Daniel and his shitty documentary
Edit: I love every character in this tv show don’t worry I’m not hating on my boy Daniel
It’s interesting how after becoming a vampire Danny Molloy also forgot what art is.
This scene for me was so uncomfortable. Not only because Lestat went vulnerable, but also… this fucking screen. Daniel also had screen (laptop) as border between him and Louis until season 2, when they finally talked face to face. Now he’s hiding behind the screen again. Creating such a distance with Lestat, while constantly trying to get under his skin.
Probably because in some level, he’s afraid of him. He wants juicy gossip, but not ready to get his eyes clawed out. Forgetting that Les is not that type of guy.
He was a very talented writer as a human, but as a vampire-director he’s so biased, he’s own craft gets destroyed by this.
When he interviewed Louis he paid attention to social inequality, racism, even pointed out to Louis that his dynamic with Lestat was problematic in a way, that he still kind of served under white man. Never said out loud but joked about it.
They talked about Second World War, about horror and how it affected people. How it affected vampires too.
Daniel was invested as a human. But with Lestat?
Molloy still got his pockets full of snarky remarks, but it’s all shallow now. He never made fun of Lestat for being a bourgeoisie, he never questioned him about his past while blonde is someone who saw revolution.
He started Lestat’s story by most stupid comment “did you stutter as a child”. He doesn’t view Lioncourt as separate character, he’s continuation of Louis story. While “Failures” on the other hand shows is the “correct way”.
Daniel no longer interested in human history or story in general. He wants to make something shocking without understanding what people will find shocking.
If we focus on what Molloy actually got on camera - bullshit material. It’s nowhere as provocative and scary as IWTV. Lestat said absolutely nothing new, just proved that IWTV was true. But as separate art form - it’s horrendously bad.
Molloy no longer understand what makes documentary a good documentary. He wants shock value, he’s greedy to find answers through Lestat and his past, because Armand temporarily dumped him. Even street interviews are nothing. It’s just another messy doc about garage band, made by a friend of narcissistic front man.
Lestat spend centuries trying to learn again what music was and what made it alive. Not perfect. Alive. Louis absolutely failed as photographer. And now Daniel completely lost touch with art of writing. The only vampire (that we see often) who was and is successful with arts - is Armand. Because his art is performance.
The most disappointing thing was seeing Daniel with camera, interviewing people on the streets. That usually not what director does. They have editors who can jump on filming additional material. The fact that Daniel holds camera himself feels like a pure despair to fix things until it’s too late.
And what he does? Asks around Jarda’s fans. It’s a nothing material, it’s says nothing about who Jarda was, those people only knew him as stunt man.
And the thing is - Lestat was all in for conversation. That what he likes, he didn’t even jumped Molloy for writing a book. Yes he wasn’t easy on Danny either, but he was right about everything. Molloy is traumatised, Molloy indeed was just a pawn in Armands hands. And the mental monologue about death of his first fledgling? THAT WAS A LESSON TO DANNIEL. Lestat was still kind enough to try to help Molloy accept new reality of things, but we all know how prideful this man is.
It makes me so sad just watching Daniel fail again and again, not only because he’s facing a vampire who’s not ashamed of his power, but also because Molloy loosing himself.
You can’t imagine how sad I was, watching him holding that camera. It’s literally last resort for director. Even as a “suicide note” this film is bad.
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