Movie Well Done

Rating: 10/10 (30 December 2005)

Considering the fact that this was a movie, and no audience has the time to sit through the film version of a novel the entire way through, the director followed the book very closely. The biggest problem I had with it however, which gets under my skin every time that I see the movie, is the portrayal of Armand. Rice describes him very carefully as a red haired, beautiful, young man with the face of a child. Antonio Banderis, regardless of his skillful acting in the movie, would not be my first choice. I believe that an actor should have been chosen whose face one could fall on love with at first sight. Otherwise, I agree with the liberation that the director has taken with the story. The poetic licensing taken with the end of the flick fits within the persona of the character and would be an expected event. The movie takes on the mood of the novel and portrays Rice's character's beautifully. The movie even goes in deeper than the surface of the storyline to go into the battle between the existential and the post-existential of the book's characters Lestat and Louis. One would nearly not have to even read the novel to be able to understand the undercurrents of the story and the characters oh so well, which of course however is not recommended.