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".
到底有什么调度？两人舞会初遇拍得如此单薄。暴力的群舞调度只是摄影机和演员之间在掰手腕。
这个女配居然能扫一片奖项，只能说是minority representation战胜一切了。她要能打败Kirsten Dunst和jesse Buckley拿下奥斯卡那真的是呵呵了。
3.0。出色到近乎超現實光影和調度無不昭示著，斯皮爾伯格尚有能力執導一部中游水平的商業片。因而更加不明白為什麼他要花精力改編這個極為平庸舊作。最大敗筆在於毫無火花的男女主角——讓baby演這種角色足見斯皮爾伯格現在的選角能力還不如埃德加賴特，相較之下女配甚至過於亮眼了。
America，这段舞蹈，全片精华之精华，其他部分随便糊弄都无所谓啦，最佳女配果然不是盖的。女主也不错值得看
哈哈哈这个名字一看就很有吸引力，让人想去看
用歌舞片来叙述一个比较老派的故事，技法上的新意还可以，但是关于主线的情绪的渲染显得相当空洞。一部歌舞片，不仅仅是在形式上尤其是动作上感染观众，更需要给出一种更加有说服力的表达。想要看到与众不同的人物，而不是循规蹈矩的完全为情节服务的对象。
烈士暮年 壮心不已！老斯皮尔的电影技法还是可以的。
{★★★★} 这个世界像需要禁断的恋爱一样需要有社会回响的悲剧--Arthur Laurents的悲剧如此冲击我的原因是它只撕开了伤口、却不等待愈合，它的角色捧着各式各样的美梦，但在最后，没有人的梦幸免于难。说比唱多，歌比舞多，但我两眼缭乱，心怀温柔。我爱街头的痞子行军，爱体育馆的百花齐放，爱镜头的每一次运动与游览。六十年后我们仍感伤同样的故事，这是世界变好了还是变差了？或许都没有，只是我们还惦念着永不老去的、美的昙花一现。
原版就除了镜头调度极其过誉，这版也就对一下政治不正确进行修正，剧情还是一样烂俗无聊，也就摄影调度勉强能支撑人看下去。
翻拍的意义何在？给斯皮尔伯格的调度加一⭐。
ps：相对于大苏维埃区，民主德国已经够relexation了，even now in where
Rachel Zegler的嗓音真是太惊艳了，清亮圆润，相较起来男主只能是平庸水平了。剧情没有根据现在观众的审美进行修改就注定了失败了，只有美术和云景值得一看。
你敢相信吗，一部音乐剧，我居然是在4月份的飞机上没耳机看了前半部，再在7月份的飞机上没耳机看了后半部…所以也不好评价了……之前说好的卡司都没兑现啊
如坐针毡，槽都懒得吐，好想知道影片结束的时候美国人到底在为了什么鼓掌。在电影院打开了四次豆瓣确认这导演是斯皮尔伯格
场景连贯感不错，调度语言上可圈可点，整体上室外场景的表现比起室内戏更加出彩，特别是"Maria"时俯视镜头里水塘里映出的星光，的确是超越了四方舞台能够表现的浪漫。但是这个“生命诚可贵爱情价更高”的狗血剧情实在是很下头，且过时的话题和价值观没有被赋予新的语境。增加了更多的无字幕西语对白也很匪夷所思，不仅加大理解难度，而且难道不会让观众不自觉地站在白人立场吗？都是涉及拉丁族裔的歌舞片，《身在高地》在视听上完全无法与《西》相比较，但它对少数族裔真正的深入理解恰恰是《西》所欠缺的
What are you doing, Spielberg???
近几年最让我失望的斯皮尔伯格。暂且不说是否看过原版吧，单就歌舞片最基本的代入感和沉浸感，这部电影就完全让我感受不到。就更不用说故事本身就是一个老到牙都掉光的地步。主人公感情线不合理也就算了，主要是两个主人公的存在感居然可以这么低，还不如女主的哥哥和嫂子让人印象深刻，最起码哥嫂二人在纽约街头的拉丁热舞真的是够调动情绪的。但是讲真的，硬件是真的没话说，服化道以及整部电影的场面调度，绝对是一流水平。
为什么要翻拍……演技贼棒的唱功在井底 唱功非人类的没演技
没那么难看，只是歌舞剧本身的上限摆在那儿，也很难再突破了。
完全照搬了西区故事？之前看过一版音乐剧巡演，就觉得挺一般，照搬的电影虽然比舞台的空间更丰富，但薄弱的故事岂不是更撑不起来？
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