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Und heute eine kleine Englisch-Stunde.... denn ich musste eine Review schreiben und habe mir den Film "Interview mit einem Vampir" ausgesucht.
Ich möchte nochmal ausdrücklichst darauf hinweisen das mein Englisch nicht das allerbeste ist, aber ich versuche dennoch meinen Humor ein wenig miteinzubringen.
Wagt euch in die Höhle des Löwen und lest:
Review: Interview with a vampire
Actors: Tom Cruise (Lestat); Brad Pitt (Louis); Kirsten Dunst (Claudia); Christian Slater (Daniel); Antonio Banderas (Armand); Stephan Rea (Strange Guy who walks on walls).
Director: Neil Jordan
Producer: Stephen Wooley
Interview with a Vampire is based on the novel “Interview with the Vampire” by Anne Rice.
Summary: Louis lost his wife and child, so he wants to die. Lestat de Lioncourt listens to his prayer and so Louis die- but not forever because he is turned into a vampire. Hating his new life-form and worried about their adopted daughter Claudia, they try to kill Lestat and move to Paris, where Claudia is killed by a clan of french vampires. These events take place several centuries ago, in this century Louis comes back to New Orleans and find Lestat who is still alive. After leaving him he move to San Francisco to tell his story to the reporter Daniel.
Details: The storyline is very good, most things are happening like in the book of Anne Rice, just a few details are changed like Louis family or the age of Armand who should in fact be looking like a 16-year old boy.
Although nobody of the cast has his real hair color, it is the most fitting cast I can imagine. The costumes are carefully chosen and just as adequate as the music which is responsible of the main shocking-effects in the movie. Only the special effects are after their time.
Titel: Crying with the vampire
The protagonist Louis has a big problem: He wants to die, and when he is dead- turned into a vampire- he wishes he could be human again. He hate his being as a bloodsucker who kills people and doesn’t know what to do, so he run away from one place to another- his journey of pain seems to be restless.
The movie starts in the present city of San Francisco where Louis de Point du Lac tells his story to a reporter called Daniel. He begins with the pain of losing his family and how he was found by the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt who wrests him the life to give him the one of a creature of the night.
Lestat is an easy guy who wants to live in richness and enjoy the life of a undead. However, Louis is suffering through his new life, so that Lestat tries to cheer him up a little and offers him the blood of a rat or something that SHOULD BE a rat. It doesn’t really look like one and the sound of a empty bottle which is caused by the blood-empty rat is more amusing than frightening.
When Louis feels attraction on the blood of a young slave he gets a flash of madness and burns down the mansion.
Of course, Lestat is not really glad of this development, still he moves with Louis to New Orleans.
In the time of pestilence Louis lost his last self control and almost kills a sick little girl.
Now here comes a scene where most viewers think: “What the fuck….???” Lestat grabs the mother of the child who became a victim of the plague and dances around with her like a jerk.
The sense of that scene is not really obvious, maybe the director wanted to show the boorish temperament of Lestat. However, to prevent the deranged Louis from leaving him- or should I say “breaking off” ???- he turns the dirty little girl called Claudia into a vampire who becomes surprisingly beautiful (maybe, because the actress is changed). His plan seems to be successful - they act the perfect little family until little Claudia realises that she will never grow-up. Because of this he becomes hateful and embittered- only in focus of Lestat, of course. One evening she talks to Louis like to a husband about the situation- with his agreement of escaping but without letting know him what exactly she wants to do she poisons Lestat and kill him cruelly.
Soon it seems that they are not as safe as they thought when Lestat comes back from the swamp. “Accidentally” they burn down the whole harbour and escape on a ship to Europe.
After a long journey searching for other vampires, they come to Paris and immediately meet a strange one who walks up walls and act like a mirror. They find out that he belongs to a french vampire clan which is ruled by Armand.
Because Louis is more and more engaged with Armand, Claudia becomes jealous and forces him to turn a female puppet-maker she has chosen into a vampire. After that she is satisfied, during Louis woe seems to be endless- now he lost the last peace of humanity. At this point latest the viewer ask himself how one person can lament so much. Maybe he wouldn’t suffer so much if he listens at least ONE time to the persons wanting to caution him about important things, for example Armand who tells him that he and Claudia are in danger. As we can guess Louis doesn’t listens to him because the movie would be boring then. So he get kidnapped by the mad clan of vampires and mured into a wall of the theatre under that they are living, while Claudia and her nanny are cooped into a tower without a roof to die.
Only Louis survives with the help of Armand. If anybody would ask why the two man converge that often, it seems that the script-writer weren’t sure if they should leave the homosexual part of Anne Rice books out or not. A nice solution, so everybody can think what he wants.
After Louis flight there is a large leap in time into the 80’s or early 90’s. Louis comes back to the now mouldered house in New Orleans where Lestat, Claudia and he lived and finds a sick and weak Lestat who survived the fire two or one hundred years ago. Tragically Louis doesn’t seem to care about Lestat anymore. After the next leap in time we are in the present again, in San Francisco. When Daniel seems to be very interested becoming a vampire, Louis damn himself for telling him this and frightens the reporter away. Daniel is satisfied because he got the cassette with the interview and listen to it driving in his car. On the Golden Gate Bridge appears Lestat behind Daniel and assumes the steering-wheel. What happens then? Who knows….
Conclusion:
It is a very nice movie and very entertaining. You will like it if you don’t take it to serious.
I think it is well-rated with PG-16, facing the fact that it is not everybody’s taste to watch handsome guys drinking blood out of more or less delicious sources.
Ich möchte nochmal ausdrücklichst darauf hinweisen das mein Englisch nicht das allerbeste ist, aber ich versuche dennoch meinen Humor ein wenig miteinzubringen.
Wagt euch in die Höhle des Löwen und lest:
Review: Interview with a vampire
Actors: Tom Cruise (Lestat); Brad Pitt (Louis); Kirsten Dunst (Claudia); Christian Slater (Daniel); Antonio Banderas (Armand); Stephan Rea (Strange Guy who walks on walls).
Director: Neil Jordan
Producer: Stephen Wooley
Interview with a Vampire is based on the novel “Interview with the Vampire” by Anne Rice.
Summary: Louis lost his wife and child, so he wants to die. Lestat de Lioncourt listens to his prayer and so Louis die- but not forever because he is turned into a vampire. Hating his new life-form and worried about their adopted daughter Claudia, they try to kill Lestat and move to Paris, where Claudia is killed by a clan of french vampires. These events take place several centuries ago, in this century Louis comes back to New Orleans and find Lestat who is still alive. After leaving him he move to San Francisco to tell his story to the reporter Daniel.
Details: The storyline is very good, most things are happening like in the book of Anne Rice, just a few details are changed like Louis family or the age of Armand who should in fact be looking like a 16-year old boy.
Although nobody of the cast has his real hair color, it is the most fitting cast I can imagine. The costumes are carefully chosen and just as adequate as the music which is responsible of the main shocking-effects in the movie. Only the special effects are after their time.
Titel: Crying with the vampire
The protagonist Louis has a big problem: He wants to die, and when he is dead- turned into a vampire- he wishes he could be human again. He hate his being as a bloodsucker who kills people and doesn’t know what to do, so he run away from one place to another- his journey of pain seems to be restless.
The movie starts in the present city of San Francisco where Louis de Point du Lac tells his story to a reporter called Daniel. He begins with the pain of losing his family and how he was found by the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt who wrests him the life to give him the one of a creature of the night.
Lestat is an easy guy who wants to live in richness and enjoy the life of a undead. However, Louis is suffering through his new life, so that Lestat tries to cheer him up a little and offers him the blood of a rat or something that SHOULD BE a rat. It doesn’t really look like one and the sound of a empty bottle which is caused by the blood-empty rat is more amusing than frightening.
When Louis feels attraction on the blood of a young slave he gets a flash of madness and burns down the mansion.
Of course, Lestat is not really glad of this development, still he moves with Louis to New Orleans.
In the time of pestilence Louis lost his last self control and almost kills a sick little girl.
Now here comes a scene where most viewers think: “What the fuck….???” Lestat grabs the mother of the child who became a victim of the plague and dances around with her like a jerk.
The sense of that scene is not really obvious, maybe the director wanted to show the boorish temperament of Lestat. However, to prevent the deranged Louis from leaving him- or should I say “breaking off” ???- he turns the dirty little girl called Claudia into a vampire who becomes surprisingly beautiful (maybe, because the actress is changed). His plan seems to be successful - they act the perfect little family until little Claudia realises that she will never grow-up. Because of this he becomes hateful and embittered- only in focus of Lestat, of course. One evening she talks to Louis like to a husband about the situation- with his agreement of escaping but without letting know him what exactly she wants to do she poisons Lestat and kill him cruelly.
Soon it seems that they are not as safe as they thought when Lestat comes back from the swamp. “Accidentally” they burn down the whole harbour and escape on a ship to Europe.
After a long journey searching for other vampires, they come to Paris and immediately meet a strange one who walks up walls and act like a mirror. They find out that he belongs to a french vampire clan which is ruled by Armand.
Because Louis is more and more engaged with Armand, Claudia becomes jealous and forces him to turn a female puppet-maker she has chosen into a vampire. After that she is satisfied, during Louis woe seems to be endless- now he lost the last peace of humanity. At this point latest the viewer ask himself how one person can lament so much. Maybe he wouldn’t suffer so much if he listens at least ONE time to the persons wanting to caution him about important things, for example Armand who tells him that he and Claudia are in danger. As we can guess Louis doesn’t listens to him because the movie would be boring then. So he get kidnapped by the mad clan of vampires and mured into a wall of the theatre under that they are living, while Claudia and her nanny are cooped into a tower without a roof to die.
Only Louis survives with the help of Armand. If anybody would ask why the two man converge that often, it seems that the script-writer weren’t sure if they should leave the homosexual part of Anne Rice books out or not. A nice solution, so everybody can think what he wants.
After Louis flight there is a large leap in time into the 80’s or early 90’s. Louis comes back to the now mouldered house in New Orleans where Lestat, Claudia and he lived and finds a sick and weak Lestat who survived the fire two or one hundred years ago. Tragically Louis doesn’t seem to care about Lestat anymore. After the next leap in time we are in the present again, in San Francisco. When Daniel seems to be very interested becoming a vampire, Louis damn himself for telling him this and frightens the reporter away. Daniel is satisfied because he got the cassette with the interview and listen to it driving in his car. On the Golden Gate Bridge appears Lestat behind Daniel and assumes the steering-wheel. What happens then? Who knows….
Conclusion:
It is a very nice movie and very entertaining. You will like it if you don’t take it to serious.
I think it is well-rated with PG-16, facing the fact that it is not everybody’s taste to watch handsome guys drinking blood out of more or less delicious sources.
