"Interview With The Vampire - Season 1"
Just finished watching "Interview With The Vampire - Season 1" released by AMC.
Reinventing a classic Gothic tale with modern twists that incorporate Woke ideology is never a great idea, and what makes this small screen version of Anne Rice's classic take on immortal vampires perplexing and infuriating to watch - especially since Anne Rice and her son Christopher Rice were executive producers for this first - and hopefully last season of "Interview With The Vampire."
Daniel Malloy - the interviewer - is dying from Parkinson's disease and is watching the ruins of his once thriving and great career as a journalist and bestselling author on television when he receives a package containing the cassette tapes of his original interview with the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac.
Louis is offering Daniel a second opportunity to interview him provided that he is willing to travel to Dubai.
Despite being seriously ill, Daniel doesn't have to think twice about reaching out for the brass ring again. Yet Daniel is not the naive young man and journalist he once was all those decades ago when he accepted Louis' invitation to go to his apartment to interview him and possibly for sex - which Daniel is down for.
And here's the problem with this version of "Interview With The Vampire" - it has the feel of being a "multi-verse" version of Rice's original novel, complete with a race change of primary characters and their motivations - instead of being a straight man who lost his wife and child due to illness, Louis is now a conflicted black man who hides his homosexuality from his family and looses them when they reject his relationship with Lestat de Lioncourt - the vampire who seduces and turns Louis into a vampire. Even Claudia is race swapped.
A role ideally should go to the best actor suited for the role and there are instances when changing the gender and/or race of an established character succeeds brilliantly - case in point, the character of Starbuck in the last Battlestar Galactica series.
Yet curiously, it's hinted that Louis is a liar all throughout the unfolding version of this new interview and Daniel is constantly proclaiming that there is no documentation to back up his story. And for some reason Anne Rice decided to throw out her established cannon by stating that older Vampires have the ability to walk in the sun - though Louis isn't old enough to have this trait yet. Oh yes, and Armand is now a Muslim who prays in the shadows but never in sunlight, but he toys with Daniel's perceptions by existing and thriving during daylight hours - curiously though Armand doesn't have typical vampire eyes.
The movie with Tom Cruise as Lestat is a more faithful adaptation of Anne Rice's original novel - though it ends with the interviewer discovering that he has a clue to Lestat's whereabouts in the modern day, unlike the movie where Lestat gives Daniel the choice he never had.
Sadly, I can not recommend this take on "Interview With The Vampire."
NOT RECOMMENDED!
ONE STAR!
https://www.amazon.com/Interview-Vamp...
Reinventing a classic Gothic tale with modern twists that incorporate Woke ideology is never a great idea, and what makes this small screen version of Anne Rice's classic take on immortal vampires perplexing and infuriating to watch - especially since Anne Rice and her son Christopher Rice were executive producers for this first - and hopefully last season of "Interview With The Vampire."
Daniel Malloy - the interviewer - is dying from Parkinson's disease and is watching the ruins of his once thriving and great career as a journalist and bestselling author on television when he receives a package containing the cassette tapes of his original interview with the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac.
Louis is offering Daniel a second opportunity to interview him provided that he is willing to travel to Dubai.
Despite being seriously ill, Daniel doesn't have to think twice about reaching out for the brass ring again. Yet Daniel is not the naive young man and journalist he once was all those decades ago when he accepted Louis' invitation to go to his apartment to interview him and possibly for sex - which Daniel is down for.
And here's the problem with this version of "Interview With The Vampire" - it has the feel of being a "multi-verse" version of Rice's original novel, complete with a race change of primary characters and their motivations - instead of being a straight man who lost his wife and child due to illness, Louis is now a conflicted black man who hides his homosexuality from his family and looses them when they reject his relationship with Lestat de Lioncourt - the vampire who seduces and turns Louis into a vampire. Even Claudia is race swapped.
A role ideally should go to the best actor suited for the role and there are instances when changing the gender and/or race of an established character succeeds brilliantly - case in point, the character of Starbuck in the last Battlestar Galactica series.
Yet curiously, it's hinted that Louis is a liar all throughout the unfolding version of this new interview and Daniel is constantly proclaiming that there is no documentation to back up his story. And for some reason Anne Rice decided to throw out her established cannon by stating that older Vampires have the ability to walk in the sun - though Louis isn't old enough to have this trait yet. Oh yes, and Armand is now a Muslim who prays in the shadows but never in sunlight, but he toys with Daniel's perceptions by existing and thriving during daylight hours - curiously though Armand doesn't have typical vampire eyes.
The movie with Tom Cruise as Lestat is a more faithful adaptation of Anne Rice's original novel - though it ends with the interviewer discovering that he has a clue to Lestat's whereabouts in the modern day, unlike the movie where Lestat gives Daniel the choice he never had.
Sadly, I can not recommend this take on "Interview With The Vampire."
NOT RECOMMENDED!
ONE STAR!
https://www.amazon.com/Interview-Vamp...
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