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| Louis de Pointe du Lac | |
| Continuity: | Vampire Chronicles |
| Notability: | Main character |
| Type: | Business owner |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Vampire |
| Location: | Pointe du Lac, Louisiana San Francisco, California |
| Relatives: | Paul de Pointe du Lac [1] Lestat de Lioncourt [2] Madeleine [3] Merrick Mayfair [4] |
| Status: | Undead |
| Born: | October, 1766 |
| Died: | 1791 [5] |
| First: | Interview with the Vampire |
| Actor: | Brad Pitt Jacob Anderson |
Louis de Pointe du Lac is a fictional vampire and one of the central characters featured in "The Vampire Chronicles" line of novels. He was created by author Anne Rice and first appeared in the 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire, published by Knopf. The character has appeared in several follow-up novels and was brought to unlife on the big screen in the Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles feature film by director Neil Jordan. He was played by actor Brad Pitt in the film. Louis de Pointe du Lac was also a main character on the Interview with the Vampire television series on AMC and was played by actor Jacob Anderson. The character was also featured in the Interview with the Vampire comic book limited series published by Innovation Comics in 1991.
Biography[]
Louis de Pointe du Lac grew up to become a plantation owner at Pointe du Lac in Louisiana - a short distance from New Orleans. As a young man, most of Louis' family members had passed away, but Louis was deeply affected by the unexpected death of his younger brother, Paul. Paul's death cast Louis into a state of great despair, and he abandoned his management of Point du Lac to engage in acts of self-destructive behavior.
In the year 1791, a despondent Louis courted death - extending an open invitation to anyone willing to give him release from the pain of living. But it was a vampire that accepted it. Lestat de Lioncourt - a French aristocrat attacked Louis, drinking his blood. He offered Louis the "dark gift" of vampirism, which Louis accepted. Lestat coveted the use of Louis' plantation, but also wanted a companion in death.
Lestat moved into Pointe du Lac with his aging father and gave Louis meager instruction in how to survive as a vampire. The two became inseparable companions as Louis adjusted to his new un-life. Unlike Lestat, who took great joy from feeding off of humans, Louis did not wish to feed of humans, preferring instead to sustain himself by feeding off of rats and dogs.
In 1794, Louis was delirious with hunger and near to the point of starvation. He happened upon a five-year-old girl named Claudia, who was grieving over the bodies of her parents, who had succumbed to plague. Unable to resist his hunger any further, Louis attacked Claudia, drinking deep from her, and leaving her for dead. Lestat was amused at Louis' seeming hypocracy and his previous oath to never feed off of humans. Lestat gave the near-dead Claudia the "dark gift", and turned her into a vampire. Claudia joined Louis and Lestat as their new traveling companion. Louis formed a deep love for the child that endured for the remainder of her years.
Claudia, enraged at being forever trapped in the body of a child, attempted to murder her maker, Lestat. Believing Lestat dead, Louis and Claudia left America and traveled to Paris to visit the Théâtre des Vampires. There, they met Armand, who was the oldest vampire they had ever encountered. Louis developed a romantic attachment with Armand and wanted to leave Claudia to be with him. Louis turned a dollmaker named Madeleine into a vampire, so she could serve as a mother to Claudia, thus freeing Louis from acting as her caretaker. When Armand discovered that Claudia had broken vampire law by attempting to kill her maker, he had her executed by exposing her to sunlight. In a fit of rage, Louis locked all of the vampires inside the theater, then burned it to the ground, destroying all of the vampires within, but for Armand. Louis and Armand left Paris to travel the world together.
Louis lived well into the modern era. Living in San Francisco, he decided that he had wanted to share the story of his experiences. He contacted a journalist named Daniel Molloy, who documented Louis' life in a series of recorded interviews. [6]
Abilities[]
- Vampirism: In addition to the various mental and physical benefits that vampires are heir to, they also possess the ability to turn others into vampires as well. Each new vampire is traditionally subservient to the one who "turned" them, but some strong-willed vampires have been known to rebel against their masters.
- Enhanced senses: Vampires have improved several times higher than those of any human being of course these skills can vary depending on each person they will have some other stronger senses of his companions always given the dedication and training that each set to improve ways. Among the main ways that vampires have improved we find the following:
- Immortality: So long as vampires continue to consume blood, they will not age beyond the physical state they were in when they first became a vampire.
- Invulnerability: Vampires are invulnerable to most forms of injury (certain exceptions apply). Bullets, blades and blunt objects do little to no damage to a vampire's body.
- Regeneration: In addition to being virtually indestructible, whatever damage a vampire does in fact suffer can be healed through the consumption of human blood.
- Superhuman strength: A vampire's strength level is several times that of a normal human being and they are considered superhuman.
- Superhuman stamina: So long as they continue to consume human blood, a vampire can function tirelessly without rest or relaxation. However, a vampire's stamina wanes the closer it is to sunrise.
- Psychokinesis: Most vampires possess some form of psychokinesis. Some are clairvoyant, others can communicate telepathically, some possess mind control. Particularly powerful vampires can control the minds of several people at once.
- Hypnosis: Vampires possess the ability to hypnotize or mesmerize human targets. This may become difficult against opponents with an extremely high will power. It often doesn't work against other supernatural creatures. In some cases, vampire mesmerism may be referred to as "glamouring".
- Transformation: Vampires often possess the ability to transform into a variety of creatures or effects such as bats, wolves, rats or even mist. While their physical attributes may fluctuate during such states, a vampire's mental acuity is the same as that when they are in their human shape. A vampire who transforms into an animal may also benefit from that particular animal's attributes including razor-sharp claws, fangs or the ability to fly.
- Metamorphosis: Only vampires with a more advanced powers Control demonstrate the ability of altering either its appearance to imitate other people or in such cases selective transformation for creating claws to increase the lethal capability of its attacks in extreme cases and only vampires with a capacity of very advanced monitoring capabilities such change would show how elements, elasticity and other capabilities which vary depending on their ability, imagination and control, because as you know some vampires are stronger than others.
- Claws: Vampires can often turn their fingernails into sharpened claws, which are extremely durable and sharp. They are ideal for rending and tearing through flesh, though they are not as effective as the claws possessed by a werewolf.
- Fangs: A vampire's most often-used weapon are her fangs. They are enlarged sharpened canine teeth, which are often retractable so as to allow a vampire the ability to pose as a normal human. The primary purpose of fangs is for feeding, which they use to puncture the jugular vein of a victim in order to get to their blood.
Notes & Trivia[]
- The version of the character that appears in the Interview with the Vampire television series differs greatly from the one from the novel. Whereas Anne Rice's Louis was an 18th century white plantation owner, the AMC version of the character is a black man from the early 1900s, who owns several night clubs and lounges in the Storyville neighborhood of New Orleans.
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External Links[]
- Louis de Pointe du Lac at Wikipedia
- Louis de Pointe du Lac at Comic Vine
- Louis de Pointe du Lac at The Vampire Chronicles