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".
来看jimmy的，看到讨论区和短评，对亚裔男的stereotype简直了呵呵
但本身剧本没有大改动，像是斯皮尔伯格对于西区故事原剧作的致敬，但太过保守，舞台味过浓，电影感太少。
本想给4星，一看分数那么低，给了5星。为了支持老年不忘少年梦。而且画面挺养眼的。
妈呀，私心喜爱Jimmy O Yang！太甜宠了吧！！！
女主我不认识，主要是看吉米欧阳。他演技还是差着那么点儿劲儿的。不是说浪漫爱情轻喜剧的男主一定要好看，但确实得有点swag，能让人花痴得起来。
最佳女配，个人觉得还是可以认可的。毕竟，从人物的心路历程来看，确实是女配比女主情感更丰富更有层次。
街头上的种族矛盾在歧视与傲慢中愈演愈烈，边缘化的处境与社会的不公给他们贴上了撕不掉的标签，所有的疯狂与斗争不过是对无情生活的反叛与抗争，奢求上帝的恩赐也是在寻找自我的答案，爱与自由才能挣脱枷锁奔向未来。禁忌的爱恋撕扯出殒命的灾难，平凡生活的奇迹照亮了黑夜却依旧迎接不了黎明，淌血的伤害只会制造仇恨，而仇恨让我们不得善终。只有放下过去才能重获新生，刹那烟火的美丽成了天人永隔的悲叹。爱是生活的全部，爱是永恒的希望，爱是苦难最后的救赎……
《这个看脸的世界好难》不过最后真爱战胜了颜控233很可爱的一部圣诞电影！很有梗 打破刻板 圣诞电影老梗的基础上反转老梗 非常有趣 写你想写的故事 做你想做的蜡烛 Just be yourself 做真实的自己 面对真实的自己 这世上比起爱情更难找到的是跟你合拍的人啊 结尾有被感动到 欧阳万成这部表现真的可爱 Darren真的适合演这种有点憨憨的帅哥hhh
这个女主还确实老得很明显啊……也不是每个女的都能演好chikflim的……
这么多年了 我真的想不起来上一次我中途离场是啥时候 说不定这是我唯一一次？太难看了 各方面都难看 舞蹈唯一出彩的地方 anita也还不错 但也没啥特别惊喜 女主起码作为新人也不错了 男主我真的？？？？？然后业内人士在那边疯狂吹 真的我好想笑哦
实在不懂本片翻拍的意义何在 即使是斯皮尔伯格 也并不说明任何电影都可以画龙点睛 作为百老汇有名的音乐剧 剧本和角色上是不会有问题的 但本片的歌曲编排像高中毕业晚会 与瑞安墨菲给LGBT定制的《毕业舞会》差不多水准 虽然在奥斯卡七项提名 但最终只让百老汇演员拿到最佳女配也是很大的讽刺
合格的圣诞电影。虽然很抱歉现实中会不假思索左滑男主，但营造浪漫的时空，心意的合拍胜过左滑、右滑带来的幻觉。Nina还是有一见惊艳的感觉
《极盗车神》男主演的音乐剧电影，有点现代罗密欧与茱丽叶的味道，整体故事没啥亮点，歌曲也是及格线的水平，好几处拍摄角度还以为在看70 80年代的电影，唯一该夸的就是女主的嗓子了，音色超好~ 接下来看《身处高地》，希望会比这部要好😂
其实我不太能理解，斯皮尔伯格的公司剧本选择起码有几十个，怎么就选出这个来拍了。
罗密欧与朱丽叶的内核，歌舞剧的形式，好莱坞类型片的传统依然保存，作为一个中国人，故事没啥感受，值得称赞的是导演的镜头语言，节奏、分镜和音乐配合得恰到好处。
我觉得拍的不比悲惨世界差吧，怎么评分这么低。男主确实有点拉胯，女孩搏了命演了，但还是不来电～
除了几处歌舞高光场面，故事内核单薄加之主演糟糕的表演堪称灾难。
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。
America还有体育馆斗舞都拍得很好看！但这个故事本身是不是太有问题了？？大概原来的创作者只是想找一个现代载体来改编罗密欧与朱丽叶，波裔移民与白人的矛盾只是制造冲突的引擎，他们不关心塑造出来的角色在这个身份载体上是否合理。不知道当年的观众反应如何，我在2022年看这种故事反正觉得挺不适的。
说实话，这是我看过最好的圣诞爱情电影，又幽默又温馨, 还发人深省。的确“社焦”网络害死人，做真实的自己才最重要。Love Christmas 💗🎄
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