Compare & Contrast: Book vs Movie vs Show

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The "trial" such as it is only covers about two pages in the book. It's mostly Lestat demanding that they spare Louis for him and Armand refusing to get involved to save Claudia despite Louis begging him. It's of course told from Louis's perspective, so you don't find out until later when Lestat has his say that he had showed us in Paris still very weakened and that Armand had locked him up and starved him until he agreed to name Claudia as his would-be murderer because Armand wanted her out of the way.

I was frankly expecting more to be made of the yellow dress than just hanging it on the wall as some sort of grim souvenir because Louis seeing Lestat holding it is how he knows Claudia is dead and then finds their ashes in the courtyard. That's one thing I honestly think the movie did better, although it skips Lestat showing up in Paris entirely and thus removes much of the reasoning for Louis's grudge against Lestat for decades after this.

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11 hours ago, iMonrey said:

I remember in the movie they put Claudia and Madeline in a well and waiting for the sun to come up. Is that how it happened in the book too? I actually preferred that scenario to the theater performance which I found tedious. To be fair I found all the theater stuff tedious.

Yes, Claudia and Madeline were put in a space (I don't think it was a well, but it may have been) where light came in from the top like a skylight.  In the book Louis happens upon the pile of ashes that are still in the shape of C&M, (Madeline clinging to Claudia, just like the TV show)but only momentarily, when Louis opens the door the ashes instantly scatter.