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I just saw Interview With the Vampire (The film) for the first time yesterday. Tom Cruise and Brad Pit both looked wicked with the long hair they each had at the time.
Anyway, I couldn't help but notice the accessories that both Lestat and Louis used to keep their hair tied back in the earlier half of the film (The setting was Louis's mansion in Louisiana). Instead of using a mere hair elastics to keep their in ponytails, they had what appeared to be ribbons that were tied in a bow-like fashion. The look was hardly effeminate, and I was wondering if anyone has accessories like that, and, if so, where one would go about purchasing them.
If it's just a matter of getting some special material (What that material would be, I have no idea) and making a ribbon out of it, please pardon the ridiculous nature of my question; when it comes to things of an aesthetic nature, I'm probably one of the most ignorant people you'll ever hear from.
I think a good material to make a 'ribbon' out of would be something like black velvet...
They wore ribbons because that was the style back then...
I don't think there wee many elastic hair ties around, anyway...
I like their hair in that film...but the storyline is kind of depressing to me.
Good Luck!
Since you enojoyed IWAV did you see Anne Rice's next film, Queen of
the Damned?
I enjoyed IWAV but Tom Cruise was not the right actor to
portray the part. Anne Rice had some scenes in the book that
Cruise was not willing to do.
Really? I thought cruise was great in that film. What kind of scenes was he not willing to do?
The book contained some scenes that could be described as
homosexual in nature. You really need to read the book
to get an understadning of this.
I didn't say that I enjoyed IWTV, as I only admitted an interest in the ribbons they wore for their hair. But your assumption is nevertheless correct: I did, in fact, enjoy the film quite a bit.
As for Queen of the Damned, I actually saw fragments of it about a year ago (which was a year before I saw its predecessor). Unfortunately, what I saw did not impress me enough to watch it in its interity. Perhaps it was Aalyah that detracted from my enjoyment of the film, or perhaps it didn't click with me because I was unfamiliar with IWTV, or some combination of both factors.
That's interesting. I'll have to look into that; thanks for sharing!
Queen of the Damned was quite a disappointment. They took 2-3 books and tried to combine them all into that movie. It definitely didn't work. They should have made each book it's own separate movie.
Anne Rice actually apologized to tom after seeing the movie as she was impressed with his portrayal of lestat.
**squeal of girlish glee** I would *love* it if men started wearing ribbons again.
-Erin, shameless history dork
Interesting response. I'll have to try that.
Do you like the look because its historical, or does the look you favour just so happen to be associated with a particular period in history? I personally find myself partial to victorian and renaissance fashion, particularly when it comes to attire traditionally associated with females. I'm slowly but surely getting into more diverse styles of dress now that growing long hair has served as a catalyst for my becoming acquainted with aesthetics. I now act on the impulses that I was once too timid to embrace; never again shall I revert to my ultra low-key (Read: Dorky) ways. This goes beyond the frivilous nature of mere aesthetics: This is but one of my means for emancipating the self that I had previously kept repressed under the tyrany of an iron hand.