I adore Claudia's character personally in the 2022 Anne Rice's IWTV. She was easily the most likeable in the vampire family to me. I love Louis but he failed her so horribly. If he was going to become a father he should've done it right. To me, she's actually the most sane family member amongst them. 2022 Claudia is like one of the most iconic vampires in media Claudia's character is really tragic but she's very similar to Lestat and I find it odd how she's kinda being villainised and unnecesarily hated in fandom when this is very much a story without heros/villains. They're all really messed up vampires who eat people to survive. Claudia's relationship with her parents in death to me is quite an interesting exploration of convulated dynamics in the mordern nuclear family. The housewife, the mistake, and the husband. Her and Louis plotting the 'abusive father/husbands' murder to be free of him is perfect. And I love her cunning and manipulation rivaling Lestat's and besting him. The only thing saving him being that Louis does love him and can't let go. I also have issues with her assault being used as a character developing moment as rolin jones put it and loss of innocence as you put it. i dont think being victimised is the thing that would give Claudia empathy after she's been a victim of abuse in her former household and psychological abuse in her new home. Claudia's growth would've happened w/o that SA scene but maybe that's another issue. I'd love to see more of her in season 2 and even more.
That's a good point, maybe if the creators had shown how bad her life was before she was turned into a vampire, we would have a little bit of empathy for her. I wasn't a big Claudia fan from the start, but she did grow on me.
I really enjoyed this analysis. When reading the books I struggled to understand Claudia's POV. However now as an older woman I understand her agony of being a woman bound in a child's form and tormented by this truth she acts with the tools available to her i.e. as a child with a supernatural bloodlust and rage. I am hopeful in the future we will get to see her confronted with more truths and opportunities to change herself little by little. Loved the video!
True. Especially when you consider the fact that in the book she’s like three years old. She will always look like a toddler. She can’t ever live on her own even as a vampire. Can you imagine facing immortality knowing you will always have to have somebody helping you. To me she’s one on the saddest characters in the series.
@@leahhart3585ot to mention she will NEVER have a night life scene like the adult vampires do. I would literally fucking kill myself if I spent eternity as a child. Same goes with the series version of Claudia too. Stuck forever in the body and hormonal state of a young teen girl. Which is *VERY* hormonal if I might add.
I really dont feel like claudia is a sociopath, imo shes just a child who is horribly traumatised and trying not to be left by louis, someone she loves whos a parental figure to her.
One correction i want to make about what you said about narcissists and sociapaths having no empathy is incorrect. They have empathy but it is extremely limited. Much lower than the average person but it is still there.
There is a huge Creole population in New Orleans. In the movie, Louis does say that he is Creole, and Creoles are mixed race black/white. I am not a big fan of forced diversity, but I like this version of Interview with the Vampire. I also like the movie as well. Hell, I am just a die hard vampire fan.
@@moviemystic999 Sure, but according to the book, the source material, Louis is from France, born in the 18th century in a Roman Catholic family, a family that immigrants to America and he is a rich plantation owner. I like the book, and I also like movies about vampires, but this change of race and change in the source material is something that is suddenly done in so many movies... Like that black mermaid Ariel, which is in fact a daughter of a greek god of the ocean etc...
@@ozymandiasultor9480 Yeah, race swapping is done in a lot of movies. I don't really get into all that. It makes people go crazy on UA-cam. I don't like the vibe. I am a mystic and everyone is my brother and sister. I see character, talent, and write about things that resonate with me.
I adore Claudia's character personally in the 2022 Anne Rice's IWTV. She was easily the most likeable in the vampire family to me. I love Louis but he failed her so horribly. If he was going to become a father he should've done it right. To me, she's actually the most sane family member amongst them. 2022 Claudia is like one of the most iconic vampires in media
Claudia's character is really tragic but she's very similar to Lestat and I find it odd how she's kinda being villainised and unnecesarily hated in fandom when this is very much a story without heros/villains. They're all really messed up vampires who eat people to survive. Claudia's relationship with her parents in death to me is quite an interesting exploration of convulated dynamics in the mordern nuclear family. The housewife, the mistake, and the husband. Her and Louis plotting the 'abusive father/husbands' murder to be free of him is perfect. And I love her cunning and manipulation rivaling Lestat's and besting him. The only thing saving him being that Louis does love him and can't let go.
I also have issues with her assault being used as a character developing moment as rolin jones put it and loss of innocence as you put it. i dont think being victimised is the thing that would give Claudia empathy after she's been a victim of abuse in her former household and psychological abuse in her new home. Claudia's growth would've happened w/o that SA scene but maybe that's another issue.
I'd love to see more of her in season 2 and even more.
That's a good point, maybe if the creators had shown how bad her life was before she was turned into a vampire, we would have a little bit of empathy for her. I wasn't a big Claudia fan from the start, but she did grow on me.
I actually liked Claudia later on in the series. You see her cunning and manipulation which you see later on in the Anne Rice books (eg Merrick)
I really enjoyed this analysis. When reading the books I struggled to understand Claudia's POV. However now as an older woman I understand her agony of being a woman bound in a child's form and tormented by this truth she acts with the tools available to her i.e. as a child with a supernatural bloodlust and rage. I am hopeful in the future we will get to see her confronted with more truths and opportunities to change herself little by little. Loved the video!
True. Especially when you consider the fact that in the book she’s like three years old. She will always look like a toddler. She can’t ever live on her own even as a vampire. Can you imagine facing immortality knowing you will always have to have somebody helping you. To me she’s one on the saddest characters in the series.
@@leahhart3585ot to mention she will NEVER have a night life scene like the adult vampires do. I would literally fucking kill myself if I spent eternity as a child. Same goes with the series version of Claudia too. Stuck forever in the body and hormonal state of a young teen girl. Which is *VERY* hormonal if I might add.
Kirsten Dunst was a tween (12 years old) when she played Claudia in the movie and it came out in 1994 not 1992
Thank you for the correction.
Both the movie and the series, do not explore the hidden subtext of parent child incest in the relationship of Claudia and Louis.
I didn't think about it that way.
I really dont feel like claudia is a sociopath, imo shes just a child who is horribly traumatised and trying not to be left by louis, someone she loves whos a parental figure to her.
Interesting, but Claudia is beyond human psychology.
One correction i want to make about what you said about narcissists and sociapaths having no empathy is incorrect. They have empathy but it is extremely limited. Much lower than the average person but it is still there.
I can’t think past the book.
I like your video, but it sounds like you're saying 'socialpath'..
Yeah, I picked that up, after I recorded everything. LOL
In the series Louis de Pointe du Lac is black, and Claudia is black too... I wonder why the race of characters was changed...
There is a huge Creole population in New Orleans. In the movie, Louis does say that he is Creole, and Creoles are mixed race black/white. I am not a big fan of forced diversity, but I like this version of Interview with the Vampire. I also like the movie as well. Hell, I am just a die hard vampire fan.
@@moviemystic999 Sure, but according to the book, the source material, Louis is from France, born in the 18th century in a Roman Catholic family, a family that immigrants to America and he is a rich plantation owner. I like the book, and I also like movies about vampires, but this change of race and change in the source material is something that is suddenly done in so many movies... Like that black mermaid Ariel, which is in fact a daughter of a greek god of the ocean etc...
@@ozymandiasultor9480 Yeah, race swapping is done in a lot of movies. I don't really get into all that. It makes people go crazy on UA-cam. I don't like the vibe. I am a mystic and everyone is my brother and sister. I see character, talent, and write about things that resonate with me.
Can you do one on Akasha?
I have to see if I have enough source material. I think she is only in one movie.