broken statues.And each of those statues resembled her face.There was another driving force for the vampires of Interview. It was a quest for knowledge, a mission to find answers, or a link, to a world that was beyond their grasp. Louis and Claudia, who became “orphaned” after they left Lestat for dead, were then involved on a search for other vampires, in hopes of finding out their origin and nature.We booked a passage to Europe. Over the weeks, while waitingFor the boat, she studied the myths and legends of the Old World.Obsessed with the search for what she called ‘our kind’”Thus the two of them had a driving force, as Louis narrates: “We searched village after village… ruin after ruin… country after country. And always we found nothing.” But when they find the vampire Armand and his Theatre of Vampires, they found none of the answers they so desperately searched for. The vampire Armand had his own agenda, and thus sets into motion the events that would lead to the death of Claudia and the destruction of the Theatre of Vampires. He Knew that he needed something to help him adhere to the changing times, he needed Louis to guide him, to be his obsession. “The vampires from the new world came to guide us into a new era, as all we love slowly rots and fades away.” But when Louis turned down his offer, knowing that Armand had been responsible for Claudia’s death, Armand realizes that without Louis as his obsession, he is “dead.” As is, in a way, Louis: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.The action movie Blade, though relying more on the action sequences and Hong Kong style martial arts, contains a captivating plot with some interesting twists on the vampire myth. Yet one thing remains constant, and it is the driving...
