{"id":35921,"date":"2024-06-07T06:24:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T10:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35921"},"modified":"2024-06-07T06:24:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T10:24:51","slug":"interview-with-the-vampire-the-vampire-chronicles-1994-directed-by-neil-jordan-starring-tom-cruise-brad-pitt-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35921","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) directed by Neil Jordan, starring Tom Cruise &amp; Brad Pitt \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z060724zview_intererviewvampire94.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles <\/strong><\/em>(1994)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Neil Jordan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Anne Rice <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4aPyNHS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE<\/a> by <strong>Horace McCoy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, John McConnell, Bellina Logan, Thandiwe Newton, Indra Ov\u00e9, Helen McCrory, Roger Lloyd Pack<\/strong> and <strong>Stephen Rea<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Drink From Me And Live Forever<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Daniel Molloy (Slater) is a writer looking for a story.\u00a0 After a chance meeting with Louis de Pointe du Lac (Pitt), he may have found it.\u00a0 Louis claims to be a vampire.\u00a0 Although Molloy is skeptical at first, Louis quickly proves he is what he says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Molloy records and takes notes, Louis tells his story. In 1791 Louis was a young, wealthy Louisiana plantation owner.\u00a0 That changed the evening the vampire, Lestat (Cruise) turned him.\u00a0 No longer human, Louis and Lestat moved through the night.\u00a0 Undead but living.\u00a0 Forced to leave Louisiana, when folks began to suspect Louis and his new friend were behind many <em>disappearances,<\/em> Louis and Lestat head to New Orleans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Louis&#8217; tale spans 200 years.\u00a0 New Orleans.\u00a0 A new vampire joins them.\u00a0 Betrayal.\u00a0 A journey to Europe where they discover the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Vampires.\u00a0 True Vampires putting on plays where they pretend to be humans playing vampires! The victims are real.\u00a0 To tell more of Louis story would be to say too much.<\/p>\n<p>But I will leave you with this&#8230; can an interview with a vampire end well?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>was nominated for two <em>Academy Awards<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Best Art Direction-Set Decoration<\/em>: Dante Ferretti Francesca, Lo Schiavo<\/li>\n<li><em> Best Music, Original Score<\/em>: Elliot Goldenthal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anne Rice was not initially happy when Tom Cruise was cast as Lestat.\u00a0 When Rice wrote the novel she envisioned Rutgar Hauer in the role.\u00a0 She thought of Alain Delon when writing the screenplay.\u00a0 Then when it was time to cast the role she suggested John Malkovich, Peter Weller, Jeremy Irons or Alexander Godunov.\u00a0 When Cruise and Pitt were selected for the two leads she suggested that Pitt play Lestat.\u00a0 That wasn&#8217;t to be.\u00a0 When the film was released, Rice had come around to the Tom Cruise casting.\u00a0 She said he brought something to the role that she had not foreseen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While I&#8217;m a fan of many of Tom Cruise&#8217;s movies and I do really like <em>Interview with a Vampire<\/em>, I think he was miscast as Lestat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">River Phoenix was set to play Daniel Malloy before his untimely death.\u00a0 Christian Slater then got the part.\u00a0 Slater donated his salary from the film to two of River Phoenix&#8217;s favorite charities.<\/p>\n<p>The initial scene Stephen Rea shares with Brad Pitt is both funny and a bit scary.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a favorite of mine.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles <\/strong><\/em>(1994) rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z060724zview_intererviewvampire94b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) Director: Neil Jordan Screenplay: Anne Rice based on INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,52,17,53,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35933,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35921\/revisions\/35933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}