Cruise vs. Townsend: Battle of Lestats

[Forsaken Lover]

To start off, we really must compare the films they starred in.

Interview with the Vampire was an overall faithful adaptation of a geat book and it made an excellent film.
Queen of the Damned sucked donkey balls.

Then we must compare how they looked.

Cruise looked like Lestat.
Townsend looked like somebody. Not Lestat.

Then how well did they capture their personalities?
Cruise was both cruel and classy...like Lestat in the book. But he was also vulnerable and alone...again like in the book. His relationship with Louis is ambiguous but it's obvious at least that, like in the book, lestat deeply loved the man as a companion and friend.

Townsend is in love with Jessie in the movies...that's not in the book. So again he's playing someone else, not Lestat.

Overall we must conclude Cruise is better as a vampire in every way possible. In fact every actor in Interview was better. Pitt captured Louis' despair. Dunst radiated Claudia's demonic nature....

So this ends my impartial analysis.

What do you all think?

We'll now end this fair and balanced comparison with a Lestat scene from interview.with the Vampire.
YouTube - Interview with the vampire - Lestat and Louie arguing

[IronOcean]

in the two books Lestat is taken from two diffrent stands. Lestat even says that this will be from his point of veiw not louis and louis exagerated him.

Now with that said townsend tried to do that and didnt. :chuckle:



Cruise wins

[Forsaken Lover]

Well it's all hearsay. Sure Lestat says Louis exaggerated...but iit's not like Lestat has no ego. Everyone is biased to some extent. So Lestat could have been talking himself up just as much as Louis talked him down.

Which makes the Vampire Chronicles an interesting read I think. Everything is subjective.

[IronOcean]

fantastc point and lestat is such a crazed egomaniac that he could have just not liked what lestat said and wanted his own words, and then look what happened he kept writing and took it to far mmmmm they are deliclious you could be my new best friend on the topic

[Breine]

Tom Cruise clearly did a better job than Stuart Townsend. Also, Interview With A Vampire was much much better than Queen Of The Damned.