Vampire Chronicles: The Tragic Life Of Claudia 

I personally never felt sorry for her. She was such a brat. And killed so many people for fun.

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@@nicholerubes2959 Whether it's for fun or for survival, they all kill. Louis is the only one that is not a monster, he feeds only on animals and struggles with being a vampire.

Claudia was going to be a tragedy whether she had been turned or not. Louis found her in a hovel by the body of her dead mother. She would have starved, fallen prey to the disease or to diseased minds. She would never have had any education. Her chances of betterment were slim. Had she survived she still wouldn't have had a chance.

Agree- she was fabulous. Also, I think she looked younger than 11. She could have passed for an 8 year old.

Literally Kirsten Dunst even played as Marie Antoinette very well!!

​@@GiftSparksReally? I think she looks a little tall for an 8 year old. I personally think she looks her age 11/12

Kristen Dunst did a great job and Tom Cruise took her under his wing. Did you see the new 2022 Interview With A Vampire TV series Sam Reid plays Lestat... its pretty good. Bailey Bass is wicked as Claudia in the new series***

Nah, she's more like Dolly from Batman the Animated Series.

Claudia has always been such a tragic figure to me. She suffered so she made others suffer. And later, when I read Twilight, I wondered if that wasn’t part of the reason that making them so young was forbidden. And also part of the reason Jane was so malicious and malevolent. She was jealous of the ones who were changed as adults.

Is there an emoji for shaking your head?

She also like illyasivel von enizbern from fate/stay night due her being half homuculus she appears as a 9 year old. But extremely tragic characters who suffered at the hands of cruelty from others. she honestly the most underrated character in fate/stay night.

Claudia was bitten at the age you see her, in Twilight the children you speak of were abominations of vampire/human coupling. Quite different even if it’s all make believe.

Please don't make me cry 😢 .

Her name was Michelle

She did it perfectly right down to her manure you had the body of a 11year old but the mind of an adult

Absolutely yes

Yeah, I certainly wouldn't want to be stuck in a child's body for all eternity, no wonder Claudia had issues!

They would have to.

She was a revelation!!!

She also played Marie Antoinette

​@@serafinaianni971how is that relevant?

Seriously, always sort of creeped me out that she could pretend to be an adult so well

She’s a fantastic actress in every role but it’s really impressive to see how much emotion and maturity she was able to put into her Claudia performance when she was a kid. Like, even for an adult actress that would be a tricky role and she made it believable.

For real though! The scene where Lestat tells her to clean up her mess and she growls "*You* clean it up" sounds less like a child and so much like a grown woman who's had enough bs.

I feel like it made her less awkward for sure lol. I had no problem with the change as it was still a problem for Louie when they went to the Old World.

It didn't bother me in the movie, but the idea of a full teenager as in the TV series bothers me. Claudia's story is about a woman trapped in a child's body, and a teenager of that era was an adult.

@@knowledge-girl Yeah. You don't make that change just because it's more difficult to work with a five year old.

Claudia was 5

@@knowledge-girlAt 14, I grew to the height I am now. Not an inch taller and I was pretty much through puberty. So, I can’t relate to people in the TV series calling her a “little girl”. There was one scene of Claudia with a policeman in the series and she was as tall as him, yet she doesn’t have “vampire strength”. Teenagers are pretty strong! Like I had much more energy at 14 then now. I could climb up a rope or tree. I can do that now. So when is the “magic age” where vampires come into full power?

Lol

@@misskuni 🤣🤣🤣🤣

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂, He was a kept Man

​@@teegreen3909Louis was rich

😂He was always hiding somewhere in the house and popping out randomly looking shocked at the monstrosities that were occurring, despite being a monster himself 😂

I wonder if they didnt go that young is because kids change so fast, and small kids faces will lengthen and be less roundish so itd be hard to protray claudia as a immortal 5 year old.

Yes, that is happened to some child actors that played in horror movies. I am not even going to name the movies as I don't want night mares lol.

In the movie sure, but in the books Madeline was ruthless and vicious for no reason. She enjoyed the the sadism of the hunt and kill.

@@struggleskywalker1025Well, in the series, she seems to be a Nazi sympathizer…so there’s that? :/

@@wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396 how do you gather that, we only saw her once so far

Well they did, actually. They both were merciless killers, killing a lot of people, also in a very cruel way and just for fun, instead of doing it just so they can eat and survive, like Luis did. They absolutely enjoyed going on killing spree. In the book, Madeline did get to be a vampire for a while and was very cruel so yeah, their violent death was very sad from a story perspective but they did murder a lot of people without ever feeling any remorse..

Her “forever mom” was the vampire body Claudia secured for herself. She didn't need a mother if something a companion but in this case Claudia used this poor lady.

In the Novel they go deeper into that relationship and omg it is twisted the movie did skip a lot in that area of the novel.

@@LifeInPink999 exactly in the Vampire Armand we find out this and how he put her head on Madeline’s body and how horrible that was hence why he ended up burning them. That experiment was hella wild

@@Myshka535 I don't think any of the vampires feel remorse for killing people. How about the vampires of the theatre that killed people in plain sight. Louis is the exception because he only feeds on birds.

I have this book. It’s beautiful!❤

That book was the last book I read, I was so creeped out by what Armand had done.

Hmm, it has been shown that 'fusing' with body parts of other vampires is possible (Thorne's eyes and Maharet), but who knows if Claudias' head would have adapted to the new body, the series has never been quite consistent in worldbuilding and rules...

Lestat the "brat prince" sure does get away with a lot.

I didn't read the book yet but in the t.v. series Lesat was the covenant leader of the vampires in Paris so I guess he can do as he wants.

Yup, she fed him dead blood which he told her years before to never drink

@@joshfacio9379 In the book it was poisoned in the earlier movie it was dead blood.

I literally just commented this and the ignorant people don't even get it 🙄

You nailed it, I never liked this part of the movie or the books.

Yeah, because it's a child acting like an adult in an adult film; Hollywood is full of pedos.

It was suppose to. It was suppose to make the reader/viewer relate to Claudia's strife even more. She is mentally, emotionally and spiritually an adult but physically stuck as a child. That is unsettling.

I think it was to feed their own fantasy. Claudia wants a mature body that she can see in the doll maker and the doll maker will have a child who will never die.

Claudia got punished/killed because she killed Lestat (or at least tried to) and when Armand's clan found out, there's this one rule that vampires can't kill their own kind, so they killed her.. It was also one rule that she had no maturity because she was so young, she wouldn't be able to control her thirst, etc.. And the doll maker saw Claudia's vampire teeth so ig he was scared? If you want to know more, lmk.

Claudia, though an adult, forever trapped in a child’s body, still needed a fully adult (vampire) caretaker, to navigate the world they lived in: If Louis and/or Lestat left $$$ for Claudia and Madeline to live, Claudia, as a little girl could not buy a home or rent or order clothing to purchase etc. blah blah blah… Claudia, due to her child body needed an adult companion/caretaker.

Claudia wasn't strong enough to survive on her own she needed someone to stay with her, she can't be a true vampire in every sense of the word only a killer depending on circumstances, she couldn't flourish in vampire society conduct herself and master the ways of a vampire like lestat, Louis or Armando could, she needed Madeline to help her.

This is such an underrated, fairly unknown movie. I first saw it in my early teens, I think. It's an interesting concept. Lost Boys is one of my favorite movies of all time and I think that is part of why I liked Near Dark so much.

Swedish novel/movie ‘let the right one in ‘ is really good. One is a human child the other a vampire. It’s terrifying.

@@Frances643 Totally agree with you there :-) I've seen both the original language version and the English language re-make. The original is still the best and scariest of the two :-)

@@MrCrystalwarrior1Then there was the ill fated Let The Right one in TV show…I think it was on Showtime. I only got to see a few episodes of it.😊

​@@susieq1279 fun fact did you know that the Little vampire boy homer in near dark and the actor who played Michael in the lost boys are brothers.

Best of luck to you mate. I really hope it will turn out great. Hopefully I may get a character or some bystander role. I'm a big black bald dude with glasses 🤷🏾‍♀️😂 a vampire may eat me or something. Feel free to used it as an guess character. No payment required (screenshot mate for legal reasons😅). I hope the book turns out good 👍🏾

Yes

I think she said he had bad breath and dry lips too! I was 💀!

The killing of Claudia and Madeline was just to isolate Louis because Armand sucks

​@@Megan-rr6qgyea everything went downhill for them when they met Armand.

Por Louis, Armand enloqueció de amor cuando lo vió por primera vez su olor, el olor dulce y la carne suave, así mismo como le pasó a Lestat, así le ocurrió a Armand, lo que hizo lo hizo por amor, por querer tenerlo solo para él y lo dice en la película, "te quería solo para mí, no podía permitir que te vayas"

How’d u not know?😅 he’s so distinctive

I am ☠️!

She was dying that why she was turned there was no way she would have lived to be old enough for the gift

@@Heythereitskirstyn That's what makes it all the more heartbreaking. Death might have been more merciful than turning her because Claudia doesn't even get to go through puberty.

@@thecajunphoenix But all vampires struggle with being stuck at the age they are and having immortality.

@@P55999 That's also true. Also, some vampires also suffer "Age Without Youth" since they technically cannot die, but their external bodies still go through the vampiric equivalent of the aging process.

Probably because a television series is always predicted to be on for several seasons at the onset and a child will visibly grow up within that time frame ? Think about it haha

@@youngspaghettiiexactly the only show that had a child vampire was Buffy, and it was only for like the first season and then they killed him off when they introduced Spike cuz the kid had a massive puberty stroke.

Lestat didn't "know all." His sire deleted himself after he turned Lestat without telling him anything of use.

Louis just wants to end Claudia suffering by suffering no more, that's it, but Lestat reappeared from shadows and token the child, which he knew breaking vampire code to turn the child into a vampire first place.

Lestat era egoísta, le cegaba los celos, las ganas de que Louis fuera como él, que sólo lo necesitará a él, a nadie más, y eso Lestat no iba a tolerar, esa niña le estaba quitando lo que mas amaba

Ew

Lestat was effeminate in this movie. Eww

This might be the only time Tom Cruise was ever attractive to me. He's usually fugly, but honestly looked amazing with that long blonde hair.

Brad Pitt was too depressed for me lestat should have put him out of his misery.

They are not suppose to turn children.

i literally thought the exact same thing lol

It Wouldn't have worked unfortunately your talking about the scorching sun on vampire flesh it wouldn't have worked.

She was...a very angry spirit

@@VampireFolkloreVideos I only caught some of it One of the Mayfair witches contacted Claudia so Louis and lastat could make peace

@@VampireFolkloreVideos yah I looked that up on Google she wasn't just a agree vampire in life she was more like a poltergeist on steroids because she couldn't grow up and have a nice pair of breasts

She was.

I know I what to see the Mayfair witches

She's not dead

In the book she was 5 but was aged up to 11/12 for the film because a real 5 year old wouldn't understand the emotional depth of Claudia

Supposedly everyone is around 30 years old in the afterlife.

Dude, nowhere does it say the kid would stay a child forever or even reference anything related to it. You literally do not have a body anymore at that point. We are given different spiritual bodies on Judgement day as everyone is resurrected. You are just basing your worries on your own imaginings of how you think things could be instead of actually looking at what Scripture says about anything.

@@sonniepronounceds-au-ni9287 You sound condescending

@@shayla106 You can't tell tone in text that well. Try reading things out loud in different tones, and you will realize how much it can change in hostility solely based on tone of voice. Being condescending here wouldn't be a sin even if it was the intent. I am simply correcting her after she just committed heresy. If I am angry at what was said, then I have a right to be because I worry about those who may believe that lie, including the one who said it, along with being offended on behalf of God who was slandered. Being blunt and rude aren't sins when done without hypocrisy for the correction of sins so that others may know better and potentially be saved. Christ himself whipped the money lenders out of the temple and flipped tables. St Paul was blunt and had no problem calling the early churches fools in correcting them. The prophet Elijah mocked the priests of Baal by telling them to shout louder so that if their false god was real, then he might hear them. If sounding rude to someone was in itself a sin, then how would you ever teach anyone when people take any form of correction as being offensive?

@@sonniepronounceds-au-ni9287 Allegedly.

Armand lo dijo, Lestat no era capaz de enseñarle todo lo que debía de saber él quería que Louis dependiera de él siempre, que siempre estuviera escondido detrás de él como un niño asustado, No le dijo que un vampiro al matar a otro vampiro era condenado, Lestat tenía toda la razón, pero era un egoísta, quería tener a Louis con él y eso implicaba a la niña

Lestat unwisely chose Louis to be a vampire. Louis regrets being turned into a vampire. He has morals and would rather be a human that doesn't kill humans for survival. Lestat turned Claudia into a vampire to avoid losing Louis. Louis wanted to get away from Lestat's cruel games. So, Lestat turned Claudia into a vampire by manipulating Louis. But Claudia and Louis got tired of Lestat. Lestat should have known Claudia would be too vulnerable to fight against vampires who want her dead from being a child. Lestat turning Claudia into a vampire made her life hell. She would never grow up with a woman's body. Lestat is this hedonistic mess who had a bad father figure. So, Lestat became another bad father figure to Claudia. Which is how she became a spoiled killer without impulse control. Which made her not prepared to protect herself from more dangerous vampires that were less impulsive and spoiled. Lestat is known for making a nonstop mess of things compared to more self-controlled vampires. Unlike Lestat, Louis cleaned himself up eventually after Claudia died.

Nah. Lestat is still the bad guy. Louis may have fed on her and hastened her death, but she was already dying. Lestat is the one who made her existence immortal hell and used her as a toy to keep Louis around.

No, in the book it was clear she matured emotionally and mentally

@@marianparoo1544 so it's a bit hit or miss on its lore, huh?

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It's Rice's take and it's good. But since she doesn't age, does she hit puberty?

@@katyrye Never. :(

Children are not innocent. It takes a while for a kid to develop manner, social skills and grasp cause and effect and empathy. Sadly she had none of that before being turned. She never got to learn them all she has is the dark hunger.

@@lissaquon607 you're 100% right about that