Interview With The Vampire: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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| Album: | Interview With The Vampire: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
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| Artist: | Elliot Goldenthal |
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| Label: | Geffen Records |
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Reviews
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Elliot Goldenthal’s score perfectly captures the mood of the film, from the opening notes of “Libera Me” to the reprise of “Born to Darkness” at the end. He builds on a few basic themes, adding excitement to the mix with the high-intensity “Louis’ Revenge” and “Claudia’s Allegro Agitato.” As some of the track titles suggest, Goldenthal uses classical themes and techniques to compose his music, which works nicely. So well, in fact, that the Guns n Roses’ rendition of “Sympathy for the Devil,” appropriate as it was in the film, sounds like an afterthought here. The soundtrack is a little too repetitive to hold up well to repeated listens, but it’s a fine effort overall, and one that holds true both to the film and to the Anne Rice novel on which it was based. —Genevieve Williams
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Interview with the Vampire: Book 1 of the Vampire Chronicles
The time is now.We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks—as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead…
He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently…carrying us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir—young, romantic, cultivated—to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant and sinister Lestat into the other, the “endless,” life…learning first to sustain himself on the blood of cocks and rats caught in the raffish streets of New Orleans, then on the blood of human beings…to the years when, moving away from his final human ties under the tutelage of the hated yet necessary Lestat, he gradually embraces the habits, hungers, feelings of vampirism: the detachment, the hardened will, the “superior” sensual pleasures.
He carries us back to the crucial moment in a dark New Orleans street when he finds the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her, struggling against the last residue…
