claudia see`s a grown woman naked and she
wants to be like her. There are some great effects as well, such as near the
ending when Louis is on a rampage with other vampire`s. Overall, great acting,
great writing, great visuals, great movie.