AMCs Interview with the Vampire offers healthy tips for carnal connoisseurs not found in Vampire Chronicles recipes.
This article contains spoilers forInterview with the Vampireseason 2 episode 1.
AMC masterfully transposesAnne Rices Interview with the Vampirefrom unique literary expression to a cinematic episodic television experience.
Changes are necessary for the proper telling, and the contemporary audience at large.
Claudia is five years old in the 1976 book.
Modern sensitivities resist the tortured distinction, and the web connection provides respectful distance.
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Soldiers are digging up corpses and shooting them with machine gun fire.
It is a dismal overkill.
It does not taste warm.
It offers only the basic nutritional value, and it has no spark.
Both Louis and Claudia taste the sadness, desperation, and hopelessness in the human hemoglobin.
He believes it is unhealthy.
The transitional character is a creation for the series to give context to what is unspoken on the page.
On screen Daciana says of her prey: They dont want life anymore, vaguely confirming Louis concerns.
In Rices history, the ancient eastern vampires are monstrous creatures, mindless zombies.
Revenants, Armand (Assad Zaman) identifies them in the first book.
Their blood is different, vile.
The underlying concept, however, can be intuited from subtext.
The novels infer loss of true, breathing, life does not diminish empathy in the eternal predators.
Louis finds Eastern Europe to be a strange country.
I felt an anxiety … Id never quite experienced in New Orleans.
And the people themselves were no relief.
He doesnt internalize this ambient atmosphere.
It is in no way ingested, except through geographical osmosis, and never digested.
There is more than a draining of life at work in the drinking of blood.
There is a transformation exchange and deep connection unlike any other kind of coupling.
It is not sex or akin to childbirth, it is unique and final.
Though it can never be immediately terminal.
Hell suck you right down into death with him if you cling to him in death.
Trace elements of the series postulation on the nutritional value of emotion comes during the blood exchange.
When Louis first draws blood, he experiences sound.
It is again and again a celebration of that experience; because for vampires that is the ultimate experience.
Do you think Ill possess his power and my own power when I take him?
Its enough to warm the unbeating heart of the most bloodthirsty.
There is ample evidence of Louis discernment of the warmth the vampires receive from blood.
He later explains After killing, a vampire is as warm as you are now.
So the undead should live it up.
The underlying truth ofInterview with the Vampires delectable discovery may be rooted in the simplicity of comfort food.
A land of fine foods, and rich appetites.
They may be spoiled.
But really, if were being honest, what does Louis really know?
Anne Rices Interview with the Vampire season 2 premieres May 12 on AMC and AMC+.
