Interview with the Vampire Page #7

LOUIS:

(tentative and then

sure)

Yes. Yes!

Lestat embraces Louis obscuring his face. HEARTBEAT growsLOUDER. DRUMBEAT comes, OUT OF SYNC, but almost together.

LOUIS'S POV

The moon, the clouds, the sky, and fragments of earliervisions, blurred figures are glimpsed, with earlier dreamimages. LAUGHTER and MUSIC rise and fall under the

UNSYNCHRONIZED SLOWING BEAT of the HEART and the DRUM.

BACK TO SCENE:

Lestat lets Louis fall down beside the broken crypt.

(CONTINUED)

17.

CONTINUED:

Lestat stands over him, once again radiant. Lestat speaksgently.

LESTAT:

You may go now.

Lestat lifts his hand to his lips and blows Louis a kiss.

LOUIS:

No! No, give it to me.

Lestat lifts his own right wrist to his teeth. Fangsslash his own flesh, blood falls. Louis rises to receive

the first drops into his open mouth. Lestat gathers himup, as Louis clamps his hand on Lestat's arm and sucksfrom the wrist.

HEARTBEAT AND DRUMBEAT are SYNCHRONIZED and grow STRONGERand pick up speed.

Louis is released. Staggers.

VAMPIRE VISION:

The world around him (and the look of the film) is transformed;

the swamp, the CRY of the night BIRDS, the moon,

the clouds, all reflect his heightened vision. He looks

down in pity on the rotted woman and infant who appear toglitter and to be beautiful rather than repulsive. He

closes the lid of the coffin, astonished at the ease of

it. Then lifts the entire coffin and returns it to its

slot in the crypt.

He turns and stares at Lestat whom he sees now with a

vampire's vision. Lestat's eyes are brighter. His

buttons are glimmering in the light.

Everything is clearer, brighter, containing more facetsof light and color.

LESTAT:

(lighthearted)

Stop staring at my buttons.

Didn't I tell you it was going to

be fun? But we've work to do.

Lestat leads him into the swamp. Tiny CREATURES move orSING everywhere; leaves move as if growing before Louis's

eyes. The water makes myriad OVERLAPPING sounds, and hecan see deep into it, to the creatures swimming in thedepths.

(CONTINUED)

18.

CONTINUED:

Louis stops, hand going around his waist as he feels acramp of pain.

LESTAT:

Your body's dying, pay noattention. It will take twentyminutes at most.

Louis is horrified, but the beauty of moon flowers andbanana trees continues to distract him. The sky isviolet, flooded with luminosity. Again he feels pain.

LESTAT:

Come, you're going to feed now.

LOUIS:

I want a woman.

Lestat laughs and the laughter echoes like bells inLouis's ears.

LESTAT:

That doesn't matter anymore,

Louis. You'll see. Come...

LOUIS'S DAZZLED POV - SWAMP

Small high ground. Camp of runaway slaves. Several share

a bottle of rum around the fire. Male slave rises, a

gorgeous hunk of flesh in the firelight, simply beautiful(Razor Rudduck) and goes into swamp to relieve hisbladder.

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