Interview with the …
Vampire

Every journalist’s duty is to take an interview to make his/her work honest and interesting, with opinions and facts. Interview makes the story more believable and truthful. This event is one side conversation between two or more people that is supported with asking questions and answers for them. It has a time limit and the greater the fame and importance of a subject the more limitations they demand. Interview is a small part of all stories of journalists work. This little part of work is very hard and sometimes dangerous. Some of the journalists want to make their story interesting and exiting, that is why they go for desperate act. For example, interview people in war points or in the secret companies. I imagine myself this as “Interview with the Vampire”.

The idea of creating name of the topic was Anne Rice’s book. “Anne Rice brought the vampire back in her own image... and considering her earlier career was in soft porn 'Romance' novels, I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise that all of her dark denizens should end up as preening slackers who live an empty and carnal existence. The roots of modern Goth are all here the narcissism, the romantization of death and times thereafter, all the boo-hoo loneliness. The fact of the matter is, these characters are better off dead, because if they were alive they'd be taking Zanax, listening to ’Alien Sex Fiend’ and working at McDonalds during the swing shift”, - wrote down Bob Bankard in the Vampire guide site. This is exiting way of looking into the vampire’s life. In 1994 the book was made into a popular Hollywood blockbuster starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt as the main characters Lestat de Lioncourt and the protagonist Louis de Pointe du Lac respectively.

This is just the one film of series of the vampire chronicle. The Vampire Chronicles is a series of novels by Anne Rice that revolves around the fictional character Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman made into a vampire in the 18th century.

The Vampire Chronicles series include: Interview with the Vampire (1976), The Vampire Lestat (1985), The Queen of the Damned (1988), The Tale of the Body Thief (1992), Memnoch the Devil (1995), The Vampire Armand (1998), Merrick (2000), Blood and Gold (2001), Blackwood Farm (2002) and Blood Canticle (2003).

“Anne Rice's vampires are different in several ways from classic vampires like Dracula. Rice's creatures are not affected by the usual weapons against classic vampires: garlic, crosses or silver, and they cannot be killed with wooden stakes. They need blood, but not every night. Human blood is preferred as it is more nutritious, but animal blood is also used. They do not age physically (instead becoming more "statuesque" as they age), in all but a few cases, vampires younger than a thousand years old can usually be killed by exposure to sunlight or fire”, - states Wikipedia author.

Famous interviews:

· Saddam interview - Dan Rather interviewing Saddam Hussein only days before 2003 invasion of Iraq

· The Rolling Stone Interview - a number of very influential pop-cultural interviews in the 70's

· Microsoft interview - canonically challenging method of job interview

· Bashir interview - An interview with Michael Jackson, later created into a documentary

This is very interesting job to be journalist and maybe as Anne Rise many of us will write such interesting stories as “The Vampire Chronicles” and it become a best bestseller in the world wide. The future is very interesting think. Wish you all GOOD LUCK!

References

1-The Vampire Guide. http://www.phillyburbs.com/vamp/interview.shtml
2-Famous interviews http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interview
3-IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110148/
4- The Vampire Chronicles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampire_Chronicles