Well, its obvious he still loves her. She was upset because he kept treating her like a child after she mentally grew up but its hard for him not to since she will always look like a little girl. Maybe if she wasn't turned until she was 16 or so, they would have been better off.
@@illanellinor Indeed but perhaps she would have died of blood loss because Louis almost drained her. Perhaps Lestat also felt her strong heart that she didn't want to die and so he encouraged Louis that they should turn her plus he wanted to give Louis a reason to stay with him
@@katerinaaqu honesty people think Lestat chose to turn Claudia in order for Louis to stick with him, but I feel likehe did it because Louis was thinking of killing himself, that's also why he turned him as well. Let's not forget that hs qas about to get killed by thw whorr's pimp the night he met Lestat, and Lestat jumped to Louis "rescue" when he saw what those other two were up to. Louis wasn't happy alive (as a human) and he wasn't happy as a vampire. At the end of the movie he tells Armand than all he has are his sorrows (At first for the loss of his wife and infant and than for the loss of Claudia) and it made me realized that Louis would never change. There are people that enjoy victimizing themselves and drown in their misery, people like Louis who used martyrdom and seemed to moved everyone that met him and felt in love with him.
@@amefregoso5491 Actually in the book it was both of them that turned her. Louis drank her blood and then Lestat took her from the hospital she was placed in and he brought her to him. Louis himself expressed his flaming need to take her again and he bit her again while Lestat gave her his blood. Lestat knew that Louis loved her and Lestat himself loved her. He also did want Louis to stay because Lestat had some traumatic experiences in his life. His first two fledglings (his mother and his lover Nickolas) had left him. His mother downright abandoned him because she wanted to live free and adventurous while Nickolas turned mad and was executed by the other vampires. Lestat was horrified that Louis would leave him -which he did in the end with Claudia-. In fact Lestat says that if it weren't the blood of the old one that turned him (Magnus) or the old one and the old one that gave him blood (Marius) and the First Vampire Akasha who let him drink off her, Lestat would have died from the attempt Claudia made against him. Lestat was helplessly in love with Louis because of his melancholy and that melancholy reminded him of his first lover Nickolas. In fact Louis accuses Lestat in his first interview that Lestat was using him for his plantation which Lestat claims is not true because Lestat had his own fortune which was multiplying by the years he was keeping it. Lestat clearly gave Louis a choice and much more in the book if you read it. Also Louis turned out to be so cold that Armand left him. In the book is even more apparent how cold Louis turned to be, mainly because he was depressed by the loss of Claudia and also Armand did confess that he had fabricated the whole thing in order to create hatred between him and Lestat and get rid of Claudia so he could get her place in Louis' life. It is incredible how horrified Lestat was in the second book that Louis had said in detail in his interview where Lestat's sleeping place was (Lestat slmbered from 1920s to 1980s) and he felt betrayed because it was like sending people to destroy him but he said that he forgave him because he believed him ignorant of his actual power. For example the story with the two women he killed, which was expressed as brutality against innocent people by Louis, Lestat revealed they were murderers who were seducing men, getting them drunk and then slit their throats before stealing from them. Lestat revealed that he could read thoughts and was always picking his victims out of evildoers. He didn't hide of course that he was feeling immense pleasure from killing them but those people Louis presented as innocents had done some sort of crime and Lestat knew because he could read thoughts while Louis couldn't. Akasha also accused Louis of being the most cruel of them all because he was killing indiscriminately of age, gender etc. Louis of course was feeling horror by it and he even pled Akasha to kill him for it if that would make her feel better but the result remained the same because Louis himself admitted he lost his extreme conscious delimas in time and he was killing indeed indiscriminately mainly because he didn't have the power to read minds so he could pick his victims. Lestat didn't really seem to accuse Louis for that because he generally thinks Louis is simply ignorant of his true power at first. He sees that Louis at his book claims that Lestat is all big talk but Lestat claims that Louis was simply ignorant of his true power. Which is rather interesting why Lestat would hide his true potential. One is that he wanted to keep Louis close to him with doubt. The other is that he simply didn't want to enforce Louis with his power or that he couldn't do it emotionally. Lestat appears to be both simple and complicated fellow if one reads the second book (and the first. The book has some really interesting details not seen in the series like the fact that Lestat was also protecting his human father till the very end despite the fact that his father resented him and despised him because he wasn't his first born and his heir)
@@amefregoso5491 It's very much a "let's add a child to this relationship and see if that helps" sort of solution. It works out as it usually does. Ironically the two of them reconnect and get along better after she's dead.
Tom should have gotten wayyy more recognition for this role. He acted the living fuck out of it where all Pitt had to do was look sad and be pretty. Not to mention the weight he lost. Best performance of his career hands down. Just a fact.
Exactly. This & Jerry Maguire are two of My Favorite Films of All time, Of Tom's. Then again, Tom Cruise is My Favorite Actor anyways. Yet, Brad was Ungrateful, Boring, as well as Dull.. Someone Else could have Done Louis a heck of a lot better. Who was Happy to do it, and Gave it their all. Like What Tom Cruise Did.. Tom Cruise, Will always be Lestat. Look at "Rock of Ages" Just think, What we could have had, With Tom Cruise Playing Lestat again! I still hope there is a chance!
@@runningbear6391 Brad hated the working conditions and apparently Tom Cruise went method as Lestat and was a complete asshole to Brad Pitt lmao. Tom was completely dedicated to the role because he wanted to prove Anne Rice wrong.
VegasFirefly Agreed Lestat is very handsome, stunning, etc but he can be very hurtful sometimes when he is angry....but I love him anyway...Gotta have a talk with Lestat and Louis bye! *leaves quickly*
This is actually a gut wrenching scene for just a few moments Lestatte felt a feeling for the first time : guilty for insulting Claudia so harshly. 😢 he knew that was need not to say
Tom deserved an Oscar for this performance. Lestat was a monster but even Claudia brought a tenderness in him. He is raging at her but when she puts her arms around him and asks him why he says such things, he immediately feels bad for her. Kristen & Tom were amazing in this film.
Both he and Louis at first loved her like a daughter, but he was always cold towards her and Louis was more affectionate... only natural how she felt he didn't love her.
@@houndsofroses3727 I think it one of the later novels it was revealed that when she mentally grew older her started to have different feelings towards, more like a lover, which could be why he was also acting cold towards her (perhaps it disgusted him that he could feel that way towards someone he had once regarded as a daughter).
@@littlesongbird1 😱😱😱 so many juicy details. I can't wait to read the whole series. Now the only question is if I should read them on my native language Spanish, or in English.
For everyone who wants to know witch piece he plays, it's Adagio e Cantabile from Haydns Sonata 59(Hob. XVI:49, in E-flat major). At least in this scene it's a variation of it.
Thanks for the information and also valuable to say this since in the books Lestat seemed to love pieces of Mozart and Haydn so it is another really good thing this movie has
Kirsten Dunst got to act with both Cruise and Pitt at such a young age. I just love this movie and I love all of Rice's characters. I just hate how this is compared to the Twilight series sometimes or how Meyer made vampires to seem so flawless and sparkly. She needs a reality check. Rice made her vampires have real emotions. She made us fall in love with Lestat not only for his best traits but for also his worst. That's why I just love Lestat in this film/book.
Honestly, IWTV remains one of my favorite movies to this day. Tom, Brad, and Kristen are just incredible. Their family breaking apart is so tragic and (from a book perspective) Louis/Lestst never quite get over Claudia’s lost.
Right I do not think lestats evil in the sense of hating Louie and Claudia. He grabs her hand and his face is regretful after what he said. He also still wants to be with Louie at the end despite what Louie did to him. Lestats just so lonely and its such a shame.
In the books Louis hated Claudia for killing him and was disgusted at her for a long while unable to even look at her and never allowing her to sleep with him again though he did feel that he had to protect her. However Claudia's "bitchiness" doesn't end here in the 4th book after he becomes human Claudia's ghost torments Lestat making him try suicide. The book are so good like this like Basicially the movie is great but goes so diffrent from the exact moment of them meeting Armand. Her ghost also tries to kill Louis.
I love when she says 'i came to make peace with you'. Aah its just all so perfectly poetic, i can never get to much of these scene. And Lestat's piano version is better than the original, more intense and dark.
Indeed! Lestat seems famous for being unable to stand loneliness. While for example others like Armand seem to be almost dependable on others, Lestat mostly searches for companions because he cannot stand loneliness.
LOVED Tom as Lestat, my top favorite vampire ever lol. I love Anne Rice's vampires, Such seductive aristocrats. I just hate how if you say you like vampires now people automatically ask if you are team jacob or edward, like.... uh you mean team punk ass bitch vampires? excuse my language. I don't dig the Twilight. I like my vampires to have the defining traits of a vampire in the words of Damon from The Vampire Diaries:"I live in the real world where vampires burn in the sun".
Tom Cruise as Lestat, he is so sexy in this so gorgeous. Every scene he is in in this I love it I love him in this and can’t stop watching it over and over again. So I brought this on ITunes yesterday, so great. Also Lestat is a sexy spunk in this too, forgot to mention.
You know how few vampire have the stamina for immortality Its forbidden to make one so young a vampire. So helpless, it can't survive on it's own. Lestate forgot the first rule.
this is my favourite moment . exellent scene. this sophisticated, dark music, emotions, passion, rage, and in the end- embarrassment , in the end he is so weak like a human not vampire! Cruise is amazing in this scene
Honestly i dont why people keep hating on tom cruise i mean this is the best vampire movie ever, Tom cruise is the perfect lestat, he makes a hell of a vampire i love his part on this movie by the way brad looks so sexy and at the same time so sweet with those eye contacts he has, i just have one question was lestat kinda in love with Louis or was it just that he was his companion?? And was Claudia in love with him too?
In the books Louis accuses Lestat that he made him a vampire only to have his plantation but Lestat in his own version reveals that Louis reminded him of an old friend and a lover of his but he also confessed that Louis had a grip on him much stronger than anything else he had ever felt with that man. In fact even if Louis presented him as a villain in his interview Lestat not only did he not host hard feelings for Louis but he was utterly delighted to see him again and when Louis asked him if he could stay with him he immediately said yes even if Louis had denied him the same thing not too long ago. Claudia didn't seem to host the same feelings for love for Lestat. She thought of him as mentor or parent at first and then she hated him. She loved Louis as her parent and as her lover but her love became jealousy and hatred when Louis wanted to follow Armand confessing that he had started loving him more and more
People hate Tom cruise for this role cuz those people are are one ugly looser who can't come in movies and who can just sit in home and type shit online . Tom cruise did a nice role that's it .
lestat loved claudia.... after all, she was the only one of his "children" who was so much like him... in the body thief he says it himself. he loved her with all his heart. i'm gonna cry!
Woot Tom looked so goo in this movie! I think he did love Claudia, if he didn't he wouldnt even had thought of "saving" her and even though he may have done it only to keep Louis around he still treated her like his own daughter and gave her everything she wanted.
I can't imagine another actor playing this part at all, when I read the books Lestat in my head looks like Tom Cruise. You know they were going to originally use Rutger Hauer. Fucking Rutger Hauer. Yes Tom is now a mentalist, but so fuck, he is still the perfect Lestat.
one thing that makes this movie one of the best vampire movies is the feeling how the vampires live and feel through the years... that's an original vampire movie....
Iterview with the vampire is my all time favorite movie. idk why, the charachters, the story, loius and claudia. all of them. Lestat. ever scince i was around 5 i watched the movie over and over. but barely this year i read the book. and i wasn't dissapointed in anyway. i love them both. and actually when i got the book i cried. thats how in love i am with interview iwht the vampire.
''I hope it's a beautiful woman with endowments you will NEVER possess.'' So hurtful! No wonder Claudia 'turned' against him. Poisoning him then dispose him in the swamp.
Did you not notice Lestat's immediate look of regret when she asked him how he could say it? It was obvious he didn't mean it; he even grabs her arm to apologize. He's getting ill because he's not fed in a while, and it's making him delirious + angry towards Claudia who he'd been arguing with already.
@@iluvlafferty Lestat had a lot of layers to him and the truth is that he felt bad Claudia and angry with himself for making her a vampire. In the scene where she cuts her hair and then his face you can see for a moment after she hurts him that he is a little hurt and shocked suggesting that he feels bad for what he did to her, of course he is not willing to admit it.
@@littlesongbird1 Or it is even deeper and that Cruise had actually read the Vampire Lestat too along with Interview with the Vampire. If such thing happened then Cruise knew that Lestat had turned his mother into a vampire and his mother hand cut her hair only to find it grown back the next night and she went all crazy at that. If Cruise knew that then in that scene he pictured perfectly Lestat's painful reminder of his mother's crisis!
in times of no youtube and no DSL internet connection, i have recorded this film on a videotape and i repeatedly watched this scene until the tape went broke. Glad that youtube is there and i can watch as often as i want :) The Piano session is beyong any discription. Amazing song by Haydn and nice interpretation of lestat.
i am back here after binge watching the show.. this is one of my favorite scenes from the movie. when lestat says that and claudia asks, "why do you say such things?".. kirsten plays this so well. a rare moment of vulnerability, like he's wounded her and she genuinely wants to know why he does that. whether she's being manipulative here or not, it was also honest. and the way tom cruise plays lestat's reaction as one of instant regret said so much. i was sad they didn't have a scene like that in the show but perhaps it was not in the books idk. for some reason this moment was always so vivid to me though.
Tom Cruise OWNS this role. im not a big TC fan but you forget it's him in this movie. he totally embodies Lestat's essence. i prefer him as Lestat then the other dude in the other movies. to me THIS was Lestat.
He can't read her mind because he was the one who made her. I've read something in "The Vampire Armand" that the one who creates a new vampire can't read the mind of the one he created. Same happened with Marius and Armand. The moment he made him a vampire, he couldn't read his mind, blood connection was too strong for that. If I remember correctly...
@@sergiogarciac.6640 He is. He could hear thoughts and that's why he was only killing evildoers. In the second book it is explained that he cannot read the thoughts of the vampires he created. He couldn't read Louis' either nor his mother's or Nicolas' when he made them but he could hear everyone else's
Afraid to disappoint, but Edward has no heart, all I found inside was one of those 'compact discs' for a particularly unappetizing mortal named Ke$ha. I do believe that this...Ke$ha was what was supplying his body with glitter.
I'm amazed Lestat managed to find forgiveness for two of his Vampires that tried to kill him twice. He wasn't completely souless. He even mourned Claudias death after she and Madeline were burned alive in sunlight. That whole Lestat/Claudia/Louis threeway was more husband, wife and child than a controlling father with two kids. Up until I read Merrick, I thought Claudia cut Lestat a knew one for trapping her adulthood inside the body of a child when Louis was equally responsible. Made complicated by the notion that both Claudia and Lestat were in love with Louis. Then theres Claudias Journal refering to that situation in which stated she hated them both for what happened but chose to kill Lestat who wouldn't take her BS were as Louis in his guilt and shame of who he is would spend his eternity making it up to her.
When I first saw this movie, I was about Kristen's age. I thought it strange that no one around them thought it odd that two adult men were raising a little girl. Kind of reminds me of a gay couple adopting kids though Louis seems to be more of a mother to Claudia and later on, more like her lover.
Kids can be jealous of their parent's lovers too but I know what you mean. Another plothole I've noticed is why none of the people living near the trio noticed Louis and Lestat never aged while Claudia never grew up no matter how many years have passed.
She was. Louis and Claduia relationship had become much closer to romantic than Father/Daughter over the years. Though despite that Louis and Claudia's relationship never fullly recovered from his disgust and anger of Claudia killing Lestat though he always felt oblidgated to protect her.
I have to say that they did an excellent job with casting Lestat. Before i first saw it I was upset that tom cruise was playing him. Now not only is Lestat my favorite charater in the series, I cannot find any other actor that could play him as good as Tom! And man did they make him look sexy! :)
Gah, I started with Twilight. Then I read Interview with the Vampire. Then The Vampire Lestat. And the rest of the series. Twilight is nothing compared to these novels. Nothing.
@myheartismadeofstars i completly agree. whats coolest is that lestat plays the suave villian with undertones of insanity and revenge in mind for what they did to him while still maintaining the feel of a guy who just wants to be friends. So he shows undeniable evil and controlling in when hes being selfish and manipulative but its none more obvious than in this scene
i love Lestat! and i don' know much about twilight but i think old school Lestat would still rock that world. they should bring him back in a movie but not if they'll keep ruining it.
