Discussion - Villains and heros.

Dude, i'm already going to have a ton of books on my list. my favourite writers have been very, very busy since I last got to buy any large number of books. XD

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"i have killed many in my life."
Justin.
(Quote taken out of context)

I plan on checking out the first book in that series in January once the holiday season is over and I have money.

Now, I posted about Lestat before but my comp froze up and didn't post it. So, let me try and redo it...

Kat told me to "elaborate" on my random shouting of "Lestat".

But, really, that's all there needs to be said - for there is no other character I've ever seen be sympathetically a hero, yet at the same time so agonizingly a villain.

Narcissistic, cynical...Lestat. It all depends, really, on the narrator of the book.

If you take Interview with the Vampire for example...narrated by Louis. Our first portrait of Lestat is painted in this book - vain, cold...a villain. The antagonist. We hate him and what he stands for - he took poor Louie's life away and turned him into an abominable vampire...never again to see the light of day, never again to breathe air as a human...

Then, we transition...to The Vampire Lestat, narrated by Lestat himself. The first portrait is torn, ripped into shambles and burnt...a new one is created. We almost sympathize for Lestat...such a tragic history, tossed into the world as a vampire unsure of how to go along in (un)life, as his sire burnt himself alive quite soon into their relationship, amongst other tragedies. Falling in love with ones own mother...

He could be, in essence - both, or neither. There are three sides to every story. In this, we have Lestat's, Louie's, and the truth.

As there was never a book in the Vampire Chronicles written without a biased first person narrator - we will never know the truth.

Is Lestat a hero, or is he a villain?

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"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster...when you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes back." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Since I've only seen the movie "Interview with the Vampire" I'm going to say villian.Lestat was a jerk in that movie (and played by Tom Cruise). Although his unwillingness to stay dead was somewhat admirable.

Well the movie isn't anything to go by. It's not horribly unfaithful but, like I said, Interview was narrated by Louis. The others paint Lestat in a different light, it really depends on the book and who's narrating it.

However, Tom Cruise did an amazing job.

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"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster...when you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes back." - Friedrich Nietzsche