11 Distressed Movie Characters Who Couldn't Kill Themselves To End Their Pain
10. Louis De Pointe Du Lac - Interview With The Vampire
Brad Pitt's mooning vampire, who decides to tell the world about the existence of his world is a portrait of suicidal urges: he first lives with a death wish when his wife and child are killed, but ultimately requests life when Lestat (Tom Cruise) bites him and offers death. At that stage it is fear that keeps him alive, but later, when he attempts to take his own life after killing his servant Yvette, he is foiled by Lestat's successful rescue attempt. Quite why he never attempts to kill himself later remains unclear, though he seems more intrigued by the nature of vampires, and ultimately resolved that he is bound by his fate to be the "very spirit of preternatural flesh; detached, unchangeable, empty." Interview With The Vampire might be Brad Pitt's movie, but all of the scene-stealing comes from the darkly charismatic Lestat, who should have been given his own movie by now (and who probably would have if Warner Bros hadn't been overcome by stress, the poor dears.) Cruise's visceral performance as the vampire is deeply affecting, both when he is in the ascendancy and when he is suffering the half-life given to him by Claudia's attempt to kill him for changing her. Even when he loses his early swagger and lives in shadows for hundreds of years, he remains an entirely charming character, though he too is marked by the same inability to kill himself during his despair as his former charge.
Brad Pitt's mooning vampire, who decides to tell the world about the existence of his world is a portrait of suicidal urges: he first lives with a death wish when his wife and child are killed, but ultimately requests life when Lestat (Tom Cruise) bites him and offers death. At that stage it is fear that keeps him alive, but later, when he attempts to take his own life after killing his servant Yvette, he is foiled by Lestat's successful rescue attempt. Quite why he never attempts to kill himself later remains unclear, though he seems more intrigued by the nature of vampires, and ultimately resolved that he is bound by his fate to be the "very spirit of preternatural flesh; detached, unchangeable, empty." Interview With The Vampire might be Brad Pitt's movie, but all of the scene-stealing comes from the darkly charismatic Lestat, who should have been given his own movie by now (and who probably would have if Warner Bros hadn't been overcome by stress, the poor dears.) Cruise's visceral performance as the vampire is deeply affecting, both when he is in the ascendancy and when he is suffering the half-life given to him by Claudia's attempt to kill him for changing her. Even when he loses his early swagger and lives in shadows for hundreds of years, he remains an entirely charming character, though he too is marked by the same inability to kill himself during his despair as his former charge.