Queen of the Damned (2002)

Vincent Perez: Marius

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• Akasha : My children. Warms my blood to see you all gathered plotting against me.

  Maharet : Akasha.

  Akasha : Maharet. You will address my king first.

  Jesse : Lestat, what has she done to you?

  Marius : Lestat, step aside.

  Lestat : Never.

  Maharet : The world has changed since you reigned.

  Akasha : Then we shall change it back. Human are animals. Brute creatures. Their destruction can only make sense.

  Marius : Akasha, please!

  Akasha : You think you can change my will? I've had enough of this discussion. Join me or die!

  Maharet : I will not.

  Pandora : I will not.

  Armand : I will not.

  Marius : I will not.

  Akasha : [to Lestat]  Do you love me?

  Lestat : Yes.

  Akasha : Then prove it. Kill her.

  Lestat : She means nothing to me.

  Akasha : Just the same. I'd like for you to kill her.

  Maharet : You will not touch her!

  Akasha : You dare to challenge me, Maharet?

  Jesse : No it's all right, Aunt Maharet. It's what I want.

  Akasha : How sweet.

  Akasha : [after Jesse is killed]  See my children? Remember your real family, or join hers.

• Marius : [sarcastic]  Impressive. Reminds me of old mad Druids running around chanting in the forest. A return to the primitive.

  Lestat : Out there. My fans. Thousands and thousands. They worship me. Millions of arms reach out to embrace, beg me to come into their lives.

  Marius : It's what you've always wanted.

  Lestat : With all my black little heart.

  Marius : Do you think of anyone but yourself?

  Lestat : I only have myself. You taught me that.

  Marius : It may be time to get ready for some company.

  Lestat : What's that supposed to mean?

  Marius : [referring to Akasha]  Your music's woken a very old friend...

  Lestat : [looks at Marius, trying to understand] 

  Marius : Can't you hear it? Or is the applause all you can hear now?

• Lestat : [chained to a bed]  More!

  Marius : I don't think so, my little lord.

  Lestat : Let me go!

  Marius : No. You've drunk the purest of blood, seen the oldest of things. Far too much for one as young as you.

  Lestat : Her blood is like liquid fire. Who is she?

  Marius : She is your mother. She is my mother. Akasha, queen of all who are damned. And he is her king. Akasha and Enkil nearly drank the earth dry when they ruled over Egypt. They drank and drank until Enkil lost his will to drink. Without a mate by her side, she lost hers. They became living statues. She has no respect for anything, except for the taste of blood: human and immortal alike.

  Lestat : No! Release me!

  [breaks through his chains, but Marius stops him] 

  Marius : She has made you quite powerful.

  Lestat : You'll not stop me!

  Marius : I can hear her blood in your voice. In all those years I've kept them, not once have they moved.

  Lestat : Until tonight, and she chose me.

  Marius : I chose you!

• [Maharet has just become a living statue] 

  Armand : She drank Akasha's last drop. She took Akasha's death into herself.

  Marius : She's not dead. She sleeps.

• [last lines] 

  Marius : Hello, David.

• Lestat : How did you manage to slip through the 50's in red velvet?

  Marius : I slept.

  Lestat : Don't think you've missed much.

  Marius : Elvis?

  Lestat : Elvis, yes.

  Marius : You're bigger than he is now.

• Marius : A vampire's life is a life of discretion.

  Lestat : Discretion? Why should we hide, Marius? We are the powerful. We are the immortal. We should walk fearless in the open.

  [They both stop to watch a girl playing a violin] 

  Marius : That cannot be. We are vulnerable during the day. Mortals must never know of us.

  Lestat : So I could never know her?

  Marius : Not unless you wanted to kill her.

  Lestat : So I can never be known?

  Marius : You must be dead to the world.

• Lestat : [meeting for the first time in 200 years]  So, after all this time, what's the occasion?

  Marius : You've just become very hard to avoid these days, at least in conversation. What are you trying to prove Lestat?

  Lestat : Oh please, it's a little too late to come over all paternal now Marius. Two-hundred years and not a word from you.

  Marius : You almost cost me everything, and now you've done it again. This isn't the time to settle old scores.

  Lestat : Vampires don't settle old scores, we harbor them.

• [Teaching Lestat how to kill] 

  Marius : Appreciate your prey.

• Lestat : [after sensing Akasha has awoken]  Akasha!

  Marius : Arisen. She has taken the King's blood; absorbed his power.

  Lestat : Good. Let her come.

  Marius : Cancel the concert.

  Lestat : Never.

  Marius : You're no match for her Lestat, you're not a god. We were once mortals, too; it is our heritage we protect.

  Lestat : Such reverence for mortals. Then you should have left me as one.