The movie of “Interview with a Vampire, was actually more
intriguing than the book and the movie of Dracula. It was based on the flashbacks of the vampire
Louie a.k.a Brad Pitt. As it begins,
Louie, has this interviewer follow him to an apartment. Where Louie tells the story of becoming a
vampire and what he did up to the current time of the 1990’s.
Two hundred years ago in the later part of the
1700’s, Louie is all but abducted. In
the same concept as John Steward was in Dracula. Louie was bitten and drained repeatedly, by
Lestat de Lioncart a.k.a Tom Cruise. The way Lestat went about draining Louie
of his blood, was with pure consistency almost as if he kept emasculating Louie
until his death. Once the death of Louie prevailed from the lack of blood, his
transformation into vampirism was prominent.
After revival, Louie was beyond petrified
of his curse, very similar to that of a person scared of his own shadow. He hated everything about the vampirism. Refusing to kill at the beginning points, he
would only in-jest animal blood. He
would kill animals such as rabbits, squirrels, and dogs. However that blood,
would not be enough to satisfy the thirst of the vampirism. He was doomed to killing an innocent
individual, and when that time finally happened the blood was almost
sanctifying. The individual to help
persuade that killing was no one but Lestat himself. As Lestat had pure dominance over Louie, he
had no choice but to listen to his voice, as he persuaded the first drops of
human blood into Louie’s mouth.
From
that point onward, Louie had no other choice but to obey Lestat. In the same
meaningful way that Dracula made Steward obey him. Louie had no power over Lestat, where Dracula
had full control over Steward. As Louie
began lashing out of control, he attacks a little girl probably no older than
seven years old. This girl, instead of killing her. Louie instead choose to
save her life. But by saving her life, meant
to change her to the demon that was now in control of him. Her name was Claudia. At the age of seven, she was converted to
vampirism.
Lestat found this situation more
comical than anything else. As he had
made Louie the mother figure for Claudia. Here Louie was even more emasculated.
Louie would sleep with Claudia in the same coffin until she was of “age” or
vampiristic knowledge to sleep by herself.
Claudia once becoming mature
enough begins becoming the more dominant figure in the same manner of that of
Mina had to become to kill Dracula. Claudia
releasing her anger onto Lestat and attempting to kill him multiple times. Apologizing and then
trapping Lestat with freshly killed bodies contaminated with poisonous blood. Claudia was fiercer than that of Louie. Once
again showing that the female characters can step up to the plate, and take
actions into their own hands.
The plot of both stories led up to
challenges that both the male characters, and the female characters had role
reversals. Where what was expected between Louie, (Interview with a Vampire) and Steward (Dracula) were influenced by the enticement
of the fear that the other would have deeply rooted by being completely
emasculated by the more dominant male vampire, (Lestat and Dracula.) 