MALLOY<o:p></o:p>
How did you do that?<o:p></o:p>
LOUIS <o:p></o:p>
The same way you do it. A series of simple gestures. Only I moved too fast for you to see. I'm flesh and blood, you see. But not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years.<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p>
LOUIS<o:p></o:p>
What can I do to put you at ease? Shall we begin like David Copperfield? I am born, I grow up. Or shall we begin when I was born to darkness, as I call it. That's really where we should start, don't you think?
LOUIS<o:p></o:p>
LOUIS (V.O.)<o:p></o:p>
I was twenty-four and life seemed finished. I couldn't bear the pain of their loss. I longed for a release from it.
LOUIS (V.O.)<o:p></o:p>
Most of all I longed for death. I know that now. I invited it, a release from the pain of living...<o:p></o:p>
LOUIS (V.O.)<o:p></o:p>
I wanted to lose everything. My wealth, my estate, my sanity.
LOUIS<o:p></o:p>
Then do me a favor. Get rid of this piece of shit...The Gambler's finger on the trigger. His hand shakes.<o:p></o:p>
LOUIS<o:p></o:p>
You lack the courage of your convictions, sir. Do it.<o:p></o:p>
My invitation was open to anyone. Sailors, thieves, whores and slaves...<o:p></o:p>
LESTAT<o:p></o:p>
You want death? Is it death you want?<o:p></o:p>
LESTAT<o:p></o:p>
You still want death? Or have you tasted it enough?<o:p></o:p>
LOUIS<o:p></o:p>
Who the hell are you? What are you doing in my house?<o:p></o:p>
LESTAT<o:p></o:p>
Life has no meaning anymore....does it ? The wine has no taste. The food sickens you. There seems no reason for any of it...does there? What if I could gei it back to you? <o:p></o:p>
Pluck out the pain....and give you another life? One you could never imagine <o:p></o:p>
And it would be ....for all time. And sickness...and death could neve touch you again <o:p></o:p>
Don"t be afraid .. I"m going to give you the choice ... <o:p></o:p>
I.....never had<o:p></o:p>
LOUIS (V.O.)
Killing is no ordinary act. It is the experience of another's life for certain. That night I had lost my own life and taken another's. I was drowning in a sea of human guilt and regret, with all the heightened senses of a vampire...
LESTAT
Give it time. You're like a man who loses a limb and still imagines he feels pain. It will pass. And we must sleep now. I can feel the sun approaching.
LESTAT
Don't be afraid. In moments you'll be sleeping as soundly as you ever slept. And when you awake I'll be waiting for you, and so will all the world.
LOUIS (V.O.)
I awoke the next evening to a different world. And I realized there are as profound differences between vampires as between human beings...
LOUIS (V.O.)
It was only as a vampire that I could see Yvette's beauty. Her fear of me increased my desire.
LESTAT
Anything is possible. But just try it for a week. Come into New Orleans and let me show you some real sport!
TERESA
Come on, mon cher. The best in the colony. Once you touch this you'll never go to any other tavern again.<o:p></o:p>
LESTAT
You think so, cherie? But what if I'd rather taste your lips?
LESTAT
The dark gift is different for each of us. But one thing is true of everyone. We grow stronger as we go along.
WIDOW ST. CLAIR
Now, young man, you really amaze me! I'm old enough to be your grandmother.
LOUIS
What have you done to me? You've condemned me to hell.
LESTAT
I don't know any hell –
LOUIS
You want to see me kill? Watch me kill you then -
LESTAT
What strength, my friend, what strength. I remember why I chose you now.
LESTAT
But you can't kill me, Louis. Nor I you.
LESTAT
Feed on what you want, mon cherie. Rats, chickens, doves, goats. I'll leave you to it and watch you come round. Just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable...
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