This is going to be an embarrassingly, ridiculously long thread that might interest no one, but the reunion scene between Louis and Lestat in episode 8 of Interview with the Vampire is one of the most devastating and beautiful and visceral scenes I've ever seen, and definitely🧵
So much to love here but "They are a match, note for note, which is rare."
There is something rare and completely magic about Sam and Jacob as co-stars.
Literary nerd 🧵 incoming. There is a reference in Brutal Love that made me look up whether Daniel Hart came from a very Christian background as a kid, and he did. With "Show me that bitter star", I thought of "star-crossed lovers", a phrase from Romeo and Juliet, and remembered
Incredibly fascinating to me, and I'm not sure what it means yet, that Brutal Love's chorus has the lyrics "I am the meteor, colliding / Writing your name in dust / as I fall." As "I" fall. Something about Lestat singing to Louis about a fall, but it's HIM falling.
Literary nerd 🧵 incoming. There is a reference in Brutal Love that made me look up whether Daniel Hart came from a very Christian background as a kid, and he did. With "Show me that bitter star", I thought of "star-crossed lovers", a phrase from Romeo and Juliet, and remembered
Literary nerd 🧵 incoming. There is a reference in Brutal Love that made me look up whether Daniel Hart came from a very Christian background as a kid, and he did. With "Show me that bitter star", I thought of "star-crossed lovers", a phrase from Romeo and Juliet, and remembered
@danielmwenda Daniel Hart, I don't know if I'm right about any of this, but either way, Brutal Heart is one of the most stunning songs I've ever heard.
Literary nerd 🧵 incoming. There is a reference in Brutal Love that made me look up whether Daniel Hart came from a very Christian background as a kid, and he did. With "Show me that bitter star", I thought of "star-crossed lovers", a phrase from Romeo and Juliet, and remembered
And I think it's pretty brilliant that Daniel Hart seems to be writing Lestat as using both references to Romeo -- VERY much a descendant of the Lelio archetype of the young lover, but one whose story turns tragic and ends in death -- AND him using references to the Book of
Revelation, which we wouldn't expect from someone with Lestat's anger at God, but which fits so well for someone who might remember these vivid stories of destruction, with an image of a star that kills, from a childhood briefly spent in a monastery.
And I think it's pretty brilliant that Daniel Hart seems to be writing Lestat as using both references to Romeo -- VERY much a descendant of the Lelio archetype of the young lover, but one whose story turns tragic and ends in death -- AND him using references to the Book of