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Tom Cruise and Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt

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I really think the answer is different for both of them! Their social status as humans is basically opposite in a huge way and that's probably what most informs how someone feels about their fellow humans. They're both wealthy, but being white and owning an inherited plantation in the 1790s is a very different experience from being black in the deep South in the 1920s and clawing your way as far up the ladder as they'll let you get. Those two people experience humanity in wildly different ways. Book Louis asks to be turned to escape from himself. Show Louis asks to be turned to escape from the world. I would say their primary hatreds reflect that.

Book Louis definitely doesn't hate humans, but he also doesn't have a reason to. His big problems while alive (his sexual orientation and maybe also mental illness/addiction) were between him and God, humanity/respectable society is just a point of envy and fascination in life and in death. In spite of his existence as a gay man, Louis is at the top of the pecking order as a human and we see him yearning for humanity and what his life could have been like if he was "good". The humans around him are romanticized and aspirational from his perspective. Sometimes he lashes out towards humans from a place of self-hatred, but that hatred is always really directed inward.

In comparison, I would completely understand if show Louis did hate human beings. Human society, dominated by white society, caused so much suffering for him, and then becoming a vampire intensifies everything that's already in someone. It wouldn't take much of that to twist the bitterness and hurt into blanket hatred for a society that rejected him so deeply as a black gay man. We see a lot of more externalized aggression from Louis in the show, and that makes sense in a world that's actively antagonizing him. Book Louis has the same anger, but there's no outside target for it aside from collateral damage from his periodic blow ups.