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This article is about the music group. For their eponymous debut album, see Big Brother & the Holding Company (album).
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Left to right: Getz, Joplin, Andrew, Gurley, Albin. c. 1967
Background information
Origin
San Francisco, California
Genres
Psychedelic rock,[1] acid rock,[2] blues rock[3]
Years active
1965–1968, 1969–1972, 1987–present
Labels
Columbia, Mainstream, Warner
Associated acts
Country Joe and the Fish, Full Tilt Boogie Band, Kozmic Blues Band
Website
www.bbhc.com
Members
Peter Albin
Dave Getz
Tom Finch
Darby Gould
David Aguilar
Past members
Sam Andrew
James Gurley
Chuck Jones
Janis Joplin
Nick Gravenites
Kathi McDonald
Dave Schallock
Mike Finnigan
Ben Nieves
Cathy Richardson
Tommy Odetto
Big Brother and the Holding Company is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the same psychedelic music scene that produced the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jefferson Airplane. They are best known as the band that featured Janis Joplin as their lead singer. Their 1968 album Cheap Thrills is considered one of the masterpieces of the psychedelic sound of San Francisco; it reached number one on the Billboard charts, and was ranked number 338 in Rolling Stone's the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album is also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Contents
1 Band history
1.1 Roots in San Francisco
1.2 Janis Joplin
1.3 Mainstream Records debut
1.4 Mantra-Rock Dance
1.5 Monterey Pop Festival
1.6 National success
1.7 Cheap Thrills and split with Joplin
1.8 1969–1972
1.9 1987–present
2 Controversy
3 Personnel
3.1 Members
3.2 Lineups
3.3 Timeline
4 Discography
4.1 Studio albums
4.2 Live/compilation albums
4.3 Singles
5 Filmography
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Band history[edit]
Roots in San Francisco[edit]
Leader Peter Albin, a country-blues guitarist who had played with future Grateful Dead founders Jerry Garcia and Ron McKernan, met Sam Andrew, a professional rock guitarist with a jazz and classical background. After playing together at Albin's home,[4] Andrew suggested they form a band.[5] The pair approached guitarist James Gurley, the resulting threesome playing open jam sessions hosted by entrepreneur Chet Helms in 1965. Helms found them a drummer, Chuck Jones, and Big Brother and the Holding Company was formed at their first gig, the Trips Festival in January 1966. In the audience was painter and jazz drummer David Getz, who soon displaced Jones.
Big Brother went on to become the house band at the Avalon Ballroom, playing a progressive style of instrumental rock. Feeling a need for a strong vocalist, Helms contacted Janis Joplin, who at the time was considering joining up with Roky Erickson of The 13th Floor Elevators. She traveled to San Francisco from Austin, Texas and debuted with Big Brother at the Avalon on June 10, 1966.[6][7][8]
Janis Joplin[edit]
Joplin sang for the first time with Big Brother in 1966. Years later, Andrew described the band's first impressions of her:
We were the established rock and roll band. We were heavy. We were like: all right, out of three or four bands in this city, we are one of them. We're in the newspapers all the time. We're working out. We are doing this woman a favor to even let her come and sing with us. She came in and she was dressed like a little Texan. She didn't look like a hippie, she looked like my mother, who is also from Texas. She sang real well but it wasn't like, "Oh we're bowled over." It was probably more like, our sound was really loud. It was probably bowling her over. I am sure we didn't turn down enough for her. She wrote letters home about how exotic all of us were. The names of the bands. That kind of thing. In other words, we weren't flattened by her and she wasn't flattened by us. It was probably a pretty equal meeting. She was a real intelligent, Janis was, and she always rose to the occasion. She sang the songs. It wasn't like this moment of revelation like you would like it to be. Like in a movie or something. It wasn't like, "Oh my God, now we have gone to heaven. We have got Janis Joplin." I mean she was good but she had to learn how to do that. It took her about a year to really learn how to sing with an electric band.[9]
It took a while for some of the band's followers to accept the new singer and her current boyfriend, keyboardist Stephen Ryder. Her music was completely different from that which Big Brother was playing at that time. Big Brother had a very experimental and unconventional sound, but with Joplin, they became more disciplined musicians, their songs adopted a more traditional structure, and the band started to increase its popularity in the San Francisco psychedelic scene.[10]
Mainstream Records debut[edit]
In September 1966, the band was stranded in Chicago after finishing a gig there at a venue called Mother Blues located on Wells Street. The venue's owner paid them for two weeks' worth of their concerts but could not pay them enough money for them to buy plane tickets to San Francisco. Big Brother signed a contract with Mainstream Records. They recorded four of the songs for the album Big Brother & the Holding Company The remainder of the record was recorded in Los Angeles on December 12-14. Mainstream was known for its jazz records, and Big Brother was the first rock band to appear on the label. This may have influenced the final result, since the album sounded very different from what the band expected: acoustic and folk instead of heavy acid rock.
The first single released was "Blind Man" b/w "All Is Loneliness," both from the album sessions, in July 1967. It was popular in the San Francisco Bay Area, but did not garner much national attention. A second single, "Down on Me" b/w "Call On Me" was released along with their self-titled debut album in August 1967, following the band's national success after the Monterey Pop Festival. The album debuted on Billboard charts on September 2, 1967, peaking at No. 60. It stayed on the charts for a total of 30 weeks.
The Pop Chronicles criticized the record as difficult to find and "technically disappointing".[11] "Down On Me" had a long gestation in the marketplace and finally debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on August 31, 1968, peaking at No. 43. It stayed on the charts for 8 weeks. Other singles from the album were released through the end of 1967 and in 1968. One final Mainstream single, "Coo Coo" b/w "The Last Time," was released after the band's second album was issued by Columbia Records in November, 1968. These last songs were from the original album sessions, but were not included on the LP until Columbia acquired all of the band's Mainstream recordings and reissued the album in the 1970s.[12][13]
In the fall of 1966, the band members moved to Lagunitas, in Marin County, California, to a communal house. Later in 1967 they put an ad in the San Francisco Oracle with the apparent intention of moving back to the "City". The ad read: "Big Brother is returning to the city. Need rehearsal hall and a place to live. Write to B.B.& the H.C. at Box 94 Lagunitas."[14]
Mantra-Rock Dance[edit]
The Mantra-Rock Dance poster featuring Big Brother and the Holding Company.
One of the band's earliest major performances in 1967 was the Mantra-Rock Dance—a musical event held on January 29, 1967, at the Avalon Ballroom by the San Francisco Hare Krishna temple. Big Brother and Janis Joplin performed there along with Hare Krishna founder Bhaktivedanta Swami, Allen Ginsberg, Moby Grape, and Grateful Dead, donating proceeds to the Krishna temple.[15][16][17]
Monterey Pop Festival[edit]
The band's historic performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967 attracted national and international attention. The band was scheduled to play on Saturday afternoon, with a set which included "Down on Me", "Combination of The Two", "Harry", "Roadblock" and "Ball and Chain". However, the band's manager decided not to allow Pennebaker's film crew to film and record them without paying them, and ordered the crew to turn its cameras off. The festival promoters thought the band performance was great, and asked them to play again the next evening in order to record it on film, but they played only two songs: "Combination of The Two" and "Ball and Chain." "I remember being amazed that this white woman was singing like Bessie Smith," said Michelle Phillips once. "I was astounded". They signed a contract with Columbia Records that November, and Albert Grossman became their manager.[18]
National success[edit]
Having received national recognition after the Monterey Pop Festival, Big Brother was booked by Columbia for engagements around the country. A well-known band on the West Coast (especially in San Francisco), Big Brother played their first East Coast concert in New York City on February 17, 1968, at the Anderson Theater, 66 Second Avenue. Columbia's marketing department featured Janis Joplin as the star; before that time, some of the band's audience regarded James Gurley as of equal or more importance. In New York the press criticized the band for playing out of tune and for amplifiers set at maximum volume. The Village Voice, while noting that “ears came out ringing” after the Saturday night performance, cited Joplin as ranking in sex appeal with Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix, and praised “her belting, groovy style,” mixing Bessie Smith, Aretha Franklin and James Brown. “At times she seemed to be singing harmony with herself.” Thanks in part to Ryder's salesmanship and persistence, Big Brother was the first band to play in the legendary Fillmore East, in New York City, on March 8, 1968.[19]
Cheap Thrills and split with Joplin[edit]
The band's first album for Columbia was due to be recorded during the spring and summer of 1968, and released later that year. It was eagerly anticipated after the first LP had been largely ignored. Initially planned as a live album, the band recorded two concerts at Grande Ballroom in Detroit, but the results did not satisfy the producer John Simon nor the manager Albert Grossman.
The live album was scrapped and Columbia decided to re-record most of the songs in the studio ("Down on Me" and "Piece of My Heart", taken from the Grande Ballroom concerts, were later released as part of Joplin's live album In Concert in 1972). However, it was difficult adapting their raw sound and unorthodox work habits with the realities of a professional studio. The progress was slow, and the pressure from Grossman, Columbia, and the press increased. A few of the band members believed that John Simon should not be the producer, believing that he came from a different musical style and did not understand the band's psychedelic, guitar based sound.[20]
The album was initially named Sex, Dope and Cheap Thrills, but Columbia asked them to shorten it to just Cheap Thrills. The original album cover photo of the band naked in a hotel room bed was also unsatisfactory, so underground comic-book artist R. Crumb was hired to create something. What was originally meant to be the back cover art became the classic cover of the album. For the back cover, Columbia chose a black and white photo of Joplin.
"Ball and Chain" is the only song on the album recorded entirely live, and even though the cover credits assert that the live material was recorded at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium, it was actually taken from a concert in Winterland Ballroom in 1968, the same version that appears on the album Live at Winterland '68, released in 1998.[21] (The performance of "Ball and Chain" as released on the Winterland album features a different opening guitar solo by Gurley, indicating that he had dubbed a different intro for the Cheap Thrills issue.)
The LP was released in August 1968, one year after their debut album, and reached number one on the Billboard charts in its eighth week in October. It held the number one spot for eight (nonconsecutive) weeks, and the single "Piece of My Heart" also became a huge hit. By the end of the year it was one of the most successful albums of 1968. It was certified gold by the R.I.A.A. on October 15 that year for $1 million worth of sales, with subsequent sales pushing the total over a million units.[22] Even though the album was released with only seven songs, the other eight songs which were not included were released on subsequent albums. "Catch Me Daddy" and "Farewell Song" were among their most popular songs. These plus "Magic of Love," a medley of "Amazing Grace" and "Hi-Heel Sneakers," and an outtake of "Harry" first appeared on Farewell Song, a posthumous Joplin release in 1981; they also appeared on the 3-CD set Janis in 1993. "It's a Deal" and "Easy Once you Know How" were released in Box of Pearls in 1999. "Flower in The Sun" and "Roadblock" were released on the Cheap Thrills reissue CD as bonus tracks.[23][24][25] "Piece of My Heart" would be reissued on a single in the Columbia Hall of Fame oldies series - backed by the title cut from Joplin's first solo album, I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!.
At the end of the summer of 1968, just after appearing at the Palace of Fine Arts Festival in San Francisco, Joplin announced that she was leaving Big Brother in the fall of that year. The official reason given was her desire to go solo and form a soul music band. Andrew and Ryder also planned to leave the band to join Joplin in her new project. Joplin played with Big Brother on a nationwide tour throughout October and November 1968.[26] It included an October 20 concert at a roller rink in Alexandria, Virginia.[27] Their final concert was in San Francisco on December 1, 1968. It was a benefit for the hippie commune known as the Family Dog whose members included Chet Helms, the band's manager from two years earlier. Three weeks after this benefit concert, Joplin and Andrew played in Memphis for the first time with her new band, later called Kozmic Blues Band.[28]
1969–1972[edit]
After Joplin and Sam Andrew left Big Brother, Dave Getz and Peter Albin joined Country Joe and the Fish and toured the U.S. and Europe and played on the Country Joe album Here We Go Again (Vanguard Records 1969). Getz and Albin left Country Joe in May 1969 with the intention of re-forming Big Brother with guitarist David Nelson. They auditioned several singers including Eddie Money, Kathi McDonald and John Herald but the band finally came back together in the fall of 1969 with nearly the same line-up (except Joplin): Albin, Andrew, Getz and Gurley were joined by Nick Gravenites (vocals), Dave Schallock (guitar) and Kathi McDonald (vocals). They released Be a Brother in 1970. Gurley moved to bass guitar while Albin played rhythm, Sam Andrew sang more lead vocals with Kathi McDonald, David Schallock on lead guitar, Dave Getz on drums and occasional keyboards. Nick Gravenites would also produce the album, write and sing on a number of the tracks. They released their last studio album, How Hard It Is, in 1971. They retained the same lineup: Kathi and Sam and Nick on vocals joined by organist Mike Finnigan. The band remained with this lineup until 1972, but they gradually fell apart and disbanded amidst drug use, loss of management, lack of gigs and internal squabbles. They re-united once to play "The Tribal Stomp" in 1978 at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley.
1987–present[edit]
"Legendary Artists: Sounds of San Francisco" at an Audio Engineering Society convention in 2012. Left to right: Mario Cipollina, Albin, Joel Selvin, Country Joe McDonald
The latest incarnation began in 1987, and has been touring part-time ever since with most of its classic lineup; including Sam Andrew, Peter Albin, Dave Getz, and James Gurley. Gurley left in 1997 because he did not support his colleagues' idea to hire a female singer to replace Joplin.[29] He was replaced by Tom Finch.[30] Big Brother did not have a fixed lead singer until 2011; Michel Bastian, Lisa Battle, Halley DeVestern,[31] Lisa Mills, Jane Kitto (Aus), Andra Mitrovich, Kacee Clanton, Sophia Ramos, Mary Bridget Davies, Duffy Bishop,[32][33] Lana Spence, Chloe Lowery, Jane Myrenget, Lynn Asher, Kate Russo, Darby Gould, Maria Stanford, Jeri Verdi, and Superfly's Shiho Ochi were among the singers that have played in concerts with them. Cathy Richardson became the band's official lead singer in 2011, with Ben Nieves having replaced Finch as guitarist in 2008.[34] Other guitarists performed and toured with Big Brother including Chad Quist, Joel Hoekstra, and even Kate Russo on electric violin as 2nd guitarist. In 1999 the band released the album Do What You Love, with Lisa Battle as the lead singer. The album contains some new versions of songs like "Women is Loser". They recorded the live album Hold Me, with Sophia Ramos on lead vocals and Chad Quist on guitar, in Germany in 2005, and released it in 2006. In 2008 they released the two-CD set The Lost Tapes, with songs recorded at concerts between 1966 and 1967 in San Francisco, and featuring Janis Joplin as lead singer. Some songs had already been unofficial releases, but there are 12 never-before-released songs.[35][36]
Former guitarist James Gurley died on December 20, 2009, of a heart attack, just two days before his 70th birthday.[36] Sam Andrew died on February 12, 2015, following complications from open-heart surgery due to a heart attack suffered ten weeks prior.[37]
In October 2016, the band went to Europe for a short tour in the Netherlands, with the following line-up: Dave Getz on drums, Peter Albin on bass, Tom Finch on guitar, Kate Russo on electric violin, keyboards and vocals, and Eileen Humphreys on lead vocals. Venues included the North Sea Jazz Club in Amsterdam, De Bosuil in Weert, Het Paard in The Hague and Luxor Live in Arnhem. "Big Brother And The Holding Co Live In The Lowlands" was released in 2017 on DVD and CD by Marista Records featuring this lineup in Weert.
Controversy[edit]
In 2007, following the induction of Cheap Thrills to the Grammy Hall of Fame, former guitar player James Gurley described Big Brother as the most maligned band ever, since they never received appreciation for the arrangements they did and all the engineering tricks he came up with. Gurley also believed that Clive Davis told Joplin to leave the band and record her songs with studio musicians, who could play better.[29] In the documentary Nine Hundred Nights, Peter Albin said that the manager Albert Grossman told Joplin to leave Big Brother and form her own band, with studio musicians, in order to spend less money on recording sessions. Sam Andrew said later that Joplin left due to artistic and financial reasons: Joplin usually asked the band to have some keyboard or horns on at least some songs, but they said "No! You are going to change the Big Brother sound!" The band was also doing the same songs a lot, sometimes three times a day, so she started feeling trapped. The band was splitting the money in five equal ways, while by leaving she could have all the money and just pay some employees and have a new band.[38]
In 1982, Columbia released the Janis Joplin album Farewell Song. The release displeased Big Brother's living members, since their original instruments were all replaced by studio musicians without consulting the band. James Gurley spoke about that in 1987, before the band's reunion: "It’s just a total bullshit record...some producer's dream at CBS."[39]
Personnel[edit]
Members[edit]
Current members
Peter Albin – bass (1965-1968, 1969-1972, 1987-present)
Dave Getz – drums, piano (1966-1968, 1969-1972, 1987-present)
Tom Finch – guitar (1997-2008, 2015–present)
Darby Gould - lead vocals (2015–present)
David Aguilar – guitar (2018–present)
Former members
Sam Andrew – guitar, vocals (1965-1968, 1969-1972, 1987-2015; died 2015)
James Gurley – guitar (1965-1968, 1969-1972, 1987-1997; died 2009)
Chuck Jones – drums (1965-1966)
Janis Joplin - lead vocals (1966-1968; died 1970)
Nick Gravenites - lead vocals (1969-1972)
Kathi McDonald - lead vocals (1969-1972; died 2012)
Dave Schallock - guitar (1969-1972)
Mike Finnigan - organ, vocals (1971-1972)
Lisa Battle - lead vocals (1997-2005)
Sophia Ramos - lead vocals (2005-2008)
Ben Nieves – guitar (2008-2015)
Kate Russo - vocals, electric violin and keyboards (1998, 2003-2008, 2015-present)
Cathy Richardson - lead vocals (2011-2015)
Tommy Odetto – guitar (2015–2018)
Lineups[edit]
1965-1966
1966
1966–1968
(Classic Lineup)
1968–1969
Sam Andrew – guitar, vocals
James Gurley – guitar
Peter Albin – bass
Chuck Jones – drums
Sam Andrew – guitar, vocals
James Gurley – guitar
Peter Albin – bass
Dave Getz – drums, piano
Janis Joplin - lead vocals
Sam Andrew – guitar, vocals
James Gurley – guitar, bass
Peter Albin – bass, guitar
Dave Getz – drums, piano
Disbanded
1969–1971
1971–1972
1972–1987
1987–1997
Nick Gravenites - lead vocals
Kathi McDonald - lead vocals
Sam Andrew – guitar, vocals
James Gurley – bass, guitar
Dave Schallock - guitar
Peter Albin – guitar
Dave Getz – drums, piano
Nick Gravenites - lead vocals
Kathi McDonald - lead vocals
Sam Andrew – guitar, vocals
James Gurley – bass, guitar
Dave Schallock - guitar
Peter Albin – guitar
Dave Getz – drums, piano
Mike Finnigan - organ, vocals
Disbanded
Sam Andrew – guitar, vocals
James Gurley – guitar
Peter Albin – bass
Dave Getz – drums, piano
with
Various guest lead singers
1997–2005
2005–2008
2008–2011
2011–2015
Sam Andrew – guitar, vocals
Tom Finch – guitar
Peter Albin – bass
Dave Getz – drums, piano
Lisa Battle - lead vocals
Sam Andrew – guitar, vocals
Chad Quist – guitar
Peter Albin – bass
Dave Getz – drums, piano
Sophia Ramos - lead vocals
Sam Andrew – guitar, vocals
Ben Nieves – guitar
Peter Albin – bass
Dave Getz – drums, piano
with
Various guest lead singers
Cathy Richardson - lead vocals
Sam Andrew – guitar, vocals
Ben Nieves – guitar
Peter Albin – bass
Dave Getz – drums, piano
2015–2018
2018–present
Darby Gould - lead vocals
Tom Finch - guitar, vocals
Tommy Odetto - guitar
Peter Albin - bass
Dave Getz - drums, piano
Darby Gould - lead vocals
Tom Finch - guitar, vocals
David Aguilar - guitar
Peter Albin - bass
Dave Getz - drums, piano
Timeline[edit]
Discography[edit]
Studio albums[edit]
Title
Album details
Peak chart positions
U.S. 200
U.S. R&B
Big Brother & the Holding Company
Released: 1967 (1967)
Label: Mainstream
60 28
Cheap Thrills
Released: 1968 (1968)
Label: Columbia
1 7
Be a Brother
Released: 1970 (1970)
Label: Columbia
134 —
How Hard It Is
Released: 1971 (1971)
Label: Columbia
157 —
Can't Go Home Again
Released: 1997 (1997)
— —
Do What You Love
Released: 1999 (1999)
— —
Live/compilation albums[edit]
Big Brother & the Holding Company: Live in San Francisco 1966 (1966)
In Concert (Janis Joplin) (1972)
Cheaper Thrills (1984)
Joseph's Coat (1986)
Live at Winterland '68 (1998)
Hold Me (2006)
The Lost Tapes (2008)
Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 (2012)
Singles[edit]
Year
Song
US Hot 100
1967 "Bye, Bye Baby" 118
"Down On Me" 43
"Blindman" 110
1968 "Coo Coo" 84
"Piece of My Heart" 12
"Women Is Losers" —
"Combination of the Two" —
Filmography[edit]
Monterey Pop (1968)
Petulia (1968)
Janis: The Way She Was (1974)
Comin' Home (1988)
Nine Hundred Nights (DVD) Pioneer Entertainment (2004)
Rockin' at the Red Dog: The Dawn of Psychedelic Rock (2005)
Hold Me (LIVE in Germany) (DVD) Ryko Distribution (2007)
Janis Joplin with Big Brother: Ball and Chain (DVD) Charly (2009)
See also[edit]
List of bands from the San Francisco Bay Area
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External links[edit]
Official website
Janis Joplin website
Big Brother & the Holding Co. discography at the Grateful Dead Family Discography
Book about Big Brother & the Holding Co.
Big Brother and the Holding Company: Nine Hundred Nights (excerpt) on YouTube
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In Concert (1972)
Live at Winterland '68 (1998)
The Woodstock Experience (2009)
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Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits (1973)
Janis (1975)
Wicked Woman (1976)
Farewell Song (1982)
Janis (1993)
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Interview with the Vampire (film)
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This article is about the film. For the novel, see Interview with the Vampire.
Interview with the Vampire
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Directed by
Neil Jordan
Produced by
David Geffen
Stephen Woolley
Screenplay by
Anne Rice
Based on
Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice
Starring
Tom Cruise
Brad Pitt
Stephen Rea
Antonio Banderas
Christian Slater
Kirsten Dunst
Music by
Elliot Goldenthal
Cinematography
Philippe Rousselot
Edited by
Mick Audsley
Production
company
Geffen Pictures
Distributed by
Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date
November 11, 1994 (1994-11-11)
Running time
122 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$60 million[2]
Box office
$223.7 million[2]
Interview with the Vampire is a 1994 American drama horror film directed by Neil Jordan, based on the 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, and starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. The film focuses on Lestat (Cruise) and Louis (Pitt), beginning with Louis's transformation into a vampire by Lestat in 1791. The film chronicles their time together, and their turning of a ten-year-old girl, Claudia, into a vampire. The narrative is framed by a present-day interview, in which Louis tells his story to a San Francisco reporter. The supporting cast features Christian Slater, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas and Stephen Rea.
The film was released in November 1994 to generally positive reviews,[3] and received Oscar nominations for Best Art Direction and Best Original Score.[4] Kirsten Dunst was also nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film.
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Casting
4 Production
4.1 Special Effects
5 Release
5.1 Box office
5.2 Critical reception
6 Awards
7 Home media
8 Soundtrack
9 Sequel
10 See also
11 References
12 External links
Plot[edit]
In modern-day San Francisco, reporter Daniel Molloy interviews Louis de Pointe du Lac, who claims to be a vampire. Louis describes his human life as a wealthy plantation owner in 1791 Louisiana. Despondent following the death of his wife and infant child; one night he is attacked by the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt while drunkenly wandering the waterfront of New Orleans. Lestat senses Louis' dissatisfaction with life and offers to turn him into a vampire, which Louis accepts prior to being transformed. But while Lestat revels in the hunt and killing of humans, Louis resists killing them, drinking animal blood to sustain himself. He is disgusted by Lestat's pleasure in killing and comes to suffer tremendously as a vampire.
Wandering the streets of New Orleans, amid an outbreak of plague, Louis can resist his hunger no more and feeds on a little girl whose mother has died in the plague. To entice Louis to stay with him, Lestat turns the dying girl, Claudia, into a vampire. Together they raise her as a daughter - Louis has a pure love for Claudia, while Lestat treats her more as a student, training her to become a merciless killer. As thirty years pass, Claudia matures psychologically but still remains a little girl in appearance, and she's treated as such by Lestat. When she finally realizes that she will never grow old, she is furious with Lestat and tells Louis that they should leave him. She tricks Lestat into drinking the "dead blood" of twin boys that she killed by overdosing them with laudanum and she slits his throat. With Louis's help, she dumps Lestat's body in a swamp and the two plan a voyage to Europe. However, Lestat returns on the night of their departure, having drunk the blood of swamp creatures to survive. Lestat attacks them, but Louis sets him on fire and, in the ensuing chaos, they are able to escape, safely boarding the ship.
After traveling around Europe and the Mediterranean (but finding no other vampires), Louis and Claudia settle harmoniously in Paris. Louis encounters vampires Santiago and Armand by chance. Armand invites Louis and Claudia to his coven, the Théâtre des Vampires, where the vampires stage theatrical horror shows for humans. On their way out of the theater, Santiago reads Louis' mind and suspects that Louis and Claudia murdered Lestat. Armand warns Louis to send Claudia away for her own safety, Louis is intrigued to stay with Armand and learn more about the meaning of being a vampire. Claudia demands that Louis turn a human woman, Madeleine, to be her new protector and companion, and he reluctantly complies. The Parisian vampires abduct all three and punish them for Lestat's murder: imprisoning Louis in a metal coffin, and trapping Claudia and Madeleine in a room where sunlight burns them to ash. Armand does nothing to prevent this, but the next day he frees Louis. Seeking revenge, Louis returns to the Theater at dawn and sets it on fire, killing all the vampires including Santiago. Armand arrives in time to help Louis escape the sunrise and once again offers him a place by his side. Louis, however, refuses Armand and leaves for good.
As decades pass, Louis explores the world dejectedly alone and eventually returns to New Orleans. One night he comes across Lestat, living as a recluse in an abandoned mansion. Lestat asks Louis to rejoin him, but Louis rejects him and leaves. Louis concludes the interview, prompting Molloy to offer to be his new vampire companion. Louis is outraged that Molloy hasn't understood the tale of suffering he has related and attacks him. When Louis vanishes, Molloy runs to his car and takes off. On the Golden Gate Bridge Lestat appears and attacks him, taking control of the car. Revived by Molloy's blood, Lestat offers him the option that he "never had" to become a vampire.
Cast[edit]
Tom Cruise as Lestat de Lioncourt
Brad Pitt as Louis de Pointe du Lac
Christian Slater as Daniel Molloy
Kirsten Dunst as Claudia
Antonio Banderas as Armand
Stephen Rea as Santiago
Domiziana Giordano as Madeleine
Thandie Newton as Yvette
George Kelly as Dollmaker
Marcel Iureş as Paris Vampire [5]
Sara Stockbridge as Estelle
Casting[edit]
Author Anne Rice adapted her 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire into a screenplay with French actor Alain Delon in mind for the role of Louis.[6] Later on, when the film was made, British actor Julian Sands was considered to play the role of Lestat by Rice,[citation needed] but because Sands was not a well-known name at the time (being only famed for his performance in A Room with a View), he was rejected and the role was given to Tom Cruise. Because of his star power, Cruise received a record $10 million dollar salary and a percentage of the profits.[7] The casting was initially criticized by Anne Rice, who said that Cruise was "no more my vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler",[6] and the casting was "so bizarre; it's almost impossible to imagine how it's going to work". Nevertheless, she was satisfied with Cruise's performance after seeing the completed film, saying that "from the moment he appeared, Tom was Lestat for me" and "that Tom did make Lestat work was something I could not see in a crystal ball".
Due to Rice's perception of Hollywood's homophobia, at one point she rewrote the part of Louis, changing his sex to female, in order to specifically heterosexualize the character's relationship with Lestat.[8] At the time, Rice felt it was the only way to get the film made, and singer-actress Cher was considered for the part.[8] A song titled "Lovers Forever", which Cher wrote along with Shirley Eikhard for the film's soundtrack, got rejected as Pitt was ultimately cast for the role, though a dance-pop version of the song was released on Cher's 2013 album, Closer to the Truth.[9]
Originally, River Phoenix was cast for the role of Daniel Molloy (as Anne Rice liked the idea), but he died four weeks before he was due to begin filming. When Christian Slater was cast in his place as Molloy, he donated his entire salary to Phoenix's favorite charitable organizations.[10] The film has a dedication to Phoenix after the end credits. Eleven-year-old actress Kirsten Dunst was spotted by talent scouts and was the first girl tested for the role of woman/child Claudia.[6]
Production[edit]
Filming took place primarily in New Orleans and London, with select filming done in San Francisco and Paris.[11] The interiors and exterior of Destrehan Plantation, just east of New Orleans, was used to depict Louis' plantation, with select exteriors also filmed at Oak Alley Plantation in nearby Vacherie.[12] The depiction of 18th and early 19th century New Orleans was achieved with a combination of location shooting in the French Quarter of New Orleans and filming on a purpose-built waterfront set along the Mississipi river.[13][14] Production then moved to London, where interior sets were constructed at Pinewood Studios.[15] The sets designed by Dante Ferretti included the interiors of Louis, Lestat and Claudia's New Orleans townhouse, Claudia and Louis' Paris hotel suite, the Théâtre des Vampires (built on Pinewood's 007 Stage), and the catacombs where the Parisien vampires live.[16] Aerial shooting took place in San Francisco, with the external façade of Louis' hotel located at the intersection of Taylor and Market streets.[17] In Paris the exterior and lobby of the Opera Garnier were dressed to film Louis and Claudia's arrival at their hotel in Paris.
Brad Pitt admitted in a 2011 interview with Entertainment Weekly that he was "miserable" while making the film and even tried to buy himself out of his contract at one point.[18] Pitt called the production "six-months of f---king darkness" because of the almost exclusive night shoots, which sent him into a depression.[19] The script, which he received only two weeks prior to filming, was also a source of disappointment. He unfavorably contrasted the character of Louis which he had admired in the book to that presented in the script:
In the book you have this guy asking, 'Who am I?' Which was probably applicable to me at that time: 'Am I good? Am I of the angels? Am I bad? Am I of the devil?' In the book it is a guy going on this search of discovery. And in the meantime, he has this Lestat character that he's entranced by and abhors. ... In the movie, they took the sensational aspects of Lestat and made that the pulse of the film, and those things are very enjoyable and very good, but for me, there was just nothing to do -- you just sit and watch." [20]
Special Effects[edit]
Visual effects were overseen by Stan Winston and his team, while the newly founded Digital Domain was responsible for creating the digital effects under Visual Effects Supervisor Robert Legato.[21][22] Winston designed the characters' vampire appearances and makeup effects, including a technique for stenciling translucent blue veins on the actors' faces.[23] Digital effects were used mainly to add small details or to enhance certain physical effects, like the burning of the New Orleans set or the burning of Louis' plantation, whereby CGI flames were imposed on a miniature of the house.[24] The most difficult digital effects to illustrate were Louis and Claudia's transformations into vampires, which were technologically very advanced for the time.[25]
The scene where Claudia cuts Lestat's throat was achieved by transferring from Tom Cruise bleeding from a prosthetic wound to an animatronic model designed to 'wither' as it bled out, enhanced with CGI blood.[26] Winston also sculpted the rough model for the charred remains of Claudia and Madeleine, using archival photographs of victims from Hiroshima for inspiration.[27]
Release[edit]
Box office[edit]
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles opened on November 11, 1994. Opening weekend grosses amounted to $36.4m, placing it in the number one position at the US box office.[28] In subsequent weeks it struggled against Star Trek Generations and The Santa Clause. Total gross in the United States was $105 million, while the total including international gross was $224 million, with an estimated budget of $60 million.[29]
Critical reception[edit]
The film received mixed to positive reviews among film critics. Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes reports the film as holding an overall 61% approval rating based on 51 reviews, with a rating average of 5.9 out of 10. The site's consensus reads: "Despite lacking some of the book's subtler shadings, and suffering from some clumsy casting, Interview with the Vampire benefits from Neil Jordan's atmospheric direction and a surfeit of gothic thrills."[30] The film holds a 59/100 on Metacritic.[31] Praise from The New York Times's Elvis Mitchell and the Chicago Sun-Times's Roger Ebert was tempered by poor reviews in The Washington Post and Time magazine.[32][33][34][35]
Awards[edit]
Interview with the Vampire was nominated for two Academy Awards—for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration (Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo) and for Best Original Score (Elliot Goldenthal), but lost to The Madness of King George and The Lion King, respectively.[4] Goldenthal also received a nomination for Best Original Score at the 1995 Golden Globe Awards, as did Kirsten Dunst for Best Supporting Actress.[36]
At the 1995 BAFTA Awards, the film won for Best Cinematography (Philippe Rousselot) and Best Production Design (Dante Ferretti), with further nominations for Best Costume Design (Sandy Powell) and Best Make-up and Hair (Stan Winston, Michèle Burke, Jan Archibald).[37][38][39][40] The film won a Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple for Pitt and Cruise, tied with Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone in The Specialist.
Home media[edit]
The film was released on VHS on November 21, 1995 and LaserDisc on June 6, 1996[41] DVD on June 6, 2000[42] and on Blu-ray Disc on October 7, 2008.[43]
Soundtrack[edit]
Main article: Interview with the Vampire (soundtrack)
The film's musical score was written by Elliot Goldenthal and received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Score. "Sympathy for the Devil" was performed by Guns N' Roses.
Sequel[edit]
Almost a decade after this film, an adaptation for the third book in the series, The Queen of the Damned, was produced and distributed once again by Warner Bros. Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt did not reprise their roles as Lestat and Louis. Many characters and important plotlines were written out of the film, which actually combined elements of The Vampire Lestat with The Queen of the Damned. The film was negatively received by critics, and Rice dismissed it completely as she felt the filmmakers had "mutilated" her work. During pre-production, Rice had pleaded with the studio not to produce a film of the book just yet as she believed her readers wanted a film based on the second book in the series, The Vampire Lestat. Rice was refused the cooperation of the studio.[citation needed]
In February 2012, a film adaptation of The Tale of the Body Thief, the fourth book in the series, entered development with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's film production company, Imagine Entertainment. It was reported that screenwriter Lee Patterson was going to pen the screenplay. However, Rice's son, Christopher, apparently had drafted a screenplay based on the novel that was met with praise from those involved in the developmental stage. Rice later confirmed that creative differences that were beyond those involved resulted in the dismissal of the project in April 2013.[44]
In August 2014 Universal Pictures acquired the rights to the entire Vampire Chronicles. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have been named as producers and the deal includes the aforementioned screenplay for The Tale of the Body Thief, written by Christopher.[45][46]
A new film adaptation of the book has been written by Josh Boone and was announced in May 2016, with Boone suggesting actor Jared Leto play the role of Lestat.[47] In November 2016, all plans for a theatrical reboot were scrapped as Rice announced she had regained the rights to her novels and intends to create a television series starting with The Vampire Lestat.
See also[edit]
Vampire film
References[edit]
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^ Jump up to: a b Benshoff, Harry M. (1997). "Monsters in the closet: homosexuality and the horror film". Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-4473-1.
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