This week I watched the movie Interview with the vampire and
half way through the book. What make vampires so sexy? There are a lot of
undead species, such as vampire, zombie and ghost. Zombies are usually too
bloody and rotted and ghosts are insubstantial. So I guess this leaves us with
vampires, who are permanently young, beautiful, and possess a fierce need to
suck things.
To me, vampire is not very familiar in my knowledge. In
Chinese culture or Asian culture, there is no such thing like vampire even the
zombie is a very different kind. So most of the vampires that I knew were
either from western movies or books.
In the novel and movie Interview with the Vampire, the main characters Louis and Lestat
decide to have a preternatural child and turn a gorgeous little girl named
Claudia into a vampire like themselves. Everything is great until she's the
mental age of an adult and realizes that she'll be trapped in a little girl
body forever.
In the Anne Rice novel, which takes place partly during the
nineteenth century, Claudia uses her girlish looks to attract men who are
looking to buy a little pederasty for the night. She plays into the Victorian
appetite for young girls, and thus assures herself a steady supply of blood.
But she never actually has sex with these men, or anyone for that matter.
Rice's vampires are chaste, though we are given to understand that the act of
drinking blood provides a kind of sexual thrill for them.
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