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".
音乐太好听了，看哭了好多次。
一流的美术，绝伦的民族雄狮，以及俗套的剧情。
《雄狮少年》是可以安利给成年人的浪漫动画，是敢突破一些桎梏和枷锁的，是想做出一些东西的，是有勇气舍弃一些东西的，瑕不掩瑜值得票价，可以看看。
前半段惊喜到了，不是因为对周星驰电影的借鉴，而是对本片没有任何了解的前提下发现它一反潮流选择了现代背景，并且生动地还原了一个南方村镇的空间质地和人物形象，那个阿猫一头蓬乱发型，眯缝眼，宽牙床，破洞牛仔裤，一口浓厚广普，就是印象中的乡下广东仔啊。后半段好在节奏和情节层次，剧情推进在有意识规避陈俗烂套，然而剧作水平跟不上，比如打工和舞狮决赛完全不冲突的两件事必须强行处理成“抉择时刻”，太傻了。至于现实表达，反正我是觉得走马灯式地表现下城市打工生活的辛劳真说明不了个啥，留守儿童也就是个基本设定。女阿娟的阶层暗示和彩蛋算是轻微撩拨了一下下吧。
12/21@幸福蓝海香溢 8.4 今年院线片最佳。第一个长镜头卷开的明媚与自如就小惊，除前期叙事节奏稍瘦硬转之外（剧本依然是短板）无可挑剔，音乐做得太贴了，技术也是士别三日，尤其喜欢天台独舞段。上山下山，一朵木棉花。娟字雄起的暗线与遗憾对女性观众也友好。讽刺可能是明明宣扬国粹 & 少年强+践行新现实主义，却被自辱其华。
🎬《雄狮少年》
大雄配音的阿猫承包了我一半的笑点
故事情节太模板化 闭着眼都能知道 但是但是能燃成这样真的棒极了 敲鼓把我敲得热血沸腾 真的太棒了 直接5星 瑕不掩瑜
很高興看到中國動畫質感一步一腳印的越來越成熟。
喜剧元素是港流反刍，可贵在情景写实落地。
喜剧元素是港流反刍，可贵在情景写实落地。
它镜头流畅剧情完整，不模仿不东洋不西洋，用现代故事讲传统情怀，讲佛祖讲留守讲农民工，还配上白话客家话普通话的歌曲，看得感动骄傲，看得泪满面，把口罩都打湿了。这就是真正在讲中国的电影！大家注意阿娟去上海前的那个清晨，练了整夜的他再次听到内心的呐喊，同时，整个广州城里醒来的行路人也都听见了自己内心的声音。这是最燃最煽情的一幕，比片尾都棒！
我们身处内心极度自信又极度脆弱的时代，
这个大制作，是我花30块就能看到的吗？场景真的很精致，每一帧都充满精巧的细节，很久没看过这么有视觉和听觉享受的动画了，剧情老套，但完成度很高，是非常不错的商业片。
0.1A 中间一度陷入“现实主义”的段落甚至比最后的“成为雄狮”更值得称为片中的华彩时刻（甚至可能是国漫对留守儿童和工地题材的首次探讨）。情绪上的精确调控一气呵成，虽然前段的屎尿屁和网络段子确实有些出戏（“我大意了，没有闪。”），但最后雄狮意象的点到为止也确实有“终于燃起来了“的感觉。正片是病猫成狮的热血激昂，彩蛋则是回归现实的一击点醒。雄狮一时终不能流芳百世，打工挣钱才是我们这代人的现实。
前期口碑吊太高真不是好事儿，还挺失望的。总体而言，后半段比前半段强。三流剧本，但因为是动画形式给缓解了不少毛病。为了快速进入热血反抗逆袭，前面喊了很多口号来立角色，但其实这样观众很难共情，就很…说不上来，不真诚你懂吧？就感觉现实生活里导演其实并不憋屈，编剧也没有过得很不好，但是他们想弄底层小人物反抗的故事，于是就产生一种被策划出来的“我命由我不由天”的感觉。你是故意卖，还是真的吃过苦，做出来的东西是不一样的。最后，真的有必要把三个主角的眼睛画得让人那么不适么，不谈刻板印象啥的，总之这样处理观感非常不舒服。
近年国产做得最好的一部。在天台那里特别动人。剧情尚缺，算是国产动画通病了，但电影本身绝对是瑕不掩瑜，画面和人物设计。看了有些连艺术创作和纪录都分不清的评论，我大概也有点想得通为什么国产片的剧情都这么烂……（最后没有说阿娟他爹醒过来我长舒一口气，剧情烂的地方很怪，城市和打工人的关系，阿猫阿狗阿强靠舞狮挣钱的情节，女性阿娟的设计，有时候bgm莫名其妙，种种看起来仿佛是不在一个水平上的两个编剧写了拼起来的）
3、拍一部弘扬中国传统文化艺术和展现普通人民生活的电影的人，一定比揪着某种长相攻击自己同胞的人更爱国。
十分工整的叙事，故事讲的很扎实，从头到尾虽然只有舞狮一件事，但带出的四个胖瘦不一形态各异的人物是丰满立体的。女孩阿娟其实就是男孩阿娟的一个倒影，或者说一个理想。最让人敬佩的是，虽然拿了冠军，虽然有了那奇迹的一瞬间，但阿娟的生活并没有被彻底改变。鸡毛蒜皮和生存压力依旧萦绕在他周围，那个冠军更像是一个英雄人物曾经的感动。但这种感动，咸鱼强是没有的，阿娟会不会成为咸鱼强，没人知道，但唯一可以知道的是，他以后不会有关于舞狮的遗憾和后悔，或许这才是最真实的人生。
在最后一跃前，透过狮头看到的前路，又高耸又透亮。我很替他们担心，担心他们把握不好结局的度。得不得第一都似乎差那么一点，明显主创做得比我想的更高明，形不到意到，就像落水的少年和飘扬的残缺狮头一样，是对追梦最好的注脚。
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