Whether it was the producer or Cass, it was a sensation at the time. If you look at it now, it is simply an all-star luxury lineup.
Let’s talk about director Neil Jordan, an Irishman with a dream of being a writer. In order to realize his dream of visualizing words, he left his hometown and came to England. Finally, with his versatile ability, he created a world in Europe and Hollywood.
Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Oscar have his figure. Inheriting the genes of the painter's mother, Neil Jordan was able to paint oil painting-like sub-shots himself. He knew very well what he wanted. His films exuded a strong personal imprint in art and camera sense.
He also has the ability to write scripts that ordinary directors do not have. The identity of the writer has built a powerful springboard for Neil Jordan to successfully enter Hollywood. The script, the vexing problem of many directors, is precisely his forte.
"Interview with the Vampire" under the lens of him has the same tempting colors and art design as the vampire, and the story is even more soul-stirring. The mysterious feeling of the vampire is very charming and fascinating.
Speaking of the luxurious cast, Brad Pitt was still a young man with fair skin and beautiful skin, and the handsome Tom Cruise was a slender and handsome man full of aristocratic temperament. The love-hate entanglement between the two created a spark of desire that all audiences could not resist.
When Antonio Banderas shows up, his sophistication and exotic temperament paired with the boyish Brad Pitt give a different kind of relationship experience. Impulsive passion becomes caring and accommodating with protective and personal desires.
The joint performance of the three male gods at the peak of their appearance makes the screen full of hormones and desire molecules. If you are not careful, you will fall into their swamp of lust and story vortex, and you will be unable to extricate yourself.
"Interview with the Vampire" also has an amazing young actor, who was only 11 years old and is now a regular at major awards, Kristen Dunst.
In the film, she directly grabbed the scenes of two first-line male stars with her terrifying acting skills that surpassed her age and temperament. The little vampire Claudia, played by her, competes with Stater, played by Liang Tang, for a lover, and at the peak of hatred and jealousy, she cuts each other's throat with a knife! This scene stunned everyone. In the end, the 11-year-old was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars!
In the film, she also has a complex relationship with Louis, played by Brad Pitt, a father and a lover. Her performance shows the thinking and behavior of a mature woman with a hundred years of age, in her young body. A conflicted character full of resentment and longing for love at the same time.
The entire story is 200 years long, starting from Louisiana, USA in the 18th century, until the protagonist Louis returned here at the end of the 20th century. His 200-year magical experience is telling a story of self-identification and identity search.
The theme of "Interview with the Vampire" is lingering loneliness! The resulting behavior is seeking!
The theme of the film is mature and very clear, and loneliness leads to search. The film's conflicts and turns are related to the search for self-identity and relationships with others.
Louis, a farmer in Louisiana, was suddenly thrown into endless loneliness when his wife died in childbirth, and he wanted to die.
The vampire Staat took a fancy to his self-destructive temperament and turned him into his own kind.
Although immortal, Louis must survive by sucking human blood, which makes him very repulsive. His only teacher, Stutter, advocates pleasure and extravagance. He has no human nature of Louis. He can tease his prey wantonly, and take the opponent's life without hesitation.
The peak of the first conflict between the two came from the collective riots of rural blacks. The brutality of Stadt triggered their resistance, and the two were forced to leave the manor and live in New Orleans.
Louis has always resisted sucking human blood, and he still resists the sin in his own blood. In a situation of irrational hunger and thirst, he drank the blood of a homeless girl, Claudia.
In order to make up for Louie's remorse and repair the relationship between the two, Stutter fed Claudia his blood and turned her into a kindred.
In this way, two men and a little girl form a new and wonderful family relationship.
Louis is a gentle pet with kindness. Stater is an indulgent education with madness.
Soon, the little girl became the best vampire slayer, and she was more lustful than Stater. She could take the lives of her family without any guilt for the sake of blood.
But Claudia, who was reborn, still faced an unalterable self-identity crisis. She wanted to grow up and become an adult woman. She wanted to experience the body of an adult. She could already say "Louis, I Love". But physically, she has never been able to realize this love.
Claudia becomes a brutal and dangerous figure, because she longs for a mature female body, but can't get it, she simply turns him into a corpse, her doll.
Because she couldn't grow up physically, she resented Stat, although Louis was the first to bite her. At the peak of her selfishness and possessiveness, she made a decision to kill Stat and live alone with Louis. idea.
Even the old-fashioned Stater was deceived by her young body and innocent face. Stutter was devastated, and Louis took Claudia out of the United States and traveled the world, hoping to find traces of other vampires.
After a fruitless search, they settled in France.
Just when they thought they were the only vampires left, a large group of vampires found them.
The leader of them, Amon, wanted Louis to join them.
A new conflict comes, because Claudia kills her own kind, a blood debt that is an unforgivable sin for vampires. If Louis wants to join Amon's big group, he must leave Claudia.
Louis was moved by Amon's maturity. His desire to find a group was finally realized. At this time, he was indeed shaken. Although he also loved Claudia, this love was too complicated, and this love always had redemption. , with the tragic factor of repayment in it.
In the end, Claudia was killed by other members of the group, and Louis, in revenge, burned the entire group's catacombs with his own hands.
He longed for the protection of the group, but was killed by the group in the end.
He saw through Amon's scheming. It turned out that Amon was just a lonely person who wanted to exclusively accompany Louis, so he indulged in the lynching of Claudia by other members of the group.
In the end, Louis was still alone.
At the end of the 20th world, when he returned to his hometown, everything had changed, the only constant was the loneliness in his heart that could not be filled.
"Interview with the Vampire" does not show off the blood and mystery, but pulls the vampires back to the plight of human nature. As a minority in the world, although they have the art of immortality and eternal life, because of their ulterior identities, they can only Disguise into the life of ordinary human beings.
At the same time, they also have feelings and six desires. Because they are secretive and need to hide their identities, it is difficult for them to find companions and resist loneliness.
The four vampire protagonists in "Interview with the Vampire" have always been tormented by loneliness. Among them, Claudia is the most intense. She monopolizes Louis, and her dramatic behavior when she is afraid of losing Louis is the most tragic resistance when resisting loneliness. These behaviors The seeds of tragedy were planted for her final ending.
She needs company all the time and longs for love. In order to obtain, she can destroy all obstacles.
The touching part of "Interview with the Vampire" is that it humanizes vampires, and those familiar emotions are powerful weapons for us to empathize with.
A more cryptic metaphorical story-building must be addressed here. In fact, "Interview with the Vampire" is a thoroughly gay film.
This blood-related story is nothing but a metaphor of vampires as homosexuals and AIDS patients who were rampant at the time.
As a small number of people in the world, they have too much in common.
In the social environment at that time, whether they were homosexuals or AIDS patients, they all needed to hide their identities.
Therefore, finding the same kind and resisting loneliness is their highest spiritual need.
Look at the opposing scenes of the two protagonists in the film, plus the many sexually suggestive scenes deliberately made by the director, which have made the two male protagonists into characters with a homosexual temperament.
And the most ingenious design is the little girl Claudia. Two men and an adopted little girl formed an enviable fantasy family at the time.
Claudia resisted the group and left Louis, she didn't expect to find any new vampire members at all, she just wanted to grow up and get Louis' opposite sex love, but in the end, she failed, not because of her body, but because of her body. It's because of her gender, because Louis has already been changed by Stadt, and his new identity has been unable to identify with women's love.
In the end, even in spirit, they can never be one in body.
"Interview with the Vampire" is about the horrific consequences of human craving for immortality. This seemingly seductive longing is actually just a poison, and it will bring endless bone-eating loneliness.
At the same time, "Interview with the Vampire" also talks about the identity of minorities in society. They yearn for recognition, the purpose is still to fight loneliness, they yearn to warm and cold social separation in the name of love, but unfortunately this love is hot and cold, sweet and bitter.
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