剧情介绍

  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".

评论:

  • 巫晨璐 5小时前 :

    审美观的问题,理解不了歌舞犯罪片,前一天跳舞,后一天杀人?

  • 恒振 6小时前 :

    出乎意料还不错,21世纪的romcom难得拍的不让人翻白眼。

  • 冬漫 5小时前 :

    一個看了開頭就能知道結尾的口水故事,一切都在意料之中。

  • 忻惜萍 9小时前 :

    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。

  • 孛怜雪 9小时前 :

    在没有字幕的情况下观看有门槛,尤其是要分辨西语和带西语口音的英语,似乎是为了美国西语观众翻拍,以弥补原作用非拉丁裔出演的时代遗憾,但可能他们看也和大陆地区看尚气差不多,觉得是文化挪用。片子前半部分有张艺谋的错觉,动辄数十人齐刷刷的舞蹈,用演员服装的配色制造视觉张力展现族群间的冲突。但我喜欢斯老对这种张力的取舍,一个是舞台后接吻的镜头,还有一个是男主站在楼底和女主对唱的镜头,上一帧还很炫目迷幻,下一帧就切到黑白为主体的色调。这可能是斯老对这个题材和形式的反思,美好的幻想只存在于被冲昏头脑的人里,就像原版提及的移民/少数族裔问题到今天也还在,歌舞类型和古典戏剧改编剧本的形式却已经过时。男主演技烂如国内鲜肉,尤其是最后在地下让人尬得背贴座椅;混音也可以炒了,女一女二吵架戏的刺耳程度太可怕了

  • 帛雅 1小时前 :

    歌舞剧蛮老套的,不过光影动作色彩都是非常教科书般的。种族主义是好莱坞拍摄永恒的主题

  • 刚欣怡 8小时前 :

    是看完会微笑的圣诞电影!Jimmy Ouyang在此片中的人格魅力令本颜狗服气(但吻戏我看着还是违和哈哈哈

  • 宋尔丝 7小时前 :

    百老匯的還是還給百老匯吧

  • 商妍芳 3小时前 :

    内核还是很陈旧,也不搞笑。而且不合眼缘就是不合,原来男的真的没有相貌焦虑啊!

  • 帆璟 4小时前 :

    見第一面就接吻

  • 刚香巧 8小时前 :

    倒是不让人讨厌,这几年是没有什么像样的圣诞电影,前边有点难往下看,但熬过去了倒也还行。后边他爸闻到蜡烛的时候我哭了。Nina还是美啊,但也不是当年Elena的青春了。

  • 卫凌轩 0小时前 :

    比较痛苦的观影过程 节奏太沉闷了 很喜欢Anita!最喜欢学校舞会和America那段 整个故事就那样吧 歌我也没有很喜欢 不过群舞真的都好棒 Tony以为Maria死了的时候那段演得真好 看完去补了原版 啊这 下次别翻拍了 哦对了 字幕组一到西语就下线 让我被迫练习了塑料西语听力 重燃学习西语的热情 绝了。

  • 势天恩 5小时前 :

    还拿了不少奖...就这么个破玩意?杀了他哥直接上床?在电影院坐2小时看这杂乱无章的小混混斗殴?连配爆米花的激情都没有...宣扬地痞文化几个意思,为政治正确选角改肤色也很刻意

  • 居绮美 9小时前 :

    看了1/3不到就已经城堡抠好了。这年头怎么还有这么无脑尬的言情片?而且no offense,jimmy o yang演言情我真的不可。

  • 仆明诚 5小时前 :

    就不能不毁1961版西区故事吗,1961版是经典,这版看了几分钟,实在受不了,无论选角还是内容照1961差远了!!

  • 旗安国 5小时前 :

    同时,片中除了表现种族之间的矛盾,还有一个同样值得深思的议题——城市化对于贫民窟的侵略和影响,感觉只在影片前面的一部分有所展现,但也只停留在“展现”这种表层的社会现象,但是到后面却没有看到这一方面的矛盾有着原本所期待的那种质的改变或者激化或者解决。

  • 卿柔洁 3小时前 :

    圣诞浪漫合家欢电影,起承转合做的还挺好的,节奏也很流畅,也有一些笑点但是不太够。诚实面对自己的主题,作为这种类型电影也算不错了。遗憾的地方在于男女主并没有擦出特别多的火花出来,结尾就生硬的在一起了,确实有点假。

  • 农彬郁 8小时前 :

    和京剧一样,欣赏不来。 把一句很简短的话拉着长音唱出来,有点浪费生命。

  • 文骞 2小时前 :

    勉强看完前一个小时,后面看不下去了,比较无聊

  • 操乐英 4小时前 :

    电影的部分再做的怎么好,看不到载歌载舞背后的情感支持,也对我无效

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