Anne Rice created a thoughtful meditation on the legacy of racial injustice in the United States. Her character Louis de Pointe, a sugar plantation owner with many slaves, Louis drains them of their happiness and freedom in order to feed the sweet tooth of white America. Slavery, in other words, Louis devastated the lives of blacks for the frivolities of white consumerism. At the time, Louis does not give much thought to these ideas. For him, it was just another part of his idyllic plantation life. Rice uses Louis' blindness to the ingrained racism of the South to call attention to its ongoing legacy in America. Only after being turned into a vampire does Louis reflect on how a few of his slaves were rather intelligent, deserved better treatment, and this detail sought to condemn the racist ideology ingrained in American culture that whites can only recognize it in death. Well-written. Beautiful indeed.
Rolin Jones has flailed the skin from the Anne Rice's novel and created a mockery of her work. Slavery is a far gone conclusion adrift in the new era of the early 1900's. Gone is the 1791 start date and lapsed wit towards the complete acceptance of slavery. Louis and his family still own a plantation. The de Pointe family has procured some wealth with sugar, but the father abandoned his responsibilities. The father of Louis walked away from his family in the first of the worst racist stereotypes Rolin Jones gleefully introduced upon shocked fans. The next repulsion is a constructed means for a black man to be successful through his merits by making Louis a common pimp. A black man selling bodies for money is a direct slap in the face to what Anne Rice presented so fluently. I'm reminded of an interview with Jones applauding himself with his idolatric whims towards black men in general. I ponder his self-entertaining platitudes as I watch Louis and his religious brother Paul tap-dance for others' amusement.
Sexuality is throughout 'Interview with the Vampire'. Rice played on the preconceived notions of heteronormative culture by neither idealizing nor demonizing homoerotic relationships. The relationships were presented as natural. The understanding that it can be beautiful, as was the relationship between Louis & Armand, and also hostile and messy, as with Louis & Lestat. The subtext of homoerotic relationships in her book was Rice's method of critiquing homophobia, because she is presenting homosexuality & heterosexuality as sharing similar characteristics. Neither one is presented as inherently good or bad. Rolin Jones aborts this notion and thrusts us into headlong into fantasy. Louis a black pimp is seduced by Lestat easily. He fights objectively in vanilla distaste, only to embrace it fully for the first time. It clearly presents Louis as the underling with Lestat as the master in this scenario. The final racial stereotype being the sexual lust of the black man being untamed. Louis can not pull away from Lestat's charisma. I remain unconvinced that Rolin Jones will refrain from diving into broad detail the breadth of Louis' physical endowments as I refuse to watch another episode of this sick fan fiction. This is one man's imagination blindly piecing a grand story for his own desires. I'd expected this from some hidden spot within the internet, but never on the channel of AMC.
It is still early in the first season. I am finished granting this series attention. There echoes the promise of a season 2, and yet my hopes and prayers are that others will recognize this trite as the wasted effort it may have been.
Rolin Jones has flailed the skin from the Anne Rice's novel and created a mockery of her work. Slavery is a far gone conclusion adrift in the new era of the early 1900's. Gone is the 1791 start date and lapsed wit towards the complete acceptance of slavery. Louis and his family still own a plantation. The de Pointe family has procured some wealth with sugar, but the father abandoned his responsibilities. The father of Louis walked away from his family in the first of the worst racist stereotypes Rolin Jones gleefully introduced upon shocked fans. The next repulsion is a constructed means for a black man to be successful through his merits by making Louis a common pimp. A black man selling bodies for money is a direct slap in the face to what Anne Rice presented so fluently. I'm reminded of an interview with Jones applauding himself with his idolatric whims towards black men in general. I ponder his self-entertaining platitudes as I watch Louis and his religious brother Paul tap-dance for others' amusement.
Sexuality is throughout 'Interview with the Vampire'. Rice played on the preconceived notions of heteronormative culture by neither idealizing nor demonizing homoerotic relationships. The relationships were presented as natural. The understanding that it can be beautiful, as was the relationship between Louis & Armand, and also hostile and messy, as with Louis & Lestat. The subtext of homoerotic relationships in her book was Rice's method of critiquing homophobia, because she is presenting homosexuality & heterosexuality as sharing similar characteristics. Neither one is presented as inherently good or bad. Rolin Jones aborts this notion and thrusts us into headlong into fantasy. Louis a black pimp is seduced by Lestat easily. He fights objectively in vanilla distaste, only to embrace it fully for the first time. It clearly presents Louis as the underling with Lestat as the master in this scenario. The final racial stereotype being the sexual lust of the black man being untamed. Louis can not pull away from Lestat's charisma. I remain unconvinced that Rolin Jones will refrain from diving into broad detail the breadth of Louis' physical endowments as I refuse to watch another episode of this sick fan fiction. This is one man's imagination blindly piecing a grand story for his own desires. I'd expected this from some hidden spot within the internet, but never on the channel of AMC.
It is still early in the first season. I am finished granting this series attention. There echoes the promise of a season 2, and yet my hopes and prayers are that others will recognize this trite as the wasted effort it may have been.