Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
男主真的太丑了太丑了太丑了！即使知道他性格幽默且有男主buff加成也无法继续直视他的脸🆘
剧情真的太恐怖了 1小时58分到2小时这短短两分钟间每一秒杨幂都在持续对我的大脑疯狂进行四字输送 对电影的总结就是“皇上 我要告发熹贵妃私通 秽乱后宫 罪不容诛！！！”除了剧情和演技无语 真是哪哪都好 歌曲 舞蹈 服装 摄影都是上乘之作2小时21分男主听到女主死了的演技 我只能说拉低评分 你的演技是一宗罪 这电影真是捧女二的吧 最好的演技演了相对最正常的角色 什么水土不服啊 美国的口碑这么好 说到底了还是得靠情怀 这剧情搁哪个国家大家不说句有病啊 都21世纪了 不改等于魔改 斯皮尔伯格你到底懂不懂啊！！！我不信你不懂
烦死了都要22年居然为斯皮电影落泪。又不是12岁。比起当成普通室内情节剧来单一运镜的原片，这版更无限彰显音乐剧改编电影魔力。舞蹈和调度全面升级，如此灵活有力，以至于女演员跳舞时翻飞的大裙摆简直是比刀刃还要凶悍和挑衅的武器。罢黜了父辈的高压，少年帮派之间仍旧无法化解的对立，令其更身为不被庇佑的被诅咒的失去了一切只拥有仇恨的孩子。“今晚能来这里决战的，都是除了决斗就一无所有的人”。女主超出预期的好，男主在这片里的效果跟悲惨世界的小神马差不多，唱演跳俱烂。But Mike Faist just get the fucking Mercutio vibe，新的银幕crush已诞生。
看笑了 金球奖诚不我欺 果然是音喜类最佳影片
20220329 断断续续看了四天，太无聊了……
原版无感，可新版比原版还逊色。人物上，配角比原版上丰满一些，奇诺和假小子有了更多描写，个性更鲜明了，让人能记住，那些小弟也多了几句台词。男女主虽然选角上更符合角色国籍，脸撑不起这个罗密欧与朱丽叶的故事，而且男主音乐剧功底一般。女主唱得好一点，但演技就那样吧，后面唱美国小姐那段很出戏。歌舞片段，大导坐阵，镜头调度、剪辑、服化道布置一流。前期的过渡歌和舞蹈挺合我审美的，但就原版的名场面片段，探讨问题儿童、移民问题、男女主谈婚那几段，比前作逊色不少，失去了最大的亮点。新增的两段不太喜欢，无厘头。剧情上，背景设置更贴合实际，帮派决斗的理由更合理，riff还会买枪了。但最后决斗真的奇葩，男主干掉女主她哥，她哥反而和riff干起来。女主一曲硬是说服刚失去未婚夫的大嫂，她哥得被气到复活。最后结局太平淡了。
比上一版要好许多，情绪饱满，几段舞蹈设计精彩
纽约街头的罗密欧与朱丽叶，罗密欧杀人被杀，朱丽叶伤心欲绝。
原本的样貌就很好了 虽然没看过原版音乐剧 但感觉电影这种载体并没有为这个故事增色太多 有更多视角 但却并不是辅助故事本身 几段街景舞蹈很艳丽多彩 很有感染力
罗密欧与朱丽叶式的故事确实太老套了，可是美国的歌舞片也太好看了吧，尤其是中段那场女配穿黄色裙子那场舞蹈不仅配色美场面美，就连调度也很绝，可惜那种过度的政治正确也是大可不必，当然电影最重要
2.5 史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格的业务水平肯定是教科书中教科书，他让我对歌舞片的厌烦DNA在看到一小时以后才开始动，歌舞片真的很难拍，按道理来说有得看就应该感恩艺术了。但是这个故事我实在蛋疼。今年奥斯卡尽是改编作品，蚌埠住了，奥斯卡：你们是我带过最差的一届。扭腰贫民窟的地盘争夺战。老史有多会拍男性荷尔蒙，拍爱情就有多像💩，“爱情”=“角色动机”，坠惹。《西区故事之载歌载舞解构阿美丽卡梦点到为止篇》。
不适合改编成电影的狗血故事，加上资源咖男主（否则无法理解他被选上）的灾难表演，就算歌舞场面再精彩绝伦，还是看得人狂翻白眼。
继续跟歌舞剧有仇 PS 你哥被杀了当晚就跟凶手上床？？
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7/10。大导能力摆在那里，镜头的调度，场景的设计，处处能看出大导的气质。但大导也有局限性，种族对立这样的话题只能点到为止，和如今美国民间的嘈杂声音成了鲜明对比。此外，除了一个新的角色设计，也没有对当下状况的重新认知与考量——他只是在简单回忆近代美国的黄金时代，那个时代属于纽约、属于爵士、属于伯恩斯坦、属于热血、属于青春。导演对艺术追求的复古很难获得观众的共鸣，如同结尾Credit有柯达logo，写着是用35mm拍摄而成的，可是现在的观众都是看着手机屏幕长大的。
电影很美好 现实很残酷 但看到越来越多亚裔题材就是值得鼓励的 少数族裔要改变既有的stereotype那必须不断站上文娱和政治的舞台 Netflix能再来一个欧阳万成脱口秀吗
就好像…因为一首歌买了一盘CD，然后发现那是整张专辑唯一一首好听的曲子…
对男女主角的讨厌让我忘记了这个电影的其他一切。
除了编舞和Mike Faist, 其他的真的就…… 行吧，就这样吧
两位主角尤其是男主角的演技实在让人无法恭维，简直是肉眼可见的不足。
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