Did anyone else think TOM CRUISE was just all …..
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mrsbrownstone90 — 14 years ago(March 12, 2012 02:20 PM)
TC played it perfectly. I read the books afterwards because he made me fall in love with this character. He literally took over Lestat, I watch that movie again and I can't see Tom Cruise. I see Lestat and I'm in love with both to this day.
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spiral_static — 13 years ago(April 13, 2012 06:27 AM)
I don't know whether it's possible to overact Lestat?!
He's a big, dramatic character! In the book much more so for the vampires, when overcome with any emotion contort into expressions that are bigger to the extent of seeming a caricature of the human. This obviously wouldn't have worked in a film hahaha!
I think it's interesting that there don't seem to be many people who just think Cruise is alright in the role: people either say he's wrong, or as the majority that he's perfect!
Personally I think Tom is perfect as Lestat. When it's a film of a book series the most important thing in my view is that Lestat should make you feel the way he makes you feel in the novels. Tom's Lestat is far more than the novel of Interview with the Vampire's Lestat so I think it's credit to him that without any actual words or story-based plot to literally tell us Lestat's history, he conveys the essence of Lestat: from his joy and passion to his over-the-top-ness, his cruelty and calculation and his sorrow. And also, he has a weird sensulaity in this role I think at times that is a bit other than human. I don't know how to describe. One of my favourite tiny scenes in the film is after Lestat has killed the prostitutes and Louis has run away and drunken from Claudia and Lestat stands alone at the window of the apartment/hotel, looking out through the rain and in that sorrowful look you understand? I can't think it would be easy to actually portray the essence of Lestat so that it comes across to the viewer so well without the story of his mortal life and all you get to know when you read the books. But, I think Tom Cruise achieves this. How, I have no idea. He makes you feel for Lestat the way you feel for the novel's Lestat. And he makes you feel for him much more than you (ought to
) feel for him in the novel of Interview, it being so much Louis' perspective!!! I just can't imagine anyone else being able to be Lestat so well. Does he look like I imagine Lestat? No. But he makes me feel exactly how Lestat makes me feel and there's the thing. Additionally, in the novels, when Lestat is no longer on the page for a fair period of time I always feel there is just a spark lacking and this too happens in the film for me.
As for the other characters, am I the only one who doesn't feel Brad Pitt was quite right for Louis? I mean I find it hard to empathise with Louis in the novel of Interview too (In fact moreso than with film Louis I suppose) and it is therefore a hard role I guess. Therefore perhaps it is Louis that's my prob;em rather than any flaw. But he just seems so blank so often: not in pain or feeling tortured emotions but more devoid of them entirely. When Armand calls him a vampire with a human soul: an immortal with a mortal's passion I don't see it. I don't feel his human soul or passion. I can't empathise with him at all. I don't know whether he's supposed to be so annoying though, becuase he is to me in the novel. But his views you feel ought to make him sympathetic, especially to the extent conveyed in the film, but
The other characters are all great. Armand obviously is nothing like book-Armand and if there was greater focus on him it wouldn't work because part of Armand's personality is defined by & is poignant because of the fact he was made when so young and so on, but Antonio Banderas definitely has that magnetic allure to which you can imagine any vampire being drawn. And of course Kirsten Dunst is fabulous as Claudia. -
jones7418 — 13 years ago(April 24, 2012 07:19 AM)
I think Lestat was Cruise's finest role; I was really surprise he got no Oscar nod. He played the character broadly and with such gusto, exactly as I would've expected Lestat to be. I think a lot of other actors would not have been able to pull it off; they would've come across as comical. Cruise was for me, the perfect choice.
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Iuka_3 — 14 years ago(March 25, 2012 08:24 PM)
I'm not a huge fan of Tom Cruise, and upon realizing that he was playing Lestat I was rather skeptical at first. However, I found his performance outstanding, he just kept surprising me throughout the movie! I still dislike him though lol.
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kaskait — 13 years ago(April 29, 2012 08:49 AM)
I'm not a huge fan of Tom Cruise.
But I have to say he was perfect as Lestat. In fact I can't think of anyone else in the role.
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raunka — 13 years ago(April 29, 2012 11:21 AM)
Tale of the Body Thief (the fourth Vampire Chronicle) is in development, but I doubt Cruise will be returning, though it would be awesome! I didn't mind Stuart Townsend as Lestat and I have nothing against the Queen of the Damned movie (don't judge me) but yes, Tom Cruise is Lestat.
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manofsteel4455 — 13 years ago(July 12, 2012 03:02 AM)
I can't believe you Tom Cruise haters still haven't gotten over yourselves about him after all this time!!When are you guys gonna let it go.I mean his jumping on couches and Scientology beliefs are the real reasons why you guys didn't like him in this movie right?
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muppetmollystargleek — 13 years ago(September 23, 2012 02:12 PM)
I've never been a fan of Tom Cruise. However, I've read IwtV, The Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned, Tale of the Body Thief, and Memmnoch the Devil, and I have to say that I find Tom to be perfect.
I mean, Lestat is such a pompous, bratty, elegant, playful, clever, sensual, eccentric, dramatic ASS! He's a rockstar of a vampire. He's awesome and he's not afraid to show it. I think Tom portrayed that wonderfully.
He also got the sadness and loneliness of Lestat in there, which I think would have been difficult for any actor to do. Now I can't read the books without getting glimpses of Tom Cruise in my mind.
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DracTarashV — 13 years ago(November 04, 2012 08:09 PM)
This was the first film I saw that proved to me Tom Cruise was really an actor. Before this, I had only seen him in some of his blockbusters - none of them Mission Impossible - and I assumed he was just a movie star who made any movie he was in watchable due to charisma. But boy, I was in for a surprise when I saw this; I didn't see Tom Cruise on screen I saw Lestat. And till this day, I have to say that I don't think anyone could have fit the part more perfectly than Tom Cruise. Many are just not willing to give the guy a fair chance.
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