Talk:Interview with the Vampire

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Contents 1 circular link 2 Cleanup 3 Split Movie / Book 4 Length 5 Book movie discrepancy 6 "Book vs. Film" 7 "Film Plot" 8 Influence on Japan 9 Splitting taking place now 10 Conflict between (book) and (film) articles

[edit] circular link

I removed a link that redirect to itself, about movie adaptation.Boris Crépeau 03:41, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

I added a cleanup template to this article, it's total trash at the moment. There is a section about how the book differs from the film (which is the only real content in this article) except it's disjointed, sophomoric and repetitive. It's comprised of several run-on sentences, and would only make sense if juxtaposed with a paragraph explaining the storyline of the film. I'll try to improve it when I have time. Moe Aboulkheir 23:33, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

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I read once that:

• the novel is based on an earlier novella of Rice's
• Claudia is based on her daughter, who died on leukaemia

Could a die-hard fan confirm? -- Tarquin 16:42 Sep 1, 2002 (PDT)

In the movie, does't the interview take place in San Francisco? - User:Olivier

Yes, it does. At the beginning of the movie you can see the camera sweeping over the Golden Gate Bridge and through the streets until it focuses on the outside of the building where the interview talkes place in. Also, at the end of the movie (altered quite drastically from the book-version), you can see Daniel driving over the Golden Gate Bridge in his hasty get-away.

[edit] Split Movie / Book

Don't split the book and moive are to differnt entitys. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.100.226.27 (talk • contribs) 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Shouldn't this be split into 2 articles

• Interview With a Vampire (Book)
• Interview With a Vampire (Movie)

The two are substanitatly different. I'm not the biggest fan of either (eg, I don't want to have to do the work) but I feel such a split could make this section of wikipedia much more useful. --Kode 21:59, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

In what way are they substantially different (haven't read or seen either in awhile)? Jeff schiller 21:14, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

They're very similar actually. There are a few differences between the book and the movie, other than that, not much has changed. I think it would be redundant to split this article into two. Separate sections about the movie and the book could work though. EliasAlucard|Talk 11:09, 13 Sept, 2005 (UTC)

That's what I suspected. Jeff schiller 14:06, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

I like the idea of separate articles or at least separate sections. Book/Movie trivia and details should be separated from each other to avoid confusion and increase clarity. Absynthia 17:51, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Length

What's the difference between the PAL and NTSC versions? It seems that the length of the movie is the only difference. Does anyone know more about this? Would be cool if it would've been featured more prominently in the article. EliasAlucard|Talk 12:07, 13 Sept, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Book movie discrepancy

There was mention that the movie failed to address the fact that making a child a vampire was not allowed. Looks like somone noticed this was incorrect and rather than removing the text they added an argument. I remember the line the person did mention so i removed their addition as well as the text that they were arguing against (since it is untrue). It may not have been emphasized as much in the movie, but it certainly was implied. --Mr. Dude ^{†@£К ║ Çøת†яĭβü†ĬŎИ} 17:22, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

I personally am not fit to clean this article up, as it has been close to ten years since viewing the movie, but it is very terribly written as it stands. Please, someone, write this article up to be worthwhile.--Lazarus Plus 20:36, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Book vs. Film"

This section is awful. Why on earth are we going into all these details about differences in the plots of the movie and the book when there's no basic plot description of either? It seems to me that, as people suggest earlier, the book and movie should be split up. Plot similarities/differences aside, this would allow the article on the book to focus on stuff having to do with the book (publication, relation to other books in the series, etc.), and the article on the movie to focus on stuff having to do with the movie (production details, cast, crew, and so forth). The article on the book should describe the plot of the book in a normal way, and the article on the movie should describe the plot, and note differences with the book. john k 19:10, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. Hbackman 01:01, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Two different articles should be created with in depth information on each in their respective articles. Book vs. Film can be condensed to the broadest terms and placed in the film's article.

[edit] "Film Plot"

Expanation of plot from the film contains numerious wrong details. The whole section revolving around Claudia needs to be cleaned up with correct information and the vague areas need to clarified.

[edit] Influence on Japan

There is an official Japanese manga of IWTV & lots of doujinshis. Also, there was a Japanese band called Malice Mizer who used lines from the IWTV movie in a song called Transylvania, not to mention the vocalist at that time; Gackt, has a music video where he went back & forth between being dressed like Louis & Lestat. Lastly, the anime NIGHTWALKER is believed heavily to be anywhere from overtly inspired to actually ripping-off IWTV due to overwhelming coincidences. I'm willing to provide images, sources, & information to anyone willing to compile & publish the information. --LikaLaruku 06:15, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Here's a page on it by Bane Huntress; http://bane-huntress.com/Vampire/IwtV-Mainpage.html

[edit] Splitting taking place now

I'm splitting the book and movie into separate articles as I did with The Queen of the Damned. Please bear with me while the move is in progress. The movie will be at Interview with the Vampire (film).--Canley 13:26, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Conflict between (book) and (film) articles

The section about the film in this article conflicts with information in the article about the film re: Anne Rice's choice of actors for Lestat.207.69.137.26 03:01, 7 September 2007 (UTC)