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iwtvfanevents · 3 days

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Rewind the tape —Episode 7 highlights

One of our favorite outfits is...

…the suit that Claudia wears to their meeting with Anderson. This is the first —and so far only— time we see Claudia wear a suit. Combined with her hair, which she started to wear pulled up in episode six, and her grown woman’s purse, this is the closest she gets to shedding the facade of youth while in public —but, of course, Tom’s “little girl” reminds us that she can never fully access womanhood. But she’s trying, and the suit symbolizes her new position in the family structure, the attempt to make herself into an equal: at the start of episode five she was still the daughter left home while her parents went to meet Anderson, now she not only attends the negotiations, but is an active participant, handing Tom the list that ends up defining his decision. The palettes of their outfits seem heavily symbolic too: Claudia, in beige, brown and red, stands apart from Louis and Lestat’s blue suits, but Louis keeps “a little shelf” for her, a touch of red in his tie that matches her crimson shirt.

What's a favorite look of yours? Claudia's high-waist pants and cape from the New Year party? One of their Mardi Gras outfits? Armand's unsubtly vampiric coat?

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aquaristintern · 2 days

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Rewind the tape- Episode 7

What's a favorite look of yours?

Definitely Claudia's red power-sleeves

I just love this look so much, especially when contrasted with how she looked in the beginning of the episode, wearing a beige cardigan, light green shirt, and neutral plaid skirt.

She adopts a younger look here, almost reflecting her teenage years, although those can never really be returned to again, as evidenced by hair, which, though down, is rolled up on the front left side. She's aiming for a more inoffensive, girly, dutiful daughter appearance, something that can blend into the background and escape Lestat's notice.

From "Bloody Fashionable: A Costume Analysis of AMC’s Interview with the Vampire" by Eliza Niblett:

As she gets older, red and other warm tones feature more heavily in what she wears, which usually contrasts Louis and Lestat, who are more often seen in neutrals and cooler colours. The red clearly reflects her violent and ruthless nature, but by setting her apart from Louis and Lestat, it also highlights her isolation, which leads to a drastic plan. (x)

When she puts on the bolder red, takes out her earrings, and puts her hair fully up, she is now ready to make her moves against Lestat, and wants to be noticed by him.

I also got that same red shirt and tie three years ago when I was going through my 40s fashion phase, so that may be why I'm also partial to it :)

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nativehueofresolution · 20 days

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my memory is swiss cheese so i could easily be wrong, but i don't think we've ever seen claudia wear yellow before? and obviously we don't know all of the looks to come in s2, but it's interesting to think of the yellow dress maybe being her branching out from her normal colors, her being on the verge of something new in big and small ways, just for the trial to hit.

#obviously it's the color dress she wears in the book but it's not a particularly significant detail to my mind.#the 94 film had their in a blue gown iirc #so it feels like there's more there than just mimicking the book imo #spark in the dark #vampterview #iwtv #kaitlin speaks

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saintarmand · 21 days

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a stray cat from a toy shop

while i'd noted it before, this post by @iwtvfanevents gave me a title for the cat painting in claudia's room: The Kitten's Art Lesson by Henriëtte Ronner-Knip. (if you enjoy being insane like me go read the artist's biography at the link, but keep in mind that just because you CAN draw parallels doesn't mean they were necessarily intentional. but they ARE delightful.)

let's take a look at the kitten's art lesson!

the kittens are studying under the watchful eye of the adult cat, who seems disappointed by the lack of decorum. the kittens are in a playful mood! one of them has torn through a painting. another is clinging to the art board with tooth and nail... just playing or trying to hold on after nearly falling? a couple are in a half closed drawer—almost like they could be trapped inside at any moment. one has actually found a paint brush but doesn't seem to know what to do with it. the teacher is not impressed.

i can't help but note the one staring towards us from the drawer looks awfully familiar:

the art teacher and students aren't the only cats in claudia's room; there's also a cat statuette on the mantle (click to see the closeups in full.)

above the cat painting, there's a blurry painting of what looks like some women sitting, and one of them looks she might have a cat in her lap, though that might be wishful thinking on my part. the bottom of the painting blends in so well with the wallpaper that at first glance i actually thought the painting had been cut into, which sent me on a wild train of thought but yeah that's not actually true lol. but the effect is interesting regardless. the cat on the mantle definitely evokes the idea that it escaped from the painting nearby, and could flee at any moment—and in episode 6, it's no longer on the mantle or anywhere else that i can see.

i wonder if it broke along with so much else in the house at the end of episode 5, or if claudia moved it somewhere. fellow insane people keep an eye out, a kitty's gone loose!

so... why cats?

there aren't many cat references in iwtv compared to other animals, but the ones that are there speak volumes. in episode 3, we see louis bite into a black cat as a substitute for the human blood he craves. later in the evening lestat says he "fears for the feline population of new orleans" (after comparing louis to fish and birds). when louis reaches a breaking point, "rats, cats, dogs, would no longer suffice." so what he really wants or needs is something else?

in the next episode, claudia delivers the punchline:

“I used to [live around here] too. I remember there used to be a toy shop a few doors down by there. They used to keep stray cats in boxes for people to take.”

claudia sees herself as a cat. louis took her in like a stray—a helpless little kitten in need of rescue—and he took her (took for free because no one else wanted her) from a box at a toy shop—a place where you find things to play with.

but cats love to play and they love sleeping in boxes so this is fine actually!

...right?

claudia knows herself much better than anyone else in this show. she is a cat in a kitten's body.

the thing you always have to keep in mind about cats is that they are not docile and subservient by nature. they don't do things because they are told but because they choose to. a cat's fur may be pretty and soft to touch, but don't forget those sharp teeth and claws! it's not that they don't like to be pet at all, you just have to get permission first. and even if you do, they might just change their mind, as is their right.

cats do like good company but they also like their independence. they prefer to come and go as they please; not to be locked up inside, and not to be kept on leashes. they like boxes because they feel safe in there, but they also like to jump out for play time: hunt! catch! kill!

they may be small and cute and soft but they're still predators, and brutal ones. if they don't get to hunt for their food in your care, you better find them another outlet or they'll go for your ankles. they developed that instinct to survive, but hunting also happens to be fun! cats love to play with their food.

if you manage to earn their trust, they'll make for wonderful companions—but do not make the mistake of assuming you can ever own them... or you'll have to sleep with one eye open like they do. they're quick and clever but also patient, and they know how to move without a sound. let them out of your sight for even a second, and you won't know what hit you until it's too late. and they'll relish the kill!

no matter how others may speak of her, claudia is not a lap dog, nor a bird in a feathered nest. lestat is not a beauceron herding sheep, and his last name does not make him a lion. the three of them are not fellow dogs either. from the very beginning, claudia knows she's a cat. and by the end, she realizes what lestat let slip in the pilot: he's just an overgrown fucking rat. and while “a cat and a rat” rhymes, that does not mean they're the same thing.

#vampterview #spark in the dark #interview with the vampire #hopefully this inspires me to finally make that pig reference compilation soon that's another great motif #also there's some fish stuff which i don't really have a great handle on yet. i should probably make the compilation just to figure it out #iwtv #claudia #s #iwtv animals

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nalyra-dreaming · 22 days

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Spark in the dark

I have been thinking about Louis calling Claudia a "spark in the dark", because the show has put quite an emphasis on "spark", and the description for Claudia is actually a derivation of something Lestat says about Louis in the books (TtotBT):

"He was pale as always, an artful glimmer in the dark."

Lestat also addresses Louis in episode 2 of the show with "there's the spark", when it becomes clear that Louis has been transformed successfully. The spark of life, the spark that was missing in Nicolas' eyes.

The spark of life.

I also find the line "a spark in the dark" so interesting, because it contains a temporal element, in contrast to the more lasting "glimmer".

There, and gone again, flaring brightly and then... gone.

The... meta commentary is almost brutally direct here (the absence of metaphor is striking once more), on several levels, because Claudia's brief life and the manner of her death are both insinuated and addressed in the same instance. A brief life. A bright burn and then...

That little change in the word encapsulates both Claudia's life, and also Louis', his "glimmer", a flickering light that is unsteady, but more lasting nonetheless.

#once more this show does its homework #I want to shake them #spark in the dark #artful glimmer in the dark #amc iwtv #iwtv #amc interview with the vampire #interview with the vampire amc #iwtv amc #iwtv 2022 #interview with the vampire #iwtv louis #louis de pointe du lac #beautiful one #iwtv claudia #claudia de lioncourt

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