1 00:00:36,411 --> 00:00:39,574 No, sir. 2 00:00:39,623 --> 00:00:40,988 There's a column in here 3 00:00:41,041 --> 00:00:43,408 about the history of this lovely square. 4 00:00:43,460 --> 00:00:44,996 It says that the man who designed it 5 00:00:45,045 --> 00:00:48,208 did so after the Place de Vosges in Paris. 6 00:00:48,257 --> 00:00:50,214 I can see that. 7 00:00:50,259 --> 00:00:51,875 Used to be called the Place d'Armes. 8 00:00:51,927 --> 00:00:53,042 I prefer that. Don't you? 9 00:00:53,095 --> 00:00:54,711 Mm-hmm. 10 00:00:54,763 --> 00:00:57,972 The Louisiana Purchase was signed here. 11 00:00:58,016 --> 00:01:00,132 Penny wise, franc foolish. 12 00:01:00,185 --> 00:01:02,973 Say anything about how they used to take runaway slaves, 13 00:01:03,021 --> 00:01:04,307 cut their heads off, 14 00:01:04,356 --> 00:01:07,974 and pike 'em on the iron gates as a warning? 15 00:01:08,026 --> 00:01:09,892 I'm only half way through. Let's see. 16 00:01:12,281 --> 00:01:15,774 Do you ever think that we... that's to say, our kind... 17 00:01:15,826 --> 00:01:19,820 were put on Earth for a larger purpose? 18 00:01:19,871 --> 00:01:22,203 I put you on this earth. 19 00:01:22,249 --> 00:01:24,115 Your purpose is to enjoy yourself. 20 00:01:24,167 --> 00:01:25,908 That can't be all there is. 21 00:01:25,961 --> 00:01:27,497 I know you don't believe that. 22 00:01:27,546 --> 00:01:28,957 Well, tell me what I believe, Louis. 23 00:01:29,006 --> 00:01:30,275 Excavate the hoarded thoughts buried 24 00:01:30,299 --> 00:01:32,540 beneath my damned soul. 25 00:01:32,593 --> 00:01:34,334 We can eat animals and be okay. 26 00:01:34,386 --> 00:01:36,252 Rats, cats, cattle. 27 00:01:36,305 --> 00:01:39,138 Is "okay" what you desire, Louis? 28 00:01:39,182 --> 00:01:40,547 Shall we walk the night 29 00:01:40,601 --> 00:01:42,387 as the gods of easily attainable dreams? 30 00:01:42,436 --> 00:01:46,725 I desire blood as much as you do. 31 00:01:46,773 --> 00:01:50,391 But I wonder, should we be more selective? 32 00:01:50,444 --> 00:01:53,027 What, only eat red-heads? The humanists? 33 00:01:53,071 --> 00:01:55,187 Define your terms. The worst of 'em. 34 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,028 And how would we go about determining that? 35 00:01:58,076 --> 00:02:00,408 We use our powers, read their minds. 36 00:02:00,454 --> 00:02:02,821 Hunting is pure instinct. 37 00:02:02,873 --> 00:02:05,706 Reason is a set of leg irons. 38 00:02:05,751 --> 00:02:08,960 The ones you admire... the poets, composers, 39 00:02:09,004 --> 00:02:11,541 the thoughtful man who designed this park 40 00:02:11,590 --> 00:02:13,547 you love so much... 41 00:02:13,592 --> 00:02:16,801 shouldn't we spare them the randomness of our killing? 42 00:02:16,845 --> 00:02:18,882 Every one of them is capable of abomination, 43 00:02:18,930 --> 00:02:20,671 even the ones worthy of admiration. 44 00:02:20,724 --> 00:02:25,139 Shakespeare, Brahms, this naturalist that fogs your mind. 45 00:02:25,187 --> 00:02:26,348 Got it off your bookshelf. 46 00:02:26,396 --> 00:02:27,727 Thrust them into circumstance, 47 00:02:27,773 --> 00:02:29,935 whisper to them their Lord, God and Savior 48 00:02:29,983 --> 00:02:31,348 is not listening, and you will see 49 00:02:31,401 --> 00:02:34,234 all kinds of depravity. 50 00:02:34,279 --> 00:02:37,772 They came from apes. We came from them. 51 00:02:37,824 --> 00:02:39,565 We should be better than they are. 52 00:02:39,618 --> 00:02:42,701 You refer to them as "they" to get on my better side. 53 00:02:44,456 --> 00:02:47,244 Try something for me, mon Cher. 54 00:02:47,292 --> 00:02:49,283 Say we come upon a murderer 55 00:02:49,336 --> 00:02:52,419 planting a flowerbed, thinking only of flowers. 56 00:02:52,464 --> 00:02:54,296 How long do we wait before his bloody deeds 57 00:02:54,341 --> 00:02:56,423 reveal themselves? As long as it takes. 58 00:02:56,468 --> 00:02:57,987 You haven't thought this through, Louis. 59 00:02:58,011 --> 00:03:00,423 You said you would try. 60 00:03:00,472 --> 00:03:04,136 Just gotta hold it in. Only another mile. 61 00:03:04,184 --> 00:03:06,721 So inebriated, he's worried he'll urinate all over himself. 62 00:03:06,770 --> 00:03:08,636 He's just a drunk. 63 00:03:08,689 --> 00:03:10,726 $18 in the dresser. 64 00:03:10,774 --> 00:03:12,435 She ain't never gon' miss it. 65 00:03:12,484 --> 00:03:15,226 Stealing from his mother for a new suit. 66 00:03:15,278 --> 00:03:17,485 Petty larceny. Starts with a suit. 67 00:03:17,531 --> 00:03:19,397 Soon, he'll be knocking over banks. 68 00:03:19,449 --> 00:03:20,814 You gon' take the serious or not? 69 00:03:20,867 --> 00:03:22,198 Wait. 70 00:03:22,244 --> 00:03:24,281 What's that I hear? Ah, yes. 71 00:03:24,329 --> 00:03:26,787 It's the angel of salvation passing over us. 72 00:03:26,832 --> 00:03:31,793 All these stupid people. Everybody's so stupid. 73 00:03:31,837 --> 00:03:33,703 Him. 74 00:03:33,755 --> 00:03:35,245 He steals from unfortunates, 75 00:03:35,298 --> 00:03:36,880 breaks into tenements 76 00:03:36,925 --> 00:03:40,293 and robs them of their meager possessions. 77 00:03:40,345 --> 00:03:42,586 And does that meet your satisfaction? 78 00:03:51,273 --> 00:03:53,113 Don't mind the shaking. I've snapped his spine. 79 00:03:53,150 --> 00:03:55,061 It's merely his nerves spasming. 80 00:03:57,654 --> 00:03:59,770 Well, go on. Here's your criminal biscuit. 81 00:03:59,823 --> 00:04:01,405 See how it tastes. 82 00:04:05,203 --> 00:04:08,867 Eat before your reason or his heart fails us. 83 00:04:21,052 --> 00:04:25,011 ♪ I've got some good news, honey ♪ 84 00:04:25,056 --> 00:04:28,174 ♪ An invitation to the Darktown Ball ♪ 85 00:04:28,226 --> 00:04:32,015 ♪ It's a very swell affair ♪ 86 00:04:32,063 --> 00:04:34,521 ♪ All the "high-browns" will be there ♪ 87 00:04:34,566 --> 00:04:36,273 New singer. 88 00:04:36,318 --> 00:04:40,528 She says she heard about the Azalea all the way in Atlanta. 89 00:04:40,572 --> 00:04:44,531 They talkin' about this place in Atlanta. 90 00:04:44,576 --> 00:04:45,987 You're angry. 91 00:04:46,036 --> 00:04:47,447 I'm pondering. 92 00:04:47,496 --> 00:04:49,362 Pondering what? 93 00:04:49,414 --> 00:04:50,700 Your night had nothing to do 94 00:04:50,749 --> 00:04:53,161 with ridding the world of criminals 95 00:04:53,210 --> 00:04:56,874 or finding some morality to buoy your existence. 96 00:04:58,924 --> 00:05:01,541 You're ashamed of what we are. 97 00:05:01,593 --> 00:05:04,005 Maybe I'm just pondering what I am. 98 00:05:05,347 --> 00:05:09,306 For the infinitesimal time, you're a vampire. 99 00:05:09,351 --> 00:05:12,560 Could you not use the word in my place of business? 100 00:05:12,604 --> 00:05:14,311 Place of business. 101 00:05:14,356 --> 00:05:17,565 A cover, an illusion to throw off the scent of the dogs. 102 00:05:17,609 --> 00:05:20,317 This illusion is frontin' a dozen businesses 103 00:05:20,362 --> 00:05:22,273 up and down Claiborne. Yes, yes. 104 00:05:22,322 --> 00:05:23,904 For every 20 people he kills, 105 00:05:23,949 --> 00:05:26,281 he makes one small businessman's dreams come true. 106 00:05:26,326 --> 00:05:29,569 Louis de Pointe du Lac, the Dark Prince of Iberville. 107 00:05:34,459 --> 00:05:37,997 Antoinette Brown, and I will be here all night long. 108 00:05:41,591 --> 00:05:45,004 I don't wanna kill people anymore. 109 00:05:45,053 --> 00:05:46,635 There it is. 110 00:05:48,765 --> 00:05:51,553 A fish that doesn't swim. 111 00:05:51,601 --> 00:05:53,433 A bird refusing to fly. 112 00:05:58,567 --> 00:06:00,979 You're going to struggle. 113 00:06:01,027 --> 00:06:03,860 I fear for the feline population of New Orleans. 114 00:06:03,905 --> 00:06:05,441 Mm. 115 00:06:05,490 --> 00:06:07,026 Your pianist has lost his passion. 116 00:06:07,075 --> 00:06:10,113 What? Mr. Morton, you have played 117 00:06:10,161 --> 00:06:11,743 the same melody, the very same way, 118 00:06:11,788 --> 00:06:13,404 for two weeks now. 119 00:06:13,456 --> 00:06:15,697 Your talent is immense, but your mind is elsewhere. 120 00:06:15,750 --> 00:06:17,115 Think you could do better, Jack? 121 00:06:17,168 --> 00:06:18,688 Well, I'm not being paid a small fortune 122 00:06:18,712 --> 00:06:20,123 on top of that tip jar to perform. 123 00:06:20,171 --> 00:06:21,912 My skills are irrelevant. 124 00:06:21,965 --> 00:06:25,003 People didn't come to hear you jabber, Mr. Lioncourt. 125 00:06:25,051 --> 00:06:27,418 Well, they didn't come here to hear you play either. 126 00:06:27,470 --> 00:06:28,960 Otherwise, you'd be in a concert hall 127 00:06:29,014 --> 00:06:30,721 and there'd be fewer prostitutes. 128 00:06:30,765 --> 00:06:33,848 Shut the hell up and let him play. 129 00:06:33,894 --> 00:06:35,430 This ain't your kinda music. 130 00:06:35,478 --> 00:06:38,140 You can pretend you're a vegetarian. 131 00:06:38,189 --> 00:06:40,430 I can pretend the fool. 132 00:06:41,735 --> 00:06:43,476 There he goes. 133 00:06:47,782 --> 00:06:50,399 Be my guest. Thank you. 134 00:06:50,452 --> 00:06:55,162 For our boys being shipped off to Europe, know your enemy. 135 00:06:55,206 --> 00:06:57,322 What's wrong with that man? 136 00:06:59,502 --> 00:07:01,118 Oh, hell no! 137 00:07:05,759 --> 00:07:08,000 Oh, didn't that get your dick wet, gents? 138 00:07:08,053 --> 00:07:09,635 Rate your limits, Mr. Morton. 139 00:07:09,679 --> 00:07:11,386 What you hear is genius. 140 00:07:11,431 --> 00:07:15,345 All I hear is a man who's never gotten his dick wet. 141 00:07:15,393 --> 00:07:17,509 Actually, the man had 20 children in his lifetime, 142 00:07:17,562 --> 00:07:20,179 and you're sort of stuck on that wet-dick zinger, Ferdinand. 143 00:07:22,275 --> 00:07:24,733 It's like your left hand on the piano, 144 00:07:24,778 --> 00:07:26,485 little walking patterns, isn't it? 145 00:07:46,591 --> 00:07:48,502 He admitted later there was nothing wrong 146 00:07:48,551 --> 00:07:51,293 with Jelly Roll's playing, only something he overheard 147 00:07:51,346 --> 00:07:54,680 in an alleyway... a steady gig for the band in Chicago. 148 00:07:54,724 --> 00:07:57,386 Jelly was going to leave me high and dry in a few days, 149 00:07:57,435 --> 00:07:59,096 and Lestat took umbrage. 150 00:07:59,145 --> 00:08:01,853 If I'm not mistaken, he improved the melody 151 00:08:01,898 --> 00:08:03,889 for what would later become the "Wolverine Blues". 152 00:08:03,942 --> 00:08:05,211 Wai... wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. 153 00:08:05,235 --> 00:08:06,771 Hold on there. 154 00:08:06,820 --> 00:08:09,903 You're saying Lestat wrote the "Wolverine Blues"? 155 00:08:09,948 --> 00:08:11,359 I can't be definitive. 156 00:08:11,408 --> 00:08:13,069 So much of that year was a blur. 157 00:08:13,118 --> 00:08:15,906 And you can imagine what time's inevitable hammer 158 00:08:15,954 --> 00:08:18,116 does to the minute details. 159 00:08:18,164 --> 00:08:19,370 This? 160 00:08:23,837 --> 00:08:25,248 Yes, that's it. 161 00:08:25,296 --> 00:08:26,707 Uh-huh. 162 00:08:28,341 --> 00:08:29,797 Yeah, you know, I gotta say, 163 00:08:29,843 --> 00:08:32,175 it's not so much the minute details, Louis, 164 00:08:32,220 --> 00:08:35,258 rather the total rewrite that's giving me pause here. 165 00:08:35,306 --> 00:08:37,422 I mean, 1973. 166 00:08:37,475 --> 00:08:39,011 He was a sow's ear, 167 00:08:39,060 --> 00:08:41,518 out of which nothing fine could be made. 168 00:08:41,563 --> 00:08:43,429 I was his complete superior, 169 00:08:43,481 --> 00:08:46,769 and I had been sadly cheated in having him for a teacher. 170 00:08:46,818 --> 00:08:48,684 2022. 171 00:08:48,737 --> 00:08:52,105 It was a cold winter that year, and Lestat was my coal fire. 172 00:08:52,157 --> 00:08:54,569 And I found myself, for the very first time, 173 00:08:54,617 --> 00:08:56,483 to anyone other than Paul, 174 00:08:56,536 --> 00:08:58,948 confiding my struggles to another man. 175 00:08:58,997 --> 00:09:00,453 San Francisco. 176 00:09:00,498 --> 00:09:03,911 He appeared frail and stupid to me, 177 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:08,579 a man made of dried twigs with a thin, carping voice. 178 00:09:08,631 --> 00:09:10,542 Dubai. 179 00:09:10,592 --> 00:09:14,711 I never allowed myself to feel emotionally close to anyone, 180 00:09:14,763 --> 00:09:16,845 much less a man. 181 00:09:16,890 --> 00:09:20,474 Lestat had surrounded me. 182 00:09:20,518 --> 00:09:23,601 The version we speak of now is the more nuanced portrait. 183 00:09:23,646 --> 00:09:26,308 Hmm. Or the more rehearsed. 184 00:09:26,357 --> 00:09:29,566 Perhaps I was mistaken about the "Wolverine Blues". 185 00:09:29,611 --> 00:09:31,477 Fuck the "Wolverine Blues". 186 00:09:31,529 --> 00:09:33,315 Ken Burns can choke on the footnotes. 187 00:09:33,364 --> 00:09:35,071 It's the abused-abuser 188 00:09:35,116 --> 00:09:38,154 psychological relationship I'm talking about. 189 00:09:38,203 --> 00:09:40,319 I do not consider myself abused. 190 00:09:40,371 --> 00:09:42,954 I mean, usually when you're a little too close to it, 191 00:09:42,999 --> 00:09:46,242 the abused still loves the abuser, 192 00:09:46,294 --> 00:09:48,706 but you flipped it completely on its head. 193 00:09:48,755 --> 00:09:50,166 I'm not a victim. 194 00:09:50,215 --> 00:09:51,501 50 years later, you talk like 195 00:09:51,549 --> 00:09:53,665 he was your soul mate, li... like... 196 00:09:53,718 --> 00:09:59,259 like you were locked in some fucked up gothic romance. 197 00:09:59,307 --> 00:10:00,763 Why? 198 00:10:00,809 --> 00:10:02,620 "I am in my Buick, staring in the rearview mirror 199 00:10:02,644 --> 00:10:06,012 at my daughter in the car seat, an hour after I gave Derek, 200 00:10:06,064 --> 00:10:09,022 a guy I don't know, the last 30 bucks I had. 201 00:10:09,067 --> 00:10:10,853 My editor reminds me, 202 00:10:10,902 --> 00:10:13,940 it's seven years before car seats are mandatory. 203 00:10:13,988 --> 00:10:17,856 My ex-wife reminds me, I never owned a Buick. 204 00:10:19,452 --> 00:10:23,537 This is the odyssey of recollection.” 205 00:10:27,585 --> 00:10:31,704 The tapes are an admitted performance. 206 00:10:32,715 --> 00:10:36,583 This is the premise of our interview. 207 00:10:36,636 --> 00:10:42,257 Half a century later, allow me my odyssey. 208 00:10:52,193 --> 00:10:54,605 Now who's performing? 209 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:20,882 You were the prince of your district. 210 00:11:20,930 --> 00:11:22,512 Lestat chased an American icon 211 00:11:22,557 --> 00:11:25,595 outta town because he loved you. 212 00:11:25,643 --> 00:11:29,181 1917 doesn't sound like it was such a bad year. 213 00:11:29,230 --> 00:11:32,268 Rigged to burn, Daniel. 214 00:11:32,317 --> 00:11:35,150 A silent bridge for your voice to float along. 215 00:11:35,195 --> 00:11:37,402 You talk like you play, Mr. Lioncourt. 216 00:11:37,447 --> 00:11:40,690 Lestat filled in for Jelly the next night. 217 00:11:40,742 --> 00:11:43,325 He and Miss Brown dazzled the waiting johns 218 00:11:43,369 --> 00:11:46,703 and invited their admirers back to the Rue Royale. 219 00:11:46,748 --> 00:11:49,911 So, the last one to leave never left? 220 00:11:49,959 --> 00:11:51,495 No. 221 00:11:51,544 --> 00:11:53,911 He would do his killing away from me now, 222 00:11:53,963 --> 00:11:56,705 out of respect, he said, for the choice I had made. 223 00:11:58,927 --> 00:12:00,543 'Round the back. 224 00:12:03,389 --> 00:12:05,380 The frolicking repeated itself 225 00:12:05,433 --> 00:12:07,674 every night for two weeks. 226 00:12:07,727 --> 00:12:09,593 They would add another song to their set 227 00:12:09,646 --> 00:12:11,057 and work on another at night, 228 00:12:11,105 --> 00:12:14,769 while I tried to adapt to my new diet. 229 00:12:14,817 --> 00:12:17,525 I barely had the energy to hold up a book. 230 00:12:17,570 --> 00:12:19,060 My libido was not what it had been. 231 00:12:19,113 --> 00:12:20,319 Hey! 232 00:12:20,365 --> 00:12:22,072 I understood the indulgence. 233 00:12:22,116 --> 00:12:23,572 I let it happen. 234 00:12:23,618 --> 00:12:25,825 Mr. Louis, you have to convince Lestat 235 00:12:25,870 --> 00:12:27,486 to keep playin'. 236 00:12:27,538 --> 00:12:30,701 Got a better chance makin' the Mississippi run north. 237 00:12:30,750 --> 00:12:32,353 We had a good run, but I did it for Louis. 238 00:12:32,377 --> 00:12:34,209 I do everything for Louis. 239 00:12:34,254 --> 00:12:36,040 Yeah, I heard that about you two. 240 00:12:36,089 --> 00:12:38,296 Oh? Well, what have you heard? 241 00:12:38,341 --> 00:12:39,547 I'm not a gossip. 242 00:12:39,592 --> 00:12:41,082 But I am. 243 00:12:41,135 --> 00:12:44,924 Well, people at the Azalea, they say... 244 00:12:44,973 --> 00:12:48,216 You're confusing me. 245 00:12:48,268 --> 00:12:51,226 Oh, come now. 246 00:12:51,271 --> 00:12:52,853 I don't bite. 247 00:12:55,650 --> 00:12:57,516 What do the employees of the Azalea say 248 00:12:57,568 --> 00:12:59,275 about Louis and Lestat? 249 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:00,651 I'll answer with a question. 250 00:13:00,697 --> 00:13:01,937 Mm-hmm. 251 00:13:01,990 --> 00:13:05,278 Are there two beds upstairs or one? 252 00:13:05,326 --> 00:13:06,566 Do you want to find out? 253 00:13:06,619 --> 00:13:08,826 No one goes upstairs, Miss Brown. 254 00:13:08,871 --> 00:13:10,737 Well, there's my answer. 255 00:13:10,790 --> 00:13:16,206 Still, what do you imagine confines us to a single note? 256 00:13:16,254 --> 00:13:19,292 Why not a chord? Why not a cluster? 257 00:13:19,340 --> 00:13:21,456 Oh, see, I'm the same. 258 00:13:21,509 --> 00:13:23,591 I like all sorts. 259 00:13:23,636 --> 00:13:25,252 I like soft hands. 260 00:13:25,305 --> 00:13:30,345 I like burnished complexions. 261 00:13:30,393 --> 00:13:32,680 I like men called Daddy. 262 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:40,059 Oh, your blouse is soaked in champagne. 263 00:13:40,111 --> 00:13:42,478 Bad Daddy. 264 00:13:42,530 --> 00:13:44,862 I was beginning to wonder about your manners. 265 00:13:44,907 --> 00:13:46,193 I'm hungry. 266 00:13:46,242 --> 00:13:48,324 Think I'm gon' get something to eat. 267 00:13:48,369 --> 00:13:50,736 Is the animal market still open? 268 00:13:50,788 --> 00:13:53,701 Enjoy yourselves. It's the purpose of livin'. 269 00:13:56,794 --> 00:13:59,081 He gets that way when he's hungry. 270 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:11,426 She burn quick? 271 00:14:11,476 --> 00:14:13,058 See for yourself. 272 00:14:16,898 --> 00:14:20,141 A dentist from Tallahassee. 273 00:14:20,193 --> 00:14:23,060 There's a dentistry convention in town. 274 00:14:23,112 --> 00:14:28,323 Sinister talk of molars and bicuspids around every corner. 275 00:14:28,368 --> 00:14:30,450 So, you didn't kill her. 276 00:14:30,495 --> 00:14:31,951 No. 277 00:14:31,996 --> 00:14:33,578 She has talents. 278 00:14:37,043 --> 00:14:38,659 Aren't I enough? 279 00:14:42,173 --> 00:14:43,379 D-Don't... 280 00:14:43,424 --> 00:14:44,789 Don't laugh. 281 00:14:44,842 --> 00:14:47,925 Louis. 282 00:14:47,970 --> 00:14:49,836 Don't laugh. Louis. 283 00:14:49,889 --> 00:14:52,472 Louis. 284 00:14:52,517 --> 00:14:53,882 You have some squirrel on your... 285 00:14:53,935 --> 00:14:55,346 No, don't. 286 00:14:55,395 --> 00:14:58,854 We'll be together 10,000, nights, 100,000. 287 00:14:58,898 --> 00:15:00,730 What we're doing is hard. 288 00:15:00,775 --> 00:15:03,517 Anything that wards off the dungs 289 00:15:03,569 --> 00:15:05,355 of the everlasting road we walk, 290 00:15:05,405 --> 00:15:08,363 the pleasures of the flesh, 291 00:15:08,408 --> 00:15:12,072 the pleasures of the kill, for me. 292 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:15,704 Pleasures of the Good Book by the fire for you. 293 00:15:15,748 --> 00:15:17,364 I can smell her on you. 294 00:15:19,752 --> 00:15:24,713 From time to time, I like a little variety. 295 00:15:28,177 --> 00:15:31,886 There. I said it. 296 00:15:31,931 --> 00:15:34,263 We're communicating so much better now, no? 297 00:15:39,939 --> 00:15:42,727 So, I can fuck whoever I want? 298 00:15:44,068 --> 00:15:46,776 Of course. 299 00:15:46,821 --> 00:15:49,233 Of course. 300 00:15:49,282 --> 00:15:51,068 Of course. 301 00:15:51,117 --> 00:15:53,575 As long as you come home to me. 302 00:15:53,619 --> 00:15:55,951 Of course. 303 00:15:57,623 --> 00:15:59,955 While the domestic front simmered on diet 304 00:16:00,001 --> 00:16:02,333 and sanctioned infidelity, 305 00:16:02,378 --> 00:16:06,121 the Western Front started receiving American troops. 306 00:16:07,842 --> 00:16:09,833 New Orleans was the last stop before France 307 00:16:09,886 --> 00:16:12,594 for many young men. 308 00:16:12,638 --> 00:16:15,300 And City Ordinance 4118 309 00:16:15,349 --> 00:16:18,933 tried to ensure Uncle Sam's money went into the right hands. 310 00:16:18,978 --> 00:16:22,221 Ordinance 4118. 311 00:16:22,273 --> 00:16:24,230 I could Google it, or you could... 312 00:16:24,275 --> 00:16:26,767 A hastily composed attempt by the city 313 00:16:26,819 --> 00:16:29,277 to segregate Storyville. 314 00:16:29,322 --> 00:16:31,233 It required that all prostitutes 315 00:16:31,282 --> 00:16:33,364 of colored or Black race 316 00:16:33,409 --> 00:16:36,367 move their business across Canal Street. 317 00:16:36,412 --> 00:16:39,120 This was the heart of my business, 318 00:16:39,165 --> 00:16:41,406 what the Azalea was known for. 319 00:16:41,459 --> 00:16:44,952 The very men who signed the ordinance into law 320 00:16:45,004 --> 00:16:47,166 were some of my best clients. 321 00:16:47,215 --> 00:16:50,958 It was an absurdity, an affront to a Creole man 322 00:16:51,010 --> 00:16:53,502 who had outpaced his fair-skinned competitors. 323 00:16:53,554 --> 00:16:55,090 How'd you manage it? 324 00:16:55,139 --> 00:16:56,825 I gave five percent of the business to my girls, 325 00:16:56,849 --> 00:16:58,010 made 'em all owners. 326 00:16:58,059 --> 00:16:59,595 How's that help you? 327 00:16:59,644 --> 00:17:01,663 Lawyer said if they were owners, we can file a writ, 328 00:17:01,687 --> 00:17:04,304 saying 4118 was a... 329 00:17:04,357 --> 00:17:05,688 How you put it, Bricks? 330 00:17:05,733 --> 00:17:07,269 Deprives us the use of our property 331 00:17:07,318 --> 00:17:10,356 without due process of law, denying us equal protection 332 00:17:10,404 --> 00:17:13,192 under the Constitution of these United States. 333 00:17:13,241 --> 00:17:16,154 Sounds like some kind of Russian Bolshevik scheme. 334 00:17:16,202 --> 00:17:17,692 You diddled the man's money, 335 00:17:17,745 --> 00:17:19,952 and he bought himself an end-around. 336 00:17:19,997 --> 00:17:22,455 It's pure capitalism, Mr. Fenwick. 337 00:17:22,500 --> 00:17:23,865 Thank you, Tom. 338 00:17:23,918 --> 00:17:26,706 Unorthodox business mind under that hat, Louis. 339 00:17:26,754 --> 00:17:30,588 No security guard on the door, lets a woman count his coin. 340 00:17:30,633 --> 00:17:32,089 No offense, Miss Williams. 341 00:17:32,134 --> 00:17:33,465 Been called a cunny, a cow, 342 00:17:33,511 --> 00:17:35,001 and a bitch that ate a thousand dicks. 343 00:17:35,054 --> 00:17:37,341 You wanna apologize for callin' me a woman? 344 00:17:37,390 --> 00:17:38,676 Whoo, leave your wife. 345 00:17:38,724 --> 00:17:40,556 I'll make you a happy man, Mr. Anderson. 346 00:17:40,601 --> 00:17:42,387 Bricks don't take wooden nickels, 347 00:17:42,436 --> 00:17:45,849 and I'm the only security this place needs. 348 00:17:45,898 --> 00:17:47,684 Christ on a cracker. 349 00:17:47,733 --> 00:17:49,098 We're writing another ordinance. 350 00:17:49,151 --> 00:17:50,391 You know that, don't you? 351 00:17:50,444 --> 00:17:51,964 The council is not your problem, Louis. 352 00:17:51,988 --> 00:17:55,606 It's Woodrow Wilson, this war he's backed us all into. 353 00:17:55,658 --> 00:17:57,399 You think you're printin' money here? 354 00:17:57,451 --> 00:17:58,907 Them hay pennies compared 355 00:17:58,953 --> 00:18:00,347 to what the build up's brought the city here. 356 00:18:00,371 --> 00:18:01,702 Just ask Mr. Anderson here. 357 00:18:01,747 --> 00:18:03,488 Not as colorful as club ownership, 358 00:18:03,541 --> 00:18:05,908 but you'd be amazed at the high pile 359 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:07,701 made supplying the military camps 360 00:18:07,753 --> 00:18:10,586 with cigarettes, chocolates, and prophylactics. 361 00:18:10,631 --> 00:18:13,714 Well, I'm doing my part to see them jimmy hats get used. 362 00:18:13,759 --> 00:18:16,547 Son, I can tell you, the Navy doesn't see it that way. 363 00:18:16,596 --> 00:18:18,633 You got 400 men over in charity 364 00:18:18,681 --> 00:18:20,217 gettin' treatment for the clap. 365 00:18:20,266 --> 00:18:22,553 I got pristine pussies walkin' my floor. 366 00:18:22,602 --> 00:18:24,889 Now I'm offended. 367 00:18:24,937 --> 00:18:26,678 Washington's making us choose, Louis. 368 00:18:26,689 --> 00:18:29,431 It's either win the war or fuck the whore. 369 00:18:29,483 --> 00:18:33,067 Well, just, Council's just stallin' for time, chasin' race. 370 00:18:33,112 --> 00:18:34,978 Don't feel like a stall. 371 00:18:35,031 --> 00:18:36,647 Feel a little beside the point. 372 00:18:38,576 --> 00:18:41,489 Feel like a boot on my neck. 373 00:18:41,537 --> 00:18:45,075 He's one man on a council of 17, Louis. 374 00:18:45,124 --> 00:18:46,660 Well, maybe he's still sideways 375 00:18:46,709 --> 00:18:49,121 'cause I turned down his 15%. 376 00:18:52,214 --> 00:18:54,581 Yeah, I'll admit, I prefer the days 377 00:18:54,634 --> 00:18:56,750 you let us win on occasion, days of deference. 378 00:18:56,802 --> 00:18:59,544 What is it? 379 00:18:59,597 --> 00:19:01,554 There's a gentleman asking for you, Mr. du Lac. 380 00:19:01,599 --> 00:19:03,385 A man in uniform. 381 00:19:03,434 --> 00:19:05,095 What I say, Mr. Anderson? 382 00:19:05,144 --> 00:19:07,260 The war's come a-knockin'. 383 00:19:09,065 --> 00:19:10,647 Cash me out. 384 00:19:14,570 --> 00:19:16,402 Good Lord. 385 00:19:16,447 --> 00:19:17,903 Jonah? 386 00:19:17,948 --> 00:19:19,484 Louis de Pointe du Lac. 387 00:19:19,533 --> 00:19:21,865 Jonah Macon. 388 00:19:21,911 --> 00:19:23,242 How long's it been? 389 00:19:23,287 --> 00:19:24,743 A day and forever. 390 00:19:24,789 --> 00:19:26,405 Told Grace you wouldn't remember me. 391 00:19:26,457 --> 00:19:29,870 'Course I remem... You're enlisted? 392 00:19:29,919 --> 00:19:33,082 Ain't you good at noticing what's plain? 393 00:19:36,634 --> 00:19:38,124 You seen Grace? 394 00:19:38,177 --> 00:19:40,088 Saw her this mornin', getting the yard ready 395 00:19:40,137 --> 00:19:41,798 for a birthday party. 396 00:19:41,847 --> 00:19:43,963 Oh, yeah, right. Twins. 397 00:19:44,016 --> 00:19:45,506 She got twin girls. 398 00:19:45,559 --> 00:19:47,015 Could barely keep her head straight, 399 00:19:47,061 --> 00:19:49,803 all those kids runnin' round, tuggin' at her dress. 400 00:19:49,855 --> 00:19:52,062 So, you a big-shot businessman now. 401 00:19:54,235 --> 00:19:56,442 Heard about Paul. 402 00:19:56,487 --> 00:19:58,228 Yeah. 403 00:19:58,280 --> 00:19:59,896 Paul. 404 00:20:02,076 --> 00:20:03,316 Where you been, Jonah? 405 00:20:03,369 --> 00:20:05,827 Philadelphia for a spell, hotel work. 406 00:20:05,871 --> 00:20:07,987 Then, a gunpowder mill in Delaware. 407 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:09,951 Fella working next to me blew off three fingers. 408 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,458 I saw enough. Hell. 409 00:20:12,503 --> 00:20:14,481 Thought this might be a way to rise through the ranks, 410 00:20:14,505 --> 00:20:16,712 and... and all that. 411 00:20:16,757 --> 00:20:21,547 Look like you already rose up, and by a fair amount. 412 00:20:21,595 --> 00:20:22,926 I done all right. 413 00:20:22,972 --> 00:20:24,383 Done all right? You own all this. 414 00:20:24,432 --> 00:20:26,298 Sign me up for "done all right". 415 00:20:30,813 --> 00:20:32,804 You ever think about those old days 416 00:20:32,857 --> 00:20:35,064 when we were kids? 417 00:20:38,154 --> 00:20:40,566 How long you here for? 418 00:20:40,614 --> 00:20:45,108 Couple of nights. In the boat over the ocean. 419 00:20:45,161 --> 00:20:46,722 Me and a couple thousand other fellas wearin' 420 00:20:46,746 --> 00:20:48,407 this same costume. 421 00:20:50,624 --> 00:20:52,911 You think this is nice? 422 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,668 Wait till you see my pretty automobile. 423 00:20:55,713 --> 00:20:58,831 Louis de Pointe du Lac. 424 00:21:05,681 --> 00:21:07,388 Nothin' much changed here, I see. 425 00:21:07,433 --> 00:21:09,219 Crickets and katydids. 426 00:21:11,312 --> 00:21:13,929 You gon' ruin those sharp shoes in this mud. 427 00:21:14,231 --> 00:21:17,189 I got another pair back at home. 428 00:21:17,234 --> 00:21:18,895 I'll bet you do. 429 00:21:18,944 --> 00:21:21,151 Easy livin' Louis. 430 00:21:21,197 --> 00:21:24,531 There's nothing easy about my life, I'll tell you that. 431 00:21:24,575 --> 00:21:27,067 Well, you've been blessed. 432 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:31,158 Ain't aged a day since I seen you last. 433 00:21:31,207 --> 00:21:33,619 That's the moonlight |yin' is all. 434 00:21:36,420 --> 00:21:40,288 You worried about gain' over there? 435 00:21:40,341 --> 00:21:42,207 Some nights. 436 00:21:42,259 --> 00:21:43,590 I mean, my squad's all colored, 437 00:21:43,636 --> 00:21:45,343 so we mostly gon' be in the rear, 438 00:21:45,387 --> 00:21:47,003 supply lines and shit. 439 00:21:47,056 --> 00:21:48,672 Better than gettin' shot at for a country 440 00:21:48,724 --> 00:21:51,557 makes you use the side entrance. 441 00:21:51,602 --> 00:21:53,468 And most of why I signed up is I kept hearing 442 00:21:53,521 --> 00:21:55,728 something about something they call 443 00:21:55,773 --> 00:21:58,811 "European sensibilities". 444 00:21:58,859 --> 00:22:03,353 They care less what you look like or who you're lookin' at. 445 00:22:07,576 --> 00:22:09,908 Yeah, I got someone. 446 00:22:09,954 --> 00:22:12,537 I figured as much. No ring on your finger? 447 00:22:12,581 --> 00:22:14,197 Not a woman. 448 00:22:17,294 --> 00:22:18,910 Well, what's he like? 449 00:22:18,963 --> 00:22:22,206 He's... a lot. 450 00:22:22,258 --> 00:22:23,373 It's not perfect. 451 00:22:23,425 --> 00:22:25,382 Mm-hmm. 452 00:22:25,427 --> 00:22:29,796 But we kind of have this agreement. 453 00:22:29,849 --> 00:22:32,386 One of those "you can drive out to the bayou" 454 00:22:32,434 --> 00:22:34,016 kind of agreements? 455 00:22:37,106 --> 00:22:40,974 Good fit, this, uh, uniform. 456 00:22:42,778 --> 00:22:44,360 Well, it's the moonlight. 457 00:23:57,436 --> 00:23:59,928 Hello. Hello. 458 00:24:00,731 --> 00:24:02,142 How was your night? 459 00:24:02,191 --> 00:24:06,526 Fine. Yours? 460 00:24:06,570 --> 00:24:08,356 Fine. 461 00:24:11,492 --> 00:24:14,325 He found me, you know. 462 00:24:14,370 --> 00:24:16,862 Went to my old house on Esplanade. 463 00:24:16,914 --> 00:24:18,996 Grace told him where to find me. 464 00:24:19,041 --> 00:24:20,623 An old love. 465 00:24:22,836 --> 00:24:26,329 We had a few early fumbles. 466 00:24:26,382 --> 00:24:30,171 He was 16. I was... older. 467 00:24:32,429 --> 00:24:35,137 We both knew, even then, we were a little different. 468 00:24:35,182 --> 00:24:36,672 Hmm. 469 00:24:36,725 --> 00:24:38,841 How's Antoinette? 470 00:24:38,894 --> 00:24:40,510 Tedious. 471 00:24:40,562 --> 00:24:42,644 No, I don't see that happening again. 472 00:24:42,690 --> 00:24:45,648 These affairs always flame out. 473 00:24:45,693 --> 00:24:47,354 Shall we have a night out tomorrow? 474 00:24:47,403 --> 00:24:51,988 I was gonna go see Grace and the kids, keep up appearances. 475 00:24:52,032 --> 00:24:53,568 How 'bout after? 476 00:24:53,617 --> 00:24:55,858 Fine. 477 00:24:55,911 --> 00:24:57,493 Lock us in, would you? 478 00:25:06,005 --> 00:25:07,370 Many streets in New Orleans 479 00:25:07,423 --> 00:25:09,755 weren't paved at the time. 480 00:25:11,385 --> 00:25:13,968 The mud on his boots could have come from anywhere. 481 00:25:14,013 --> 00:25:15,879 Was it raining that night? 482 00:25:17,641 --> 00:25:19,723 Yeah, I got someone. 483 00:25:19,768 --> 00:25:22,601 I figured as much. No ring on your finger? 484 00:25:22,646 --> 00:25:24,228 Not a woman. 485 00:25:27,026 --> 00:25:28,312 Did it rain? 486 00:25:30,821 --> 00:25:33,358 Yeah, I got someone. 487 00:25:33,407 --> 00:25:36,274 I figured as much. No ring on your finger? 488 00:25:36,326 --> 00:25:38,317 Not a woman. 489 00:25:39,246 --> 00:25:42,455 I don't remember now. 490 00:25:42,499 --> 00:25:45,116 It could have been dry on the bayou and wet in the Quarter. 491 00:25:45,169 --> 00:25:47,285 It's Louisiana. 492 00:25:47,337 --> 00:25:50,329 The odyssey of recollection. 493 00:25:50,382 --> 00:25:51,998 Hmm. 494 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,087 I would meet Jonah decades later. 495 00:25:59,224 --> 00:26:01,261 You're lingering, Rashid. 496 00:26:01,310 --> 00:26:04,553 Apologies, Mr. du Lac. 497 00:26:04,605 --> 00:26:06,437 What did he say when he met you again, 498 00:26:06,482 --> 00:26:10,976 when you were young and he wasn't? 499 00:26:11,028 --> 00:26:14,487 What they all eventually say in one articulation or another. 500 00:26:14,531 --> 00:26:16,522 Here comes the ghost! 501 00:26:19,244 --> 00:26:21,155 Hurry! He's gonna get us! 502 00:26:21,205 --> 00:26:24,072 The party was this afternoon. 503 00:26:24,124 --> 00:26:26,411 Seem my invitation got lost in the mail. 504 00:26:26,460 --> 00:26:27,791 You wanna come around, 505 00:26:27,836 --> 00:26:29,497 you come around when people are awake. 506 00:26:29,546 --> 00:26:32,254 It's barely dinnertime, Ma. I don't wanna make a fuss. 507 00:26:32,299 --> 00:26:34,631 Six months and you just show up! 508 00:26:34,676 --> 00:26:37,008 You're not welcome in this home! 509 00:26:37,054 --> 00:26:39,136 I own this home. 510 00:26:39,181 --> 00:26:41,843 I'm the executor in charge, so welcome don't matter. 511 00:26:41,892 --> 00:26:44,054 The Devil walks at night. 512 00:26:44,103 --> 00:26:47,141 What? What did you say? 513 00:26:47,189 --> 00:26:48,520 What's goin' on out here? 514 00:26:48,565 --> 00:26:49,876 I got your girls some paper dolls. 515 00:26:49,900 --> 00:26:51,015 Go back inside, son. 516 00:26:51,068 --> 00:26:52,479 Son? I'm your son. 517 00:26:52,528 --> 00:26:54,895 Let me handle this, Mamaw du Lac. 518 00:26:54,947 --> 00:26:56,278 Don't. 519 00:26:56,323 --> 00:26:57,859 Comin' off a little hot, now. 520 00:26:57,908 --> 00:26:59,364 I ain't come here to see you. 521 00:26:59,409 --> 00:27:01,116 I didn't come here to see you. Louis. 522 00:27:01,161 --> 00:27:03,277 Came here to see Grace... They're afraid of you. 523 00:27:03,330 --> 00:27:06,130 And give the girls some paper dolls! That's why you weren't invited. 524 00:27:11,130 --> 00:27:13,588 Children, go to your room, now. 525 00:27:15,384 --> 00:27:17,921 What did I tell y'all? 526 00:27:19,429 --> 00:27:21,340 There he is. 527 00:27:22,724 --> 00:27:25,591 There he is. 528 00:27:29,940 --> 00:27:31,851 Grace. 529 00:27:32,860 --> 00:27:35,101 Grace. Get out! 530 00:27:59,136 --> 00:28:03,972 ♪ First of all, at the call, when the war began ♪ 531 00:28:04,016 --> 00:28:08,601 ♪ Pat enlisted in the army as a fighting man ♪ 532 00:28:08,645 --> 00:28:12,980 ♪ When the drills began, they'd walk 100 miles a day ♪ 533 00:28:13,025 --> 00:28:17,519 ♪ Though the rest got tired, Paddy always used to say ♪ 534 00:28:17,571 --> 00:28:19,687 ♪ Where do we go from here, boys? ♪ 535 00:28:19,740 --> 00:28:21,071 ♪ Where do we go from here? ♪ 536 00:28:21,116 --> 00:28:22,572 ♪ Slip a pill to Kaiser Bill ♪ 537 00:28:22,618 --> 00:28:26,111 What is this? ♪ And make him shed a tear ♪ 538 00:28:26,163 --> 00:28:28,074 ♪ And when we see the enemy ♪ 539 00:28:28,123 --> 00:28:29,488 ♪ We'll shoot them in the rear ♪ 540 00:28:29,541 --> 00:28:30,872 What are you thinking? 541 00:28:30,918 --> 00:28:32,270 Well, I thought we could have an orgy. 542 00:28:32,294 --> 00:28:33,646 You can fuck them, and I can eat them. 543 00:28:33,670 --> 00:28:35,206 What about the coffin room? 544 00:28:35,255 --> 00:28:36,816 Well, that would require curiosity and intelligence. 545 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:38,547 All these murderous slobs want is more wine 546 00:28:38,592 --> 00:28:40,583 and a German on their bayonets! 547 00:28:40,636 --> 00:28:42,377 Kill the Hans! Kill the Hans! 548 00:28:42,429 --> 00:28:44,420 I brought them back after they cut the electricity 549 00:28:44,473 --> 00:28:45,679 at the Azalea. What? 550 00:28:45,724 --> 00:28:47,260 Miss Bricktop wanted you to have this. 551 00:28:47,309 --> 00:28:49,266 I think she's on to us. 552 00:28:54,524 --> 00:28:56,265 Get 'em out of here. 553 00:28:56,318 --> 00:28:57,545 Well, now that I know you have a type, 554 00:28:57,569 --> 00:28:58,684 I thought you'd be pleased. 555 00:28:58,737 --> 00:29:00,944 Lestat! 556 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:45,531 ♪ Oh, joy, oh, boy, where do we go from here? ♪ 557 00:29:45,575 --> 00:29:46,986 Not funny. 558 00:29:47,035 --> 00:29:48,946 What can I say? 559 00:29:48,996 --> 00:29:50,987 I'm a lot. 560 00:29:51,039 --> 00:29:52,450 I'm not perfect. 561 00:29:52,499 --> 00:29:55,992 I knew it. I knew you were there. 562 00:29:56,044 --> 00:29:58,081 Yes. You're jealous? 563 00:29:58,130 --> 00:30:00,087 Yes. I don't like sharing. 564 00:30:00,132 --> 00:30:01,484 What about Antoinette? It's different. 565 00:30:01,508 --> 00:30:02,964 I don't have feelings for her. 566 00:30:03,010 --> 00:30:05,923 He did me some face, and I drove him home. 567 00:30:05,971 --> 00:30:08,383 I heard your hearts dancing! 568 00:30:08,432 --> 00:30:10,924 You watched the whole thing like some creeper! 569 00:30:10,976 --> 00:30:13,718 And then, I watched you pull over and drain a dog 570 00:30:13,770 --> 00:30:16,228 and run down an alleyway for two more rats! 571 00:30:16,273 --> 00:30:17,604 This is not a life! 572 00:30:17,649 --> 00:30:19,890 That's 'cause you took my life! 573 00:30:19,943 --> 00:30:23,561 I got nothing! I lost everything! 574 00:30:23,613 --> 00:30:27,072 I lost my brother. I lost my family. 575 00:30:28,410 --> 00:30:31,277 'Bout to lose the last fucking thing I care about. 576 00:30:32,539 --> 00:30:34,530 How am I supposed to get bodies in the door 577 00:30:34,583 --> 00:30:36,290 without hookers, hooch, or cards? 578 00:30:36,335 --> 00:30:38,827 Hey, you were given a courtesy, and you ignored it. 579 00:30:38,879 --> 00:30:42,588 Finn O'Shea, a man who used to work for me, 580 00:30:42,632 --> 00:30:44,122 got a dirty house across the street. 581 00:30:44,176 --> 00:30:45,632 City ain't shut off his lights. 582 00:30:45,677 --> 00:30:47,463 Finn O'Shea serves sandwiches at his bar. 583 00:30:47,512 --> 00:30:49,128 That makes him a supper club. 584 00:30:49,181 --> 00:30:51,468 In time, Mr. O'Shea will move his business 585 00:30:51,516 --> 00:30:53,678 Riverside Basin Street, along with everyone else. 586 00:30:53,727 --> 00:30:54,933 Oh, so you just startin' with 587 00:30:54,978 --> 00:30:56,719 the colored businesses, then? 588 00:30:56,772 --> 00:30:59,000 It does appear businesses run by white gentlemen are thriving. 589 00:30:59,024 --> 00:31:03,609 Look, I-I tried to persuade the city council. 590 00:31:03,653 --> 00:31:05,314 They said it was short-sighted at best. 591 00:31:05,364 --> 00:31:07,196 Mm, this tedious Negro, 592 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,278 still clinging to his Creole heritage like a life raft. 593 00:31:10,327 --> 00:31:11,909 We're all hurtin'. 594 00:31:11,953 --> 00:31:13,473 It's these damn teetotalin' types, too. 595 00:31:13,497 --> 00:31:16,364 As if we're supposed to turn New Orleans into Topeka, 596 00:31:16,416 --> 00:31:18,748 or God help us, Salt Lake City. 597 00:31:18,794 --> 00:31:21,035 Might I suggest, Mr. du Lac, that you move your 598 00:31:21,088 --> 00:31:22,294 operation to the Quarter? 599 00:31:22,339 --> 00:31:24,046 Just keep your girls out the windows. 600 00:31:24,091 --> 00:31:26,674 Who do you suggest gon' sell me a property in the Quarter? 601 00:31:26,718 --> 00:31:29,210 Make Mr. Lioncourt here the public face 602 00:31:29,262 --> 00:31:30,377 of your operations. 603 00:31:30,430 --> 00:31:32,797 This is Louis' hobby, not mine. 604 00:31:32,849 --> 00:31:36,763 Well, there's, shall we say, a clannish majority 605 00:31:36,812 --> 00:31:38,644 amongst the property holders in the court. 606 00:31:38,688 --> 00:31:40,804 Well, maybe old Tom here had it right. 607 00:31:40,857 --> 00:31:42,939 Maybe in the end, Louis, you're a dumb pimp 608 00:31:42,984 --> 00:31:45,021 who got robbed blind years ago. 609 00:31:45,070 --> 00:31:46,936 It's bend or break, I'm afraid. 610 00:31:51,952 --> 00:31:53,943 Did you sell me the Azalea 'cause you knew 611 00:31:53,995 --> 00:31:55,827 this day was comin', Tom? 612 00:31:55,872 --> 00:31:57,658 You put a "sir" on the end of that. 613 00:31:57,707 --> 00:32:00,495 And he sold you the Fairplay for a price you set. 614 00:32:00,544 --> 00:32:02,535 You ain't answer my question, Tom. 615 00:32:04,172 --> 00:32:07,961 Now, we're all in this together, Mr. du Lac. 616 00:32:08,009 --> 00:32:10,467 I'll be happy to buy the property back from you. 617 00:32:10,512 --> 00:32:12,879 Say... 618 00:32:12,931 --> 00:32:14,513 15 cents on the dollar. 619 00:32:18,186 --> 00:32:22,521 When your mother sees the Devil in your eyes, 620 00:32:22,566 --> 00:32:26,275 it's a hard assessment to abandon. 621 00:32:26,319 --> 00:32:28,981 Am I from the Devil? 622 00:32:29,030 --> 00:32:32,773 Is my very nature that of the Devil? 623 00:32:34,536 --> 00:32:38,154 I had hedged against the question, 624 00:32:38,206 --> 00:32:41,324 but now, it completely overwhelmed me. 625 00:32:41,376 --> 00:32:42,741 We don't need the money. 626 00:32:42,794 --> 00:32:44,410 It's not about that. 627 00:32:44,463 --> 00:32:47,751 You think I'm gon' let that snake bite me and my people? 628 00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:50,416 You have your investments on the Claiborne Avenue. 629 00:32:50,469 --> 00:32:52,585 What, hats, little grocery stores? 630 00:32:52,637 --> 00:32:55,550 Nickels, dimes, quarters. 631 00:32:55,599 --> 00:32:57,931 So, it is about the money. 632 00:32:57,976 --> 00:32:59,558 What is it? 633 00:33:01,646 --> 00:33:03,583 I'm gon' speak for the girls and say, as minority owners, 634 00:33:03,607 --> 00:33:06,941 that's a stupid fucking business plan. 635 00:33:06,985 --> 00:33:11,229 The state I was in, I was what... I was manic. 636 00:33:13,950 --> 00:33:18,695 You put up a sign like that, you're inviting chaos. 637 00:33:18,747 --> 00:33:21,580 And the hubris on display caused me to 638 00:33:21,625 --> 00:33:23,582 neglect my thirst. 639 00:33:25,253 --> 00:33:26,960 This cease and desist order is granted 640 00:33:27,005 --> 00:33:28,357 by the New Orleans Council of Aldermen 641 00:33:28,381 --> 00:33:29,997 for the final infractions... 642 00:33:30,050 --> 00:33:32,212 And in neglect, my thirst grew harder, 643 00:33:32,260 --> 00:33:34,547 my temples throbbed, and finally, 644 00:33:34,596 --> 00:33:36,712 I could not stand it any longer. 645 00:33:36,765 --> 00:33:38,802 Broken? What broken windows? 646 00:33:40,268 --> 00:33:42,225 And I was through struggling. 647 00:33:42,270 --> 00:33:44,682 Illicit activity and thuggish behavior 648 00:33:44,731 --> 00:33:46,392 will not be tolerated. 649 00:33:46,441 --> 00:33:48,933 We have families and service members nearby, 650 00:33:48,985 --> 00:33:50,601 and it's for their concern, we remind... 651 00:33:50,654 --> 00:33:54,613 Rats, cats, dogs would no longer suffice. 652 00:33:54,658 --> 00:33:56,490 And Baton Rouge supports the actions 653 00:33:56,535 --> 00:33:58,401 of the City Council, as well. 654 00:33:58,453 --> 00:34:03,493 Take a Black man in America, make him a vampire, 655 00:34:03,542 --> 00:34:07,126 fuck with that vampire, and see what comes of it. 656 00:34:30,944 --> 00:34:35,029 Breakin' into my home is one thing. 657 00:34:35,073 --> 00:34:39,362 Making me drop my Atherton, now that's a new low. 658 00:34:42,622 --> 00:34:46,240 You're here to threaten me, I suppose. 659 00:34:46,293 --> 00:34:49,957 You think I have a vendetta against you, 660 00:34:50,005 --> 00:34:52,793 against your race. 661 00:34:52,841 --> 00:34:56,630 Well, think that if you must. 662 00:34:56,678 --> 00:35:00,091 Storyville is a sinking ship, 663 00:35:00,140 --> 00:35:04,099 and naturally, you are the first to drown. 664 00:35:04,144 --> 00:35:07,603 But that's your problem, Louis, always has been. 665 00:35:07,647 --> 00:35:09,979 You're arrogant. 666 00:35:10,025 --> 00:35:14,235 You haven't accepted your place in this world. 667 00:35:14,279 --> 00:35:15,986 And your pale lover, 668 00:35:16,031 --> 00:35:19,649 with his seemingly endless supply of capital, 669 00:35:19,701 --> 00:35:23,444 and the weird goings-on in your Sodomite townhouse 670 00:35:23,496 --> 00:35:27,114 won't change the fact that you're a tiny man 671 00:35:27,167 --> 00:35:29,534 flying too close to the sun. 672 00:35:29,586 --> 00:35:34,422 And that's what I am, Louis... the sun. 673 00:35:35,550 --> 00:35:38,087 Walk away. 674 00:35:42,057 --> 00:35:45,595 Why is your heart beatin' so fast? 675 00:35:45,644 --> 00:35:48,136 Everything that's been done is legal 676 00:35:48,188 --> 00:35:49,849 under the City of New Orleans charter. 677 00:35:49,898 --> 00:35:52,560 And again, I'm merely one alderman on that council. 678 00:35:57,781 --> 00:36:00,022 There's a harder way of doing this. 679 00:36:00,075 --> 00:36:03,943 You're thinking about your wife and your two daughters 680 00:36:03,995 --> 00:36:05,702 and how fortunate it is 681 00:36:05,747 --> 00:36:09,081 that they're away in your winter home. 682 00:36:12,087 --> 00:36:13,623 It is fortunate. 683 00:36:18,885 --> 00:36:20,467 I'll let you reload. 684 00:36:29,854 --> 00:36:32,312 You said I'm arrogant? 685 00:36:34,776 --> 00:36:37,017 Maybe I am arrogant! 686 00:36:41,032 --> 00:36:43,990 What... What are you? 687 00:36:45,870 --> 00:36:48,237 I'm a vampire. 688 00:37:15,859 --> 00:37:18,021 I must confess, I'm very proud of you, Louis. 689 00:37:18,069 --> 00:37:19,605 It goes against much of my teaching, 690 00:37:19,654 --> 00:37:22,271 but you managed to execute it with such aplomb. 691 00:37:22,323 --> 00:37:23,779 I didn't do it for me. 692 00:37:23,825 --> 00:37:25,486 I did it for my city, my people. 693 00:37:25,535 --> 00:37:28,072 Destroy our businesses and buy the land for cheaper. 694 00:37:28,121 --> 00:37:29,486 I know what they doing! 695 00:37:29,539 --> 00:37:30,850 So, that torturous death was for your people? 696 00:37:30,874 --> 00:37:32,706 That garish display of his body, 697 00:37:32,751 --> 00:37:35,834 like some public art piece, was for your people? 698 00:37:35,879 --> 00:37:37,790 I didn't see this coming. 699 00:37:37,839 --> 00:37:40,297 Save that lie for yourself. 700 00:37:40,341 --> 00:37:42,799 Did you not smile when he begged? 701 00:37:42,844 --> 00:37:45,927 Did you not feel pleasure as you carved him up? 702 00:37:45,972 --> 00:37:48,760 Maybe you saw it comin' and didn't stop me. 703 00:37:48,808 --> 00:37:53,018 Maybe you went quiet on purpose. 704 00:37:53,062 --> 00:37:57,522 You did what you did because it gave you pleasure. 705 00:37:57,567 --> 00:38:01,026 Companion of the dark gift, finally. 706 00:38:02,030 --> 00:38:05,898 We should make this our anniversary. 707 00:38:05,950 --> 00:38:08,988 Anniversary? 708 00:38:09,037 --> 00:38:12,496 That out there, that's on me. 709 00:38:12,540 --> 00:38:15,498 Well, yes. Yes, you merely provided them the excuse. 710 00:38:15,543 --> 00:38:17,830 It's as I say... toss them into circumstance, 711 00:38:17,879 --> 00:38:19,290 they go for the throat. 712 00:38:19,339 --> 00:38:22,206 And that's why you and me ain't never gon' work. 713 00:38:23,802 --> 00:38:25,759 That's why you're always gonna be alone. 714 00:38:29,682 --> 00:38:32,970 I ran from the Quarter that night, 715 00:38:33,019 --> 00:38:36,228 ran to where the violence spread most wild. 716 00:38:36,272 --> 00:38:40,061 I stumbled through the streets like an irrational child 717 00:38:40,109 --> 00:38:43,192 who had tested his strength on the small bird 718 00:38:43,238 --> 00:38:45,730 and now asked, "Can I make it whole again?" 719 00:38:45,782 --> 00:38:47,147 Can I help you? Please let me help. 720 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,157 Don't help, just run. 721 00:38:51,412 --> 00:38:56,998 Their faces raced past me like snow in a terrible wind, 722 00:38:57,043 --> 00:39:01,708 unaware it was I who had brought this retribution. 723 00:39:01,756 --> 00:39:04,589 It was I who should pay for this sin. 724 00:39:08,429 --> 00:39:10,716 And then... 725 00:39:10,765 --> 00:39:12,176 Help me! 726 00:39:12,225 --> 00:39:14,557 One of those inconceivable moments 727 00:39:14,602 --> 00:39:16,468 where who you were before 728 00:39:16,521 --> 00:39:21,106 and who you would be forever after is marked in time. 729 00:39:23,069 --> 00:39:24,275 Help! 730 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,187 A rooming house, now a fire trap. 731 00:39:30,493 --> 00:39:33,736 I could not save the Azalea. 732 00:39:33,788 --> 00:39:36,655 I could not save Storyville. 733 00:39:37,792 --> 00:39:41,751 I could not save the aunt on the wrong side of the wall, 734 00:39:41,796 --> 00:39:44,504 but I could save her. 735 00:39:48,428 --> 00:39:50,260 My light. 736 00:39:50,305 --> 00:39:52,216 My Claudia. 737 00:39:53,391 --> 00:39:55,473 My redemption.