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".
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。
理查德的成功不在于计划，在于他真正读懂自己的女儿，全心全意站在女儿们的角度去看未来。而不像有些父母，总是挂着“为你好”的名号，纯属为了满足自己的意愿。
感到虚弱，推动叔侄关系前进的不该是关系外的父母问题和“回家倒数”#TribecaScreeningRoom
个人最反感的还是这种堪称“扭曲”的教育方式吧。不管是从出生开始就被铺好的道路还是充满大男子主义的全面控制，都令本人全程想说go fuck yourself…
原来这么励志 从来没了解过大小威的故事 / 真的是信念很强大的父亲 也很会销售 / 沉得住气 一次拒绝经济代理 一次拒绝耐克 被证明都是正确的选择 / 又有多少父母给孩子设定的人生路线能按照计划实现呢 / 信者胜。
给andy roddick的cue把我激动的差点把房顶都掀了...大小威那个年代 就是我曾经对网球疯狂热爱的时期 喜欢看力量的爆发和速度与角度的搏击 迷恋andy和他的翘屁屁发球... 从昨晚到现在如饥似渴的看了好多compilation...被问到最喜欢的运动时其实一直都会毫不犹豫的说网球 只不过似乎再也没有过那种热血蹦腾的能贴在电视屏幕上的着迷坚持 不过 似乎现在这种感觉又回来了
上帝为你关上了一扇窗，就一定会为你开启另一扇窗，体育总是令人着迷，期待中国的《李娜》
对于电影，离开就是结束。但是，人生有时又太长了，我们没法在这个地方画上句点……然后，他会忘记，或者只有一个模糊的影像，然后他对这一整趟旅程的感觉也会随时间流逝改变形状……and that’s life
现在对美式励志主旋律真没啥感觉了，虽然我还是喜欢传记和体育题材。其实主创也想反映一些深层次问题，肤色、阶层等等，但是这草蛇灰线还是刻意了点。当然，有的比赛场面我还是会有代入感。ps：字幕组不行，桑普拉斯、麦肯罗、桑切斯、卡普里亚蒂等等名字都不知道。
美国虎爸混搭美国摔跤手的父亲，不过理查德确实很牛，而且威尔·史密斯也很牛，至少这部戏里面，他演的比麦克白悲剧里面的丹泽尔·华盛顿好多了#2022奥斯卡阅片倒计时#
四平八稳主旋律，还不错。把人物拍的比较立体，比一味的歌颂好。这样的黑人电影不比硬让黑人演白人来的好？？？
成功了，他就是国王；不成功的话，他只是个倔强的疯子……
小孩子的思维总是自由自在，而大人的思维总是拘束在一个紧缩的空间，从小孩子的角度看世界，有些奇思妙想是长大后遗忘的，所以和他们相处，如果能认真地对待他们，也能渐渐地发现自己丢失掉的东西，小孩子从你那得到的爱，同样也会回馈给自己。
很工整的片子，而且给人的感觉像极了《点球成金》。
这部真的很一言难尽…这部电影是在讲述黑人有尊严地站起来，一个父亲辛苦培养了两个顶级的网球选手，让大家摒弃种族歧视。但是全片都在聚焦父亲，而把大小威形容成天才型选手不贴切。以及父亲对于一切关于黑白问题都过于敏感，甚至有点过于强调黑白（虽然我知道在那段时间这样可能很正常）。最让我不能忍受的其实好像这部电影依旧还是笼罩在父权之下的，母亲同样付出了很多却被忽略，很多决定都是父亲一个人说的算，大小威不断努力也被忽略，全片只聚焦一个父亲，而忽略了太多其他因素。简称，这部电影爹味太重（居然没引进国内有点不可思议（小小反讽一下嘻嘻～
文不对题，标题是King Richard但电影看下来似乎是一个父亲带领女儿们成为运动明星的成长故事，而且父亲的角色塑造也很难共情。奥系流水传记片能不能通通去死。。。难看。。。
《国王理查德》——94届奥斯卡最佳男主角获奖片。但此片名翻译的不好！看完影片就知道，作品无论故事情节与人物形象，与古代国王与宫廷毫无关系！不错，“King”单词直译是可以叫“国王”，但也可以译成“王者”，意思相近，后者则更贴近影片实际内容！威尔·史密斯塑造的这个贫穷人家的父亲形象，他以他自己独立的思维与方式，培育五个女儿在不同方向成长成才，最终培养出大小威廉姆斯姐妹，成为世界网球界的“王者”！这样一个“望子成龙、望女成凤”的贫民父亲形象，平凡中透着伟大，显然用“王者”来表达，比“国王”更准确……
Richard作为冠军的父母其实并没有什么借鉴性，倒是所有底层人都应该学学他的处事方式。
体育界这种虎爸成才的故事其实并不多，中国的例子我就想到丁俊晖。
美国版鸡娃励志题材。很难评价，理查德威廉姆斯其人的掌控欲，跟严格教育的重要性。大小威廉姆斯的现实例子在这里，成功总是叫人心服口服的“幸存者偏差认知”。
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