The ultimate irony is if you read the slew of negative reviews for Mayfair Witches, the main complaints are the SAME objections we had when AMC did their “Interview” adaptation last year (and it’s the SAME people in charge of both!). Namely, AMC craps on the source material and alters the story and characters to fit with their modern “reimagining” of the story.
Frequent complaints are they invented a brand new "Ciprien Grieve" character to be a composite of Michael Curry and Aaron Lightner from the books (one critic compared it to trying to merge Obi-Wan Keonbi and Han Solo into a single character), and they altered Cortland Mayfair -- who is supposed a cranky, elderly family patriarch well into his 80s at that point in the story – to instead be a Shepard Smith-like “hip & outrageous caricature” of a flamboyant southern gay man.
These SAME critics and “fans” racking Mayfair Witches over the coals were the ones openly scoffing at anyone who objected to the changes they did to Interview. They were fine and dandy with the “boy” interviewer from the book being played by actor pushing 70, the 6 year old “child vampire” Claudia being played by an adult woman, and changing Louis from a white plantation owner in the 1790s to a black brothel owner in the 1910s. According to them, that was fine because sticking with the source material would be “boring” and they were just “updating” the story for the 21st century, and supposedly being true to the “spirit” of Anne Rice’s books.
So why the heck aren’t this new "Ciprien Grieve" character and the flamboyant southern gay dude just “modern updates” that reflect the “spirit” of Rice’s books and give it more “depth”?
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Keelai (32180)
a year ago
Apples and oranges. Interview's adaption was exceptional. I'll assume Witch's wasn't. But like I wrote, I didn't watch it.
The old journalist was a major improvement. The ones in the book and film were underdeveloped and boring.
Even Oprah thought a child actress in the vampire movie was repugnant. A 14-year-old played by a young-looking adult is better and can do more adult-theme story than a child could. The bratty child to moody teenage girl was funny, realistic and clever. The fights between her and Lestat were perfect. Wonderful dialogue and acting!
A black Louis brings more depth to the story. Also, great that both are out of the closet. The platonic relationship in the movie was dumb. Lestat had an obsession for Louis. Platonic my a@@! 1920s New Orleans had great music, environment and clothes. How can you hate 1920s New Orleans? That was another nice improvement. De plus, ils se parlent en francais!!!!
I don't get the impression that you watched either reboot. Am I correct?
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