Right now, the only things to do is to wait for the days to pass by until I get to Guwahati. I think I deserve a long rest. I also need 5.5 GB of DC comics to whet my appetite.<\/p>\n
Anne Rice is this writer whom I have been unable to make up my mind about. Some of her books ( Interview With the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, Servant of the Bones ) are so low-paced they can give Rip Van Winkle a complex. While others ( The Queen of the Damned, Vittorio the Vampire, The Tale of the Body Thief ) are white-heat. She also happens to write the darkest, most erotic bondage-themed fairy-tales ever ( The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty’s Punishment, Beauty’s Release ) In Bombay, I had been to this shop, Lotus Books, that had an amazing collection, with amazingly high prices. Jeez! They actually increase the book prices every day with the changing exchange-rates. I found the Vampire Companion<\/i>, a complete guide to Ms Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, and the nearly tattered copy had a price tag of six hundred and thirty rupees<\/i>. Bloody grave-robbers, living off the dead!!!!! <\/p>\n
I got Blood and Gold<\/i> for sixty rupees yesterday, which is a very low price for a book released last year. And last night, I watched the first cd of Interview With the Vampire<\/i>. Anne Rice had written the screenplay herself, so there were no surprises, except that I didn’t know Brad Pitt plays Louis. I thought it was Banderas in that role. The story moves at a leisurely pace, much like the book, with the philosophical discussions ( which were so integral to all of Rice’s books – existential angst of the vampire community ) chopped down. Tom Cruise plays LeStat in a flamboyant manner, the character’s cruelty, his vainness, his moments of unrestrained joy at being a vampire being enacted quite well by Cruise. Neat scene: a “dance of death” with a corpse of a plague-ridden woman. In my imagination, ( and Rice’s, i think) Lestat was much more taller, much more handsome.<\/p>\n
Again, the disadvantage of VCDs – the annoying hiss of badly encoded audio cuts down much of Elliot Goldenthal’s background score. <\/p>\n
The highpoint of the movie so far was Kirsten Dunst’s role of Claudia, a cherubic vampire child. I found her very<\/i> different ( as in looks and demeanour) from the chirpy role of Mary-Jane in Spiderman<\/i>; pretty impressive acting, I must say. I wonder if the film didn’t run into censorship problems with the Lolita-aspect of the whole thing – Claudia was supposed to fall in love with Louis, about fifteen years her senior. <\/p>\n
I am trying to get my nocturnal bearings straight before i go back home, in order not to disturb my parents’ idea of “daily habits”. So my go-to-bed time gets earlier, and so does my rise-time, and as Mr James Thurber once put it, it’s enough to make a man healthy, wealthy and dead, all at the same time. <\/p>\n
In tune with the above theme, I dutifully switched off the movie after the clock struck 12 ( or rather, after the digital watch beeped once), and went to sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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