The Inspiration Behind The Vampire In A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night – /Film

Anne Rice authored dozens of novels, though her most famous book is undoubtedly "Interview with the Vampire" which was adapted into a 1994 film starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruiseas the vampires Louis and Lestat."A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" has a different texture than that movie, thanks in no small part to its Persian dialogue and its contemporary ghost-town setting in the Iranian desert about as far removed from 18th-century Louisiana or 19th-century Paris as you can get.

As we peer into the Girl's inner sanctum and see herdancing sinuously, she could be any other material girl with Madonna (or Margaret Atwood) posters on her wall. Elsewhere in "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night," we see another character, the mute drag queen, Rockabilly (Reza Sixo Safai), dancing with a balloon. AsAmirpour observed:

"If there's one political thing [in the movie], it's not the chador. It's Rockabilly, because it's not OK to be gay in Iran."

In "Interview with the Vampire," Louis and Lestateffectively function as a same-sex vampire couple, complete with a surrogate daughter, Claudia (Kirsten Dunst). Rice's son, Christopher Rice, with whom she co-authored two books, identifies as gay. This is one element of Rice's work that might have influencedAmirpour. Though for her, Rice seems to have been more of a foundational influence that first ignited her love of vampires and impelled her toward her own unique vision of one years later.

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