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{4449}{4517}So you want me to tell|you the story of my life. {4523}{4603}Like I said, that's what I do.|I interview people. {4607}{4645}I'm a collector of lives. {4647}{4689}FM radio, KFRC. {4693}{4753}You'll need a lot of tape for my story. {4757}{4819}No problem. I got a bag full of tape. {4849}{4901}You followed me here, didn't you? {4915}{4961}Yeah, I suppose I did. {4973}{5019}You seemed very interesting. {5047}{5089}This is where you live? {5099}{5123}No. {5127}{5165}It's just a room. {5227}{5281}What do you say we get started? {5353}{5389}What do you do? {5393}{5431}I'm a vampire. {5495}{5553}I haven't heard that before. {5563}{5619}You mean this literally, I take it? {5623}{5657}Absolutely. {5677}{5733}I was waiting for you in that alley. {5739}{5791}Watching you watching me. {5813}{5859}And then you began to speak. {5883}{5935}What a lucky break for me. {5939}{5985}Perhaps lucky for both of us. {6079}{6131}You said you were... {6135}{6175}...waiting for me. {6185}{6263}What were you going to do?|Kill me, drink my blood? {6267}{6293}Yes. {6317}{6369}But you needn't be concerned now. {6427}{6507}You really believe this, don't you,|that you're a vampire? {6525}{6571}We can't begin this way. {6575}{6617}Let me turn on the light. {6635}{6715}-I thought vampires didn't like light.|-We love it. {6747}{6801}I only wanted to prepare you. {6857}{6881}Christ! {6883}{6925}Don't be frightened. {6941}{6989}I want this opportunity. {6997}{7043}How the hell did you do that? {7045}{7083}The same as you do. {7097}{7155}A series of simple gestures. {7159}{7217}Only I moved too fast for you to see. {7249}{7287}I'm flesh and blood... {7291}{7329}...but not human. {7341}{7417}I haven't been human for 200 years. {7461}{7489}Please.... {7693}{7741}How can I put you at ease? {7751}{7813}Shall we begin like "David Copperfield"? {7817}{7845}"I am born..." {7847}{7878}"...I grew up." {7923}{8027}Or shall we begin when I was|born to darkness, as I call it. {8063}{8129}That's where we should start,|don't you think? {8179}{8227}You're not lying, are you? {8253}{8293}Why should I lie? {8341}{8398}1791 was the year it happened. {8519}{8561}I was 24. {8565}{8615}Younger than you are now. {8627}{8705}But times were different then.|I was a man at that age. {8709}{8807}The master of a large plantation,|just south of New Orleans. {8885}{8945}I had lost my wife in childbirth. {8949}{9027}She and the infant had been|buried less than half a year. {9053}{9107}I would've been happy to join them. {9165}{9227}I couldn't bear the pain of their loss. {9235}{9293}I longed to be released from it. {9599}{9647}I wanted to lose it all: {9651}{9687}my wealth... {9703}{9739}...my estate... {9751}{9789}...my sanity. {9987}{10033}How many aces are in a deck? {10043}{10087}Are you calling me a cheat? {10159}{10229}No, I'm calling you a piece of stinking offal! {10365}{10433}You lack the courage of your convictions.|Do it! {10449}{10517}Most of all, I longed for death. {10525}{10563}I know that now. {10579}{10619}I invited it. {10641}{10703}A release from the pain of living. {11213}{11277}My invitation was open to anyone. {11295}{11347}To the whore at my side. {11371}{11423}To the pimp that followed. {11475}{11547}But it was a vampire that accepted. {12179}{12227}Give me your money or you die! {13059}{13103}Do you still want death? {13109}{13159}Or have you tasted it enough? {13163}{13191}Enough. {13421}{13497}He left me there, on the banks|of the Mississippi... {13523}{13597}...somewhere between life and death. {14039}{14103}Who are you?|What're you doing in my house? {14124}{14188}I've come to answer your prayers. {14247}{14305}Life has no meaning anymore...does it? {14400}{14452}The wine has no taste. {14456}{14504}The food sickens you. {14506}{14578}There seems no reason for any of it...|does there? {14700}{14759}What if I could give it back to you? {14767}{14805}Pluck out the pain... {14807}{14856}...and give you another life? {14871}{14927}One you could never imagine. {14953}{15003}And it would be...for all time. {15060}{15092}And sickness... {15096}{15132}...and death... {15136}{15192}...could never touch you again. {15232}{15268}Don't be afraid. {15287}{15347}I'm going to give you the choice... {15351}{15375}...I... {15383}{15419}...never had. {15644}{15707}That morning, I was not yet a vampire... {15712}{15779}...and I saw my last sunrise. {15796}{15851}I remember it completely... {15867}{15948}...and yet I can't recall|any sunrise before it. {16003}{16091}I watched the whole magnificence|of the dawn for the last time... {16095}{16139}...as if it were the first. {16235}{16299}And then I said farewell to sunlight... {16301}{16350}...and set out to become... {16352}{16377}...what I became. {16871}{16939}Have you said your good-byes to the light? {17475}{17512}I've drained you... {17516}{17567}...to the point of death. {17595}{17644}If I leave you here... {17648}{17680}...you'll die. {17708}{17730}Or... {17756}{17832}...you can be young always, my friend... {17860}{17904}...as we are now. {17940}{17987}But you must tell me... {18000}{18034}...will you come... {18036}{18063}...or no? {18156}{18187}Yes. {18316}{18348}Yes. {19867}{19912}Your body's dying. {19919}{19959}Pay no attention. {19975}{20020}It happens to us all. {20743}{20770}Now look... {20772}{20828}...with your vampire eyes. {21272}{21307}What did you see? {21328}{21379}No words can describe it. {21419}{21479}Might as well ask Heaven what it sees. {21483}{21524}No human can know. {21560}{21623}The statue seemed to move, but didn't. {21636}{21707}The world had changed,|yet stayed the same. {21740}{21835}I was a newborn vampire,|weeping at the beauty of the night. {21972}{22028}Perhaps you'd like another cigarette? {22059}{22123}I would. It's not bothering you, is it? {22128}{22223}I don't assume it would.|It's not like you'll die from cancer. {22240}{22279}I don't think so. {22324}{22384}-What about crucifixes?|-Crucifixes? {22388}{22435}Can you look at them? {22439}{22509}Actually, I'm quite fond of|looking at crucifixes. {22531}{22580}And the stake through the heart? {22584}{22611}Nonsense. {22615}{22644}And coffins? {22667}{22699}Coffins. {22703}{22768}Coffins, unfortunately, are a necessity. {22831}{22864}Don't worry. {22888}{22916}Soon... {22928}{23011}...you'll be sleeping as|soundly as you've ever slept. {23051}{23096}And when you awake... {23120}{23167}...I'll be waiting for you... {23187}{23248}...and so will all the world. {23455}{23535}Blood, I was to find,|was a necessity as well. {23559}{23652}I awoke the next evening with|a hunger I had never felt. {23692}{23743}Once you taste this... {23747}{23823}...you'll never go to another tavern again. {23835}{23875}You think so? {23899}{23972}But what if I'd rather taste your lips? {23984}{24047}My lips are even sweeter still. {24416}{24460}My friend... {24472}{24531}...should taste those lips. {24536}{24563}Is his... {24568}{24596}...kiss... {24600}{24629}...as deep... {24631}{24667}...as yours? {24696}{24740}Deeper, ma chérie. {25539}{25591}I will not take her life. {25619}{25660}I've done it for you. {25728}{25764}She's dead... {25788}{25844}...as a doornail, my friend. {26016}{26096}It's so easy, you almost feel sorry for them. {26256}{26296}You'll get used to killing. {26298}{26362}Just forget about that mortal coil. {26376}{26444}You'll become accustomed to it,|all too quickly. {26634}{26670}Are you not hungry? {26672}{26714}Au contraire, ma chérie. {26716}{26764}He could eat the whole colony. {27216}{27246}I will finish it. {27248}{27278}Now leave us. {27468}{27514}Can't you pretend, you fool? {27526}{27578}Don't give the game away. {27582}{27638}We're lucky to have such a home. {27872}{27932}Pretend to drink, at least. {28048}{28112}Such fine crystal shouldn't go to waste. {28620}{28650}I know. {28656}{28704}It gets cold so quickly. {28712}{28750}We can live like this? {28752}{28788}On animal blood? {28792}{28868}I wouldn't call it living. Call it surviving. {28880}{28946}Useful trick if you're on a ship for a month. {29010}{29082}There's nothing in the world|now that doesn't hold some.... {29084}{29116}Fascination. {29142}{29168}Yes. {29201}{29272}-I'm bored with this prattle.|-We can live without killing. {29274}{29304}It's possible. {29310}{29346}Anything is possible. {29348}{29396}But just try it for a week. {29406}{29514}Come into New Orleans and let|me show you some real sport. {29758}{29838}Lestat killed two, sometimes three a night. {29858}{29900}A fresh young girl... {29904}{29973}...was his favorite for|the first of the evening. {29990}{30074}For seconds, he preferred a gilded,|beautiful youth. {30112}{30194}But the snob in him|loved to hunt in society. {30210}{30286}The blood of the aristocrat|thrilled him best of all. {30312}{30376}The trick is not to think about it. {30384}{30418}You see that one? {30420}{30456}Widow St. Clair. {30462}{30560}She had that gorgeous young fop|murder her husband. {30570}{30603}How do you know? {30636}{30674}Read her thoughts. {30728}{30770}Read her thoughts. {30910}{30942}I can't. {30984}{31048}The "dark gift" is different for each of us. {31056}{31156}But one thing is true of everyone.|We grow stronger as we go along. {31178}{31226}Just take my word for it. {31252}{31314}She blamed a slave for his murder. {31318}{31368}Imagine what they did to him. {31386}{31460}Evil-doers are easier, and they taste better. {32228}{32264}Where are we going? {32446}{32474}Nowhere. {32500}{32576}Now, young man, you really amaze me! {32642}{32720}I'm old enough to be your grandmother. {33060}{33118}Oh, yes, that's the melody. {33130}{33170}I remember it. {33458}{33496}Murderer! {33508}{33540}My little papillons! {33542}{33602}My butterflies, he killed them! {33674}{33730}You... whining coward of a vampire... {33732}{33820}...who prowls killing rats and poodles!|You could've finished us! {33838}{33872}You've condemned me to Hell! {33874}{33913}I don't know any Hell. {34032}{34076}That's more like it! {34082}{34114}Anger! Fury! {34118}{34180}That's why I chose you! {34304}{34366}But you can't kill me, Louis. {34530}{34560}Feed... {34574}{34616}...on what you will. {34628}{34672}Rats, chickens... {34676}{34704}...poodles. {34732}{34774}I'll leave you to it... {34780}{34832}...and watch you come around. {34838}{34864}Remember: {34874}{34924}Life without me... {34928}{34968}...would be even more... {34972}{35004}...unbearable. {36420}{36468}Consider yourself lucky. {36494}{36570}In Paris, a vampire must be|clever for many reasons. {36594}{36618}Paris? {36626}{36694}Here all one needs is a pair of fangs.
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