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Interview with the Vampire 2.01 | "What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned"

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One day he said, "Had enough of your gloomy face." Drove off on a motorbike. Thought I might as well go home, get Louis, head to Europe.
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claudia's murder of lestat in the book is so much more chilling and effective. here he's mocking the fact that she'll never grow into a woman's figure. so to kill him she presents him with two prepubescent boys (instead of the adult twins in the show, lestat 'dies' in two seperate scenes here, they merged both into a single scene in 1.07) about the same age as she was when lestat made her as an act of child sexual assualt since the bite + exchange of blood in the books straightforwardly functions as sexual contact. lestat says i hope it's an adult woman like you'll never get to be and instead she kills him with the poisoned blood of children... because don't you like the taste of children's blood!!!
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something about louis being deep in the trenches of his catholic guilt but both lestat and claudia seeing him in a holy light the first time they meet him
the way this can be read as lestat re-enacting & living his own murder through his victims
the way this can be read as lestat re-enacting & living his own murder through his victims

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But it was not until a few nights later, when I watched a man pull a knife out of his walking stick and press the blade to his brother's breast bone, that I said to myself, “Lestat, unpack your trunks. You're home.”
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022-)
lestat being incapable of understanding that making louis a vampire hasn't freed him from being racialised or that lestat himself is a participant in the systems that make this racialisation possible, instead to cheer him up he tells him they'll live forever and their love is above these momentary offenses and indignations then he does this again during the storyville riots so louis in that moment throws his words back at him and leaves. and subsequently weaponises that insecurity to get him to turn claudia!
also louis won't stop insulting lestat in the book it's so funny... i should start a compilation
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022-)
also really like how neither louis nor lestat had warned her and/or talked to her about the bite so she could've avoided completely draining charlie and could've been spared that traumatic experience - because as fathers they were keeping claudia in a state of protracted (pre)pubescance/daughterhood quite literally. like when it happens you really get the sense that they didn't even think this is a situation that could've arised at any point because they haven't thought of her as a sexual being

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fascinating thing about the show is that lestat paradoxically both frees and traps louis that night at the church
in 1.03 louis says (paraphrasing) "you took my life and now i'm about to lose the last thing i care about (the azalea)." yeah so lestat's turning of louis, despite louis being willing, is on some level a coercive act (be my victim...) lestat has violently butchered two priests in front of him and killed miss lily so like can he even meaningfully say no to him in that moment and all that (if i had to guess lestat probably saw them as louis's tools for repressing his true self. not wrong. also louis bringing up the question of whether or not he killed paul too in 1.06 means he's stayed with lestat for decades with that suspicion, something that must've played on his mind that night. so like lestat is exploiting him in a moment of great distress) and then obviously becoming a vampire isolates him from his own community in a literal sense and he has nowhere else to go to, no other vampires to corroborate or contradict the little knowledge lestat offers him as he secludes him his domain. classic gothic horror stuff. but it's interesting that louis's deteriorating relationship with his own family and the shutdown of his business has more to do with his identity as a gay, black man in jim crow south. even before lestat turns him, louis is evidently being replaced as the figurehead of the pointe du lac household by levi, grace's new husband. the first slight is during paul's funeral when florence pointedly ignores louis's offer to walk her back home and instead turns to levi. the second time he sees his mother, her displeasure is clearly about louis's homosexuality, "he's done his nails" / "those glasses are preferred by men like him", this is the first time we'll see his vampirism being positioned as a metaphor for his queer identity/sense of self (be all the beautiful things you are and be them without apology) then again in 1.03 he's forbidden from entering the house and to louis's outrage florence calls levi 'son', "son? i'm your son" so levi has in effect replaced louis as the patriarch of the family, despite louis "[controlling] the money" as paul puts it in 1.01 because unlike louis he's entered a hetreosexual marriage, he's the right kind of son living the right life, as florence sees it. louis's desire to have children is also first brought up when he meets his nephew, levi has done his part in continuing his family name but the pointe du lac name will die with louis. he is being ousted from the family and his role as family patriarch because of his homosexuality.
next you have the shutdown of the azalea which occurred because of the passing of the city ordinance act and the subsequent mob violence. louis's profession, his financial independence and role is stolen from him through means of racial terror. it's societal racist and homophobic forces that deprive louis of his former life as patriarch and businessman, not lestat and his offer of vampirism. and it's possible this is more or less how his life would've gone had lestat never showed up, most likely he would've remained single or entered an unfulfilling marriage at some point to keep up appearances. he would've been eventually barred from participating in the economy through racial violence. so lestat is wrong in his claim that he can elevate louis beyond social roles, can preclude him from being racialised - of course race is the axis of power through which lestat dominates louis, he can spontaneously decide to have a white woman as a paramour in public to mess with louis but louis must drive out to the bayou with jonah etc, so vampirism simultaenousy functions as a metaphor for consumption of black bodies - but he does give him the gift of immortality, he gives him the gift of time. louis will get to live through and beyond all that tragedy and eventually reach a place in time when he can finally live his best, authentic self, can finally be happy. i didn't know it was a gift!
fascinating thing about the show is that lestat paradoxically both frees and traps louis that night at the church