About a year ago, I found out about Queen of the Damned. All I knew about it was that it was about a queen of vampires. I had never really liked vampire stories up to that point because I was uncomfortable with the sight of blood. However, those days are over, and now Im much less sensitive to the sight of blood.
Since I loved the soundtrack so much, I bought the DVD when it came out. I had never seen it before, but I definitely dont regret buying it. I will review it next week. Thanks to the Queen of the Damned DVD, I found out that Interview with the Vampire was also written by Anne Rice, whom I was not familiar with before. I had known about the movie version of Interview with the Vampire, but had never seen or read the book before.
When the movie came out, I was still uncomfortable with the sight or thought of blood. Also, I was very rebellious against pop culture and ignored anything which became popular. Since everyone was making such a big fuss about Brad Pitt, I never really saw the movie. However, those days are long gone because over the years Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Antonio Banderas have become three of my favorite actors.
After watching Queen of the Damned and reading some of Interview with the Vampire I purchased The Vampire Chronicles: Volume 1. This book contains the first three books in Rices Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, and Queen of the Damned. Before I finished reading Interview with the Vampire, I watched it on DVD. All of the actors did such a good job at portraying the characters and the story that I finally finished reading the books.
The novel is much better than the movie, though the movie is still very good. There are some differences, including a different ending, but for the most part, the movie kept very close to the story of the novel. If you liked the movie, youll love the novel for sure.
The novel was a first-person narrative from the view of Louis. In The Vampire Lestat, Lestat gives his first-person point of view of Interview with the Vampire and explains his story, which leads to Queen of the Damned.
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Name: Nick
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Nice review Greg. I thought the movie was great and since it had the childhood version of Kirsten Dunst who would grow up to become one of the most beautiful people in the world, it was that much better. I would someday like to read the book though. That sounds pretty entertaining.
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