1、Adapted by Neil Jordan - From the novel by Anne Rice INT. 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 microphone. Malloy sits over a ta
2、ble 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 street, with his back to Malloy. Louis is dressed in an old-fashioned suit. LOUIS So you want me to tell you the
3、story of my life... MALLOY: That's 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) You'd have to have a lot of tape for my story. I've had a very unusual life. M
4、ALLOY So much the better. I've got a pocket full of tapes. LOUIS You followed me here, didn't you? MALLOY Saw you in the street outside. You seemed interesting. Is this where you live? LOUIS It's just a room... MALLOY So shall we begin? (Playfully
5、, almost teasing) What do yo do? LOUIS I'm a vampire. Malloy laughs. MALLOY See? I knew you were interesting. You mean this literally, I take it? LOUIS Absolutely. I was watching you watching me. I was waiting for you in that alleyway. And then you beg
6、an 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 I'll tell you my story. All of it. I'd like to do that very much. Malloy is uneasy as he s
7、tudies the shadowy figure, fascinated but afraid. MALLOY You were going to kill me? Drink my blood? LOUIS Yes but you needn't worry about that now. Things change. Louis stands opposite, hand on the chair. Malloy is riveted. MALLOY You believe this, don't
8、 you? That you're a vampire? You really think... LOUIS We can't begin this way. Let me turn on the light. MA
