An interesting read. In the beginning I also agreed with Ms Rice about the actors chosen to play her "Chronicles" vampires. Tom Cruise is quite the opposite of Lestat. Cruise is short and has jet black hair. Lestat is described as tall, and blond. Armand was supposed be French and had auburn (red/brown) hair. Antonio Banderas is Spanish, born in Madrid, is also rather short, and very dark. He was probably chosen for his sexy accent. Kirsten Dunst, in my opinion was perfect as Claudia. But, after watching the movie, and seeing what the actors did with the roles, I find I cannot accept any other actors in these roles. I had read that Tom Cruise very much wanted the chance to play Lestat in "Queen Of The Damned", I don't know why another actor was chosen. That other actor, as good looking as he was, just didn't make it for me. For me, Tom Cruise is Lestat, and only Cruise can play the role. The same can be said for Louis. I would love to see Ms Rice's other vampire novels be made into movies. I'm sick to death of the "Twilight" sparkly vampires! I mean, why the hell would a 100 year old vamp need to attend high school? And who the hell cares if he has sweet smelling breath? The lady who writes this teenybopper dribble, is obviously fantasizing on paper ABOUT HERSELF, because the Isabella characters is rarely described. No one needs to describe themself, now do they? Hey, Twilight junkies? Vampires DO NOT like to go out in the day light! It diminishes our power greatly, and really hurts the eyes (because our vision is so much greater than that of mortals). We MUST sleep in our coffins, and we MUST have our native soil beneath us. One of the reasons our Mistress makes regular trips to her native New Orleans...to collect fresh soil. The very last thing that a vampire desires is a romantic relationship...or an ongoing war with Licanthropes! Good grief, I can't stand those things! If they move into a neighborhood, I move out.
Gloria Right Fang Girl The Chihuahua; one tiny dog, one giant bundle of love! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:03:13 -0400 To: [email protected] Subject: [TheDarkGift] Film adaptation Main article: Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles Before the novel's publication, Anne Rice had sold the film rights to __ to Paramount Pictures, who did nothing with the property for the ten years of their contract. With Paramount's option expired, Rice moved the film rights to Lorimar Productions, which was taken over by Warner Bros. in 1988. Producer David Geffen purchased the rights for $500,000, and director Neil Jordan co-wrote the script with Rice, with her receiving the sole credit. The film was released in 1994 with Tom Cruise as Lestat, a role he received, much to the original chagrin of Anne Rice, who favoured Julian Sands or Rutger Hauer. Brad Pitt starred as Louis, and Christian Slater was cast as the interviewer Molloy after the death of the originally cast River Phoenix. Antonio Banderas co-starred as Armand, as did a young Kirsten Dunst as the child vampire Claudia. The film was a major success, causing a resurgence of interest in the book series and sent __ back onto the bestseller lists. Rice initially voiced her objections to the casting of Tom Cruise as Lestat (her original choice was Julian Sands). But, after seeing the finished film, she paid $7,740 for a two-page ad in __ praising his performance and apologizing for her previous doubts about him.[2] There have also been several slight alterations from the book to the film adaption; one, most notably being, the change from the mortal Louis' despair and grief from his younger brother's death to (in the film) despair and grief over a deceased wife and stillborn child. Other changes include Lestat returning from the swamp with a new accomplice before attacking Louis and Claudia, the deletion of some characters including Lestat's blind father, Louis's family, and the Freniere family, the deletion of Louis and Claudia traveling through Eastern Europe, the shortening of Madeleine's story time, the deletion of Louis entering a church and attacking a priest, the deleting of the part with Lestat having a hand in the deaths of Claudia and Madeleine, Louis finding Lestat with a new vampire who later abandons him as well and the visual portrayal of Armand; in the book, Armand, though actually nearly 400 years old, is said to appear to be a mere boy of seventeen with auburn hair and of Eastern European descent; Banderas fit none of these descriptions, but the events surrounding the character of Armand stayed very near to those of the book. ____________________________________________________________ GET FREE SMILEYS FOR YOUR IM & EMAIL - Learn more at http://www.inbox.com/smileys Works with AIM®, MSN® Messenger, Yahoo!® Messenger, ICQ®, Google Talk™ and most webmails ------------------------------------ Come one come all Mortals who are willing to stick their neck out for a vampire to feed upon. We will be willing to share our Dark Gift to you mortals if you pass our test.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheDarkGift/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheDarkGift/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
