Brad Pitt’s Latest Win Has Us Thinking About Louis
Brad Pitt’s hot streak keeps rolling. According to Collider, his F1 became Apple Original Films’ highest-grossing theatrical release ever, with a $633 million worldwide box office haul. The film also earned four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and took home the prize for Best Sound. Collider reports that F1 has now passed 300 days on the Apple TV top ten in the U.S.
Pitt is back in theaters too, starring in the survival thriller Heart of the Beast alongside a six-year-old German Shepherd named Uber. Collider reports the film has earned $131 million worldwide after three weekends. Pitt also returns to the role that earned him his Oscar, in The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, which David Fincher directs and which will debut in IMAX before arriving on Netflix.
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Long Before the Headlines, There Was Louis
Long before this week’s headlines, there was Louis de Pointe du Lac, the weary vampire Brad Pitt brought to life in Interview with the Vampire. That’s where the conversation starts on Parallel Frequencies, and it’s a film the hosts know well.
Just Blane and Coco treat the 1994 film as a study in grief rather than gothic romance. They argue that Louis’s emotional flatness is the character, not a flaw in the performance, and they explore how immortality becomes a slow erosion of self. Coco brings out the emotional weight of Claudia’s stolen adulthood, while Blane frames the film’s place in the history of vampire cinema. Their back-and-forth shows how much the film still has to say.
If you’ve ever wondered why this film still resonates thirty years later, the episode is where the hosts dig in. Listen to the full conversation on Parallel Frequencies.
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