Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête)/Interview wit the Vampire
@samreiddaily on Twitter for the Lestat/Beast pictures ❤️
Bruce Wayne's dream from Detective Comics #1062 (2022) / Val Kilmer in a deleted dream sequence for “Batman Forever” (1995) via taliasghul
obsessed w how korean iwtv fans call it 뱀터뷰 . vampterview . so true
Not sure if this has been done yet, but I scanned all the IWTV-related items I received from the SDCC 2023 activation.
Udo Kier in Blood For Dracula (1974) // Sam Reid in Interview With the Vampire (2022- )
the way louis looks at lestat at the beginning, the end, and after.
i literally cannot wait to witness the most homoerotic beef in television history
for your own peace of mind…. do NOT compare their shoulder length
IWTV Season 2 Sources & References (So Far)
- The Ethnic Avante-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution by Steven S. Lee
- Paris Journal 1944-1955 by Janet Flanner (Genet)
- The Vampire: A Casebook by Alan Dundes
- Quai des Orfevres (1947) film watch here
- Monsieur Vincent (1947) film
- Le Cafe du Cadran (1947) film about a wife’s affair with a violinist.
- La Kermesse Rouge (1947) film about a jealous artist who locks up his younger wife and a fire breaks out while she’s trapped.
- Mademoiselle Swing (1942) film about a girl who follows a troupe of swing musicians to Paris.
- Nuit de Décembre (1939)
- Les Deux Gosses (1936)
- Le Jour Se Leve (1939) about a man who commits murder as a result of a love triangle and locks himself in his apartment recounting the details as the police attempt to arrest him. Credit to @laisofhyccara
- Fantomas (1946) about a sadistic criminal mastermind. This version includes a hideout in the catacombs where he traps people.
- Les Enfents du Paradis (1945) about a woman with many suitors including an actor and an aristocrat.
- Morts Sans Sepulture by Jean-Paul Sartre (play) about resistance fighters imprisoned by the Nazis struggling not to give up information and dying in the process.
- Mon Faust by Paul Valery (play)
- The Triumph of Love by Pierre de Mariveaux (play)
- With a Smile/Avec le Sourire (1936)
Season 1 here
A List of Works Influencing and Referenced by IWTV Season 1
- Works Directly Referenced in the Narrative
Marriage in a Free Society by Edward Carpenter
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Cheri by Collete
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Complete Poetry of Emily Dickinson edited by Thomas H. Johnson*
Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti with libretto by Giovanni Ruffini
Iolanta by Pyotr Tchaikovsky with libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky
Pelleas et Melisande by Claude Debussy
- Works Cited by the Writer’s Room as Influences
Bourbon Street: A History by Richard Campanella (as it hardly mentions Storyville I think interested parties would be better served by additional titles if they want a complete history of New Orleans)
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (This was also adapted into an award winning opera)
poetry by Charles Simic (possibly A Wedding in Hell?)
poetry by Mark Strand (possibly Dark Harbour?)
- Works Which May Have Contributed to The Development of the Series and Genre (This is the most open to criticism and additions)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, uncensored (There are two very different versions of this which exist today, as Harvard Press republished the unedited original with permission from the Wilde family.)
Warsan Shire for Beyoncé’s Lemonade
Medea by Euripides
Faust: A Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
La Morte Amoreuse by Theophile Gautier
Carmilla by Sheridan LeFanu
Maurice by E.M. Forster
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Sailing to Byzantium by Yeats
The Circus Animal's Desertion by Yeats
The Second Coming by Yeats
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (credit to @johnlockdynamic )
1984 by George Orwell (credit to @savage-garden-nights for picking this up)
Gone With the Wind film (1939)
Hannibal (2013)
*if collected or in translation most of the best editions today would not have been available to the characters pre-1940. It’s possible Louis is meant to have read them in their original French in some cases, but it would provide for a different experience. Lydia Davis’ Madame Bovary, for example, attempts to replicate this.
** I've tagged and linked relevant excerpts under quote series as I've been working my way through the list.
Is Armand gonna have a Harry Lime moment? “Tell me, would you really feel any pity if one of those…dots stopped moving forever?”
I’m deceased 🪦💐 he acknowledged it!
THE COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984) dir. Neil Jordan
Rosaleen & The Huntsman/The Wolf
OBITUARY: Rashid
Former Dubai resident and the vampire Armand’s most recent alter-ego, Rashid, passed away suddenly on Nov. 7, 2022 in an apoplectic rage during an interview. He was 28 years old.
He worked for several days in the employment of Louis de Pointe du Lac and was known for being a diligent–if not slightly disconcerting–personal assistant. He was an opinionated young man and lived to share his opinions with others, solicited or not.
When he wasn’t single-handedly running the affairs of Mr. De Pointe du Lac’s penthouse, Rashid enjoyed swimming, playing games on his iPad, making martinis, gorging himself on pineapple and honey, melting hearts with his sweet brown eyes, and ironing his dozens of V-neck tops. He was a devout Muslim and definitely not a rent boy.
Rashid is survived by his loving “employer,” Louis de Pointe de Lac.
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With the introduction of our Armand in Season 2, I felt that it’s time to give “Rashid” a proper send-off. I actually sort of felt depressed writing this.😅 Peace out, Rashid!
RADTFUUFDYDTYDFFYUCHC?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
the free bible courses outside the 50ft loumand poster we’ve finally made it
AMC should just put on episode 1 on loop for them. 🤓
Not even the whole episode just *that* scene on loop!
I think my favorite thing about iwtv/vampire chronicles is just how insane every is about each other. Louis is a sad goth girl who falls fast and hard for a blaring red flag so he marries lestat after watching him kill two priests and then yearns for him despite their marriage being a total dumpster fire. He sees Armand kill a girl on stage and thinks. Oh that's cruel and evil (affectionate). Finds out he killed his daughter and stays in a fucked up bdsm marriage for another 70 years. Armand wants to consume Lestat soooo bad. He also hates him so bad. But he cut off his lover's hands for him <3. But he also threw him off a tower. Lestat thinks Armand is batshit insane and a menace but also like. It's Armand his theatre friend Armand, his beloved (beloathed<3) Armand. Both of them stalk Louis bc his jewel-like sorrow and tumultuous, powerful love has bewitched them body and soul.
Unexpected Musicals moments in their entirety /// Lestat the Musical
The complete and utter lack of personal space between Armand and Lestat
sistergudule
how about that one where he’s licking his ear? :D
You mean this one? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I wasn’t strong enough to add such a hot scene lol (not really, they actually cut that wondrous scene and it wasn’t in the version I gifted haha)