Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)

It hadn't even been a year since a plantation owner named Louis had lost his wife in childbirth. Both his wife and the infant died, and now he has lost his will to live. A vampire named Lestat takes a liking to Louis and offers him the chance to become a creature of the night: a vampire. Louis accepts, and Lestat drains Louis' mortal blood and then replaces it with his own, turning Louis into a vampire. Louis must learn from Lestat the ways of the vampire.

Keywords: 1790s, 1870s, 18th-century, 19th-century, 20th-century, actor, america, american, american-abroad, anger

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Louis: Then out of curiosity, boredom, who knows what, I left the old world and came back to my America. And there, a mechanical wonder allowed me to see the sun rise for the first time in two hundred years. And what sunrises, seen as the human eye could never see them: silver at first, then, as the years progressed, in tones of purple, red, and my long lost blue.

Louis: 1791 was the year it happened. I was 24, younger than you are now. But times were different then, I was a man at that age: the master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans. I had lost my wife in childbirth, and she and the infant had been buried less than half a year. I would have been happy to join them. I couldn't bear the pain of their loss. I longed to be released from it. I wanted to lose it all... my wealth, my estate, my sanity. Most of all, I longed for death. I know that now. I invited it. A release from the pain of living. My invitation was open to anyone. To the whore at my side. To the pimp that followed. But it was a vampire that accepted it.

Yvette: [to Louis] Are you not hungry sir?::Lestat: Aux contraire mon cher, he could eat the whole colony.::[starts to laugh]::Louis: [as Yvette starts to pick up Louis's plate he grabs her arm and looks at the veins in her neck] I'll finish it, Yvette. Now leave us.

Armand: They had forgotten the first lesson, that we are to be powerful, beautiful, and without regret.::Louis: And you can teach me this?::Armand: Yes.::Louis: To be without regret?::Armand: Yes.::Louis: Then what a pair we could make, but what if it's a lesson I don't care to learn.::Armand: What do you mean?::Louis: What if all I have is my suffering, my regret?::Armand: Don't you want to lose it?::Louis: Why? So you can have that too? The heart that mourns her, her that you burnt to a cinder.::Armand: Louis, I swear that I...::Louis: Ah, but I know you did. I know. You who regrets nothing, you who feels nothing, if that's all I have left to learn, I can do that on my own.

Yvette: Ummm... Monsieur Louis. You don't want any supper no?::Louis: No, ma chère.::Yvette: We're worried about you, master. Why is it that you don't go riding in the field? And how long since you've been to the slave quarter? Everywhere there is death. Are you still our master at all?::Louis: That will be all, Yvette!::Yvette: I will not go unless you listen to me! You must, you must send away this friend of yours. The slaves they are all frightened of him... and they are frightened of you.::[touches Louis's hand]::Louis: I'm frightened of myself.::[Indulges in close contact with Yvette. Then begins to bite her wrist. She starts to scream out. For a moment he is too caught up in biting her. She cries out louder and he snaps into reality. He puts his hand over her mouth, wrestles her to the floor and kills her]::Louis: [Louis walks outside carrying Yvette's lifeless body. He speaks to the slaves who have come to see what all the screaming was about] Hear me now! This place is cursed, damned, and yes your master is the devil! Get out while you can! You are all free men! You hear me?::[Louis gives Yvette to a nearby slave and takes hold of a torch]::Louis: Run, flee, save yourselves!::[waves torch wildly at slaves to make them leave and then goes inside to set house on fire]

Louis: Her blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestat's words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard her heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be.

Louis: For 30 years I had avoided that place. Yet I found my way back there with hardly an upward glance.

Louis: You lack the courage of your convictions sir, do it.

Lestat: No one could resist me, not even you, Louis.::Louis: I tried.::Lestat: [smiling] And the more you tried, the more I wanted you.

Claudia: Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you Louis. Louis my love, I was mortal till you gave me your immortal kiss. You became my mother, and my father, and so I'm yours forever. But now it's time to end it, Louis. Now it's time to leave him.