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".
难以想象这是斯皮尔伯格的作品，为什么要翻拍百老汇知名音乐剧？无论摄影舞美服装舞蹈灯光音乐都无可挑剔，但这剧本真是要杀人啊，太拧巴，都过去六十年了，为什么不能大刀阔斧改下呢？现在还用这种结局意义大吗？市场会认可吗？
开场就觉得很奇怪 原来是歌舞片 我老婆弃剧不给投屏了我也就看不完了 但不看就不看了吧 两星给服装美术道具
何必要翻拍，镜头很流畅，但是感觉没有很适合电影基调
技术上十分完美，多元化上做得也无可指摘，就是剧本太弱了，男女主演的表演说实话功力不够。歌曲都很难听。
AMC DOLBY 复古滤镜拉满，调度、摄影、剪辑技术都非常纯属，歌好听、舞好看，满屏漂亮的男性肉体。前半段精彩场面多得数不清：开场一组镜头，学校舞会，警局胡闹，海边夺枪——有这技术拍点什么不好？为什么要拍这么个老套故事？前半段我都忍了，后半段垮得一塌糊涂，就感觉导演已经不耐烦了，敷衍着赶紧把故事讲完就完了。选角也很失败，主要配角比男女主耀眼太多，特别是女主的嫂子，长得美唱得好跳得棒，把女主压得完全没存在感。中间有一段嫂子带着周围西裔女邻居们唱跳反对哥哥（以及她们各自伴侣）的段落不知道是不是新加的，很现代很喜欢。
算是国师的芳华吧
《西区故事》将歌舞戏放在广阔城市空间拍摄，将舞步融合于镜头的运动中，甚至于打斗戏都有歌舞编排，足见斯皮尔伯格成熟的拍摄功力，摄影质感和美术也很舒服，将当下种族矛盾等热点议题也嵌了进去，但是剧情和演员着实拖了后腿，男主继承《极盗车神》的面瘫特质，表演毫无情感张力，剧情也是非常冗长老套，悲剧内核被歌舞部分冲掉了太多。（6.5/10）
整体的的带入感比61年的版本好了很多，歌舞和剧情结合的也合理了很多，大部分的音乐做到了有源。不得不说斯皮尔伯格还是目前这个世界上最会拍电影的导演，很多段落的设计都有奇观的感觉，让这个老套的故事有了新的活力！
看在斯皮尔伯格的份上，多给一颗星吧。歌舞剧如果本身情节不够硬核，还是不要上大荧幕了，留在舞台更好。罗密欧与朱丽叶这对智障小青年已经让人头大，玛丽亚和托尼简直是智障plus。AND男主唱功演技和人品都太差劲了。
最大的问题在于，在当下精神供给异常丰裕的环境里，单纯的“茱罗恋”已经无法打动我们的心，因此男女主角不被允许的爱情根本无法让人产生共鸣。所以，在选角上头一定一定要找那种特别养眼特别合观众眼缘的，否则就会让故事全盘崩坏。从头到尾观众只有一个疑问——有没搞错，他杀了她亲哥的当天，她就跟他上床？
“我满心仇恨”
标准的好莱坞工业流水线作品，来自最固守好莱坞经典制作风格的导演，故事都快被盘出包浆了，也就不奢求什么了，视听上几乎完全为叙事和类型服务，无论是导演还是观众，我们对现实与舞台的混融都已经驾轻就熟——这种成熟的工业体制反而让单薄的故事线更显孱弱，不得不依靠给女性角色加戏份（因为她们是旁观者所以加起戏来分外容易）来搪塞一下。看到片尾的For Dad，就会明白为什么斯皮尔伯格的歌舞片尝试要选择原封不动的翻拍——即便如此，你也没办法说这是部烂片，所有导演都得先成为斯皮尔伯格才行。
看这个电影之前是没有报多大期待的，几年前看过60年代那一版的《西区故事》电影，我记得里面械斗的部分用舞蹈演绎的非常精彩，当时让我感觉到了一种不一样的魅力。但是这一版改成了真实械斗而不是舞蹈化演绎，有点可惜。我挺喜欢拉着布料当裙子那一幕这一版也没有了，细碎的来说，还是有很多细节的变化的。但是我真的很喜欢这部电影，我被整个表演和情节给打动了，甚至在看的时候完全忘记了时间的流逝，看完才发现这个电影居然有两个半小时，在剧情转折的时候，电影的视听表现非常打动我，所有的情绪都让我极其带入角色，很棒！
女主可以不要这么恋爱脑吗？
中途离场了 因为我老了 受不了天真派和大口音
史匹堡试图加大背景格局，又想（或者不得不）弱化原版的一些种族冲突效果。于是导致粉碎性魔改，原版的超经典开场被改为拆迁背景＋夺宝奇兵式动作戏，全片基调从原本的高对比冲突美学改为写实暗调＋内在明媚，舞台感全失。改编要谨慎，端水不可取。
安妮塔真是美到发光！！
斯皮尔伯格版本的《西区故事》在豆瓣快被骂死，但是在我眼里是一个完成度相当不错的故事新编。加入了transgender 类似的角色为了政治正确吧，也勉强理解。没有看音乐剧习惯的观众认真建议不要去电影院看，一个舞台剧改成音乐电影本身就会牺牲掉一些叙事（也和剧本有一定关系），听音乐看舞美就好。 新《罗密欧与朱丽叶》的故事放在什么时候，都能赢得我的几滴泪水，是时候去维罗纳看看了（虽然剧里发生在纽约啦！）
看到一半的時候，原本打算寫的是這版本 has excellent choreography and good cinematography, but that’s all it added, 而這樣的 remake 有何意義呢？但一路看下去，也還是受感動。（非常喜歡警局一幕。）然後我看了一個frame-by-frame 的原版及新版 America 對比，醒覺當舊版某程度上仍然是局限於舞台的時候，新版是真正的電影。juvenile delinquency及upbringing也處理得比原版更好（在我印象中）。 Ariana DeBose 非常出彩。看著Rita Moreno跟她兩個跨越六十年的 Anita同框也是另外一種感受。Bernstein 的音樂真的是永垂不朽。
这些年轻人真是用实力演绎“不作不死”。。还行，年轻演员们表现的还不错，斯皮尔伯格拍的也不错，但是整体给人的观感也就是还行。原版的没看过，无法对比，有时间看看。
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