There is always something sexy and alluring about a vampire. Won’t you agree?

Sitting in my bed with an opened window, a cup of hot chocolate and some burning candles on my night table, I’m about to finish for the 3^rd time the story of Lestat. I always re-read this during the winter nights; it’s almost like a ritual now.

This proves that this book really holds up to the test of time and that I had not had a silly teenage fancy about it during high school when I first read it.

With Lestat Anne Rice has managed to create a character that draws you in and won’t let go. Maybe you started out hating him, but it wasn’t hard to like him after reading just a few pages.

Lestat is everything you don’t want to admit being. His story is captivating and his mind is the most fascinating I’ve ever seen in literature: he talks about his feelings, his rage and all those incredible experiences.

He is intriguing and charming. He is impetuous and full of himself. He is one of those Faustian characters. His journey through sensuality, spirituality, violence and meaning is absolutely fascinating.

Lestat is mythical, poetic and larger than life. He is all about the experience of being a young man and then being turned into a vampire.

Anne Rice has a particular talent for crafting characters that are fascinating in their psychological acceptance of their un-dead lifestyle, and whose perception of the world around them, as immortals, sheds a fantastically beautiful rendering of our lives as mortals.

This is one of those books that define me; It makes me question myself again and again, each time I read it, if something evil can love, if darkness can be illuminating.

One of my favorite books ever.

I’m going to post this on just about every social networking site I go on. There’s a rumor that Universal Pictures wants to remake the Vampire Chronicles.  This will be the third attempt to bring the series that ended in 2003 alive again.

In 1994 the first book of the series, Interview with a Vampire was released staring Tom Cruise as Lestat, Brad Pitt as Louis and Antonio Banderas as Armand. Now woah there, Antonia Banderas as Armand. Can we do a quick cheque back (spoilers ahead)? I’m pretty sure Monsieur Banderas is Spanish. Armand was borne in Kiev (Andrei). He was raised in Venice (Amadeo). In Interview with a Vampire, he is found in France (Armand), The movie was produced before the novel, “The Vampire Armand” but seriously, for all we know, Armand is French. Armand is also very younge in appearance…just saying.

Just. Saying.

The new movie is rumored to have Rober Downey Jr. prorating Lestat. This will be the third actor to take on the role of Lestat and in my opinion, I think he’ll do a pretty good job. Apparently, Anne thinks so as well. I know that I’m actually angry because this will give the series popularity, and selfishly, I don’t want to see that happen. But seriously, just stop while you’re ahead. The series will become popular with more musicals, maybe this one will be called, “The pedophile, Marius” and then it will die down for another ten years or so until yet another crappy Vampire series comes out and this grand series is remembered yet again. Then we’ll get to see Lestat played by another leading actor…yet again…to be viewed by adolescent preteens and make old time fans even more pissed off than before.

So my final question to everyone is, How do you audition.

Article here: http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/17082

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Also, who will play Louis? Monsieur Johnny Depp?

This was not written to disrespect anyone-especially Anne Rice. I love her novels-not just the Vampire Chronicles either. I really have a lot of respect for her, and don’t want to appear as a hater. The inner fanboy in me is just a bit worried. It’s always hard to see your favourite books be turned into a movie…again.

THIS! is how you build up a character…
Just go to the first pages of ‘Blood Canticle’ from Anne Rice…I quote here: ‘I want to be a saint. I want to save souls by the millions. I want to do good far and wide. I want to fight evil! I want my life-sized statue on every church. I’m talking six feet tall, blond hair, blue eyes-.
Wait a second.
Do you know who I am?
I’m thinking maybe you’re a new reader and you’ve never heard of me.
Well, if that’s the case, allow me to introduce myself, which I absolutely crave doing at the beginning of every one of my books.
I’m the Vampire Lestat, the most potent and lovable vampire ever created, a supernatural knockout, two hundred years old but fixed forever in the form of a twenty-year-old male with features and figure you’d die for – and just might…’

Oh how I missed thee, Lestat! The following 10 pages go on like this, and it’s oh-so-lovely to read.

I discovered Lestat a couple of years ago when I came across ‘The Queen of the Damned’ on TV. Stuart Townsend plays Lestat’s character beautifully! Not to mention that the movie is visually AND musically gorgeous. The soundtrack includes works by Jonathan Davis from Korn, Chester from Linkin Park, Papa Roach, Disturbed, etc.
The storyline isn’t the most book-loyal one, but still works out pretty fine (for people who hasn’t read the books yet). In my case (a passionate reader), I guess it works to build up an image of the characters and a bit of ambience.

There was this earlier version of ‘Interview with the Vampire’ with Tom Cruise as Lestat, which I can’t possibly compare to Stuart Townsend’s performance of Lestat. The cast also included Brad Pitt as Louis, Kirsten Dunst as Claudia and Antonio Banderas as Armand. I don’t have a strong opinion on this particular movie, I can say it was OK. At least it remained quite loyal to the original book.

‘Come out, come out…wherever you are…’ – Lestat de Lioncourt

Be sure to catch fellow “Adaumbelle’s Quest” participant & two time Tony Award Nominee Carolee Carmello in “The Addams Family” pre-Broadway engagement in Chicago through January 10, 2010.  The show also features Tony Award winners Bebe Neuwirth and Nathan Lane as well as Tony Award Nominees Terrence Mann and Kevin Chamberlin and the always hilarious comedian Jackie Hoffman.

I was done with it all. The homeless kids, the vampire freaks, the drugs, the deviant sex, the crawling hammered up five floors of stairs to bed, alone or in bad company every single morning, only to crawl back down to the roaring streets of Madrid every single night. Chasing opportunity, excitement, life, with the wild eye of one who instinctively gets out of bed left foot first, for the mere pleasure of defying common sense and good manners. I was only eighteen when I left my mother’s lap and the insecurities of my father.  When she called divorce, he lost the little sanity he still retained and sobbed pathetically at night, banished from the marital bed to the humiliation of the sofa. I used to hear her cry herself to sleep through the wall of my bedroom, but his laments were always louder. Therefore, I would answer his dramatic calls for attention while ignoring my mother’s silent pain. I will never forgive myself for that. I would lie awake until dawn, fantasizing with running away on the better days. On the worse ones, I would think of a painless and quick way to die and of the words of comfort and reassurance that I would write in my leaving note:

‘What I have done is not your fault, but my decision. Please respect my right to die when and how I decide to. I love you all.’

Taking a walk on the wild side of life was, after all, the natural thing to do for an angsty, ultra-sensitive teenager undergoing a family crisis. My world had fallen down, I had to hit rock bottom before I could learn to fly on my own wings.

I cannot remember the day I met Lestat the vampire, in fact, I have little memories of the two years that followed, partly due to the severe amounts of toxics consumed, but somehow I would dare believing he kept me under a spell, a glamour, which turned me into his bride, his puppet. From the first bite, I became an extension of his being, while he slowly devoured my world. He had charming manners and glittering eyes, the sort of sharp unexpressive gaze of a cunning fox. He was as good a storyteller as he was a libertine and I was as addicted to the pleasures of debauchery he revealed to me, as I was terrified of being alone in the world. To tell the truth, we were both alone; with the difference that I had a mother who would take me back whereas his was too much of an alcoholic wretch to care about his existence.

Of my mother, I have inherited, unfortunately for me, a sense of compassion beyond human comprehension. However, it is of a delusional nature, more of a masochistic tendency to know oneself essential for the happiness of others, than an altruistic impulse to offer real help. This is called, now I know, emotional co-dependency, and very much explains the nature of my parent’s marriage and, by direct influence, of my relationships with the opposite sex.

Lestat was an emotional incubus, parasitic to the extreme, who slowly sucked the life out of me. His manipulative strategies had in common with the theatrical and the psychotic, posing as an all-masculine figure of grand resources. He would pretend a superiority over the common mortals, which translated not only in his speech, a bad mixture of decimononic floriture and modern pedantry, but also in his new-romantic garments and exaggeratedly erect pose. To add more, he would flaunt his worldly knowledge at any given chance, not only he was cultured, but also well travelled, a man of experience, a citizen of the world. In his interminable monologues, he would brag about his innumerable business enterprises, properties bought and sold, and partnerships, which casually always ended in betrayal and disappointment. In fact, most of his stories ended in tragedy. To my naïve teenage eyes, he was the epitome of the romantic outcast, a tortured soul condemned by the cruel egotism of the world to refuge in darkness. I became dangerously fond of this fragile creature of menacing appearance, which I wanted to protect and to whom I wanted to belong. His fake fangs, his demonic gestures, the sadomasochistic role-playing, the blood rituals, and the savage lovemaking under the full moon, among other theatrical devices, worked not to conceal the raw reality were we where both orphaned and appalled by life itself.

Thinking back, it was all ridiculously acted out, and my own inability to recognize this embarrasses me to the core.  However it happened, this creature became my owner for two long years, and transformed me steadily in the best pet one could ever imagine to have. In a reversal of roles, I would feed his hunger, dress his wounds, nurture his wrecked emotional world and, most importantly, serve him sexually at any time of the day. It is a mystery of the human psyche, how he managed to maintain the impression of mastery over myself, while depending completely on my generosity to survive.

Interjú a vámpírral

Minden idők egyik legjobb ilyen témájú alkotása többek között Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas és Kirsten Dunst főszereplésével.

Kárhozottak királynője

Stewart Towsend mesteri és csábító Lestatot formál meg. A film zenéje pedig felejthetetlen!

Alkonyattól pirkadatig

Azt hiszem ehhez nem kell kommentárt fűznöm. Damned hot!

AN OPEN LETTER TO STEPHANIE MEYER

Dear Mrs. Stephanie Meyer,

Congratulations to all the success you’ve amassed, you’re a legend to all the teenagers worldwide, although in the process you’ve also managed to offend the I.Q. of all the important movie/book critics with all your literary efforts. H.L. Mencken’s assertion that “no one ever went broke by underestimating the taste of the American public,” the opening weekend take of $140 million for The Twilight Saga: New Moon is that evidence. It is a landmark movie that proves three things, 1.Bella “totally” loves Edward, 2.Edward is “totally” so HOT, 3.Anybody can “totally” write better than a Stephanie Meyer. I’m 100% sure the third didn’t go around as a mass-text message while screaming in the darkness of the movie theatre.

I’ve just rented the Twilight dvd and seen New Moon sequel in the theatre (in just about the same day) out of curiosity about the mass hysteria, I also read the two original childrens book where the movie was adapted from (Twilight and New Moon) just about the same week. I believe I would enjoy it more if I were an 8-year-old girl who don’t read books other than Cosmopolitan magazine. Your movies and your books that I have seen so far have no sense, no logic, no integrity, no reasoning, no wit or any sign of intelligence (Werewolves-don’t-have-penis-they-have-torn-out-jeans-in-the-cold-winter-of-Forks-Washington-logic), they are purely a teenage girl’s wet dreams and a tween’s Edward “teen porn” fantasy casted and played to perfection by Robert Pattinson, maybe the shallowest characters created since “Spice Girls the movie”, and what makes it worst, is that every young adult in the world will try to emulate the senseless temper tantrums your characters Bella, Jacob and Edward have been juggling throughout the film. The best review I’ve read so far is with Christopher Orr of The New Republic

The Tone Poem: ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon
A landmark cinematic event in 280 words, or one for every $500, 000 of weekend box office:

Senior year. How’d you get so old so fast?

Oh, good. Cullen’s here.

I’m 109.

Maybe I shouldn’t be dating such an old man.

Bella.

Jacob.

Hello, biceps.

I’m just filling out.

The Volturi are a very old, very powerful family.

Don’t hate the truck.

Ow, paper cut.

Jasper hasn’t been away from human blood as long as the rest of us.

I love you.

Love you.

You just don’t belong in my world, Bella.

You don’t want me. That changes things. A lot.

Goodbye.

October.

November.

December.

The absence of him is everywhere I look.

That’s it. You’re going to Jacksonville to live with your mother.

Jake, you’re, like, buff. How’d that happen?

You’re sort of beautiful.

Like, five hikers have been killed by some bear. But they can’t find the bear.

What, I can’t hold your hand?

Jake, your dad says you have mono. He won’t let me visit.

You cut your hair off? And got a tattoo?

Look, Bella. We can’t be friends anymore.

Things are bad again.

Dad, I saw them in the woods. They’re not bears.

Guess the wolf’s out of the bag.

C’mon in, Bella. We won’t bite.

You’re not the first monsters I’ve met.

It’s not a lifestyle choice, Bella.

Wait, there’s a vampire.

Bella, what’s that awful wet-dog smell?

Don’t. Get. Me. Upset.

Bella, Edward’s going to the Volturi. He wants to die, too.

What a happy surprise. Bella is alive after all. Isn’t that wonderful?

She knows too much. She’s a liability.

Goodbye, my young friends.

Bella, do not ever do that to me again. Ever.

It would be nice not to want to kill you all the time.

Marry me.

THE TWI-HARDS

And of course Ms Stephanie Meyer, all the 90% of film and book critics are bitter old people who just hates everything you do and you just dont give a fuck about that, the millions of screaming girls all over the world “The Twi-hards” are the only critics that matter$$$. That dream you had that inspired you to write TWILIGHT is shared by all the hormonal teens (age 4 to 44) in the face of the earth, if your mission is to want them to fuck Edward Cullen, then mission accomplished.

STEPHANIE MEYER VS ANNE RICE/ STEPHANIE MEYER VS J.K. ROWLING

I am an aspiring writer, and working on a few novels of my own, now I’m itching to write a vampire novel because of you, I am maybe the biggest fan of Anne Rice, I’ve read Interview with the Vampire hundreds of times and even seen the movie the same amount and it never made me want to write one, because I am a little intimidated by how much research, intelligence, passion and courage Anne Rice have- to write an exquisite novel like Interview and Lestat (among others). I’m not a fan of J.K. Rowling, I’ve seen a Harry Potter movie once and read the book that go with it once out of curiosity, but I have to say she is a very creative and intelligent writer and picked up a lot of vocabularies reading her book, I also realized that the dialogues in the Harry Potter movies are not laughable and “children book-like” like your two Twilight films. Then you came along and shown me that it is possible, the sky is the limit, anybody can write, and just hire an editor to clean out and organize the mess they scribbled somewhere and create a multimillion franchise like yours. Thank you for giving hope to millions of writers all over the world with very limited vocabularies and creativity, hope that it is possible to be a financially successful writer and popular with the age group 18 and below, or the people who have the IQ level of a toddler. With so less effort, you are a living proof that it is possible to be a successful writer, if success means money and fame and not the respect and validation of other writers like you.

JEALOUSY

Your fanatic followers will think that I am bitter and a “hater”, in fact I am jealous of you Mrs. Stephanie Meyer and you are changing my life unlike any other authors whose works I have read before. Now I am attempting to write a vampire book for children and that will be my new mission as a writer, because now I firmly believe if you can do it, I can do so much better than you. Thank you Mrs. Meyer.

Sincerely,
NAVO

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©2009 Dangerously Naive

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By Karen

I was sort of railroaded into seeing New Moon last week (don’t ask). I know I’m spitting in the face of the film’s rampaging success, but as a vampire aficionado, I hated almost every minute of it.

At least Mathew DeKinder of the St. Louis Suburban Journals is in my corner.

First, I don’t understand why author Stephanie Meyer gave nocturnal titles to any of her 4 Twilight saga books. She could have called the series High Noon. By ignoring or failing to research vampire legend, her vampires are basically ordinary folk with pale skin and red eyes — more albino than bloodsucker. They don’t drink human blood. In daylight, they sparkle like jewels. Sunlight doesn’t even sting.

Nighttime, coffins, native earth, crosses, mirrors, stakes, running water. Forget ‘em. These pathetic excuses for vamps probably order extra garlic on their Domino’s pizza.

I know, I know. I need to read the books to see why vampire Edward Cullen is so mesmerizing. But I never read the books because I suspected no good could come from a Mormon writer playing with the undead, and New Moon proves me right. She’s steered a whole generation wrong on vampires.

The audience consisted mostly of teen girls. God help them if they identify with boring Bella Swan. Bella loves the vacant Edward, while a werewolf named Jacob loves her, and we waste the better part of 2 hours watching the 3 of them stare deeply into each other’s shallow eyes.

In Twilight world, the ultimate sin a vampire can commit is to go shirtless and let people see him sparkle.

Werewolves don’t fare much better. A full moon doesn’t trigger their transformation. Just annoy them and they turn furry. As humans, they wear nothing but shorts year-round in the Northwest. Shorts that seem to miraculously disappear and reappear. I wondered if they represented the ubiquitous underwear Mitt Romney refuses to talk about.

The film never explains why Bella loves Edward, but much of her screen time is spent is moping around after he disappears “forever” to protect her — from what? Another vampire sparkling at her?

Except for a few moments of spectacular werewolf special effects, New Moon is sheer tedium, the brief appearance of Michael Sheen (Tony Blair in The Queen, David Frost in Frost/Nixon) as ancient vampire Aro notwithstanding. Why, Michael, why?

Dracula, Nosferatu, Lestat, and Eric from True Blood must be curling in their coffins to think the torch has been passed to a droopy drip like Edward Cullen.

I’m counting on Johnny Depp to restore vampires to their former gory glory in 2010 when he plays Barnabas Collins in the remake of Dark Shadows.

Duration: 9:51 | Made: 24.11.09

I didn’t know it was always so official! As even the producer agrees! Anyway, the production screwed up but they won’t admit it really. Thatt’s the beginning and the end of it. Of the book-to-film-adapting all in all as well as that Lestat/Jesse bs. This is quotes from the producer, my comments, and songs and clips. The quotes are from Warner Bros’s QOTD web site’s F.A.Q. Marius and Lestat = father and son. If you don’t understand how could I say all that I say in this vid – please check the website refered to in the end. (http://hiddenkiss.net/lestatjessehate.php)

My YouTube Account

X BECAUSE I SAID SO – LESTAT & MARIUS FAN SITE

X NEVER YOURS – LESTAT & JESSE HATE SITE

Parece que  estamos prestes a viver uma histeria em relação aos livros, crepúsculo,  Lua Nova e Eclipse.  Pelo menos estou vendo Muitas mulheres suspirando acordadas por ai por conta desses romances…

Tive que assistir Crepúsculo. É um filminho cheio de elementos questionáveis.  Alguns bem toscos,  outros bem repetitivos.

"Crepúsculo" de Stephenie Meyer

Não li os livros mas pelo filme pude ver que  de certo são bocejantes e tediosos.

A autora Stephenie Meyer quebrou totalmente o protocolo das histórias de vampiros e fez um homem da costela de eva: Um príncipe encantado.
Acertou em cheio as garotas que estão na tenra idade do desabrochar e outras que nem tanto.  Nem a água benta nos salvará dessa.

Ela misturou conto de fadas com catolicismo, talvez os dois pilares mais presentes na educação de qualquer mulher ocidental. Sim porque os católicos são a maioria e toda mulher é educada a buscar um príncipe encantado. Elementos corretos para uma boa histeria feminina.

Sou mil vezes a fragilidade irritante do Louis ou a arrogância cínica do Lestat, ambos vampiros da obra de Anne Rice,  que também teve a sua histeria, porém, totalmente compreensível logo que a história era cheia de questionamentos plausíveis sobre ser humano ou ser eterno.

"Entrevista com o Vampiro" de Anne Rice

E para quem acha que estou delirando em fazer analogias com o catolicismo aviso logo ao navegantes que a própria escritora explicou que a maçã na capa do livro crepúsculo simboliza o fruto proibido ofertado por Eva a Adão, ato responsável pela expulsão de ambos do  paraíso.  Então que ela quebre novamente o protocolo e dessa vez faça o Adão ofertar a maçã para Eva e que recaía sobre os homens a culpa por termos sido expulsos da terra prometida.  Que essa histeria sirva para alguma coisa, pelo menos isso HAHaHAha!

P.S. Não sou feminista e nada tenho contra os homens, pelo contrário hmmm hohoho. Apenas gosto da liberdade de poder ver os fatos sob outro prisma.

Ela quer o seu filho
Com o livro Crepúsculo e o vampiro Edward, a escritora Stephenie Meyer pode desbancar o bruxo Harry Potter, de J. K. Rowling

Por NATÁLIA RANGEL

Há pouco mais de cinco anos, a jovem dona-de-casa Stephenie Meyer, mãe de três filhos, casada com um pastor mórmon e moradora da pequena cidade de Cave Creek, no Estado americano do Arizona, jamais imaginaria seduzir jovens em todo o mundo com uma fantasiosa história de amor entre uma adolescente e um vampiro. Tampouco vislumbrou que as tramas românticas forjadas em sua imaginação e materializadas em três livros (Crepúsculo, Lua nova e Eclipse) ficariam 143 semanas na lista de best-sellers do jornal The New York Times, com seis milhões de exemplares vendidos em diversos países – sendo que quatro milhões referem- se apenas às vendas nos últimos 12 meses. Pois foi o que aconteceu. O vertiginoso sucesso de Crepúsculo, que conta a relação amorosa entre o morto-vivo Edward Cullen, com 17 anos desde 1918, e sua amada e humana Isabella Swan (chamada de Bella), ambos colegas no terceiro ano do ensino médio na chuvosa cidade de Forks, conquistou uma legião de fãs. E foi além: acaba de render à escritora, de 34 anos, um lugar entre as 100 personalidades mundiais mais influentes, eleitas pela revista Time. Ela aparece ao lado de nomes como Hillary Clinton, George Clooney e Dalai Lama. Quais são os seus superpoderes?

Stephenie leva uma vida pacata, é religiosa, segue os ditames mórmons e uma de suas poucas rebeldias é o gosto por Pepsi Diet – a igreja desaconselha o consumo de substâncias que tenham cafeína. Até aí, ela não está investida de nenhum truque mágico. Os seus poderes especiais, na verdade, ganham vida graças a uma mente extremamente criativa, voltada à ficção, que monta adoráveis e sedutores vampiros – todos do bem. São seres evoluídos que mudam a dieta (só bebem sangue de animais) para resistir, a duras penas, à sede que têm de sangue humano e assim conseguem viver pacificamente em sociedade. O carisma de seus personagens junto aos adolescentes é comparado ao fascínio exercido pelo bruxo Harry Potter, da escritora inglesa J. K. Rowling, e há quem aposte que a saga dos jovens vampiros reúna qualidades suficientes para desbancá-lo de sua liderança isolada nesse filão editorial. Isso já ocorreu no ano passado quando Eclipse, seu terceiro livro, chegou às lojas quase ao mesmo tempo que a última aventura de Harry Potter.

FENÔMENO A autora Stephenie Meyer (à dir.), uma dona-de-casa mórmon, escreveu três livros e já vendeu seis milhões de exemplares em todo o mundo

No cinema, a trajetória dos vampiros já é semelhante à do aprendiz de mágico nascido na Inglaterra: o primeiro livro, Crepúsculo (que chega ao Brasil pela editora Intrínseca, 390 págs., R$ 39,90), virou filme e estreará em dezembro nos EUA. À semelhança das obras de J. K. Rowling, o quarto livro de Stephenie, Breaking down, previsto para agosto, está recebendo tratamento vip com esquema de vendas a partir de meia-noite nas grandes livrarias. A popularidade desses novos personagens já inspirou nomes de bandas de rock, centenas de comunidades de sites de relacionamento e seus nomes aparecem impressos em camisetas. Antes mesmo de suas histórias serem editadas aqui, elas já podiam ser lidas em sites da internet devidamente traduzidas pelos fãs.

É certo que há muito marketing promovendo a nova escritora e seus personagens carismáticos, e nem poderia ou deveria ser diferente. Mas é um fato que a vampiromania foi crescendo até explodir no último ano – e vale lembrar que boa parte da propaganda começou boca a boca, leitor com leitor, adolescente com adolescente. Alguns trechos do primeiro romance se tornaram cults como o momento em que Bella descobre que o lindo garoto por quem está encantada é mesmo um vampiro: “De três coisas eu estava convicta. Primeira, Edward era um vampiro. Segunda, havia uma parte dele – e eu não sabia que poder esta parte teria – que tinha sede do meu sangue. E terceira, eu estava incondicional e irrevogavelmente apaixonada por ele”. A paixão compartilhada por ambos é sempre contida, paira sobre Bella a ameaça do vampirismo de Edward. Se ele ultrapassar o sinal, ela estará morta.

O filme Crepúsculo estréia em dezembro nos EUA, com Robert Pattinson e kristen Stewart (à frente) como Edward e bella

Nas cenas românticas, nunca fica claro se ele deseja ter relações sexuais com Bella ou apenas se alimentar do seu sangue, mordendo- lhe a jugular. Num trecho, ela diz: “Eu podia sentir seu hálito frio em meu pescoço, sentir seu nariz deslizando por meu queixo, inspirando (…)”. E ele sussurra: “Só porque estou resistindo ao vinho, não quer dizer que não possa apreciar o buquê. Você tem um aroma floral, de lavanda ou frésia. É de dar água na boca”. Essa tensão permeia todo o romance e não é diferente dos dilemas humanos que envolvem uma paixão proibida. A autora afirmou em entrevista que foi pressionada a incluir cenas mais explícitas de sexo em seus livros, mas resistiu. Mesmo que algumas passagens sejam sensuais e com insinuações eróticas, os personagens nunca vão além de castos beijos e carinhos no rosto e pescoço – embora demonstrem o tempo todo desejar muito mais do que isso. Nada mais humano, e é justamente com essa humanização dos vampiros que Stephenie parece ter seduzido irrevogavelmente os seus jovens leitores. Os mesmos que J. K. Rowling brindou apenas com o cândido beijo travado entre Harry Potter e Cho Chang.

VAMPIROS FAMOSOS

Drácula (1992), dirigido por Francis Ford Coppola e protagonizado por Gary Oldman, baseia-se em livro de 1897 do escritor irlandês Bram Stoker

O filme Entrevista com o vampiro (1994), de Neil Jordan, é adaptado do romance de Anne Rice, e o personagem Lestat é interpretado por Tom Cruise

Criação do escritor e produtor de tevê Joss Whedon, o vampiro Angelus ficou conhecido pelo seriado de tevê Buffy, a caçavampiros (1997)

http://www.terra.com.br/istoe/edicoes/2010/artigo88149-1.htm

Interview with the Vampire (1994)
★★★★ / ★★★★

After being caught up with the “True Blood” craze, I decided to visit some of my favorite vampire movies. “Interview with the Vampire,” directed by Neil Jordan, was one of those movies I saw in early high school that I loved but forgot the details as years went on. I’m surprised this one strongly held up against other horror pictures, especially vampire movies. It’s something I didn’t quite expect because the movies I used to think were scary when I was younger turned out to be silly and vapid in storytelling. Tom Cruise stars as Lestat, a vampire who was as equally hungry for blood as he was with power. He one day decided to make Louis (Brad Pitt) into a vampire because, at least according to him, he wanted to give Louis a choice to relieve his pain of losing his wife and child. Despite turning into the undead, Louis still managed to hang onto his humanity by refusing to feed on humans. This bothered Lestat and thought that Louis’ loneliness would be eliminated by giving Louis a companion–in a form of a vampire child played by Kirsten Dunst. But this all happened in the past as the details which covered centuries were revealed by Louis to an enthusiastic reporter (Christian Slater). Although I did read the novels by Anne Rice, I only could remember three things: Louis, Lestat and the passion (both good and bad) between the two. What made me really engaged about this film was not because it was scary in content. I was actually more into Louis’ humanity, his efforts to abstain from human blood, and his eventual search for those who were like him. That romanticism was reflected into the elegant designs of each room in the 18th century to the dark corners of the catacombs. Another thing that was interesting was Kirsten Dunst. As an adult actress, she bores me to death because every emotion she wants to portray on screen feels the same. But in this film, she had range: she was quite magical, menacing, fascinating all rolled into one. For me, “Interview with the Vampire” is a great vampire film because it makes the argument that vampires have the capacity to choose to be good instead of just being one-dimensional fiends who crave blood and live for centuries. Although necessary to paint the nature of vampire, the gore, the violence, and the evil were secondary. It was consistent, thrilling, and very interesting.

Anne Rice (Nova Orleans, Louisiana, 4 de Outubro de 1941) é uma escritora estadunidense, autora de séries de terror e fantasia.

Filha de Howard Allen O’Brien, ela mesma escolheu ‘Anne’ como primeiro nome, ao entrar na escola. Em 1956 perdeu a mãe, Katherine, e dois anos depois, com o pai casado novamente, a família mudou-se para a cidade de Richardson, no Texas, onde Anne conheceu seu futuro marido, o poeta e pintor Stan Rice.(continua…)

Como vimos no último capítulo, no ano de 1986, os vampiros já ensaiavam arreganhar os caninos e a sorrir mais uma vez. Era o prenúncio de que, entre o fim da década de oitenta e o início dos anos noventa, o gênero viveria um novo surto de popularidade. Era época de mudanças fundamentais no panorama da indústria das HQs nos Estados Unidos. O ressuscitado interesse do público por quadrinhos onde destacavam-se os mortos-vivos motivou uma infinidade de editoras independentes a publicar títulos sobre o tema.

A exemplo das já mencionadas editoras WarP e Apple, a Eternity Comics – um selo da Malibu Graphics – brindou o ano de 1989 com duas mini-séries: Dracula e Scarlet In Gaslight. Nesta última, o príncipe dos desmortos teve um inusitado encontro com Sherlock Holmes. No ano seguinte, a Innovation trouxe uma adaptação em doze edições de The Vampire Lestat, baseada no romance homônimo de Anne Rice. Em 1991, a Eternity lançou Ghost of Dracula, continuação de Scarlet in Gaslight. Harry Houdini substituiu Holmes como parceiro do príncipe da noite.

Em 1990, surgiram ao todo dez HQs ou mini-séries com um morto-vivo como protagonista ou figura de destaque; em 1991, foram mais treze, totalizando 23 títulos dedicados ao tema. No ano seguinte, já se somavam 34, número que se estabilizou por mais alguns anos até começar a decrescer devido à crise que se abateu sobre a indústria em meados da década passada.

O RETORNO À MARVEL

Em 1989, os vampiros voltaram a bater ponto no Universo Marvel. O primeiro foi Morbius e depois o Barão Sangue. Desta vez, no entanto, o hemoglobínico nazista deu as caras na pele de Victor Strange, irmão do Dr. Estranho. Quando seu mano sucumbiu, o mago supremo fez de tudo para trazê-lo de volta à vida. Um de seus encantos deu certo, mas ressuscitou Victor como um vampiro. Quando o aparelho criogênico que o mantinha sob controle foi desligado, o reencarnado voltou à ativa, adotando o traje e a alcunha do Barão Sangue. Como bom vampiro descolado, foi morar em Greenwich Village – o mesmo bairro de Nova Iorque escolhido por Morbius – e passou a sorver sangue de almas criminosas. Personagem de ínfima magnitude, o novo Barão Sangue cometeu suicídio em 1993. Não deixou saudade, embora, se a Marvel seguir sua tradição de ressuscitar os mortos, ele logo deve retornar.

SANGUE NA BATCAVERNA E NO CINEMA

Enquanto a Marvel preparava o cenário para a volta definitiva dos vampiros ao seu Universo, a DC não deixou por menos. Em 1991, Red Rain – Chuva Rubra, no Brasil, lançada pela Abril – mostrava uma história do selo Elseworlds – Túnel do Tempo – em que Batman desafiava o Conde Drácula. Ao fim da mini-série, o Homem-Morcego viu-se transformado em vampiro. A seqüência desta aventura, Tempestade de sangue, foi lançada nos Estados Unidos em 1994 e chegou ao Brasil em 2001, publicada pela Mythos Editora. Nela, o ressuscitado Cavaleiro das Trevas enfrenta um duplo tormento: Encontrar uma alternativa que supre sua sede de sangue sem que tenha que quebrar seu juramento de jamais tirar uma vida humana e enfrentar um exército de mortos-vivos liderado pelo Coringa. A saga do Batman vampiro se fecha em Crimsom Mist, já prometida para ter seu lançamento tupiniquim em breve pela Mythos Editora.

No embalo de The Vampire Lestat, a Innovation ainda adaptaria para os quadrinhos outros dois romances de Anne Rice, Interview with a Vampire – o mais famoso livro da escritora, graças à versão cinematográfica com Tom Cruise e Brad Pitt – e Queen of the Damned, este último com desenhos do brasileiro Octavio Cariello.

PROFUSÃO DE TÍTULOS

Aproveitando a onda, vieram: Big Bad Blood of Dracula e Death Dreams of Dracula da Apple; Blood Junkies on Capitol Hill, da Eternity; Carmilla, uma adaptação adulta do conto de Sheridan Le Fanu, pela Aircel (Nota: Carmilla foi um dos primeiros romances vampíricos da história, publicado na Inglaterra em 1872 e serviu com uma das inspirações para o Drácula de Bram Stoker); Dracula, The Impaler, da Comax; Dracula’s Daughter, da Eros; I Am a Legend, adaptação do romance homônimo de Richard Matherson, pela Eclipse; Night’s Children, da Fanta Co. e Nosferatu, da Tome. Em 1991, a Harris adquiriu os direitos e passou a publicar Vampirella.

O ano de 1992 presenteou os vampiros com uma nova expansão de seus títulos. A Innovation, que liderava esse nicho de mercado, solidificou-se publicando uma adaptação da série televisiva The Dark Shadows. A Topps Comics entrou na briga com Bram Stoker’s Dracula, adaptação do filme de Francis Ford Coppola. Além delas, ainda surgiram, no mercado das independentes, Blood in the Harvest, da Eclipse; Children of the Night, da Night Wynd Enterprises; Christian Dark, da Darque Studios; Dracula In Hell, da Apple; Dracula, The Suicide Club, pela Adventure, Little Dracula da Harvey e Vampire’s Kiss, da Friendly.

OS FILHOS DA MEIA-NOITE

Neste mesmo ano, a Marvel traria de volta todos os seus vampiros no universo Midnight Sons, um selo que abrangia, dentre outros, títulos como Blade, Vampire-Hunter, Morbius, Living Vampire e The Nightstalkers.

O arco principal dessa nova linha, que teve ainda incorporado a si velhos heróis como o Motoqueiro Fantasma (Danny Ketch), Johnny Blaze e Darkhold, começou em uma saga de seis partes dividida entre os seguintes títulos: Ghost Rider 28, Spirits of Vengance 1, Morbius 1, Darkhold 1, Nightstalkers 1 e Ghost Rider 31. Os protagonistas destes gibis formavam “Os Nove”, cuja missão era garantir que o mundo sobrenatural maligno não subjugasse o nosso. Logo em sua primeira missão, foram obrigados a se confrontar com Lilith, Rainha do Mal e Mãe dos Demônios. Tratava-se de uma entidade semita e não a filha de Drácula que havia estreado em Giant-Size Chillers de 1974 e feito pontas em The Tomb Of Dracula.

Ao fim da primeira saga, tornou-se evidente a tensão entre os dois vampiros, Morbius e Hannibal King, e os outros membros dos Nove. Assim, cada título passou a ter suas próprias histórias ambientadas no Universo Midnight Sons. A resposta do público-leitor foi tão positiva que, no ano seguinte, uma sétima revista seria publicada: Midnight Sons Unlimited. Pouco depois, a Marvel reimprimiria antigas histórias de Morbius em Morbius Revisited.

Em outubro de 1993, em Nightstalkers 14, teve início, então, o derradeiro arco de Midnight Sons: Siege of Darkness que estabeleceu, de forma mais sólida, a existência de uma dimensão sobrenatural paralela ao Universo Marvel regular. Na saga, muitas das personagens foram mortas e títulos como Nightstalkers deixaram de circular. Antes disso, no entanto, a Marvel ainda lançaria um oitavo gibi chamado Ghost Rider and The Midnight Sons Magazine. No entanto, com o término desta saga, as revistas de Midnight Sons foram, aos poucos, sendo descontinuadas.

As independentes, no entanto, continuaram a investir em profusão nos títulos vampíricos. Bad Blood: The Vampire Collection da Atomeka, Blood and Kisses, da Fanta Co., A Blood Tale da Epic, Cadence of Dirge da Gothic Ltda. Dracula Chronicles da Topps, Planet of Vampires e Tales of Evil da Atlas Comics, Strange Stories of Vampires da Warren, Terrors of Dracula, da Fawcett, Vamperotica da Brainstorm Comics, Vampire Rock da Undead Graphics, Vampire World: Upon a Black Spire e Vampyre Wars da Acid Rain Studios, Vampyres, da Eternity e Bathory: Countess of Blood da Boneyard Press são alguns exemplos presentes no mercado americano naquela época. Para registro, a Condessa Elizabeth Bathory, protagonista do último título mencionado, foi uma nobre eslovaca do século XV, presa sob a acusação de ter assassinado moças – virgens ou não – no intuito de se banhar em seu sangue a fim de conservar a juventude.

Fora das independentes, além de Blade e Morbius, DC e Image também investiram em títulos vampíricos. Na DC, tivemos Vamps, publicada em formato de mini-séries através de seu selo Vertigo. O primeiro arco de histórias dessa série chegou a ser publicado no Brasil pela Tudo em Quadrinhos Editora. Um segundo arco chegou a ter seu primeiro número lançado pouco antes da editora desistir da publicação de quadrinhos. A Image, por sua vez veio com Crimson de Humberto Ramos, título publicado pelo Wildstorm de Jim Lee em formato de série fechada, hoje já encerrada. Antes de criar o vampiro irlandês Cassidy para atuar ao lado de Jesse Custer e Tulipa em Preacher, Garth Ennis chegou a introduzir e eliminar o chamado Rei dos Vampiros no período em que escreveu John Constantine: Hellblazer. Ainda na Marvel, tivemos uma versão desmorta da X-Man Tempestade, coadjuvante no título Mutant X, hoje cancelado.

Atualidade e Futuro

Hoje, após uma onda de cancelamentos, raros são os quadrinhos em que vampiros são as personagens de destaque. Angel, da Dark Horse, baseado na série de TV de mesmo nome, é um dos poucos sobreviventes. Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, também da Dark Horse e baseada em programa televisivo, pode entrar na categoria, ainda que os bebedores de sangue exerçam papel de vilões-coadjuvantes. A Chaos! Comics, famosa por suas personagens ligadas ao sobrenatural, tem em Chastity seu principal título vampiresco. Ambas as editoras estão entre as poucas independentes que sobreviveram à crise editorial dos anos 90. Chastity, inclusive, vem sendo publicado no Brasil pela Editora Atlantis. Já Angel teve uma edição especial lançada em terra brasilis pela Mythos Editora.

Na Marvel, Blade e Morbius ainda resistem, aparecendo vez por outra como coadjuvantes, principalmente nos títulos do Homem-Aranha. O primeiro terá uma segunda chance com um título mensal na linha adulta da Marvel, a Max Comics. Com o sucesso do filme Blade, Morbius também está cotado para as telas de cinema, o que deve lhe render um pouco mais de atenção. Na DC, com o término de Preacher, Cassidy não deve mais retornar. No entanto, o selo Vertigo sempre pode gerar outro gibi de morto-vivo quando menos se espera.

O fato é que a figura do vampiro exerce grande fascínio sobre nós mortais desde os tempos antigos. Apesar de estarem em baixa nos quadrinhos e no cinema, é da natureza dessas criaturas retornar de suas tumbas quando menos se espera. Portanto, não causaria surpresa se, de uma hora para outra, uma nova leva de apreciadores de sangue torne tingir de vermelho as páginas das histórias em quadrinhos.

Duration: 2:21 | Made: 11.11.09

READ FIRST, PLEASE! For this I really needed footage on Lestat’s story (including also Nicki and Magnus) but as I don’t have it, I put the wolves in – they’re also symbolizing his father and brothers, as I undestood it. “I dream sometimes that I might kill them. I kill my father and all my brothers in that dream. I go from room to room, slaughtering them as I did the wolves.” “…and on the mointain, Mother, when I was fighting the wolves, it was a little like that. I feel in myself the desire to murder.” … (to Marius): “You comfort me. AH of you. I couldn’t even think of leaving you, not for very long, anyway.” So yeah, as always, in the original, pure father-son relationship.

My fave bit of this song (next to the chorus of course): “You calm my fears and all my thoughts ’cause you tell me to see what I’ve got; and what I’ve got, is you.” :’)

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Warm thanks to Philip Maciel for allowing me to use this song. (: Check out also my other new Lestat&Marius video to his beutiful cover song “Keep Holding On”.

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X BECAUSE I SAID SO – LESTAT & MARIUS FAN SITE

X NEVER YOURS – LESTAT & JESSE HATE SITE

Duration: 3:20 | Made: 11.11.09

For now, I’m kinda digging the remixing of my old vids, it’s fun to find new ways to combine earlier editing to new songs though of course there’s always completely new editing too. This as always in the original, pure father-son relationship. Warm thanks to Philip Maciel for allowing me to use his cover of this song. (: Check out also my other new Lestat&Marius video to his beutiful original song “You”.

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X BECAUSE I SAID SO – LESTAT & MARIUS FAN SITE

X NEVER YOURS – LESTAT & JESSE HATE SITE

Duration: 3:06 | Made: 09.11.09

I know this would’ve turned out so much better if I had used only Interview with the Vampire footage but I’m not a big fan of Cruise as Lestat; He did a wonderful job as the IWTV Lestat but he’s just nowhere near my personal image of the character. Townsend gets closer – I just wish the film was true to Lestat and the story. But as it isn’t, I did what I could with what I had. I hope you enjoy.

Another Lestat&Louis video hopefully coming soon from me. I have a song but this is hard, editing with Townsend and Pitt. And not that it mattered for this particular video but in my image Lestat and Louis’s relationship is that of close firends and strong brotherhood or something – not romantic lovers.

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