Interview with the Vampire Page #5

LESTAT (V.O.)

Vampires, that's what we are.

Creatures of darkness, only we seemore clearly in that darkness thanany mortal has ever seen!

Dead men and women float in the water. Louis is amazed.

Dead woman and dead infant float by. A giant dead oakfloats by. Lestat holds the wheel steady. Lestat pointsto the horizon of white clouds stacked high under the

moon. The two speak together but we do not hear theirwords.

EXT. PARISH GRAVEYARD (LOUISIANA) - NIGHT

Louis and Lestat stand before the tall crypt of Louis'swife and baby. Sounds of WIND. Lestat leads Louis from

the graveyard into a dreamlike swampland.

DREAM SEQUENCE:

thickens as we see HAZY fragments suggesting possibility:

A)

Louis, beautifully-dressed, dancing with a woman.

B)

Louis and Lestat together riding horses fast throughthe night.

LAUGHTER, MUSIC, HEARTBEAT INTERMINGLE.

PAN OVER an audience of bejeweled and wigged spectatorsall clapping and cheering. Return to:

INT. LOUIS'S BEDROOM

Louis sits against the bedstead staring intently atLestat.

Silence.

FOCUS ON LESTAT:

seated on the bed.

Then:

LESTAT:

You have to ask me for this. You

have to give your full consent,

do you hear?

(CONTINUED)

13.

CONTINUED:

LOUIS:

Give it to me!

LESTAT:

(seductive)

Vampires. We slay our brothersand sisters.

LOUIS:

I want it!

LESTAT:

And thrive on their blood.

LOUIS:

Give it to me.

Lestat bends close as if to drink Louis's blood. Louis

does not shrink back, but stares into his eyes. Lestat

draws back, stands up, leaves through French doors, then

says:

LESTAT:

Tomorrow night. I want you toprove yourself. I shall give youthe choice I never had.

(looks outside)

The sun's coming. Watch it

carefully. If you join metomorrow, you'll never see the sunagain.

Louis sits dazed staring at the empty French windows.

The sun rises over the swamplands and the plantation. Sun

fills the room, striking water pitcher, glass, mirror.

INT. RIVERFRONT TAVERN (NEW ORLEANS)

Crowds of gamblers and revelers carry on at tables andmakeshift bar.

Suzanne is slipping a poison into a man's drink and thenhelps him stagger into:

EXT. ALLEYWAY

There she robs the man and lets him fall down dead in the

mud.

14.

INT. TAVERN - LOUIS AND LESTAT

at a corner table are watching Suzanne as she re-enters.

LOUIS:

(fearfully,

confusedly)

You mean now, with this knife?

He reveals the dagger inside his coat.

LESTAT:

She's an evildoer, my friend.

I've made it easy for you. Don't

you see what she's up to? If youcan kill her, the Dark Gift is

yours.

Louis rises, uncertain, crazed, pushes through thecrowded tavern, approaches Suzanne and seduces her outinto the same alley.

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