The Pitch: Nosferatu meets Top Gun meets The Crying GameInfluence: Vampire In Brooklyn, Blade, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Brokeback Mountain
Price Of Admission: $3.50
When: November 19th, 1994 at 4:20pm
My Age: 13
Quote: No one could resist me. Not even you, Louis - Lestat.
My sister and I saw this vampire flick after my little brother's 4-year-old birthday party at McDonald's. Which means nothing, other than to place the context of my Grimace mindset upon viewing Interview...
The cast is probably the most intriguing thing about this movie. You got a young buck Brad Pitt, a Christian Slater on the trailing end of his prime, a Kirsten Dunst debut, a post-Philadelphia pre-Desperado Antonio Banderas, and of course a Tom Cruise. River Phoenix was originally cast as the interviewer, but was replaced by Slater after Phoenix OD'ed in front of Johnny Depp's Viper Room. Incidentally, Depp was up for the role of Lestat taken by Cruise.Synopsis: Had to read the Wikipedia plot entry for this one and, well, I'm still not sure what goes on. So this is just what I remember. Brad Pitt owns a New Orleans plantation. Tom Cruise bites him and makes him part-vampire. Apparently, you're not a full vampire until you bite someone else yourself. So, Pitt survives on a diet of sewer rats. Cruise bites Kirsten Dunst and makes her a vampire. Pitt and Dunst have a tiff with Cruise and somehow sneak away to Paris. Pitt meets up with Antonio "Corazon Throb" Banderas. Vampires turn on Dunst and Pitt. Dunst gets exposed to sunlight and disintegrates. Pitt goes to California and meets up with Christian Slater to do an article for the newspaper. Slater goes driving in his convertible and Cruise lands on his car. And then this happens:
I can't write about this movie and not mention the pairing of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. Brad Pitt has that air of confidence and youth that ultimately brings to mind James Dean. Tom Cruise in his youth was the closest thing the 80s had to a Paul Newman. However, the Newman in The Hustler and the Cruise in The Color of Money are two very separate entities. It was the 80s after all. I watched East of Eden a couple of days ago and found this gem. Jimmy Dean and Newman's Own slathering so much charisma, machismo, switchblades and undeniable homoeroticism into one quick little screen test. Classic.
Up next: Imagine Lando Calrissian and Qui-Gon Jinn inhabiting the same Star Wars universe except substitute Captain Kirk and Captain Picard.
