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".
今天我们处于的世界充满了暴力，谎言和利益，人人都想最快速度成功，在这样的大环境中有一个全心保护又方法得当的原生家庭已是鲜见，更不用说理查德作为一个有色人种的底层阶级，能有如此长远的认知和对孩子天性的了解，太难和理想化，但在真实世界就确实发生了。理查德这个人物一定会被鸡娃派和放养派激烈的争论，教育和控制之间的界限如何把握，个人认为理查德做的很好了，即便不好的时候也会有妻子和教练所代表的第三方意见所纠偏，在坏消息迭出的日子里，少有的满怀希望的片子。
人物塑造成功例子，主角的优点和缺点（坚定/固执）如硬币的正反面般呈现，固执的几场戏看的真脑溢血（褒义）。关于种族话题的论证也颇为公平合理，白人黑人有好有坏。查了资料才发现居然不是胶片拍的，数字拍摄和后期技术现在是很先进了。
威尔史密斯演得很传神，但影片我并不喜欢。理查德到底是专横霸道自负的人，还是用坚持和信念赢得人生？角色不讨喜，一会嘲笑黑人一会讽刺白人，黑人导演模糊又混沌的态度。放大那场比赛的上厕所段落，也是没必要。很多真实人物估计都不愿承认片中的自己。大小威的演员应该互换一下。既不励志又没有个人魅力，只是他们真实的人生足够传奇和成功而已。
小男孩演得太好了，加一星。即使是如此可爱的小卷毛依然让我觉得不要孩子更好。黑白摄影的质感吊打贝尔法斯特，音效也很出色。剧本太平淡，偶有闪光。
华纳的新片头好丑啊，以前不是只有动画片才用吗…小威在这部作品里被完全边缘化了。一个充满矛盾的虎父，规划大师，扫兴专业户，把自私和控制欲包装成爱心和善意，对他的评价其实完全取决于两个女儿的成功与否，赢者通吃，胜者为王。结尾的反高潮设计不错。拍黑人女性的成长史大概是目前好莱坞最保险的题材了。
这不就美国版摔跤吧爸爸吗。虽然是真人真事改编吧，都是爸爸亲自训练两个女儿，自信到干预教练，也是妹妹被姐姐的光环遮蔽。这个爹从还没怀孕就把两个女儿的一辈子计划好了，要不是女儿们真的天赋异禀，这爹味打鸡血一般人都受不了。还没拍到妹妹出山电影篇幅就不够了，汗。没觉得史皇演技有多特别，只是重新抓到了一些黑人的基本特征，冲奥有点投机感。运动励志传记片反复强调黑人和女权主题，但并没表现太多大小威自己的想法，绝对主角只有这个父亲，母亲角色也只有几场戏但给人印象还蛮深。大小威担任监制，视角有一定主观片面性，看花絮感觉对年代和人物的还原度是很高了。
一部典型的冲奥片，话说每年都会有这么几部亲情和教育相结合的励志传记电影，虽然Will Smith的表演经不起黑，但是也经不起吹，不看好他能拿影帝。
这个名字多少有点讽刺意味吧，确实这个爹取得了成功，不过那份执拗和大男子主义某种程度上也怪可怕的，而且虽然聚焦就是在父亲身上，但是很明显大家都懂要不是已经是名人传记了，结局什么样真不好说……觉得片子或许也有批判，但是态度过于暧昧了
标题是去纽约配乐歌词的激动，也是小男主录音中面对生活需要的韧性和坚持。有些文德斯的感觉，最后一句台词倒是说明白这部电影了，就是帮你记起孩童时期你看待世界的视角，回忆起那些你想被理解的渴求。这部电影拍给所有人过去孩时的自己。
讲一个爹如何鸡娃的片子…… 问题是那么多鸡娃的家长，能成功的不就这么几个么？【乔·博恩瑟倒是意外地很可爱～
有点受不了这种处处插入意识形态宣传的activist鸡汤…小演员演的确实真的好
KEEP MY WIFE OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MOUTH !
非常工整平稳的传记片，被家庭、种族和励志层层包裹着，几乎是瞄准着颁奖季在使劲。威尔史密斯对理查德的刻画是成功的，但整个电影都是一个精心编织的谎言，或者说加工过滤的真实，大威小威姐妹俩不该只是理查德威廉姆斯“国王”的注脚。
如果剪成兩小時左右會更好。雖以黑人視角出發，但沒有全盤「黑人至上」，亦有自省在其中。傳奇背後沒有過於神化，印證成功是一步步走來。韋史密夫發揮不錯。
8.4/10 敢想敢做敢赢。她们的故事不仅仅是第一那么简单，更是一个族群乃至所有曾经的弱势群体的一“敢”当先。夜晚球场上简单镜头下的谈心多么动人，那是因为情感嵌入和动情表演。（1:42左右）
好暖的一个故事，跟黑白的色调恰好相对。确实没 get 到为什么要用黑白。「呼朋引伴」这个中文翻译其实不准确，原文是鼓励人「因为生活的不确定性太强，所以你要努力呀」。叔侄的相处故事和穿插的纪录片式的孩子们的采访又形成了一种有趣的互文。是适合一个人，夜深人静时看的电影。
下载看的，除了开始十分钟，后面拖着看完。小朋友的采访与主人公和小男生的相处双线交织，小朋友采访很有趣，但实在是和自己的人生无关，给两星鼓励；小男生的家庭更是无关，抱歉。
本以为是体育题材，结果并没有体育什么事的感觉，就很迷。一直围绕着赛场之外，姐妹的故事明明应该更激动人心，却只是故事背景板。
在我们那个年代，两个女孩的名字简称为大威、小威。
就其实还蛮不错的另类传记片啊 有Vee和Serena在注定也不会很客观的展现老威廉姆斯的全部过往 但是关注点也并全部在他的身上 本质上还是一部社会进步写照
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