#the cinematography is on point

[pr1ncessasuke]

Ping Pong the Animation sketch bc I just finished it today and it touched my heart 💗

[mumblesplash]

comics as an art form make me insane. they’re so difficult to do well. there’s so many different ways to make sequential art work and most of them are deeply unintuitive. onomatopoeia that feels completely ridiculous to put down often reads seamlessly. panels on a page become a fractally nested image composition challenge that’s only possible to lose because if you do a good job no one will notice. you have to direct the readers’ eyes on a specific path across the page but also account for the fact that they won’t follow it. comic time isn’t linear. if the order of events isn’t crystal clear the story becomes incomprehensible. sometimes you need to do this on purpose. all this for a medium almost universally considered less effective than animation and less respectable than plain text. even its own name doesn’t take it seriously

[homosexualslug]

realized that both the beginning and the end of the happy paris stage of Loumand's relationship has this same contrasting orange to blue/green color scheme. and like. the visual metaphor of Armand literally leaving his cold, lifeless world behind him and choosing the bright, golden warmth of life with Louis instead of killing him like he was supposed to in that tunnel. but as soon as he chooses the coven over Louis, he separates from the warmth like oil in water that was never supposed to be there. and now he's back out in the cold. I'm normal about this, btw.

[moonspirit]

"The outside world must be ten times bigger than inside the walls!"

"The burning water..."

"The plains of ice..."

"The ocean..."

"And the fields of sands..."

"Eren, someday I hope we get to explore the outside world."

[mikimeiko]

The Fall of the House of Usher | Miniseries (2023), Mike Flanagan

[noahsartt]

Tom Cruise & Brad Pitt in Interview with the Vampire (1994) dir. Neil Jordan

[axgape]

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

travel in postworld by 很烦

[insanity-laughs-under-pressure]

[mapofthedreams]

Beauty of Interview With the Vampire.

(also here ✨️)

[escapismthroughfilm]

⋆˚ ｡⋆Interview with the Vampire (1994) dir. Neil Jordan⋆˚｡⋆

[esqueletosgays]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (1994)

Director: Neil Jordan Cinematography: Philippe Rousselot

[portraitoflestatonfire]

Dissolves in Interview with the Vampire 1.01, "In Throes of Increasing Wonder" dir. Alan Taylor (1/7)

[catwouthats]

The fact that usually electricity and sparks represent love

And we got this. Showing how scared Loki is of Intimacy and how much Mobius craves it (and they drift closer to each other)

[queenoftheimps]

OK, so genuine question that I hope the show answers:

When did Armand decide to ditch the coven?

On one end, we have the trial & executions (Armand sells out Louis for the coven). On the other end, we have Louis burning down the theater (Armand sells out the coven for Louis). Somewhere in there, he swaps allegiances. When? Why?

I'm gonna be honest: the only thing I did believe Armand was responsible for was persuading the coven to banish Louis. It would have aligned neatly with the idea that he wanted Louis to burn down the coven and no longer have Claudia tying him down.

It works that way in the books and the 1994 movie -- Louis gets buried alive, but Armand plays the hero and rescues him. ...except in both those versions, Armand rescues Louis basically right away. Not the days-long starvation process shown here.

Armand seems to imply he changed sympathies because he heard Louis screaming and couldn't bear it -- but Louis immediately refutes it, because he was too starved to have the energy for it. To me, Louis sounds like he's telling the truth here.

So...when does the change happen? Why does Armand change his mind?

Is it because he hates being Santiago's underling? Does he hate the change in status enough to swap alliances?

Or did he plan this in advance...but was relying on Lestat to rescue Louis, rather than himself? That seems shaky, though, because he'd have been screwed if Lestat had refuted him when they confronted him.

I honestly am not sure, but I suspect we're getting Lestat's POV of the trial next season, since there's still plenty of information we still need explained (like why Lestat was in Paris and involved in the first place -- I know what the book reasons are, but the show's doing its own thing, so who knows).

[greedandenby]

Reflection shots in Interview with the Vampire Season 2.

Episodes 5 & 6: Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape (dir. Craig Zisk) & Like the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light (dir. Emma Freeman).