INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
LOUIS (VO)
It spelt weakness, madness, the behavior of a dying animal that pollutes its own lair.
Louis treads carefully on the rotted steps. he moves along the porch. More dead rats. He sees through the floor-length window into rooms lined with stacked books. Virtually walled with them. Water seeps down from the ceiling, gleaming as it streaks over the books. The floors of the splendid rooms are bare, except for a rotten French chair by a dead fireplace. A single mirror reflecting the moon.
Dead rats.
He moves along the porch to the parlour windows. The candle flickers inside. He sees --
HIS POV
Lestat lying on the floor. He is gaunt to near starvation. All his scars are gone, but he is almost a skeleton and his eyes are enormous in their sockets. His clothes are rags. Blond hair beautiful, as always.
MALLOY'S ENTRANCES FACE SUPERIMPOSED OVER
MALLOY (VO)
Lestat escaped the fire!
LOUIS (VO)
He hadn't even been there. And all those years I thought he was dead.
BACK TO --
Lestat. One tiny candle stands beside him. He reads an early comic, from the turn of the century. Without turning his head, he speaks.
LESTAT
I'm so glad you're here Louis... I've dreamed of your coming...
LOUIS
Don't try to speak... it's alright...
LESTAT
I didn't mean to let them do it... that Santiago, he tricked me...
LOUIS
That's all past, Lestat.
LESTAT
Yes. Past... she should never have been one of us...
He turns and looks at Louis. Old, fearful, broken.
LESTAT
Still beautiful Louis. You always were the strong one.
LOUIS
Don't fear me, Lestat. I bring you no harm.
LESTAT
You've come back to me, Louis? You've come again to me?
Louis shakes his head. A series of police sirens go by, piercing the night sky. A helicopter goes overhead. Red flashes illuminate his face. Lestat shivers, covers his ears. He's terrified. Louis touches him, calming him, until the lights pass over.
LOUIS
It's only a siren...
LESTAT
I can't bear it Louis! The machines out there, that fly and that roar! And such lights! They make the night brighter than the day!
LOUIS
And they frighten you?
LESTAT
You know I love the dark. But there's no dark anymore.
LOUIS
It's false light, Lestat. It can't harm you...
LESTAT
If you stayed with me Louis, I could venture out... little by little... become the old Lestat.
Louis shivers. He releases him.
LOUIS
I have to go now Lestat...
LESTAT
You remember how I was, Louis.. the vampire Lestat...
LOUIS
Yes. I remember...
Lestat shivers.
LESTAT
I tried to tell you Louis... that night in Paris... when I first came to you... no-one can refuse the dark gift, Louis... not even you.
LOUIS
I tried...
LESTAT
And the more you tried, the more I wanted you... a vampire with your beautiful, suffering human heart. And how you suffered... I need your forgiveness, Louis.
LOUIS
You have it...
Louis walks slowly away from him. Lestat turns back to his candle, his magazine.
LESTAT
You'll come back, Louis... take me out... little by little... and maybe I'll be myself again...
A bluebottle buzzes by him. His hand shoots out and grabs it, squeezes the blood.
LOUIS (WHISPERING)
Yes, Lestat...
ON LOUIS as he walks through the decayed house. His eyes are expressionless.
LOUIS (VO)
And my story ends there. But in fact it ended a long time ago, with Claudia's ashes in that theatre. My love died with her. I never really changed after that. What became of Lestat I have no idea. I go on, night after night. I feed on those who cross my path. But all my passion went with her yellow hair. I ma a spirit with perternatural flesh. Detached. unchangeable. Empty.
INT. ROOM. SAN FRANCISCO. NIGHT. (PRESENT)
Malloy, staring at Louis.
MALLOY
No... it can't end like that...
LOUIS
But it has. There is no more to tell.
MALLOY
But you talk about passion, about longing, about things I'll never know in my life! It's still inside you, in every syllable you speak! And then you tell me it ends like that? Just empty?
LOUIS
It's over, I'm telling you...
MALLOY
You need a new passion, Louis, a new reason to feel... what a story you've told, you don't understand yourself.
Louis looks at the cassettes on the table.
LOUIS
Do what you want with it. Learn what you can. Give the story to others.
Malloy rises.
MALLOY
You have another chance, Louis. Take me! Give me your gift, your power...
Louis is slowly horrified, then outraged and angry.
LOUIS
Is this what you want? You ask me for this after all I've told you?
MALLOY
If I could see what you've seen, feel what you've felt I wouldn't let it end like this! You need a like to the world out there, a connection... then it won't end like this...
He stares at Louis.
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