1994_11 The Daily Collegian November 1994

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Tuesday, November 15, 1994.
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Struggles, from Page 2
one another to be receptive
ozone's opinions and re¬
frain from violenfce.
Iurgestudentstotakepart
in today's open rally. It be¬
gins at 11 a.m. and will be
followed by an address by
President John Welty.
It will be an open forum
for students, regardless of
color or ideology, to com¬
municate.
Lef s hot let the issues di-~
vide us, rather we need to
work together to address
our concerns and under¬
stand one another, however
different our opinions ah^
cultures may be.
Protest, from Page 2
As far a I am concerned, they
can go bade to Mexico for good I
admit that this country is not per¬
fect, but it is better living he re
than in some other countries.
There axe many issues that
need addressing and reform, but
flag burning will not accomplish
this. What it will do is dose minds
and increase tensions. When I
saw those people screaming,
shouting and acting like luna¬
tics, I felt that they were a bunch
of thieves that want to take ad¬
vantage of the system but not
contribute to it like most of us do
(like by paying taxes). I now
longer support the opposition to
187 I am now in favor in 187 and
I hope the courts do not rule it as
unconstitutional.
Bryon Spied
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questions like: How did vampires
come tobe,and from where? Why
do they possess such powers and
limitations? What is their pur¬
pose in the universe?
Having no answers, and sens¬
ing that he may lose Louis to a
quest for self-knowledge, Lestat
takes advantage of a weak mo¬
ment for Louis and fashions a
"daughter" for them both:
Claudia (Kirsten Durs&
A wee slip of a girl, she sur¬
prises them both with her feroc¬
ity and her tenderness. Unknown
to the other two, Lestat has bro¬
ken a hallowed rule among vam¬
pires by*taking Claudia as a girl.
As the years and decades pass,
her doomed yearning for a full
womanly form Smolders into
madness. Seeing that Lestat won't
let them go easily, Claudia vi-
dously betrays him, and she and
Louis set passage for Paris.
While not finding much re¬
garding his long-sought answers,
, Louis does find another compan¬
ion in Arjnand (Antonio
Balderas.) Claiming to be the
world'soldest vampire, A rmand
lives among a troupe of vampires
in richly detailed Parisian cata¬
combs, but he doesn't have much
use for the others. When the
troupe passes judgment on
Claudia for apparently killing
Lestat, Armand does nothing for
her and belatedly rescues Louis;
when Louis exacts his revenge,
he again lets events take their
course. -   ;
Deprived of his beloved
Claudia,Louis wanders theglobe
for years, and eventually returns
to his native America. Providing
no insight into most of the impor¬
tant events or changes of the 20th
century, Louis brings tiWunter-
viewer nearly up to the present
day. He does espouse a deli-
dbusly ironic fondness for one
modern invention: the movies,
which allow him to vicariously
(and safely) view the sun, after
„more than a century of existence
without this minor pleasure mor¬
tals take for granted.
The last portion of the infer-
view reveals that Louis very re¬
cently learned that Lestat, left for N
dead decades past, indeed still
lived, subsisting on a diet of rats
that he once scorned Louis for. .
Ending the interview on a note of
sad emptiness, Louis regrets only
that he chose an interviewer too
eager to join him in vampiracy.
He leaves Malloy with many
questions unanswered.
Driving out onto the Golden
Gate, Malloy plays the first tape
of this interview that will make
his career, and right on cur, Lestat
makes an obligatory return.
Handsome and vital as ever, he
again offers the choice kite de¬
nied him, and the film ends all
but guaranteeing a string of se¬
quels.        - f
Difdrtor Neal Ionian ('The
Crying Game") makes good use
of the product? on elements at his
command. His cast mostly hit
their marks well and true, though
be'fcurly warned: Crowds may
flock to the film because of the
See Vampire, Page 8
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