1 00:03:04,058 --> 00:03:06,894 So you want me to tell you the story of my life. 2 00:03:07,144 --> 00:03:10,481 Like I said, that's what I do. I interview people. 3 00:03:10,648 --> 00:03:12,233 I'm a collector of lives. 4 00:03:12,316 --> 00:03:14,068 FM radio, KFRC. 5 00:03:14,234 --> 00:03:16,737 You'll need a lot of tape for my story. 6 00:03:16,904 --> 00:03:19,489 No problem. I got a bag full of tape. 7 00:03:20,741 --> 00:03:22,909 You followed me here, didn't you? 8 00:03:23,493 --> 00:03:25,412 Yeah, I suppose I did. 9 00:03:25,912 --> 00:03:27,831 You seemed very interesting. 10 00:03:28,999 --> 00:03:30,751 This is where you live? 11 00:03:31,168 --> 00:03:32,169 No. 12 00:03:32,336 --> 00:03:33,921 It's just a room. 13 00:03:36,507 --> 00:03:38,759 What do you say we get started? 14 00:03:41,762 --> 00:03:43,263 What do you do? 15 00:03:43,430 --> 00:03:45,015 I'm a vampire. 16 00:03:47,684 --> 00:03:50,103 I haven't heard that before. 17 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:52,856 You mean this literally, I take it? 18 00:03:53,023 --> 00:03:54,441 Absolutely. 19 00:03:55,275 --> 00:03:57,610 I was waiting for you in that alley. 20 00:03:57,861 --> 00:04:00,029 Watching you watching me. 21 00:04:00,947 --> 00:04:02,865 And then you began to speak. 22 00:04:03,866 --> 00:04:06,035 What a lucky break for me. 23 00:04:06,202 --> 00:04:08,121 Perhaps lucky for both of us. 24 00:04:12,041 --> 00:04:14,210 You said you were... 25 00:04:14,377 --> 00:04:16,045 ...waiting for me. 26 00:04:16,462 --> 00:04:19,715 What were you going to do? Kill me, drink my blood? 27 00:04:19,882 --> 00:04:20,966 Yes. 28 00:04:21,968 --> 00:04:24,137 But you needn't be concerned now. 29 00:04:26,556 --> 00:04:29,892 You really believe this, don't you, that you're a vampire? 30 00:04:30,643 --> 00:04:32,562 We can't begin this way. 31 00:04:32,729 --> 00:04:34,480 Let me turn on the light. 32 00:04:35,231 --> 00:04:38,567 -I thought vampires didn't like light. -We love it. 33 00:04:39,902 --> 00:04:42,154 I only wanted to prepare you. 34 00:04:44,490 --> 00:04:45,491 Christ! 35 00:04:45,574 --> 00:04:47,326 Don't be frightened. 36 00:04:47,993 --> 00:04:49,995 I want this opportunity. 37 00:04:50,329 --> 00:04:52,247 How the hell did you do that? 38 00:04:52,331 --> 00:04:53,916 The same as you do. 39 00:04:54,499 --> 00:04:56,918 A series of simple gestures. 40 00:04:57,085 --> 00:04:59,504 Only I moved too fast for you to see. 41 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:02,424 I'm flesh and blood... 42 00:05:02,591 --> 00:05:04,175 ...but not human. 43 00:05:04,676 --> 00:05:07,846 I haven't been human for 200 years. 44 00:05:09,681 --> 00:05:10,848 Please.... 45 00:05:19,358 --> 00:05:21,360 How can I put you at ease? 46 00:05:21,777 --> 00:05:24,362 Shall we begin like "David Copperfield"? 47 00:05:24,529 --> 00:05:25,697 "I am born..." 48 00:05:25,780 --> 00:05:27,073 "...I grew up." 49 00:05:28,950 --> 00:05:33,288 Or shall we begin when I was born to darkness, as I call it. 50 00:05:34,789 --> 00:05:37,542 That's where we should start, don't you think? 51 00:05:39,627 --> 00:05:41,629 You're not lying, are you? 52 00:05:42,713 --> 00:05:44,382 Why should I lie? 53 00:05:46,384 --> 00:05:48,761 1791 was the year it happened. 54 00:05:53,807 --> 00:05:55,559 I was 24. 55 00:05:55,726 --> 00:05:57,811 Younger than you are now. 56 00:05:58,312 --> 00:06:01,565 But times were different then. I was a man at that age. 57 00:06:01,732 --> 00:06:05,820 The master of a large plantation, just south of New Orleans. 58 00:06:09,073 --> 00:06:11,575 I had lost my wife in childbirth. 59 00:06:11,742 --> 00:06:14,995 She and the infant had been buried less than half a year. 60 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:18,332 I would've been happy to join them. 61 00:06:20,751 --> 00:06:23,337 I couldn't bear the pain of their loss. 62 00:06:23,670 --> 00:06:26,089 I longed to be released from it. 63 00:06:38,852 --> 00:06:40,854 I wanted to lose it all: 64 00:06:41,020 --> 00:06:42,522 my wealth... 65 00:06:43,189 --> 00:06:44,691 ...my estate... 66 00:06:45,191 --> 00:06:46,776 ...my sanity. 67 00:06:55,034 --> 00:06:56,953 How many aces are in a deck? 68 00:06:57,370 --> 00:06:59,206 Are you calling me a cheat? 69 00:07:02,208 --> 00:07:05,128 No, I'm calling you a piece of stinking offal! 70 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,636 You lack the courage of your convictions. Do it! 71 00:07:14,303 --> 00:07:17,139 Most of all, I longed for death. 72 00:07:17,473 --> 00:07:19,058 I know that now. 73 00:07:19,725 --> 00:07:21,394 I invited it. 74 00:07:22,311 --> 00:07:24,897 A release from the pain of living. 75 00:07:46,167 --> 00:07:48,838 My invitation was open to anyone. 76 00:07:49,588 --> 00:07:51,757 To the whore at my side. 77 00:07:52,758 --> 00:07:54,927 To the pimp that followed. 78 00:07:57,095 --> 00:08:00,098 But it was a vampire that accepted. 79 00:08:26,457 --> 00:08:28,459 Give me your money or you die! 80 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:04,995 Do you still want death? 81 00:09:05,245 --> 00:09:07,331 Or have you tasted it enough? 82 00:09:07,497 --> 00:09:08,665 Enough. 83 00:09:18,258 --> 00:09:21,427 He left me there, on the banks of the Mississippi... 84 00:09:22,512 --> 00:09:25,598 ...somewhere between life and death. 85 00:09:44,034 --> 00:09:46,703 Who are you? What're you doing in my house? 86 00:09:47,579 --> 00:09:50,248 I've come to answer your prayers. 87 00:09:52,709 --> 00:09:55,127 Life has no meaning anymore...does it? 88 00:09:59,090 --> 00:10:01,258 The wine has no taste. 89 00:10:01,425 --> 00:10:03,427 The food sickens you. 90 00:10:03,511 --> 00:10:06,513 There seems no reason for any of it... does there? 91 00:10:11,602 --> 00:10:14,062 What if I could give it back to you? 92 00:10:14,396 --> 00:10:15,981 Pluck out the pain... 93 00:10:16,064 --> 00:10:18,108 ...and give you another life? 94 00:10:18,734 --> 00:10:21,070 One you could never imagine. 95 00:10:22,154 --> 00:10:24,240 And it would be...for all time. 96 00:10:26,617 --> 00:10:27,952 And sickness... 97 00:10:28,119 --> 00:10:29,620 ...and death... 98 00:10:29,787 --> 00:10:32,122 ...could never touch you again. 99 00:10:33,791 --> 00:10:35,292 Don't be afraid. 100 00:10:36,085 --> 00:10:38,587 I'm going to give you the choice... 101 00:10:38,754 --> 00:10:39,755 ...I... 102 00:10:40,088 --> 00:10:41,590 ...never had. 103 00:10:50,974 --> 00:10:53,601 That morning, I was not yet a vampire... 104 00:10:53,810 --> 00:10:56,604 ...and I saw my last sunrise. 105 00:10:57,313 --> 00:10:59,607 I remember it completely... 106 00:11:00,274 --> 00:11:03,653 ...and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. 107 00:11:05,947 --> 00:11:09,617 I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time... 108 00:11:09,784 --> 00:11:11,619 ...as if it were the first. 109 00:11:15,623 --> 00:11:18,293 And then I said farewell to sunlight... 110 00:11:18,376 --> 00:11:20,420 ...and set out to become... 111 00:11:20,503 --> 00:11:21,546 ...what I became. 112 00:11:42,149 --> 00:11:44,985 Have you said your good-byes to the light? 113 00:12:07,341 --> 00:12:08,884 I've drained you... 114 00:12:09,051 --> 00:12:11,178 ...to the point of death. 115 00:12:12,346 --> 00:12:14,389 If I leave you here... 116 00:12:14,556 --> 00:12:15,891 ...you'll die. 117 00:12:17,058 --> 00:12:17,976 Or... 118 00:12:19,060 --> 00:12:22,230 ...you can be young always, my friend... 119 00:12:23,398 --> 00:12:25,233 ...as we are now. 120 00:12:26,734 --> 00:12:28,695 But you must tell me... 121 00:12:29,237 --> 00:12:30,655 ...will you come... 122 00:12:30,738 --> 00:12:31,864 ...or no? 123 00:12:35,743 --> 00:12:37,036 Yes. 124 00:12:42,416 --> 00:12:43,751 Yes. 125 00:13:47,105 --> 00:13:48,982 Your body's dying. 126 00:13:49,274 --> 00:13:50,942 Pay no attention. 127 00:13:51,610 --> 00:13:53,486 It happens to us all. 128 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:24,766 Now look... 129 00:14:24,850 --> 00:14:27,185 ...with your vampire eyes. 130 00:14:45,704 --> 00:14:47,164 What did you see? 131 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:50,167 No words can describe it. 132 00:14:51,835 --> 00:14:54,338 Might as well ask Heaven what it sees. 133 00:14:54,504 --> 00:14:56,214 No human can know. 134 00:14:57,716 --> 00:15:00,343 The statue seemed to move, but didn't. 135 00:15:00,886 --> 00:15:03,847 The world had changed, yet stayed the same. 136 00:15:05,223 --> 00:15:09,185 I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night. 137 00:15:14,899 --> 00:15:17,235 Perhaps you'd like another cigarette? 138 00:15:18,527 --> 00:15:21,197 I would. It's not bothering you, is it? 139 00:15:21,405 --> 00:15:25,367 I don't assume it would. It's not like you'll die from cancer. 140 00:15:26,076 --> 00:15:27,703 I don't think so. 141 00:15:29,581 --> 00:15:32,083 -What about crucifixes? -Crucifixes? 142 00:15:32,250 --> 00:15:34,210 Can you look at them? 143 00:15:34,377 --> 00:15:37,296 Actually, I'm quite fond of looking at crucifixes. 144 00:15:38,214 --> 00:15:40,258 And the stake through the heart? 145 00:15:40,424 --> 00:15:41,551 Nonsense. 146 00:15:41,717 --> 00:15:42,927 And coffins? 147 00:15:43,886 --> 00:15:45,221 Coffins. 148 00:15:45,388 --> 00:15:48,099 Coffins, unfortunately, are a necessity. 149 00:15:50,726 --> 00:15:52,102 Don't worry. 150 00:15:53,103 --> 00:15:54,271 Soon... 151 00:15:54,772 --> 00:15:58,233 ...you'll be sleeping as soundly as you've ever slept. 152 00:15:59,902 --> 00:16:01,778 And when you awake... 153 00:16:02,779 --> 00:16:04,740 ...I'll be waiting for you... 154 00:16:05,574 --> 00:16:08,118 ...and so will all the world. 155 00:16:16,751 --> 00:16:20,088 Blood, I was to find, was a necessity as well. 156 00:16:21,090 --> 00:16:24,968 I awoke the next evening with a hunger I had never felt. 157 00:16:26,637 --> 00:16:28,764 Once you taste this... 158 00:16:28,930 --> 00:16:32,100 ...you'll never go to another tavern again. 159 00:16:32,601 --> 00:16:34,269 You think so? 160 00:16:35,270 --> 00:16:38,314 But what if I'd rather taste your lips? 161 00:16:38,815 --> 00:16:41,442 My lips are even sweeter still. 162 00:16:56,832 --> 00:16:58,667 My friend... 163 00:16:59,168 --> 00:17:01,628 ...should taste those lips. 164 00:17:01,837 --> 00:17:02,963 Is his... 165 00:17:03,172 --> 00:17:04,339 ...kiss... 166 00:17:04,506 --> 00:17:05,716 ...as deep... 167 00:17:05,799 --> 00:17:07,301 ...as yours? 168 00:17:08,510 --> 00:17:10,345 Deeper, ma chérie. 169 00:17:43,670 --> 00:17:45,839 I will not take her life. 170 00:17:47,006 --> 00:17:48,716 I've done it for you. 171 00:17:51,552 --> 00:17:53,054 She's dead... 172 00:17:54,055 --> 00:17:56,390 ...as a doornail, my friend. 173 00:18:03,565 --> 00:18:06,902 It's so easy, you almost feel sorry for them. 174 00:18:13,575 --> 00:18:15,243 You'll get used to killing. 175 00:18:15,326 --> 00:18:17,995 Just forget about that mortal coil. 176 00:18:18,579 --> 00:18:21,415 You'll become accustomed to it, all too quickly. 177 00:18:29,340 --> 00:18:30,841 Are you not hungry? 178 00:18:30,925 --> 00:18:32,676 Au contraire, ma chérie. 179 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:34,762 He could eat the whole colony. 180 00:18:53,613 --> 00:18:54,864 I will finish it. 181 00:18:54,949 --> 00:18:56,200 Now leave us. 182 00:19:04,124 --> 00:19:06,043 Can't you pretend, you fool? 183 00:19:06,543 --> 00:19:08,712 Don't give the game away. 184 00:19:08,879 --> 00:19:11,214 We're lucky to have such a home. 185 00:19:20,974 --> 00:19:23,476 Pretend to drink, at least. 186 00:19:28,314 --> 00:19:30,983 Such fine crystal shouldn't go to waste. 187 00:19:52,171 --> 00:19:53,422 I know. 188 00:19:53,673 --> 00:19:55,675 It gets cold so quickly. 189 00:19:56,008 --> 00:19:57,593 We can live like this? 190 00:19:57,677 --> 00:19:59,178 On animal blood? 191 00:19:59,345 --> 00:20:02,515 I wouldn't call it living. Call it surviving. 192 00:20:03,015 --> 00:20:05,768 Useful trick if you're on a ship for a month. 193 00:20:08,437 --> 00:20:11,440 There's nothing in the world now that doesn't hold some.... 194 00:20:11,523 --> 00:20:12,858 Fascination. 195 00:20:13,942 --> 00:20:15,027 Yes. 196 00:20:16,403 --> 00:20:19,364 -I'm bored with this prattle. -We can live without killing. 197 00:20:19,447 --> 00:20:20,699 It's possible. 198 00:20:20,949 --> 00:20:22,450 Anything is possible. 199 00:20:22,534 --> 00:20:24,536 But just try it for a week. 200 00:20:24,953 --> 00:20:29,457 Come into New Orleans and let me show you some real sport. 201 00:20:39,635 --> 00:20:42,971 Lestat killed two, sometimes three a night. 202 00:20:43,805 --> 00:20:45,557 A fresh young girl... 203 00:20:45,724 --> 00:20:48,601 ...was his favorite for the first of the evening. 204 00:20:49,311 --> 00:20:52,814 For seconds, he preferred a gilded, beautiful youth. 205 00:20:54,399 --> 00:20:57,819 But the snob in him loved to hunt in society. 206 00:20:58,486 --> 00:21:01,656 The blood of the aristocrat thrilled him best of all. 207 00:21:02,740 --> 00:21:05,409 The trick is not to think about it. 208 00:21:05,743 --> 00:21:07,161 You see that one? 209 00:21:07,244 --> 00:21:08,746 Widow St. Clair. 210 00:21:08,996 --> 00:21:13,083 She had that gorgeous young fop murder her husband. 211 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:14,877 How do you know? 212 00:21:16,253 --> 00:21:17,838 Read her thoughts. 213 00:21:20,090 --> 00:21:21,842 Read her thoughts. 214 00:21:27,681 --> 00:21:29,015 I can't. 215 00:21:30,768 --> 00:21:33,437 The "dark gift" is different for each of us. 216 00:21:33,771 --> 00:21:37,942 But one thing is true of everyone. We grow stronger as we go along. 217 00:21:38,859 --> 00:21:40,861 Just take my word for it. 218 00:21:41,945 --> 00:21:44,531 She blamed a slave for his murder. 219 00:21:44,698 --> 00:21:46,783 Imagine what they did to him. 220 00:21:47,534 --> 00:21:50,620 Evil-doers are easier, and they taste better. 221 00:22:22,652 --> 00:22:24,154 Where are we going? 222 00:22:31,744 --> 00:22:32,912 Nowhere. 223 00:22:33,996 --> 00:22:37,166 Now, young man, you really amaze me! 224 00:22:39,919 --> 00:22:43,172 I'm old enough to be your grandmother. 225 00:22:57,352 --> 00:22:59,771 Oh, yes, that's the melody. 226 00:23:00,272 --> 00:23:01,940 I remember it. 227 00:23:13,952 --> 00:23:15,537 Murderer! 228 00:23:16,038 --> 00:23:17,372 My little papillons! 229 00:23:17,456 --> 00:23:19,958 My butterflies, he killed them! 230 00:23:22,961 --> 00:23:25,297 You... whining coward of a vampire... 231 00:23:25,380 --> 00:23:29,050 ...who prowls killing rats and poodles! You could've finished us! 232 00:23:29,801 --> 00:23:31,219 You've condemned me to Hell! 233 00:23:31,302 --> 00:23:32,929 I don't know any Hell. 234 00:23:37,892 --> 00:23:39,727 That's more like it! 235 00:23:39,977 --> 00:23:41,312 Anger! Fury! 236 00:23:41,479 --> 00:23:44,065 That's why I chose you! 237 00:23:49,236 --> 00:23:51,822 But you can't kill me, Louis. 238 00:23:58,662 --> 00:23:59,913 Feed... 239 00:24:00,497 --> 00:24:02,249 ...on what you will. 240 00:24:02,749 --> 00:24:04,585 Rats, chickens... 241 00:24:04,752 --> 00:24:05,920 ...poodles. 242 00:24:07,088 --> 00:24:08,839 I'll leave you to it... 243 00:24:09,090 --> 00:24:11,258 ...and watch you come around. 244 00:24:11,509 --> 00:24:12,593 Remember: 245 00:24:13,010 --> 00:24:15,095 Life without me... 246 00:24:15,262 --> 00:24:16,931 ...would be even more... 247 00:24:17,097 --> 00:24:18,432 ...unbearable. 248 00:25:17,490 --> 00:25:19,492 Consider yourself lucky. 249 00:25:20,576 --> 00:25:23,746 In Paris, a vampire must be clever for many reasons. 250 00:25:24,747 --> 00:25:25,748 Paris? 251 00:25:26,081 --> 00:25:28,917 Here all one needs is a pair of fangs. 252 00:25:29,835 --> 00:25:31,587 You came from Paris? 253 00:25:31,753 --> 00:25:34,089 As did the one who made me. 254 00:25:35,841 --> 00:25:39,177 Tell me about him. You must've learned something from him. 255 00:25:41,429 --> 00:25:43,765 I learned absolutely nothing. 256 00:25:44,849 --> 00:25:47,520 I wasn't given a choice, remember? 257 00:25:48,187 --> 00:25:50,773 You must know something about the meaning of it all. 258 00:25:50,856 --> 00:25:53,609 Why? Why should I know these things? 259 00:25:53,776 --> 00:25:55,277 Do you know them? 260 00:25:55,444 --> 00:25:56,695 That noise... 261 00:25:56,778 --> 00:25:58,864 ...it's driving me mad! 262 00:25:59,031 --> 00:26:02,284 We've been here for weeks with nothing but that noise! 263 00:26:02,451 --> 00:26:04,035 They know about us. 264 00:26:04,202 --> 00:26:08,123 They watch us dine on empty plates and drink from empty glasses. 265 00:26:08,873 --> 00:26:10,041 Come... 266 00:26:10,208 --> 00:26:11,960 ...to New Orleans then. 267 00:26:12,377 --> 00:26:15,964 The Paris Opera's in town. We can try some French... 268 00:26:16,130 --> 00:26:17,465 ...cuisine. 269 00:26:18,132 --> 00:26:21,302 Forgive me if I have a lingering respect for life. 270 00:26:23,971 --> 00:26:26,390 You'll soon run out of chickens, Louis. 271 00:26:59,590 --> 00:27:00,883 Monsieur Louis? 272 00:27:01,508 --> 00:27:03,343 You don't want any supper? 273 00:27:05,095 --> 00:27:06,346 No, ma chérie. 274 00:27:07,347 --> 00:27:09,516 We're worried about you, Master. 275 00:27:11,685 --> 00:27:14,271 When is it that you go riding in the field? 276 00:27:15,605 --> 00:27:18,650 And how long since you've been to the slave quarter? 277 00:27:21,611 --> 00:27:23,613 Everywhere there is death. 278 00:27:26,199 --> 00:27:28,618 Are you still our master at all? 279 00:27:28,785 --> 00:27:30,704 That will be all, Yvette. 280 00:27:31,538 --> 00:27:34,124 I will not go unless you listen to me. 281 00:27:35,876 --> 00:27:38,461 You must send away this friend of yours. 282 00:27:39,546 --> 00:27:42,132 The slaves are all frightened of him... 283 00:27:43,717 --> 00:27:45,885 ...and they are frightened of you. 284 00:27:51,307 --> 00:27:53,476 I'm frightened of myself. 285 00:28:41,773 --> 00:28:43,525 Hear me now! 286 00:28:43,942 --> 00:28:45,944 This place is cursed! 287 00:28:46,111 --> 00:28:47,445 Damned! 288 00:28:47,779 --> 00:28:50,365 And, yes, your master is the Devil! 289 00:28:51,366 --> 00:28:54,035 Get out while you can! You're all free! 290 00:28:54,452 --> 00:28:55,870 Do you hear me? 291 00:28:56,955 --> 00:28:58,039 Run! 292 00:28:58,206 --> 00:28:59,082 Run! 293 00:28:59,207 --> 00:29:01,292 Save yourselves! 294 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,591 Perfect! Perfect! 295 00:29:51,925 --> 00:29:55,428 Just burn the place! Burn everything we own! 296 00:29:55,553 --> 00:29:58,139 Have us living in a field, like cattle! 297 00:29:58,264 --> 00:30:00,433 You thought you could have it all. 298 00:30:00,517 --> 00:30:02,018 Shut up, Louis! 299 00:30:03,354 --> 00:30:04,605 Come on! 300 00:30:25,667 --> 00:30:27,210 Where are we? 301 00:30:28,044 --> 00:30:30,713 Where do you think, my idiot friend? 302 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,382 We're in a nice, filthy cemetery. 303 00:30:34,217 --> 00:30:35,718 Are you happy? 304 00:30:35,885 --> 00:30:38,387 Is this fitting? Proper enough? 305 00:30:39,055 --> 00:30:40,806 We belong in Hell. 306 00:30:41,015 --> 00:30:42,725 What if there is no Hell? 307 00:30:42,892 --> 00:30:46,020 Or they don't want us there? Ever think of that? 308 00:30:47,730 --> 00:30:49,815 But there was a Hell. 309 00:30:50,607 --> 00:30:53,569 And no matter where we moved to, I was in it. 310 00:30:55,071 --> 00:30:58,241 We rented rooms on the waterfront of New Orleans. 311 00:30:59,742 --> 00:31:01,827 Your skin is icy. 312 00:31:22,723 --> 00:31:24,933 Your friend has no head for wine. 313 00:31:29,104 --> 00:31:30,772 Don't worry. 314 00:31:31,231 --> 00:31:35,068 I can warm that cold skin of yours better than she can. 315 00:31:35,235 --> 00:31:36,611 Do you think so? 316 00:31:38,071 --> 00:31:39,113 Why... 317 00:31:39,572 --> 00:31:41,240 ...you're warm now! 318 00:31:42,450 --> 00:31:44,619 But the price is high. 319 00:31:44,785 --> 00:31:47,289 Your pretty friend, I exhausted her. 320 00:31:51,084 --> 00:31:52,377 Soft. 321 00:31:54,296 --> 00:31:55,964 So soft. 322 00:31:57,632 --> 00:32:00,593 I can see you lying on a bed of satin. 323 00:32:01,594 --> 00:32:03,763 Such things you say. 324 00:32:05,264 --> 00:32:07,391 Do you know what manner of bed? 325 00:32:34,334 --> 00:32:36,336 Should we put out the light? 326 00:32:41,926 --> 00:32:44,178 And then put out the light. 327 00:32:58,817 --> 00:33:00,944 But once I've put out thy light... 328 00:33:02,696 --> 00:33:03,947 ...I cannot... 329 00:33:05,156 --> 00:33:07,700 ...give it vital breath again. 330 00:33:09,535 --> 00:33:11,537 Its needs must wither. 331 00:33:23,716 --> 00:33:25,217 For you, Louis. 332 00:33:25,384 --> 00:33:27,219 You can pretend it's wine. 333 00:33:37,355 --> 00:33:38,606 She's not dead! 334 00:33:38,689 --> 00:33:42,652 You're in love with your mortal nature. You resist what can bring you peace. 335 00:33:42,735 --> 00:33:44,111 You call this peace? 336 00:33:44,195 --> 00:33:47,990 We're predators, whose all-seeing eyes give them detachment! 337 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,826 -The girl, Lestat! -Take her! End that hunger! 338 00:33:50,910 --> 00:33:51,911 No! 339 00:33:58,709 --> 00:34:00,252 Now, my child. 340 00:34:02,212 --> 00:34:04,589 You're tired, you want to sleep! 341 00:34:14,098 --> 00:34:15,725 It's a coffin! 342 00:34:15,892 --> 00:34:17,602 A coffin! Let me out! 343 00:34:18,394 --> 00:34:19,896 I'm not dead! 344 00:34:20,021 --> 00:34:24,610 It's your coffin, enjoy it. Most of us never get to know what it feels like. 345 00:34:24,776 --> 00:34:26,278 Why do you do this? 346 00:34:26,361 --> 00:34:31,074 I like to do it. I enjoy it. Take your aesthete's taste to purer things. 347 00:34:31,283 --> 00:34:34,119 Kill them swiftly if you will, but do it! 348 00:34:34,286 --> 00:34:37,038 For do not doubt you are a killer, Louis! 349 00:34:44,253 --> 00:34:46,923 -What's that? -It's a coffin. 350 00:34:47,924 --> 00:34:49,967 So it is. You must be dead. 351 00:34:51,552 --> 00:34:53,304 I'm not dead, am I? 352 00:34:53,637 --> 00:34:54,972 You're not dead. 353 00:34:55,055 --> 00:34:56,307 Not yet. 354 00:34:56,474 --> 00:34:58,142 Finish this now! 355 00:34:58,309 --> 00:34:59,476 You finish it! 356 00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:01,270 Save me from him! 357 00:35:01,562 --> 00:35:02,563 Save me! 358 00:35:04,773 --> 00:35:06,149 You'll let me go? 359 00:35:06,650 --> 00:35:08,777 I can't die like this! 360 00:35:09,152 --> 00:35:10,404 I need a priest. 361 00:35:10,487 --> 00:35:13,366 My friend is a priest. He'll hear your sins before you die. 362 00:35:13,449 --> 00:35:15,493 Unless...I make her one of us. 363 00:35:15,660 --> 00:35:16,577 No! 364 00:35:16,786 --> 00:35:20,664 Then take her, Louis, end her suffering! End yours! 365 00:35:21,791 --> 00:35:22,791 No! 366 00:35:41,977 --> 00:35:43,353 Now... 367 00:35:43,687 --> 00:35:45,355 ...are you happy? 368 00:35:49,317 --> 00:35:50,693 My God! 369 00:35:52,612 --> 00:35:54,322 To think you... 370 00:35:54,489 --> 00:35:56,824 ...are all I have to learn from. 371 00:36:00,328 --> 00:36:02,371 In the Old World... 372 00:36:03,206 --> 00:36:05,876 ...they called it the "dark gift." 373 00:36:08,545 --> 00:36:10,714 And I gave it to you. 374 00:36:32,651 --> 00:36:35,654 Don't go that way, Monsieur. It's the plague. 375 00:36:36,029 --> 00:36:39,241 -Go back the way you came! -The way I came.... 376 00:36:54,799 --> 00:36:55,716 Mama. 377 00:37:19,781 --> 00:37:21,783 Please help us. 378 00:37:22,075 --> 00:37:24,452 Papa left us and didn't come back. 379 00:37:32,293 --> 00:37:34,920 Please, wake Mama, Monsieur. 380 00:38:01,947 --> 00:38:04,450 My philosopher. My martyr. 381 00:38:04,617 --> 00:38:06,994 "Never take a human life." 382 00:38:08,746 --> 00:38:10,998 This calls for a celebration. 383 00:38:20,674 --> 00:38:23,468 There's still life in the old lady yet. 384 00:38:26,846 --> 00:38:28,264 Come back! 385 00:38:28,473 --> 00:38:30,642 You are what you are! 386 00:38:32,643 --> 00:38:34,645 Merciful death. 387 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,191 How you love your precious guilt. 388 00:38:47,701 --> 00:38:49,786 Her blood coursed in my veins... 389 00:38:49,869 --> 00:38:51,830 ...sweeter than life itself. 390 00:38:51,913 --> 00:38:54,415 And, as it did, Lestat's words made sense to me. 391 00:38:54,499 --> 00:38:56,417 I knew peace only when I killed. 392 00:38:56,501 --> 00:39:01,214 When I heard her heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew what peace could be. 393 00:39:35,206 --> 00:39:39,209 All I need to find you, Louis, is follow the corpses of rats. 394 00:39:47,551 --> 00:39:49,428 Pain is terrible for you. 395 00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:54,432 You feel it like no other creature, because you're a vampire. 396 00:39:56,101 --> 00:39:58,395 You don't want it to go on. 397 00:39:58,478 --> 00:39:59,646 No. 398 00:40:02,732 --> 00:40:06,444 Then do what it is in your nature to do... 399 00:40:06,611 --> 00:40:10,239 ...and you will feel as you felt with that child in your arms. 400 00:40:12,241 --> 00:40:14,243 Evil is a point of view. 401 00:40:15,077 --> 00:40:17,246 God kills indiscriminately... 402 00:40:18,455 --> 00:40:20,292 ...and so shall we. 403 00:40:21,251 --> 00:40:26,089 For no creatures under God are as we are. None so like Him... 404 00:40:26,172 --> 00:40:27,549 ...as ourselves. 405 00:40:29,926 --> 00:40:32,136 I have a gift for you. 406 00:40:33,554 --> 00:40:34,889 Come. 407 00:40:38,809 --> 00:40:39,810 Please. 408 00:40:53,115 --> 00:40:55,450 -She's here. -What are you saying? 409 00:40:56,952 --> 00:40:58,495 You need... 410 00:40:58,954 --> 00:41:00,455 ...company... 411 00:41:00,539 --> 00:41:02,749 ...more congenial than mine. 412 00:41:07,837 --> 00:41:09,839 Remember how you wanted her? 413 00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:12,468 The taste of her? 414 00:41:14,344 --> 00:41:16,472 I thought I'd killed her. 415 00:41:19,474 --> 00:41:20,851 Don't worry. 416 00:41:22,644 --> 00:41:24,479 Your conscience is clear. 417 00:41:37,492 --> 00:41:38,701 Claudia. 418 00:41:45,708 --> 00:41:47,209 Listen to me. 419 00:41:48,002 --> 00:41:49,879 You're ill, my precious. 420 00:41:50,379 --> 00:41:54,341 And I'm going to give you what you need to get well. 421 00:42:06,729 --> 00:42:07,897 No. 422 00:42:08,689 --> 00:42:10,524 You want her to die then? 423 00:42:25,706 --> 00:42:27,416 That's it. Yes. 424 00:42:41,596 --> 00:42:42,764 Stop! 425 00:42:45,224 --> 00:42:46,601 Stop! 426 00:42:47,101 --> 00:42:48,269 Enough! 427 00:43:27,808 --> 00:43:29,309 I want some more. 428 00:43:29,476 --> 00:43:31,979 Of course you want more. 429 00:44:01,675 --> 00:44:03,510 Gently, chérie. 430 00:44:04,511 --> 00:44:06,513 They're so innocent. 431 00:44:07,847 --> 00:44:10,016 They must not be made to suffer. 432 00:44:11,309 --> 00:44:12,519 Good. 433 00:44:14,812 --> 00:44:15,980 Yes. 434 00:44:16,189 --> 00:44:17,649 All right, now. 435 00:44:17,815 --> 00:44:18,983 Stop. 436 00:44:21,527 --> 00:44:23,529 That's enough, chérie. 437 00:44:23,946 --> 00:44:26,490 You must stop before the heart stops. 438 00:44:27,783 --> 00:44:28,993 I want more. 439 00:44:29,118 --> 00:44:30,411 I know. 440 00:44:30,703 --> 00:44:32,871 But it's best in the beginning... 441 00:44:33,038 --> 00:44:35,833 ...lest the Death takes you down with it. 442 00:44:36,834 --> 00:44:39,045 You've done very well. Look at you. 443 00:44:39,337 --> 00:44:41,673 Not a drop spilt. Very good. 444 00:44:44,384 --> 00:44:45,885 Where is Mama? 445 00:44:49,347 --> 00:44:51,182 Mama's gone... 446 00:44:51,515 --> 00:44:54,852 ...to Heaven, chérie, like that sweet lady... right there. 447 00:44:56,187 --> 00:44:57,855 They all go to Heaven. 448 00:44:58,397 --> 00:44:59,898 All but us. 449 00:45:01,066 --> 00:45:03,402 Do you want to frighten our daughter? 450 00:45:03,569 --> 00:45:05,153 I'm not your daughter. 451 00:45:05,237 --> 00:45:06,863 Oh, yes, you are. 452 00:45:07,406 --> 00:45:09,658 You're my and Louis' daughter now. 453 00:45:10,033 --> 00:45:12,744 You see, Louis was going to leave us. 454 00:45:13,870 --> 00:45:15,705 He was going to go away. 455 00:45:16,706 --> 00:45:18,208 But now he's not. 456 00:45:19,209 --> 00:45:20,919 Now he's going to stay... 457 00:45:21,085 --> 00:45:22,921 ...and make you happy. 458 00:45:25,256 --> 00:45:26,382 Louis. 459 00:45:32,264 --> 00:45:33,932 You fiend. 460 00:45:34,182 --> 00:45:36,017 One happy family. 461 00:45:45,944 --> 00:45:48,029 He did it to make you stay with him? 462 00:45:48,112 --> 00:45:49,572 Perhaps. 463 00:45:49,739 --> 00:45:53,951 He knew me. He knew I would love her more than the waking world. 464 00:45:55,745 --> 00:45:57,747 But there was more to it. 465 00:45:58,247 --> 00:46:01,792 He lavished affection on her, there is no doubt about that. 466 00:46:02,918 --> 00:46:07,131 Perhaps, in the end, he did it because he was lonely too. 467 00:46:08,424 --> 00:46:10,217 -I need more light. -She needs more light. 468 00:46:10,300 --> 00:46:13,011 -I'll go blind without another lamp. -She'll go blind. 469 00:46:13,095 --> 00:46:15,555 Or let me fit this child during the day. 470 00:46:15,639 --> 00:46:19,434 Well, I am afraid, madame, that my days are sacrosanct. 471 00:46:20,811 --> 00:46:22,980 A little child, she was. 472 00:46:23,147 --> 00:46:25,107 But also a fierce killer... 473 00:46:25,274 --> 00:46:30,154 ...now capable of the ruthless pursuit of blood with all a child's demanding. 474 00:46:31,822 --> 00:46:33,615 Let me kiss it better. 475 00:46:47,504 --> 00:46:48,630 Now... 476 00:46:49,172 --> 00:46:52,842 ...who will we get to finish your dress? Be practical! 477 00:46:53,009 --> 00:46:55,303 Remember, never in our home! 478 00:46:56,179 --> 00:46:58,973 She slept in my coffin at first... 479 00:46:59,140 --> 00:47:02,018 ...curling her little fingers around my hair... 480 00:47:02,185 --> 00:47:04,937 ...till the day when she wanted her own coffin. 481 00:47:12,529 --> 00:47:14,990 But still, whenever she awoke... 482 00:47:15,198 --> 00:47:17,158 ...she would crawl into mine. 483 00:47:28,211 --> 00:47:32,131 They died fast in those days, before, she learned to play with them... 484 00:47:32,214 --> 00:47:35,634 ...to delay the moment till she had taken what she wanted. 485 00:47:49,398 --> 00:47:51,650 Why are you crying, child? 486 00:47:51,817 --> 00:47:53,485 Are you lost, my love? 487 00:47:53,818 --> 00:47:55,237 Mama! 488 00:47:56,404 --> 00:47:58,323 Hush, now, don't cry. 489 00:47:58,490 --> 00:48:00,158 We'll find her. 490 00:48:06,999 --> 00:48:10,752 Mind the thumb, girl. Mind the thumb. That little digit. 491 00:48:25,016 --> 00:48:27,602 They're expensive, my dear. 492 00:48:28,937 --> 00:48:32,440 Maybe too expensive for a young girl like you. 493 00:48:46,203 --> 00:48:48,372 Claudia! What have we told you! 494 00:48:49,123 --> 00:48:50,874 Never in the house. 495 00:48:53,126 --> 00:48:54,629 Give me some room. 496 00:48:55,964 --> 00:48:57,715 To me, she was a child. 497 00:48:57,882 --> 00:49:00,301 But to Lestat, a pupil... 498 00:49:00,635 --> 00:49:03,971 ...an infant prodigy with a lust for killing like his own. 499 00:49:04,555 --> 00:49:07,641 Together, they finished off whole families. 500 00:49:14,648 --> 00:49:16,400 Wonderful, wonderful. 501 00:49:16,650 --> 00:49:19,403 Now try something on a more somber note. 502 00:49:33,083 --> 00:49:36,169 Time can pass quickly for mortals when they're happy. 503 00:49:36,252 --> 00:49:38,338 With us, it was the same. 504 00:49:38,504 --> 00:49:41,841 The years flew by like minutes. The city grew. 505 00:49:42,008 --> 00:49:44,176 Sailboats gave way to steamships... 506 00:49:44,260 --> 00:49:48,181 ...disgorging an endless menu of magnificent strangers. 507 00:49:49,099 --> 00:49:51,351 A new world had sprung up around us. 508 00:49:51,434 --> 00:49:53,770 And we were all Americans now. 509 00:50:01,945 --> 00:50:03,946 This filthy modern tide! 510 00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:08,701 What I wouldn't give for a drop of old-fashioned Creole blood! 511 00:50:08,868 --> 00:50:11,203 Yankees are not to your taste? 512 00:50:11,454 --> 00:50:14,957 Their Democratic flavor doesn't suit my palate, Louis. 513 00:50:33,558 --> 00:50:35,560 Now that is pure Creole. 514 00:50:38,898 --> 00:50:41,567 Trust Claudia to have found her. 515 00:50:44,278 --> 00:50:45,321 What? 516 00:50:46,071 --> 00:50:47,573 Don't you want her? 517 00:50:47,990 --> 00:50:49,783 I want to be her. 518 00:50:52,327 --> 00:50:53,328 Can I? 519 00:50:53,578 --> 00:50:55,080 Be like her one day? 520 00:50:59,417 --> 00:51:03,004 More melancholy nonsense. You grow more like Louis daily! 521 00:51:03,171 --> 00:51:05,006 Soon you'll be eating rats. 522 00:51:06,508 --> 00:51:09,427 Rats? When did you eat rats, Louis? 523 00:51:10,303 --> 00:51:12,305 It was a long, long time ago. 524 00:51:12,430 --> 00:51:14,015 Before you were born. 525 00:51:15,308 --> 00:51:17,184 And I don't recommend them. 526 00:51:19,937 --> 00:51:24,525 Thirty years had passed, yet her body remained that of an eternal child. 527 00:51:25,442 --> 00:51:29,948 Her eyes alone told the story of her age, staring from under her curls... 528 00:51:30,115 --> 00:51:31,533 ...with a questioning... 529 00:51:31,616 --> 00:51:34,118 ...that would one day need an answer. 530 00:51:44,045 --> 00:51:45,379 Another doll. 531 00:51:45,546 --> 00:51:47,715 I have dozens, you realize. 532 00:51:48,632 --> 00:51:50,843 I thought you could use one more. 533 00:51:51,635 --> 00:51:53,721 Why always on this night? 534 00:51:54,888 --> 00:51:56,390 What do you mean? 535 00:51:56,557 --> 00:51:59,726 You always give me a doll on the same night of the year. 536 00:52:01,478 --> 00:52:03,146 I didn't realize. 537 00:52:03,355 --> 00:52:05,148 Is this my birthday? 538 00:52:09,569 --> 00:52:11,571 You dress me like a doll. 539 00:52:12,072 --> 00:52:13,990 You make my hair like a doll. 540 00:52:14,073 --> 00:52:15,074 Why? 541 00:52:15,658 --> 00:52:18,870 Some of these, Claudia, are so old... 542 00:52:19,412 --> 00:52:20,664 ...tattered. 543 00:52:21,874 --> 00:52:24,751 -You should throw them away. -I will, then! 544 00:52:38,014 --> 00:52:39,599 What have you done? 545 00:52:39,766 --> 00:52:41,768 What you told me to do! 546 00:52:41,935 --> 00:52:44,896 -You leave a corpse here to rot? -I wanted her! 547 00:52:45,021 --> 00:52:47,398 -I wanted to be her! -She's mad! 548 00:52:47,523 --> 00:52:50,192 She pollutes the very house we live in! 549 00:52:51,193 --> 00:52:54,113 Do you want me to be a doll forever? 550 00:52:55,281 --> 00:52:56,449 Don't! 551 00:52:56,615 --> 00:52:58,784 Why not? Can't I change... 552 00:52:58,951 --> 00:53:00,577 ...like everyone else? 553 00:53:26,812 --> 00:53:28,731 Which one of you did it? 554 00:53:29,314 --> 00:53:31,316 Which one of you did it? 555 00:53:31,483 --> 00:53:34,152 Which one of you made me the way I am? 556 00:53:34,319 --> 00:53:35,737 What you are? 557 00:53:35,946 --> 00:53:39,324 A vampire gone insane, that pollutes its own bed! 558 00:53:39,491 --> 00:53:41,326 And if I cut my hair again? 559 00:53:41,451 --> 00:53:43,328 It will grow back again. 560 00:53:43,495 --> 00:53:45,163 But it wasn't always so! 561 00:53:45,246 --> 00:53:47,999 I had a mother once. And Louis, he had a wife. 562 00:53:48,458 --> 00:53:50,335 He was mortal, same as she. 563 00:53:50,501 --> 00:53:52,337 And so was I! 564 00:53:52,587 --> 00:53:54,255 You made us what we are! 565 00:53:54,505 --> 00:53:55,840 Stop her. 566 00:53:55,965 --> 00:53:57,550 Did you do it to me? 567 00:54:04,599 --> 00:54:06,017 How did you do it? 568 00:54:06,184 --> 00:54:08,353 And why should I tell you? 569 00:54:09,020 --> 00:54:10,980 It's in my power. 570 00:54:11,606 --> 00:54:13,358 Why yours alone? 571 00:54:13,525 --> 00:54:15,276 Tell me how it was done! 572 00:54:15,610 --> 00:54:16,861 Be glad... 573 00:54:17,028 --> 00:54:19,113 ...I made you what you are. 574 00:54:20,490 --> 00:54:22,533 You'd be dead now if I hadn't. 575 00:54:22,617 --> 00:54:25,536 Like that damned corpse! Now get rid of it! 576 00:54:25,870 --> 00:54:27,705 You get rid of it. 577 00:54:38,882 --> 00:54:40,384 Louis, why? 578 00:54:40,634 --> 00:54:42,636 You've got to tell me. 579 00:54:49,059 --> 00:54:50,810 You see the old woman? 580 00:54:51,895 --> 00:54:53,898 That will never happen to you. 581 00:54:54,899 --> 00:54:56,734 You will never grow old. 582 00:54:57,401 --> 00:54:59,153 And you will never die. 583 00:55:00,738 --> 00:55:04,324 And it means something else too, doesn't it? 584 00:55:07,911 --> 00:55:10,330 I shall never, ever grow up. 585 00:55:15,335 --> 00:55:16,753 I hate him. 586 00:55:19,089 --> 00:55:22,550 Tell me how it came to be that I am this... 587 00:55:23,343 --> 00:55:24,552 ...thing. 588 00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:33,602 For thirty years I'd avoided that place. 589 00:55:35,104 --> 00:55:37,606 Yet I found my way back there... 590 00:55:37,773 --> 00:55:40,567 ...with hardly an upward glance. 591 00:55:56,208 --> 00:55:57,460 You... 592 00:55:57,627 --> 00:55:59,295 ...fed on me? 593 00:55:59,712 --> 00:56:00,880 Yes. 594 00:56:02,715 --> 00:56:04,633 And he found me with you. 595 00:56:07,094 --> 00:56:10,139 Then he cut his wrist and fed you from him... 596 00:56:10,472 --> 00:56:12,599 ...and you were a vampire then... 597 00:56:12,808 --> 00:56:15,310 ...and have been every night thereafter. 598 00:56:18,647 --> 00:56:20,398 You both did it. 599 00:56:21,107 --> 00:56:22,817 I took your life. 600 00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:27,238 He gave you another one. 601 00:56:28,990 --> 00:56:30,825 And here it is. 602 00:56:30,992 --> 00:56:32,744 I hate you both. 603 00:56:45,340 --> 00:56:47,175 I walked all night. 604 00:56:48,426 --> 00:56:50,762 I walked as I walked years before... 605 00:56:50,929 --> 00:56:54,265 ...when my mind swam with guilt at the thought of killing. 606 00:56:55,516 --> 00:56:59,771 I thought of all the things I'd done and couldn't undo. 607 00:57:00,855 --> 00:57:03,274 And I longed for one second's peace. 608 00:57:12,700 --> 00:57:15,035 Locked together in hatred. 609 00:57:19,790 --> 00:57:21,959 But I can't hate you, Louis. 610 00:57:28,382 --> 00:57:30,301 Louis, my love. 611 00:57:32,178 --> 00:57:34,221 I was mortal till you... 612 00:57:35,681 --> 00:57:38,058 ...gave me your immortal kiss. 613 00:57:39,727 --> 00:57:42,896 You became my mother and my father. 614 00:57:44,481 --> 00:57:46,817 And so I'm yours forever. 615 00:57:48,985 --> 00:57:51,571 But now it's time to end it, Louis. 616 00:57:53,073 --> 00:57:55,408 Now it's time to leave him. 617 00:57:59,204 --> 00:58:01,247 He will never let us go. 618 00:58:13,092 --> 00:58:14,260 Really? 619 00:58:26,231 --> 00:58:29,275 What is it now? You irritate me. Your very presence... 620 00:58:29,359 --> 00:58:30,526 ...irritates me! 621 00:58:30,610 --> 00:58:32,028 Does it? 622 00:58:32,236 --> 00:58:35,531 I found someone who'll be a vampire better than you both! 623 00:58:35,740 --> 00:58:37,825 Is that supposed to frighten me? 624 00:58:38,534 --> 00:58:41,871 You're spoiled, because you're an only child. 625 00:58:42,455 --> 00:58:43,956 You need a brother. 626 00:58:44,790 --> 00:58:46,041 Or I do. 627 00:58:46,750 --> 00:58:48,544 I'm weary of you both. 628 00:58:49,253 --> 00:58:52,214 I suppose we could people the world with vampires... 629 00:58:52,297 --> 00:58:53,966 ...the three of us. 630 00:58:54,758 --> 00:58:56,301 Oh, not you... 631 00:58:56,468 --> 00:58:58,261 ...my little Claudia. 632 00:58:58,762 --> 00:59:00,305 You're a liar. 633 00:59:01,264 --> 00:59:03,308 But you upset my plans. 634 00:59:04,392 --> 00:59:06,269 What plans? 635 00:59:07,145 --> 00:59:09,147 I came to make peace with you. 636 00:59:09,647 --> 00:59:12,318 Even though you're the father of lies... 637 00:59:12,985 --> 00:59:15,404 ...I want things to be as they were. 638 00:59:16,572 --> 00:59:18,323 Stop pestering me then. 639 00:59:21,910 --> 00:59:24,162 I must do more than that. 640 00:59:25,163 --> 00:59:27,207 I've brought a present for you. 641 00:59:29,668 --> 00:59:31,169 Then I hope it's... 642 00:59:31,336 --> 00:59:33,046 ...a beautiful woman... 643 00:59:33,505 --> 00:59:36,591 ...with endowments you'll never possess. 644 00:59:40,011 --> 00:59:41,929 Why do you say such things? 645 00:59:50,855 --> 00:59:52,815 You haven't fed enough. 646 00:59:53,524 --> 00:59:55,442 I can tell by your color. 647 01:00:01,949 --> 01:00:03,451 Come and see. 648 01:00:20,175 --> 01:00:22,136 Don't be angry with me. 649 01:00:22,261 --> 01:00:24,930 When I saw them, I knew they were for you. 650 01:00:26,348 --> 01:00:27,516 Drunk... 651 01:00:28,350 --> 01:00:30,936 ...on brandywine. A thimbleful. 652 01:00:39,778 --> 01:00:41,446 You certainly have... 653 01:00:41,654 --> 01:00:43,156 ...outdone yourself. 654 01:00:44,949 --> 01:00:47,535 I promise I'll get rid of the bodies. 655 01:01:01,299 --> 01:01:03,176 We forgive each other then? 656 01:01:04,677 --> 01:01:05,887 Yes. 657 01:01:21,402 --> 01:01:22,695 Absinthe? 658 01:01:25,406 --> 01:01:27,324 You've given them absinthe? 659 01:01:27,700 --> 01:01:28,701 No. 660 01:01:29,076 --> 01:01:30,202 Laudanum. 661 01:01:31,703 --> 01:01:32,788 Laudanum. 662 01:01:32,996 --> 01:01:33,997 Yes. 663 01:01:34,581 --> 01:01:36,750 It killed them, unfortunately. 664 01:01:37,417 --> 01:01:39,503 But it keeps the blood warm. 665 01:01:43,757 --> 01:01:45,259 You let me drink... 666 01:01:47,219 --> 01:01:48,846 ...dead blood? 667 01:01:49,346 --> 01:01:51,098 You let me... 668 01:01:51,265 --> 01:01:52,474 ...drink.... 669 01:01:53,517 --> 01:01:55,727 One lesson you taught me... 670 01:01:55,853 --> 01:01:57,813 ...never drink from the dead. 671 01:02:00,732 --> 01:02:02,609 Put me in my coffin. 672 01:02:02,943 --> 01:02:04,444 Put me in my coffin. 673 01:02:04,528 --> 01:02:06,446 I'll put you in your coffin! 674 01:02:11,534 --> 01:02:12,535 My God! 675 01:02:30,052 --> 01:02:31,554 Lift me up! 676 01:02:46,319 --> 01:02:48,154 Good night, sweet prince. 677 01:02:49,906 --> 01:02:53,576 May flights of devils wing you to your rest. 678 01:02:55,286 --> 01:02:56,996 Should we burn him? 679 01:02:57,162 --> 01:02:58,414 Bury him? 680 01:02:58,664 --> 01:03:00,499 What would he have liked? 681 01:03:04,503 --> 01:03:05,671 The swamp? 682 01:03:29,111 --> 01:03:31,113 He belongs with those reptiles. 683 01:03:33,448 --> 01:03:35,450 He deserved to die. 684 01:03:36,535 --> 01:03:39,454 Then perhaps so do we, every night of our lives. 685 01:03:42,874 --> 01:03:44,709 He was my maker. 686 01:03:45,710 --> 01:03:47,378 He gave me this life... 687 01:03:47,545 --> 01:03:49,130 ...whatever it is. 688 01:03:52,216 --> 01:03:54,469 It shouldn't have been this way. 689 01:03:54,719 --> 01:03:56,095 I did it for us. 690 01:03:57,638 --> 01:03:59,557 So we could be free. 691 01:04:05,896 --> 01:04:07,231 You missed him? 692 01:04:08,899 --> 01:04:10,484 He was all I knew. 693 01:04:10,651 --> 01:04:12,361 It's as simple as that. 694 01:04:13,403 --> 01:04:16,239 We were like two orphans learning to live again. 695 01:04:18,492 --> 01:04:20,495 We booked a passage to Europe. 696 01:04:21,412 --> 01:04:24,081 Over the weeks, while waiting for the boat... 697 01:04:24,165 --> 01:04:27,751 ...she studied the myths and legends of the Old World... 698 01:04:27,918 --> 01:04:31,255 ...obsessed with the search of what she called "our kind." 699 01:04:45,769 --> 01:04:47,520 Look who we forgot. 700 01:04:51,900 --> 01:04:53,610 Let's set them free. 701 01:04:54,903 --> 01:04:56,112 -Yes. -Yes. 702 01:05:01,534 --> 01:05:03,202 It's the carriage. 703 01:05:49,748 --> 01:05:51,458 Listen, Louis... 704 01:05:53,251 --> 01:05:54,836 ...there's life... 705 01:05:55,003 --> 01:05:57,172 ...in these old hands still. 706 01:06:00,008 --> 01:06:02,261 Not quite furioso. 707 01:06:05,014 --> 01:06:06,348 Moderato... 708 01:06:07,599 --> 01:06:09,268 ...cantabile, perhaps. 709 01:06:09,768 --> 01:06:11,520 How could it be? 710 01:06:11,770 --> 01:06:13,605 Ask the alligator. 711 01:06:14,356 --> 01:06:16,191 His blood helped. 712 01:06:18,527 --> 01:06:22,280 Then, on a diet of the blood of snakes... 713 01:06:23,031 --> 01:06:24,199 ...toads... 714 01:06:26,367 --> 01:06:28,786 ...and all the putrid life... 715 01:06:29,037 --> 01:06:30,788 ...of the Mississippi... 716 01:06:32,123 --> 01:06:33,499 ...slowly... 717 01:06:34,709 --> 01:06:37,128 ...Lestat became something... 718 01:06:37,378 --> 01:06:39,213 ...like himself again. 719 01:06:44,134 --> 01:06:45,636 You've been... 720 01:06:46,220 --> 01:06:47,805 ...a very... 721 01:06:48,222 --> 01:06:49,515 ...very... 722 01:06:49,640 --> 01:06:51,350 ...naughty little girl. 723 01:07:53,620 --> 01:07:55,789 The ship is sailing without us! 724 01:08:15,391 --> 01:08:17,601 Though the fire seemed to spread... 725 01:08:18,143 --> 01:08:22,106 ...I stood on that deck, fearful, he would come out again... 726 01:08:22,231 --> 01:08:25,234 ...from the river like some monster, to destroy us. 727 01:08:26,401 --> 01:08:28,487 And all the while I thought... 728 01:08:28,987 --> 01:08:30,113 "Lestat..." 729 01:08:30,322 --> 01:08:32,407 "...we deserve your vengeance." 730 01:08:33,325 --> 01:08:35,410 "You gave me the 'dark gift'..." 731 01:08:35,911 --> 01:08:40,124 "...and I delivered you into the hands of Death for the second time." 732 01:08:57,057 --> 01:09:00,560 Though the ship was blessedly free of rats... 733 01:09:00,727 --> 01:09:04,564 ...a strange plague nonetheless struck its passengers. 734 01:09:05,982 --> 01:09:08,484 Claudia and I alone seemed immune. 735 01:09:10,069 --> 01:09:12,155 We kept to ourselves... 736 01:09:12,321 --> 01:09:14,907 ...pondering the mystery of each other. 737 01:09:17,660 --> 01:09:19,412 We reached the Mediterranean. 738 01:09:19,495 --> 01:09:23,499 I wanted those waters to be blue... but they were black... 739 01:09:23,833 --> 01:09:25,417 ...night-time waters. 740 01:09:25,501 --> 01:09:27,504 And how I suffered then... 741 01:09:27,921 --> 01:09:31,841 ...straining to recall the color that in my youth I took for granted. 742 01:09:38,181 --> 01:09:40,433 We searched village after village... 743 01:09:40,600 --> 01:09:42,101 ...ruin after ruin... 744 01:09:42,185 --> 01:09:44,020 ...country after country. 745 01:09:44,353 --> 01:09:46,439 And always we found nothing. 746 01:09:48,858 --> 01:09:52,361 I began to believe we were the only ones. 747 01:09:53,779 --> 01:09:56,615 There was a strange comfort in that thought. 748 01:09:56,949 --> 01:10:00,702 For what could the damned really have to say to the damned? 749 01:10:02,537 --> 01:10:03,955 You found nothing? 750 01:10:04,039 --> 01:10:05,457 Peasant rumors... 751 01:10:05,957 --> 01:10:08,043 ...superstitions about garlic... 752 01:10:08,210 --> 01:10:09,461 ...crosses... 753 01:10:09,628 --> 01:10:11,796 ...the old stake in the heart. 754 01:10:12,881 --> 01:10:14,799 But one of our kind? 755 01:10:14,966 --> 01:10:16,301 Not a whisper. 756 01:10:18,136 --> 01:10:22,307 There are no vampires in Transylvania? No Count Dracula? 757 01:10:22,474 --> 01:10:24,017 Fictions, my friend. 758 01:10:24,226 --> 01:10:26,603 The vulgar fictions of a demented Irishman. 759 01:10:28,146 --> 01:10:29,147 Paris... 760 01:10:29,314 --> 01:10:30,982 ...September, 1870. 761 01:10:32,067 --> 01:10:34,235 The city I'd always dreamed of. 762 01:10:34,819 --> 01:10:38,990 I was Creole, after all, and Paris was the mother of New Orleans. 763 01:10:39,657 --> 01:10:43,077 A universe whole and entire unto herself. 764 01:11:17,945 --> 01:11:19,947 We were alive again. 765 01:11:20,114 --> 01:11:21,782 Just the two of us. 766 01:11:21,949 --> 01:11:26,286 And so euphoric was I that I yielded to her every desire. 767 01:11:38,882 --> 01:11:40,383 So it was... 768 01:11:40,550 --> 01:11:43,553 ...when I'd given up the search for vampires... 769 01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:46,055 ...that a vampire found me. 770 01:13:15,727 --> 01:13:17,145 Buffoon! 771 01:13:18,730 --> 01:13:19,981 Santiago! 772 01:13:27,822 --> 01:13:32,410 I've searched the world for an immortal and this is what I find! 773 01:13:48,509 --> 01:13:50,928 Bring the petite beauty with you. 774 01:13:52,263 --> 01:13:53,848 No one will harm you. 775 01:13:53,931 --> 01:13:55,349 I won't allow it. 776 01:13:58,102 --> 01:13:59,353 And... 777 01:13:59,687 --> 01:14:01,439 ...remember my name: 778 01:14:03,357 --> 01:14:04,608 Armand. 779 01:14:12,699 --> 01:14:14,534 Remember what I told you. 780 01:14:14,701 --> 01:14:18,622 They have different powers. They'll read your thoughts. 781 01:14:31,384 --> 01:14:33,553 He's the one, that's the vampire. 782 01:14:35,138 --> 01:14:36,640 Two lovers... 783 01:14:36,807 --> 01:14:39,893 ...wandering down their violet way... 784 01:14:40,727 --> 01:14:43,897 ...whose passionate embraces, each to each... 785 01:14:44,231 --> 01:14:47,651 ...permit no meditations on decay... 786 01:14:49,736 --> 01:14:51,654 ...until they find themselves... 787 01:14:51,738 --> 01:14:53,323 ...within my reach! 788 01:14:59,829 --> 01:15:03,499 Vampires who pretend to be humans pretending to be vampires. 789 01:15:03,666 --> 01:15:05,251 How avant-garde. 790 01:15:05,418 --> 01:15:08,838 The monk whose soul with Heaven doth commune... 791 01:15:09,755 --> 01:15:11,423 ...and spends his days... 792 01:15:11,507 --> 01:15:14,009 ...in pious contemplation... 793 01:15:16,428 --> 01:15:20,265 ...finds he will meet his Maker all too soon. 794 01:15:21,350 --> 01:15:24,686 For all his prayers gets no remuneration. 795 01:15:29,775 --> 01:15:31,694 The lesson endeth here... 796 01:15:32,111 --> 01:15:33,863 ...and it is this: 797 01:15:34,697 --> 01:15:38,450 Each one of you, my clammy hands must touch. 798 01:15:40,035 --> 01:15:43,539 Each one must bend his forehead to my kiss. 799 01:15:45,958 --> 01:15:47,292 But, hark! 800 01:15:47,876 --> 01:15:50,128 Methinks a mortal doth approach! 801 01:15:53,381 --> 01:15:55,300 What have we here? 802 01:15:56,051 --> 01:15:58,136 What beauty by my side? 803 01:15:59,387 --> 01:16:02,140 A rose in bloom, a shrinking violet? 804 01:16:03,891 --> 01:16:06,644 Perhaps she has a mind to be my bride. 805 01:16:07,145 --> 01:16:09,730 Perhaps my lesson has not ended yet! 806 01:16:12,066 --> 01:16:13,818 I don't want to die! 807 01:16:13,984 --> 01:16:16,570 But Death we are and have always been. 808 01:16:16,737 --> 01:16:18,155 Someone help me! 809 01:16:18,405 --> 01:16:19,991 Please! 810 01:16:29,417 --> 01:16:32,003 -What have I done? -We all die! 811 01:16:32,420 --> 01:16:33,504 But I'm young! 812 01:16:33,588 --> 01:16:38,009 Death is no respecter of age! It can come any time, any place. 813 01:16:51,605 --> 01:16:54,441 Just as this flesh is pink now... 814 01:16:54,775 --> 01:16:57,861 ...so it will turn gray and wrinkle with age. 815 01:16:58,028 --> 01:16:59,863 Let me live! I don't care! 816 01:16:59,946 --> 01:17:02,616 Then why should you care if you die now? 817 01:17:02,866 --> 01:17:06,703 And suppose Death had a heart to love and to release you? 818 01:17:07,203 --> 01:17:09,372 To whom would he turn his passion? 819 01:17:09,539 --> 01:17:12,376 Would you choose a person from the crowd there? 820 01:17:12,543 --> 01:17:14,378 A person to suffer as you do? 821 01:17:14,461 --> 01:17:16,296 Monsieur Vampire, take me! 822 01:17:16,463 --> 01:17:18,382 I adore you! 823 01:17:18,882 --> 01:17:21,301 You wait your turn! 824 01:17:22,219 --> 01:17:23,720 Well.... 825 01:17:24,554 --> 01:17:28,475 Do you know what it means to be loved by Death? 826 01:17:30,060 --> 01:17:32,729 To become our bride? 827 01:18:32,621 --> 01:18:34,122 No pain. 828 01:18:38,710 --> 01:18:40,211 No pain. 829 01:18:52,975 --> 01:18:54,393 Monstrous. 830 01:19:43,940 --> 01:19:45,693 We live beneath. 831 01:19:46,193 --> 01:19:47,778 Let me show you. 832 01:19:53,784 --> 01:19:55,369 Monstrous. 833 01:19:56,286 --> 01:19:57,704 Yes. 834 01:19:58,705 --> 01:20:00,624 But very beautiful. 835 01:20:21,894 --> 01:20:23,896 Welcome to my home. 836 01:20:38,912 --> 01:20:40,330 Try him. 837 01:21:03,018 --> 01:21:04,770 Two vampires... 838 01:21:05,771 --> 01:21:07,689 ...from the New World... 839 01:21:08,523 --> 01:21:11,193 ...come to guide us into the new era... 840 01:21:11,693 --> 01:21:13,862 ...as all we love slowly rots... 841 01:21:15,196 --> 01:21:16,948 ...and fades away. 842 01:21:17,782 --> 01:21:20,285 Are you the leader of this group? 843 01:21:20,785 --> 01:21:22,704 If there were a leader... 844 01:21:23,204 --> 01:21:24,872 ...I would be the one. 845 01:21:24,956 --> 01:21:27,835 -So you have the answers? -So you have questions? 846 01:21:30,546 --> 01:21:31,964 What are we? 847 01:21:34,007 --> 01:21:35,342 Nothing... 848 01:21:35,967 --> 01:21:37,886 ...if not vampires. 849 01:21:41,306 --> 01:21:43,224 Who made us what we are? 850 01:21:43,892 --> 01:21:45,894 Surely you know the one who made you? 851 01:21:45,977 --> 01:21:48,062 Yes, but the one who made him? 852 01:21:48,730 --> 01:21:49,981 The source... 853 01:21:50,064 --> 01:21:51,482 ...of all this... 854 01:21:52,400 --> 01:21:53,484 ...evil. 855 01:21:55,653 --> 01:21:56,904 I understand. 856 01:21:58,572 --> 01:22:00,574 I saw you in the theater. 857 01:22:02,159 --> 01:22:04,078 Your suffering... 858 01:22:05,829 --> 01:22:07,915 ...your sympathy for that girl. 859 01:22:09,750 --> 01:22:11,084 You die... 860 01:22:11,502 --> 01:22:12,920 ...when you kill. 861 01:22:13,921 --> 01:22:17,674 You feel you deserve to die and you stint on nothing. 862 01:22:19,427 --> 01:22:21,429 But does that make you evil? 863 01:22:22,430 --> 01:22:26,350 Since you comprehend what you call goodness, doesn't that make you... 864 01:22:26,434 --> 01:22:27,518 ...good? 865 01:22:28,185 --> 01:22:29,937 Then there is nothing? 866 01:22:30,354 --> 01:22:32,022 Perhaps. 867 01:22:33,691 --> 01:22:35,359 But perhaps... 868 01:22:37,110 --> 01:22:38,612 ...this... 869 01:22:39,029 --> 01:22:41,531 ...is the only real evil left. 870 01:22:42,783 --> 01:22:45,118 Then God does not exist? 871 01:22:45,452 --> 01:22:47,746 I know nothing of God. 872 01:22:48,747 --> 01:22:50,081 Or the Devil. 873 01:22:50,582 --> 01:22:54,586 I have never seen a vision, nor learned a secret... 874 01:22:54,752 --> 01:22:57,755 ...that would damn or save my soul. 875 01:22:59,590 --> 01:23:01,092 As far as I know... 876 01:23:01,259 --> 01:23:03,427 ...after 400 years... 877 01:23:04,220 --> 01:23:05,930 ...I am the oldest... 878 01:23:06,222 --> 01:23:08,099 ...living vampire... 879 01:23:08,265 --> 01:23:09,725 ...in the world. 880 01:23:11,228 --> 01:23:13,730 Then it's as I always feared. 881 01:23:22,405 --> 01:23:24,282 You fear too much. 882 01:23:26,617 --> 01:23:28,619 So much you make me fear.... 883 01:23:33,958 --> 01:23:35,918 The one who made you... 884 01:23:36,460 --> 01:23:38,462 ...should have told you this. 885 01:23:39,755 --> 01:23:42,591 The one who left the Old World for the New.... 886 01:23:42,758 --> 01:23:44,218 He knew nothing. 887 01:23:44,301 --> 01:23:45,969 Nor did he care. 888 01:23:46,136 --> 01:23:47,137 Knew? 889 01:23:47,304 --> 01:23:48,639 Come, beloved. 890 01:23:49,639 --> 01:23:51,767 It's time we were on our way. 891 01:23:51,850 --> 01:23:52,934 I'm hungry... 892 01:23:53,018 --> 01:23:54,102 ...and the city awaits. 893 01:23:56,146 --> 01:23:58,773 The place was empty as we left. 894 01:23:58,982 --> 01:24:00,775 Silent as the grave. 895 01:24:00,942 --> 01:24:04,446 And as we blundered through it, again came the thought: 896 01:24:04,613 --> 01:24:06,782 "I have wronged Lestat." 897 01:24:06,949 --> 01:24:09,201 "I have hated him for the wrong reasons." 898 01:24:09,284 --> 01:24:10,911 How did you wrong him? 899 01:24:13,121 --> 01:24:14,498 You said a name. 900 01:24:14,790 --> 01:24:17,334 Yes, a name I don't care to say again. 901 01:24:17,626 --> 01:24:19,502 There is but one crime... 902 01:24:19,669 --> 01:24:21,630 ...among us vampires here. 903 01:24:22,839 --> 01:24:26,342 It is the crime that means death to any vampire: 904 01:24:28,011 --> 01:24:29,971 To kill your own kind. 905 01:24:34,142 --> 01:24:37,353 -Do you think I'd let them harm you? -No, you would not. 906 01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:39,188 Danger holds you to me. 907 01:24:39,355 --> 01:24:40,898 Love holds you to me. 908 01:24:40,981 --> 01:24:42,525 -Love? -Love. 909 01:24:42,691 --> 01:24:45,819 You would leave me for Armand if he beckoned you. 910 01:24:46,528 --> 01:24:47,696 Never. 911 01:24:47,863 --> 01:24:51,325 He wants you as you want him. He's been waiting for you. 912 01:24:51,492 --> 01:24:53,828 He wants you as a companion. 913 01:24:53,995 --> 01:24:55,872 He bides his time there. 914 01:24:56,205 --> 01:24:58,833 He finds it as dull and lifeless as we do. 915 01:24:59,000 --> 01:25:00,042 Perhaps. 916 01:25:00,376 --> 01:25:04,380 Do you know what his soul said to me without saying a word? 917 01:25:05,548 --> 01:25:07,508 "Let him go," he said. 918 01:25:08,050 --> 01:25:09,677 "Let him go." 919 01:25:11,553 --> 01:25:13,847 Is that what I should do? 920 01:25:15,015 --> 01:25:16,683 Let you go? 921 01:25:17,684 --> 01:25:19,061 My father... 922 01:25:19,228 --> 01:25:20,687 ...my Louis... 923 01:25:20,854 --> 01:25:22,397 ...who made me? 924 01:25:24,232 --> 01:25:26,067 It will be all right. 925 01:25:27,235 --> 01:25:29,195 You really believe that? 926 01:25:37,203 --> 01:25:38,329 The soldier... 927 01:25:38,413 --> 01:25:40,581 ...on returning from the war... 928 01:25:40,748 --> 01:25:44,419 ...thinks victory has enured him against sorrow... 929 01:25:44,753 --> 01:25:46,713 ...till Death comes by... 930 01:25:47,089 --> 01:25:49,174 ...and chops him from his horse. 931 01:25:55,388 --> 01:25:57,223 I was waiting for you. 932 01:25:59,726 --> 01:26:01,102 Listen to me. 933 01:26:03,604 --> 01:26:06,065 Claudia is very dear to me. 934 01:26:06,399 --> 01:26:07,650 She's my daughter. 935 01:26:07,733 --> 01:26:09,235 Your lover. 936 01:26:10,069 --> 01:26:11,445 No, my beloved. 937 01:26:11,612 --> 01:26:13,072 My child. 938 01:26:14,573 --> 01:26:16,617 You say so. You're innocent. 939 01:26:17,743 --> 01:26:19,745 She's in danger, isn't she? 940 01:26:19,954 --> 01:26:21,205 -She is. -Why? 941 01:26:24,082 --> 01:26:26,418 I could give you reasons. 942 01:26:27,586 --> 01:26:29,463 Her silence. 943 01:26:30,297 --> 01:26:31,757 Her youth. 944 01:26:33,258 --> 01:26:35,928 It's forbidden to make one so young... 945 01:26:36,429 --> 01:26:38,305 ...so helpless... 946 01:26:38,639 --> 01:26:40,933 ...that cannot survive on its own. 947 01:26:41,100 --> 01:26:42,893 Then blame the one who made her. 948 01:26:42,977 --> 01:26:45,187 Did you kill this vampire who made you both? 949 01:26:45,271 --> 01:26:46,897 Is that why you won't say his name? 950 01:26:46,980 --> 01:26:48,690 Santiago thinks you did. 951 01:26:48,774 --> 01:26:51,693 -We want no quarrel with him. -It's already begun. 952 01:26:53,111 --> 01:26:54,863 If you want to save her... 953 01:26:54,946 --> 01:26:57,449 -...send her away! -Then I leave too. 954 01:27:04,164 --> 01:27:05,665 So soon? 955 01:27:08,001 --> 01:27:11,337 Without any of those answers you so longed for? 956 01:27:11,671 --> 01:27:12,880 You said there are none. 957 01:27:12,964 --> 01:27:15,174 But you asked the wrong questions. 958 01:27:30,982 --> 01:27:32,317 Do you know... 959 01:27:33,026 --> 01:27:35,028 ...how few vampires... 960 01:27:36,029 --> 01:27:38,698 ...have the stamina for immortality? 961 01:27:40,658 --> 01:27:43,244 How quickly they perish of their own will. 962 01:27:47,373 --> 01:27:48,999 The world... 963 01:27:49,667 --> 01:27:51,168 ...changes. 964 01:27:53,170 --> 01:27:54,713 We do not. 965 01:27:56,340 --> 01:27:58,342 Therein lies the irony... 966 01:27:58,509 --> 01:28:00,552 ...that finally kills us. 967 01:28:01,053 --> 01:28:04,514 I need you to make contact with this age. 968 01:28:05,182 --> 01:28:06,183 Me? 969 01:28:07,017 --> 01:28:08,685 Don't you see? 970 01:28:09,519 --> 01:28:12,021 I'm not the spirit of any age. 971 01:28:12,856 --> 01:28:14,858 I'm at odds with everything. 972 01:28:15,024 --> 01:28:16,859 I always have been. 973 01:28:18,362 --> 01:28:21,240 That is the very spirit of your age. 974 01:28:22,574 --> 01:28:24,076 The heart of it. 975 01:28:25,744 --> 01:28:27,537 Your fall... 976 01:28:27,704 --> 01:28:29,539 ...from grace... 977 01:28:29,706 --> 01:28:32,417 ...has been the fall of a century. 978 01:28:33,543 --> 01:28:35,587 But the vampires in the theater? 979 01:28:37,422 --> 01:28:38,882 Decadent... 980 01:28:39,549 --> 01:28:41,050 ...useless. 981 01:28:42,552 --> 01:28:44,762 They can't reflect anything. 982 01:28:45,430 --> 01:28:46,431 But... 983 01:28:46,889 --> 01:28:48,224 ...you do. 984 01:28:50,434 --> 01:28:51,644 You reflect... 985 01:28:51,727 --> 01:28:53,396 ...its broken heart. 986 01:29:05,949 --> 01:29:07,743 A vampire... 987 01:29:09,119 --> 01:29:11,080 ...with a human soul. 988 01:29:12,290 --> 01:29:15,251 An immortal with a mortal's passion. 989 01:29:17,545 --> 01:29:18,754 You... 990 01:29:19,296 --> 01:29:20,631 ...are... 991 01:29:22,133 --> 01:29:24,134 ...beautiful, my friend. 992 01:29:26,470 --> 01:29:29,640 Lestat must have wept when he made you. 993 01:29:32,809 --> 01:29:34,478 You knew Lestat? 994 01:29:37,272 --> 01:29:38,607 Yes. 995 01:29:39,816 --> 01:29:41,276 I knew him. 996 01:29:43,111 --> 01:29:46,448 Knew him well enough not to mourn his passing. 997 01:29:49,158 --> 01:29:51,786 I felt a kind of peace at last. 998 01:29:52,328 --> 01:29:56,832 I had found the teacher which Lestat could never, I knew now, have been. 999 01:29:57,625 --> 01:30:00,670 I knew knowledge would never be withheld by Armand. 1000 01:30:00,961 --> 01:30:04,466 It would pass through him as through a pane of glass. 1001 01:30:19,355 --> 01:30:20,690 Madeleine... 1002 01:30:21,607 --> 01:30:23,276 ...Louis is shy. 1003 01:30:38,957 --> 01:30:40,208 Drink. 1004 01:30:41,793 --> 01:30:43,045 Do it. 1005 01:30:43,211 --> 01:30:46,298 Because I cannot do it. I haven't the strength. 1006 01:30:46,465 --> 01:30:50,802 -You saw to that when you made me. -You don't know what you ask! 1007 01:30:53,055 --> 01:30:53,889 I have. 1008 01:30:53,973 --> 01:30:57,309 You have found your new companion! You will make me mine! 1009 01:30:58,227 --> 01:30:59,895 How do we seem to you? 1010 01:31:00,813 --> 01:31:02,564 Do you find us beautiful? 1011 01:31:03,065 --> 01:31:04,399 Magical? 1012 01:31:05,067 --> 01:31:09,905 Our white skin, our fierce eyes? Do you know the thing you will become? 1013 01:31:10,322 --> 01:31:12,824 Your evil is that you cannot be evil! 1014 01:31:12,991 --> 01:31:15,660 And I shall suffer for it no longer! 1015 01:31:15,994 --> 01:31:18,413 Don't make me do this! I cannot! 1016 01:31:18,830 --> 01:31:20,665 Yet, you could do it to me. 1017 01:31:20,999 --> 01:31:25,920 Snatching me from my mother's hands, like two monsters in a fairy tale. 1018 01:31:26,587 --> 01:31:28,422 And now you weep! 1019 01:31:28,589 --> 01:31:31,509 I haven't tears enough for what you've done to me! 1020 01:31:31,759 --> 01:31:33,844 You give her to me, Louis! 1021 01:31:34,011 --> 01:31:36,514 Do this before you leave me! 1022 01:31:38,849 --> 01:31:39,934 Oh, God! 1023 01:31:40,684 --> 01:31:42,353 I love you still! 1024 01:31:43,020 --> 01:31:45,190 That's the torment of it! 1025 01:31:46,191 --> 01:31:48,192 Who'll care for me, my love... 1026 01:31:48,776 --> 01:31:51,696 ...my dark angel, when you are gone? 1027 01:31:58,452 --> 01:32:01,038 What do you think she is, Madeleine? 1028 01:32:02,623 --> 01:32:04,041 A doll? 1029 01:32:06,960 --> 01:32:08,879 A child who cannot die. 1030 01:32:10,130 --> 01:32:12,132 And the child who did die? 1031 01:32:14,051 --> 01:32:15,552 My daughter. 1032 01:33:12,441 --> 01:33:14,026 What's happening to her? 1033 01:33:14,109 --> 01:33:15,611 She's dying. 1034 01:33:16,528 --> 01:33:18,530 It happened to you too... 1035 01:33:18,864 --> 01:33:21,533 ...only you were too young to remember. 1036 01:33:23,452 --> 01:33:25,287 But if she dies? 1037 01:33:26,288 --> 01:33:28,457 It's only mortal death. 1038 01:33:32,044 --> 01:33:34,463 Bear me no ill will, my love. 1039 01:33:37,299 --> 01:33:39,218 We are now even. 1040 01:33:40,386 --> 01:33:41,970 What do you mean? 1041 01:33:43,388 --> 01:33:46,725 What died in that room was not that woman. 1042 01:33:50,395 --> 01:33:52,230 What has died is the... 1043 01:33:53,648 --> 01:33:55,650 ...last breath in me... 1044 01:33:56,568 --> 01:33:58,403 ...that was human. 1045 01:34:02,657 --> 01:34:04,409 Yes, Father. 1046 01:34:05,410 --> 01:34:07,328 At last we are even. 1047 01:34:12,833 --> 01:34:15,753 It's time for justice, little one. 1048 01:34:32,520 --> 01:34:35,731 Get me Armand. He wouldn't stand for this. 1049 01:34:35,898 --> 01:34:37,692 Death for the others. 1050 01:34:38,359 --> 01:34:39,694 For you... 1051 01:34:39,902 --> 01:34:42,196 ...eternity in a box. 1052 01:34:43,405 --> 01:34:45,241 Walled in a dungeon. 1053 01:34:45,407 --> 01:34:47,868 Your only company will be your screams. 1054 01:34:48,911 --> 01:34:51,205 Perhaps it will take centuries. 1055 01:34:52,873 --> 01:34:53,999 Take them! 1056 01:36:09,115 --> 01:36:10,992 Pleasant dreams. 1057 01:36:13,285 --> 01:36:15,204 No! No! 1058 01:36:16,288 --> 01:36:17,706 Help! 1059 01:36:53,533 --> 01:36:54,743 Wake up! 1060 01:38:01,808 --> 01:38:03,185 Where's Claudia? 1061 01:38:03,935 --> 01:38:06,563 Claudia. I cannot help her. 1062 01:38:07,063 --> 01:38:09,566 -Where's Claudia? -I can't save her! 1063 01:38:11,568 --> 01:38:13,611 I will only risk losing you! 1064 01:38:15,822 --> 01:38:17,073 Don't! 1065 01:40:04,845 --> 01:40:06,180 Come, Louis. 1066 01:40:07,556 --> 01:40:08,932 Not here. 1067 01:40:17,441 --> 01:40:19,735 So a vampire can cry? 1068 01:40:21,946 --> 01:40:23,114 Once... 1069 01:40:23,447 --> 01:40:25,366 ...maybe twice, in eternity. 1070 01:40:27,409 --> 01:40:31,121 And maybe it was to quench those tears forever that I took such revenge. 1071 01:41:28,177 --> 01:41:30,805 Stop him! It's burning! 1072 01:41:30,972 --> 01:41:32,515 Get him! Stop him! 1073 01:43:38,137 --> 01:43:40,431 You didn't even warn them, did you? 1074 01:43:42,433 --> 01:43:43,477 No. 1075 01:43:45,646 --> 01:43:47,939 And you knew what I would do. 1076 01:43:49,149 --> 01:43:50,484 I knew. 1077 01:43:50,942 --> 01:43:52,944 I rescued you, didn't I? 1078 01:43:53,111 --> 01:43:54,988 From the terrible dawn. 1079 01:43:59,325 --> 01:44:01,995 You were their leader. They trusted you. 1080 01:44:02,161 --> 01:44:03,162 No. 1081 01:44:04,288 --> 01:44:06,791 You made me see their failings, Louis. 1082 01:44:08,292 --> 01:44:09,627 They were... 1083 01:44:09,710 --> 01:44:12,546 ...doomed, stuck in their decadent time. 1084 01:44:13,464 --> 01:44:16,008 They had forgotten the first lesson... 1085 01:44:16,300 --> 01:44:18,344 ...that we must be powerful... 1086 01:44:18,510 --> 01:44:19,803 ...beautiful... 1087 01:44:19,970 --> 01:44:21,680 ...and without regret. 1088 01:44:22,639 --> 01:44:24,266 You can teach me this? 1089 01:44:24,349 --> 01:44:25,809 Yes. 1090 01:44:26,018 --> 01:44:28,020 To be without regret? 1091 01:44:30,188 --> 01:44:32,482 Then, what a pair we could make. 1092 01:44:35,194 --> 01:44:38,364 But what if it's a lesson I don't care to learn? 1093 01:44:39,990 --> 01:44:40,991 What? 1094 01:44:41,367 --> 01:44:44,036 What if all I have is my suffering? 1095 01:44:44,328 --> 01:44:46,163 My regret? 1096 01:44:47,831 --> 01:44:49,708 Don't you want to lose it? 1097 01:44:49,875 --> 01:44:51,877 So you can have that too? 1098 01:44:52,711 --> 01:44:54,838 The heart that mourns her... 1099 01:44:55,339 --> 01:44:57,507 ...whom you burnt to a cinder? 1100 01:44:57,674 --> 01:44:59,217 I swear I didn't-- 1101 01:44:59,384 --> 01:45:01,011 But I know you did. 1102 01:45:01,886 --> 01:45:03,179 I know... 1103 01:45:04,681 --> 01:45:05,849 ...you... 1104 01:45:06,516 --> 01:45:08,226 ...regret nothing. 1105 01:45:10,186 --> 01:45:11,729 You feel... 1106 01:45:12,355 --> 01:45:13,523 ...nothing. 1107 01:45:15,525 --> 01:45:18,069 If that's all I have left to learn... 1108 01:45:19,695 --> 01:45:21,697 ...I can do that on my own. 1109 01:45:32,083 --> 01:45:33,418 I will die. 1110 01:45:33,585 --> 01:45:34,335 No. 1111 01:45:34,419 --> 01:45:35,878 You are dead. 1112 01:45:36,045 --> 01:45:38,756 And you want me to quicken you once more. 1113 01:45:41,092 --> 01:45:44,720 And as much as your invitation might appeal to me... 1114 01:45:46,097 --> 01:45:47,932 ...I must regretfully... 1115 01:45:48,265 --> 01:45:49,433 ...decline. 1116 01:46:02,279 --> 01:46:04,406 For years I wandered: 1117 01:46:04,573 --> 01:46:06,283 Italy, Greece... 1118 01:46:06,908 --> 01:46:08,952 ...all the ancient lands. 1119 01:46:09,286 --> 01:46:11,746 But the world was a tomb to me... 1120 01:46:11,913 --> 01:46:14,582 ...a graveyard full of broken statues. 1121 01:46:15,291 --> 01:46:18,879 And each of those statues resembled her face. 1122 01:46:24,801 --> 01:46:26,553 Then, out of curiosity... 1123 01:46:26,720 --> 01:46:28,680 ...boredom, who knows what... 1124 01:46:28,889 --> 01:46:30,474 ...I left the Old World... 1125 01:46:30,557 --> 01:46:32,809 ...and came back to my America. 1126 01:46:35,979 --> 01:46:40,233 And there a mechanical wonder allowed me to see the sunrise... 1127 01:46:40,400 --> 01:46:42,235 ...for the first time... 1128 01:46:42,402 --> 01:46:44,237 ...in 200 years. 1129 01:46:45,488 --> 01:46:47,240 And what sunrises! 1130 01:46:47,907 --> 01:46:50,826 Seen as the human eye could never see them. 1131 01:46:51,661 --> 01:46:53,412 Silver at first... 1132 01:46:54,163 --> 01:46:57,333 ...then, as the years progressed, in tones of purple... 1133 01:46:57,416 --> 01:46:58,584 ...red... 1134 01:46:58,751 --> 01:47:01,170 ...and my long-lost blue. 1135 01:47:05,841 --> 01:47:09,178 In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans. 1136 01:47:10,096 --> 01:47:13,683 And as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. 1137 01:47:14,851 --> 01:47:16,185 It was rich... 1138 01:47:16,352 --> 01:47:18,020 ...almost sweet... 1139 01:47:18,187 --> 01:47:22,358 ...like the fragrance of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. 1140 01:47:23,692 --> 01:47:28,197 I walked the streets savoring that long-lost perfume. 1141 01:47:33,535 --> 01:47:35,620 And then on Prytania Street... 1142 01:47:35,787 --> 01:47:38,874 ...only blocks from the Lafayette cemetery... 1143 01:47:39,040 --> 01:47:41,209 ...I caught the scent of death. 1144 01:47:41,793 --> 01:47:44,295 And it wasn't coming from the graves. 1145 01:47:45,880 --> 01:47:48,633 The scent grew stronger as I walked. 1146 01:47:48,800 --> 01:47:50,385 Old death. 1147 01:47:50,718 --> 01:47:53,388 A scent too faint for mortals to detect. 1148 01:49:25,520 --> 01:49:27,772 I'm so glad you are here! 1149 01:49:28,439 --> 01:49:30,024 I've dreamed... 1150 01:49:30,858 --> 01:49:32,693 ...of this moment. 1151 01:49:34,278 --> 01:49:36,697 She never should have been one of... 1152 01:49:37,281 --> 01:49:38,699 ...us. 1153 01:49:39,033 --> 01:49:41,035 That's all past, Lestat. 1154 01:49:45,623 --> 01:49:47,125 Past. 1155 01:50:10,481 --> 01:50:12,649 Still beautiful, Louis. 1156 01:50:15,319 --> 01:50:17,821 You always were the strong one. 1157 01:50:21,992 --> 01:50:23,660 Don't be frightened. 1158 01:50:27,747 --> 01:50:29,666 I mean you no harm. 1159 01:50:33,336 --> 01:50:35,422 You've come home to me then? 1160 01:50:39,926 --> 01:50:42,345 You remember how I was? 1161 01:50:44,347 --> 01:50:46,016 The vampire... 1162 01:50:46,182 --> 01:50:48,018 ...that I was? 1163 01:50:49,102 --> 01:50:50,770 Yes, I remember. 1164 01:50:57,193 --> 01:50:58,361 No one... 1165 01:50:58,528 --> 01:51:00,279 ...could refuse me... 1166 01:51:01,781 --> 01:51:03,199 ...not even you. 1167 01:51:04,784 --> 01:51:06,202 I tried. 1168 01:51:06,869 --> 01:51:08,704 Yes, you tried. 1169 01:51:10,039 --> 01:51:12,041 And the more you tried... 1170 01:51:16,211 --> 01:51:18,130 ...the more I wanted you. 1171 01:51:28,474 --> 01:51:30,226 I can't bear it. 1172 01:51:32,645 --> 01:51:34,063 Such lights... 1173 01:51:35,648 --> 01:51:37,316 ...and that noise! 1174 01:51:38,901 --> 01:51:41,904 They make the night brighter than the day. 1175 01:51:50,245 --> 01:51:52,164 It's false light. 1176 01:51:52,414 --> 01:51:54,165 It can't harm you. 1177 01:52:05,426 --> 01:52:08,012 If you stay with me, Louis... 1178 01:52:09,430 --> 01:52:11,390 ...I could venture out again. 1179 01:52:14,352 --> 01:52:16,437 Become the old Lestat. 1180 01:52:17,939 --> 01:52:19,774 I must leave now. 1181 01:52:47,885 --> 01:52:50,554 Whatever happened to Lestat, I do not know. 1182 01:52:51,889 --> 01:52:53,307 I go on... 1183 01:52:53,473 --> 01:52:55,225 ...night after night. 1184 01:52:55,392 --> 01:52:57,894 I feed on those who cross my path. 1185 01:53:00,564 --> 01:53:03,817 But all my passion went with her golden hair. 1186 01:53:06,903 --> 01:53:09,907 I'm a spirit of preternatural flesh. 1187 01:53:11,075 --> 01:53:12,743 Detached. 1188 01:53:13,577 --> 01:53:14,912 Unchangeable. 1189 01:53:17,831 --> 01:53:19,082 Empty. 1190 01:53:20,167 --> 01:53:21,335 Empty? 1191 01:53:21,835 --> 01:53:23,003 That's it? 1192 01:53:25,255 --> 01:53:27,173 No, it can't end like that. 1193 01:53:28,758 --> 01:53:30,260 But it has. 1194 01:53:30,427 --> 01:53:32,178 There's no more to tell. 1195 01:53:33,096 --> 01:53:37,850 There must be more to tell. You don't understand yourself. You're not empty. 1196 01:53:38,518 --> 01:53:41,771 What I wouldn't give to be like you, to have your power... 1197 01:53:41,854 --> 01:53:44,273 ...to have seen the things you have seen. 1198 01:53:44,357 --> 01:53:45,775 You haven't been listening. 1199 01:53:45,858 --> 01:53:48,694 I have been listening. Your story is incredible. 1200 01:53:48,778 --> 01:53:50,821 -It's amazing. -Do what you want with it. 1201 01:53:50,905 --> 01:53:53,324 Give it to others. Learn what you can. 1202 01:53:53,699 --> 01:53:57,369 There's only one way I'll truly learn and you know it. 1203 01:53:57,619 --> 01:54:00,205 You brought me here for a reason. 1204 01:54:00,456 --> 01:54:01,541 Didn't you? 1205 01:54:01,624 --> 01:54:03,376 What reason would that be? 1206 01:54:03,543 --> 01:54:07,547 You want a companion. You want a link to the outside world. That's me. 1207 01:54:07,713 --> 01:54:10,091 Take me. That's what I want. 1208 01:54:10,174 --> 01:54:13,511 -I refuse to let it end like this. -God, I've failed again. 1209 01:54:13,969 --> 01:54:16,972 You haven't failed. God has nothing to do with it. 1210 01:54:20,059 --> 01:54:21,477 Do you like this? 1211 01:54:22,311 --> 01:54:25,230 Do you like being food for the immortals? 1212 01:54:25,981 --> 01:54:27,316 Do you like dying? 1213 01:54:27,399 --> 01:54:28,483 Stop! 1214 01:55:36,216 --> 01:55:38,802 1791 was the year it happened. 1215 01:55:38,969 --> 01:55:42,222 I was 24. Younger than you are now. 1216 01:55:43,057 --> 01:55:46,143 But times were different then. I was a man at that age. 1217 01:55:46,227 --> 01:55:49,813 The master of a large plantation, just south of New Orleans. 1218 01:55:51,065 --> 01:55:53,650 I had lost my wife in childbirth. 1219 01:55:53,817 --> 01:55:55,569 Someone change my shorts. 1220 01:55:55,652 --> 01:55:58,739 She and the infant had been buried less than half a year. 1221 01:55:58,822 --> 01:55:59,573 It's good stuff. 1222 01:55:59,656 --> 01:56:01,074 I would've been happy to join them. 1223 01:56:01,158 --> 01:56:02,909 Good stuff. 1224 01:56:06,413 --> 01:56:08,665 I assume I need no introduction. 1225 01:56:23,179 --> 01:56:25,181 I feel better already. 1226 01:56:29,435 --> 01:56:32,271 Most of all, I longed for death. 1227 01:56:32,855 --> 01:56:34,441 I invited it. 1228 01:56:35,525 --> 01:56:38,111 A release from the pain of living. 1229 01:56:41,531 --> 01:56:43,282 Still whining. 1230 01:56:45,952 --> 01:56:47,453 Heard enough? 1231 01:56:47,787 --> 01:56:50,331 I've had to listen to that for centuries. 1232 01:56:52,958 --> 01:56:54,335 Don't be afraid. 1233 01:56:56,795 --> 01:56:59,214 I'm going to give you the choice... 1234 01:57:00,132 --> 01:57:01,884 ...I never had. 0 00:00:0,500 --> 00:00:2,00 www.moviesubtitles.org