Sunday, November 2, 2008

#71. Interview with the Vampire (1994)


Director: Neil Jordan
Screenplay: Anne Rice (Based on the novel by Anne Rice)
Cast: Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, Antonio Banderas, Thandie Newton, Domiziana Giordano

Quote: "I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years."

Anne Rice adapted her own masterful novel in the eventual hit that made the likes of Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Kirsten Dunst bigger stars then they already were. Starting in a modern day city, we meet Louis (Brad Pitt), who is being interviewed by a brave soul (Christian Slater). Louis tells him his many adventures of gain and loss, starting way back in the 1700s. He tells this because he is a vampire. In the story we see Louis journey into the unknown, how time has changed, his "like-daughter" Claudia (Kirsten Dunst) and the man that ruined everything for him, the evil and gruesome vampire Lestat (Tom Cruise).

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