Interview With the Vampire
By Anne Rice
There are a few times in your formative years that you can pinpoint what kind of person you might find attractive. I can say that there are three different movies that told me I was going to like boys when I grew up. Not until this exact moment did I figure it out that Tom Cruise was in all three films; Cocktail, The Outsiders, and Interview With the Vampire. Don't worry, my love for Tommy isn't still there; it greatly fell off about the time he started jumping on Oprah's sofa and it came out he's a truly sucky dad.
I went through a little bit of a goth/emo/wannabe dark period, except truly committing to any of those ways of life seemed like too much work. Who has the time to wear that much black, and makeup and do your hair in weird ways? I thought vampires were romantic way before Twilight (I've never read any of those books actually). I loved the film adaptation of Interview With the Vampire with Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Christian Slater, and Kirsten Dunst. Louis (Brad Pitt) is so torn and emotional about being a vampire; he doesn't want to kill/feed on people to remain alive. He was so deep and sexy, my little teenage heart couldn't take it.
I bought the book at a used bookstore in middle school if I remember correctly. Do you know why it has taken me so long to get around to reading it? It's literally an interview, as there are no chapters. Everytime i would pick up the book it was lose where I was in the story. I finally just checked it out as an audio book and that worked much better. I'm going to be honest that the film adaptation is pretty close to its source material, except better. The film takes out a lot of the boring bits of the book. While a deep poetic brooding Brad Pitt was super attractive to a preteen Emily, I now found him whiney and boring. I should have probably read the book, before I was a tired Mama of three. I struggled with the two main male characters turning a little five year old into a vampire and talking about her passion; I have a four-year-old now and it just disturbed me.
The book is definitely a very interesting take on vampires and the film adaptation will always have a special place in my heart, but again I might have read it at the wrong time in my life, or at least I should have read it around Halloween.
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