Interview with the Vampire Page #2

CONTINUE V.O. as he speaks he approaches a small parishchurch and graveyard. He dismounts, approaches a rectangular

Greek style above ground tomb. The stone is

like a doorway.

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6.

CONTINUED:

LOUIS (V.O.)

I had only just lost my wife inchildbirth. She and the infant

had been buried less than half a

year.

Inscriptions on the high rectangular tomb show the names:

DIANNE DE POINTE DU LAC 1763 - 1791

INFANT JEAN MARIE 1791

Louis in mix of anger and sadness pushes away the vinesalready covering the head stone and stares bitterly atthe inscription which he touches with his fingers. Takes

a flask from his pocket, takes a heavy drink. He sits,

exhausted, against the grave, as if close to his wife andchild. Face tender and sad.

INT. DINING ROOM (POINTE DU LAC) - NIGHT

Table set with candelabra, gorgeous China.

Louis in soiled shirt and boots, sits at the head of the

table, staring at a plate full of steaming food.

YVETTE, pretty Mulatto slave, pours his glass full ofwine.

LOUIS (V.O.)

I had everything a man could askfor. Yet a darkness had come that

would not lift.

YVETTE:

Please, Michie, eat your supper.

Please. We pray for you everyday.

Louis doesn't move.

Yvette takes his linen napkin from the ring and tries toput it in his lap. He takes her wrist firmly. Rises

from table.

LOUIS:

(patiently)

I know, ma chere. I need time.

EXT. RIVERFRONT STREET (NEW ORLEANS)

of gunwale sidewalks and loud, crowded riverfront tavernsfull of ruffians.

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7.

CONTINUED:

Louis in ragged lace and dirty brocade coat walksdrunkenly along the sidewalk. As he enters a crowded,

smoky little tavern and blunders into a card game, flatboat

men and one FANCY-DRESSED GAMBLER eye him as a mark.

He lays his money down on the table. They deal him in.

LOUIS (V.O.)

Perhaps if I'd had time, I wouldhave come to my senses. Who can

say? I might have married again.

As it was, I courted death, takingevery risk that I could.

As the men play cards two tavern waitresses approach -TERESA

and SUZANNE. Suzanne throws her arms around

Louis, and exchanging glances with the Fancy-DressedGambler, puts a powder into a drink of whiskey which shepushes toward Louis, eyeing him stealthily. Teresa

watches all and looks down at Louis' hand of cards.

PAN OVER tavern scene -- Indians, men of color, black

African freedmen, sailors and wenches.

LESTAT, a hooded figure in the corner, smiles frombeneath the shadow of his hood. Gleaming blue eyes.

CLOSE ON - LESTAT

He approaches the table as:

Louis lifts the glass of drugged whiskey. The hooded and

cloaked figure of Lestat knocks it out of his hand,

bumping into Suzanne and knocking Teresa roughly to oneside.

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