#iwtv parallels

[onlymywishfulthinking]

the end / the beginning

[hermit-frog]

[saintarmand]

iwtv is insanity inducing bc every time you google some reference in it you find out theyre doing some 4d chess with the symbolism… like okay playing roosevelt's speech about the us joining ww2 in the background as claudia tells louis shes gonna kill lestat is pretty straightforward, and of course the chess game theyre playing foreshadows how she beats him in the next episode but doesn't "finish the game" ie burn him. and bc claudia later compares lestat to the nazis/hitler, that obviously makes lestat germany and thus claudia is poland and louis is the us/roosevelt in the speech we hear: "I had hoped against hope that some miracle would prevent a devastating war in Europe and bring to an end the invasion of Poland by Germany" etc. BUT THEN you get nerdy and google some of the chess terms lestat uses like the dutch defense and stonewalling which is pretty interesting and then you vaguely remember one of the writers said the scene was based on some famous chess game, and you realize it must be glücksberg vs miguel najdorf which turns out to be literally called the POLISH IMMORTAL. najdorf was polish and glücksberg is some unknown but based on the name likely german. this was najdorf's first famous game, at the beginning of his career when he was only like 19 or something although we dont know the exact details of the game (and ofc you watch a few videos on the polish immortal and they all heavily criticize glücksberg's moves which makes lestat's arrogance even funnier) and ALSO, in 1939 (literally at the same time as the chess scene takes place) najdorf was participating in a chess tournament in buenos aires and since he was not only polish but also jewish, he stayed there rather than return home. his whole family was killed in the holocaust but he lived a long life in argentina. why is this relevant? because BUENOS AIRES which btw lestat also calls "la reina del plata" so you google that and find the 1930 song by carlos gardel and the lyrics are literally— anyway so buenos aires is where lestat planned for them to move to in ep7. perhaps if they had indeed gone to argentina instead of europe… well… perhaps… perhaps…

[macaulaytwins]

Interview With the Vampire (2022), Orestes tr. by Anne Carson (2009)

[nashvillethotchicken]

The fact I haven't seen that many people talk about how lestat did the exact same thing his father did to him to Claudia by forcibly removing her from the train in ep 6 is a real disservice to both Claudia and Lestat

[lecilly]

i wonder why lewis likes interview with a vampire hmmm..

hmmm.. also this

i get lewis tbh. he needed representation..

i mean lestat is a psychopathic manipulative bitchy blond who speaks french (literally nico) and louis is lewis. no other explanation is needed.

(but seriously i knew he was talking about the movie with tom cruise and not this show but i thought it was funny especially because the black dude in iwtv is named louis in the show 😭)

[loo-nuh-tik]

Interview with the Vampire (2022-) 

The Queen of the Damned (1988) 

[onlymywishfulthinking]

Interview with the Vampire s01e07 // s2 first look

[brotherconstant]

#newsflash, asshole! i've been seeing it the entire goddamn time!

[daffenger]

[saintarmand]

"the black angel" + parallels 1/3

[greedandenby]

Madeleine (played by Roxane Duran), Interview with the Vampire season 2.

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Georges de La Tour, Magdalene with the Smoking Flame (La Madeleine à la veilleuse).

[macaulaytwins]

“A Barbie Dream House But All the Dolls Are Kitchen Knives”, Cassandra de Alba // Interview With the Vampire (2022) // If My Body Could Speak, Blythe Baird // “Elektra”, Anne Carson

[clowndensation]

lestat's "i'll need protection from the wolves." line to louis is so. haha. what if i was horrifically traumatized by an experience in my past - an experience that isolated me from my peers and redefined how i understood and engaged with the world, my place in it, and what it means to be afraid and have nobody to rely on. okay now what if the mere sight of you restored my childhood faith that the world is conquerable and monsters can be vanquished. what if i was so bone tired of having to fight in this world alone, and in you i glimpsed a protector, someone who would stand up for a naive boy by himself in the woods, desperate to survive. would you save me? would you ride into the forest with me to fight these wolves? lestat you've known louis for 10 cumulative minutes.