they stop and say things to me in the street, but,
I don´t thinkl i´m THAT funny"
-GENE WILDER
Very few actors and performers have both , the TIMELESS quality AND the AGELESS quality . That their face can surpass a time ,an ERA any frame. As Russell Crowe or Charlton Heston , Brad Pitt or Lawrence Olivier, Gene Wilder was that kind of an actor. He could portay all, a mad scientist, a comedy genius, a chocolate factory manager.
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jerome Silberman, on June 11, 1933, the son of William J. and Jeanne (Baer) Silberman. His father was a Russian Jewish immigrant, as were his maternal grandparents. He adopted "Gene Wilder" for his professional name at the age of 26, later explaining, "I had always liked Gene because of Thomas Wolfe's character Eugene Gant in Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River. And I was always a great admirer of Thornton Wilder."Wilder first became interested in acting at age 8, when his mother was diagnosed with rheumatic fever and the doctor told him to "try and make her laugh."
"When i was 6 years old my mom had a heart attack, the doctor told us to make her laugh, not to get her excited, YOU MIGHT KILL HER..... he was not very Psychologically orientated." -GENE WILDER i dont know what insanity happens in the mind of comedic actors but whatever it was, i try to make her laugh " -GENE WILDER
"Iwas sitting in my apartment and on television i was seeing one of the Frankenstein pictures ...and started writing, two pages about...what i wanted to see and i wanted to make a happy ending"
-Gene Wilder
In 1971, Wilder auditioned to play Willy Wonka in Mel Stuart's film adaptation of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. After reciting some lines, Wilder prepared to leave the auditioning station, but Mel Stuart (who was a Gene Wilder fan) ran after him, offering the role to Wilder immediately. Wilder was initially hesitant when he learned more on the role, but finally accepted the role under one condition:
When I make my first entrance, I'd like to come out of the door carrying a cane and then walk toward the crowd with a limp. After the crowd sees Willy Wonka is a cripple, they all whisper to themselves and then become deathly quiet. As I walk toward them, my cane sinks into one of the cobblestones I'm walking on and stands straight up, by itself... but I keep on walking, until I realize that I no longer have my cane. I start to fall forward, and just before I hit the ground, I do a beautiful forward somersault and bounce back up, to great applause.
When Stuart asked why, Wilder replied, "Because from that time on, no one will know if I'm lying or telling the truth." The scene appeared in the movie much as Wilder described it.
Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder
on the set of The Frisco Kid.
"I always thought that everything i was doing on acting came from my mother, but what i´m like on screen, the kind of characters i play was 90% my father.
He was the most naiive man, a real victim in life, the most innocent person that i ´ve ever met i think that is what the audience has responded to when they see me in a crazy situation ."
-Gene Wilder
"We make jokes about that, with MEL, it was not just funny... it had to be MAKE PEE in your PANTS FUNNY " -GENE WILDER
For some reason when you pair him [Pryor] with Gene Wilder, they make a particular kind of magic together. And, together, they are probably the funniest pair that's ever been on screen.
- Sidney Poiter
"I was in analysis and my analyst said ...
why do you take the name GENE?
then she asked me
what was your mothers name?
...i said..."JEANNE"
she only said ...That´s interesting."
-Gene Wilder
As his fame grew so did his loneliness a simple mind in a reckless enviroment as hollywood. Wilder´s only desire was making good films. Until he retired from all of that "glamour" and "fakeness". In his own words he was dissapointed from the quality of the content. He was receiving scripts he started to read and eventually awful scripts.
"i think it´s an insult, its probably Warner Brothers insult,
i think.. to do that (remakes) with Johnny Depp, who i think is a good actor and i like him but i don´t care for that director
(Tim Burton)and he is a talented man."
-Gene Wilder
Wilder died at the age of 83 on August 29, 2016, at home in Stamford, Connecticut, from complications of Alzheimer's disease.
“I believe there are forces of light and darkness in the world and I don’t want to be a contributor to
the force of darkness.” -Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey, attended a pre-release screening at Los Angeles, but walked out before it finished due to her distaste for the film’s gore and dark themes.
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On Nov. 11, 1994, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles was released in cinemas to widespread critical acclaim. The first instalment in what would become the “Vampire Chronicles,” the novel, Interview with the Vampire, was released on Apr. 12, 1976.
Author Anne Rice wrote the original part of Lestat for the 1976 novel with Rutger Hauer in mind. The rights to the novel were optioned by Paramount for $150,000 before the book was first published. John Travolta was then earmarked to play Lestat but Dracula (1979), Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979), and Love at First Bite (1979) put the project into turnaround. By the time a movie was to be filmed, Hauer and Travolta had become too old to portray the ever-young vampire.
It´s been almost 22 years since Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise
played Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt.
Title is often misquoted as Interview with A Vampire when it actually is INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE.
Our story begins in the golden gate bridge, the camera flies to a triangular building.
At the corner of Golden Gate Avenue and Taylor Street in downtown San Francisco.
There we see a man standing by a window. This man is staring at the street, the lights, the people walking , all life outside this dark room. We see a man sitting in a table lightning a cigarrette, he is going to interview the other...
The ‘St Martin’ hotel , in which Louis (Brad Pitt) recounts his story to incredulous journalist Daniel Malloy (Christian Slater). is really Market Street at Taylor Street, downtown San Francisco.
After directing "The crying game " Nigel Jordan received from producer David Geffen, the novel "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles " written by Ann Rice he read it on a flight to Paris.
THE LOCATIONS
This film has a sense of realism long lost in film. Yes green screen can put you anywhere, but there is nothing like WALKING in a real street and not a set. Think about it, when the whole plot (Vampires) esentially is make believe, you need to SET everyone in the audience in the real world so that they can see something supernatural happening.
The Old Coliseum Theatre in New Orleans, seen when Louis goes to see Tequila Sunrise (1988) , burned down on February 2006. The cinema interior seen in the film lives on. The production was largely based in the UK, with filming around London, and the picture house interior is thePhoenix Cinema, 52 High Road, East Finchley, in north London.
Oak Alley Plantation, Vacherie, La., the location used in the film as Louis de Pointe du Lac’s estate, is supposedly haunted. Reports include a candlestick flying across a room during a guided tour and sightings of a “slender, young woman with long dark hair.” The plantation has also featured on Syfy’s Ghost Hunters.
The Directors Trademark:
Stephen Rea, who plays Santiago, makes regular appearances in Jordan's films.
Would be the highest grossing vampire movie for over a decade, however, as of 2016, it's the highest grossing R rated vampire film of all time. Rea is not only volatile as an antagonic character in a movie full of villains, but he takes it one step further. We want Louis to kill him at some point because he is the worst.
The cast
" I don’t feel bad about it at all (Tom Cruise cast as Lestat). People were outraged when Vivien Leigh was cast in the role of Scarlett O’Hara. Today it is unthinkable that anybody else could have played it.
-David Geffen (producer of the film )
TOM CRUISE as LESTAT.
Upon learning that Tom Cruise had been cast, she was quite disappointed and expressed concern that Cruise could not carry the part. After attending a screening, Rice wrote a letter of apology, quite pleased with Cruise's portrayal. Ironically, Rutger Hauer would later portray a vampire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992).
BRAD PITT as Louis The character Louis' full name is Louis de Pointe du Lac. Louis was based on Anne Rice as she grieved for her deceased daughter, Michelle. Louis was even given Anne Rice's birthday of 4 October. How did the film-makers resolve Cruise and Pitt’s height difference; 5′ 7″ (1.70 m) and 5′ 11″ (1.80 m), respectively? Tom had inches added to his boots and a ditch was dug for Pitt to walk alongside him when they filmed the night park scene.
Kirsten Dunst as Claudia
Christian Slater as (Daniel Malloy), in the novel he's just known as "the boy"; he was also younger than Christian Slater. The book also refers to Louis as "the vampire" in the interview scenes.
River Phoenix was originally cast as the interviewer, but died of a drug overdose on Oct. 31, 1993, only four weeks before filming. Slater donated his salary for the film to Phoenix’s charities. “In Memory of River Phoenix, 1970-1993” also appears at the end of the film’s credits. Antonio Banderas as ARMAND
Sandy Powell is a British costume designer. She has won three Academy Awards for Best Costume Design for Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Aviator (2004), and The Young Victoria (2009), and has been nominated 12 times for the award. Powell is often associated with Martin Scorsese and Todd Haynes, having designed the costumes for six of Scorsese's films and three of Haynes'
Dante Ferretti (Art Direction) and Francesca Lo Schiavo (Set Decoration) were nominated for Art Direction, but lost to Ken Adam (Art Direction) and Carolyn Scott (Set Decoration) for The Madness of King George (1994).
Elliot Goldenthal’s score was nominated for Music (Original Score), but lost to Hans Zimmer for The Lion King (1994). But it wasn’t a total loss for vampires that night: Martin Landau won Best Supporting Actor for his role as Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood(1994).
The soundtrack was written by Elliot Goldenthal and received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Score. "Sympathy for the Devil" was performed by Guns N' Roses.
The Transformation
(The veins )
All the actors playing vampires were required to hang upside down for up to thirty minutes at a time during the make-up application. This would force all the blood in their bodies to rush to their heads, causing the blood vessels in their faces to bulge out. The make up artists would then trace over the swollen veins creating the eerie translucent-skinned vampire look. Unfortunately for the actors, they would have to repeat the process several times over, as the blood would quickly drain from their heads. This, in part, accounts for the lengthy make-up process. After knowing THIS YOU WON´T BE ABLE to see the film again without noticing it.
'The statue seemed to move, but didn't"
-Louis
The Special Effects
"I hadn’t read the book yet, but I was a big fan of Neil Jordan as a director. So I put a call in to him, asking that he take a meeting with me regarding the film. And he was shocked to hear from me — shocked — because, to his mind, I was the ‘dinosaur guy’. He would never have thought of this studio for the makeup effects for Interview With the Vampire. I literally had to sell this studio and myself to him. I had to convince him that we did makeups, that I’d started doing makeups. Because I’d done dinosaurs, I had to fight to get that job."
-Stan Winston
Stan Winston and his studio, best known for their work on films like Aliens (1986),Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) and Jurassic Park (1993), took on the comparatively minor task. Winston was convinced by his collaborators, John Rosengrant and Shane Mahan, to offer their services as both were huge fans of Rice’s book.
They “saw this as an opportunity to do a serious horror movie, in the tradition of the Hammer films” and “also a chance for us to do something completely different than Jurassic Park. We didn’t want to get typecast as the studio that only did big animatronics.” Despite the special effects studio’s excellent reputation, they still had to fight for the part.
Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt appear to have swapped their complexions in this film, as Cruise has blonde hair and Pitt has black hair. In real life, Cruise has black hair and Pitt has blonde hair.
Finding it difficult to cope with dreary weather, regularly wearing special contact lenses, being caked in make-up and disenchantment with playing “the bitch role,” Pitt asked the film’s producer, David Geffen, how much it would cost to cash him out of the movie. “Forty million dollars,” Geffen replied. Pitt stayed on.
Tom Cruise wanted a private set, and hence tunnels were built to escort the actors to and from the set.
This was done so that the vampire's makeup effects would remain a secret.The first film production to be given permission to close down two lanes of traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge.
Author Anne Rice was so pleased with this adaptation that she took out a two page ad in both Vanity Fair and the New York Times endorsing it as "a masterpiece".
Louis describes Claudia as five years old in the novel, but Kirsten Dunst was 12 years old at the time of filming.
I love the way Louis tells Daniel with a tap of his finger nails "you should change sides of your tape to continue recording". It seems to me its the perfect intermission on a movie. Also a long lost tradition . Movies used to pause for 15 mins so the audience wouldn´t get tired. And also go for refreshments .
Neil Jordan, the film’s director, said the story’s deep vein of Catholic guilt was the reason he wanted to make the movie: “It was the most wonderful parable about wallowing in guilt that I’d ever come across. But these things are unconscious: I don’t have an agenda.”
After mentioning that the film was also a reflection of his own feelings at the time and being asked what it said about him, he replied:
" I’m always surprised years after making a movie about how it reflects your state of mind at the time or how low you are. I had a great time making this movie but there is a dark Catholic guilt underlying. And you know, Anne Rice comes from an Irish Catholic background; she bought an old convent in New Orleans when we were filming there."
"I think I am always seeking redemption; the vampires represent those of us in society who feel damned and I am always seeking a way for them and those of us who identify with them to be saved."
-Anne Rice
The Cruelty and The Comedy
Both Lestat and Louis are characters that complete each other. One is mysterious the other one is very sad. One is threatening the other is understandable. Both suffer from the same tragedy, they are vampires. But each one embraces the night, the darkness and the horror very differently. If this wasn´t a horror film it would be one of the greatest Buddy movie ever. Having the 80s icon meeting the 90´s icon both as vampires. Not glamorous.
Claudia has both mysterious and evil motives.As time goes by, she becomes terribly upset by not growing up. The forever childlike doll has become an asassin. Killing and ploting how to get rid of Lestat. FOREVER.
My favorite scene of the film is when Louis goes to see his first sunrise in 200 years. Not in a mountain or a building, but in a movie theatre. Viewing a marvelous montage of a sunrise, the colors in GONE with the Wind, and Christopher Reeve´s Superman flying with the blue earth on his back. Its a very good movie, worth watching again . A true horror film because it is scary with very good actors and an awesome film told by a true story teller. PERFECT FOR A RAINY DAY.
" Whatever happened to Lestat I do not know. I go on, night after night. I feed on those who cross my path. But all my passion went with her golden hair. I'm a spirit of preternatural flesh. Detached. Unchangeable. Empty."
Very few actors and performers have both , the TIMELESS quality AND the AGELESS quality . That their face can surpass a time ,an ERA any frame. As Russell Crowe or Charlton Heston , Brad Pitt or Lawrence Olivier, Gene Wilder was that kind of an actor. He could portay all, a mad scientist, a comedy genius, a chocolate factory manager.
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jerome Silberman, on June 11, 1933, the son of William J. and Jeanne (Baer) Silberman. His father was a Russian Jewish immigrant, as were his maternal grandparents. He adopted "Gene Wilder" for his professional name at the age of 26, later explaining, "I had always liked Gene because of Thomas Wolfe's character Eugene Gant in Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River. And I was always a great admirer of Thornton Wilder."Wilder first became interested in acting at age 8, when his mother was diagnosed with rheumatic fever and the doctor told him to "try and make her laugh."
"Iwas sitting in my apartment and on television i was seeing one of the Frankenstein pictures ...and started writing, two pages about...what i wanted to see and i wanted to make 
"I always thought that everything i was doing on acting came from my mother, but what i´m like on screen, the kind of characters i play was 90% my father. 
