#le théâtre des vampires

[goliath-birdeater]

i'm sorry for the person i will be when season 2 comes out

[elilmwenseni27]

He is so cute in this play! As always actually ^^

Assad Zaman & Georgia Landers as Florizel and Perdita in RSC’s 2021 production of The Winter’s Tale

[apoptoses]

Armand, Haussmann, and Paris:

The thing about Paris that's not really discussed in the VC books themselves is the Haussmann project.

In 1853 Napoleon III commissioned Haussman to completely renovate Paris. The plan was to tear down all of the old structures and rebuild the city; reorganizing the streets and reshaping them to accommodate more green spaces, and replacing smaller buildings with taller apartment blocks in more uniform style.

The Paris Armand knew when he arrived as the coven master and which he came to know as the theater leader would have looked something like this:

Dark, winding streets leading off wide boulevards and short, leaning buildings.

The Haussman project would see all of these places systematically torn down, occupants removed to other areas of the city while new buildings were put in their place. In some areas workers were destroying and rebuilding things 24 hours a day.

At this time Armand would have been living at the theater on the boulevard du Temple, Paris's street of theaters:

This dagguerotype shows the boulevard in 1838. This painting, in 1862, looks much the same:

But by 1863 all but one theater on the street had been destroyed, and that was only because that theater was on the opposite side of the street shown in the painting. How and why it wasn't pulled down, I don't know- no information on it seems to exist, just like no explanation for the very small handful of other old structures that were left untouched.

That theater, the Théâtre Déjazet, still exists today. But it was established in 1770 by Comte de Artois, so while it could have been Anne's inspiration for Armand's theater it's not the 'rickety wooden rat trap' that seats 300 that Lestat describes in TVL.

Anyways, knowing all of this, I think it makes even more sense why Armand so quickly grabbed onto Louis and was ready to run away with him at any cost.

Armand, who'd been kidnapped from the monks, who'd had his palazzo torn out from under him, who'd established something of an existence under Les Innocents and was then ripped out of that world when the cemetery was destroyed. Who was watching the city he'd finally come to know get systematically torn apart. Everything that was familiar to him was being taken again.

So why not let Louis burn the theater? He arrived in Paris in 1870, just as Haussman was dismissed. But the work of destroying and rebuilding Paris was set to carry on. Chances were the Theatre de Vampires would be next, and if that were the case there's no way the crypts beneath the place would remain safe and undiscovered.

And if he'd stayed where would they go during the renovation? What would they do? What would the point be in continuing trying to run a coven he was bored of and a life he didn't care for in a new location?

Armand was going to have to begin again somewhere- better that be with Louis, out in the world, than roaming a now unfamiliar Paris. And even though he didn't burn the theater himself, allowing/instigating Louis to do it still gave him more control than letting a stranger come in at some unpredictable moment to demolish things all over again.

(And what of Lestat, what does he feel about these changes? He never could have shown Louis the Paris he knew and loved, which existed when Louis was still mortal- that Paris was largely gone)

Chances were Anne might not have known most of this at the time she wrote interview or even TVL. But I think it still makes a lot of sense and brings up a point about Armand and immortality that I don't see brought up much- that not only do vampires lose every mortal they've ever known, but with time they also see the destruction of every place they've ever known or loved.

(ps: I'm not an expert on this topic or anything, so if anyone does know why some buildings were unchanged or has any interesting historical info to add by all means please, reblog and add it on!)

[fuzziiwuzzii]

Le Théâtre des Vampires présente:

Claudia as Baby Lou Lou!

[obaaaa]

Bienvenue à le Théâtre des Vampire

Motion poster by Arsonal Design

[rocketrouquine]

Not to be harsh or anything but which part of France are you from ? because the accent must be insane if your French is worse than theirs 😂

For Sam, I get that he is Australian and that it must be tough, but his french was incomprehensible without subtitles. I concede that Assad was immaculate for a non speaker, though ; but since Armand is not supposed to be French, that his pronunciation and understanding of the language was infinitely better than Lestat’s and Nicky’s was cringe AF.

Roxane (Madeleine) IS French so no qualm here (but the difference with the others in scenes in french was made all the more flagrant : the one with her aggressors for example) ; all the extras in the second season were atrocious and pissed me off personally : it’s really not difficult to get a native for a small speaking part, I hate when they do that, it takes me out of the story 😒 I mean, the killed gendarmes in episode 2 and 8 were clearly French so proof it is possible.

Sorry, nothing against you or anything but no, butchering was clearly made.

btw I’m french and it really warmed my heart when I heard the characters of iwtv speaking french without butchering tf out of it lmaoo . I think that their french is better than mine lol

[ileftmysoulinnorway]

We all had a tough end of the week, so I thought I would put together something about my IWTV set lurking experience in Prague, hopefully to cheer someone up and show you that the people working on our little show are incredible, everything is well thought out, and we have a lot to look forward to.

Locations

I am confident that Prague will be a good substitute for Paris. I love this post comparing Prague's Théâtre des Vampires location with a real Le Grand Guignol in Paris. But similar care is given to other locations as well.

I like to joke that I enjoyed a month-long tour of Prague's most famous landmarks, only to have the actual filming take place in nondescript alleyways right next to them. But it makes perfect sense. They want to capture the nicer and older parts of the city that suit them, but not anything that would tell you it's Prague.

Production design, costumes

I saw them build everything from scratch on several sets. And I'm in awe. From putting up posters that will probably only appear in the background of a single shot, to street names that fit the exact topography of Paris and make sense in the context of the scenes that take place on them, to storefronts that they really didn't have to pay that much attention to, or a menu at Le Dakar Café that you could only read up close, but someone took the trouble to make it anyway?

And maybe this attention to detail is normal, I don't know, but I still think Mara and her team deserve all the praise they get.

S1 showed us how much attention is paid to the costumes. I can assure you that has not changed. All the hats, coats, capes and dresses. I can't tell you how many times I've been pleasantly surprised. By the choice of colors for Lestat. By how beautifully all of Armand's black clothes come to life with little details.

People

There are so many people (and I mean SO many) working on the show and they all know exactly what is expected of them, everything runs like a well-oiled machine. I haven't seen any problems, any conflicts, any excesses.

I'm not under any illusion that everything was trouble-free, but really the only complaints I heard were about the horrendously hellish schedule (I guess that's normal) and then the occasional person wishing they had finished earlier (they never finished earlier).

They are all heroes to me.

Directors

Levan is the only one I saw. He seems so focused and professional. His "rolling...and action" is unforgettable.

Actors

After six locations and about fifteen scenes (and countless rehearsals and takes), I think I managed to get at least some idea of them, and yes, they really seem to be such nice people.

- Jacob, I don't envy him at all the emotional strain of playing Louis, but at the same time I love his portrait of Louis so much.

- Sam's transformation into Lestat is something to behold.

- Assad was the only one present on every set. I don't think we've fully realized how big a role he's going to have (at least in S2).

- Delainey, Ben, Roxane and everyone else 💜

Scenes

They were far from finished when the strike started, but at least (in my opinion) they got to the last block of episodes. 

I'm not going to pretend to have a concrete idea of what to expect from S2 based on what little I saw. But I do have a few guesses, and I'm insanely excited and thrilled. And, in the case of the 1700s flashbacks, totally confused. I can't believe they're going to do so many unexpected things, or other things so soon.

I truly believe that S2 will not disappoint any of us. We just have to wait a little longer. But if this strike means that everyone gets a better deal and the studios are forced to change their ways, it will be worth the wait.

[greedandenby]

Transcript of the French dialogue in IWTV S2 Ep4 - "I Want You More Than Anything in the World"

Aftershow discussion:

Eglee: Qu’est-ce que tu penses faire ?... Remets tes miches dans ton bloomer, salope !

Claudia invites Madeleine to the show (I kept in the English here, for more fluidity):

Claudia: You sold me a dress. Dans ta boutique. Une soie lavande. Très chic.

Madeleine: Ouais, tu m’avais trop payée. Avec des billets froissés, des boucles d’oreille pleines de sang… Comme si elles avaient été arrachées des lobes.

Claudia: Pas le souvenir que ça t’ait gênée.

Madeleine: Ton corps était pas encore formé mais ton esprit déjà sophistiqué. Et puis tu souriais pas.

Claudia: Funny, you made no impression on me at all.

Madeleine: I liked you. What, you moved on from pickpocket? You’re clowning now?

Claudia: I’m an actress now.

Madeleine: Ah, okay. Théâtre des Vampires ? I’ve seen this show. A divertissement.

Claudia: Still dressing your windows for your German tourists?

Madeleine: Your French is still ugly, like your doll outfit.

Claudia: I agree. I just wouldn’t say it cause it’s rude and obvious.

Madeleine: … Merci !

"Je n’aime pas fenêtres quand fermées" song:

[Side note: in French this should in fact be "Je n’aime pas les fenêtres quand elles sont fermées", but let’s let this one slide… poetic licence or something]

Je n’aime pas fenêtres quand fermées

Le vent sauvage (est doux ?? – not sure about that one, the French accent is horrendous... Sorry...), je veux voler

Arcs-en-ciel, arbres et abeilles

Non, je n’aime pas fenêtres quand fermées

Elle n’aime pas fenêtres quand fermées

At the museum:

Guard: Monsieur, vous ne pouvez pas être…

Armand: Rest… Merci.

Guard: Qui êtes-vous ? Qui vous a autorisé… ?

[Side note for one of the terms in Claudia and Madeleine’s discussion, which was erroneously transcribed as "flag it out" in the subtitles:

At one point Madeleine says : Go bang, or go flagada, or go cold.

This is a French informal term that means "shattered, knackered, beat".]

[Side note number 2, because I’m a stickler for linguistics. During Louis and Lestat’s conversation on the bench, Louis asks Lestat to say "apple" in French. Lestat answers "la pomme", which is, in fact, not exactly the way a French speaker would answer. We’d just say "pomme", the way an English speaker would simply answer "apple" rather than "the apple".]

That's it for this fabulous episode! I doubt there'll be much French in the next one, but who knows! See ya next week, maybe!

Episode 2 here

Episode 3 here

[unmechanism]

I listened yesterday evening to a 1965 radio adaptation of Dracula from Le Théâtre de l'Étrange a French radio show on the France Inter station. It was terrible for a plethora of reasons but I decided to compile some of the worst ones here :

everyone is either moaning or screaming, the women are moaning all the time, at every single occasions and threatening to scream nearly as much, and everyone's screaming is freakishly long

They all pronounce Jonathan's name as Jonathan HarPer for some unknown reason

And to be fair, it doesn't rlly matter cause he just dies at castle Dracula after being there for two days at most, killed by the three brides just before the count leaves Transylvania

Lucy is both Hawkins' daughter (yes, she is called Lucy Hawkins) and Jonathan's fiancée (guess it doesn't matter all that much that he dies cause she dies as well so who cares??)

Mina is married to Quincey Morris (don't ask)

Renfield dies impaled on a metal gate while trying to go find Dracula at his London house

Van Helsing does not exist, he just doesn't, Seward just randomly knows about vampires, from like, reading a book

Dracula has insanely rapey vibes, but both Mina and Lucy seem unable to resist him at some point and the whole thing is made very sensual, moany and weird, especially Lucy's death

Mina gets her scar while Seward and Quincey are fighting Dracula in his London crypt, and apparently she keeps it cause it's never mentioned again

Jonathan supposedly becomes a vampire, the three brides and him are alive and well in Transylvania probably, it does not matter at all to the story

Arthur does not exist (what would be the point ? Lucy's with Jonathan anyway)

Quincey survives the final fight, but has to talk about how he's frightened 70% of the time for no actual reason, I'm pretty sure he's not American and in this adaptation he's a journalist

there's definitely more I can't remember just now, but believe me when I tell you that I was seething

if you wanna listen to it, the whole thing is on YouTube, it's fairly short but I'll be honest and tell you that it is not worth it

[aiglesperch]

French from Interview with the Vampire - Part 3

Back for an early post, enjoy!

--- Season 2 ---

"Désolé, on fermée" - Sorry, I'm closed (Madeleine)

PS - It's actually "Sorry, we're closed"

"Pas de soucis. Je ne serai pas long" - Don't worry. I won't be long. (Claudia)

PS - It's again... actually "I won't take long"

"Fais attention, c'est une robe en soie. Une goutte d'eau pourrait la tâcher." - Be careful, it's a silk dress. A drop of water could stain it. (Madeleine)

"Parfait pour une femme, non?" - Perfect for a woman, right? (Claudia)

"Mademoiselle, je ne peux pas te laisser jouer à 'se déguisér' ici." - Miss, I can't let you play 'dress-up' here (Madeleine)

"Vous pourriez l'accepter." - You could take it in. (Claudia)

PS - It's "You could accept it"

Le malheureux Bûcheron - The Unfortunate Lumberjack / Woodcutter (Title board at Théâtre des Vampires)

"Toi là ! Vous êtes qui?" - You there! Who are you? (Gendarme at De La Croix estate)

"Une union d'amis et d'associés." - A gathering of like friends and business associates (Armand)

"Vous n'avez pas la permission." - You don't have permission. (Gendarme at De La Croix estate)

"On n'a pas besoin de permission." - We don't need permission (Armand)

[gr4yk]

Loving how intrinsically flawed, jaded and fucked up everyone is in our favorite little toxic gay vampire show. I love how there's nuance to every single character.

Lestat, abuser and manipulator, has it in him to apologize so deeply to Louis and confess his own mistakes to the world, then has it in him to immediately recover and watch Claudia die.

Armand, orchestrator and planner, fails time after time because he's not good at it, but still held power for as long as he did - both over Le Théâtre de Vampire and Louis.

Louis, the angry maddened doll so very desperately desires control over himself, others and his own story, remembers a more self-satisfying version of a whole bunch of events just for himself, yet has it in him to try and break free of it and explicitly tell Daniel " you should go with Lestat's version" when unveiled.

Vicious, deadly, wronged Claudia with a desire to become someone's number one still cares for Louis and still speaks for him during the trial- and when she finds her own number one, she holds her tight as they die together.

And Daniel Molloy, bad-relationship-haver and deeply traumatized from his encounter with Armand and Louis, can slap a vampire in spite of his power display, can mock him and even go so far as to belittle his story or decide there was a different point to it, yet he still helps Louis recover his memories. He still strives for truth and has their stupid little charade all fathomed out, remaining unsurprised every time Louis goes through an "oh shit that's not how it happened" moment.

Madeleine has no problem killing people, she's been through a lot, but her love for Claudia rings sincere and she is, as she herself said, truly what the other needed, choosing Claudia and death over the coven and life.

You can make an argument for every single one of them being a terrible person, but you can't deny that even if only in the form of a barely significant speck, they carry a profound goodness in them. It's just not enough to amend for the terrible things in some cases, or just enough for an equilibrium in others.

[azamansource]

le théâtre des vampires

[psychicfacestarlight]

Observaciones De Interview with the Vampire- Les Théâtres de Vampires- Sam

3. Cuando están en la cena en un restaurante todo el aquelarre del teatro y Louis le esta hablando muy alegremente con Claudia, hay una parte donde llega Sam el vampiro y otro le dice que ya van varias veces que llega tarde y Sam dice que no volverá pasar o algo así. Supongo que en ese tiempo ya trabaja para Talamasca, pero me pregunto que trabajo estaba haciendo para que llegara tarde? Y como también fue que supo que no tenía que estar la noche que Louis iba a quemar el teatro?

[k-hippie]

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Once again, sorry for the inconvenient. All files should be ok now, and oh ! one last detail ... Have Fun ! \o/

Blackgryffin

[girderednerve]

history details from vampire show i am thinking about

they changed louis' family business from indigo to sugar; i assume this is because synthetic indigo was available from the 1880s on, so the market for natural indigo crashed badly, but they wanted to preserve both louis' affluence & his family connection to the cash crops of the louisiana plantation. they could've gone with rice, i guess? but that doesn't have the same evocativeness, i think. like everyone heard that line ("capital accrued from plantations of sugar and the blood of men who looked like my great grandfather but did not have his standing") & had an instant image, right? rice doesn't have the same legacy, although it could've been interesting (started as a more incidental crop, then became a major commercial product in the latter 19th c.; actually, rice became a commercial crop after railroad construction in 1882, the same year indigo dye was synthesized)

i have probably said this before but i like that louis works in, loosely, the vice business; it leaves him with some interesting moral problems, i think. i hate the way that he talks about the enslaved people in his household (& elsewhere) in the books; i hate the terrible line in the '94 movie where he's burning down the plantation house & telling the group of enslaved people gathered at the doors that they're free (oh! will that do anything! well! no worries as long as you & by extension we don't have to feel bad about it!); but there are parts of that relationship to other people, as a business proprietor with immense control over their working conditions, that have to do with the compromises he ends up making about his own capacity for violence & predation. mostly this bullet point is about how much i hate that line in the movie, though

the shot on the street in front of his paris apartment with armand, where they kiss for the first time & there's a sign behind them for 'le dakar.' i have googled around for this & turned up nothing, so it is at least probably not a famous landmark? i might be stupid? but dakar is the capital of senegal, & one of its districts is the île de gorée, one of the most famous departure ports for the middle passage (this legacy was plausibly exaggerated for tourism reasons, per wikipedia? apparently sparked after the tv show roots, so probably familiar to american audiences? there is an internationally famous memorial to the victims of slavery there). there's a resonance there about journeys, departures, agency, memory; it's a lovely, well-lit scene. i'm not making a claim in particular & of course there are lots of other things that happened & are happening in dakar, i just thought about it

delighted by louis' delight in the modern, particularly photography. still gnawing on this one. but if we want to be nice, it's something he might share with lestat ("siri pause" lol) or something that armand enjoys (being rooted in the present, right). it's also a neat little reflection on artistic arguments about truth; probably there's something going on with the style of theater in the théâtre too? i don't know anything about postwar french theater but that sounds like it might be true? but anyway here we are, is a photograph art, is a photograph true; is this interview an admitted performance, is this interview true. especially after louis got caught in a lie in romania because of his albumen photograph. layers, we love them

[philoursmars]

J'interromps les posts sur mon voyage en Sicile avec Christine:

Hier lundi 25 Novembre, l'Atelier du Tigre (dont je fais partie) joua "Les Femmes Savantes" de Molière au Théâtre Municipal de Douai.

Dans les loges et au maquillage : Alain en vampir..., en Trissotin !, maquillé par Audrey. Puis Laurent et Julien. Enfin Aurélien qui reçoit des fleurs, non pas de Benji (le maître de la technique) comme on pourrait le penser sur ces 2 photos !