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1、英语电影剧本夜访吸血鬼Interview With The VampireINTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIREAdapted by Neil JordanFrom the novel by Anne RiceINT. ROOM. NIGHT (SAN FRANCISCO)A small bare room, illuminated only by the streetlight coming through the window. A hand presses a cassette into a recorder and fiddles with a small microph

2、one. Malloy sits over a table fiddling with the tape. He is young, half-shaven, dressed in T shirt and jeans. He looks too - LOUIS, who stands by the window, looking out on the streeet, with his back to Mallowy. Louis is dressed in an old-fashioned suit. LOUIS So you want me to tell you the story of

3、 my life. MALLOYThats what I do. I interview people. I collect lives. F.M. radio. F.F.R.C. I just interviewed a genuine hero, a cop who - LOUIS(quietly interrupting) Youd have to have a lot of tape for my story. Ive had a very unusual life. MALLOYSo much the better. Ive got a pocket full of tapes. L

4、OUIS You followed me here, didnt you? MALLOY Saw you in the street outside. You seemed interesting. Is this where you live? LOUIS Its just a room. MALLOY So shall we begin? (Playfully, almost teasing) What do yo do? LOUIS Im a vampire. Malloy laughs. MALLOY See? I knew you were interesting. You mean

5、 this literally, I take it? LOUIS Absolutely. I was watching you watching me. I was waiting for you in that alleyway. And then you began to speak. MALLOY Well, what a lucky break for me. LOUIS Perhaps lucky for both of us. Still in shadow he turns from the window and approaches the table. LOUIS Ill

6、tell you my story. All of it. Id like to do that very much. Malloy is uneasy as he studies the shadowy figure, fascinated but afraid. MALLOY You were going to kill me? Drink my blood? LOUIS Yes but you neednt worry about that now. Things change. Louis stands opposite, hand on the chair. Malloy is ri

7、veted. MALLOY You believe this, dont you? That youre a vampire? You really think. LOUIS We cant begin this way. Let me turn on the light. MALLOY But I thought vampires didnt like the light. LOUIS We love it. I only wanted to prepare you. Louis pulls the chord of the overhead naked light bulb. LOUIS

8、FACE appears inhumanly white, eyes glittering. Inhuman or not alive. the effect is subtle, beautiful and ghastly. MALLOY Good God! He struggles to suppress fear and understand. LOUIS Dont be frightened. I want this opportunity. The light appears to go out by itself and suddenly Louis is in the chair

9、, dimly lit by the street-light from the window. The cassette is turning. MALLOY How did you do that? LOUIS The same way you do it. A series of simple gestures. Only I moved too fast for you to see. Im flesh and blood, you see. But not human. I havent been human for two hundred years. Malloy is spee

10、chless, frightened yet enthralled. LOUIS What can I do to put you at ease? Shall we begin like David Copperfield? I am born, I grow up. Or shall we begin when I was born to darkness, as I call it. Thats really where we should start, dont you think? MALLOY Youre not lying to me, are you? LOUIS Why sh

11、ould I lie? 1791 was the year it happened. I was twenty-four - younger than you are now. MALLOY Yes. LOUIS But times were different then. I was a man at that age. The master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans. DISSOLVE TO: EXT. LOUISIANA. DAY. (1791) A dishevelled Louis, hair in pigtail

12、, in deep pocket frock coat, rides his horse through the fields of indigo, passing an overseer and slaves at work. He passes slave quarters and the distant colonial mansion of Pointe du Lac. He comes to a small parish church and a graveyard. he dismounts and walks through the tombs to an elaborate o

13、ne in Greek Style. LOUIS (V.O.) I had just lost my wife in childbirth. She and the infant had been buried less than half a year. There is a marble angel above the tomb, feminine, with a tiny cherub angel in her arms. Louis looks from the angel, down to the inscriptions on the tomb: DIANNE DE POINTE

14、DU LAC 1763 - 1791 INFANT JEAN MARIE - 1791 Louis rps away the vines already covering the inscription, then drinks from a pocket-flask. His face is ashen. LOUIS (VO) I was twenty-four and life seemed finished. I couldnt bear the pain of thier loss. I longed for a release from it. INT. WATERFRONT TAV

15、ERN. NIGHT. Louis in ragged lace and dirty brocade sitting between two whores at a gaming table, drinking absinthe. All around him flatboatmen, whores, gamblers, black african freedmen. LOUIS (VO) I wanted to lose everything. My wealth, my estate, my sanity. But Lady Luck didnt oblige. Louis dsiplay

16、s a hand of four aces. A gambler at the table stands in fury, over turning money, cards, drinks. LOUIS Youre calling me a cheat? GAMBLER Im calling you a piece of shit - The gambler pulls out a pearl-handled pistol and points it at Louis. The crowd hushes and draws back. Louis smiles drunkenly and s

17、tands. he rips open his lace shirt, exposing his chest. LOUIS Then do me a favour. Get rid of this piece of shit. The gamblers finger on the trigger. His hand shakes. LOUIS You lack the courage of your convictions, sir. Do it. LESTAT, a hooded figure in the corner, smiles from beneath the shadow of

18、his hood. Gleaming blue eyes. LOUIS (VO) Most of all I longed for death. I know that now. I invited it, a release from the pain of living. The gambler lowers his gun, scowling. Louis pockets the fistfulls of coins he has won. EXT. WATERFRONT. NIGHT. Loud, crowded riverfront taverns full of ruffians.

19、 Louis staggers down, an arm around a whore, drinking from a bottle. A pockmarked pimp follows behind. LOUIS My invitation was open to anyone. Sailors, thieves, whores and slaves. EXT. WHARF. NIGHT. Louis, quite insensible, being propped up against a wall by the whore in a dank wharf over the water.

20、 The pimp rifles his pockets, then pulss a knife, about to slice his throat, when a shadow falls over him. He turns, and we see the face of Lestat, who lifts him into the air by his throat, breaking his neck. the whore screams and Lestats other hand clamps over her mouth. Lestat drags her towards hi

21、m. Louis falls to the ground, supported no more, insensible. Close on his face, as we hear the last breaths of life of the whore, off. LOUIS (VO) But it was a vampire that accepted. IN THE WATER - The bodies of the thief and whore float by. Above on the wharf, Louis, now awake, stares down at them.

22、He turns, to see Lestat, towering above him. LESTAT They would have killed you - LOUIS Then my luck would have changed. LESTAT You want death? Is it death you want? LOUIS Yes. Lestat floats down on top of him, then lifts him in the air, draws his head back by the hair and sinks his teeth in his neck

23、. ON LOUIS FACE - every muscle rigid, teeth clenched, as the blood is drained from him. ON THIER FEET - hovering above the ground, like two quivering dancers. THE WIND - billows through the ghostly white sails and rigging of the boats around the wharf. LESTAT - floats higher, with Louis in his arms,

24、 draining his blood. One hand reaches out and grips a rope, hanging from a shipmast. The other holds Louis. He withdraws his teeth, and looks into Louis drained face. LESTAT You still want death? Or have you tasted it enough? Louis can barely get the words out. LOUIS Enough. Lestat smiles and lets h

25、im go. Louis falls and plummets into the water below. LOUIS FACE - coming to the surface, in the water lapping by the wharf. The bodies of the whore and thief float beside him. He looks up and sees Lestat way above him, dangling from the rope of the shipmast. INT. ROOM. SAN FRANCISCO. ON MALLOYS FAC

26、E captivated, terrified, enthralled. MALLOY Thats how it happened? LOUIS No. The Gift of Darkness requires more than that, as youll see. EXT. WATERFRONT. DAY. Louis floating by mudflats, surrounded by dead fish, the carcases of animals, eighteenth century rubbish. He gets to his feet and walks weakl

27、y through the mudflats. The sun is coming up over the sea behind him. LOUIS (VO) He left me half dead that morning. he wanted something from me. He came back the following night. INT. LAVISH FRENCH-FURNISHED BEDROOM AT POINT DU LAC.Louis is delerious in a four-poster bed, shrouded with mosquito nett

28、ing. A female slave, YVETTE, bathes his face with a rag. She is crying. Other slave women hover in the shadows. Yvette puts out all candles save one by the bed, and withdraws, with the others. Candlelight flickers on the face of the bisque virgin.Louis tosses and turns, dreaming, murmuring incoheren

29、tly. Then he opens his eyes. LESTAT, exquisitely dressed in French clothing, stands by the bed smiling. In the light of the candle we see that he is not human; skin too white; eyes too bright. Lestat looks amiable, even mischevious, but impossible - and angel or monster. Louis grabs his pistol from

30、the table and cocks it. LOUIS Who the hell are you? What are you doing in my house? LESTAT And a beautiful house it is too. Yours is a good life, isnt it? Louis takes aim. Lestat puts his hand over the barrel. Louis fires. The bullet tears a hole in Lestats hand. Lestat is unfazed. He takes the gun

31、from Louis hand and throws it away. His hand begins to heal. LESTAT Youre not afraid of anything, are you? LOUIS Why should I be? Louis reaches for his sword, hanging by the bed, and point it. Lestat laughs indulgently. He draws closer. LESTAT Are you going to put that through me too? Ruin my beauti

32、ful clothes? He comes closer to Louis, right up to his face, so the sword passes through his waistcoat. LESTAT Were all last nights promises for nothing? He reaches out with his now-healed hand and plucks out the sword. LOUIS What do you want from me? LESTAT Ive come to answer your prayers. You want

33、 to die, dont you? Life has no meaning anymore, does it? Lestat sits down on the bed, drawing up one knee. Louis is becoming spellbound. LESTAT The wine has no taste. The food sickens you. There seems no reason for any of it, does there? But what if I could give it back to you? Pluck out the pain an

34、d give you another life? And it would be for all time? And sickeness and death could never touch you again? The vampire theme rises, with the sound of a heartbeat. Dissolve to: EXT. GRAVEYARD. NIGHT. The camera drifts through the graveyard where Louis wife is buring. Everything is lit with an eery g

35、low, as if seen through some unearthly eye. LESTAT Vampires, thats what we are. Creatures of darkness, only we see it that darkness more clearly than any mortal has ever seen. Louis and Lestat drifting, dreamlike, through the overhanging vines, comes to the grave of his wife and child. Above the cry

36、pt, the statue of angel, mother and child. LESTAT Wouldnt it be sweet to bid pain goodbye? To wave away anguish and grief? To embrace the peace of the unending night? The marble fingers of the child on the statue move. The angel raises her head and has the face of Louis wife, Diane. she raises her h

37、and and touches Louis tear-streamed face. The child speaks. MARBLE CHILD Papa. Louis reaches out to embrace them and finds himself touching cold marble. He cries out in anguish- LOUIS Diane! LESTAT They are gone, Louis. Death took them. Death which you can now destroy. LOUIS NO! INT. LOUIS BEDROOM.

38、NIGHT. Louis, thrashingon the bed in a delerium. Lestat places a hand on his forehead and soothes him. LESTAT You have to ask me for this. You have to want it, do you hear me? LOUIS Give it to me! LESTAT Vampires. We thrive on blood. LOUIS I want it! Lestat bends close as if to drink Louis blood. Lo

39、uis does not shrink back, but stares into his eyes. Lestat draws back, then stands up and goes to the French doors. LESTAT Tomorrow night. You must prove yourself. I will give you the choice I never had. He looks outside. LESTAT The suns coming up. Watch it carefully. If you come with me tomorrow, y

40、oull never see it again. He leaves. Louis sits dazed, staring at the empty French window. The sun rises with unnatural beauty, over the swamplands and the plantation, filling the room, striking water-pitcher, glass, mirror, and the picture of his dead wife. LOUIS (VO) My last sunrise. That morning I

41、 was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, yet I dont remember any sunrise before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time, as if it were the first. And the I said goodbye to sunlight and went out to become what I became. EXT. PLANTATION. N

42、IGHT. Lestat and Louis walk through the slave quarters, huddles groups around fires, music, singing. The sound of whipping is heard. LESTAT Your grief has unhinged you. Youve let your estate rot. In the woods beyond the quarters, the white overseer is whipping a black slave, with horrifying savagery

43、. LESTAT You let your overseer run riot, work your slaves to the bone. Well start with him. LOUIS How do you mean, start? LESTAT Call him. Louis calls. LOUIS Carlos! The overseer turns and comes towards them, with the bloodied whip. LESTAT Why the bloody whip, Carlos? The overseer looks into his eye

44、s, shivers with terror, drops the whip and runs for the trees. Lestat is on him in an instant. He sinks is teeth in his neck. Louis runs to him, tries to pull him off. But Lestat turns to Louis and smiles, with his bloodied mouth. LESTAT Lets call that a start. LOUIS I cant do it. LESTAT Youve just

45、done it - LOUIS Kill me if you will, but I cant do this. He flees, as Lestat ends to finish off the overseer. EXT. POINTE DU LAC. NIGHT. Louis running up the steps leading to the gallery. He is crazed with guilt. He looks up and sees - LESTAT - Sitting collected at the head of the steps. LOUIS Backs

46、 away as Lestat rises and descends the steps so fluidly he hardly seems to move. LESTAT Dont worry. He was white trash, they come at two a penny. I dumped him in the swamp and untied the slave, licked his wounds clean. LOUIS Youre the devil, arent you? Thats who you are. LESTAT (GENTLY) I wish I wer

47、e. But if I were, what would I want with you? LOUIS I cant go through with it, I tell you. LESTAT Your perfect. Your bitter and youre strong. LOUIS But why do you want me? LESTAT Because youre as strong as I was when I was alive. Louis takes out his flask and drinks. Drunkely, he turns and heads for a nearby swamp. EXT. CEMETERY. NIGHT.